Directors Scott Rutherford and Ben Peyser
©2013 Angela María Ortíz S.
It’s pretty rare that an interview with the director of a movie is as funny as the movie itself, but that’s what you get with Scott Rutherford and Ben Peyser, “honorary co-writers and–directors of Ghost Team One, in theaters and in Video on Demand beginning Friday October 11. Se Fija! sat down with these two “honorary Latinos” to talk about their first very funny feature film, starring Carlos Santos, J.R. Villarreal, Fernanda Romero, and Tony Cavalero, and they admitted it hadn’t been there intention–at first–to make a funny-scary movie–“a found footage horror movie combined with Spinal Tap”–that featured a Latino cast. But when it started to go that way, they were more than ready. “Hollywood says, ‘We want more Latino movies,’ but they seem to scared to actually make them,” Scott told us, “but we’re small enough that nobody gets to tell us what to do, so…let’s do it!” “Suddenly white people are in the minority,” they said. And “it breathes new life into white people.” Check out this hilarious and strangely insightful talk right here, and remember: “The only thing as primal as being scared is being horny.”
