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“My title is David Lowery, and I tailored and directed The Inexperienced Knight. It is a scene wherein Sir Gawain, who will not be but Sir Gawain— he isn’t a knight but— performed by Dev Patel, stops for relaxation in what he thinks is an deserted cottage within the countryside and discovers that it’s inhabited by a spirit named St. Winifred. St. Winifred is an actual character in Welsh historical past and in Catholic lore. She’s a martyr from the seventh century who was decapitated by her suitor when he— when she determined to grow to be a nun. And her head was thrown right into a spring. However then later, a Saint got here and took her head from the spring and rejoined it to her physique, and she or he got here again to life. And ever since then, that spring, which is called Holyhead or Holywell in Wales, has been recognized to have therapeutic powers. And it’s a spot which you can nonetheless go to. And folks— the religious go there. Vacationers go there. It’s open for enterprise. And it’s referenced within the authentic textual content of Sir Gawain and the Inexperienced Knight. There’s one line that claims, he fared over the fords by the forelands over on the Holy Head until he once more, took land within the wilderness of Wirrel. And that’s only one line within the poem, however the poem itself could be very rooted in Welsh iconography and Welsh geography. And so in researching it, I got here throughout the legend of St. Winifred and simply couldn’t actually— I couldn’t resist together with it within the movie itself. This was shot on location not in Wales, however in Eire. And though we shot it on location, we needed it to look form of like an previous Hammer horror movie and have that form of soundstagey really feel to it.” “There.” “What’s it I’m searching for?” “My head.” “It is a actual cottage that we discovered. After which Jade Healy, our manufacturing designer, she made it look as near the unique St. Winifred’s Cottage in Wales as doable. After which we dug our personal effectively in entrance of it, which can or could not nonetheless be there. I don’t truly know. Erin Kellyman performs Winifred, and I first noticed her within the Han Solo movie, the “Solo Story.” And I simply thought she was such a placing presence. And immediately, I simply knew I needed to work along with her in some unspecified time in the future. So after I wrote this movie, she got here to thoughts in a short time for this half. And fortunately, she stated sure. She’s great.” “This Lord sought to put with me. I fought him off, however he returned within the night time and broke down my door. I attempted to flee, however he lower off my head.” “We shot this multi functional night time. And it was one of many few night time shoots we had on set and a type of uncommon events when all the things simply works out completely. The climate was excellent. It wasn’t too chilly. The air was nonetheless. The fog all hung simply so. It was actually fairly magical.” “I simply want my head.” “The entire ghostly stuff in that is we needed it to really feel very sensible. When she floats in the direction of Dev, she’s simply standing on a dolly. Once more, we needed this entire sequence to really feel like a really old school horror movie. What’s taking place right here with the stakes that Dev is happening with this journey, they’re so excessive already. He’s actually heading in the direction of his personal dying. So each one of many encounters he has on his journey is extra of a nudge. The stakes right here aren’t large. They’re much more delicate. And what’s taking place right here with this dialog with Winifred is that she is nudging him in the direction of integrity, in the direction of decency and chivalry. And we’re utilizing the context of Winifred’s legend to form of illuminate the place our model of Gawain has to go. This sequence was impressed by the made-for-TV film, Ewoks’ Caravan of Braveness, wherein a personality is sucked right into a magical pond. That terrified me as a baby, and that’s instantly what that is pulled from. We initially had a a lot greater underwater sequence deliberate, however I now know that it takes much more than half a day to shoot one thing underwater. And so I believe what you see right here is just about each little bit of usable footage we now have mixed with some miniature work that we shot again in Texas. And the miniature was constructed by David Pink, who wore the ghost costume in “A Ghost Story” when Casey wasn’t out there. And the cosmic stuff that you simply see right here, we actually needed to— when Dev emerges from this pond, we needed his world view to alter. Each encounter he has on this film modifications him and brings him nearer to dying. And so right here he’s touching the cosmic. And if the star results really feel slightly wonky, it’s as a result of I did them myself utilizing YouTube tutorials.”