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Its like its turning the stupid fucking white man into something it could use.
So Vulture called up Barnaby to peel back some of the many layers.
Because its an issue within Native communities.
I was like,Really?
Hes like the Native Everyman.
Hes almost an anti-hero.
How do you come to that?
Whats interesting about this virus is … its the way Native people have always lived.
So theres stuff like that baked into the script.
The general public is just coming to terms with it now.
I really think thats what apocalypse movies are about in this day and age.
Theyre coming after everybody.Nowits an issue.
Late-stage capitalism, thats what theyre calling it, and its like, this is just capitalism, man!
This is the stage that its always been at!
Youre just new to the game.
The thing you liken it to the most is the Holocaust.
You carry that around with you and it manifests in different ways.
In some people it manifests as drug use, and in some people it manifests as self-loathing.
In Lysols case, I think its everything.
You franchise a genocide, and it becomes a part of the capitalist data pipe of selling things.
So anything he feels like he does afterward is justified, including destroying himself or anybody else around them.
There you have your postcolonial Indian.
I think from Josss perspective, shes this brutally pragmatic person, and Lysol turns out to be right.
The whole film is just based on the concept of irony.
Theres a lot going on for a movie that features a dick being bit off [laughs].
And its a pain in the ass as a Native filmmaker because youre just like any other artist.
Thats what keeps me grounded.
It doesnt become so much a chore to be the representative of all Native people.
Then Ill feel like well start getting the most minuscule entry-level positions for inclusivity.
Even now, is there a Native film industry?
Fuck, were not even in the conversation in my opinion.
Like, what the fuck?
So, thats what inclusivity from my perspective has looked like.
Its been like, Oh my God, this is the best script Ive ever read!
Its too bad we cant do it.
Theres been a lot of that.
Did the tone of the script change at all as you worked on it?
Like, they were vicious [laughs].
For me the big change that happened was I became a dad.
All of a sudden the most horrifying thing to me wasnt the dead coming back to life.
It was whether or not I was going to be a good dad.
I grew up with a shit dad.
I didnt want him to be part of my life.
For that to kind of make a comeback I think is almost a miracle.
Which is absurd because they just came from a zombie apocalypse!
