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"I don't think either of us quite know how we
pulled it off," Hathaway told Reuters as she sat down with her
co-star Chiwetel Ejiofor to talk about "Locked Down", the result
of their labours that started streaming on HBO Max on Thursday.
The film tells the story of a couple on the verge of breaking
up, until coronavirus restrictions leave them stuck together in
London.
The frustration from their forced cohabitation and a series of
plot twists boil over into a scheme to steal a diamond from
Harrod's department store.
Shooting started in the autumn when Britain was ramping up
restrictions again after a relative lull. The race was on to get
everything done before the full shutters came down again, and to
get the film out while the setting was current.
The two actors agreed to do the film after seeing only an
incomplete script.
"It was one of those things that becomes a kind of blur, you
know," said Ejiofor, the star of "12 Years a Slave", "Kinky
Boots" and "Serenity".
"Maybe the first couple of days I was on top of the lines, you
know, and then there was just the rest of the shooting schedule.
And it was complex, but it was fun ... to kind of play in that
and to be on edge."
The pandemic framed the plot, and had an equally strong
influence behind the camera.
"It's a strange thing to make a film with everybody in masks,"
said Ejiofor. "There are people there that I did not see their
full faces. I probably will pass them in the street one day and
then they'll cover themselves and I’ll be like, oh, it’s you!"
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Writing by Andrew Heavens; Editing
by Janet Lawrence)
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