Beloved Hollywood couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco have teamed up on the big screen a handful of times already but their new collaboration tests their coupledom in new and horrific ways. And they wouldn’t want it any other way.

“A lot of this film requires close proximity from its two leads to a greater extent than anything I’ve done before,” explains Brie of the film, Together, which will have a world premiere this weekend as part of the Sundance Film Festival. “I don’t know how you could make this movie without a real-life couple because of some of the situations we found ourselves in.”

To say much more would spoil the experience for festival audiences that have a chance to screen the film as part of Sundance’s Midnight section, so we’ll leave the honors with the official festival description: “With a move to the countryside already testing the limits of a couple’s relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives and their flesh.”

It’s the work of Melbourne-based filmmaker Michael Shanks, who makes his feature directorial debut on the genre film after turning heads with a well-received short film, Rebooted, and a Blacklist screenplay, Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel. In a candid, careful and compliment-filled joint interview over Zoom — all three talked with intention in order to avoid spoilers — Brie, Franco and Shanks open up on how they came to collaborate on Together, the challenges of a quick and physically demanding shoot Down Under, and why codependency can actually be so scary.

How are you feeling on the eve of your world premiere?

FRANCO Shanks? I’m most curious how you’re feeling …

SHANKS I have the sort of disposition where things that are coming up in the future don’t become real to me until I’m just on the cusp of it. Now that I’m on the cusp of this, I’ve stopped sleeping and I’m starting to stress. But that’s good because it means that I can still actually feel excitement. I’m really, really looking forward to it, and it’s been lovely from my end of things. I live very far away from the industry and none of my friends work in the industry so the fact that this is happening has sent a buzz through my friend group. Everyone’s excited, so it’s really positive and really nice.

Michael, how are you with the cold? I hope you’ve packed some warm clothes.

SHANKS I packed as much warm clothing as possible but I’m not sure I can fully prepare for it because of where I live. I’m just completely unprepared for what winter in Utah is like.

FRANCO All of our producers seem most concerned about what Shanks is going to wear to the festival.

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Dave Franco and Alison Brie are set to rock the Sundance Film Festival with their horror movie “Together,” and the duo joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance to discuss their latest onscreen collaboration. Franco and Brie have been married since 2017.

“We love it and we want to keep going,” Franco said about acting together. “As long as people let us keep doing it, we feel like we’re getting away with something. For whatever reason, we work really well together. When we’re acting together, we’re so comfortable with each other and we can take more risks with the material. If one of us has an inauthentic moment the other sees it right away, so we have to do our best work.”

One thing Franco and Brie never do on film sets is give each other acting notes, and it’s because they don’t want to offend the other. As Brie explained: “We’re never giving each other notes because…it’s just like ew, I can tell that was false and I know Dave knows.”

“Together” hails from writer-director Michael Shanks and is world-premiering in the Midnight section of Sundance’s lineup. Franco and Brie play a strained couple who experience a supernatural force after trading city life for rural isolation. The duo said they look forward to solo projects after working together on such an intense movie.

“We don’t want to burn people out on us,” Franco said. “It’s nice to go off and then get excited again about working together.”

Brie added, “It’s helpful in maintaining our own independence. Plus, I love watching Dave’s work. So it’s fun when you go off and do your own work because it’s a treat for me to watch it. Also, it’s good to work with other people who you are not married to and have new experiences. These are good things for one’s life.”

Both actors agreed that it’s rewarding to star in horror movies because it requires the most full-bodied acting imaginable, which prompted Franco to shout out “The Substance” and Demi Moore’s Oscar-nominated performance. It’s rare for the Academy to nominate horror movies and acting roles.

“It’s cool Demi Moore is being recognized,” Franco said. “Actors in horror movies are doing so much!”

“The stakes have never been higher,” Brie added. “She’s incredible. It’s awesome.”

Source: Variety

‘Together’ tells the tale of a co-dependent couple who experience a supernatural phenomenon that tests the bonds of the love.

Director Michael Shanks and stars Dave Franco and Alison Brie came by The Vulture Spot to talk about their film ‘Together’ at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

The events at Sundance continues! I have updated our photo gallery with 55 HQ images of Alison Brie attending the 2025 Sundance Film Festival this morning on January 26, 2025! I’ll be updating pictures from the rest of the events occurring today in the next update.

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I have updated our photo gallery with 114 HQ/MQ images of Alison Brie attending the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2025!

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Dave Franco, Alison Brie and director Michael Shanks discuss their film ‘Together’ while stopping by THR’s studio at Park City. Plus, they talk about finding the right film to act in together and Franco’s comparisons to Luigi Mangione.