The Long Island International Film Expo is underway,
and this weekend one of the films premiering is scrap.
Here's a peek.
So for you, this is oh,
birthday parties. We. But for me,
this is how do I make my baby sister's childhood
nice despite the fact that both of our parents are
dead?
Really. You want to do the whole Ben the martyr
routine?
Let's just go. You're going to be a not
being a Why
don't you just take an Uber to your car?
I'll I'll see you back at home.
Oh, an Uber. OK, I'll take an Uber.
Watch out. Watch out. Watch
out
for you. This is birthday party is we
and he survived that skating accident.
Joining us this morning from the upcoming film Scrap.
Please welcome actors Vivienne Kerr and Anthony Rapp.
Great to have both of you here.
You sort of deserve that.
Take an Uber. I know
what was going on there.
Well, we're we're brother and sister,
OK. And let's be fair.
She's a little bit of a problem case over here
and I've been working really hard to take care of
her and she's being a little ornery.
So you know, with there's history,
you know, it's it's not in a vacuum.
Let's just say that, right.
Is it hard to play brother and sister?
Like, you know, you get like husband and wife all
the time or couples together or whatever.
How do you play? Like,
how do you work on that chemistry to be siblings?
You have to like dicker and be friends at the
same time.
No, but to be fair,
like, I think I think we just got really lucky
because we'd actually met on a short.
And then I sort of wrote the script with Anthony
in mind.
And I, I don't know,
I don't know if it was like consciously tailoring it
to you,
but I think knowing that I really wanted him to
play this role and I really liked our dynamic and
it was kind of what I had always imagined for
these two characters. So I
I could just got lucky and then obviously he liked
the script.
Who wanted to do it.
Yeah, that's a big compliment that she wrote something.
I agree it's an honour wrote and directed.
Yes. And,
and started, So what was the inspiration behind it?
Was it based on real life events?
What was going on here?
Well, the film is about
my character Beth has recently been laid off and is
living in her car and sort of struggling to kind
of hide her situation from her estranged older brother.
And luckily, not based on real life,
but I've lived in Los Angeles for a really long
time.
And when I was working on the script,
I noticed that my neighbourhood had rapidly changed.
And unfortunately there were a lot more people sleeping in
tents,
sleeping on the sidewalk. And I wanted to come up
with a story
about a family going through that,
but maybe try to approach it with a little bit
of humor and some nuance that we don't always see
with that subject matter.
And Anthony, your character is trying to get pregnant.
Yeah. His wife, they're having some difficulties,
challenges with IBF. And that's a story that also doesn't
get told very much,
you know? So it was meaningful to get to do
that.
And I had the most amazing opportunity to work with
a wonderful actor playing my wife.
So, I mean, it was just.
Yeah. And then I have two children myself through IBF,
through surrogacy. But thankfully, we didn't have those struggles.
But, you know, I have friends I just met,
you know, talking to somebody the other day when you're
going through that cycle and it is hard.
It is really, really challenging.
But still, you know, the process first hand.
So do you guys have siblings?
Yes, yes, yes. I have one older sister.
OK. Did you draw inspiration from that relationship?
We're actually super close. So I feel like
no, because our relationship in the film we are.
So we are kind of estranged.
But I think I love movies about siblings like I've
always loved You Can Count on Me,
the Kenny Laragan film and movies like that.
So and I feel like we don't see a lot
of movies,
enough movies about sibling relationships.
And it is weird because it's not somebody you chose
like a friend,
but they are your friend and you're kind of going
to beat each other's lives forever.
So, yeah, I just, I think that it's those relationships
and these are really fun to me.
When you're directing and acting at the same time,
do you have to like,
stop him midline and be like,
no, Anthony, that's not how I want you to say
it constantly
all the time. No, no,
I think actually the best part is because,
you know, Anthony obviously has had an incredible career in
theatre.
I got my undergraduate degree in theatre and I think
we like to work in the same way or we
just want to like,
play scenes through, find out what happens.
I don't really like to micromanage as a director in
that way.
Right, Tony? Right, Anthony, right.
I just don't, you know,
I've done some directing. I just can't imagine being able
to wear those hats at the same time the way
that Vivian was able to.
And you know, and then to have to watch yourself
while you're editing and all that stuff.
I would it would be like,
you know, I'd give you allergic to that.
So I just so admire
her ability to do that.
I like Teddy to her,
right? I do to her a lot.
I'm like, right, And he's not my director and he's
still
a critique. So like that.
I'm kidding, kidding, kidding.
Likewise, theater. She mentioned theater.
Any plans to return to theater?
Well, I've been doing runs of my show without you.
I did it last summer here in New York,
and I did it. I got to do it in
Tokyo recently.
Boston. There's other possible places.
Raising our two kids is a big focus.
I'm doing 54 Below concerts with Adam Pascal next month.
Like a residency kind of thing.
So live performance theater would be great in the right
time and place,
you know, with two kids.
And I have to be kind of like
picky Reunited. Yeah. Have you guys done anything
recently? Yeah, we did. We did a little run of
the same sort of concert in January and it did
so well.
Then they brought they're bringing us back.
So you know, we're going to have you here.
You guys can sing. OK.
All right. Right. And early.
Isn't that what you want to do?
Right. For sure. After having two kids.
Good stuff. Great to have both of you here.
Thank you very much, Vivian and Anthony.
Scrap premieres this Sunday, July 14th at the Long Island
International Film Expo.
For additional screenings, you can visit
scrapthefilm.com. Is it going to go streaming,
you think? Yes, and this fall will be on streaming,
and we're hoping before that to do a limited theatrical
run in LA and New York.
Oh, nice. Very cool.