VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Britt Lower Shares Joy Of Working With John Megara & Steve Buscemi On ‘The Shallow Tale’

Actress Britt Lower reminisced about her experience on the new movie The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer in her new uInterview. 

The film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, follows a struggling writer (John Megara) in the throws of divorce who befriends a retired serial killer (Steve Buscemi) who acts as his marriage counselor with his wife (Lower) by day and killing counselor for his book by night.

“She has a lot going on underneath the surface,” Lower told uInterview founder Erik Meers of her character. “I really appreciated playing Susie because she’s just taking everything in all the time, and she’s seeing everything, and she’s extremely precise with her attention and her language.”

“There’s kind of a delightful twist towards the end where this experience of having a marriage counselor played by Steve Buscemi, who’s also a retired serial killer, which my character does not know, really kind of sparks an awakening,” she added. “It kind of shifts things around inside of their relationship in a meaningful way.

Lower explained why she was drawn to the role. “There was just something so fresh, reading the script for the first time I was laughing out loud, the way that it’s so, it’s kind of profound and also so mundane at the same time, and it’s turning, it’s making something that’s so pragmatic and simple, so real in the same moment because it’s like everyday life is stranger than you can imagine,” she noted. 

Working with costars Megara and Buscemi was a big draw for Lower. “I just adore them both,” she said. “John and I had actually filmed a movie together ten years ago. It was called Don’t Worry Baby, and it was nice to be, at this moment in time, we were I think, filming underneath the Williamsburg Bridge, the same location we had been filming ten years ago, and just to have this kind of ‘Wow,’ like, look back and look forward together, was really cool. John is such a talent; he’s such a refined actor and also so fun to work with. And then, of course, Steve Buscemi, a total legend, yeah, his character just made me laugh so much.”

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