Director Laura Chinn, Laura Linney and Ariel Martin stopped by The Hollywood Reporter's Park City studio during the Sundance film festival to chat about 'Suncoast.' Laura Linney recalls what she remembers about 2005 and Ariel Martin shares her reaction to nostalgia items like a flip phone.
00:08Because it was placed in the real life of the Terri Schiavo case, that does make your decision of placing it in 2005,
00:13but were you always wanting to keep all of those elements in reality?
00:18Because you could have made it, I guess, a fictional case or listed current day or things like that.
00:22Yeah, well I think the coincidence of my brother being there was just something that, you know,
00:27that was the impetus for the idea of wanting to write about it in the first place was just the odd fact that that occurred in my life.
00:35And so I think then the fun of 2005, that became like, oh, that's fun.
00:40We can use flip phones and we can have all of our music be from that era.
00:44And that added, I think, to the overall fun of the movie.
00:47I think there's also something about a significant moment in American history, you know, and a significant moment in your personal history.
00:55And when those, when they're both so intense and they intersect and collide, you know, there's something about it.
01:01And thematically too, like the theme of Terri was so, yeah.
01:04Yeah.
01:05Laura, Lenny.
01:06Yes.
01:07When you think about your 2005, like what was significant for you during that era?
01:12Do I remember 2005?
01:14Do I remember 2005?
01:15Oh, I love this.
01:16What happened in 2005?
01:18Anyone from-
01:19I was a freshman.
01:20Any from-
01:21Oh, don't tell me that.
01:22Anyone from Searchlight remember what was happening in 2005?
01:25What was happening since I was making a movie for you?
01:27Right, yeah.
01:28You know, it was, it's a blur, to be honest with you, 2005.
01:33Yeah.
01:34If someone could tell me what movie I was making in 2005, I can tell you what it is.
01:39Or the aughts, like what do you, yeah, what do you, when you think about, I guess, even just anything from that general era.
01:44Or like, were you using flip phones?
01:46Like, was this new to you guys all?
01:48Yes.
01:49All kind of these props?
01:50Okay, yeah.
01:51I was five.
01:52Yeah.
01:532005.
01:54So this was all, I mean, it's so fun for us.
01:57Because we were like, okay, because I think now the 2000s are, everybody's like getting into the 2000s,
02:02we want to wear the clothes, and so getting back into that world, and Laura created such like an authentic world of walking onto the sets,
02:09like the flip phones and the little, what she had like hanging on the mirrors or on the refrigerator.
02:15Like it was just so, from that time, even the music that we would listen to on set, the music we'd listen to, the car and the wardrobe, it was, you know.
02:22It definitely made me feel elder.
02:25No.
02:26These kids could never be like, oh my God, we were in a museum.
02:28They were like, oh, look at the TV.
02:30Yeah.
02:31Well, I remember I had filmed Squid and the Whale in, around that period of time.
02:37So, so yeah, it was, you know, and the thing that's wonderful about it is that there's a continuity of how independent film is made.
02:46Yeah.
02:47And there's something about, you know, when you're doing independent film, there is an ownership to it.
02:53That, I think, because it's a scaled down group, and because there is this very unified effort being made, that you feel very close to these films.
03:04And that is the same in 2005 as it is now, you know, fortunately.
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