The 'Companion' Cast Interview Each Other and Spill Secrets on Their Upcoming Movie

Hi, I'm Megan Siri. I'm Jack Quaid. I'm Sophie Thatcher. I'm Lucas Gage. And we're going to ask each other some questions about our new movie companion. Alright, I'll get started. Please do. Sorry, didn't mean to cut you off like that. Okay, alongside the big scares in this film, there are some big laughs. What is your approach to weaving comedy into a horror film like this? I mean, the script is really good. So it wasn't, I don't know, I felt, at least for me, some things, I don't know, you kind of try to like spice up a little bit if you want to find like a fun moment, but I feel like there was kind of no need here, like I mostly, I mostly just kind of stuck to what was scripted. I don't know about you guys. For sure. I think Drew just wrote a great, great script. Yeah. I agree. No notes. I agree, I love the script. No notes. If your character was an emoji, which one would it be and why? Oh God. I would be the pink bow emoji. Oh, totally. Like this? Yes. Absolutely. I would be a big piece of meat. I think cat would literally be the cat emoji, but like the smirky one, the one that's like. Oh, totally. Yeah, right? Wow. Good. I feel like, you know, those like emojis of like a dude where it's like, they're just wearing that like plain blue shirt, like you see a bit of their like torso and then I think that's Josh. He's just like that, but like just the blue plain shirt. I'm going to change mine. Yeah. I'm the scallops. You are the scallops. I'm the scallops. Absolutely. The scallop thing. I have to watch to make that make sense. Okay. For Jack, Josh is not your average villain. What makes him different from any other character you've played in the past? Oh God. I mean, I think the key of playing a villain is not to see it as like a villain, try to see it as whatever your character's going through, it's, it's right by him, you know? And I think that Josh is just a supremely frustrated guy. Basically what the key for Josh was for me was, um, I think Josh is a person who has never heard the words. I love you. I think that that's, I think that was kind of my key into the character was that. And, uh, you know, yeah, you know, and then everything kind of, um, happened that happens in the movie happens I think, uh, because of that. So yeah. Nice. Real nice. Next question. Yeah, sure. No, that was great. That was great. Weirdo. Favorite movie of 2024. Ooh. Anora. Ooh. Anora was so good. I haven't seen that yet. I really like Anora. I mean, he's a genius. Mikey Madison is insane. It's so good. Mikey Madison is unreal. Loving Mikey. I'm going to say. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm going to say baby girl for me. Hopefully it'll be out by the, yeah. Baby girl will be out. Oh my God. It's so good. Heretic. Smile 2. Okay. How would you describe what this movie is without spoiling the juicy twists and turns? I would say it's about three couples who go on a getaway weekend and things are not what meets the eye. Things will be revealed about each and every single one of them. That was so good. Was that good? That actually was. Thank you. Things will be revealed. If you guys could create a meet cute for your own life, what would it look like? Would you go for a classic romantic scenario or something quirky and unexpected? Just like that. Well, we say it like that. Quirky and unexpected. Yeah. That was really enticing the way that you read that. Meet cute. Have I ever had an actual meet cute? I didn't even know what a meet cute was. It's like what you see in a Hallmark Lifetime movie. And that's what I want. I want to meet you at the airport. I love in a library. There's something so romantic like through the bookshelf. Like, ah. Right. Through the bookshelf. It's so creepy. I feel like that's the most common one. Yeah. It's always like. The most common meet cute is a library we both happen to look through the shelf at the same time. I don't know. I mean, that is really romantic. It is great. Like, you guys are into the same genre. Yeah. Or you go for the same book. Stop. Then it's like a war. You know, like, are they going to let me keep it or are they going to take it? And then we can have beef. I love how Megan said it means that you're into the same genre. That doesn't make sense. It's like you're in the same section, clearly. Exactly. Because you're on both sides of the shelf. So you already have similar tastes and passions. Yeah. It's already a go. That's a good one. I'm very single. So I'm like. I'm trying to get. Okay. So if you can meet somebody in any location. I'm getting a library card after this. Catch me at the local LA library. Right here in New York City. Without spoiling anything. If you could swap roles for one scene with any other actors in this film. Who would it be and why? Megan, you first. Oh, I mean, obviously Sophie. Iris has so many good scenes. Especially towards the end. There's some fun scenes. I was going to say you. Because you get all the funny Xanax stuff. It was definitely real. It was. I'm going to say. I'm going to say Rupert. Yo. Oh my God. He gets to play. I don't want to spoil it. But he gets to play such an interesting, fun, weird character in this. I'm really excited for people to see him in this. Shout out to Rupert. He's awesome. He is. Same. I'm going to go with Rupert. I know. He's incredible. If you could control one aspect of your own personality or appearance with an app. What would you tweak and why? This is very personal. This is insane. I would tweak. I would tweak my big mouth. And I would tweak. No, I love that about you. I have a big mouth. I need to shut up. And I would tweak my open bite. Physically. Right? It was one physical, one emotional. Oh. Open bite? Yeah. Like my teeth don't touch. Oh. Can't tell. You can never tell. I never would have known. Okay. Well, I'll tweak my rosacea. I don't know. Honestly, I'm also tweaking my rosacea. There we go. That's so bad. Wow. And then emotional. We're all looking at the question. Let me repeat it. I'm trying to understand the question. If you could control one aspect of your own personality or appearance with an app, what would you tweak and why? Oh, I just added and. I added a both. So it is now personality and appearance. Okay. Yeah. Oh. I did that. Sorry. Personality or appearance. Ah, I understand. I heard it wrong. Yeah. I'm going with my rosacea as my one. I know. Poor me. I'm trying to think of personality. Because I'll go with it. What else? What do we think? I would choose not to be an actor, because being a date actor is no shame. Not taking it. Makes sense. I would try to tweak my sort of impatience. Like I can sort of get ahead of myself, and then when it doesn't go my way, then I can fall and dwindle down a really dark hole, and I think I would like to just relax a little bit. I really noticed that about you. Yeah. I'm just kidding. You want a bite? Let's go bite. I would never think that. I like that. We're both of our... I know, we're just staring at something over here. Rosacea in my mouth. Rosacea, rosacea, yeah. I could use a bit more patience as well. We all could. Yeah. It's this modern world. Everything's at your fingertips. It's crazy. It's driving us insane. Sorry, sound. They're like, ah. Ah, God. Wait, yours was being an actor? Yeah. Hell yeah. I love that. This film revolves around the relationships and chemistry of the cast. Was there a particular moment on set that made you feel like the dynamic truly clicked? Are we all going to... I might have... We might all have the same answer. I was going to say the dance scene in the beginning. Yeah. I think that was just... That was a good scene. That was a moment. I know. We're all together. It was loose. Loose, bonding. Yeah. I'm going to say Offset's karaoke night at the Best Western. Yeah. And I wasn't there, so that's interesting. It was... We were together many times. Yeah. Jack was my first initiation into New York City, so that was really cool. We took the train into the city, and Megan on the train casually was like, this is my first time in New York City. I'm like, welcome. This is Grand Central. I'm so glad you did that too, because I would have been so overwhelmed had you not been there, so that was really cool. And I never said thank you. I don't think. Thank you for being a part of it. And I was offended until just now. Now, of course. That was so cool to see it through your eyes. It meant a lot to me. That was awesome. We've all worked on horror films. We all have worked on horror films. Nice. We're all horror girls. We're kings and queens. What do you think is the most fun part about working in this genre? The screaming. Yeah. The crying. Yeah. Feeling sick after. Yeah. I was going to say, I think it's like equally... You always get sick after you shoot a horror movie. Yeah, we do. It's like the week after. Your body is like, okay, I can be sick again. I got sick during. That was bad. Me too. Oh, man. Yeah. During Companion? Yeah, well, I was like, we had just come back from the strike. I was there. I did one day, and then I was like, oh, no, at the end of that day. Thankfully, I didn't have to work for like a week after that, so I got to like fully recover, but it is not fun to be at all sick and on a set. It's not fun at all. Cut you off. No, no, not at all. I was going to just second what Sophie said. I think it's simultaneously like the best part, but also the most difficult part about filming horror stuff is because you're just going through all, the entire spectrum of emotions constantly, and it's the most fun and gratifying, but it's also like the most challenging part of it. I think just like the best stories now are being told. Yeah. In the horror genre. Yeah. It's just so cool. And as soon as I knew that this project was by the same people who did Barbarian, which was like my favorite movie of that year, like bar none, I was just like, oh, I have to be a part of this thing. Those guys are geniuses. Did you say bar none, barbarian? Barbarian bar none. That was really good. Honestly, can we retroactively put me in the marketing campaign for Barbarian? Yeah, Barbarian too. Retroactively. It's also the most fun to watch. I think it's the most fun in a movie theater you have all the reactions of everyone around you. You're laughing, you're screaming, you're holding on to each other. Next question. What's a good companion movie for this film? What movie would you pair with this one? How to Lose a Guy and this. There's similarities in that movie. There are. I mean, okay. The whole like, not being. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. This is hard because we all want to say that. You need to cleanse the palate. Yeah, yeah, you gotta cleanse the palate. He just crushed it immediately. Oh God, oh God, oh God. This is tough. What did I watch? Hotel Transylvania 3. Secret Life of Pets 2. Secret Life of Pets, yeah. 2. He has to get on therapy. What did I watch to prepare for this thing? Oh God, I feel like anything I say will be a spoiler. What's the wildest vacation getaway you've ever been on? Well, it's story time. Oh, you have a good one. I do, but I don't know if I want to say because my dad's going to probably watch this. She was at a rave in Bali. I was rebellious. You know what, it's fine. He has to deal with me and begin to. I, when I was 18 years old, I went to Ireland and I told my dad that I was actually going to Palm Springs with a friend. Oh. So, sorry about that, love you though. How do you pull that off? I don't know. I don't know, but I pulled it off. So far away from Palm Springs. I know, but I was like, we are disconnecting from the world. That's smart. Well done. That's a great one.