Gillespie’s film is structured around interviews with Robbie’s Harding and Sebastian Stan’s Gillooly (as well as Harding’s mom, played by Oscar nominee Allison Janney), and in the above scene — titled “Conspiracy” — Harding recounts an anecdote she once heard about Kerrigan plotting the attack on herself with Gillooly. Even without Caitlin Carver’s Kerrigan refuting this idea directly to the camera, it’s clearly a story of delusional lunacy. And that impression is only further hammered home when Robbie’s chain-smoking Harding says that she heard this tall tale from a reliable source, at which point Gillespie’s camera zooms into close-up of Paul Walter Hauser’s demented Eckhardt.
Given that I, Tonya barely includes Kerrigan herself in its plot, this deleted scene would have fit nicely into the film’s theatrical cut — as well as further enhanced its you-can’t-trust-any-of-these-people perspective.
I, Tonya arrives on VOD on March 2 and on Blu-ray and DVD on March 13.
🎥|| New scene from I,Tonya with Sebastian Stan & Paul Walter Hauser.
One of my favorite scenes. He drives, what looks like overnight, listening to Shawn run his mouth, just to tell her to fuck off.
If I remember correctly, it was like over an eight hour drive for Jeff. I believe Sebastian Stan talked about it in an interview, it was a real event that occurred between Jeff and Tonya. Sebastian remarked on how crazy that was just to go to get the last word, to scream “No, fuck YOU!” at her.
Clearly Sebastian has (thankfully) never had experience with the dynamics of a crazy ass abusive relationship. ‘Cause he recognized just how absurd that was of Jeff.
I love this scene so much, it’s hilarious and really illustrates how petty Jeff Gillooly could be. That’s a lot of time to waste just to scream at your ex.
@getbuckylucky Thanks for sharing. I missed this interview. It seems like the parts of the movie that I thought were too ridiculous to be real were actually the parts that were real.
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