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Recently, I interviewed Ami Canaan Mann, the director of Texas Killing Fields starring Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, and Chloë Grace Moretz. The film tells the story of the real-life string of murders that happened along I-45 near Texas City, Texas. Here’s a snippet of the interview:
…[A]long with the extensive research that went into making the film, a lot of legwork was done to ensure the authentic quality of the storytelling. “We had access to the real detectives that Jeffrey [Jeffrey Dean Morgan] and Sam [Sam Worthington] portray, to the detective Jessica Chastain’s character is based on,” she said. “I wanted to know what it was really like to look at a dead body, so we went to the LA County coroner’s office and I took the actors with me.” She also said that she and the actors went to shadow a real detective. “He talk[ed] about how you move through a crime scene, the psychological and emotional ramifications of working of the job.”
Recently, the film has been getting a lot of buzz not only for the stellar performances and storytelling, but for the fact that this film could possibly cause someone with information to step forward to the police. “That was really the intention of doing [the film,]” Mann said. “A lot of the crimes are cold cases. If someone is motivated to step forward, then the film has more than done its job.
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http://www.shockya.com/news/2012/01/27/interview-ami-canaan-mann-on-directing-texas-killing-fields/
