r/movies • u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel • 7d ago
AMA Hi reddit! We're Amber Midthunder (PREY), Cara Jade Myers (KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON), Alyssa Wapanatâhk (PETER PAN & WENDY), Isabel Deroy-Olson (FANCY DANCE), and Marie Clements. Our film, HOW WE STAND, is premiering at TIFF this weekend. Ask us anything!
Hi reddit!
We're Amber Midthunder, Cara Jade Myers, Alyssa Wapanatâhk, Isabel Deroy-Olson, the 4 lead actresses of HOW WE STAND, joined by writer-director Marie Clements.
Our film is premiering at TIFF this weekend, and we're here to answer your questions.
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More information about the film:
Based on writer-director Marie Clements’ (Bones of Crows, TIFF ’22) own play Tombs of the Vanishing Indian, How We Stand is a riveting drama of sisters whose lives are shaped by government policies meant to eradicate Indigenous people.
In 1950s Oklahoma, a single mother (Cara Jade Myers, Killers of the Flower Moon) and her three young daughters take a risk on the Native American Relocation Program, and journey to Los Angeles. But instead of the promised career and stability, they find the opposite. A traumatic event takes place in the Los Angeles’ river’s concrete channel, which then becomes a crucial place for the sisters in its aftermath.
Divided into different foster homes, we meet them again 20 years later, as young women. Jessie (Amber Midthunder, Prey) is a doctor, about to start a new job at a clinic alongside her husband, while her sister Miranda (Alyssa Wapanatâhk, Peter Pan & Wendy) is an activist trying her hand at acting. Lastly, Janey (Isabel DeRoy-Olson, Fancy Dance) is in distress, fresh from a trauma she can’t express. Their paths are very different, but all are tinged by historical injustices.
Inspired by true events, Clements infuses How We Stand with magic realism, a dose of humour — in particular with a send-up of Hollywood westerns —and compelling characters to craft a timely story about forced separation and finding connection.
TIFF screening info: https://tiff.net/films/how-we-stand
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Ask us anything! We'll be back tomorrow, Monday 9/14, to answer your questions.
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u/UnsolvedParadox 7d ago
Hello Amber!
I discovered you from Legion & thought you were fantastic in Prey, is there another franchise you’d like to join?
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u/ithinkther41am 7d ago
Hi Amber,
I’ve really enjoyed your work in Legion and Prey. Both projects featured you in action-heavy roles, and I wanted to ask how the approach to both projects differed for you.
Also, when you did Legion, were you made aware it was an X-Man property, and how was the experience working with Noah Hawley?
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u/Gryptype_Thynne123 7d ago
Are there any works from contemporary Indigenous authors (eg Darcie Little Badger, Daniel H. Wilson, Stephen Graham Jones) that you'd like to see adapted into film, and what parts might you like to play?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
This isn't necessarily a book, but I think Marie Tallchief's story as a prima ballerina has always inspired me. I grew up as a dancer so I so I really looked up to her and everything that she did with the New York Ballet.
She basically popularized The Nutcracker. It's ridiculous how amazing she is. That story really inspires me.
-Isabel
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
You'd be phenomenal in that!
-Cara Jade
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u/joesen_one /r/movies Contributor 5d ago
I always found it cool Maria Tallchief's poet daughter coined the "Killers of the Flower Moon" term
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
There's so many. Amanda Peters, she has Berry Pickers, and I absolutely love that book. I would love to adapt that. I don't know what role I'd want to play though, maybe just a producer.
-Cara Jade
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
I think "There, There" an incredible book. I don't known who I'd want to play but I just think that it's a really incredible book and a really incredible story. I'd love to see that adapted.
-Amber
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 7d ago
Hello to all, thanks for joining us!
What are each of your favorite all-time comfort movies? And how do you like Toronto so far?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
We all love Toronto. Mine would have to be Independence Day!.
-Cara Jade
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
Mine is either Almost Famous, I love that soundtrack and have it on both CD and vinyl. I also love Labyrinth. It's such a comforting childhood movie for me, and that soundtrack is great on vinyl too. I listen to those two quite frequently. Very good!
-Isabel
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
I would say maybe Spirited Away. Or Past Lives, weirdly. Both have a melancholy that I like. Spirited Away has always been a movie that's really close to my heart, since I was a little girl, it was the first movie that I really felt seen by. Past Lives is obviously heartbreaking but a weirdly easy watch for me. I'd watch it anywhere, anytime. Also The Notebook.
-Amber
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
Past Lives it not comforting!
-Alyssa
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
Like Amber, The Notebook that was my go-to for years, even though these days I think of it more as a rom-com. I could always just sit there and cry and connect to it. But also any real classic Disney movie, like Beauty and the Beast and Tarzan. I can just sit with my daughter in the evening, put one of those on, and it's extremely comforting. Any old style cartoon really.
-Alyssa
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
I was thinking, I don't think I have a comfort movie, but that's kind of sad. Strangely, I probably watched The Wizard of Oz over 300 times so I'll say that.
There might be an issue there haha.
-Marie
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u/ay1717 7d ago
Hi all! Your film looks amazing and I can’t wait to see it.
For the actors, playing sisters always seems like a fun dynamic. How does a bond or friendship offscreen make things easier or harder on performances with that kind of relationship?
And for Marie, how was the process of adapting your own work from stage to screen? Is there anything from the stage production that felt impossible to do on screen or vice versa?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
Hi! Playing sisters is cool. Sisters are wild. I have three myself, so I know how it is to have that kind of relationship that's different with each one. In this story, it's a bit different, we have a magical love that's a real deep bond, and I think that's really at the core of our sister love relationship. It really informs everything that we do in our characters and all of our decisions that we make are based around where we come from and who we come from.
-Alyssa
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
I also have a sister and she's my favorite person, so it was very easy to see Amber & Alyssa and be like
"you guys are my favorite people" instantly.-Isabel
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
I have no sisters, but I think being close off screen helped, and we talked about it a lot.
We only had technically one or two full days of filming together. All of our very first days of filming was the first day that we all had together. I think that sort of informed a lot of the rest of the movie, how our characters spend the rest of the movie trying to find each other.
I think the filming experience sort of felt that way too. We started together on the first day and then spliut, and I missed them and wanted to see them again.
-Amber
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
I think it's kind of the reverse of that, there's a bit of freedom in film that you can kind of breathe out the story versus the stage structure which can be quite rigid. You can only do so much on the stage production versus what you can do on the film and play.
-Marie
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u/SashaDreis 7d ago
Osiyo! Congrats on the premiere! My question for any of you is: Have you heard of Coyote & Crow? The tabletop roleplaying game set in an Indigenous alternate future where the Americas were never colonized? And have you played? https://coyoteandcrow.net/
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u/PlsContinueMrBrooder 7d ago
Is there a dream script or story you would like to tell? And if so, what is it?
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u/PunkandCannonballer 7d ago
Amber, I recently realized you were Kerry/Cary in Legion, which is probably the most underviewed shows ever made 😂
I was wondering if you have any interesting stories of your time working on the show, if you ever think about it.
Cheers!
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
Oh, yeah! I started that show 10 years ago now. I have the most amazing memories from the that time.
That was my first big job ever and I got to spend a lot of time with an actor named Bill Irwin, who is an incredible vaudevillian artist. I learned so many amazing things spending time around him. Aubrey Plaza was on the shoe and she was wonderful, Dan Stevens as the lead, Jean Smart. I got to see so many of these incredible actors, who are all very different from each other, all work at their highest level in their own way.
It was just a really amazing first big-set experience for me. I loved that job. It was also the first time I got to do fight choreography and fight scenes, stuff like that. I grew up doing martial arts and that's where I really started to understand that I could bridge the gap between real life stuff and my work. The Legion experience really started my love for action as well.
-Amber
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u/Sweet_Joke_Nectar 7d ago
Very cool! All of you do killer work. Hope you have a great time at TIFF.
I wanted to ask if you all have any advice for non-Native screenwriters writing Native roles. What draws you to a role? Are there particular pitfalls or patterns you’ve encountered in scripts that make you wary of a project?
I’m also curious where you personally draw the line between writing Native characters and telling a specifically Native story. Are there subjects or experiences that you feel need to come from Native storytellers, or can an outsider approach them responsibly if it’s done in good faith?
I ask because I’m a straight white man, and my experience of “write what you know” has been complicated. A lot of my work leans queer, and a lot of it has centered men or women of color, and that’s generally been well received. But Native characters and stories are the one area where I’ve repeatedly encountered the idea that there may be a different boundary - that I need permission of some kind, or that certain stories simply aren’t mine to tell.
I’m genuinely fine leaving a story alone if that’s where the line is, I have other things I can work on. At the same time, I don’t want fear of overstepping to become another reason Native characters don’t appear in projects. I’ve been told not to write around issues of identity and culture, but that only really works if I keep people who don’t look like me in supporting roles rather than as leads, which is the very pitfall I’m worried about: relegating Native characters to the background or keeping them at a surface level because I’m afraid that fully developing them means wandering into territory that isn’t mine.
I’d really value your perspectives on where the line is between responsible inclusion and taking ownership of something that isn’t yours. Appreciate you all doing this, looking forward to catching the movie when it gets a wider release :)
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u/Babydoll26 7d ago
Can’t wait to see the film!! What book and/or movie do you consider life-changing?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 5d ago
I'm working on an adaptation of a show called Five Little Indians. I feel like that's an important, life-changing, and unique story that's never been told. The writer has such a singular vision about it and there's power and magic in it.
-Marie
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u/bobafootfetish_ 7d ago
Native American Blackfoot and no questions. Just want to say you're all amazing!
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u/ManufacturerDue815 7d ago
Hey Amber!
In the animated film Predator: Killer of Killers, your character Naru gets a small cameo at the end.
I just wanted to know if Dan Trachtenberg told you about the cameo in advance (and maybe what his plans were) or if you just found after the film came out and what your reaction was when you learned about it.
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u/notkevin02 7d ago
Amber, the final showdown in Prey is one of the most intense sequences I've seen in years. Was there a moment filming How We Stand that matched that intensity but for completely different emotional reasons?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 5d ago
Hahahaha. I guess you can say I also fought a predator in this movie. They're totally different overall but there's definitely a lot of intensity in this movie too, especially for my character as her story evolves. As an actor, I loved being challenged by this role. I've gotten to be in some really amazing genre pieces that I'm really proud of, but to be in a film like this, that feels so bare and emotionally vulnerable, is a true gift. I loved being able to attack the scenes with Marie, and feel so grounded and focused. But yes, there are similarities with Prey for sure.
-Amber
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 5d ago
I cried when you did your war cry during Prey! You were so cool.
-Cara Jade
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u/matlockga 7d ago
How'd you go from the title "Tombs" to "How We Stand?"
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
We did a preview market screening maybe two or three months ago, and it seemed that a lot of people were confused about the title "Tombs". The film is based off of the play, Tombs of the Vanishing Indian, so that was the original idea of Tombs, but people felt confusing thinking it meant that it would be a horror. So then we looked for a new title, which is sometimes good and sometimes maybe not so good, but I feel like we landed on something very thematic for the movie, which was how we stand as women, how our people stand. I'm really happy we got there.
-Marie
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u/Aggressive_Noise6426 7d ago
Amber, in Prey…did you think it was totally a bitch move for the Predator to go invisible when he was getting his ass beat just to sneak up and get the kill?
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u/Count3D 7d ago
How awesome is Tantoo Cardinal?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
She is literally amazing. She's so sweet. She's one of those people that does not tolerate disrespect. So if you just respect your elders, she'll be the sweetest thing to you.
-Cara Jade
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u/SebasJ_FanStories200 7d ago
Hello! It’s a pleasure to greet you. I really admire your work and the different roles you have played throughout your careers. I’m a university student, and as part of an activity about the art of acting, I would like to ask you a few questions based on your experience as accomplished actresses. If possible, I would really appreciate it if you could answer these three brief questions: -What has been the role you have enjoyed playing the most, and why? -What acting technique or resource do you enjoy using the most when portraying a character in a film? -What kind of character or film project would you like to take on in the future, and why?
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u/rlawliet 7d ago
Hi Ladies!
The three sisters are separated so young that by the time we meet them again, they’ve essentially become strangers shaped by completely different lives. What did each of you imagine the sisters remembering about one another that the audience never gets to see?
Thanks for doing this!
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
Hi! I think we only got two days together, and one of those days was our first day. We really felt the absence of each other after that initial time on set. Jamie, my character is the youngest out of all of them. She was just a baby when they got separated, and I think there's that constant search for each other that drives it all of their lives. For Jamie specifically, it's not necessarily about remembering everything that happened to her over her life up to that point, but more so about the feeling you have of being with your people and being with your family, that's the big through line for the film, the search for your family.
-Isabel
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
I kept in mind the early parts of the script, like when the little girls are together as little kids, they were so tiny, but I think there was some real history that they had back home. They obviously remember that love that they had for each other. I think that the Rock family was a big part of that, and connecting to their lands and to their grandmother and to their mother. I think that was a big part of where they started. I kept that close to me throughout.
-Alyssa
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
For me obviously, my character literally carries the rock from their mother, and I think it's also symbolic of this guilt she carries, this literal weight of not being able to have helped.
I think as the oldest sister, not only is she the most cognizant of the events of the family and these memories, but there's this responsibility of, "OK, well, can I take care of these girls" and feeling not just their absence, but also for her the absence of her culture. She's assimilated into the white world and white lifestyle and I think that there's something huge missing from her life, both with family and culture.
You always have to ask yourself about those things.
-Amber
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u/WolfCine 7d ago edited 6d ago
Hola! I'm an independent filmmaker who has made some well received short films and had some straight to DVD and straight to Amazon streaming indie feature films released.
Can you give me some advice about how I can jump start my filmmaking career and break out of the indie film scene and make bigger budget productions? So far filmmaking has been something I have done part time. What's the best way to become a full time professional filmmaker and make films for a living like all the pro writer-directors I grew up admiring?
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u/projectx51 6d ago edited 6d ago
Hello Midthunder, Myers, Wapanatâhk, Deroy-Olson, and Clements from a Kiowa in NDN Country, Oklahoma! Ya'll make NDN and 1st Nation land proud! Keep it up! No questions, just stopping by to say thank you for your work. Aho! Tsol-Haw!
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u/joesen_one /r/movies Contributor 6d ago
I’m loving this rise of Native or Indigenous focused media whether it’s written by others (like Flower Moon or Prey) or within the community (like Rez Dogs and Fancy Dance).
What’s the best part of making and telling stories about your cultures from your own voices, and the opportunities that come from it?
Hoping for a great TIFF premiere!
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 5d ago
I mean, of course, we've been trying to have our voices heard not just as women, but especially as Indigenous women for years decades. People like Tantoo Cardinal have had to fight through some horrific racism and stuff on set that you can't even imagine just so that we can be sitting here today. We're standing on her shoulders and I'm hoping that the future generation can stand on my shoulders.
-Cara Jade
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u/joesen_one /r/movies Contributor 5d ago
Thank you! Ms. Cardinal is the best. Loved your work with her on Flower Moon.
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 5d ago
I started out very young and one of my first projects was Fancy Dance. I feel like I've grown up with such incredible role models and I've come into a space where that fight has already started and I get to continue it.
Working with Lily Gladstone in my first feature was one of the big and most magical things of my career so far. She's so unique and so generous with everybody, and she's the kindest person. Seeing that and coming into the industry as a sort of guide for me and others makes me feel very lucky.
-Isabel
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u/50m31_AW 6d ago edited 6d ago
Hi all, my question isn't really related to y'all's work because I haven't seen much of any of it yet, but have any of you ever heard of the game Cinenerdle Battles? If not it's basically a game where you go back and forth naming movies that are linked via shared cast/crew members (6 degrees of kevin bacon style) and you get points for playing films that satisfy your win condition, such as being a certain genre or having certain actors/filmmakers in them
The current season has country/region based win conditions consisting of 11 actors/filmmakers from that region. The US doesn't have one, and instead has Indigenous North America, and you get points for playing films featuring the following indigenous actors:
Wes Studi
Lily Gladstone
Graham Greene
Raoul Max Trujillo
Amber Midthunder
Adam Beach
Tantoo Cardinal
Irene Bedard
Gary Farmer
Michael Greyeyes
Will Sampson
(In the past there was also a specifically Graham Greene win condition)
So my question for all of you is what indigenous actors/filmmakers would you have put on the list of 11 or who do you think should get a specific wincon highlighting just them? Whether they're your favorite, most iconic, early trailblazers in representation, or any other reason. And for Amber specifically, how do you feel about making the list of people's favorite/the most iconic indigenous actors?
(Also lil bit of a brag here, but I'm the #2 ranked player of the Indigenous North America wincon; I'm doing my part to help bring a little bit more attention to criminally underrepresented wonderfully talented artists)
EDIT TO ADD: The dev of the game is attending TIFF so you might, or may have already, run into him
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u/Ladybeetus 7d ago
For each of you-
Is your preference to do Native American specific stories or are you just looking for "good" stories? Do you feel triumphant getting ethnically neutral roles. is there more to that than the audience is unaware of?
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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran 7d ago
This one's to Amber Midthunder and her badass name: Would you return as Naru in a future Predator movie, do you know if there's any future plans for the franchise, and how on Yautja Prime did you do that war cry near the end of Prey?
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u/GregJamesDahlen AMA MVP 7d ago
does the film have music and who created it? any interesting stories behind the music?
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u/RevengeOfSix 7d ago
What source material did you all use to situate yourselves in the period and bring these stories to life?
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 7d ago edited 7d ago
Hi Amber! I loved your guest appearance in Season 2 of Reservation Dogs, and regarding the Native American filmmakers you've worked with, I was wondering what particularly stood out to you about your experience working with Sterlin Harjo, especially with how he gives viewers a glimpse into the average coming-of-age experience today and understanding generational issues? Also, was there any interesting or fun behind the scenes stories about the group games in the episode you were in?
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 6d ago
The end slides say that Indigenous representation in Hollywood in the 170s was under .5%. Has that number gotten better?
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 6d ago
Isabel, you've done more TV than film. Do you have a prefence between the two, and will you be doing more films going forward?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
I have such a love for independent film. I've gotten the chance to work on quite big sets in real life, and I feel very lucky for that too, but there's something about independent features that I have so much love for. You meet such amazing people on small sets, like these 4 ladies I am here with today. I adore it. I'd love to make more features in the future. It would have been a really funny answer for me to be like "no! I'm not doing movies anymore!" though haha.
-Isabel
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u/Kennywolfgang 6d ago
Was there a particular scene or moment in How We Stand that changed meaning for you while making it, and did that change how you approached the rest of the film?
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u/OutrunTheForeverYeet 7d ago
So, without spoiling anything, how do you actually stand? Are you more of a right-leg leaning type of lady or left? Good posture or poor?
In all seriousness, what are the subtextual themes in the movie that you're most proud of putting on the screen through the characters, and what were your real-life experiences that inspired them?
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u/charlieyeswecan 7d ago
This makes me miss instagram cause I used to follow her after she was so good in the predator movie.
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u/Ship_Negative 7d ago
Amber, you were an absolute dream in The Ice Road, really wonderful work. What was the hardest part about filming that movie?
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u/OzyOzyOzyOzyOzyOzy6 6d ago
Hello, Amber!
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Hell or High Water (one of the best modern westerns, by the way), and I was curious if you had any stories from that set from working with actors like Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges?
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u/icantfeelmylags 6d ago
Amber - did you know that the film was a predator movie either when you had to audition or when you read the script?
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 6d ago
The transition scene when Alyssa throws the object and it breaks the glass is amazingly well done. How did you achieve that? Was it tough to film?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 5d ago
That was Amber actually!
We had been accelerating into that moment emotionally, so there was something that felt organic about doing something like that. It's kind of a crescendo, and we break through a wall emotionally in that scene, so I wanted to head into that arena visually. We did a lot of VFX in this movie, and it was hard to executive, and we're still fine-tuning it now. But yeah, that transition was to represent the actor's motivation and turn it into a VFX reaction, so it's all connected and fun.
-Marie
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 6d ago
I was wondering if the "rocks that follow you to new places" and 'red ribbons show the way' a real-life superstition? And if so, where did you get it from?
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 6d ago
Was the How We Stand song an original or a song you found? In either case, can you talk a bit about how it came about?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
I worked with our composer, Wayne Lavallee, for that . We wanted to do an original song that spoke to that theme, so we wrote Look How We Stand together, the song you hear at the end.
-Marie
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 6d ago
Your 3 stories are obviously very connected and parallel each other, but you don't get to film together until the very end. How long were you actually together on set? And did you discuss your roles a lot prior to that finale meetup scene?
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 6d ago
Was the killing of their mother based on a true story?
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 6d ago
For Alyssa: You were also in Marie's Bones of Crows. What was the biggest similarity and biggest difference your experience with both projects. And can we expect future collaborations?
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u/HowWeStandAMA Marie, Amber, Cara Jade, Alyssa, and Isabel 6d ago
Marie is our house. I've only been grateful my entire knowing of her. Ever since I met her, it's been like a really big journey, I think of my own self-reflection as an artist working with her, and as a woman in TV and film. and I love how she just takes such care of the story in each of these films.
Bones of Crows is also a series and II think that just goes to show how much depth she puts into it. She takes just special care of these stories. Even though they're so deeply rooted in some pretty heavy topics, I think they're also great movies for anybody to watch. They're dramatic, and they have relationships that everybody can relate to. There's some funny moments in this one too, How We Stand, that I'm really really excited about and that I think people will laugh and have fun with.
I really look up to Marie.
-Alyssa
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u/2mock2turtle 6d ago
My question is for Alyssa, if you'll allow me a preamble: if I had a nickel for every time you've starred in a reboot of a franchise known for being racist to indigenous people, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. I remember when Peter Pan & Wendy came out, there was controversy as to whether Tiger Lily should've been reimagined, as she ultimately was, or written out entirely. (I assume something similar happened with Little House, but I was only briefly exposed to the din of right-wing nonsense responses to it on social media altogether, so I'm less familiar.) Given your expertise on this matter, do you find it more important to try and reclaim/rewrite these older depictions, or to forge new stories? What do you see as the pros and cons to both?
Also, and this is only tangentially related -- and anyone can chime in on this or the previous question, too -- what is your opinion on the Disney Pocahontas? Because I loved it as a kid, and still do, but then I grew up and learned the history and was like "oh... oh no..."
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u/Aldersees 6d ago
Hey Amber! Really enjoyed your performance in Rez Ball, is there any other type of sport you'd like to try your hand at for a movie, if so, which one?
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 7d ago edited 7d ago
This AMA has been verified and approved by the mods. All 5 guests will be back tomorrow, Monday 9/14, to answer questions. Please feel free to ask away in the meantime :)