He’s not a great guy, but I don’t necessarily feel that that qualifies a person to have this kind of fate.Ĭhristian (Reynor) attempts to comfort a distraught Dani (Pugh).
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The way he behaves with Josh, who’s his best friend and the other anthropology student, he’s basically like, “I’m just fucking going to steal your project.” He’s full disclosure about that. I think his apathy towards is really nasty. That doesn’t absolve him from his insensitivity and his lack of taking account of what he does that’s not good, and his lack of emotional availability. I feel that there’s more complexities going on, and I think that there are a lot of people out there who don’t necessarily have the capacity to do the right thing as far as society would dictate it to them all the time. I wouldn’t have signed on to do the film if I thought Christian was that kind of character. Granted, there are some characters in cinema, obviously, who are just abhorrent, and they’re just irredeemable. I think, as an actor, your job is to be empathetic towards the character you’re going to play, and we all have to fall in love with our characters a little bit. Jack Reynor: I read it and I was already empathetic towards him. Polygon: Were you sympathetic toward Christian from the moment you started reading the script, or did you have to get into that more empathetic mindset? “It was not an easy film to make, not an easy film to make at all,” he said, digging into everything from the film’s black humor influences to suggesting that a scene be changed so his character would end up stark naked.Ĭhristian (Reynor), preparing to participate in a ritual. It sounds like a joke, but given how grueling Midsommar is, maybe the impulse makes sense. Sitting down with Polygon for an interview prior to Midsommar’s release, he says that, for this press tour, he’s made it an unspoken rule not to sit directly across from the people he’s speaking to - “I feel like that’s confrontational.”
In real life, Reynor is far from the insensitive jerk he plays on film. At a recent screening of the film, it was clear that the audience’s sympathy was not on Christian’s side - Reyner seemed to be the only one willing to try to justify Christian’s behavior. The crux of Ari Aster’s follow-up to Hereditary, the exquisite Midsommar, is the disintegrating relationship between the bereaved Dani (Florence Pugh) and the self-absorbed Christian ( Jack Reynor).
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