{"id":254577,"date":"2024-02-20T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/wyatt-russell-talks-about-the-sinister-pool-and-his-troubled-character-in-night-swim\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:46:53","slug":"wyatt-russell-talks-about-the-sinister-pool-and-his-troubled-character-in-night-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/?p=254577","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Russell Talks About The Sinister Pool And His Troubled Character In \u201cNight Swim\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like his Night Swim character, Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) was a former athlete, one of the reasons director Bryce McGuire wanted him for the role of former baseball pro Ray Waller. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hgnUYV330cA?si=TPGVKAMDB3X7cjMf\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the actor, being able to draw on his own experience as an athlete definitely helped his performance. \u201cThere are aspects of this character that obviously I\u2019ve felt before, or seen in people I know, where you\u2019re sort of losing your ability and sense of identity to injury,\u201d says Russell, who played hockey on the amateur and professional levels for six years, until injuries forced him to quit. \u201cI know the feeling of wanting to do anything, even if it\u2019s detrimental to yourself or your family, to keep playing; it\u2019s a hard drug to let go of. There was that element of it that I know Bryce wanted, and I was able to do that because I had lived aspects of that life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-244626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-1392x928.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Wallers-in-Night-Swim-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Night Swim, based on director McGuire\u2019s acclaimed 2014 short film of the same name, Ray Waller (Russell) is a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades his wife, Eve (Kerry Condon), that their new home\u2019s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids (Am\u00e9lie Hoeferle and Gavin Warren) and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home\u2019s past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"804\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-244627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim-1024x429.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim-1536x643.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim-100x42.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim-696x291.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim-1392x583.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wyatt-Russell-Kerry-Condon_Night-Swim-1068x447.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides his personal connection to his character, Russell says he was drawn to Night Swim because of the thematically rich story that McGuire had built from its fiendishly simple swimming-pool premise. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just love everything that the swimming pool represented \u2013 how it gives life and takes it away; how it holds both good and evil \u2013 and how it made for a refreshingly different approach to a genre story,\u201d Russell says, adding he also appreciated the trajectory of Ray\u2019s increasingly dark arc and how the true evil that threatens Ray and his family isn\u2019t supernatural but his own flaws. \u201cI liked how his selfishness and his misguided strategies for dealing with everything that comes with M.S. [multiple sclerosis] ends up being the forces that drive him. He\u2019s a nice guy with a nice, normal family dealing with very real human dilemmas, but there\u2019s this little kernel of narcissism that leaves him vulnerable to corruption that can take over his soul. It was just a fun part to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGuire says Russell was a joy to work with. \u201cFrom our first conversation, I saw how deeply he understood the psychology of an athlete and an athlete\u2019s struggle to move on from the sport they\u2019ve dedicated so much of their life to,\u201d he says of Russell. \u201cWyatt was a joy to work with for me because he was completely fearless. Without saying too much, he has to go to some extreme places in the movie and he was never self-conscious. He understands how to connect to an audience and he\u2019ll try five different versions of something to give you options. That\u2019s a dream for a director. He was game for anything, very selfless and always thinking of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dare to take a dive when Night Swim, distributed by Universal Pictures International, opens in cinemas February 21. #NightSwimMoviePh<\/p>\n<p>Follow Universal Pictures PH (FB), UniversalPicturesPH (IG) and UniversalPicsPH (TikTok) for the latest updates on Night Swim.<\/p>\n<h6><credit>Photo Credit: Universal Pictures <\/credit><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Wyatt Russell, known for &#8220;The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,&#8221; suits up as former athlete Ray Waller in Night Swim, showcasing his versatility in Bryce McGuire&#8217;s new film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatic-fuchsia-armadillo.46-250-226-234.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}