Madison Bailey and Antonia Gentry star as Lucy and Summer in Hannah Macpherson’s Time Cut. The new movie premieres today on Netflix and these interviews will contain major spoilers.
A teenage girl travels back to the early 2000s to stop a vicious killer from murdering her sister.
“My favorite twist is, obviously, figuring out who the slasher is and I really hope that it’s satisfying. We did a lot of work to make sure that it felt not predictable, we wanted it to be a surprise, but that the second you figured it out, it felt very earned, very understandable, and actually very relatable. It also plays into our theme, which is that you get to choose every day who you want to be,” the director/co-writer shared. “Lucy sort of looks out for the little people around her, like the people who are struggling, or the people who are being bullied or stands up for her sister, so I want to inspire people to sort of make change and be the change, but also when you realize who the slasher is, they get to choose now to have a different future than the one that would lead them to be a killer and that I think is really cool.”
“I think my favorite part about her arc is that she starts off just very inside herself,” Bailey told me. “She’s not necessarily sad, she still finds joy in her life, but she is lonely and I really love that she finds her soulmate in her literal sibling and [it] makes her even softer or gives her the place to be soft.”
Gentry then explained, “I think that Summer, while she is a character that does have a good head on her shoulders and she has a sense of confidence and a sense of self, at the same time, maybe it’s because of the time that she grew up in, but she doesn’t have the same confidence as her sister. So, having them meet and become friends, I think they brought elements out of each other that normally they would have kept hidden if they didn’t have each other.”
We talked about the slasher’s shocking identity, the ending, how the relationship between the sisters evolves, and much more.
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