LOS ANGELES — When Bryan Fuller set out to write and direct “Dust Bunny,” he wanted to make a movie for the entire family — especially one that little kids could enjoy, particularly little girls who could identify with Sophie Sloan, who plays Aurora.
“I would say, parents… See the movie, decide for yourself, but then take your kids because that is who it’s for. It is for children of all ages, but particularly the young ones,” Fuller told Spectrum News.
In Fuller’s “Dust Bunny,” a 10-year-old Aurora joins forces with her hitman neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) to confront each other’s monsters. When Aurora needs help to kill the monster that she believes ate her entire family, she turns to Mikkelsen for his services. When he takes the job to protect Aurora, he’ll need to battle an onslaught of assassins and accept that some monsters are, in fact, real.
Speaking to Spectrum News, Mikkelsen praised Sloan for her work in the film.
“She’s a little star,” he said. “On top of that, she is a kid. It’s the best thing when you work with kids; you tend to forget yourself, and that is always a good sign for an actor when they forget themselves.”
Sophie Sloan in “Dust Bunny.” (Image courtesy of Roadside Attractions)
And because the film deals with monsters, Fuller and Mikkelsen shared with Spectrum News what their monsters were growing up.
For Mikkelsen, he said, “If it’s anything I have seen on the screen, it has to be the very first original ‘Frankenstein.’ That was haunting for me as a child, for sure.”
Fuller also went with the universal monster theme and said, the Wolf Man.
“What was very unnerving about the Wolf Man is that he had a human presentational face and so the real monsters in our lives often have very human presentational faces, but furry fang beast often saves its true image for our private moments and that’s even more terrifying.”
“Dust Bunny” opens this weekend in theaters. It also stars David Dastmalchian, Rebecca Henderson, Sheila Atim and Sigourney Weaver.
Click the video above to watch the full interview with Fuller and Mikkelsen.
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