Special Report: Hot Spot (2026)

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Folks welcome to a special episode Of The Projection. Booth i'm your, Host Mike. White on this, EPISODE i am talking With Angeneska skomanitska Andres kunopka And Numi rapace all about the new twenty twenty six Film. Hotspot it is a independent science fiction film set in the near future with a society run by a SENTIENT. Ai it's also a private eye tale kind of reminded me a little bit Of kamikazi eighty nine had that kind of vibe to.

It had a lot of fun with. This this hopefully makes up for the INTERVIEW i try to do With Aga wow way back when she was still talking about The. LURE i love that, movie love this one as. Well hope you enjoyed this. Interview how did this project come?

Together Robert, bolesto who wrote The, law he told me that he is working on the movie about a witch in a refugee, camp and then this weech became a cyberage in a refugee. Camp SO i remember the first time WHEN i read the. SCRIPT i remember that everything was so much, unpredictable and also WHAT i loved That robert really touches the fear as our main emotion of nowadays and, anxieties and that we can also confront these fears and, anxieties but also in a very funny way and a unique way of storytelling where the plot is not you, know when you don't have to follow in the. Plot this is not the most. Important the most important is to immerse this world and.

Experience you always have such interesting films And i'm so. Curious how do you decide what you're going to take. On it always depends if something resonates with you when you read for the first. Time AND i always give me a, time how long this, screet this, story these characters will stay with? Me so this is Something this is rather the.

Intuition that's What johnny, has that something that resonates, deeply deeply with. You and in this particular, hotspot it was the world and the characters and the meeting two outsiders in one room and what would happen to? Them and the. Look of the film is, fantastic this kind of cyber but also old, school like you, said like the ref g, CAMP i mean just the outfits and. Everything but the, location where did you find that amazing?

LOCATION i remember WHEN i read script it was meant to be In. Poland but In poland you have, green you have, forests the nature is really very wild and still, vivid AND i knew THAT i have to move the whole settings To. Greece AND i remember the first time WHEN i saw the images of A, linicon this huge airport which is totally, empty and it used to be their refugee, camp but before it was a huge monument of the capitalism and of the athens of The europe these, days those days in the eighties. Nineties and also what was important to me the landscapes When, johnnick you, know goes by bike and you see all of this burnout. Forests for, me this is like the image the symbol of our.

Times it knew me what attracted you to this? ROLE i mean it was really descript and the role And aga because it was, like it's very rare that you read something and it has a director that you deeply respect and that you've been wanting to work with for so. Long and the character that is very complex and strange and full of. Contradictions AND i just fell instantly in love with this crazy story LIKE i. COULD i didn't understand WHAT i was.

READING i was, like, wait, What like what AM i? Actually what's going on? Here? Like what is? Happening was a lot to, Process and then WHEN i started to sort of step Into, ronta it just became really clear to me that she lived a lot of, destruction she lived a lot of.

Pain she's been on the road for. Long she's been, captured, tortured, questioned you, know pushed, away chased, away And the only crime they committed is say we don't want to be part of whatever you're. Doing we don't hold, passports we don't have identity, cards we don't commit to a government or. State we cross, borders we don't have, borders we don't have a. Religion we are just.

Love and how big of a threat that is to the modern society and like the structure you, know they and and that sort of rebellious soul and her believes was really it hit, Something it really touched something deep in. Me and it's like what IF i just whatever comes at, me whatever, happens LIKE i try to meet it with love and. Empathy and you, know because my my first instinct has been rage as long AS i you, know it's like you fuck. With, ME i will fuck you. Up but then it's, like, no, no that's like not the way because there's people with bigger guns and bigger anger and more At.

Ruth So i'm gonna be. Crushed AND i, think you, KNOW i feel like that's sort of that journey you. Feel you see a lot In rhana's. Eyes she has a wisdom that only comes from, pain but she managed to turn it into. Peace SO i find her really.

Intriguing how do you find a character like this, though what's on the page versus what you bring to? It, AGA i think that's maybe a question for you as, well BECAUSE i feel like we very much gave birth to her together through, conversations and like every little symbol on her, body the tattoos will tell something about, her her, costumes everything is a part of, her and it gives the audience a clue to what she comes from and who she. Is but it was very. Organic, yes it was very, organic and also that's what you brought with you as a human. BEING i mean that's this kind of the complexity Which numi, Has this that you have, mystery that you have this, rage but also you have, love.

Tenderness AND i found it very AND i know That numi is very. ORGANIC i mean that she followed her, intuition and she's very open and wild at the same, time you, know very, specific very concentrate on the, goal on the, character and very very very detailed in terms of the way she were, working but at the same time open to something that is, new what we can explore. TOGETHER i love. It Andrew ada a similar question for, you how did you approach this, character especially this kind of cyber detective role that you're playing. The role of the detective is very different from anything THAT i played before in my.

CAREER i was naturally full of fear after reading the. Script but the turning point was the fitting, day WHEN i put on the, COSTUME i looked at myself in the. MIRROR i suddenly had this revelation THAT i can do. Anything my, character despite his very masculine, appearance he is not a very brave. Character after, all.

It's amazing to have a main coward character that is a coward. Right as opposed to his Wife, aika who is very fragile and appears very. DELICATE i do not want to ask she decided to cast me in this. Role, well you were saying that you're a, coward but it takes a lot of bravery to wear that, hairdo to wear that. Wig, yeah that's very.

True and of course the one, piece the boiler suit or you, know, jumpsuit this is also a. Way in which my character. Compromises, well, yeah it doesn't leave much to. HIDE i can tell that you understand me. COMPLETELY i got congratulations on another successful.

FILM i just absolutely Loved hotspot and what an amazing movie and what another terrific thing that you've put out in the. WORLD i love. It thank, you thank you so. Much it's really important to me to hear. This thank, You thank you so much for your time, today.

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