This is Later with Lee Matthews The Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear weekday afternoons on the Drive. Sean McNamara is an American director, writer, and producer. In fact, you may have seen him and his crew wrapping up production in the film Reagan starring Dennis Quaid in Guthrie recently. But his newest release is called Vindicta. It's an edge of your seat thriller, and he's here to tell us about it today on the Drive. Hello Sean McNamara,
Good to have you here. Hey, Lee, thank you for having me. So what is the gist of Vindicta. We've got three people that are brought together in very unusual circumstances. Yeah, Well, Vindicta is a suspense thriller horror movie and it's star Delenna Comporis and Jeremy Piven and Shawn Aston and I am just so blessed to get to work with those talented actors. Alena Comporus is just insanely great and I met her last year and she is going
to be a major movie star. But she's a paramedic. It's the first day of work in the Seattle area during the riots and she's going around doing triage, helping people, but there's also a serial killer on the run and he wears the mike, the mask of David, and so it's just what happens when a paramedic is forced to go up against serial killer. I don't know that a lot of people realize the danger paramedics are sometimes in when they go on a call. Absolutely. I mean, I can't imagine what they
go through, the things that they see. But this is an even worse situation where it's bad enough where they're trying to help people who are in need, but now you've got a serial killer hurting more people and you don't know why. Vin Dikta's the name of the film. It stars Elena Camporus. You remember her from My Big Fat Greek Redding to Sean Aston, from numerous things. Jeremy Piven too. I can't name their entire resume, but yeah, Elena Camporus, she is I mean, she already is kind of a
major star, and she's very versatile. She's incredible. She is just such a great actress, first of all, and she can sing and she can dance, and she can do martial arts and she is incredible. But my goodness. You mentioned Seawan asked in Rudy Lord of the Rings and we just have such fun on the set as he regaled me with all the stories of shooting Lord of the Rings and how he worked with Peter Jackson and then having Jeremy Piven on the set which had taps. It was like, there's our
gold right here in front of me. But he's such a versatile actor that he became a just a nice, loving, warm father to Elena Camporus's lou and it was absolutely amazing. Did you hug it out with him? I hugged it out with the man. And reference to his series, by the way, if you don't know, look it up. Vin Dicto's what we're talking about. It's a thriller from Sean McNamara who is the director. And you did put together the Guthrie production of Reagan. I wanted to ask about
that. Where are we with that? Is that still in production? Absolutely, let's finish with production. And we shot it in Guthrie, right outside of Oklahoma City. A shout out to my friend Amy Slocum who is out there at Oklahoma City. But we had a great production of Reagan. Dennis Quaid is a genius. People are gonna love his Reagan. Penelope and m Miller played Nancy, and we shot it during the before there was a vaccine. We shot it during COVID. In fact, one night we all got
COVID, like twenty five of us in one night. Oh goodness. But we all recovered and we went back to production and it's an amazing movie that follows the life of Reagan from when he's like ten years old until he passes at ninety. And I can't wait for you to see that that's coming out next year. We got a chance to talk to Dennis Quid about that role, and I got him to do his Reagan for me. He got it down pretty good. Oh my goodness. Dinnis is such a great actor.
And you know, we wrote the script to have little snippets of speeches of Reagan. They just went ahead and learned the whole speech, so like I had, I'd only need like twenty five seconds of a speech, and he would give us a three minute speech. It was incredible. So it made it very hard in post production trying to pick which part do we want to use. But Dennis is just a consummate actor, and yeah, I've done
a lot with Dennis, and he's he's an amazing talent. I asked him if he got down when he was working on the character, if he got Ronald Reagan's trademark will and he did it for me a couple of times, and then he said, that's usually what he would say when he was about to open up on you, right, exactly, that's it, and he Dinnis nailed that. But he just he just got the look down and he got to you know, I don't know how he just became Ronald Reagan.
I mean, obviously from we got the hair right and we got the suits right and all of that stuff. But as an actor, Dennis goes deep and he just studied the real Ronald Reagan and just just nailed him. But the new film out by Sean McNamara, the director of Vindicta in theaters now and on demand, stars Elena Ca Andmporus, Sean Aston, and Jeremy Piven, Vindicta. When is this more of a suspense thriller or is it more
of a scary movie? I call it suspense thriller horror movie, and it is scary and hopefully it will scare the audiences and hopefully you we'll see some visuals that you wish you hadn't just in time for this time of year two and it's available everywhere on demand and in theaters. Sean McNamara, thank you
for joining us and we'll be looking forward to watching Vindicta awesome. Thanks for having me, Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live weekday afternoons from five to seven and iHeartMedia Presentation