Meet Indy the Dog, the Star of the New Horror Film ‘Good Boy’

Movie stardom is wasted on the canine. Less than a minute into our scheduled Zoom call, Indy, the plucky, furry lead of the demonic possession horror film Good Boy, has lost interest in the occasion and wandered off screen, leaving director Ben Leonberg and producer Kari Fischer to shoulder the press tour’s burdens. But we’re professionals here, so: we ball.

Indy is Leonberg and Fischer’s dog, though dog owners know that relationship tends to operate based on the reverse dynamic: they’re actually his humans.

Filming Good Boy, it turns out, proved much the same; Leonberg and Fischer weren’t making a movie with Indy as much as Indy was making a movie with them, though this again was lost on him. “Indy has no idea he’s in a movie,” Leonberg says. “He doesn’t know the context of the scene.