The Rivals of Amziah King Matthew McConaughey
by Anjali Filmi: Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey discusses THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING, a rural crime thriller where a man overseeing Oklahoma's top honey-making operation faces threats to everything he built. The film now plays in theaters nationwide and stars Angelina Lookinglass and Kurt Russell alongside McConaughey. Roger Ebert.com calls it A NEW CLASSIC... A CROWD-PLEASING WONDER. From the Academy Award® nominated producers of TRAIN DREAMS and ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD comes a story capturing how families with long-standing relationships share strife, pain, love, laughter, and music. As McConaughey notes on set: AIN'T NO ONE ALL BAD OR ALL GOOD.
Transcript (en)
The thing that immediately jumped out to me is this warm, lived-in atmosphere. How did we foster that atmosphere on set? The informality that families have, are physical with each other, and share their strife, and share their pain, and share their love, and share their laughter, and share their music. I mean, you don't need to RSVP to the invites. Even if it's just meeting whoever the girl is that brought over the straps. The way Amzai goes up to give her a hug and handle one thing in one ear, or make a joke about somebody else in the other ear while giving her a hug, you go, oh, they know each other, they've worked together before. You got six seconds to do that in. But it's how you move, it's how you approach, it's how you talk to somebody, it's how you don't necessarily talk eye to eye with somebody, how you're talking while you're doing something and you're explaining. The way lived in people that have long standing relationships engage with each other.
