00:00Just the way that you know Chloe wrote the script and the characters so beautifully they were so
00:07nuanced and their story like I mean essentially it's two people that really want to be together
00:11but you know the society that they're in is just it's not enabling them to co-exist.
00:21It started with personal experiences and diving into that. I was
00:28in a relationship with someone who was threatened by me and threatened by the qualities that I had.
00:36The only way that I felt like I could kind of deal with it at the time was by making myself small
00:40you know in a desperate bid to protect that person and protect the relationship.
00:44But you know that relationship ended as it should have and as I continued other relationships over
00:49the years I realized that I was repeating those same kind of dynamics and those same patterns and
00:55they were different shades but ultimately it was the same kind of situation and you know but these
01:01were also men who adored me for the same qualities that that also terrified them and it was never
01:08anything that we could talk about so it always felt like it was something that was just accepted
01:14normalized and pushed under the rug. Years later in a moment of kind of reflection and wanting to reckon
01:19with that pain and also the shame of minimizing myself I put a pen to a paper and I wrote a script.
01:26Yeah I mean everything from you know being the only woman I guess in a very male dominated industry
01:36I've had those experiences and I think every woman can relate to some aspect of this script whether
01:42it's the relationship or or just you know having to suppress their success I mean that was something
01:50that was really interesting to me is is how Emily kind of navigates you know doing better than her
01:57her partner and how she has to kind of suppress that and and not let it show like she's um so that was an
02:06interesting aspect and I I think yeah I just I just saw a lot of women I knew in in this character and um
02:15had this feeling when I read the script that I just really wanted to bring it to life there were
02:19just so many aspects of the film that I felt I'd never seen before. Yeah no I mean the thing that
02:25I really responded to most when I read it was just how lived in it felt it felt like Chloe had written
02:32something that was really personal that really um understood these characters on a really deep and
02:39specific basis and so it's much more appealing to me to play even a very difficult character if the
02:49writer has really investigated their humanity um flawed though it might be as opposed to playing an idea
02:58of someone that points to something. Chloe and I went to the same college and and and came from
03:04both grew up in LA and and went to kind of similar high schools and so we kind of had a it was really
03:10fun for me to work with someone who was a peer in that way because the specific um uh iteration of these
03:18themes in these people these kinds of people and who she's writing about and who what her experiences are
03:23are just the milieu that I grew up in as well so there was a kind of shorthand or a kind of
03:27gut easy understanding of what she was talking about who these people were. I mean those gender
03:32it's really the movie about all relationships you're saying yeah yeah exactly yeah men and women
03:37are fucked is what I'm saying we just cannot figure each other out
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