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Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Presence’ Was So Intense That Some Sundance Viewers Walked Out: ‘I Cannot Take This Stress’


At Sundance's world premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence,” some stressed-out audience members left early.

On multiple trips to the washroom—blast the diuretic qualities of Diet Mountain Dew–I spied the entire cast watching the film with edge-of-the-seat anxiety, much like the rest of the theatre. Co-star West Mulholland grabbed the mic at the Library Theatre first to make clear that he was nothing like his James Spader in “Pretty In Pink” meets Ted Bundy character. The film is completely shot inside the Payne’s home from skewed angles that Soderbergh captured while pursuing his actors in martial arts slippers, a camera with a 14 mm lens in his hands.

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