Patients are encouraged to re-construct their lives in their dreamscapes, and Nick complies.
During TIFF, Collider’sPerri Nemiroffsat down with Golding, Granno, and Vigalondo.
Golding also teases howA Simple Favor 2will build on all the elements we loved from the original film.
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What Is ‘Daniela Forever’ About?
Nacho, I’ll give you these duties.
Would you mind giving a brief synopsis of your film?
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NACHO VIGALONDO: It’s never a good sign when the synopsis itself is a challenge.
It’s a pill that allows him to have immediate, crystal-clear, lucid dreams.
He’s dreaming of her in a way that is self-aware, it feels like an alternate universe.
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This sounds horrible because it is.
There are so many things that I want to say that I know I cant.
HENRY GOLDING: There are Easter eggs in there, for sure.
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We thought about how to make it a little bit more fun in the second one.
But, then you make a movie filled with dreams.
VIGALONDO:I have this kind of love-hate relationship with dreamsbecause I don’t remember what happens every night.
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I never had any of those.
I hate dreams in that way.
GOLDING: Raging dream boner.
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[Laughs]
VIGALONDO: He said that.
I just found in this movie a way to make all dreams matter.
Everything that happens in his head, in a way, happens for real.
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VIGALONDO: If you want to shoot dreams in your movie, check that you have a dream cast.
That is the best answer ever.
What Vigalondo, Golding & Granno’s Dream Movie Worlds?
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Here’s a fun dream question for all of you that leans into how this concept works.
Let’s say you could take the pill and build a dreamscape that reflects the movie of your choice.
What movie would you pick, and what might you explore in that dream?
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GOLDING: That is a complex question right there.
Easy.Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
My childhood dreams were just enveloped with the idea of going into that factory and just losing myself.
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I think that would be a good one for me.
BEATRICE GRANNO: It’s so hard because I watch sad films, and I like sad films.
It’s hard to think about a world.
Follows a man as he joins a sleep trial that allows him to rebuild his life with his girlfriend who died in an accident through the use of lucid dreams.
VAGALONDO: That’s nice.
GRANNO: I don’t know, though.
I’m not sure.
Sad films are okay, too, because sometimes that kind of catharsis is just what you need.
GRANNO: Yeah, exactly.
Because if Freddy Krueger tracks me and captures me and kills me, it doesn’t happen.
It’s OK because I’m in a dream.
I’m dreaming of dreaming within the Freddy Krueger film.
Its a dream within a dream within a dream!
I can survive Freddy Krueger.
I wanna be the victim.
I want to be killed by Freddy Krueger within a dream, within a dream.
So I’m OK.
GOLDING: That makes sense.
VIGALONDO: The movie is easier to follow.
We are long overdue for anotherNightmare on Elm Streetmovie.
I feel like that’s a way to get at it while being a little meta.
I kind of want that now.
GOLDING: At the end, they just wake up.
VIGALONDO: The movie is easier to comprehend.
The reason that you understand completely his motivations is because he’s lost the love of his life.
He turns to an interesting choice of decisions that he makes.
GRANNO:Nachos vision is very free, and it doesn’t really follow any rules.
How is it gonna go?"
But then we all met together, and we read it, and it was really funny.
I realized how funny it was.
Remember when we were doing the first reading, I was like, “This is hilarious.”
I loved working with Nacho and Henry.
It was generally one of my favorite sets so far.
I’m gonna follow up on working with Nacho.
There was something in our press notes that really caught my eye.
Henry, you might have said this.
When you first met Nacho, he was super professional, but then the real Nacho comes out.
For both of you, I want to know the first moment you saw the real Nacho.
GOLDING: Let me tell you a story.
I have a fantastic story.
We’re at lunch, right?
I have my family over.
I have, at the time, a one and half or 2-year-old daughter with us.
He plays this little joke.
VIGALONDO: A dad joke.
GOLDING: And he goes like this: [Screams] In the middle of the restaurant.
And hes like [screams].
GRANNO: Because she empathized with Nachos pain, and he didn’t care.
VIGALONDO: I was just pushing the emotional growth of the kids.
GOLDING: Shes like two years old.
GOLDING: This was off the clock, so it doesn’t even matter.
GRANNO: The real Nacho is very vulnerable and serious.
That’s the real Nacho.
VIGALONDO: I’m vulnerable.
GRANNO: Its very deep what you just said.
So, eventually, it’s filled with great moments, and it’s fascinating.
VIGALONDO: You don’t take making movies for granted, especially post-pandemic.
It is like a survival element within you.
GRANNO: I love it very much.
GOLDING: Like, dont take it too seriously, right?
My biggest takeaway from this interview now is cinema farts andA Nightmare on Elm Street.
VIGALONDO: I can go back to farts.
[Laughs] That’s part of the body.
It’s a body function.
GOLDING: Well, funny enough, we shot that here in Toronto.
That was my first time in Toronto, and it must have been 2018.
You take what everybody loved about the first one it found its audience, and peoplelovedit.
It’s kind of like Marmite in the UK.
It’s like you either love it or you hate it.
It just gets wilder and wilder and wilder as the movie goes on.
You’ll be pleased if you did enjoy it.
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