The film Nine Days, which is now in theaters nationwide, follows the character of Will (Winston Duke), who spends his days watching live points of view of the people on earth on a set of old television screens. When one of them dies, it’s up to Will to test and choose from a group of unborn souls, including, among others, Alexander (Tony Hale), Maria (Arianna Ortiz), and Mike (David Rysdahl), who will take their place.

Hale, Ortiz, and Rysdahl recently talked to Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview about the film, including which characters they are most like, what first attracted them to the parts, and what moments they would like to relive if they could.

Be sure to check out the transcript following the video interview, as well as the last two previous interviews for the film.

SCIFI VISION:  Each character looks at the world in a different way. So, what I want to know is which character are you most like and why?

TONY HALE:   Ooh, that's a good question.

ARIANNA ORTIZ:   I would love to say that I'm like Emma (Zazie Beetz), but I'm maybe too cynical. [laughs]

TONY HALE:   I think I'm a mix between Alexander and and Mike. 

ARIANNA ORTIZ:   Yeah.

DAVID RHYSDAHL:   Yeah, I would say I'm very similar to Mike, and I think I’ve got some Emma in me and a little bit of Kane (Bill Skarsgård). I think I got some Kane. I recently took the Harry Potter quiz for the first time, and it came out as Slytherin, and I was like, "Slytherin?!" And Zazie was like, "Yes." Zazie, who also plays Emma, she's my partner in real life. Anyway, I want to be more like Emma also. 

SCIFI VISION:  Well, there's nothing wrong with Slytherin. [laughs]

DAVID RHYSDAHL:   Nothing wrong with Slytherin. Yeah, no shade being thrown at Slytherin.

SCIFI VISION:  All right, so what attracted you each to the to the part?

ARIANNA ORTIZ:   Well, I think all of us were really struck by the script. It's so unique, as you know, and the story, the way that it's being told, is very, very special, and this script really shook me to the core. I had to be a part of this project. 

SCIFI VISION:  Tony, what about you?

TONY HALE:   Much like what Arianna said, it was a message that I really loved about finding joy in life but done in a very unique way. I also really appreciated a lot the connection with Edson [Oda]'s own uncle and how it came from a very personal place. And I think there's just always a joy in working with a director who also wrote it, just because [of] the discussions we were allowed to have to kind of find the world. He just originated the whole thing. So, it was just a perfect person to have all those conversations with.

SCIFI VISION:  David? 

DAVID RHYSDAHL:   When I read it, right away, my mind was fascinated. I'm like, “What a cool idea for a world,” and then by the end, I was fully invested in my heart. I was like, “That feels like a cool journey that we're kind of slipping [in], this beautiful message that’s a movie that makes me feel, but around this grounded sci-fi.” I found the concept so fascinating. 

Then, meeting Edson, and then, realizing where it came from, kind of emphasizing what my other two squad members just said. [laughs] Every new discovery, even who was in it, I was like, “Oh, they're making interesting choices for this. It could be really a beautiful movie.”

Then, seeing it at Sundance and being blown away by the final product, I think that every every journey, every step, was taken with a lot of thought and care.

SCIFI VISION:  Then, do you guys have a moment that you would relive or recreate that you can kind of think of off the top of your head?

ARIANNA ORTIZ:   I was saying earlier to somebody how much I love walking. I love really, really long, long walks by myself. [laughs] So, I could do that all day, any day, even for the last day.

TONY HALE:   …I would say definitely when my daughter was one or two, I was a new dad, and I loved her to death, but I was very overwhelmed. I'd like to go back there and just kind of live in that space a little more present than I was.

SCIFI VISION:  David? 

DAVID RHYSDAHL:   Beautiful answer…I can't pick one moment, but I remember the moment when I really looked at the stars for the first time. I was like like eight or nine and lying on my back - and I'm from rural Minnesota, so you can really see the stars - and just realizing how tiny we are was like kind of this - I don't know. I remember this moment, and it made me feel very safe, actually, which I know it can be a scary feeling that we're this small, but I was like, “Oh, the pressure's off.” It's just like we're so small.