Midsommar
fan of thought - chevy horror should be sure to catchMidsommar , manager Ari Aster ’s follow - up to the extremely acclaimedHereditary , when it premieres on July 3rd . Not only is it a powerful and unsettling metaphor for a toxic relationship , it also features stellar carrying out from a top - mountain pass cast .
William Jackson Harper , widely loved for his portrayal of Chidi on NBC’sThe Good Place , got the chance to showcase the darker side of academia with Josh . Will Poulter , a rising star since his turn inWe’re The milling machine , plays the chesty and fun - loving Mark . Meanwhile , Vilhelm Blomgren makes his American film debut with perhaps the complex and mysterious Pelle . The three role player posture down with Screen Rant to discuss the finer decimal point of their characters , as well as what drew them toMidsommarin the first place .
Congratulations onMidsommar , it ’s an awe-inspiring film . What I especially hump about it is that it ’s all things at once : it ’s a horror film , it ’s an anthropological thesis , it ’s a breakup picture show . What was it that first drew you to the script ?
Vilhelm Blomgren : I would say the visuals . It was just … Hopefully , it was move to be capable to be highly beautiful in this disturb story . And I think it succeeded .
Will Poulter : Yeah . Very unique , like nothing I ’d ever take before , I think . I was strike by what a daring and challenging film it was . As Vilhelm said , if it was execute properly , it would achieve some[thing ] . Really turn out through and set itself aside from lots of the other things that you could watch these days . And Ari being such a gifted filmmaker was obviously a major pull gene for all of us , I mean .
William Jackson Harper : Yeah . I intend for me , it was just that when you ’re address with a radical of citizenry that conceive a sure thing and you ca n’t shake it , that ’s a really terrifying concept .
And relatable to this day and age . Vilhelm , Pelle is such an interesting character because he seems so open and invite and warm to his friends . But at the same metre there ’s that side of him babble under the Earth’s surface that ’s very cold and reckon . What was it like bringing those two together ?
Vilhelm Blomgren : I really tried to just be as kind and as undefendable - minded to his empathy . But that ’s a fun character to play , to be that sort and also not be kind at all .
On the flipside , Mark seems to have the purest motivations in the celluloid . He just wants to have a in effect prison term and jut blank out about everything else . What do you chance most relatable about him ?
Will Poulter : You know , hopefully not all that much . He ’s such an asshole . But for me , the thing that kind of line me to represent Mark was the dichotomy that existed between what he project and what he puts out in the populace and what ’s going on internally . I think he externalise this melodic theme that he ’s highly convinced , he ’s there for a just fourth dimension , he ’s the sort of person who ’s the loudest voice in the elbow room and a party - starter . But I think internally , he ’s very self - loathe , very unsafe , and he also feel like a very regressive , out - of - date personality . I want to sort of take up as an example of what not to do in lots of ways .
That ’s a practiced lesson . at last , Josh is the one that ’s most authentically invested in the Hårga , but he also has that academic rivalry with Christian that leads him to overstep his bound . Would you care to talk a small about that dynamic and the dissolution of that friendship ?
William Jackson Harper : Yeah . I think , especially from Josh ’s point of purview , when it comes to Western cultures there have n’t been a lot of communities that have n’t been touch on by the outside world . The idea of that being a possibleness is unbelievably enthralling , and it could really make him . To have to portion out that with a guy who just sort of bumbled into it is really infuriating . So it does push me to a piazza of construct some really confutable decision .
More : Read Screen Rant ’s Midsommar Review
