Time Cut stars Madison Bailey and Antonia Gentry talked to ComingSoon about the unique slasher movie that features time travel and a sisterly bond. Directed by Hannah Macpherson, Time Cut debuts on Netflix on October 30, 2024.
“A teenage girl travels back to the early 2000s to stop a vicious killer from murdering her sister,” says the logline.
Tyler Treese: Madison, this is a unique slasher with a time travel twist, but what really surprised me was just how much heart was in this script, especially with the family element. Can you speak to Lucy getting to see this older sister that she never got to meet? Because it’s really fascinating stuff and you show the emotions so well throughout it.
Madison Bailey: Oh, thank you. I think for Lucy, her life without knowing Summer ever, I think there was just room for her to build up animosity and feelings towards her parents. Without knowing her, it was probably pretty easy to blame all of her problems on her.
Going and actually meeting her, I think it’s shock at first, and I’m a little avoidant at first. Once I start realizing who she is, that’s so huge. I mean, I’m seeing she’s not this villain that I’ve made her out to be and that she really didn’t play a part in making my life tough.
Antonia, you get to do the whole slasher experience. You’re doing the set pieces, you’re running away from the killer. How was it filming those chase scenes? Because they’re just so much fun to watch.
Antonia Gentry: It was really fun. I love horror movies. I’ve grown up watching [them]. I literally love horror so much, and being able to be in a slasher where I get to run away from someone who’s trying to kill me is like [a dream]. I was like, “I don’t even care. I’m doing it and say no more.” I did read the script, though. I was gonna say I didn’t need to read the script, but I did, and it was great.
It was just so much fun. I got to have a lot of new experiences with set glass that breaks in the stunts, how it’s like that sugar glass, and getting to run through a barn and throw things over. Getting to hold a wrench as if that’s gonna do anything, like walking around like…
Bailey: Me with my baseball bat, and I’m like, “I hope I don’t have to use this.”
Gentry: Exactly. It was just so much fun. A lot of firsts, it being our first movie, and I’m just glad that it was something I got to cross off my bucket list.
Madison, your character interacts with Griffin Gluck a lot. How is it working with him as a scene partner? He’s really great in Time Cut as well.
Bailey: Griffin’s honestly the best. It’s such easy days. You’re going on set with somebody who knows their lines, who’s prepared and just, and who cares about what we’re doing. He’s also just a joy and great company. I’m super grateful to have worked with him and so happy he’s a part of this movie. I wish he was here.
Gentry: I know. Where’s Griffin?
Antonia, your character does such a great job of just embodying 2003. I know you were alive during that part, but you weren’t this old. You just seem like straight-up taken out of like a time capsule. It’s fantastic. How was it figuring that out?
Gentry: I think I just sort of tried to think of all of the media from the early 2000s that I had seen, while trying, trying my best not to sort of like make it into a parody. You know what it was, the costume design. I really looked like Hannah Montana. The like low rise and like all of the belts. It took me so long just to pee because I had to take off these belts and the accessories.
Bailey: So many moving pieces.
Gentry: That’s true. Yeah. So many moving pieces. I looked in the mirror, and I was like, “Oh, okay. Yeah.” I literally looked like for sure a 2003 high schooler, and it just made it so much easier to get into that mindset and get into that character.
