{"id":31161,"date":"2025-08-15T13:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31161"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:17:40","slug":"went-up-the-hill-exclusive-interview-with-actress-executive-producer-vicky-krieps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31161","title":{"rendered":"Went Up the Hill : Exclusive Interview with Actress\/Executive Producer Vicky Krieps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\"><strong>Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobuhiro Hosoki<\/strong> grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on\u00a0<a class=\"google-anno\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/#\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">\u00a0<span class=\"google-anno-t\">TV<\/span><\/a> Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at the New York branch office, but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31162\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wesnt-Up-the-Hill-Poster.png\" alt=\"Went Up the Hill \" width=\"1052\" height=\"1338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wesnt-Up-the-Hill-Poster.png 1052w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wesnt-Up-the-Hill-Poster-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wesnt-Up-the-Hill-Poster-805x1024.png 805w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wesnt-Up-the-Hill-Poster-768x977.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wesnt-Up-the-Hill-Poster-696x885.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1052px) 100vw, 1052px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Went Up the Hill<\/strong> : In this chilling ghost story, a recently deceased woman haunts her estranged son Jack (Dacre Montgomery of Stranger Things) and her grieving widow Jill (Vicky Krieps of Phantom Thread and Corsage). When the woman&#8217;s spirit inhabits the survivors, the living must grapple with the destruction she left behind while fighting for their own survival. A Toronto International Film Festival premiere.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong> : Samuel Van Grinsven<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong> : Vicky Pope, Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenwriter<\/strong> : Samuel Van Grinsven, Jory Anast<\/p>\n<p><strong> Distributor<\/strong> : Greenwich Entertainment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Co<\/strong> : Causeway Films, POP Films<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong> : Mystery &amp; Thriller, Romance, Fantasy, Drama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong> : Aug 15, 2025, Limited<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime<\/strong> : 1h 40m<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you like the interview, share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"gEaqyO-F69s\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Went Up the Hill | Official Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gEaqyO-F69s?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0 Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on\u00a0\u00a0TV Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[28139,7286,3404,28138,28140,1531,28137],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Went Up the Hill : Exclusive Interview with Actress\/Executive Producer Vicky Krieps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Went Up the Hill : Jack ventures to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother and meets her widow Jill. 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