""You always at the beginning say, 'Hm, how does this go?' No matter how many times you do it, you start from insecurity," he tells Meredith. "But that's what keeps you alive and not just sleepwalking through stuff you already know." He compares the craft to a child's game of make-believe, pretending fully until the stakes feel real: "If you can survive this stuff in pretend, you start to get the illusion you can survive it in life.""
"Latif, meanwhile, speaks about the need to personalize Mosley's work. "Every film has to be personal. You cannot make a film that is not personal to you," she says, tying Charles Blakey's grief to her own fears of loss. Diop adds that genre itself becomes a Trojan horse for these themes: "Nobody wants to be lectured to. So genre gives filmmakers a way to get really important topics across while putting it in this more entertaining way.""
The Man in My Basement adapts Walter Mosley's novel, placing a mysterious businessman into a decaying Sag Harbor home that becomes a psychological thriller about race, trauma, and haunting personal monsters. Willem Dafoe and Corey Hawkins anchor the cast while Nadia Latif makes her feature debut directing the ensemble into unsteady, unforgettable territory. Dafoe describes acting as make-believe that keeps performers alive and helps them confront life's challenges. Latif connects Charles Blakey's grief to personal fears of loss, and Anna Diop explains that genre serves as a Trojan horse to convey important themes without lecturing.
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