Lance Henriksen & Charles Agron On ‘Monday At 11:01 A.M.’ [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]

Agron: Monday At 11:01 am is about my character Michael, who takes his girlfriend Jenny to a small boutique town in the mountains and they decide to stay, try to have a romantic weekend. And that night, something happens to Michael that makes him desperately want to leave the next day ,and the next day he is told that he can’t leave because the one way in and out of this town has had a catastrophic car accident. Well, they’re stuck there another day and he starts to realize that although this city seems packed the day before, there’s a lot less people the next day. So, then the next night something even more horrific happens, and the next day Michael is the last person in this town other than the people in the hotel. Really just trying to kinda play with people’s ideas of, “Is this person going crazy or are the people in this town after him?”

Well, I really see it as a facilitator, somebody that is helping somebody move through this period of their life. Like bartenders do; I mean I think they’re like psychiatrists in a sense. What they really want to do is keep you drinking and set your mind at ease and tell good jokes, that kind of thing. This is much more serious because it’s a thriller. I don’t want to give anything away at the moment, I’d rather have people see it, not that I have any power to get them into the theater or not, but it is a really good film. I enjoyed working on it because the women in it are beautiful, the challenge was there and I really enjoyed doing it, really did.

Agron: When I created the character, I was playing kind of with the idea of judgement. So, when you first see Michael he’s a self-made man, he’s a take the bull by the horns kinda guy as well, and he’s sort of spending some money and flashing his credit card, and I think that sort of sets people up to be off put by him. But, when you realize that although there’s other temptations out there, that he does love his girlfriend, he’s stuck in this sort of dimension of trying to find the truth with everything that he understands and knows sort of disappearing. And so that juxtaposition is the most stressful thing for him.

Agron: For me, some of the scenes towards the end of the film, without giving it away. But I will say my personality has altered a bit. Some of those scenes were shot pretty late at night. I’m sure that was by design to kind of keep me off kilter. Some of those scenes would be done at 4 or 4:30 in the morning, and so that’s always difficult, but I think they came out looking great.

Henrikson: I really loved the idea of acting and playing somebody who got bumped on the head so hard that they don’t remember anything. So it’s like a vacuum that has to be filled, and I think that the bartender in some ways in this enjoys watching people go through their thing so to speak, and facilitates getting them into a place they deserve to go. It’s such a thriller, and it’s some scary stuff. All of us are dealing with what is the end? What is it? How is it gonna go? Is it scary and painful? What is the end, you know? Some people don’t ever have an end, or they already had an end and now they’re gone forever. So it’s got all kinds of things in it that interests me. Just at night, at 4 in the morning, when you’re scared about life or you’re pondering it, it’s pretty cool, it’s good to be an actor.