To Kill a Wolf
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“It Was Some Kind of a Dance That We Had Together That Was a Lot of Fun”To Kill A Wolf Star Ivan Martin, Back To One, Episode 353
You can see Ivan Martin’s work in Billions, The Sopranos, Suits, Ozark, Gaslit, What We Do In The Shadows, and much more. Currently, he stars in the exceptional indie film To Kill A Wolf, writer/director Kelsey Taylor’s modern take on Little Red Riding Hood. On this episode, he talks about the circumstances that brought that role his way, the connection he has with the character that made him feel like he could bring him to life, and the environment on set that made it all possible. He explains the roundabout way he got interested in acting when he was young, […]
by Peter Rinaldi on Aug 5, 2025 -
“Fairy Tales Are the Stories We Tell Our Children to Warn Them…”: Writer/Director Kelsey Taylor on Her Suspenseful Debut Feature, To Kill a Wolf
For viewers watching Kelsey Taylor’s terrific debut feature, To Kill a Wolf, it’s easy to miss that its very loose source material is the 17th-century children’s fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. Yes, there’s a girl lost in the woods, a woodsman, a grandma (arguably), and a wolf, although the latter is hardly an obvious figure. But the relationships between these characters and their backstories are newly invented, mapping onto contemporary anxieties and fears as much an archetypal narrative structures. Consider To Kill a Wolf something of a remix, the kind where the source material haunts rather than dictates, and […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 29, 2025
