Premieres at Fantastic Fest are always fun and when they’re with actors we now know and love, it is that much cooler. Which is why today we’re celebrating Ella Hunt taking on Austin for her film Anna and the Apocalypse at Fantastic Fest in 2017!
Hunt, who is know for her work in shows like Dickinson, starred in the fun musical Anna and the Apocalypse about a teenage girl fighting the zombie apocalypse with her friends. It is truly just a sweet movie and seeing Hunt and company take to Fantastic Fest to promote it was pretty amazing!
During promotion for the film, Hunt spoke with Daily Dead about the film and taking the journey with Anna through its Fantastic Fest premiere and wider release. “I remember back when I was 15, I was in a casting room with a couple of producers and a director, and they asked me to list the two key things about that character that I was auditioning for. Just two things. They wanted her to be two things. With this movie, Anna is 100 different things,” Hunt said.
She went on to talk about being able to play a layered version of a teenage girl, saying “She was the opportunity to play a teenage girl in all the moments that a teenage girl can have. She has the clichés of being bored by her small town life. Yes, she has the cliché of wanting to get out of that; she’s aspirational. But she’s also unsure, vulnerable, dependent on her friends, bold in moments, sassy in moments, or even badass in moments. To get to be all of those things was so inspiring to me. It was the sort of movie that I’d want to watch, and she was so the character that I was looking for at the time.”
You can see our celebration of the women of Fantastic Fest here and get ready for the festival’s big 20th anniversary!
(featured image: Jack Plunkett/Fantastic Fest)
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