'Cuckoo' star Hunter Schafer on filming her first movie

"I just got to bring my naturalism to it."
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Kristy Puchko
and Warren Shaw  on 
'Cuckoo' film with Hunter Shafer
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Hunter Schafer had never made a movie before. But the Euphoria alum feels like that helped shape her performance in Tilman Singer's, Cuckoo. Here, Tilman and Hunter break down how that helped ground her performance as, Gretchen.

Cuckoo opens in theaters Aug. 9.

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Kristy Puchko

Kristy Puchko is the Entertainment Editor at Mashable. Based in New York City, she's an established film critic and entertainment reporter who has traveled the world on assignment, covered a variety of film festivals, co-hosted movie-focused podcasts, and interviewed a wide array of performers and filmmakers.


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