Karen Gillan & Sleeping Dogs Director On Her Femme Fatale Role And Russell Crowe Collaboration

Gillan also shouts out Poison Ivy.

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Sleeping Dogs is a modern noir that follows Roy Freeman, a former homicide detective suffering from Alzheimer's. Asked to reinvestigate one of his former cases before the man convicted of the crime is executed, Roy must begin from the beginning due to the disease completely wiping out his memories.

Adam Cooper: It was introduced by a guy named Pouya Shahbazian, who I had worked with on Allegiant, and my partner Bill Collage and I were given the book as a galley pre-publication. It had already sold at auction and it was going to be published, but we read it before it was published. Karen Gillan: She's such an interesting character. When I first read the script, I was like, "I must play this." But I didn't know how I would play it, which is part of the appeal, actually, because I knew it was going to be a challenge to figure this out. All I knew is that she was incredibly intelligent and referenced really sophisticated things like classical music, art, and spoke five languages.

Adam, I love the pacing of this film. I was trying to crack the case alongside Roy in every single scene, and I think this has fantastic rewatchability. Did you lay breadcrumbs around the mystery, so audiences can kind of discover it on their own if they were trying? And I had just such a good time. He really created a safe, comfortable atmosphere on set, which is a huge thing for me, because I'm just so unbelievably receptive to people's energies. It's a blessing and a curse in life, and he has such a good energy that I felt just really good the whole time.

Karen Gillan: Yeah, I've done that a few times where the filmmaker is also the writer, and it is great. I love that, because you can tweak things as you're doing it. Adam was very open to that and we were able to add little things in. Nothing changed drastically, but we were able to be looser with it. Yeah, I've worked with other people that are the same. I guess the filmmaker that's written it is much more comfortable being like, "Why don't you try that? Say that.

Karen Gillan: I think as always, my answers are the things that are not on screen a lot of the time, like the bonding time. I literally remember it was summer in Melbourne, Australia, and we were all going out for dinner, and my character references Rachmaninoff piano concerto too, so I was listening to that on loop for the whole shoot. And I remember having my head out the window of the car blasting that, and I had one wine, and I was like, "I've never felt better in my life.

Karen Gillan: Femme fatale. Ooo, I never thought I'd hear those words. It was really interesting for me. She's kind of my dream role in a way, because I think her personality is such that she is playing various roles to different people in her life. And so there was a slightly performative aspect to it. I was like, "Oh, I need to do that just enough so people get the sense that it might not be genuine, but not so much that I just look like a bad actor.

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