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PIERCING – Mia Wasikowska Interview

By Dave Griffiths @goodbaduglyshow · On January 10, 2019


Australian actress Mia Wasikowska is no stranger to intense movie roles. When she hasn’t been making movies like Alice In Wonderland she has been known to play some pretty intense characters in films such as Suburban Mayhem, Stoker and Madame Bovary but she says nothing has been like her character Jackie in the brand new horror thriller Piercing.

Here Wasikowska plays Jackie a young prostitute who is hired by a man who only has one thing in mind – tying her up and killing her. But what he hasn’t counted on his Jackie’s own twisted sense of reality and her own personal inner demons.

“The film came off the back of me making a couple of period dramas,” says Wasikowska when I ask her what drew her to Piercing. “It was so different different to anything else I had ever done. Originally they came to me for the role of the wife but then about the weekend before we were about to film the actress dropped out… and initially it was to be played by a much older actress. But then they asked me to play Jackie and that was a whole different thing because I wasn’t expecting to do of that stuff, but yeah it just seemed super exciting and so different.”

“I was really apprehensive about who was making this movie,” she explains when I ask what it was like working with up and coming director Nicolas Pesce. “I don’t normally watch these kinds of movies and I was thinking ‘who the hell would want to make it?’ I was very apprehensive about the group of people that I was going to end up with but they were all very wonderful and Nic was very sweet and kind. He is very creative and I felt very safe and very comfortable on set. I mean this was a movie being made by a bunch of men and I was the only female and was asking ‘what, why, who are these guys?’ And you know even when I sat down to watch the trailer I was like ‘I hate these kinds of movies, I can’t watch these kinds of movies’ wait I shouldn’t say I hate these kinds of movies… but I did really love playing Jackie.”

 

You can listen to our full interview with Mia Wasikowska on the Spreaker player below.

 

Piercing opens in UK cinemas later in 2019.


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Dave Griffiths has worked as a journalist for over twenty years now -covering topics including film, television, music, travel and sport (with a main focus on AFL Football). That time has seen him host the popular X-Wired television program for seven seasons as well as write for various magazines such as Buzz Magazine, Heavy Mag, Stage Whispers, The Banner and Eternity.. He has even branched out into writing online for Subculture Entertainment, Media Search and The Book The Film The T-Shirt. He also worked as the online editor for Entertainment 360 for three years. Dave's radio work has seen him work on various radio stations including 3RPP, Triple R and Light FM. He is currently the resident film reviewer on Sydney's 2UE radio station and can be heard reviewing what is new at cinemas and on DVD each week on Wednesdays at 3pm with Ed Phillips. He is also the co-host of Melbourne's 94.1FM's breakfast show 'The Motley Crew' and he can sometimes be heard on J-Air's 'First On Film'. David is also the co-host of two popular podcasts - ‘The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Film Show,' and 'The Popcorn Conspiracy' As far as Film Reviewing goes David is an elected committee member of AFCA (Australian Film Critics Association and a member of IPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics)/FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique). He has also served as a jury member for a number of international film festivals and is considered an expert on cult cinema, horror movies and Australian films.

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