Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton talk to NYLON about their new film 'Problemista,' which opens in theaters everywhere March 22.
is of a Lammhults stool in Tilda Swinton’s character’s apartment. I, the daughter of immigrants who had their own green-card troubles, bought the same ones off Craigslist shortly after moving from Bushwick, the Brooklyn neighborhood where Julio Torres’ Alejandro lives. It’s not the exact same story, but the pieces are weirdly parallel — but you don’t have to have experienced any of it to connect with this kooky, tender movie.
Ahead, Torres and Swinton talk location-scouting on Craigslist, the significance of voice memos, and the Disney reference Larry Owens ran with. NB: There are spoilers below — you’ve been warned. Something I’m grappling with is whether to characterize Elizabeth as a villain because of the dragon portrayal, but we do also see glimmers of her humanity and softness. What’s a better way to think of the character?I love that you asked that question because it’s something we really treasure in Elizabeth.
I used to live in Bushwick until recently, and I thought it was so funny that it was portrayed as a hellish place.It was so important to me that we shot there. There was this learning curve with our incredible location scout, whose name happens to be Elizabeth, where I was at first shown the cool, lofty apartments that the idealized version of us have. And then I was like, “I think we’re going to find this apartment on Craigslist. We just need to act like we actually want to rent the apartment.
I loved the chaos of Craigslist and how that’s depicted by Larry Owens. What research went into pulling all the other references for that character?Craigslist was something I was very well-versed in once upon a time with the gig section and getting jobs through there. The way Larry plays that being is a manifestation of what I felt like going into Craigslist for the first time, which was this scary, ominous ocean of possibilities that was both dangerous and seductive.
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