Anatomy Of A Scene - Midsommar

ACTOR JACK REYNOR LIKENS MIDSOMMAR to both The Wizard of Oz and The Wicker Man, the 1973 film about a Scottish pagan cult who periodically burned visitors alive.

- Clark Collis

Except? “The Wicker Man, that’s kind of a cult you wouldn’t mind being a part of,” he (worryingly) says. “But these guys, in Midsommar, they’re really f---ing creepy dudes.”

In writer-director Ari Aster’s second movie after last year’s acclaimed terror tale Hereditary, Reynor and Florence Pugh play an American couple, Dani and Christian, whose lovers’ bond has seen better days. “Dani has had a loss, [and] by the time that the film starts, she’s in the middle of a relationship that is on its way out,” says Pugh of her character. “When we meet her, she’s just about to suffer some more. So it’s pretty much rock bottom with her!”