Check out all Slate’s interviews from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
One of the very best casts at this year’s Sundance Film Festival belongs to Don Verdean, the new movie from the creators of Napoleon Dynamite (husband-and-wife team Jared and Jerusha Hess), which stars Sam Rockwell, Amy Ryan, Danny McBride, Jemaine Clement, and Leslie Bibb.
We sat down with the group of actors to discuss the inspirations for their characters (Rockwell describes his title character as “If Andy Dick and Indiana Jones had a baby”), the experience of making a movie with Mormons (the movie was shot in Utah), and what it was like to do comedy without relying on going blue. The resulting conversation was a little less family-friendly than the movie.
Slate Sessions video edited by Anne Marie Lindemann. Interview booked by Raquel Bruno. Executive produced by Ayana Morali.
