Taylor on the original film:

"I’m a big fan of the original. It was one of the main reasons I wanted to make this movie, because I just adored the original film. It’s a Thai film, so it’s very different. But it’s an excellent movie and it was a great jumping off point. Our version is different; it’s more of a reinterpretation than a remake because we shift perspective a lot. In the original, if you’ve seen it, you know that it’s mostly told from the perspective of the male character and this version is probably less about the male character trying to run away from his past and our film is more about the female character trying to unpick his past. So it’s quite different in perspective, but I’m an enormous fan of the original film."

On what made her get into acting:

"Actually, probably an English teacher that I met when I was fourteen who was just very inspiring to me. I grew up in a very small town and he just got me inspired in terms of plays and art in general I think. When you live in kind of an isolated environment and you’re not aware that this is something you can actually do as a profession, I was just sort of seduced very instantly. I’m interested in all aspects of filmmaking and I have a long career, I hope, ahead of me and I don’t know where it’ll take me, where it’ll splinter off to, but I adore it."

On shooting a blockbuster like Transformers:

"It was really tough, actually. It was scary. I had never shot anything anywhere near that scale before and I was literally right off the boat when I shot that movie. You know, Michael Bay is like a drill sergeant on a set. He’s very meticulous and he’s a mad man, but he’s very talented. So it was a luxury in one way because as a young artist you want to be in the hands of an experienced filmmaker. But in another way, it was tough because I’m sort of the opinion that films should be made with as little fuss and as little drama as possible. Since Transformers, I’ve shot a lot smaller movies and I’ve gotta say I found them a lot more pleasurable."

Taylor on working with Masayuki Ochiai:

"Obviously it’s a challenge working with someone who doesn’t speak English, and of course that kind of dilutes the relationship that you have with a director. But at the same time it was really fascinating to me the ways I could find to communicate with him that were non-verbal. We really had an understanding I think by the end of the movie and he’s really good at building tension and he really understands what creepy is. He doesn’t like movies like this being too overt in their scariness and he really wanted to keep it very covert and very sensitive and I think he did a great job."

Rachael Taylor on what she found surprising about Japan:

"Well, I hope this doesn’t sound vain, but everyone says that as a Westerner - particularly as a tall blonde female - you’re sort of deified, and I found exactly the opposite. I found my experience of being in Tokyo was like being a ghost myself in a lot of ways. It was just like I was of no interest and the world could have no impact on me and I could have no impact on it. It was like I wasn’t there."