Sigourney Weaver & Joel Edgerton Interview: Master Gardener and Why Weaver Loves Galaxy Quest

Now playing in select theaters is writer-director Paul Schrader’s latest film, Master Gardener. Schrader, who wrote Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and who’s known for screenplays that focus on “very powerful male characters,” returns with another thriller, starring Sigourney Weaver opposite Joel Edgerton, but this time the filmmaker has a different message than his previous work. While speaking with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Weaver and Edgerton explore the director’s unique style, what it is that draws him to stories like these, and more. In Master Gardener, Narvel Roth (Edgerton) is a restrained horticulturist employed at the sprawling Gracewood Gardens. Like the beautiful gardens, Roth tends to his relationship with his wealthy employer, Mrs. Haverhill (Weaver), and leads a quiet life, until the day Mrs. Haverhill requests Roth accept her wayward niece, Maya (played by Quintessa Swindell), as an apprentice. When the two begin to develop their own relationship, Roth’s dark and violent past starts to