![]() Rodriguez feels Jill exhibits that same kind of strength and pragmatism under pressure and is able to model that for her daughter, while not trying to hide her flaws either. "In some of our most difficult times, and even in my upbringing, when we had some difficult experiences, to challenges in a very selfless, logical, and deeply mindful way." "She's trying to figure it out while battling her own demons and her own past," explains Rodriguez, who drew inspiration from her own mother while playing the part. And so that was cool that they played in that space versus putting anything surreal on it."Īnd what sets this film apart from other female-led dystopia horror movies like Bird Box and A Quiet Place Part II is the fact that as a widow and a mom who doesn't have legal custody of her kids, Jill is pretty much on her own right away, with not much of an outside support system beyond the kids' grandma and her own training. "What's very scary is seeing a real person experience real trauma," Rodriguez says. Most of the scares in Awake come not just from the unpredictability of the sleep-deprived people that Jill and her children encounter, but also their own reactions to the events around them, as she and her son fall further into sleepless states. ![]() As someone who has a husband who had such terrible insomnia, it takes a toll on your body." "The idea that we could be hit with an electromagnetic wave that shuts down all technology, and just this idea of how often we are dependent on technology, and how much our bodies have become these robotic programs. "Sleep deprivation was something that we went really deep into," Rodriguez says. Compounding all this is the loss of technology which makes both survival and the search for a cure so much harder. There are those who turn to religion right away, hoping for a miracle while others turn to violence almost immediately, the lack of sleep reducing whatever inhibition they'd previously possessed. The world within Awake is a bit surreal too, as all the various people in Jill's life and the wider world struggle against the effects of long-term insomnia with varying reactions. "And to think about the sci-fi projects all over that expand and extend our imagination, and how it's been feeling like the last year and a half has felt a little surreal at times." At the time there was no way I could have imagined that we would be going through what we're going through now in our world," Rodriguez tells SYFY WIRE. "The world was in a different space then. Now it's up to her mother Jill ( Annihilation's Gina Rodriguez), an ex-soldier, and brother Noah ( Heroes Reborn's Lucius Hoyos) to get her to the military hub where the only other person with the ability to sleep currently exists, as scientists and the military work to find a cure before everyone eventually succumbs to the perils of longterm sleep deprivation.įor Rodriguez, who actually shot the project two years ago, the idea of this dystopic horror film coming out while the world is still in the grips of a global pandemic, is a bit of a strange experience. But in the midst of all the chaos and societal collapse is Matilda ( Avengers: Infinity War's Ariana Greenblatt), a young girl who has miraculously retained the ability to still fall asleep. First came Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead, and now comes another kind of waking nightmare - literally - in the form of Awake.ĭirected by Mark Raso ( Kodachrome) and written by he and his brother Joseph ( Sneakerella), the sci-fi horror thriller takes place in the immediate future and follows the fallout of a mysterious apocalyptic event that shuts down all electronics and sees most humans on Earth lose the ability to sleep. Netflix's summer of horror is officially underway.
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