NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Ant-Man, 13 Going on 30 and Arrested Development actress Judy Greer says she loved going from her sweet role in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever to the distraught woman she plays in Dead of Winter.
"I left that movie to go and shoot this movie," Greer, 50, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"I was shooting The Best Christmas Pageant Ever in Winnipeg and in Winnipeg, about an hour and a half outside of the city, is a fishing village," she recalled. "So, on one of my days off, I drove out there and kind of wandered around and checked out the ice fishermen and looked at the frozen lake and it was definitely more helpful than if I had just been in Los Angeles."
Filmed in Finland and Germany and out on DVD Tuesday, the thriller casts Emma Thompson as Barb, a grieving Minnesota widow who stumbles across a remote, snow-covered cabin where a couple, played by Greer and Marc Menchaca, are holding captive a terrified young woman named Leah, played by Laurel Marsden.
"The desperation of all the characters was really, I think, what stood out to me the most," Greer said, referring to how her unnamed character keeps trying to kill Barb to prevent her from rescuing Leah.
