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Executive produced by former U.S. President Barack Obama and
Michelle Obama, the movie is written and directed by "Mr. Robot"
creator Sam Esmail and based on the best-selling novel of the
same name by Rumaan Alam.
It sees Roberts' character Amanda, her husband and two children
head on an impromptu holiday in a small Long Island town. Their
getaway is interrupted when a man and his daughter, played by
Mahershala Ali and Myha'la Herrold, turn up on their doorstep
claiming to be the owners of the upmarket residence and
requesting to stay the night. As tension builds between the two
families, strange events start occurring around them and they
find themselves under the same roof trying to make sense of the
chaos outside.
"There's always about 17 and a half things going on at one time
in every scene for each person. It was just all the layers of
the people and the circumstances," Roberts told Reuters at the
film's premiere in London on Wednesday.
The Hollywood star cherished the challenge of playing cynical
advertising director Amanda.
"Just the idea of playing someone who's sort of intrinsically
suspicious and a little prickly, which is not my nature, but to
still make her human and approachable and likeable."
Fans of Alam's book should not expect a faithful adaptation,
Esmail warned.
"Something that works in a literary medium may not work in a
cinematic medium. I was very upfront with Rumaan that I really
was going to take liberties with the interpretation. I ran
through all the ideas, he was on board and then in a lot of ways
I think we both got what we wanted because his book and the film
are kind of two different standalone pieces that kind of operate
independent of one another."
"Leave The World Behind", which also stars Ethan Hawke and Kevin
Bacon, is out in select cinemas and starts streaming on Netflix
on Dec. 8.
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Editing by Josie Kao)
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