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They tell you not to meet your idols, but with a few exceptions and I would say that chief among those exceptions is Winona Ryder. Her filmography is so important to me and her work as an artist is so important to me and then she just couldn't be a sweeter person.

Everybody in this, it was such a dream ensemble, but I look to Winona and that's somebody who I just I adore, I look up to her, I have for many, many years. What was it like building that rapport with each of them off camera before bringing it into each scene? Since you mentioned the importance of the human connection in this film, you share screen time with plenty of your other co-stars, but Winona and Brianne are the two that you share the most with. But I think there's a real vulnerability and sweetness behind all of that, so I felt like it was my job to draw that part out, so that it didn't just become a comic relief role or a caricature of sorts. I just felt like this guy was so interesting, too, because Max, the character that I play, comes across as somewhat of a simpleton and somebody who just really is desperate to stay young and stay relevant at all costs. I kind of bought everybody's motive and I felt everybody's pain, it felt human to me, which I think is what I'm always looking for in the scripts that I get sent is like, what's the real human connection? The themes are very interesting, but for me, it doesn't matter if you don't have characters that you care about and you want to kind of root for and you want to find out more about. And yet, you have so many stories of yore of the search for the Fountain of Youth, and I just thought that this was such an interesting way to play with those themes, to do it in kind of a smaller budget, inventive genre thriller with characters that, at the end of the day, felt very real to me, even though we're dealing with otherworldly, slightly larger than life elements, thematically. John Gallagher Jr.: I thought it was such an interesting way to - the theme at the heart of the film is mortality and aging and this never ending human need to stay young, to stay relevant, to stay vital, even though we all know very, very well, by now that that's not a viable option, it's not a possibility. You're no stranger to the thriller or horror genres, what with 10 Cloverfield Lane or Come Play, but what was it like getting to the heart of your character for this film through this genre lens? It just seemed like a really great combo of factors and then the the cast that they started getting to fill out the ensemble, each new person that signed on was exciting and I was a fan of everybody's, really, so yeah it was kind of a perfect confluence of cool factors that made me want to get involved.

The fact that she was starring in a feature film, I love her work on Stranger Things, but I was psyched to see her doing something like this, which seemed like a cool next step for her and then I read it and was really taken with the script, I thought the character was sweet and funny.

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When a script lands in your inbox as an actor and your agent leaves a note saying, 'Hey, Winona Ryder really wants you to do this movie with her,' I was pretty much sold at that point, I probably would have said yes to it, regardless of the script, because I'm just such a fan and admirer of hers for so many years. I thought it was so masterfully woven by the screenwriters that I was totally intrigued by it. I kept trying to figure out what movie I was in and where it was headed and what the stakes were and what the rules were, and I just couldn't figure it out. John Gallagher Jr.: Well, just what you mentioned, the script had me on my toes as well. What about it really drew you to want to be a part of the project? Screen Rant: Gone in the Night is quite the exciting thriller, it really had me on my toes the whole time, I could not figure out what was going on.