Erin Moriarty and Stuart Gatt on complicated characters in Catching Dust

We were joined by actor Erin Moriarty and Director Stuart Gatt to talk about collaborating together on the film Catching Dust.  The experience in making the film was an incredibly intimate and poignant one, with a lot of the story centering around four characters.  In the film Erin plays a woman struggling to find her sense of self having spent several years in a relationship which has become toxic and abusive.  In setting the film remotely in the dessert it allows for a lot of pressure to be placed on its characters since there is no escape from themselves, and as a director Stuart Gatt also wanted to make the setting central to the film visually.  For Erin Moriarty, in portraying such an emotionally complex relationship and character, the relationship she built with scene partner Jai Courtney was pivotal to the experience for her.  The two met before filming and had the chance to create a rapport off screen before diving into the depths of their characters together.  She also shared how the physicality of the character was an important facet of her performance, creating more of an inward feel to her in earlier scenes when she is trying to make herself feel smaller for the world around her, but then allowing her to gradually open herself up both emotionally and physically.  

Watch the full conversation below: