Australian twins Danny and Michael Philippou, known as RackaRacka to their 6.74 million YouTube followers, are – in their own words – “overstimulated”. They’re in the middle of a whirlwind press tour for their feature directorial debut, Talk to Me, the horror film that unleashed a competitive bidding war at this year’s Sundance film festival and landed them a high seven-figure deal with A24, the Oscar-winning independent film studio behind Moonlight and Everything Everywhere All At Once. Since then, the pair have seen their success rise beyond YouTube fame to new, thrilling Hollywood heights.
“We’re just so overwhelmed. And the whole thing feels really surreal,” Danny says from their hotel room in San Diego, where they’ve just wrapped up their Comic-Con panel. “Sometimes we’re doing 30 interviews a day,” Michael adds.
