Like, to watch a character whose main concern is someone else’s well being, eventually, and how, just un-North American in 2021 that is, I thought would be really fun to watch.The gang tries to make a movie, but their film shoot keeps getting interrupted. A lot of those decisions are built around these central tenets of, honestly, a wish fulfillment for me.
He doesn’t have a lot of other things going on, and we plotted it so that we can accentuate those things. Adam, luckily in his life, has the financial cushion to be able to do that. We’re just busy, and we’re struggling, and it’s just not what we can do. What does that mean on both sides of that coin for each of these characters? I think that’s a novel thing in North America right now. I had a lot of ideas about Adam, but one thing that I felt certain that would be right for him and that would be right for this film is someone who doesn’t really have a lot going on in their lives, and has the space and time and attention to dedicate to deeply caring for someone.
We were shooting in three weeks.ĭuplass: The way we built the story was that we each sort of built our individual backstories separately as characters, and then we sort of melded the two characters together and created a synchronous story from there. And she was like, “Cool, what’s the story?” And I was like, “I don’t know! We’ll figure it out!” And that was it. I was like, “Oh, that’s kind of fun.” And so I took that small kernel of an idea - of a Spanish teacher and her student, and maybe they end up with a connection that can develop on this unlikely format - to Natalie. And I thought it was interesting that the 2-D video connection that we were all starting to lament as an inhibitor to connection was actually facilitating connection in this moment. So we just started going deep kind of quickly. What I noticed is when you’re taking conversational lessons is, if you’re not good at small talk, you have nothing to talk about. One of the things I was doing was, I was taking online Spanish classes to brush up on my Spanish, and I was taking conversational lessons. I wanted to make something because I’m just used to making a lot, and I was, at the same time, doing those things that we all do, like, oh, making bread and watching old movies and doing all the dumb shit. I was doing a lot of writing, but I was feeling creatively frustrated.
You know, I was about two months into the first lockdown.
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