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ZENDAYA JOHN DAVID WASHINGTONMALCOM & MARIE Written and Directed by SAM LEVINSON | FEBURARY 5
‘I don't want to make a comfortable film. I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in answering people's questions; I'm interested in posing questions. I'm interested in sparking a conversation between two people about what something means. That's enough for me, as a writer and as a director.’ SAM LEVINSON ‘I don't want to crush the audience's imagination. I want them to feel like they might have missed something.’ Writer and Director Early life & Facts • Trained at the ACES Educational Centre For The Arts • Creator of the HBO teen drama series Euphoria • He earned a BAFTA TV Award nomination • $42.7 Million Approx. • Father, Barry Levinson, a successful filmmaker • Mother, Diana Rhodes, production designer ‘I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.’ ‘the work doesn't end when the scene ends.’ Anything can be taken out of context and anything you say or do is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are in your totality.
JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON Playing Malcom… • American actor, producer, and former American football running back. • His mother is singer Pauletta Washington • “Extraordinarily hard-working, very, very thoughtful, and very considerate of everybody around him in the most wonderful way.” – Christopher Nolan • ‘I'm from the old school; hard work pays off.’ • net worth of $8 million.
“I think it was to explore those insecurities and those dark things about ourselves that I think sometimes relationships can bring out of us.” Zendaya “If you don’t try things and take risks, you don’t really grow and figure out what you want.” “None of us who made the movie think that they’re, like, in a healthy relationship, you know what I mean?” Playing Marie… ‘I love simplicity.’ • American actress and singer • Net Worth $15 million • Famous for her activism, philanthropy, and advocacy on HIV, AIDS, Pandemic, and Feminism. • Started her career on the Disney Channel • Trained at: • Oakland School For the Arts • American Conservatory Theater • California Shakespeare Theater
Cameras • Zeiss Super Speed Lenses • well suited for handheld & gimbal filming • date from the 1980s era. • popular choice for DoPs, especially when looking to shoot in low light / natural light conditions. • Kodak Double-X black-and-white 35mm film stock and Zeiss Super Speed LENSES • Shot handheld and with a dolly during the rapid 14-day shoot Reason for shooting in black and white "We weren't as present in the black and white era, a lot of filmmakers have already done this before, a lot of Black filmmakers, so it's not necessarily a new idea, but we did want to pay tribute to that era and reclaim that beauty and that elegance with these two Black actors."
Marcell Rév • Cinemaphotographer • Planned to make the film black and white from the beginning • “The nature of the two actors, one location, that kind of genre evokes a lot of classics, and it was made consciously with a respect to those classics or like a classical kind of filmmaking with the knowledge that we were in 2020,” • “That was paying tribute to these old movies, and we were playing with this kind of style in a modern way.” • The opening scene contains a lengthy oner, a dolly shot from outside the house, allowing the viewer to eavesdrop on the couple’s conversation as they return home from the premiere.
Michel Grasley • production designer of Malcom & Marie • Attended an Art School where he studied Industrial Design, before getting a Masters in Architecture. • discovered the film’s single location, a home in Carmel, California. • Used the interior and exterior of this single location • “It wasn’t a very complicated design. But it’s deceptively simple.” • 12 weeks of prep, for Malcom & Marie • Props, simple pieces and few of them, reconfiguring spaces to reorient the focus and eyelines inward.
