Michael Doherty chats with Imogen Poots about her latest film, the sci-fi thriller, Vivarium. Directed by Dubliner Lorcan Finnegan, Vivarium is a dystopian drama in which Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg play a young couple whose search for the perfect suburban home quickly turns into a Kafkaesque nightmare. With echoes of Get Out and Black Mirror, the movie received its Irish premiere at the recent Dublin International Film Festival, where we caught up with the lead actress. Best known for her starring roles in movies such as The Look of Love (2013) and Green Room (2015), and TV series such as Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010), Imogen is the daughter of Belfast TV producer, Trevor Poots.

You once remarked that you love a sense of the absurd and the uncertain in acting jobs. You certainly got your wish with Vivarium…

Imogen Poots: Oh, yes! I really, really loved it, even if I didn’t totally understand it at first. I was intrigued by it. I met up with Lorcan and he was telling me about movies that would be a good reference for this film. It was all so interesting and I couldn’t wait to get started. It’s always fun when you’re working on a project which, in one sense, is an art experiment; but we had a budget, which is cool!

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