M Night Shyamalan has said there was a “beautiful mutuality” of respect when working with his daughter Saleka Shyamalan on his new film Trap.
The upcoming psychological thriller from the US director sees a father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realise they are at the centre of a dark and sinister event.
R&B singer Saleka, 27, stars as the fictional pop star Lady Raven in the film and wrote fourteen songs for the project. On the red carpet at a special screening of the film in London, M Night told the PA news agency: “Working with Saleka is just working with a world class artist.
It isn’t really like a father-daughter relationship on the movie. Outside the movie, yeah… “She had an apartment near us, where we were shooting and (I was like) ‘Make sure you eat honey and make sure you’re sleeping.’ And I would do the dad thing.
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