“I love independent films.
It is my favorite genre of filmmaking because it’s character driven.
It’s a storyteller’s medium.
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Tracie’s an auteur; she wrote it and directed it.
Whatever it is that I’m becoming, it’s not usually me.
So this was a chance for me to be like, well that I think I am.
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I may not be that good of a dad, but I think I try anyway.
I feel like my character is really trying to be a great dad.
He became a shut-in basically with his wife.
They can be father figures, and it doesn’t have to be sexualized.”
But this indie project, she tells us, is unlike any of her previous roles.
You know what I mean?
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Sometimes I would go into set like, “Okay, like, four scenes today.”
We’re indie, so we’re cranking them out.
I have all these different kind of emotions to go through.
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Even at the forefront, even like after, and even after like five takes.
I’ve never experienced that.
I mean, you know, I’m human.
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Having a great cast, too, just helps because you get to feed off that energy.
But it ended up working.
In addition, Ferreira talked about being part of theFaces of Deathremake andHouse of Spoils.
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COLLIDER: Hey everyone.
How are you guys doing?
CAST OF ‘BOB TREVINO LIKES IT’:Well!
I would imagine your film has premiered?
TRACIE LAYMON: It premiered yesterday.
I would imagine you are having a great SXSW.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO & BARBIE FERREIRA:[Laughs] Oh yeah!
I’m sure audiences have responded to this movie because I had a strong emotional reaction to this.
How have you been describing it to friends and family?
TRACIE LAYMON: It’s inspired by a true story.
I’m curious, this is a little bit of a jokey question.
I have to go this direction first.
CAST OF ‘BOB TREVINO LIKES IT’:[Laughs]
BARBIE FERREIRA: I love that!
TRACIE LAYMON:He plays the character inspired by my dad.
[Tracie Laymon and cast ofBob Trevino Likes Itlaugh]
FRENCH STEWART:Yeah, it’s already started.
That’s what I’m getting, it’s a mixed thing a little bit.
Other narcissists are probably like, “I don’t see a problem with this guy.
Seems perfectly legit to me.”
[Tracie Laymon and cast ofBob Trevino Likes Itlaughs]
FRENCH STEWART: I really appreciate that.
FRENCH STEWART:There’s still time, there’s still time.
You are very emotional in many scenes.
As an actor, what is it like knowing that for a lot of this shoot?
BARBIE FERREIRA: Absolutely.
You know what I mean?
Sometimes I would go into set like, “Okay, like, four scenes today.”
We’re indie, so we’re cranking them out.
I have all these different kind of emotions to go through.
Even at the forefront, even like after, and even after like five takes.
I’ve never experienced that.
I mean, you know, I’m human.
Having a great cast, too, just helps because you get to feed off that energy.
But it ended up working.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO:What was that?
BARBIE FERREIRA: The puppy scene.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO:Really?
BARBIE FERREIRA:Yeah.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO:Oh my God, it’s so powerful.
BARBIE FERREIRA: I didn’t expect that at all.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO:It’s amazing.
Every single beat that I was emotional with, it wasn’t I was thinking.
We all have our reasons why we’re there and our own kind of ideas and traumas and childhood.
FRENCH STEWART:What I just learned is, before this movie, Barbie didn’t like puppies.
We’re starting beef.
We decided we’re gonna start beef today.
I think we should start something spicy, just for fun."
[Tracie Laymon and cast ofBob Trevino Likes Itlaugh] That was French!
[Tracie Laymon and cast ofBob Trevino Likes Itlaughs]
JOHN LEGUIZAMO:You asked for it.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: Well, obviously I love independent films.
It is my favorite genre of filmmaking because it’s always…it’s character driven.
It’s a storyteller’s medium.
Tracie’s an auteur; she wrote it and directed it.
Whatever it is that I’m becoming, it’s not usually me.
So this was a chance for me to be like, well that I think I am.
I may not be that good of a dad, but I think I try anyway.
I feel like my character is really trying to be a great dad.
He became a shut-in basically with his wife.
They can be father figures, and it doesn’t have to be sexualized.
100%
TRACIE LEYMON:Absolutely.
Oh, this is what you were was really about."
And to not go there or to say, “Hey there’s a beautiful young woman that…
I’m not looking at her, I see her.
I see her heart.
I see you know her pain, and I want to be her friend.”
There’s so much healing in that.
I think that we can have a lot more friendships.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: You’re a poet!
You finish the movie.
You have you have a cut that you’re happy with.
TRACIE LAYMON:Well, I’m a big fan of test screenings.
We were creating the test screenings and bringing people we trust.
I made the changes and I was like, “Ah.”
Also, by the way, oh, I can’t say this because it spoils the plot.
Sorry, I can’t tell you.
[laughs]
BARBIE FERREIRA: I know what you’re going to say.
TRACIE LAYMON: Yeah, yeah…
BARBIE FERREIRA: And one day you will know.
[Tracie Laymon and cast ofBob Trevino Likes Itlaughs]
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: But not right now.
BARBIE FERREIRA: But not right now.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: Not right now is not the time.
TRACIE LAYMON:Watch the movie and then we’ll talk.
When did you realize that it was working?
Was the first time you showed it to like a really big group?
Was it SXSW, or did you do any bigger screenings where you know this is all working?
TRACIE LAYMON: We did do a bigger test screening in downtown LA.
Invited about 50 people, and that was the biggest group we’d had.
Normally it’d been much smaller, and you could feel the hearts cracking open in the movie.
I was like, “This is palpable.”
Then they all stood up.
Everybody stood up in the room at a test screening, and it wasn’t even the final cut.
So yeah
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: Wow!
I’ve never see that.
But we are affecting people, and we are doing something very special, which I knew on set.
When you put it together, you have to see it.
I can’t imagine what it’s like as an artist, and this goes for everyone.
FRENCH STEWART: It was just magical.
I mean, it just I felt like everybody was with it from the beginning.
But like
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: You’re in that?
FRENCH STEWART: [laughs] Yeah.
No, that one’s actually pretty good.
Anyway, but I think that for this, I felt it early on.
I mean, Tracie graciously gave us rehearsal.
Then Tracie whispered to Barbie, Tracie whispered to me, and then we did it again.
Then Tracie said, “Let’s not mess with it.”
[Tracie Laymon, John Leguizamo, and Barbie Ferreira laugh] “Let’s move on.”
You know, it was lovely.
BARBIE FERREIRA: I would say, for me, the rage room was definitely fun.
I was like, “I need some anger.
I have some anger, and I’d like to get it out.”
I thought that was really exciting to do.
The tough days, I don’t even know if there was any tough days.
I’m a sweater.
I like to sweat.
In the movie, I’m fairly sweaty, and it adds to the Kentucky summer.
I had all these handheld fans, and I always had my fan on my face.
[laughs]
We’re on the exact same page about heat and humidity.
BARBIE FERREIRA: Yeah, I like it cold.
I had a couple circled because they had the dining room, dining…
TRACIE LAYMON: The monologue.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: The monologue about the kid.
I had to like, you meditate and you prepare for it, absolutely.
TRACIE LAYMON: Every day, every day.
Because it was packed.
I didn’t do it.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: It was 18 days?
TRACIE LAYMON: Yeah, at the end of the day, we had 18 days.
We were all prepared.
We had built the history.
We had trust, you know, and so luckily we made it.
FRENCH STEWART: My days were shockingly similar.
[Tracie Laymon and John Leguizamo laugh] Take four days off.
[Tracie Laymon and John Leguizamo laugh] And I was trying so hard not to laugh.
It was the restaurant scene, and every time it was just so different.
FRENCH STEWART: It was so funny because you just kept it together.
At one point I said, “You look like an unmade bed.”
BARBIE FERREIRA: I still say that.
Literally, I told French, “I have adopted that into my vocabulary.”
TRACIE LAYMON: It was really hard to cut all that out because there was so much gold.
This is the curveball of the interview.
BARBIE FERREIRA: I was gonna sayCurb Your Enthusiasmbecause I could just watch it so often.
When it’s like a drama, I love it but I don’t want to keep watching it.
I figured it out.
WithCurbyou can just keep watching it over and over again.
So yes, those two–Curb Your EnthusiasmandThat’s So Raven.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: Wow, off the top of my head, I thinkBreaking Bad.
I just love the hell out of that.
Vince Gillian and Bryan Cranston.
I don’t know, that show was so unbelievably, wonderfully made.
TRACIE LAYMON: I have two, I’m sorry.
Yeah, yeah.Pen15I’m a big, big fan ofPen15.
It’s my childhood basically.
The absurdity of awkwardness of coming of age, you know?
Just because… yeah, and we met Pam Adlon.
Yeah, we met Pam Adlon the other night.
FRENCH STEWART: If I’m being honest, it’s gonna beDateline.
BARBIE FERREIRA: I love it!
BARBIE FERREIRA: I love true crime.
FRENCH STEWART: I could watch that.
My wife got me hooked on crimes.
BARBIE FERREIRA: Same, I love crime.
I watch that so often.
FRENCH STEWART: Oh yeah.
TRACIE LAYMON: Oh, alsoHacks.
BARBIE FERREIRA: Now there could be a thousand.
I could keep going.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: These are one of a thousand things.
BARBIE FERREIRA:Curb,That’s So Raven, andThe Comeback!
I will say that everyone fromHackswas in here yesterday.
I also love that show and cannot wait to see the new season.
So I am not a huge fan of social media.
BARBIE FERREIRA: Go into detail!
But I will say this is one of the rare times where Facebook is used for good.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: Oh right, right.
When you are using Facebook in a movie like this, do you need permission?
How does that actually work?
We’re actually like, this is a positive movie about Facebook, you know?
That’s what I mean.
TRACIE LAYMON:Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I really wish more social media was used like what’s depicted in this movie.
Did you end up with a lot of deleted scenes?
Or is it, because you only had 18 days.
TRACIE LAYMON:Yeah, there were four scenes that didn’t make the movie.
[laughs] They were more transitionary scenes.
I was like, “I can drop in later.”
I don’t need that, you know, set up or, you know.
As we spoke off-camera, I am a fan of Brad Furman’s work.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO:Wow.
I mean, I feel like Brad, sinceCity of Liesis now going to a whole other level.
I think this is his biggest budget, most ambitious movie.
He’s trying to combine psychological thriller with an action film.
It’s a really powerful film inspired by Tarkovsky, which I introduced Brad to.
I feel proud to be Brad’s mentor that way.
You got Jamie Foxx, you got [Robert] De Niro, you got Scott Eastwood.
It’s a powerhouse cast.
It’s going to be wild.
BARBIE FERREIRA: Of course.
I am so curious aboutFaces of DeathandHouse of Spoils.
BARBIE FERREIRA:Yes!
BARBIE FERREIRA: Yes.
Do you get to scream in these movies?
What can you tease about both roles?
BARBIE FERREIRA: I would say, soHouse of Spoils, we shot about almost two years ago.
I actually haven’t seen much of it, so I don’t really know.
They’re so fun.
We’re in Hungary for like two months.
It was super cool.Faces, we just finished our pickups.
It’s looking pretty fun.
It’s looking really good.
It’s such a fun watch and gruesome and scary and just so fun.
To be a person, a scream queen kind of vibe.
So if you don’t mind, what’s this version?
What is it about?
Actually a lot of it was fake.
It was of that era.
It’s a contemporary take on it.
Yeah, it’s going to be really fun.
I think it’s an interesting way to go about it.
It’s not a remake per se, but it is a reimagining of it in the universe.
It’s super scary, and it’s a cool, fresh take on horror movies right now.
I love a fun movie, too.
It’s scary as hell, though.
I appreciate you letting me know, and I really wanna say this to all of you guys.
You did really great work with this.
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