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Being a woman is disgusting.
As it goes with most tween girls, things get bloody.
(Hint: Shes not done talking about the messy business of womanhood.)
It was just about a mother and a family who take a stab at keep up appearances.
Mother became this kind of blogger person, and then the whole story really started to come into place.
So she was originally just a suburban mom?Yeah, exactly.
The doppelganger isanother horror tropepresent inHatching.
Alli starts to look like Tinja, and Mother is making Tinja into a version of herself.
We get just a glimpse of Mothers past in figure skating.
It always was just this sense of failing in sports and having the scar.
That was all we discussed.
I never really wanted to go deeper into her, for example, family history.
The look on Tinjas face when Mother says she hadnt felt love until having an affair is heartbreaking.
We auditioned 1,200 girls all around Finland for that part.
Then we found Siiri Solalinna, and she had never acted anywhere before, not even in school plays.
She was just a natural talent and so wonderful.
We had long rehearsals with her and with all the actors.
In the rehearsals weallcrawled on the floor playing monsters and just getting to know each other.
For example, when shes portraying fear, shes not scared herself.
No method acting for her.Exactly, no method acting for her.
The movie works in broad strokes.
Father stops asking questions when he sees blood in the bed and assumes that shes just started her period.
Youve said you wanted to make this film for audiences that are traditionally afraid to watch horror movies.
Its still pretty scary!Yes, but Im actually one of them.
Ive always been afraid of horror films.
Maybe thats why Im so interested in telling stories about fear, because I have such a strong imagination.
When I watchedThe OthersbyAlejandro Amenabar, that was the eye opener film for me.
And I liked it!
Its also funny!Thats maybe my and Iljas way of looking at life.
Hatchinghas a distinct visual style.
All the pastels and florals contrast with the gore of birth and death.
I wanted to create that uneasy feeling for the audience.
Its not quite fairytale, not quite reality, but its something somewhere in between.
Also, I wanted to show the whole house as Mother has decorated it.
She doesnt allow any strong feelings in the family, so there are no strong colors.
Everything is kind of toned down, and she doesnt allow any dark secrets.
So there are no shadows, everything is very soft and light.
In the neighbors yard they have birds, but not in Tinjas.
So there is this feeling of death all around them.
The Alli puppet is hard not to love, even as she starts harming dogs and children.
I wanted it to be an animatronic puppet, like E.T.
I knew we needed the best possible person to make this puppet.
We had to plan the design, the look of the puppet in Finland with the two concept artists.
He collected himself a wonderful team.
That was a lot.
Our footage in the edit looked very hilarious with all those puppeteers around the puppet.
Later on, Alli is played by an actor with special-effects makeup.
Can you talk about the ending a little bit?
I was like, Oh, then it ends.
So Ilja was kind of writing toward the end without knowing what it is.
But he figured it out.
What was shooting that like?
So practically, it was difficult.
But Siiri told me that was the most fun day.
Its kind of just putting blood somewhere.
Sure, that makes sense.
You have to be very precise.
It has to be very particular.
All the movement has to be just right, otherwise it looks like a puppet.
It needed multiple takes, even though they were such experts.
That was very challenging, but also fun.
We are staying in a similar genre.
The baby is scary and so demanding.
It sucks blood from her breasts.
She becomes convinced that this baby is actually not human.
Its about these difficult emotions of motherhood and aggressions that you might have.
