As far as the weapons go, I wanted the weapon that he forges himself to crystallize, a manifestation of his grief and insanity and not like a real object; more like a mythical artifact that he sort of pulls out of his soul in a way.
When you lose somebody in your life that will never return, it’s a very savage and primal and brutal experience. I really wanted, in Mandy, to get a character that the audience would miss in a very elemental way. They would miss her presence in the world. From my own personal experience that I was dealing with when writing these films, it was about trying to deal with the brutal finality of somebody you care really deeply about being gone forever.
When you lose somebody in your life that will never return, it’s a very savage and primal and brutal experience. I really wanted, in Mandy, to get a character that the audience would miss in a very elemental way. They would miss her presence in the world. From my own personal experience that I was dealing with when writing these films, it was about trying to deal with the brutal finality of somebody you care really deeply about being gone forever.
— Panos Cosmatos on Mandy
Lee Jin
