The place the Crawdads Sing is a worldwide phenomenon and one of many best-selling books of all time. How did you personally join with this story?
After I first learn it, it was the coming-of-age side. One in all my favourite films rising up was Stand by Me, and there have been numerous [coming-of-age] components in that movie, simply from a feminine perspective. I keep in mind calling my sisters and telling them that I had gotten [the part], and the response was speedy. They had been like, “Wait, The place the Crawdads Sing?!” And I mentioned, “Yeah.” And so they had been like, “Shut up! Tate or Chase, who’re you taking part in?” They’ve by no means cared about something I’ve executed earlier than, and I instructed them Tate, and so they had been like, “Oh, thank god” and hopped off the telephone. That was all they wanted to know. In the event that they cared that a lot about it, I knew that it should be enormous. After which I obtained to listen to everybody else’s tales about once they learn it and what they had been going via once they learn it, particularly throughout COVID due to all of the isolation points of it. … It related lots of people. I used to be simply excited to leap into it and be part of it.
I think about there’s a sure sort of stress that comes with adapting this work. What can followers of the ebook count on from this movie?
As a result of Reese [Witherspoon] is concerned, she wished to verify it was such a loyal adaptation and that not one of the components or moments that so many individuals cherished from the ebook had been lacking. If we didn’t have her on the helm, I don’t know if it might have gone the identical manner. It’s obtained every thing that the ebook has—this lovely romance story, this whodunnit homicide thriller—and simply the entire world that it exists in with the marsh and Barkley Cove was captured so superbly within the film. Making a world like that from an present ebook is de facto laborious to do, and Olivia Newman, our director, and Reese did a tremendous job. A minimum of in my thoughts, it’s precisely how I imagined it might be. I used to be blown away daily on set attending to see it for actual.
Was there a set particularly that instantly transported you into the Crawdads world?
Immediately, Kya’s shack. I keep in mind it wasn’t even completed being constructed but, however it was on this lovely lagoon the place they’d this dock they constructed that was only for the boat. I don’t know the way they got here up with it, however it was to a T precisely how I pictured it in my head with the little backyard and the swing and simply open water for miles with the Spanish moss hanging down. I used to be like, “That is so freaking cool.” I used to be so excited, and we hadn’t even began filming but. I used to be excited to see it furnished with all of her drawings. They did such a tremendous job.
