The actress and fashion influencer defended the admission: “When Steven calls, I trust him blindly. So, here we are, and I’m just going to need a moment to decompress.”
Julia Fox didn’t have much to say during the post-premiere Q&A of Soderbergh’s ghost story Presence on Friday night, but the brief comments got laughs at the Library Center Theatre.
After the credits rolled, moderator and Sundance director Eugene Hernandez asked the cast for their reactions to seeing the film for the first time.
Joined by cast mates Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday and West Mulholland, Fox took the mic as it passed down the line.
“I hadn’t even read the script, to be honest. But when Steven calls, I trust him blindly. So, here we are, and I’m just going to need a moment to decompress.”
David Koepp, a longtime friend of Soderbergh and collaborator. The vet scribe has a long, successful Hollywood résumé that includes blockbusters like Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Panic Room and Spider-Man.
Liu said she “didn’t have words.” But she found a few: “I’m such a huge admirer, and I respect both of these artists Soderbergh and Koepp so much and to be a part of this incredible movie, I’m devastated, and my body is having reactions that as if I wasn’t in the movie.”
The story was filmed from the point of view of the ghost, with the camera moving throughout the house as the apparition.
Fox’s role is brief as she appears at the start, playing the realtor who sells the family their home.
Point of View
Soderbergh was convinced that films shot with first-person point of view simply would never work. That is, until he made one.
“I’ve been very vocal about the fact that [visual reality], one-person point-of-view VR doesn’t work, is never going to work as a narrative,” Soderbergh explained. “I’ve been beating this drum hard for a long time, that it’s never going to work. Then, I’m like, the only way to do it is you never turn around. You never turn around. I’ve been saying for years you have to turn around or it doesn’t work. And now I’m like, or…”
