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Neglected stars Dylan Sprouse and Josh Duhamel spoke with ComingSoon editor-in-chief Tyler Treese about their new serial killer thriller movie<\/a>. The duo discussed their on-screen chemistry, playing complex characters, and more. The film is out today in theaters from Inagural Entertainment.<\/p>\n \u201cOn his first official day of retirement, Detective Shaw (Josh Duhamel) is called back to the precinct when a blood-drenched teenager named AJ (Dylan Sprouse) surrenders with a chilling ultimatum: he has buried Shaw\u2019s teenage son alive. Plunged into a living nightmare, Shaw is forced to revisit a trail of grisly homicides as the oxygen in his son\u2019s remote grave runs out. In a pulse-pounding race against the clock, Shaw must navigate a precinct on the brink of mutiny and a suspect who thrives on psychological warfare, as his investigation unearths a devastating truth: Shaw wasn\u2019t chosen at random,\u201d says the official synopsis.<\/p>\n Tyler Treese: Dylan, I\u2019m always curious about how you find the humanity in a role like this when you\u2019re playing a serial killer. Obviously, we learned a lot about your character\u2019s backstory later on. Was that kind of your \u201cin\u201d to finding the character, or how was it making him seem disturbed by the trauma he\u2019s undergone, but in a way that still felt human?<\/strong><\/p>\n Dylan Sprouse<\/strong>: I think that was the fun of the character for me, was reading the script and seeing how you can possibly get to a point of empathizing with a character like this, who is clearly doing these deplorable acts while also feeling justified through being driven back into a corner. And so for me, I\u2019m happy with the performance that we ended up with, and I think that a lot of that I can give credit to Josh for, because you can only prepare so much before you get on set and you start working with your co-stars, right?<\/p>\n I think a lot of that\u2019s feeling on set. A lot of that\u2019s workshopping it with your fellow co-star, and Josh made that really easy. He\u2019s been doing it forever, and he\u2019s a professional in every sense. So for me, it made it really easy to get there. And I was having fun doing it as well, which I think, when you watch movies, at least I do, but I can see when actors are at play in what they\u2019re doing versus when they\u2019re really struggling through their performances. I felt like I was at play during this.<\/p>\n Josh Duhamel<\/strong>: That\u2019s great. I love that.<\/p>\n Josh, there\u2019s such an interesting dynamic between you and Dylan in these scenes because he is sort of toying with your character. He\u2019s arrested because he wanted to be, and he has the information advantage. What did you find most intriguing about getting to play with that character dynamic, where the police are definitely on the opposite side than usual and they don\u2019t have the edge?<\/strong><\/p>\n Josh Duhamel:<\/strong> It\u2019s an interesting way to look at it. To think that he was starting the next phase of his life and gets drawn back into this because of something he didn\u2019t even realize he did years ago. It was part of the reason I love this idea. One of the things I love and hate about this job is that you\u2019re sort of forced to confront some really difficult things, some dark things at times, and to see what he\u2019d done. Not only to these other kids, but also what he\u2019s done to my son and what could happen if I don\u2019t find him. It\u2019s something you don\u2019t wanna think about as a parent, but it\u2019s also something that makes you appreciate your kids that much more, I guess.<\/p>\n So, I think Dylan said it perfectly. We just had a lot of fun. I love his approach to this. I love the way he played this character. He\u2019s not this snidely whiplash sort of bad guy. He\u2019s a really interesting and complicated and playful, I think, is the perfect word for that. There was something really playful about what he did, which I didn\u2019t expect him to do, which made it a lot of fun. We just had a lot of fun making this movie. We shot it in like 15 days. So the pace was always fast, which I think helped me keep it at a 10 the whole time.<\/p>\n I love the interrogation scenes. Those are really fun.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dylan, my last question, we see the kills and flashbacks, and it\u2019s not glamorized. There\u2019s a real grittiness to it and a realism to it. I mean, they\u2019re disturbing. You\u2019re cutting off a woman\u2019s ear. How is it filming those scenes? Because they\u2019re obviously extreme, but they\u2019re not played into the gore. They\u2019re very realistic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dylan Sprouse<\/strong>: I would actually give full credit for the performances in that scene to my stunt double. They actually filmed those scenes before I had arrived because of a conflict of schedule. They filmed it because it was so stunt-heavy and action-heavy. So I\u2019m giving full credit to him for those kinds of gritty realism moments, even though we talked about it, and we talked about the hallway scene in Oldboy, and we talked about some of these scenes that are just like [realistic].<\/p>\n One of my biggest pet peeves is in action scenes when you don\u2019t see an actor or a stunt double pant or get tired. That\u2019s one of my favorite things because anyone who\u2019s hit a bag for five minutes knows how exhausting it is. To me, when you\u2019re just amped up, and you\u2019re in these scenes where you\u2019re seeing people throw each other and beat the heck out of each other or try to kill each other, in some movies, you just go, \u201cWouldn\u2019t you be exhausted after five minutes?\u201d But we talked a little bit about that, and I\u2019m glad you caught it.<\/p>\n Props to you for not taking credit for it and being honest.<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks to Dylan Sprouse and Josh Duhamel for taking the time to talk about Neglected.<\/p>\n The post Dylan Sprouse & Josh Duhamel Talk New Serial Killer Movie Neglected | Interview<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Neglected stars Dylan Sprouse and Josh Duhamel spoke with ComingSoon editor-in-chief Tyler Treese about their new serial killer thriller movie. 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