Last week, we ran a review of Corridor, a movie that played at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. It was a nifty, minimalist throw-back to Hitchcock, and the entire movie hinges on the performance of Emil Johnsen, who plays paranoid medical student Frank.
Without his convincing performance, the movie would not be as compelling. We had a chance to sit down with Emil for a one on one interview at Fantastic Fest to talk about the film, his role and what he’s up to next.
The Flickcast: When I came in from the airport for Fantastic Fest, I shared a shuttle with Jonah Storm (the director of Corridor). He said he had a project here, and I told him I would check it out. You never know how things are going to turn out, and I just saw the movie, and it was really good. Congratulations, very cool.
So, how did you come onto this project? Did you know the directors?
Emil Johnsen: Well, the thing is, yeah. I went to theater school at the theater academy in Sweden the same time that they were going to the film academy, so me and Jonah Lundberg actually started working together. I was in a short film that he made, then we started developing some other stuff together. When they got financing to make a feature I was already interested.
FC: Did you have any input on the story development, or was the story completely ready when they came to you?
EJ: I didn’t have so much input, no. I did have a lot of opinions about the script, and as far as I remember there were some things I wanted to change, and I think actually they did change some stuff.
We collaborated a lot. I got the script way ahead, and read it, and I read several drafts of it. I did, however, want there to be more of a romantic development between Lotte and Frank.
FC: It kind of starts going there…
EJ: It starts, but there’s one thing that is cut out, where Frank comes with a glass of milk, and I persuaded them to have something more romantic or sexual happen, but they cut that out.
FC: Well, it’s insinuated.
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