Cynthia Corral participated in Child of God as an extra on our last day of shooting and survived the record-breaking heatwave to tell the story:
About six of us plus the two actresses went into a small church room where we sat down around a conference table. We had to pretend to be discussing the “sermon” we had “just heard” and then Jennie Floyd was to pipe up with a line that was completely shocking, insensitive and inappropriate. The extras just had to go silent as Marya Murphy then had to respond in a manner that was so heartbreaking I wanted to get up and give her a hug after each take. Luckily we only had to do that scene a couple times over; I don’t think any of us could take Marya’s increasingly heartrending performance.
We were let go after that. Jennie Floyd assured me her character was not the insensitive jerk she appeared to be in that scene, and Marya has told me the movie is not depressing; I’m not sure I believe either of them, but there are certainly 20-25 people at that church who cannot wait to see this movie when it comes out!
This is absolutely accurate reporting–the acting is that good. Read Cynthia’s entire post here.
We want to thank Cynthia and the San Jose MetBlogs gang for being so incredibly supportive of our two June film projects. (Read Cynthia’s post about the Amity production.)
