![]() We want to work together but we weren’t like dying to play enemies.” "And I was worried initially, and it wasn’t something I was looking to do exactly. And so, I’m chasing her for a fair amount of the movie, chasing her and worse," Brody says. “This one was interesting because we’re antagonists. This is not the first time Brody has worked with his wife - Killam, Meester and Brody played three points of a love triangle in the sitcom “Single Parents” just three years ago - but the script made him think twice. This time around the story is about two siblings, played by Taran Killam and Meester, embarking on a trip with an old friend (Brody), who will soon reveal a dangerous side. "And it’s similarly a hostage situation on the river and a race to get to Canada but that’s sort of where the similarities end. ![]() “You know, we still got a river involved," he says. Last summer, Brody wrapped filming on a reimagining of the famous 1994 thriller “The River Wild,” originally starring Meryl Streep and David Strathairn as a couple on a rafting trip gone wrong. You know, I think a lot of the bad stuff that Hollywood puts out is unconscious more than conscious and the deeper someone’s thinking about their work, probably the more positive or enlightening it can be.” "But the smarter the project is, probably the less it does. “It doesn’t all have to be a life lesson," he says. He further explains he looks for intelligent scripts that put out something positive into the world and don’t “glorify anything too negative.” There’s not a genre I wouldn’t do or want to do, but I look for cleverness in the writing and potentially depth, too and a voice, a strong POV - point of view," he says. While Brody's filmography does not include any children’s movies at the moment, he says it’s a category he would like to try. So hard to come by,” says Brody about kids’ movies, which he says is “where values and the lessons really come into play and you want to ideally make sure what they’re viewing is nutritious.” “As many good ones as you think there are, there’s not enough. Brody has two children with his wife, actor Leighton Meester. In the last few years, his movie knowledge has expanded into child-friendly territory. I don’t have encyclopedic knowledge of all films,” he’s quick to specify. “I have opinions, but you know, I’m not a Tarantino.
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