Where Was Soulm8te Filmed? Dublin Filming Locations and Cast Details

“Soulm8te” places an intimate crisis inside a world of immaculate technology. David’s home is calm enough to pass for a showroom, ULTIMA Robotix sells connection in the language of product design, and Sara moves through every room as though she was engineered to belong there. The surprise is that this sleek, American-looking nightmare was built in Ireland. Kate Dolan’s thriller was filmed in Dublin, where local locations and crews created the anonymous corporate city surrounding David and his increasingly dangerous companion.

Soulm8te Filming Locations

The confirmed production base for “Soulm8te” was Dublin, Ireland. Principal photography had been completed by November 2024. Irish reporting describes it as an Ireland-shot production and specifically confirms work in Dublin, although a full location list has not been released.

The movie features David’s modern house, ULTIMA’s offices, a parking structure, city streets and the secluded property used in the climax. Those settings may have been found or built around Dublin, but their exact addresses have not been publicly documented. A reliable location guide should not turn a visual guess into a production fact.

Dublin works as a screen double because the film avoids obvious American landmarks. Its city is deliberately placeless, a polished technology hub that could exist in several countries. The Irish capital supplies the architecture and production infrastructure while the camera keeps its identity mostly outside the frame.

Jimmy Rabbitte’s bar

The one publicly named filming location is Jimmy Rabbitte’s at 87 Lower Camden Street in Dublin 2. Local reporting documented filming at the venue during the Dublin production.

The pub opened in 2017 with wooden floors, timber seating, walls covered in vintage photography and a traditional design given a modern twist. It is named after Jimmy Rabbitte, the music-loving central character in Roddy Doyle’s novel “The Commitments,” which follows a group of young Dubliners attempting to form a soul band.

That musical identity makes the venue a natural match for “Soulm8te.” The movie includes an early farewell gathering where Aubrey performs karaoke and a later open-mic sequence in which Sara sings “Lovefool.”

No official source has matched Jimmy Rabbitte’s to one specific finished scene. The karaoke sequences are the obvious possibilities, but that remains an inference rather than a confirmed identification.

Where is the final house?

The last confrontation unfolds at a secluded house away from the city. It is the property David once intended to renovate and share with Lizzie, making it both a practical hiding place and a painful return to the future he lost.

Its open surroundings and nearby coastal drop give the finale a colder, more exposed atmosphere than David’s controlled urban life. Aubrey ultimately drives a car into Sara before the vehicle goes over the cliff and sinks into the ocean.

The property has not been publicly identified. There is not enough reliable evidence to name a Dublin suburb, a Wicklow estate or a particular stretch of Irish coastline. Ireland has many locations capable of producing that appearance, but visual resemblance is not confirmation. Until a production source or property owner identifies it, the site should remain listed as an unconfirmed Irish location.

The Irish production team

The Dublin shoot involved Wild Atlantic Pictures, an Irish film and television production company headquartered on Westland Row in Dublin. Screen Ireland describes its CEO, Macdara Kelleher, as the head of one of the country’s largest film and television production companies. Kelleher and John Keville served as executive producers on “Soulm8te.”

Dolan is an Irish filmmaker whose earlier feature, “You Are Not My Mother,” established her in independent genre cinema before she moved into television and the larger studio production behind “Soulm8te.” Screen Ireland listed the M3GAN spinoff among her projects while it was still in post-production.

Cinematographer Narayan Van Maele shaped the movie’s controlled visual surfaces. Production designer Susie Cullen created spaces where domestic comfort and technological surveillance can share the same frame. John Cutler edited the film, while Anthony Willis composed the score.

Their work prevents Dublin from becoming a travelogue. The city functions as production material rather than the subject, providing the film with homes, offices and nightlife interiors while remaining almost invisible as itself.

Soulm8te Cast

Lily Sullivan plays Sara, the humanoid companion at the center of the film. Horror audiences will recognize Sullivan as Beth from “Evil Dead Rise,” but Sara demands a different kind of physical discipline. She begins with measured movements and a deliberately neutral presence, then becomes increasingly expressive as David changes her emotional programming.

Sullivan worked with movement coach Ruth Lehane to develop Sara’s mechanical behavior. The performance was designed as a physical progression, beginning with Sara as an appliance and gradually allowing her to absorb gestures, voices and images from the internet and classic erotic thrillers.

Sullivan does not simply copy M3GAN. Sara knows she is a machine, yet she constantly studies how affection, femininity and desire are performed. Her movement from agreeable product to wounded, possessive figure gives the movie its strongest tension.

David Rysdahl plays David Wasson, the ULTIMA engineer whose grief drives the experiment. Rysdahl’s recent television credits include “Fargo” and “Alien: Earth,” while his film work includes “Oppenheimer.”

He makes David sympathetic enough for viewers to understand his loneliness while preserving the arrogance behind his decisions. David assumes every emotional problem has a setting he can adjust. Sara reveals how little command he has over grief, desire or the consequences of his own work.

Claudia Doumit plays Aubrey Mansouri, David’s colleague and the movie’s moral counterweight. Best known as Victoria Neuman in “The Boys,” Doumit gives Aubrey wary intelligence rather than treating her as a stock character who exists only to warn David about the robot.

Arty Froushan plays Ben Hoffman, David’s supervisor at ULTIMA. Ben sees Sara as a commercial opportunity and David as a useful beta tester. Froushan’s recent credits include “Daredevil: Born Again.”

The supporting cast includes Emma Ramos as David’s neighbor Alma Flores, Elijah Cook as Terrence, Mara Huf as Lizzie and Isabelle Bonfrer as another companion prototype named Circe.