Making Gus Van Sant’s Venice out of Competition title Dead Man’s Wire “felt like guerilla filmmaking”, according to cast member Myha’la Herrold.

“We were in the dead of winter in Kentucky, everything was frozen all the time,” said Herrold at the Venice press conference for the film. “Physically speaking, it was hard on our bodies. Bill [Skarsgard] and Dacre [Montgomery] were out there for hours on end in below freezing temperature in Hawaiian shirts, and still making it work the way they did – it was impressive, shocking.”

Dead Man’s Wire is a dramatisation of the true story of Tony Kiritsis, who, in 1977, took the president of the Meridian Mortgage Company hostage with a sawed-off shotgun.

Skarsgard plays Kiritsis, with Montgomery as mortgage company president Richard O. Hall.

“Gus

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