00:00I heard that you had a fear of cats when creating this film, and I heard that you went to a form of cat therapy.
00:06So what about that cat therapy helped you overcome your fear, and how did you take that into this film?
00:11So by the time I got to making this film, I was over my fear of cats,
00:15because there was no way for me to play Sam without being over my favorite cats.
00:18She has a cat with her the whole time.
00:21But what the cat therapy took was just exposure to the cat,
00:25and having that exposure with someone who could break down cat behavior to me in a way that made sense,
00:33and was patient enough.
00:34I think it was that, being patient enough to ask the questions, hear the answers,
00:38and gain confidence in the fact that this cat was not going to scratch me or eat me.
00:43And it took some time, but by the time I was in the UK to start filming this movie,
00:51I had more confidence, and by the end of it, I was madly in love with the cat.
00:55And I got myself one.
00:56Yeah, very quickly, I know there's not a lot of dialogue in this film.
00:59There's a lot of eye acting, is what people are calling it.
01:02Oh my God.
01:03Do you have any specific choices that you made for your character to kind of make that eye acting to life?
01:09Oh, well, you know, as human beings, we're always communicating with more than our words.
01:13So for us as actors, when we're reading a script, we're always looking for what's happening between the lines.
01:18So then you just get rid of the dialogue, and all you have is what's between the lines.
01:22And there's a certain kind of liberty that comes with that.
01:27It's liberating to not have to speak and to explore character in that sort of primal, immediate way.
01:33And then when you have a scene partner as great as Joe Quinn to go on the journey with,
01:38it's so fruitful because it's spontaneous, it's fresh, it's exciting, and it's dangerous.
01:44You don't know what's going to happen in the scene.
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