Tribeca: Red Carpet w/ Actors Rain Spencer & Gabriel Basso for the World Premiere of Iconoclast

Welcome to Mentors on the Mic, Rain Spencer.

Congratulations on two premieres this year.

And you've been here before.

This is not your first time at Tribeca.

How do you go about deciding which projects to do? Oh, I

recently have been choosing projects that are a little scary and that I don't fully understand.

You know, I like that.

I think if I read something, I'm like, I get it.

Like, it's not as fun.

If I read something and I'm like, have all these questions, you know, or I'm inspired in some way.

And like, yeah, I don't know.

What does it mean to feel inspired? It's like feeling, you know?

And how did you feel when you read this particular screenshot? Inspired.

Yeah, I just, I had so many... conversations with Gabe that, like, I felt that, you know, made me feel, like, lit up.

And he always, he describes Morgan as, like, the soul of the movie.

Like, the world is so bleak and there's, you know, Connor is in his own, like, isolated, like, AI world, and she's kind of busting the door, and she's like, I'm here, and I'm going to feel all my feelings, and I want you to feel all your feelings.

And, like, it's just a human, like, messy three-year-old sort of, you know, like...

No filter.

We were talking about

Morgan,

the

specific character of Morgan, and how she becomes that sort of truth in the film.

She's the one that kind of is the mirror to everything.

What were the conversations you had with Gabe? What

were those like? Another really interesting thing that I liked about talking to Gabe is like, Morgan and Connor are actually very similar, you know, like their pain is really similar, their isolation, like the loneliness is the same, but they just took it in two extreme different, like they just didn't, you know, it manifested in a completely different way.