VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Eric Bana & Jordan Scott Reflect On The Issues Behind Their Film ‘A Sacrifice’

Actor Eric Bana and director Jordan Scott reflected on their new film A Sacrifice in their new uInterview

A Sacrifice follows Professor Ben Monroe (Bana) as he investigates a local cult while his daughter becomes enamored by the world of a mysterious boy.

“It’s about an American social psychologist working at a university in Berlin,” Scott told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “He has his daughter over the summer to do a bit of summer school, but he is currently estranged from his wife – soon-to-be ex-wife – and the family is in a pretty messy situation, so this is meant to be a kind of rebonding moment for them, and chaos ensues.”

Bana said he was immediately drawn to the film when he read the script.

“It’s exactly the kind of film I want to see and that I love, and the sides of film that I love to be a part of,” he said. “I loved Jordan’s writing. I loved all the dialogue, the father-daughter dynamic, that was complex and real and the world, the deep dive into isolation and cults and what that does to our psyche and how vulnerable we all are now with this need to be loved and be part of something.”

Bana and Scott reflected on how people can lose their identity to bigger groups. 

“Obviously, the pandemic happened, and all of a sudden, all of these interesting themes I was researching started to kind of come to the forefront of everybody’s talking point, I guess,” he said. “Suddenly people are coming out of the woodwork, all being exposed, cults are being exposed, nefarious corporations are being exposed, and I was just really fascinated with why and how rational intelligent humans can get drawn into what is essentially what becomes…the nonsensical ramblings of a crazy person.”

Bana recalled a memorable line of the movie for him. “One of my favorite lines actually is at the very beginning of the film when he’s talking to a young girl who’s locked in her apartment,” he said. “She’s espousing all her conspiracy theories, and then she ends with, ‘I can send you a link.’ This is my favorite line in the film because everyone after the pandemic could relate to that notion that someone had gone down a rabbit hole and they were going to force a link on you.”

A Sacrifice is now in theaters.