Long also said that the filming was “super-challenging” in a healthy, fun way, but did force her to get around a learning curve.

“There were days when I felt completely lost and confused. I didn’t know where to look, I didn’t know where to stand,” she added. “I consider myself a pretty technical actor, so I’m very aware of where the camera is and where the light is, what the scene is about and then you lock in and do it. But for most of the movie, everything was kind of done from a different perspective, from someone looking in to what was happening. so that was tough, it was not easy.”

The trick for Long was to rethink her relationship with the tech that was helping tell the story.

“I started to make friends with the idea that all of these different devices served as additional characters and once I leaned into that, it kind of freed me to trust the process and not worry so much about what I should be doing versus what I needed to do to tell the story. It’s cool,” she said.

For more information on “Missing” please visit www.Missing.movie.

“Missing” hits theaters on Friday, Jan. 20.

Nia Long

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