March 25, 2026 • 11 mins
Is in theaters Friday but we have Myha'la & Zazie with us talking about the movie and how it’s much more than just dark.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh okay, Hi, y'all just laughed at me. It's too
early to be laughing.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh, we weren't laughing at you. We were laughing at
our elm before you popped up. It was it was
like a double of using. It was not you, It
was not you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
If it was, it's fine because I know they will
kill me and I'm I'm I'm straight on that.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh my gosh, no, I promise you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know, y'all are too cute to be killing people.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh see, don't be sad.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, exactly, all right, lits say, we got Zazi, so
I see how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yes, good good, I'm up, I'm up. I got my coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, and I was early for both of us today.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, y'all on the east coast West coasts. Oh well good,
well then we're on the same time zone. Mahala, how
are you?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm well, thank you very much. Excited to chat to you.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, I'm excited to talk to you too as well,
because I was watching this trailer last night. You know,
I've seen it before, but I wanted to watch it
again before we talked. And yeah, y'all scare me. Y'
y'all really truly scare me. Y'all are on some different stuff,
Like you know, I know you are playing a ex
(01:30):
convict and then you apply for an ad at this
this hotel or this this this living place a city
high rise, and it doesn't end up being what you're expected,
and you're playing her sister.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
How do y'all get ready for this role?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
For me, it's so funny to hear ex convict. I mean,
we are playing that she you know, she was gone
for a while. For me, it really starts as our
sister relationship and where we started off as sort of
ten years earlier, and I'm coming back and trying to
(02:11):
find her in order to reconcile some stuff. So for me,
the character really came from guilt to shame, love for
my sister and trying to heal a broken relationship, and
then of course like trying to fight for my life
throughout the whole movie. But that's sort of the core
of where Asia is coming.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
From, that part fighting for your life.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I'm sorry, go ahead, Yeah, the most important thing to
me was just my relationship with Zusy, So I was
just bugging her a bunch to hang out before we shot.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Aw, that's cool. You know. That kind of gives me
my next question.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
This is a very dark psychological movie. What did you'd
have to do to tap into emotionally get ready before
you y'all.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Shot this, I think, uh, you know, I think there
are dark elements, but also there is a lot of
levity to the film. I would definitely firmly say it's
also a comedy, so, uh, you know, I think for us,
we definitely were grounded and playing the real stakes of it,
(03:23):
but it was also surrounded by complete absurdity, and so
I think that kept it light for us. Although you know,
I definitely had my days where I was getting emo
listening to my music and then there's an emotional shit
with my Hola at the end, and I was watching
her side of it on the monitor and I was like,
(03:46):
oh no, like, you know, like elements of that in
the film. But we were laughing a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Too, Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So definitely it's not just going to be a lot
of guts and gore, and there there is some laughter
and some comedy in there.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, definitely a lot of guts and gorge to so
expect that.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So yeah, Mahala, are you you You're doing some.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
In there too.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Mostly I'm running for my life and screaming in tears.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Oh okay, my bag. So you've got a good workout in.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, she's doing.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
A lot of the butt kicking and I'm doing a
lot of the running away.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
She's the emotional heart. Yeah, yeah, the emotional the emotional core.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well with the fight scenes, I mean they look so
like amazing. Did you have to do any special training
to get ready for that?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah? I had to do a lot of training. I
trained with initially for a couple of months with Michael
Loge Junior here in New York. He's a boxer, he's
a trainer, and I got in to the boxing sort
of body movement and body story because Corilla director wanted
me to feel sort of a little scrappy and that
(05:09):
is the story of AGA's movement. And then once I
got to Cape Town we shot this in South Africa,
I worked with our Sun team. We did a lot
of damp choreo. We also did some conditioning, but really
locking in the fight movement so that once we were
on set, it wasn't so much guestwork of like wait
(05:30):
what are we doing? And we were able to just move,
move and do do the work. But a lot of
times on set things change and so there's always you
always have to be prepared for different that that the
scene shift. But yeah, the tracking was I mean basic,
go to the gym, so nothing, nothing beyond that.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, Mahata could have training you because she's all all
she's she's running for her life to do the whole movie.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So that's true. You do you need any guardian? I
was gonna say, yeah, for the stamina for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
For both of you. You have.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No go ahead, No you talk because nobody they hear
me all day, all day in days, I was going
to say.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I think the worst though, was the water scenes when
we were in the rain. We had a couple outside
and inside, and I just remember the one day when
you and I were in the sprinklers and you and
I just looked at each other and we were like,
we read this trip, the check is going to clear.
(06:35):
We were on a day. Yeah, we had to really
motivate ourselves. But I would say for me because those
days get really cold and you're just doing that for
twelve hours and that's just miserable. So that was harder
for me than the fighting.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Which is so funny because It was like one of
the most emotionally demanding scenes of the entire movies, and
we had like every element stacked together with rain. It
was a really tough day to you, particularly because you
were doing stunts and finding in the morning the fire,
like literally every element to day to day, and then
(07:12):
we ended the day with.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Torrential downpour and crying.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And I think the thing that people don't.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Understand about rain on film is it doesn't look.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You need a lot of water, so much water to drain,
drain droplets for it to feel like rain. So what
you're actually experiencing experience it's like.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Somebody did this on a hose and they just and
the water can't be warm, otherwise it seems on camera.
And so it's like literally they're getting this water from
and it was winter in South Africa, from like gallons
of just sitting water outside in the winter for days.
So I'm like, what in the water? I don't know,
(07:55):
And also just like hold and immediately you know, and
it doesn't matter how many like hot water bottles they
get here. Yeah, the things we do for cinema our passion.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, well, I don't have to ask you what was
the most challenging thing.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Now you're filming this.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It was the rain, and now I know every time
that it rains, I will think of both of you.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh wow, every time that it rains. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I'm in Michigan, so it could rain like the other day,
real talk. I woke up, it's snowing. It's snowing so
hard it sounds like sleet is hitting my house. A
couple hours later, sun is out shining. We have bipolar weather.
I'm just letting you know. So anytime it rains, though,
I will think of you too, and YouTube being challenged
(08:47):
with hot water bottles.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah wow, that sounds like an honor to be honest.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well yeah, yeah, yeah, well maybe yeah yeah. So for
your characters, who did you both tap into to like,
like Mahala, who did you tap in? What were you
thinking about being the emotional support system for your sister Asia?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Well, I am an only child too, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Okay, word up.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So I don't have any like real world experience to
tap into in terms of what it feels like.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
To be a sister or have a sister.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
My husband has a sister, and he's always talking about
how special a bond is between your sibling, especially if
you're close in age. So I really I really just
dug deep and imagined like this person is like the only.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Other person I have in the world. I shared DNA
with this person, right.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And we have a shared experience, a shared trauma that
bonds us beyond any other thing in this world and
in this life. Coupled with losing that person or being
abandoned by that person and being totally alone for ten years.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So I was really I was really putting myself in a.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Like a state of survival because Maria is a victim,
but she also.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Made some questionable choices.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
She has had some choice in this all out of survival.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
But she's had some choice. So to be able to.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Make difficult decisions and to justify them as the actor,
I have to.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Have a deep understanding and compassion for her pain.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
So yeah, that's really that's really the state of mind
I was putting myself in. And I just made Asia
for LASSI the most important person in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well, ladies, I know the movie comes out this Friday.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They will kill you. Everybody go out see the movie.
It was a pleasure and honor speaking with you. I
know you got a long day and I don't want
to hold you up being the first person, so I
appreciate you. I will be seeing the movie, and I
hope we get to talk again very very very soon.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Bye, and don't forget. When it rains, i'll be thinking
of you. Guys.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Bye, we'll forget. Thank you.
Oh okay, Hi, y'all just laughed at me. It's too
early to be laughing.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh, we weren't laughing at you. We were laughing at
our elm before you popped up. It was it was
like a double of using. It was not you, It
was not you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
If it was, it's fine because I know they will
kill me and I'm I'm I'm straight on that.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh my gosh, no, I promise you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know, y'all are too cute to be killing people.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh see, don't be sad.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, exactly, all right, lits say, we got Zazi, so
I see how you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yes, good good, I'm up, I'm up. I got my coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, and I was early for both of us today.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, y'all on the east coast West coasts. Oh well good,
well then we're on the same time zone. Mahala, how
are you?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm well, thank you very much. Excited to chat to you.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, I'm excited to talk to you too as well,
because I was watching this trailer last night. You know,
I've seen it before, but I wanted to watch it
again before we talked. And yeah, y'all scare me. Y'
y'all really truly scare me. Y'all are on some different stuff,
Like you know, I know you are playing a ex
(01:30):
convict and then you apply for an ad at this
this hotel or this this this living place a city
high rise, and it doesn't end up being what you're expected,
and you're playing her sister.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
How do y'all get ready for this role?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
For me, it's so funny to hear ex convict. I mean,
we are playing that she you know, she was gone
for a while. For me, it really starts as our
sister relationship and where we started off as sort of
ten years earlier, and I'm coming back and trying to
(02:11):
find her in order to reconcile some stuff. So for me,
the character really came from guilt to shame, love for
my sister and trying to heal a broken relationship, and
then of course like trying to fight for my life
throughout the whole movie. But that's sort of the core
of where Asia is coming.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
From, that part fighting for your life.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I'm sorry, go ahead, Yeah, the most important thing to
me was just my relationship with Zusy, So I was
just bugging her a bunch to hang out before we shot.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Aw, that's cool. You know. That kind of gives me
my next question.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
This is a very dark psychological movie. What did you'd
have to do to tap into emotionally get ready before
you y'all.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Shot this, I think, uh, you know, I think there
are dark elements, but also there is a lot of
levity to the film. I would definitely firmly say it's
also a comedy, so, uh, you know, I think for us,
we definitely were grounded and playing the real stakes of it,
(03:23):
but it was also surrounded by complete absurdity, and so
I think that kept it light for us. Although you know,
I definitely had my days where I was getting emo
listening to my music and then there's an emotional shit
with my Hola at the end, and I was watching
her side of it on the monitor and I was like,
(03:46):
oh no, like, you know, like elements of that in
the film. But we were laughing a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Too, Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So definitely it's not just going to be a lot
of guts and gore, and there there is some laughter
and some comedy in there.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, definitely a lot of guts and gorge to so
expect that.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So yeah, Mahala, are you you You're doing some.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
In there too.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Mostly I'm running for my life and screaming in tears.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Oh okay, my bag. So you've got a good workout in.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, she's doing.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
A lot of the butt kicking and I'm doing a
lot of the running away.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
She's the emotional heart. Yeah, yeah, the emotional the emotional core.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well with the fight scenes, I mean they look so
like amazing. Did you have to do any special training
to get ready for that?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah? I had to do a lot of training. I
trained with initially for a couple of months with Michael
Loge Junior here in New York. He's a boxer, he's
a trainer, and I got in to the boxing sort
of body movement and body story because Corilla director wanted
me to feel sort of a little scrappy and that
(05:09):
is the story of AGA's movement. And then once I
got to Cape Town we shot this in South Africa,
I worked with our Sun team. We did a lot
of damp choreo. We also did some conditioning, but really
locking in the fight movement so that once we were
on set, it wasn't so much guestwork of like wait
(05:30):
what are we doing? And we were able to just move,
move and do do the work. But a lot of
times on set things change and so there's always you
always have to be prepared for different that that the
scene shift. But yeah, the tracking was I mean basic,
go to the gym, so nothing, nothing beyond that.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, Mahata could have training you because she's all all
she's she's running for her life to do the whole movie.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So that's true. You do you need any guardian? I
was gonna say, yeah, for the stamina for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
For both of you. You have.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No go ahead, No you talk because nobody they hear
me all day, all day in days, I was going
to say.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I think the worst though, was the water scenes when
we were in the rain. We had a couple outside
and inside, and I just remember the one day when
you and I were in the sprinklers and you and
I just looked at each other and we were like,
we read this trip, the check is going to clear.
(06:35):
We were on a day. Yeah, we had to really
motivate ourselves. But I would say for me because those
days get really cold and you're just doing that for
twelve hours and that's just miserable. So that was harder
for me than the fighting.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Which is so funny because It was like one of
the most emotionally demanding scenes of the entire movies, and
we had like every element stacked together with rain. It
was a really tough day to you, particularly because you
were doing stunts and finding in the morning the fire,
like literally every element to day to day, and then
(07:12):
we ended the day with.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Torrential downpour and crying.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
And I think the thing that people don't.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Understand about rain on film is it doesn't look.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You need a lot of water, so much water to drain,
drain droplets for it to feel like rain. So what
you're actually experiencing experience it's like.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Somebody did this on a hose and they just and
the water can't be warm, otherwise it seems on camera.
And so it's like literally they're getting this water from
and it was winter in South Africa, from like gallons
of just sitting water outside in the winter for days.
So I'm like, what in the water? I don't know,
(07:55):
And also just like hold and immediately you know, and
it doesn't matter how many like hot water bottles they
get here. Yeah, the things we do for cinema our passion.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, well, I don't have to ask you what was
the most challenging thing.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Now you're filming this.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It was the rain, and now I know every time
that it rains, I will think of both of you.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh wow, every time that it rains. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I'm in Michigan, so it could rain like the other day,
real talk. I woke up, it's snowing. It's snowing so
hard it sounds like sleet is hitting my house. A
couple hours later, sun is out shining. We have bipolar weather.
I'm just letting you know. So anytime it rains, though,
I will think of you too, and YouTube being challenged
(08:47):
with hot water bottles.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah wow, that sounds like an honor to be honest.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well yeah, yeah, yeah, well maybe yeah yeah. So for
your characters, who did you both tap into to like,
like Mahala, who did you tap in? What were you
thinking about being the emotional support system for your sister Asia?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Well, I am an only child too, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Okay, word up.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So I don't have any like real world experience to
tap into in terms of what it feels like.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
To be a sister or have a sister.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
My husband has a sister, and he's always talking about
how special a bond is between your sibling, especially if
you're close in age. So I really I really just
dug deep and imagined like this person is like the only.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Other person I have in the world. I shared DNA
with this person, right.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And we have a shared experience, a shared trauma that
bonds us beyond any other thing in this world and
in this life. Coupled with losing that person or being
abandoned by that person and being totally alone for ten years.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So I was really I was really putting myself in a.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Like a state of survival because Maria is a victim,
but she also.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Made some questionable choices.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
She has had some choice in this all out of survival.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
But she's had some choice. So to be able to.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Make difficult decisions and to justify them as the actor,
I have to.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Have a deep understanding and compassion for her pain.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
So yeah, that's really that's really the state of mind
I was putting myself in. And I just made Asia
for LASSI the most important person in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well, ladies, I know the movie comes out this Friday.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They will kill you. Everybody go out see the movie.
It was a pleasure and honor speaking with you. I
know you got a long day and I don't want
to hold you up being the first person, so I
appreciate you. I will be seeing the movie, and I
hope we get to talk again very very very soon.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Bye, and don't forget. When it rains, i'll be thinking
of you. Guys.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Bye, we'll forget. Thank you.
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