“That level of terror in being a new parent helped me connect immediately with that aspect of the story. “(My wife) had just had our second daughter weeks before, so I was wide-open emotionally,” Krasinski says. Krasinski says he doesn’t watch them (“I’m too much of a scaredy cat”), but he loved the concept of a family that must stay as silent as possible to avoid, well, very, very bad things. “I was just about to start ‘Jack Ryan’ and a producer called,” he says, “and asked if I would ever be in a genre film.” (We’re gonna assume he means “horror” or “sci-fi” here because, brother, I hate to break it to you, but “Jack Ryan” is a genre picture.) RELATED: “A Quiet Place” thrills opening night SXSW crowd It’s a horror film (which is not something he has done before), it has a lot of CGI (ditto) and co-stars Blunt, with whom he has never acted on screen, let alone directed. “A Quiet Place” checks a lot of boxes for Krasinski. It really does have a very tangible vibe.” And, man, was that the coolest room to be in ever. “When (SXSW Film Festival director) Janet (Pierson) told me we got in and were opening night, I went nuts. He’s sitting on a couch at the Four Seasons and almost vibrating with excitement.
“You are catching me in the glow of a what-the-hell-just-happened moment,” Krasinski says. If you are said filmmaker, it can feel pretty, pretty good. They were there to see a splashy genre film directed by and starring the man many of them had grown up with as Jim Halpert from “The Office.” Very few crowds are as excited as an opening-night crowd at SXSW - it is as if they feel it is their job to be enthusiastic about what is in front of them.
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The theater was absolutely jammed with extremely enthusiastic movie fans who were not yet exhausted by the week that would follow.
The opening-night part is key - traditionally, SXSW opens its film festival with something fun aimed at a wide audience. The night before, his new horror-thriller, “A Quiet Place,” which he directed and also stars in with his real-life wife, Emily Blunt, debuted at a sold-out Paramount Theatre as the opening-night film at South by Southwest.
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