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Kyle Meredith With… takes a deep dive into The Rip, Netflix’s tense, morally slippery crime thriller, with conversations featuring Sasha Calle and Catalina Sandino Moreno. Both actors unpack a film that looks like a cops-and-guns action movie on the surface, but quickly turns into a psychological pressure cooker about trust, temptation, and what people do when life-changing money suddenly appears in front of them. With Ben Affleck and Matt Damon anchoring the ensemble, the movie largely unfolds inside a single stash house, where alliances shift and motives stay just opaque enough to keep everyone guessing. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Calle talks about playing Desi, a character who may or may not be the story’s central obstacle, and how that ambiguity shaped her performance. She reflects on spending much of the film literally handcuffed to a chair, trusting the writing and director Joe Carnahan to let stillness do the heavy lifting, while also going head-to-head with Affleck and Damon in some of the movie’s most intense monologue scenes. Calle also opens up about her soap opera roots on The Young and the Restless, how that training prepared her for high-pressure scenes, and why music — her other creative outlet — feels both thrilling and terrifying as she works toward finally releasing her own material.
Sandino Moreno approaches The Rip from a different angle, focusing on the film’s moral dilemma and its grounding in real-life inspiration. She talks about playing a single mother underpaid and overexposed to danger, suddenly confronted with a fortune that could change everything. The conversation moves into Carnahan’s high-energy directing style, the unusual intimacy of filming so much of the movie in just two rooms, and the surprisingly relaxed, collaborative atmosphere created by Affleck and Damon. Moreno also reflects on her recent run of action-heavy roles, how motherhood reshaped her perspective on career choices, and why she’s now more interested in having fun on set than proving anything.
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