Star Noomi Rapace and director Valdimar Jóhannsson answer some of the lingering questions you might have after watching A24's horror drama 'Lamb.'
Warning: This story contains spoilers about A24’s “Lamb.” There will be another warning before key plot points and details about the ending are divulged.
It took eight years to produce a finalized version of the story because “we were not in a hurry,” said Jóhannsson. “We just decided to take time to [develop] a solid script. We didn’t start writing [for five years], just talking about scenes and acting out things.” Jóhannsson brought the book, the script and a book of poems by Sjón to Rapace’s house in London when he pitched her the film. “I’m sitting there with this strange mood board book and I got lost in it,” she said. “Ada was in there looking very much like she does in the movie. There were beautiful landscape pictures and then quite dark and disturbing pictures. I could feel him just reel me into his universe and I was like ‘Holy f—, I think I need to do this film.
Director and co-writer Valdimar Johannsson spent years conceiving “Lamb” before the project was ready to begin.“I remember at first we planned to have more of Ada,” said Jóhannsson. “She was talking and doing so many [more] things but we knew that it was not a film about Ada. So in the end we took so much out and it somehow made her stronger and was much better for the story.”
“It was more about the Christmas theme,” said Rapace, who moved to Iceland when she was around 5 years old. “Everyone was like, ‘You have to be a nice girl and behave otherwise Grýla, who is this horrific Icelandic witch, will take you and eat you,’” she said. “Or one of her 13 sons, [the Yule Lads], which are the Santa Clauses in Iceland who are all evil and really mean, will come and snatch you or do bad things to you. Or, we have a Christmas cat that’ll come and eat you.
But not every scene she shared with an animal was as idyllic. “The cat was the worst,” she said. “He was like the diva on set. Never did what we wanted.”
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