Fair Play Interview: Director Chloe Domont on Her Erotic Thriller
16Writer-director Chloe Domont came out swinging for her debut feature, Fair Play, which sparked a bidding war after its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. After spending time in the writers’ room and sitting in the director’s chair for series like HBO's Ballers, Domont was able to pull from her own experiences to finally pin down the perfect first feature in what’s now being heralded as an erotic thriller, likening back to the genre’s ‘80s reign with movies like Fatal Attraction.
Fair Play stars Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as Emily and Luke, a clandestine power couple who work at the same New York investment firm. Both driven and passionate, they appear to have their lives in perfect balance, leading to a blissful engagement. From proposal to promotion, however, a surprising tip in the scales of their power dynamic suddenly shifts, and Emily and Luke’s in-sync relationship is tossed into Domont’s “pressure cooker thriller” and set to boil over.
While promoting the film, Domont spoke with Collider’s Steve Weintraub about finding the right story to tell for her directorial debut. She discusses the personal nature of the script, finding the right producers and financiers who understood the movie she was making, and the “incredibly rewarding” reception its world premiere received after the long, “painful journey” to getting it on screen. Domont also talks about the sexual nature of Fair Play, why the intimate scenes were important to the exploration of this power dynamic, and why the editing process could dramatically shift the movie’s narrative.
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