Summary
What’s the secret to a perfect on-screen transformation?
As the night progresses, so too does Blake’s bizarre behavior.
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So I think that was sort of the biggest challenge there.
Then, there are a lot of components that go into making that happen.
ABBOTT: Thats right.
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Ill start with the physicality.
ABBOTT: I didn’t worry so much about rules, right?
Now, we’re not built like that, so you’re free to’t.
Soyou take a little bit from a wolf, and you take stuff from other animals.
I brought in a friend, Or Schraiber, who’s a dancer, and he’s fantastic.
Ive recently become obsessed with movement coaches and their work.
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I just find it so fascinating, and it’s so instrumental to delivering a transformation.
ABBOTT: I love it.
I love dance anyway, too, and I love his work, so I loved using that.
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You never know nowadays.
ABBOTT: It’s a good question.
Even if it’s a technique you learned doing this performance that you would like to do more of.
A family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognizable.
ABBOTT: Honestly, I truly do love dance.
I would actually just sayI would like to do something with some dance in it.
I’ll sit and impatiently wait for that day.
I hope it comes soon.
ABBOTT: I’m going to impatiently wait for it, too.
Creating a Winning Werewolf Transformation
What’s on a werewolf’s playlist?
ABBOTT: Just confirm you like the people that you’re doing it with.
It’s just a lot of time spent together.
How do you pass the time?
ABBOTT: Honestly, we just hang out and talk and play music and take breaks.
Pam would sage it.
I didn’t do podcasts or anything.
It’s just talk, and it was great.
You’re playing a werewolf.
What is on the playlist to get you into that zone?
ABBOTT: It’s not what you would think.
You know what I mean?
There’s a lot of, like, Paul Simon.
It’s more of the opposite.
‘Wolf Man’ howls into theaters January 17, 2025.
What was it like mapping that out and figuring out the right balance during each stage?
ABBOTT: It’s like, again, without having rules, right?
But also the fun part is,take to take, we would change the dials.
You know what I mean?
And then you have the edit to sort of figure that out.
ABBOTT: I’m trying to think of anything that was in the middle.
So I think it’s probably that.
It kept me on my toes.
I appreciated that part of the performance.
She’s so good at sort of being specific about those things and telling the truth.
And so I think we were both similar in that way and came together.
Thats a quality in all her work.
That’s what keeps me coming back for more.
ABBOTT: That’s right.
And the same goes forAnn Lee.
On paper, is it a movie that’s going to make a lot of money?
It’s a strange, weird thing.
But the important thing here is to get it made.
Those are all the right keywords.
I dont know if being proud is the right word, but I do.
I feel proud of her and them.
Wolf Manopens in theaters on January 17th.
