did you miss the point of skin flick?

Added: 2026-05-27

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[00:00:29]In January 2026, Letterbox sent an email to its users about the highest rated movies on its site. There were numerous categories for this, and I decided to go through it as I wanted to see what films I missed out on last year, and I was paying close attention to the animation categories. For the highest rated short film, there was a movie called Skin Flick. And right away from the art and the name, I was like, "What is this?"

[00:00:57]Then I read the description of it. A porn actress stars in the devil's cannibal snuff films in exchange for Flawless Skin. While luring a runaway bride to the studio to devour her on camera, she begins to develop feelings that will destruct the devil's grip.

[00:01:15]This sounds wild. I'd have to watch it.

[00:01:18]And I really enjoyed it, but I had so many thoughts and opinions about it that I decided I wanted to move forward with a review and an analysis. But then I watched it again. There was a scene that caught my attention that made me do a double take, and it's the scene where the character Lucifer smacks the character gasoline against the window of the car when he is talking to her in her ear. This moment made me realize that there was so much more to this film than I thought. So, I started it over from the beginning and paid closer attention to the dynamic between the two. After the second viewing, I had so many thoughts, but also so many questions.

[00:01:54]And a simple review video for Skin Flake was not enough because not only did I want more people to watch this film, but I also just had so much more to say about it. So, I did a thing.

[00:02:10]I think I got up in time.

[00:02:16]I don't want to be your girlfriend.

[00:02:21]I'm much cooler than you ever.

[00:02:26]Can you walk like me? Can you talk like me? Is it hard to bear? If there's nothing like me, I'm a selfree there.

[00:02:41]I'm actually really freaking nervous right now. Um, hello everybody. Um, hey y'all. It's Hariana and I'm back with another video.

[00:02:54]This is a very, very special video here today. But hi. Hello. I'm Hariana. I am the captain. You are not my first mate.

[00:03:01]I don't got no first mate because you want to know why. Bring your closer to the speaker so you can hear me. No one's worthy being the first mate. Hi. Hello.

[00:03:09]I cannot say the rest of my introduction for this video because my main niche kind of has little to do with what we will be here today for. But this is just something I was really really passionate about. It is something that I was really really interested in and I was like, you know what? I'm going to make an exception. And I've been making a lot more exceptions this year in general because I have been wanting to talk more and more about indie productions that I really really enjoy. And today we will be here talking about Skin Flick. So what exactly is Skin Flick? Skin Flick is a short film about three different people. Well, two people. I wouldn't consider one of them to be people, but we it focuses on Gasoline, Lucifer, and Bridget. Gasoline is this genderless feminine presenting being. Lucifer is the man that is in charge of these, you know, X-rated films that Gasoline stars in where she hates people, specifically men. And for the most part, Lucifer is what I would describe to be a pimp. I put a pin on that. We're going to bring that back up later. And then we also have Bridget. Bridget is a closeted lesbian who is basically running away from her wedding because she don't want to marry that man. She don't. As I mentioned in the opening that I did watch this movie around January and I decided that I did want to talk more about it because I really really enjoyed it. But then the the video, you know, it took a turn because I was like, wait a damn minute. So around the time of when I decided that I wanted to make the review of skin flick, I had recently written an essay that I had published on my Substack, The Black Natalie Stan Kerr, called He Beat Me and I'm tired of pretending he didn't. What that essay focuses on is about the that I suffered from one of my classmates for a few years of my life and how that um you know situation that I was in still affects me to this day. because of me writing that essay, it was really like fresh on my mind. And when I rewatched Skin Flick, was something that I really really noticed was a major theme in this production.

[00:05:25]And just a warning, if you want to watch this film, I recommend you pause this video right now and then go watch it because everything else is just spoiler nation. Because I was just so interested in Skin Flick and there was just so much that I wanted to learn more about. I decided to, you know, do some research.

[00:05:46]But I realized that I was not finding anything. I I wasn't finding no interviews. I was able to find some stuff here and there. But pretty much all the information that I was looking for, I couldn't find it. So, you know what I did? You want to know what I did?

[00:06:00]Guess what? We have some special guests here today.

[00:06:02]>> Go first. Um, hi. I am Daniela Docastello. she they um yeah I've been in the animation industry for a while in multiple roles um animator bisdev even done some teaching and then yeah joined go what my main goal in life is just to make a whole bunch of gay stuff always using the animated medium so this was an amazing uh treat and yeah in the meanwhile I'm doing some odd jobs while trying to make more gay stuff and get that funded if that's a great description. So, hi. I'm Alice. My pronouns are she, they as well. Um, and it's a very similar to Daniela. I also love producing gay stuff. Um, so I I used to work in live action cinema and then went to animation and um yeah, I love just you know doing all type of stuff and um I know my work is very inspired by drag and like um some like spectacles I used to do in Paris when I had the time to before go.

[00:07:10]uh it's just a big part of my life and it's also my goal to keep on making that type of media because uh it's the type of media that brings me a lot of joy and hope you know for just the community and yeah >> you said you did film live action film and then you went over to animation.

[00:07:30]>> Yeah. So I still I studied live action.

[00:07:33]Um made some short films and then I went to animation cuz it's a way more queer space I feel. Uh I'm su pronouncer she and her. Uh honestly I've just been like studying at Gobla and I've only been about animation for the past 6 years and uh I don't know I just really like fun cartoons and colorful things just like skin flick. And uh I just want to keep working on stuff like that. It's fun and it unites more.

[00:08:01]>> Bruno, uh, I'm Brazilian American. I've been working professionally as an animator for like since 2020. I worked quite a bit in the Atlanta area and then like in Austin, Texas, uh, for some studios around there. And then I came to France to learn more about the French animation industry and a bit how they work there. And yeah, like and I ended up joining the movie because a lot of the movies inspirations like were things that I really really enjoyed. Uh from like Brian De Palma to Telman Louise to like Gregor Rocky like all were things that really call to me. So yeah, >> my name is Louise. I am 28 years old. Um my pronouns are she, her. Uh my journey in animation are very chaotic because I jump between bartending and drawings and animation and it's just like that and my purpose is just doing like fun story with um with a like doing something fun but having something deep to say like so skin is perfect for that. Yes, I did reach out to the crew of SkinFlick because you know what? Go directly to the source about this. Go directly to them. Ask them the questions. Do what you got to do to get to the bottom of this. So, as we had got to talking, I wanted to, you know, talk about how did this story come about? Who came up with the idea? Where did this concept come from? And Alice was the one who, you know, they were the one that came up with it. I came up with the idea actually I came up with it like back in cinema school and I know it sounds very weird but it was supposed to be live action at first um which now sounds very very odd because like I don't even imagine how you would do that in live action but the story was very different uh it was a much darker story way more abstract and it changed a lot in GLAN when we whole like wrote the story together it became a lot more fun, like lighthearted.

[00:10:14]>> Now, what did everyone else think when you came up with this idea?

[00:10:19]>> Um, so, um, I remember pitching it. That's also why I love animation is like I could see some people were a bit freaked out, >> but also I like some people immediately came up to say they love the story. like Daniela was one of the first person to um really support uh the pitch in Goblang cuz she also tells very similar stories and um so yeah it's like a the reaction I got uh was pretty nice because also I don't know I like when people are weirded out by stories usually it means you're getting somewhere good.

[00:10:56]>> So how long did it take to write the script?

[00:11:02]So yeah, with the script, I think it took we started more or less like end of May, June, as soon as we like got it together um as a group, we like just defined some little things of like who's Bridget cuz she was like the most open-ended character cuz we basically knew quite a bit of Gasoline was. Uh but Bridget was like, "Oh, she's going to be like the love interest. We have to find out." and her counterpart. Soon as we defined that, we almost like immediately started writing and we worked very similar to like a writer's room in which we sat down, discuss things that we that could happen that could work uh and then like type away and then come back, show it to everyone, uh continue like seeing like what works, what doesn't work. And that continued up till like October when we got a version that was like it's okay to go to storyboarding but then as soon as we got into storyboarding there was so many things that like did not work once it went visually and so like it was rewriting whilst boarding up until like January February like I'd say February was like when the final words were put on paper >> and it's very interesting to say because as I was talking to Alice and they were saying that they were the one that came up with the idea for it. Uh it was something that wasn't just like made off off the fly like you know like in 2025 when the film came out like it came out at the end of 2025 literally the day before my um birthday. Um this had been an idea that had been in the works for like some years now.

[00:12:41]>> Okay. So y'all started in 2024.

[00:12:45]Um so technically it started even before that >> like the idea was like maybe 2021 >> but that was very different. So I don't know if that really counts as rating.

[00:12:59]>> Um just how Goblan is structured um so you know and so other people know if they ever enter um that school. Um basically one person pitches and then we all voted for whose pitch we wanted to work on and we started off initially with four people. Then we got together and started you know seeing what we liked about the story and then tried to start building the script from there. Um and that's generally how it begins. And sometimes some stories change a lot and some don't. This one stayed quite solid um to like all the main beats were already there from Alice. So like we didn't change a lot. We just had to add more and clarify a lot more and also try and push it into eight. No, it was initially supposed to be six minutes.

[00:13:45]>> Yeah, cuz Yeah, the school gives us like a kind of a limit of like five minutes and the first story board we did was 10 minutes long. So we had to cut a bit like rewrite but also the writing um as kind of Bruno was saying with like the the exact words we're using um it went even into editing because the actors gave us so many like the actors and actresses gave us so many options. We were able to even choose from that um during editing and we did get around to, you know, talking about the film, talking about the characters, and for the most part, I really want y'all to hear what they have to say about it, like the entire crew, because they just gave like so much good information. We had such a good and engaging conversation here, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking up too much of this. Like, I know this is the Hariana Hook channel, but I, you know, I want them to talk about their film. That's interesting though. I was like, "All six of y'all wrote it?" Wow. Okay, so uh this is another like writing question.

[00:14:49]Honestly, this is just more so of a question I just had about everything overall. What decade did this take place in?

[00:14:57]Cuz I was like, I didn't see a phone, but there's a TV. I'm like, is this the ' 80s, the '9s? It's uh it's more or less like um ' 80s like a bit of end of '7s early8s like new Hollywood type of era. Uh so because main of our main inspirations were from that era.

[00:15:17]>> Okay. Yeah. Um because that was another um what feel like I know one movie that like could be like the inspiration. Uh, but I was like, what films or shows or just anything around that time period, what inspired like the overall like aesthetic of it? Because I have not seen Paris, Texas, but I used to be on Tumblr all the time and it was giving Paris, Texas.

[00:15:43]>> Definitely. Perry, Texas was Par Texas.

[00:15:46]Sorry for my French accent. Uh, Paris >> was definitely in the original mood board. Um, and all the work from Eddie Mohler, who's the cinematographer of this film, was very inspiring. It's live action though, but the colors in this films are very, and it's that moment of Hollywood history where, you know, film with the Yeah, just amazing cinematography. Um, but also one thing I think that really inspired and we I don't want to say we all suffered from that. It's mostly Louise because one of the inspiration from the film were like the were a pile of magazines from the 2000s that I found at my aunt's place that like her son left years ago.

[00:16:36]And uh so actually um I did a little project on the first year of master with those and they were a big part of the inspiration for um well the the art direction for skin flick and just the vibe. So it's very like campy, sexy, colorful, a little bit creepy also cuz those were not just regular magazines.

[00:16:58]They were a bit like edgy. So I did ask about the character inspirations especially when it came to gasoline thing. uh we don't often get the time to mention um but one thing personally that really motivated me to tell this story is that I have the deep belief that um as a society and as as consumers of media we often don't even respect the fictional women we see like the image of women is something we do not respect and I think there's a direct link between the way we treat real women and real queer people um with the way we treat even cartoon characters and um so yeah it was a big part of this. So to me like the love I have for characters like for Gazalene Bridget is like not the love I would show to real people because it's not the same but writing the story and I think it's something we all had in mind.

[00:17:51]We wanted to respect our characters the way we'd respect real women. Um because yeah it's it's just a very important thing to do when you're writing. And when it came to Gasoline, I'm going to be honest, she reminded me a lot of Mega. She reminded me so much of Mega from Disney's Hercules specifically. And that was funny because when I did talk to the team, they did say that like, oh no, people did point that out to them and they were making like little memes about it and all of that, which was funny. But I did get to talking more about um, you know, who were Gasoline's like, you know, inspirations.

[00:18:25]What are the inspirations for gasoline?

[00:18:28]Oh, like who like inspired her?

[00:18:33]>> Um, so it's multiple people. Um, her as maybe a concept like has um a maneating monster who looks like this very attractive woman. Um the concept is really very much inspired by movies like um Under the Skin by Jonathan Glazer, uh Jennifer's Body also of course um so also films with like Scottson and um Megan Fox. So it's like you know um women who were both very abused by the industry. Um, and so it's mainly those women. Um, so a lot of them, uh, women who were abused for their image by the cinema or just the media industry as a whole. Um, maybe the biggest inspiration for Gasoline was Pamela Anderson.

[00:19:29]>> I love Pamela Anderson. Yeah, definitely. Perman Anderson, you know, like also it kind of coincided with the moment we started writing when she um you know, she made a a documentary about her story, her own side of her own story that we didn't really hear before. So, it was kind of, you know, I feel there's just a we're in the moment where bimboos are just talking of their experience. I just love that we're right in the middle of that. So yeah, it's a lot of these women, Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith. Um, also French ones maybe that not the world knows as much. Um, there's Lana. Um, she died very recently. So, it's also important to mention that she was a French uh star of reality TV and she was very much abused by men in real life and by the French media, even Nebula and like um you know, Bambos overall, even just uh even going back to like Marilyn Monroe even earlier than like the '9s or 2000s. Um yeah, it's uh it's them. And also in animation, of course, it's very very obvious. Um Jessica Rabbit was a big inspiration for Gasoline because, you know, they're kind of the same concept trying to be the the image of the the unattainable standard that we set for women in media. And you know, I don't know what the exact sentence she says uh is like. Um it's not my fault I was drawn like this. Doesn't mean the same. It's like she's been created like this. So yeah, these are the main inspiration for Gasoline.

[00:21:10]>> Okay. She honestly um Have y'all ever seen Hercules? Like the Disney Hercules?

[00:21:15]>> She trying to be a mega >> and so we realized that later on our film is Hercules but gay. I mean, Hercules is very cute, too, but like Hercules is basically Bridget and Megaiz Gasoline. You know, we have an awful edit that we made of like um like the costumes of Bridget and Gasoline like photoshopped onto Hercules and Mega.

[00:21:43]>> I just want to make a little note.

[00:21:44]During the production, we did have a list of merch that we were dreaming of making. And one of the items was a fidget Bridget toy, just like the Hercules toy that kind of pumps up with all of the muscles.

[00:21:55]>> And it's interesting that Pamela Anderson was brought up because um it made me sit and think about how there are just so many women that are in the public eye that just get treated like, you know, like [ __ ] Because, you know, I think about like women of color that this has happened to. I think of, you know, Dorothy Dridge. I think of Aaliyah. And Aaliyah didn't even live to C23. And y'all know who I often talk about here on my channel, like a woman that was like, you know, you know, treated like [ __ ] and died very, very young. And, you know, they just displayed her body for so long. Who is Sarah Bartman? And if you don't know who Sarah Bartman is, she basically was this black woman who was kidnapped from Africa and was brought over to, you know, Europe. It was pretty sure it was like Paris and you know was basically put on in a human zoo where people would come in and like objectify her body.

[00:22:46]Sometimes they would like her. Sometimes they would like harm her and all of that. It's a very very tragic story. And when Sarah had even passed away, they still were, you know, objectifying her.

[00:22:58]They literally put her dead [ __ ] body on display for people to still look at.

[00:23:03]like and I think that's the reason why Gasoline's character, you know, intrigued me so much because we're going to bring up Sam Leon later on in this video. U but it's just nowadays I noticed that when we tell stories about sex workers, they're not necessarily done with care. So when I do see a story about a sex worker that is done with care, I'm like, "Yes, please. Thank you." Next, when we got into Lucifer, I wasn't necessarily shocked when I found out that Harvey Weinstein was like, you know, one of the inspirations for him because that, yeah, that's him right there. Um, but it makes me think about how there are just so many other men that work in the entertainment industry that aren't too far off from him, but you know, we think straight of Harvey Weinstein because he's one of the most prominent faces.

[00:23:50]>> The main inspiration was uh Winstein. I think like all the all the stories like of the uh gross producer who abused women um in the cinema industry, he is basically the basic douchebag, the ultimate douchebag uh with daddy issues and god complex.

[00:24:13]Um so yeah I think it's the main inspiration for for him like um but um it was very kathartic when we wrote because we just go uh around the table and we are like okay what what the worst sentence you hear as a woman from a man and what can we bring on the on the table and we just released everything we heard like a this man say that to you a that's very interesting you know so I think that's the main inspiration for the devil >> and even more because of that and we played with these ideas as well and then when we got our voice actor um well actually no li also brought a lot of extra to the table with Lucifer as well >> that like really filled him out >> there was the dude like from girl next door, right? Which was like the humongous like >> inspiration for acting.

[00:25:16]>> Oh, yes. Um, Girl next door. It was the guy who was played by Josh uh >> Timothy.

[00:25:24]>> Yeah, that guy. Sorry. Yes, Josh.

[00:25:25]Timothy. Similar names, right?

[00:25:27]>> Yeah.

[00:25:29]>> For acting and just like this guy that can just change from like being nice to being like an absolute psycho and like a sick. One thing we really wanted for the devil was for him to be very charismatic. And another inspiration that we did have in it was um Tim Curry in the Rocky Har picture show like the whole film is also an inspiration for Skin Flick like the >> the campiness the the be movie um aesthetic and so yeah that was definitely also a big inspiration.

[00:26:01]>> I know where I can sit here talk about you know I can sit here and talk about Chris Brown. I can sit here and talk about Dee. I can sit here and talk about like, you know, even I can sit here and even talk about Russell Simmons, but I specifically want to talk about the dream. And that's because um a few years ago, if you guys are familiar with my channel, Lore, I used to play a song on my channel all the time called I Love Your Girl. And it was by the artist named The Dream. And I Love Your Girl was a favorite song of mine growing up.

[00:26:29]Uh it was a song of mine that I really, really enjoyed in my early 20s. But then there was news that had come out about how the dream was involved with trafficking and I just didn't know what to do because a lot of people like to push this notion about separating the art from the artist, but I just felt deeply unsettled with having that man's music on my channel, especially knowing that it became like a staple on my channel because I actually had some mutuals reach out to me when this news came out about this like, you know, news that came out about him, about him causing harm to this person, this young woman. And like I said, that's one interesting thing about um the film Skinflick is that these three main characters here, they just reminded me so much of like other people out here.

[00:27:18]And the fact that I also thought about the dream when it came to Lucifer really really is saying something because as we see in the film Skin Flick like Lucifer basically is just this nasty ass man. He takes advantage of gasoline. He makes her do all this stuff like they have a very very unhealthy and codependent relationship. But it's very clear that he is the here. It's very clear that he has something over her because he's making her do all he's having her work for him in order for her to keep this beautiful skin that she also desires.

[00:27:53]And that is some that is what was going on with the dream. There was this young woman in her early 20s. She desired to like, you know, be a musician. She wanted to work in the entertainment industry. I think specifically like the music industry. and while she was working under him, I'm pretty sure she was his protege and he just like, you know, was hurting her. And then when we got to Bridget, and I would say that Bridget honestly reminded me a lot of, you know, Megan from But I'm a cheerleader, and I I love Bava Cheerleader. It's such a cute film cuz that like gets into my next question.

[00:28:27]Who were the inspirations um for Bridget's character? Um cuz I'll say who she reminded me of, but like Okay. Have you ever seen But I'm a cheerleader.

[00:28:36]>> Yep. She remind me of Megan.

[00:28:39]>> She reminded me of Megan from that movie.

[00:28:42]>> Love that movie.

[00:28:43]>> Yeah.

[00:28:44]>> It's a great movie.

[00:28:45]>> She was a big inspiration. Like of course like also um Gina Davidson in regards to like attitude especially when she plays like Thelma. Um, we used a lot of also like attitude because she looks like asene when I talk about Dolly Parton, but attitude, she's very much like Bridget even from the way she talks and acts. Um, and like also just the choice of a southern accent was also something from the very beginning when we would pitch her. uh we started doing that like from the beginning because at least like from experiences I've had uh of hearing from friends that were from like Louisiana or some place like that in a small town in which like they know that there's something wrong that they need to find something uh like that's in them but they can't really tell because they live in the middle of nowhere in the south of the US. Uh so I think that already like brought um a strong image of like who this person is since it's a short we don't have a lot of time to say who they are. So yeah.

[00:29:56]>> Yeah. And I think one thing that we don't want to out anyone like obviously like you keep everyone's stuff private but you each all of these characters also have a lot of personal stuff in them from the authors from the um even actors and stuff like that. There's a lot of experiences from there that has been driven into that. And that's probably why you say you feel like you do feel um the stuff that Bridget's gone through. People feel like she's a person. People feel like Gasoline's been through this abuse. There's a lot of the I think with writing it's always important that we also just from the reality of this lived experience that someone's had. Um and those then get mixed with like character writing. Then I mean, yeah, we can also like certainly talk about also like how Bridget looks cuz we took a lot of inspiration from like rugby rugby players, like wrestlers. Uh >> she's she looks Yeah, she's supposed to be like the very opposite of what like Gasoline is supposed to represent of like the what cinema wants, I guess.

[00:31:01]Yeah, >> it's the cliche on the over movie of the of the war and the saints.

[00:31:06]>> Maj, when it came to the three characters that were in this film, you know, Gasoline, Bridget, and Lucifer, Bridget was the one I felt like I needed a lot more understanding of like, you know, being like explained because I could easily see who Agastling was. I can easily see who a Lucifer was, but I felt like I needed to like, you know, I wanted more information about Bridget and how her character came about. But once I, you know, sat down and like listen, I was like, "Oh, yeah." It's Bridget's character. Like, honestly, Gasoline's character makes me really sad, but Bridget's character makes me really sad, too, just as well because she, like I said, she's a closeted lesbian and she's like basically ran away from her own [ __ ] wedding.

[00:31:52]That's how unhappy she was with her situation that was going on. like she was like, "You know what? I don't know where I'm going. I just want to get out of here because I don't want to be around that." And it's clear that she didn't want to disappoint her family because in the scene where you could tell that she was having um you know was developing feelings for Gasoline, she started to cry because she's just like, "Oh my god, here I go again." But Gasoline is just like, "No, there's you're gay. It's okay. There's nothing wrong with that." It's the cliche on the overall movie of the of the war and the saint, you know, you see like that's interesting.

[00:32:29]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:32:30]>> It was interesting to me because um I was thinking about the dance sequence. I love that scene. I love that. Love all of it. But um I noticed that they just kind of switched clothes a little bit.

[00:32:44]Uh because I noticed Bridget is more like in like the cow cowgirl cowboy outfit and then Gasoline is the one that's wearing like the wedding dress and it just kind of I was like you feel like because Gasoline's just always like forced to wear and I don't want to say like hooker clothes. I don't want to say that but like she's always just kind of like forced to show like a whole bunch of skin. But then sometimes she's like no I also want to wear like the long white pretty dress too. And then Bridget's like okay I'm forced to dress like this. I want to dress a little bit more different.

[00:33:12]>> Oh. Um well I mean Alice can speak to like the choice of outfit. Um but I think just cinematically what that represented like what we tried to repeat throughout the whole film was that the characters like really see each other like I see me in you and you and me and that's empathy and that's connection and that was just like a cinematic cinematic way to represent that.

[00:33:36]>> Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of what I wanted to say. And it's also there's a joke in like the lesbian community. Uh I don't know if I don't think it's just a French thing cuz it's I've heard it from like the people I know mostly and it's just a joke we've had with friends is that whenever you love a woman um at first sometime when you're still a bit closeted, maybe when you're a bit younger, you don't know if you want to be that girl or if you want to be with that girl.

[00:34:02]>> Yeah.

[00:34:03]>> Yeah. I do that over here. Yeah.

[00:34:05]>> Yeah. And and there's also this cliche of lesbians of like whenever they they fall in love, everything goes super fast and they move in together super fast and they want to get married. And that also what was what the sequence is about.

[00:34:19]It's, you know, I don't know, do I want to be her? Cuz they're both kind of closeted at this point. I think maybe not Gasteline cuz, you know, she's she's she's lived a million less, but I think she's falling in love for the first time really. and Bridget, I mean, >> you know, Bridget, no need to explain more.

[00:34:36]>> She was running away.

[00:34:38]>> Yeah. So, it was also that playing on that joke of like they're lesbians. Of course, they want to get married already, you know.

[00:34:46]>> Um, it was quite uh I don't know, it was a bit of a surprise. We were so surprised to find such fitting characters. Um, I'll start with Lucifer at least. So, as we said, uh, one of our main references was Tim Cury playing Frank, and we kind of wanted a voice actor that could imitate his vibe. And one day, Alis um was scrolling through Instagram and came across this podcaster named Daniel Lee, who was actually making a really good impression of Tim Cury. And so, honestly, we just messaged him and asked him if he would be down to just participate in the movie. And he was really excited. So he said yes immediately. We were really really lucky with that. Um Bridget um I think it's like at least it was already your friend that you wanted to cast. Was it because um has a friend named Natalie and with a bit of backstory they both performed in the uh Rocky Horror Picture Show uh that's in Paris.

[00:35:49]>> Wow.

[00:35:50]>> And she's from and she's from Texas as well. So we were like oh that's perfect.

[00:35:53]you know, we wanted to text an accent and she's almost like she has acting experience and everything. Yeah. I mean, um like all of our characters almost found their perfect match. At least we were very lucky with the two first characters and Gasoline was the last one to be casted. Uh we didn't have anybody in mind or didn't know anyone as well. So, also to give a little bit of information about how the school functions. Every year you have many many voice actors participating in the movies and there's some sort of an archive that the school provides you know so that maybe we can contact some of the old voice actors who are willing to participate again in the upcoming years. Uh but you know Gasoline we really wanted someone that had that valley girl accent kind of like a raspy voice >> and none of the profiles in the list really had a like we could always hear a French accent and we wanted something very American. Um and also um the deadlines were coming up really close for finding the voice actors but luckily so we also work with this production class while we do our gula um master film and one of them uh had a contact in this Facebook group uh with actors with Parisian actors and she posted a little uh flyer for us uh just explaining what the movie was mainly about and we got so many so many applications all at once and yeah I mean that's how we found Lisa who came to the school and did a little interview with us with Daniela Alis and I actually and we immediately matched and she was really really perfect for the job. She had experience acting in uh French roles and also American roles and she had this huge versatility and the accents and the voices that she could make. So yeah, I mean I think we were very very lucky with the with the casting and also I mean two of the voice actors are are queer also like Bridget and Natalie are queer. It was almost like them matching and it was really nice.

[00:37:55]>> I have a question about Lisa. Is Lisa French?

[00:37:58]>> I think she's French American.

[00:38:00]>> She's Yeah. Well, she she's lived in France then lived in um San Francisco and then back in France.

[00:38:07]Okay. Cuz I was like, she sounds like a perfect California girl. I was just like, she was saying that's a great accent. Oh, that's because she was over here at one point. Okay. Um >> Oh, yeah. And she also lived in England for a bit as well. She's she's um >> Oh, she everywhere.

[00:38:21]>> That's really cool. That's cool.

[00:38:25]I can dream of a part of me. Can you feel them too?

[00:38:37]Give me a little time.

[00:38:41]I will make all your dreams. I can give you what you I can tell you what you want to hear.

[00:38:53]If it's been on your mind, I've got a little time. But that don't mean it's a liime thing. I can give you >> And here I want to get into talking about, you know, Sam Levenson. Um, people have been talking about how they do not like the way that Sam Leven portrays women. I have been talking about that for years at this point and I'm getting to the point where I'm not really going to be talking about that much on my channel because I have already said what needed to be said. I feel like season 3 I'm like, we told y'all it's just the same thing going on. But people are just talking about how he has the worst understanding of when it comes to sex work and the way he portrays it in his productions is very very questionable and it really does depend on the gaze that we're seeing this from because Euphoria is a show that is presented through the male gaze and when it comes to works about this we have to you know engage with them with care and I feel like skin flick is one of those films that did engage with the with care.

[00:40:14]>> It's always the same mechanism like uh talent or or power or uh excuse the abuse but you have this story like during a long time ago like when you see the anti- grease like literally all the mythology of the antichrist is like woman being abused by a god. it's the fault of the woman but because if it's a god it's okay and and and yeah so it's always the same mechanism and we normalize this mechanism and also there is also the the the the fear of not putting word on an abused like uh this is an abuse this is something and as a victim you are afraid of being a victim like you are afraid of being seen as a victim and um all the consequences because you assume that when you assume you are a victim, you you paid the the mental ills, you paid the the ill care, you paid everything.

[00:41:14]So it's a lot. And when you are the abuser, you don't want to put the word to not being the bad guy or the bad person.

[00:41:22]>> Yeah. So um when you see some case like DD or Winstein or or the guy like did DD it's 20 years of abuse >> but it's it's I think that's the problem. It's all normalized. Um people's like traumas collateral damage in like this like self-driven narrative of your own success. Well, I'm saying from the misogynistic point of view is just it's and it's systemic. It is really systemic and there is no structure in place to help people be women when they undergo this. And the fact that people are like oh this was he didn't do this or just to diminish that is because no one wants to face the actual true horror and discomfort of our society and like the true like um unbalance and unfairness of it.

[00:42:15]>> Can I mention a little something about that too? Just uh following that and also what Louise said um I think it's also something about the character of the devil. Um something we thought was like the reason why we chose him to be the devil and not just any director cuz we could have made this movie without having him being the devil is that with this he's a man you know and but he's also a figure which means he acts as like a singular director as a person but also as the image of patriarchy.

[00:42:46]Um, and the fact that Gasina has like those little earrings.

[00:42:51]Um, whereas like he's constantly being in her head and it affects you even when the men are not here in your life because of the system. And >> and yeah, and also another little thing that what Louise said reminded me of about like how in uh even in mythology, you know, she said it's always uh a woman being abused by a god and because it happens then it's okay. Um, one of my like the one of the moments I became really woke about my film making was uh one time when I took a good look at this one painting. I don't know if you know the name in English. I don't know what it is in French. It's the Clint.

[00:43:36]>> The kiss.

[00:43:37]>> It's the kiss.

[00:43:38]>> The kiss. Yeah.

[00:43:39]>> Climp. And so it's this uh it's a very beautiful painting by Climpmp um where you have this man kissing uh the face of this woman who's like all laid back with her eyes closed and there's like a lot of like golden flowers and everything >> and I remember it's one of the most marketed u pictures in the history of art. It's on mugs, it's on bags, it's pretty much everywhere. And I remember once giving it a good look and feeling a bit uncomfortable for some reason. And when I did a little bit of research, I realized something I did not know. Maybe people know about that. It's actually the the story of Deafany uh getting uh abused by Apollo.

[00:44:22]>> Uh like he is running after her. She does not want to have anything to do with him. And so the picture shows the moment of the story in mythology where she just turns into a tree uh because she just doesn't want to bear his like his his attack. So she'd rather and you know she's like at the the top of a hill. You can see on the painting that there's no ground at some point cuz it's like the she couldn't run anymore. So she'd rather die and turn into a tree than live. What's going on? So it's it's it's an aggression. this picture is an aggression and it's been marketed as like the image of love in painting and that made me so so mad and I also um there's a very very good book in France by an an author her name is Bre and the name of the book is feminina is the feminine gay it's not exactly the female gays cuz I know um usually on the internet we talk about the female gays compared to the male gays I think feminine is more um it it makes more sense to me than female because again female is very biologic. Feminine is more about gender. So it's not just only like biological sis women, you know. But anyways, um and in her book she talks about the difference in the treatment of women when they're treated as object compared to subjects and how just seeing the gaze of a feminine character can help her can help them make more um make them more of a subject. And so that's also something we kept in mind when writing skin flake even through the storyboard to keep our feminine characters active, which is very hard to do when you're talking about sex. We were all very weird to to make something where we would objectify our characters too much and make them victims of our own look onto them. And so yeah, so there's a a whole link between all those things and how we chose to tell the story because it it's a hard story to tell when you know the story of the history of cinema of objectification of feminine figures. The devil is very depend of gather dependent of gazine because of that because it's he he she is a projection of his own desire like to to seduce other men and being accept by other men because the obsession of masculinity is being accept by other men like it's really like stay on the cage stay with other men like protect the other men and it's a it's a real obsession for the devil and so it's why you need gasoline.

[00:46:56]Yeah.

[00:46:58]>> Yeah.

[00:46:59]>> Towards the end he he Yeah. He reacts almost like he was like cheated in a in a relationship like >> even though they're just >> we wrote we have like a stop during one moment and we are like my god it's a feminist but in a cartooning way. Like that's so weird. Like it was just like he cannot he cannot deal the fact that she wants to leave him.

[00:47:24]I cannot say like he's so it's awful. It honestly Danielle saved the character because he was >> Yes, he did.

[00:47:35]>> I think one thing also that was important in the writing of the devil is that even we were confused in the beginning as to what the relationship was supposed to be. We just knew he had some kind of a son and was a very manipulative character. Um, and I think what I personally like about the character, uh, and how it's written, um, is that at first he acts the way a lot of people do. He acts with the words and he's, uh, he's not really there. He's not physically there. Uh, is safe in his room away from the action. Uh, telling her constantly what to do. And um and then it's when she starts getting power over her own body and her own life, starting to direct a bit more her own life, daddy starts putting in his hands and he has to physically come here and he kind of reacts like a manchild, you know? It's like, "Oh, you're not listening to me now. I'm just going to destroy everything." He's just having this big tantrum.

[00:48:38]>> Yeah.

[00:48:38]>> Um and uh and yeah, know I think uh it's it's it does suck a little. So, but maybe even it's not what the film is about, but I think I mean it's also reminiscent of Thomas of how sometimes, you know, when you somebody starts to try and get physically with you, if you can, if there's a possibility for you, you should leave. And that's kind of what she does in the end. And that's how she gets her freedom. She just leaves the studio entirely and she leaves everything behind, her whole life behind. I don't think we talk ever about just how traumatizing this whole end would be for Gasoline. Like if we were to ever imagine a following to the story, but >> she just left everything behind and >> practically so did Bridget. So both of them would be traumatized together.

[00:49:28]>> Yeah, that's why they, you know, they're trauma bond now.

[00:49:32]>> We we wrote a good story.

[00:49:36]>> Yeah, we know. Yeah. And then something to talk about later, I guess. And also >> thing we once mentioned I believe with Daniela during a discussion about the devil in the early stages of writing the characters that we felt that there was this very weird thing about him where he was Gasoline's boss but also you know how he calls um she calls him daddy.

[00:49:58]It's like he also is kind of like a father figure and then he says like oh you cheated. So they're like kind of in a relationship you don't really know and it's like this very weird thing. um that I think many people can relate to like just you know the patriarchal power applying itself >> it's more like I would say liberation from homophobia I'd guess you know I think if we really had to boil down the theme it's love empathy and selfacceptance come brings about liberation and you know both of these characters are captured in these these cages like Bridget's captured in this cage of like marriage and homophobia and this stuck world like gasoline's captured in this abusive cage and this like cage of sexuality and then like them finding each other, seeing each other, respecting each other, having empathy for each other that then gives them the power to escape to freedom.

[00:50:58]>> So I'd say that is like >> and then obviously there is like the the interrogation of the queer gays, the interrogation of the feminine gays, you know, interrogation of misogyny. All of these are linked to that larger thing.

[00:51:11]>> So you say a major theme of it will be freedom.

[00:51:15]>> Yeah. It's a rebellion story. So yeah.

[00:51:17]Well, yeah.

[00:51:19]One last thing because I've been thinking about it after the presentation of Gasoline of one thing I think is very important about her that I didn't uh think of mentioning because I didn't really prepare. I'm sorry. Um, >> but one thing I think I we also really wanted to show through this character and also the reason why she's um a blob underneath cuz um the design of the blob was mainly um Daniela and Louise who worked on it and the the the challenge was to make uh it make her make them a very um kind of genderless character in the cuz we wanted Gasoline to not only be relatable for, you know, sis white women because her skin is not her and that's kind of the whole point of the character underneath cuz, you know, we had this little backstory of maybe, you know, she was an actual human before, but we do not want to stay open. We want to stay open about who um she they might have been in a past life and the fact that the blob Gina as the blob has no real gender. So Gasoline with her skin is not a sis woman. Uh she might look like it but she also very much inspired by drag queens and trans women in general. And so we really wanted that character to have that kind of open querness about her about them. And uh some people saw it. I saw I was so happy to see it in the YouTube comment section that her costume design is very pink and blue and with the hair very light and it's kind of the trends flag. So yeah. Yeah. It's it it wasn't very intentional. If you enjoyed Skin Flake, if you're somebody who has seen Skick and has enjoyed it, go watch women wearing shoulder pads. I don't know why I'mma find all excuses to recommend women. We talked about women wearing shoulder pads during like our call cuz I do feel like women wearing shoulder pads does have a lot to do with a similar thing with skin flick about like you know freedom and do what you want to do and being free from something that is holding you down or holding you back. And I feel like women wearing shoulder pads does have to do with that when it comes to the storyline that had to do with Kita and Marionetta.

[00:53:34]And I'm not sitting here and saying that Lucifer and Gasoline's dynamic is similar to the one with Kita and Marinetta because I feel like Gasoline and Lucifer's situation is significantly worse than theirs, but there are similarities within them. I'm not going to spoil Women's War shoulder pads because that is something that I genuinely do want people to check out.

[00:53:54]And I do want y'all to check out Skin Flickle, too, even though this entire video was loaded with spoilers for it.

[00:54:00]Special thanks to the crew of Skin Flick that you all created. Um, thank you for everybody that sat here and watched this. I would not be able to like, you know, make these type of videos without y'all. I really do appreciate y'all.

[00:54:14]That's why I literally end all my videos with a thank you. That was skin flick. U It was a lot. Um, I'm really emotional right now making this video because this is a project that actually means a lot to me. I didn't realize that it meant a lot to me until I sat down and got here on camera and discussed it. But yeah, thank you and goodbye. I'm out. But yeah, if you haven't checked out Skin Flick and you are grown because this is something that is strictly for the grown folks, check it out. You might enjoy it.

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