Beau Garrett
Interview: Beau Garrett Turistas
"When I found out it was Brazil, one," she said. "Two, roughing it. I love to be submerged in that, knowing that was my first film, and it being with John [Stockwell] was kind of like my buffer of ‘help me if I need it, please' because I didn’t know what I was doing half the time. It’s really nice to have him be there to support you, and it was such a good film, and such a bond we all had. I had worked with him and he was like ‘I’m doing this script and I think you’d be great for this role. Would you be interested?’ I was like, ‘Of course.’ And then, of course, the auditioning process."
Garrett tested with costars Olivia Wilde and Josh Duhamel, as well as other combinations of actors. She could feel who would end up playing her tour group. "We just had a bond immediately, and I think everyone just resonated because we kept coming back in together, they kept bringing us back in. It wasn’t this awkward going back to the room full of people. We just wanted to be good together, but no worries, everyone’s good. It’s such a weird thing, but I’m so glad, we had such a great time"
In a movie like Turistas, it's hardly a spoiler to know that many characters will meet gruesome fates. Garrett's required some elaborate special effects. "It was a process. It started before I left for Brazil. I had a body cast. That, I had never done before. That whole process is fascinating. It’s a seven hour thing, and you’re on this thing. I fainted, and woke up to them panicking and feeding me ice cream, and I was like, ‘I’m ok, I’m ok. Where am I? Get it off me.’ They did my head, the whole thing and that’s an art in itself, They made her me. It was amazing, freckles, the whole thing, I'm like, ‘Oh my god, you’re hot!’ Kidding, kidding."
Shooting the scene required a mix of the real Garrett and her new double. "I have this torso thing on me, and I didn’t leave for 12 hours. I was on this thing, I peed in a bed pan, and I ate food in a torso, and it was super strange. And then to see it was so eerie. My parents won’t see it. They’re going to buy the ticket to support it, because if they don’t, I’ll kill them, but they won’t see it cause it’s super real, and watching it I was like, it was a very gruesome scene."
Turistas is out in theatres now.
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