In honor of Barbarian's digital release, we chat with star justinlong about his terror while reading the script for the first time, his reaction to seeing The Mother suit on set, and more:
Some basements are better left unexplored, as seen in Barbarian. The film centers on a young woman who books a remote house in a rundown area of Detroit, only to find someone else already staying there, though as she slowly warms up to her unintended roommate, she learns of a terrifying secret deep within the house.
Justin Long: I look for initially just the dialogue, if the dialogue flows in a natural way, if it's the way people speak, I think probably my initial connection to a script is just I think simply that. Are these people speaking the way people speak? I wish it were more, I wish I had a higher bar.
I just felt like it broke all the rules, and by the end of it, I was just so excited that Zach wanted me to do it at all. But yeah, I read that email a couple of times, because I felt like, "Oh, I'm guessing he wants me to play the guy in the beginning, the more rom-com guy who dies on page 30, not this wild douchebag. [Laughs] I was, in a way, very strangely flattered that he did want me to play that part.
The sex thing was in an earlier draft of Kevin's script, it felt like for a lead character to have that, and then here we are with AJ, and he does this heinous sexual crime. But no, I hadn't drawn those parallels, but I guess there are very clear ones. I just felt like, what he does is just on a different level of despicable, the Tusk character made fun of people, and he teased people, and it was gross, but it was still in the name of entertainment, or at least attempting humor.
Justin Long: I remember being really struck by it, and then I couldn't stop laughing, because it was so realistic. I think I did that thing that I hear a lot of people do in horror movies when they're watching horror movies, which is that their fear and their shock turns so quickly into laughter, it's how people process things. I had that very real time reaction to Matthew.
So, I knew that was coming up next in the shooting order, and I remember Zach approaching me like uncharacteristically tentative. He was usually very confident, and forthcoming, he's a very direct, honest person, and he was like, "Hey," and I could tell he was trying to ask me something.
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