Now playing in select theaters is writer-director Paul Schrader’s latest film, Master Gardener. Schrader, who wrote Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and who’s known for screenplays that focus on “very powerful male characters,” returns with another thriller, starring Sigourney Weaver opposite Joel Edgerton, but this time the filmmaker has a different message than his previous work. While speaking with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Weaver and Edgerton explore the director’s unique style, what it is that draws him to stories like these, and more.
In Master Gardener, Narvel Roth (Edgerton) is a restrained horticulturist employed at the sprawling Gracewood Gardens. Like the beautiful gardens, Roth tends to his relationship with his wealthy employer, Mrs. Haverhill (Weaver), and leads a quiet life, until the day Mrs. Haverhill requests Roth accept her wayward niece, Maya (played by Quintessa Swindell), as an apprentice. When the two begin to develop their own relationship, Roth’s dark and violent past starts to surface.
Before heading to the theater, you can read the full non-spoiler interview below to find out what drew three-time Academy Award-nominee Weaver to this project and how they managed to film in only 20 days. Like Schrader’s other films, The Card Counter and First Reformed, Master Gardener offers the narrative in what Edgerton describes as a “concise” manner, revealing exposition that’s “very elegantly placed and very artfully placed.” They also talk about Edgerton’s upcoming Apple TV+ series, Dark Matter, whether Weaver is more of an Ellen Ripley from Alien or Gwen DiMarco from Galaxy Quest, and if she’ll be making an appearance in Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2.
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