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The Roberts spoke with Bleeding Cool about how they bonded with Rapaport and Farley during filming and beyond, how Eric approached delivering his lines as narrator, and Eliza's biggest challenge playing Ethel. Eliza Roberts in "Hippo" (2024) Image courtesy of Kinematics. Hippo: Eric Roberts & Eliza Roberts on Channeling Empathy to Play Ether, How Rapaport "Conducted" Eric[...]

Image courtesy of Kinematics. Hippo: Eric Roberts & Eliza Roberts on Narration, Family Dysfunction & More Bleeding Cool: How did you both get involved with 'Hippo' and what intrigued you about the film? Eliza Roberts: What happened was that Mark Rapaport was doing a short film called 'Andronicus' (2021), and Eric self-taped for it, a regular old audition[...]

The Kinematics & Rough House film follows the title character (Farley), a high-strung gamer steadily becoming a survivalist while living with his mother, Ethel (Eliza Roberts), and his heavily religious Hungarian Catholic stepsister, Buttercup (Lilla Kizlinger), who's in a hurry to grow up ignorant on what to do with her biological impulses Rapaport spoke to[...]