Sam Worthington and David Mackenzie at TIFF 2024 for Relay.
The Big Picture Staying off-the-grid in this digital era of hyper-surveillance has never been more difficult, but Riz Ahmed's Ash, who is a middleman for whistleblowers, manages to stay ahead of a cat-and-mouse chase in David Mackenzie's Relay. However, when he makes a personal connection with his latest client who stole scandalous documents from a bio-tech company, his reclusive way of living is threatened.
Sam , I know you get offered scripts. What was it about this script that said I need to be a part of this? Director David Mackenzie Plays With Technology in 'Relay' "This character is a kind of complete analog man." One of the things about the film -- it's so nice as someone who watches so many movies -- is that the antagonist and the protagonist seem very equally matched. You're also working with things that you typically don't see in movies, the way people communicate. There's a lot of fresh stuff in this.
Because the characters aren't necessarily interacting or communicating in person for a majority of this movie, when it's put together, you’re coming up with probably unique angles to each scene that weren't necessarily thought of in the original draft. There are scenes with Riz where I have no idea really what he did off camera and vice versa. He didn't know how I was responding.
MACKENZIE: Sam's amazing at taking those opportunities and finding ways to find the truth in things. It's interesting. In the last one we did, we explored stuff, and then we found simplicity. It's always about trying to get to the emotional core and the truthful core of the performance and the character.
WORTHINGTON: I think a lot of David's movies, if you look at them from Fuse and Relay, they deal with loyalty and betrayal. They're really cool themes to explore because they can take the audience any way, if you're forever guessing what's gonna happen. There's always an intricacy to that. When it's done right, you're ahead of the audience and that's what you're trying to take them. Especially in Relay, you're ahead of the audience for the majority of it.
Editing is where it all comes together. My first question is, of the films you've made, which one changed the most in the editing room in ways you didn't expect going in?Was that an assembly or was that an actual cut? MACKENZIE: Possibly. I don't know quite when it would be ready. It depends on how complex that edit is, to be honest.
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