00:00but started with Elizabeth. And that's who we went to first and foremost. And we thought she would
00:04never be interested in doing a film as small as this one. But she really responded to the material.
00:10And we met and we talked about it. And she had such an exciting take on it that that was the
00:16beginning, you know, and then everybody that was that was the start because she's in every scene.
00:20And then we kind of just one by one went to the people that we thought would be amazing for these
00:26roles. And they and they responded. And it was just a very, you know, incredibly exciting,
00:31obviously. Elizabeth is such an incredible actor. And she is one of my favorites, really. And,
00:37and she has such an amazing range that she can do from comedic and dramatic and, and,
00:46and this movie required such a balance of those two things. And when we were working on the
00:52script, I really just thought this is that is someone who I want to watch play this as a fan
00:56of hers. I want to watch her play this part. I want to see her in this movie or in a movie like
01:01this. You know, in a way, it's sort of a love story between them, I think, and, and, and watching
01:07their, their relationship, though they're not necessarily in love with each other, I think we
01:14sort of get to see what they are in love with and, and the way that that affects, you know,
01:22their decision making process and what they want out of each other. So I sort of, we,
01:27we sort of, I sort of, I sort of thought of it as a love story when we were making it a lot of the
01:31time. Audiences are going to take what they want from it. And I hope they have a great time. But
01:39I think the movie is, is about the image of success and the value that we put on that and,
01:45and, and what a high sort of irregular value we put on something that isn't even real, you know,
01:54which is, which is the image of success and how important that is and how that's more important
01:58than actual success. And, and the way that that sort of throws life out of whack, I think.
02:05The biggest challenge making this movie? I don't know. I think I was, I think there were so many
02:13challenges in making this movie, but I think I just had such an amazing team of people
02:18working on it and such an amazing cast. We shot the movie, we shot with the actors for 18 days.
02:23And because it was only possible for us to shoot this many pages in that time, because they were
02:30amazing and because they were so incredible every day and were so prepared and brought so much to
02:36the characters. So I think time is always, time is always tough, but every movie has limitations,
02:42you know, there's no, there's no movie where they say, Oh, we have enough time or we have
02:46enough money, you know? So.
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