ROSE RILEY Australian stage & screen star PROCLIVITAS interview

Western Australian actor Rose Riley is wonderful on screen, as lead in PROCLIVITAS she's amazing whilst just as cool in person, enjoy our discussion on the romantic psychological horror coming-of-age indie not to be missed. 

PROCLIVITAS also starring Chloe Brink, George Mason, Hayley McElhinney + Kade Power as the demon. Rent/Buy digital platforms 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:03

Never gets old, right? That fake applause. I'll take it. Hi, my name is Shane A. Massett. I appreciate you tuning in or listening or downloading, whatever it might be. You're on another edition of Cine Critique. So awesome. And you will not be disappointed because I had a chat with Rose Riley, an Australian actor in Proclivetus. Now that is a movie that also stars Chloe Brink, by the way, who you need to keep an eye on as well. But Rose and I chatted about the potential feeling that you're gonna get watching this movie is the best way to describe it. Because yes, it is a psychological horror. It's got some really good romance in it and the core is coming of age. And getting older and changes and adapting. It's a really good film. It's got a lot to it. And I think the filmmakers and the cast should all be proud. You can find more of me at movie underscore analyst. You can see the video of this conversation, this interview I did with Rose Riley on my YouTube channel, which is just movie analyst Shane Adam Bassett. You can hear me on the radio around Australia and on TV occasionally too. Enjoy.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Did you know Mum kept our old house in Monroe? You're not thinking of going back there, are you? Claire Curtis, big shot doctor's back. How long are you here for? Just till I get the place sorted. Call me if you need anything. I just think you should be careful.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

What are you doing here?

SPEAKER_00 1:48

You hide a handyman, right? Oh, this place is a trip.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

I just want what's broken and fixed so I can save this place.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

What was the other reason you stopped backstab? You need to be careful. She's no good for you. What is your problem? It's never your fault if it's a lot of time we're still not here together. She's gonna get you in trouble all over again. I'm gonna trouble a double.

SPEAKER_04 2:34

Maybe I'm losing my spindly music. Absolutely love that, and used to good effect in the movie and the trailer, as you just heard. I just wanted you to note that I did say to Rose that she plays Rose in the film. Now I say that at the beginning of the interview, which uh is totally wrong because she plays a character called Claire. Yeah. And I did see the movie, and we spoke at around uh early in the early stages of it being shown in film festivals and theatrically. But now you can rent or buy it on digital platforms. Uh yeah. Seek it out. A great film, but I just wanted to clarify I did say you play Rose in the film or something to that effect. Uh she actually plays Claire, so my bad. So enjoy the chat, and to get us there, here's a little bit of the feminine urge by the last dinner party. One of the greats.

SPEAKER_03 3:45

A mooly Rose, I'm Shane.

SPEAKER_04 4:29

It is lovely to meet you for the first time.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

Hi, Shane. Lovely to meet you as well.

SPEAKER_04 4:34

What's happening in WA? Is there something in the water? All these great actors are coming out of Western Australia.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

Okay, yeah, perhaps the best.

SPEAKER_04 4:44

Uh okay, so you play Rose in this uh movie we're discussing today, and I've got to say you most of it's you're on your own. And the look and the stance and some of the things and the even the breathing that you do is so coordinated. I think it was a really good role. So congratulations on that.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

Thank you. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_04 5:05

Were you um in the mix as a someone who uh had to audition, or did you get hand-picked for the role?

SPEAKER_02 5:12

Um, you know, it was kind of a funny um story. This one, it was really last minute. I don't know if the producer minds me telling you this, but they did have another actor on board for a while. Yeah, and it didn't work out, but it was like the week before pre-production. So like 10 days out of the first shoot day. So it was a pretty fun experience, uh total whirlwind for me. I got called, um, my agent called me and set up a Zoom meeting with Miley Tuncliffe, the writer-director. Yeah, and I didn't like I got sent the script, so I quickly read it before my meeting. And yeah, so I didn't really quite know what I was going into with the meeting, but we had a chat and talked about the character, and then that afternoon they offered me the role. So she'd seen some of my other stuff, and um casting agent had recommended me. And yeah, so it happened very suddenly.

SPEAKER_04 6:05

It's very different, I would assume, to what you've done before, having uh looked over your career and and seen a couple of other things you've done. It is sort of a a step up into genre, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 6:16

Yeah, absolutely. Step up into genre and step up into um a much bigger role on screen than I've had. Um done quite a bit of theater, um, which I love. And then screen, I've done lots of stuff over the years, but this is the like definitely the meatiest um role I've had a chance to to um lean into. It was so good.

SPEAKER_04 6:37

And it's a lead. So do you feel extra responsibility, sort of, or no? You just went with the flow and did what you know best.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Um, it's a big responsibility. You have to sort of try and cast off any self-doubt. Um, I mean, you have to do that with any role anyway. I think it's it's kind of not of good energy to bring to anything really. Um, but yeah, it's a big responsibility, absolutely. Um, but at the same time, being able to be on set for like 12 hours every day and being so familiar with the crew and the cast was such a gift. Um, to like it just gave me more confidence as the days went by. Um, so yeah, it was amazing to have a big, a big role like that.

SPEAKER_04 7:20

Uh, you say there's a line in the movie that I haven't heard for a long time, but you call the the word mole gets brought up, and that's so Australian.

SPEAKER_02 7:29

I know, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:30

I have not heard that since probably puberty blues.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

I know, I'm the same. You have to talk to Miley about that one. But um yeah, she was a mole.

SPEAKER_04 7:39

Yeah, it's a great word. Let's bring it back. Oh, I don't know. I might leave that to you. I don't think I'd sound right saying it myself.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

I'll reclaim it, don't worry.

SPEAKER_04 7:49

Uh now the title of the movie is kind of a tough one. Like, did you know what proclivitus was before you like filmed the film or heard about it?

SPEAKER_02 7:58

No, I hadn't heard the word. I mean, I assumed it had some Latin root that you know, it shared a Latin root with the word proclivity, um, which I believe it does. Um, yeah, it's a it's uh it's a bit of a tongue twister at times. It is. Um, but yeah, it's a great word. Um, Miley came across it. I can't remember how, but um I'll ask her. Yeah, ask her. Yeah, she knows more about it. I didn't have time to research the title word.

SPEAKER_04 8:26

It doesn't sound like you had time to get into the character at all, but you did get into the character. Uh, honestly, was it stressful? Because there are quite a lot of um serious, intense moments in it. How did you get yourself to be worked up like that in certain scenes?

SPEAKER_02 8:42

Um, you know what? I mean, that stuff I find um uh kind of less intimidating, that like emotionally intense stuff feels a little more um familiar to me than say, you know, scenes where I just have to walk across the room and pour a glass of water, and that might sound crazy, but some of that kind of really simple stuff. Yeah, I don't always know like what to grip on to. And um sometimes I find that actually more challenging. But I was a little nervous to play there's so much fear in the film that um my character feels, and I was nervous because you know, sometimes you get something to be afraid of, but often it's like a little dot um that you have to imbue with these qualities. Um, and I was kind of nervous because I just was I wasn't too sure how I would go, but I remember the first take, I just kind of felt it there, and I found um that for most of the shoot, I don't know, I was just really pleased to find it was quite accessible for me. That that fear stuff. And we mentioned my breathing before. I mean, that's really what helps is that um working with breath, I think really helps me with that.

SPEAKER_04 9:53

Yeah, it was noticeable, and you mentioned grip. Well, there was a lot of hands on you, there's a lot of hand models. Oh, yeah. Like that that was kind of like uh hang on, that's all practical. I'm assuming most of it was practical anyway. Uh, in the lounge, especially.

SPEAKER_02 10:08

Yeah, the lounge that was so fun. Um and our monster was played by um an actress and dancer, Cade Power, and she was so fun. So it was great to work with her. So yeah, I did have her hands all over me quite a bit, but it was a pleasure.

SPEAKER_04 10:25

Uh I I know our time's limited, so I've got a couple more. Um, Chloe Brink plays a younger version of you, and I couldn't think of anyone else better. Like you were almost, you're alike. She could be your younger sister. Did you catch up with her, or were you was it separate and you just were kept apart because it was good casting?

SPEAKER_02 10:43

Yeah, it was great casting. She's so sweet. Um, she I met her on set and we hung out. So there was me and George Mason who plays the adult Jerry, and then our like our mini me's, as we called them. Um, and we met them on set, and I mean they were so gorgeous. It was really fun. I actually found it really helpful to see that age gap, you know, um, and see the young, the younger version of the character. There was something that kind of opened it up for me. Um, yeah, she was so great.

SPEAKER_04 11:11

Now you're outside in natural surroundings at times and and not really on set. So did you uh have any injuries? Were there any dramas with weather or any mosquito bites or anything like that?

SPEAKER_02 11:23

Um you know what? I think we were pretty lucky. No injuries. Probably the toughest thing was um there's some scenes in a pool, yeah, and it was just really cold. So it was like it was just a prolonged nature. We were filming just quite a lot over that day, and I just had to get in and out so many times. You know, your body temperature kind of adjusts, but then you get out, and then by the like, I don't know, tenth time I was getting in the pool, I was like shaking like this. I had to like just pour it. So that was probably the biggest challenge. Um, I didn't have any injuries. If you ask Kate, our producer, she definitely had one on set, so she can tell that.

SPEAKER_04 12:06

I will. I'm speak speaking to her today also, so I will. Great. Uh and and finally, I mean, this movie's getting uh a you know, it's a global event south by southwest Sydney, and then it's getting re-released. I mean, we'll re release theatrically next year, around Australia at least. Uh, what do you want people to get out of the movie when they watch it? Uh any particular things you want them to watch or just feel while they're watching it?

SPEAKER_01 12:31

Oh, I mean, that's a great question. I I guess just um uh I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 12:40

I'll help. It's interesting keeps you guessing.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

Yeah, yeah, it definitely keeps you guessing. Yeah, stay stay open to the story. Um, yeah, I it's so hard when I watch it, I just know everything that's happened. So it's like when my friends saw it at the premiere for South by Southwest on Wednesday, um, you know, they were like, oh my god, and then this, and they're like, I was like, Oh yeah, I forgot you guys don't know the plot. Um, yeah, so there's a few little twists and turns, and um I mean, I hope that they can just appreciate. I think it's some beautiful cinematography.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

Um, and yeah, um the setting. I really found the setting really beautiful. We filmed in Mundering in this beautiful house. Um, and like, yeah, Art Department did an amazing job. And obviously, I'm from WA, so appreciate the WA casting career and the landscape.

SPEAKER_04 13:29

Yeah. And what's next for you? Any any exclusives, any, any things you can tell me of what you're working on, any upcoming projects?

SPEAKER_02 13:37

Uh at the moment I do have something um coming up. I can tell you about it. I'm going back to my um roots in theatre. I'm doing a play at Belvar Street Theatre Company. Um it's you know on in next year. It's called A Mirror by Sam Holcroft. I'm actually so excited. It's an amazing um like contemporary English play.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

So I am done on the road.

SPEAKER_04 14:29

Uh yes, a little bit more the last inner party, the feminine urge, uh, because I can, and I just think uh it would have sounded awesome on the soundtrack of the movie. I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Rose. I I think Rose Riley is lovely to speak with. It was only brief, but uh I hope that I get a chance to talk to her again. Even since speaking to her last year, we're in that conversation. Uh things are moving quite rapidly for her when it comes to uh projects and uh things that she's getting out of here. The movie is called You can rent a line on digital platforms. My name is Shane Asset, and I hope you enjoyed the presentation of Shane Critic, and until next time I'll see you at the movie.