The irony of the film is that Jessie becomes connected to her body through literally being chained and having to unchain herself. A lot of people who suffer sexual abuse as if they’re not living in their bodies. “It’s what I love about sci-fi as well we’re able to take a heightened situation and deal with very personal issues. I wanted to preserve that in Jessie’s mental landscape: She’s a woman who had to cut off something deep inside her and hasn’t given herself the time and space to look at it.”įor Gugino, telling Jessie’s tale of mental and physical survival in the style of a horror film allows the film to deliver its message about confronting trauma with a minimum of afterschool-special contrivance. So often the person feels that they’re culpable for something they didn’t have anything to do with causing. When happens - especially in our story when it happens to you as a child - the rules are so unclear. “It’s unfortunately always a topical subject, but I know what you mean with what’s going on in the press right now. Also, by telling the story of a sexual assault survivor who reclaims her power after years of remaining silent, the movie speaks directly to the cultural conversation that’s been stirred up in the wake of revelations about Harvey Weinstein, as well as Harry Knowles and Ben Affleck. Gerald’s Game feels timely not only because of the ongoing King-aissance that continues with Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of the author’s novella 1922, which premieres on Oct. Gugino as Jessie in Gerald’s Game (Photo: Netflix) “Because I felt watched out for and taken care of, I was able to say, ‘Let’s do another take, I can handle it’ or ‘Let’s not, get me out of here.’ It was such rigmarole to be uncuffed and then recuffed, so it was easier to just keep them on most of the time!” Gugino, on the other hand, posted longer times in that particular endurance test. Flanagan himself donned the handcuffs prior to production and confessed to his leading lady that he was able to maintain a chained position for a maximum of only five minutes. It’s not as if she wasn’t forewarned, though. 29 joining a wave of King-derived pictures that includes The Dark Tower and reigning box-office champ It. “It was not comfy, let me tell you,” Gugino tells Yahoo Entertainment of her … well, bruising experience making the Mike Flanagan-directed film, which premiered on the streaming service on Sept. And she has the bruises on her back and wrists to prove it. ![]() In order to play the macabre story’s heroine, Jessie - who is cuffed to a bed for almost two days while her husband, Gerald (Bruce Greenwood), lies dead on the floor following a sex game gone wrong - the fan-favorite veteran of such genre blockbusters as Watchmen and Sin City really did spend several hours a day, six days a week shackled to a headboard. Gerald’s Game star Carla Gugino would like you to know that no CGI handcuffs were used in the making of Netflix’s acclaimed Stephen King adaptation. ![]() Bruce Greenwood and Carla Gugino in Gerald’s Game (Photo: Netflix)
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