VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Edouard Philipponnat On Working With Cameron Douglas, Losing 35 Pounds For ‘The Runner’

The Runner follows a troubled teenager, Aiden, who the law enforcement enlists to go undercover to take down a drug king pin.

Edouard Philipponnat, who plays Aiden, recently sat down with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss what it was like working with Cameron Douglas, the son acting icon Michael Douglas.

“I love him! He’s my older brother, he’s incredible,” Philipponnat enthused. “I think the first day was his birthday, too, so it was just a really lovely feeling to it. We did some rehearsal where we went all out, especially that scene by the car outside, we did all of that pretty much realistic and everything. I don’t speak on his behalf, but he knew this world a lot and even these places we were shooting, he was familiar some of them.”

“He really took me under his wing and he saw the shape I was in and the effort I was putting in. I was treating it as if it were real, so he was very much there to support me and help me and guide me in his way,” he said. “At the end of it, we just formed such a good relationship. We would take off lunch or dinner or whatever it was and not have it with the crew. We would go to Burger King just so we could have some sort of talk. I couldn’t eat so I would just sit there and watch him eat burgers and he’d just make fun of me. It was such a weird situation, but it was fun!”

Philipponnat, who lost 35 pounds for the role, also shed light on the interesting approach to making the film that sets it apart.

“The most interesting aspect that I find with this movie or the take that the director put on it is it’s all about the day it goes down,” he revealed. “A lot of times there’s a lot of background information, getting to know the characters, the story, the world setting and so on, and then there’s the plot. In this case, we just start on the day of the plot and you’re slowly catching up with some clues, and some backstory and understanding and learning about what’s troubling this kid, what’s happened, why he’s in this position and why everything is going on. It’s an interesting take because it’s almost every single, including the protagonist which would be Aiden, my character, everyone almost is an antagonist at the beginning. It’s a very rough approach to every character and their imperfections and then you slowly start to see them in a better light.”

The Runner is available on demand now.