00:00 I think what is so beautiful about this film is how this woman is faced with this adversity.
00:07 You know, and like her internal world is so transformed by the birth of her son,
00:11 while simultaneously the world seems unrecognisable due to the climate crisis.
00:16 We wanted to really depict that in a truthful way, so for me it was like not being a mother myself,
00:22 it was like really getting to the bottom of like how you hold your body when you have a baby,
00:27 where you feel the pain, the stages of labour, what the breath is like, you know,
00:31 all those kinds of things to really make that feel as real as possible.
00:37 I sort of wanted it to feel like it felt like when I was giving birth, which was probably
00:42 the most vulnerable I've ever felt in my life and the most powerful I've ever felt, ever.
00:46 So I just wanted to kind of give, and the flood, and we used the flood as a means to kind of
00:51 really help that experience along, to tell that experience, so the surges of it,
00:56 and how wild it is, and how painful it is as well.
01:00 When I was going to theatre auditions I was met with a lot of resistance for the fact that I hadn't
01:04 been classically trained, and I would love to see more funding go into the arts, especially when I
01:09 think of, you know, like, so Liverpool and the North West, and incredibly creative cities, and
01:16 I would love to see more of that.
01:19 I feel really excited because this year especially there are loads of peers who are coming through,
01:26 who are women, or you know, and who are making great movies, and I feel, you know, it's empowering
01:33 and inspiring to see that. But yeah, I think there's maybe still more change that needs to happen.
01:40 I think more trust that needs to happen, if I'm honest. I've got a feeling that that would be
01:44 helpful. But yeah, it's a good time, and I think, I'm hoping that it's a kind of a surge that can
01:51 grow and won't recede.
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