{"id":71205,"date":"2022-01-23T06:49:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T01:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/how-thandiwe-newtons-experience-shaped-her-gods-country-performance\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T01:21:00","slug":"thandiwe-newtons-experience-shaped-her-gods-country-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/thandiwe-newtons-experience-shaped-her-gods-country-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Thandiwe Newton’s experience shaped her ‘God’s Country’ performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In director Julian Higgins\u2019 neo-Western thriller \u201cGod\u2019s Country,\u201d Thandiwe Newton plays a grieving college professor who confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, and she\u2019s drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.<\/p>\n

Newton saw the similarities between herself and the character \u2014 including how she handled the situation presented in the film. \u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic story,\u201d Newton told Brain Welk at \u2019s Sundance Studio this week ahead of the film\u2019s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. \u201cI mean, really, it\u2019s unexpected but utterly real and I recognize this as a real woman, and when I say a real woman I mean it didn\u2019t surprise me that this woman was capable of challenging this situation the way she does and I felt that I had experienced those same frustrations daily.\u201d <\/p>\n

Newton also added: \u201cAnd I loved her dignity and I felt that it was exactly the way I would want to talk about issues in America and in wider issues in the world. This was this was the way to tell this story. This was the way to talk about those issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Newton used her own experiences to create a character who is subject to racism, sexism and toxic masculinity everywhere she goes. \u201cIt was about being present,\u201dNewton stated. \u201cThat\u2019s why people get so scared when they\u2019re starting a project because they think about everything, when in fact you\u2019re just going to be doing one at a time. And that\u2019s what it was and I had all these people there.\u201d <\/p>\n

The actress also acknowledged Shaye Olgonna’s on-set conversations. \u201cWe would talk and I would get relaxed,\u201dNewton stated. \u201cI stayed quite calm because I\u2019ve decided that energy is excitement, it\u2019s not fear, which feels the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newton also paid tribute to her costars, including Jeremy Bobb (who plays one of the hunters) \u201cI remember when we first worked with Jeremy Bobb \u2014 what an actor, holy s\u2014. Beautiful scene, beautiful work. So I just did what he was doing. He gave me I gave him, and we just did it,\u201dShe spoke.<\/p>\n

The cold Montana climate may be the greatest challenge. \u201cWe were there f\u2014ing freezing,\u201dShe spoke. \u201cThe first morning was dreadful. There\u2019s no f\u2014ing way I would move to Montana.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGod\u2019s Country\u201dSundance will be the world premiere of this piece in the premieres section.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2019s Sundance Studio is presented by NFP and National Geographic Documentary Films.<\/p>\n

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