David Arquette: SOLD
Christopher Buck: It was–on one hand, it was a beautifully done film, and, on the other hand, it was a profoundly disturbing film.
David Arquette: Absolutely, with the tough subject matter.
Christopher Buck: It one of the things that I know must have been difficult is you’re filming the story; you’re filming it at one of the epicenters of the crisis for the sexual trafficking of children in the world. How difficult was that?
David Arquette: Well, I mean, going to India and Kolkata is just–it’s life changing. I mean, it’s such a culture shock, such an incredibly beautiful and historical and spiritual place, but there’s also so much poverty and, you know, crime as far as this goes.
But, we shot in a building that I’m sure at some point had been used for this kind of nefarious activity. So, it just really added to the emotion and the depth. And you could just feel on the set how heavy this kind of stuff is, especially since we went to some of the houses where they’re saving the kids and the rehabilitation centers and, the therapy places that help these kids get through it.
And we met all these actual survivors. And we met a bunch of people that work in this field that goes to save people all the time. It was a real learning experience. And it was really shocking, very heavy, but you truly felt like you were doing something that had meaning.
Christopher Buck: I know what we go through when we’re doing a rescue or we fail with a rescue with the work we do in Uganda. I can’t imagine, I mean, it’s very difficult for me; for instance, you had the one scene in the movie where you enter the brothel and you’re speaking to the girl, and you’re telling her that, you know, we’re going to come rescue you. And then, the bad guys come to try to see if you’re real and you’ve got to pretend that you’re a regular client.
And as a father, I’m seeing this scene and you’re doing this, and It just tore me up that you would have, or a person would have to do this, to think this, to try to save this girl. It just, I think, to me, that was the most disturbing or one of the most disturbing things in the movie.
