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‘Smile 2’ Director Breaks Down the Wild Ending, Potential Sequels and Drawing Inspiration From Pop Stars Like Taylor Swift
Smile 2 writer and director Parker Finn breaks down the pop star sequel to the horror hit.
It’s quick, but at one point it sounds like one of the characters says, “This is gonna ruin the tour.” Was that an intentional reference to a certain real-life pop star who recently got in trouble? I love the fact that because it’s designed to get into the cracks of a character’s brain and start feasting on all the worst stuff inside of their head, it’s incredibly specific, unique and personal to everyone it’s interacting with. Anything that we learned about it in the first film, we might realize, “Oh, that was just one version of it interacting with [“Smile” protagonist] Rose, and that’s for Skye.” Yes, there is this throughline, but it has some new tricks up its sleeves and things that we didn’t know about it.
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