I’m not sure anyone could have expected the ramifications of M3GAN 2.0‘s failures. What once seemed like a burgeoning franchise has been all but shelved, with its spinoff film entering a state of limbo. For those unaware, Soulm8te was originally supposed to release to theaters in January but was pulled and shopped around to various streamers. They couldn’t find any buyers, so the film was quietly released to digital earlier this month. I actually thought Soulm8te was decent, it just had the misfortune of releasing after the biggest film of the year had already walked a very similar narrative path.
I was fortunate enough to talk to stars Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl about all things Soulm8te. They get into what it was like to have the film taken off the schedule and enter limbo. Lily discusses her battle-damaged look near the end of the film and how much fun it was to perform. While David talks about the challenges of his main scene partner being someone who doesn’t technically doesn’t show human emotion. They say acting is reacting after all. This chat actually made me appreciate Sullivan’s performance even more, as she’s so charismatic and animated that playing a stoic robot could not be more against type. This was a great chat, and you can check out the full conversation in the embedded video above!
Soulm8te plot:
Follows a grieving engineer tasked with testing a ruthless tech giant’s new artificially intelligent android. But when he attempts to program her to be a truly sentient soulmate, she develops needs of her own – unleashing a relentless spree of precision-engineered mayhem.
Soulm8te is now available to own/rent digitally on all platforms.
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