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BY KEVIN CARR

John Stockwell is the director of “Turistas,” the new thriller from Fox Atomic, releasing on December 1. “Turistas” deals with the resentment of wealthy American and European tourists in South America, leading to horrific results for a small group of backpackers. Excepts from the interview follow.

Excepts from the interview follow. Hear the entire interview here…

7M: YOU GOT MUGGED WHEN YOU WERE FILMING YOUR LAST FILM IN PERU, CORRECT?
Not mugged. Robbed, shot at. Thirteen year old kids with guns, glue-sniffing, gas-sniffing kids. That occurred right before I read this script. And not only robbed, but I went to the police, and they said if you give us $300, we could kill the kids that did this. And I said, “No thanks, that’s okay.”

7M: DID YOU ENCOUNTER ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN BRAZIL?
A lot of good stuff happened. Some not-so-good stuff, but nothing quite as horrific as in the movie. Our first scout there, we left the airport in Rio, driving in rush-hour traffic at nine in the morning, we look over and there’s a kid with a gun robbing the woman in the car next to us. So that was our introduction. There’s a lot of poverty in close proximity to wealth in Brazil, and those two worlds collide often times, and you just have to be careful. Our approach was to be very low-key, very inconspicuous, not wear a watch, not wear jewelry, try and draw as little attention to yourself as possible.
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