00:00Forever, their life will be defined by this cataclysmic moment.
00:04Destiny doesn't knock on any door.
00:07♪♪
00:09-♪♪
00:12It crashes in without calling.
00:14♪♪
00:18There's two families described in Disclaimer,
00:22two parallel families,
00:23both mother and father with a son at the center,
00:26sons which they both want to protect
00:28and that they kind of worship.
00:30Nancy, the police are here.
00:35Jonathan died in an accident.
00:38We're very sorry.
00:40Nancy has one son, Jonathan.
00:42I happen to be the mother of one son,
00:45so I understand that level of love.
00:48I think Jonathan, for her,
00:50has become the center of her life.
00:53So how do you portray, dramatically,
00:57a moment like that?
00:59I think because Nancy is so complicated,
01:03the only way she can deal with this news
01:05that her son has died
01:07is to shut the rest of the world away.
01:10Look.
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01:13Nancy had a very possessive relationship with Jonathan.
01:17She excluded Steven from their lives,
01:20you know, very emasculated by Nancy.
01:23But a role that Steven accepted very easily.
01:27We pack all this?
01:28Yes, don't worry about that, Steven.
01:30I'll take care of everything.
01:31♪♪
01:33Nancy is crushed,
01:35and Steven doesn't react very well to it himself.
01:39He's, however stoical he may try to be,
01:42he's ravaged by this.
01:44Steven just thought,
01:46she's my wife, I should know what to do,
01:48but I don't know how to help,
01:50and she won't let me help.
01:52And from that moment on,
01:53she goes right into that sad spiral
01:56and thinks, yeah, I'm gonna stay in this dark place.
02:02Steven tries to be strong and support her,
02:04but when a child dies before the parent dies,
02:07it's a devastating thing.
02:09It's against all nature.
02:12-♪♪
02:14From the get-go, I was intrigued about this point of view,
02:18the cinematic language of each one.
02:20I thought that they should have a distinctive look
02:23so we could see that same event in two different spaces.
02:27We're at this stunning beach,
02:29which you have seen in earlier episodes,
02:31blue and bright,
02:33but of course, I'm looking at it through the lens of Nancy.
02:37She's not seeing the beauty of the beach.
02:39There's a coldness about it.
02:41It doesn't look the same.
02:42It's suddenly a beach where death has happened.
02:46It happened over there next to the lifeguard chair.
02:49And I'm looking around,
02:50and I'm really in Nancy's state of mind,
02:54and she's not really listening.
02:55She's just looking at the sea.
02:57Nancy.
02:59Nancy.
03:00She needs to be in that water where her son died.
03:03It's a very moving idea, even reading it on the page.
03:08Even talking about it now makes me upset.
03:13Forever, their life will be defined
03:15by this cataclysmic moment.
03:17How do you live after a moment like that?
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