This is Later with Lee Matthews The Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear weekday
afternoons on the Drive. Sean McNamara is an American director, writer, and
producer. In fact, you may have seen him and his crew wrapping up
production in the film Reagan starring Dennis Quaid in Guthrie recently. But his newest
release is called Vindicta. It's an edge of your seat thriller, and he's
here to tell us about it today on the Drive. Hello Sean McNamara,
Good to have you here. Hey, Lee, thank you for having me.
So what is the gist of Vindicta. We've got three people that are
brought together in very unusual circumstances. Yeah, Well, Vindicta is a suspense
thriller horror movie and it's star Delenna Comporis and Jeremy Piven and Shawn Aston and
I am just so blessed to get to work with those talented actors. Alena
Comporus is just insanely great and I met her last year and she is going
to be a major movie star. But she's a paramedic. It's the first
day of work in the Seattle area during the riots and she's going around doing
triage, helping people, but there's also a serial killer on the run and
he wears the mike, the mask of David, and so it's just what
happens when a paramedic is forced to go up against serial killer. I don't
know that a lot of people realize the danger paramedics are sometimes in when they
go on a call. Absolutely. I mean, I can't imagine what they
go through, the things that they see. But this is an even worse
situation where it's bad enough where they're trying to help people who are in need,
but now you've got a serial killer hurting more people and you don't know
why. Vin Dikta's the name of the film. It stars Elena Camporus.
You remember her from My Big Fat Greek Redding to Sean Aston, from numerous
things. Jeremy Piven too. I can't name their entire resume, but yeah,
Elena Camporus, she is I mean, she already is kind of a
major star, and she's very versatile. She's incredible. She is just such
a great actress, first of all, and she can sing and she can
dance, and she can do martial arts and she is incredible. But my
goodness. You mentioned Seawan asked in Rudy Lord of the Rings and we just
have such fun on the set as he regaled me with all the stories of
shooting Lord of the Rings and how he worked with Peter Jackson and then having
Jeremy Piven on the set which had taps. It was like, there's our
gold right here in front of me. But he's such a versatile actor that
he became a just a nice, loving, warm father to Elena Camporus's lou
and it was absolutely amazing. Did you hug it out with him? I
hugged it out with the man. And reference to his series, by the
way, if you don't know, look it up. Vin Dicto's what we're
talking about. It's a thriller from Sean McNamara who is the director. And
you did put together the Guthrie production of Reagan. I wanted to ask about
that. Where are we with that? Is that still in production? Absolutely,
let's finish with production. And we shot it in Guthrie, right outside
of Oklahoma City. A shout out to my friend Amy Slocum who is out
there at Oklahoma City. But we had a great production of Reagan. Dennis
Quaid is a genius. People are gonna love his Reagan. Penelope and m
Miller played Nancy, and we shot it during the before there was a vaccine.
We shot it during COVID. In fact, one night we all got
COVID, like twenty five of us in one night. Oh goodness. But
we all recovered and we went back to production and it's an amazing movie that
follows the life of Reagan from when he's like ten years old until he passes
at ninety. And I can't wait for you to see that that's coming out
next year. We got a chance to talk to Dennis Quid about that role,
and I got him to do his Reagan for me. He got it
down pretty good. Oh my goodness. Dinnis is such a great actor.
And you know, we wrote the script to have little snippets of speeches of
Reagan. They just went ahead and learned the whole speech, so like I
had, I'd only need like twenty five seconds of a speech, and he
would give us a three minute speech. It was incredible. So it made
it very hard in post production trying to pick which part do we want to
use. But Dennis is just a consummate actor, and yeah, I've done
a lot with Dennis, and he's he's an amazing talent. I asked him
if he got down when he was working on the character, if he got
Ronald Reagan's trademark will and he did it for me a couple of times,
and then he said, that's usually what he would say when he was about
to open up on you, right, exactly, that's it, and he
Dinnis nailed that. But he just he just got the look down and he
got to you know, I don't know how he just became Ronald Reagan.
I mean, obviously from we got the hair right and we got the suits
right and all of that stuff. But as an actor, Dennis goes deep
and he just studied the real Ronald Reagan and just just nailed him. But
the new film out by Sean McNamara, the director of Vindicta in theaters now
and on demand, stars Elena Ca Andmporus, Sean Aston, and Jeremy Piven,
Vindicta. When is this more of a suspense thriller or is it more
of a scary movie? I call it suspense thriller horror movie, and it
is scary and hopefully it will scare the audiences and hopefully you we'll see some
visuals that you wish you hadn't just in time for this time of year two
and it's available everywhere on demand and in theaters. Sean McNamara, thank you
for joining us and we'll be looking forward to watching Vindicta awesome. Thanks for
having me, Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews
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