Stephanie Shepherd Instagram – Stephanie Suganami, known as @steph_shep online, makes her feature film debut in “Opus” alongside Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich.
The movie, somewhere between a horror and a psychological thriller, follows a writer, played by Edebiri, who travels to a remote island at the invitation of a reclusive pop icon, played by Malkovich, to hear his long-awaited comeback album. Suganami plays Emily, a social media influencer invited on the trip to cover the experience.
Within a few weeks of sending in her audition tape, Suganami was touching down in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to begin filming.
“Leading up to it I was very nervous just because it was my first feature film and my first experience shooting something like this,” she says. “But for some reason, the second I got there, I was like ‘I’m OK. This is good.’ I really want to attribute this to Santa Fe — the energy in Santa Fe is so magical and special and I fell in love with the city. I’m so grateful we got to shoot there because there is something very grounding and calming about Santa Fe.”
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