{"id":25121,"date":"2013-11-11T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=25121"},"modified":"2013-11-12T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T11:34:46","slug":"sky-ferreira-x-eli-roth-talk-the-green-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2013\/11\/11\/sky-ferreira-x-eli-roth-talk-the-green-inferno\/","title":{"rendered":"SKY FERREIRA \u00d7 ELI ROTH TALK ‘THE GREEN INFERNO’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wonderland pins down party popstrel-cum-actress Sky Ferreira and Eli Roth to talk about their new film collaboration,\u00a0The Green Inferno.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Sky Ferreira and Eli Roth are sitting side by side above Hollywood Boulevard, the west side of Los Angeles laid bare like a cliff\u2019s drop from Roth\u2019s poolside balcony. Monkey, Roth\u2019s French Bulldog puppy, is lapping at Ferreira\u2019s legs for attention, she\u2019s been there before, in fact, Roth and Ferreira are close friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think her performance is really going to surprise people, because she\u2019s not playing herself, there was a lot of dialogue, she became a character, and she\u2019s funny as hell,\u201d says Roth, of Ferreira\u2019s involvement in his latest film, The Green Inferno<\/i>. \u201cI\u2019ve done three other films, never the funny person.\u201d Follows F<\/p>\n
erreira. \u201cShe\u2019s always been the suicide moody girl!\u201d Says Roth, laughing. \u201cOr like, the Manic Pixie Dream girl type thing, so this is definitely something new for me, and I\u2019m excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next year\u2019s The Green Inferno<\/i>, Roth\u2019s first horror directorship since Hostel: Part II<\/i>, tells the story of a bunch of Columbia-esque college students who travel from New York City to the Amazon to protect an endangered tribe, which works, but then, their plane crashes and they\u2019re held hostage by the very people they helped.<\/p>\n
Ferreira plays the best friend of the lead character, played by Lorenza Izzo. Given that she\u2019s the only one talking any sense as the students ready themselves for the jungle, in many ways she\u2019s the voice of Roth in real time. \u201cI wrote the script right after the Kony 2012 thing happened. I saw all these people getting really self righteous and caught up in it, wearing their T-shirts and buying mugs, next thing you know, the guy\u2019s on the street jerking off and everyone realised it did absolutely nothing, except make people feel better about themselves. I think activism is great and getting involved is important but a lot of people now are doing it in the laziest way,\u201d says Roth.<\/p>\n
Ferreira and Roth share a love of late 60s, early 70s Italian horror. \u201cI\u2019ve got a weird thing for blood and gore,\u201d she says. \u201cThe second time I ever hung out with Eli, it was his birthday party, and I asked Lorenza to show me the movies, and I locked myself in that screening room by myself in the dark, watching Zombie<\/i>.\u201d She says, curled up in the corner of the sun lounge. \u201cYou know, there\u2019s obviously a generational difference, but we\u2019re both exactly the same in many ways, very similar tastes,\u201d says Roth with a nod of his head. Here, they discuss how they came to cement their working relationship in a hedonistic night of candy, film premieres and Snoop Lion.<\/p>\n