00:00I feel satisfied now knowing why we actually have nostalgia as humans.
00:04There is a function to it. There is a purpose.
00:06What is the biological reason, like the evolutionary reason for nostalgia?
00:10You should see the movie.
00:17It was definitely based in Tom and I having a lot of conversations in our late 20s
00:23about what it was like to be in our early 20s
00:25and have these very serious relationships that we were in while we were still growing as people
00:31and to look back on those moments and think we miss those days,
00:35but we don't want to relive those days. Why is that?
00:38And then from there, Tom started just punching up pages and the idea evolved from there.
00:44Yeah, it's sort of that like, oh, isn't that a weird thing to have memories of things that you miss
00:48and you kind of feel nostalgic for, but that were like painful.
00:51And what is nostalgia? Like, why did we evolve to experience?
00:56Like, there must be some like survival mechanism behind it, but like, what is that answer?
01:00And we couldn't find an answer that really like satisfied it.
01:04And so we thought, oh, that's an interesting question to kind of like become the premise of a story.
01:11And I think that's sort of like the engine that these two characters are kind of wrestling with,
01:15thinking about the time they spent together.
01:18I look back in the same way, like both fondly and also so glad that I'm not in my early 20s anymore.
01:25I really love that Charlie Harper really touches on the fact that, you know, people, I mean,
01:30does anyone ever really know what they're doing?
01:32It's like when you're so young and you're trying to grow with someone and sometimes at different paces,
01:36I think the film really touches on that side of things and that you can grow up and grow apart and realize your differences.
01:44So be grateful that that person formed you as a person at such an important and valid time in your life.
01:50Yeah. And you'll carry that person with you always.
01:52And the thing I like about the movie is that neither one of the characters are wrong in their perspective.
01:56They both have very strong point of views about, you know, what they should be doing,
02:02what each of them should be doing, and they're both valid.
02:05It's like a very psychologically sound, I think, argument from both sides.
02:13And you get to see both perspectives in a way that I think is rare in a romance.
02:20How did you kind of get to know each other to be in this like occasionally volatile up and down place?
02:25We had a week or two before we started shooting.
02:28That was always helpful just to like have a moment to like land and get dinner.
02:33And we, Mac and Tom, both set up like a rehearsal space and we got to rehearse a lot of the scenes beforehand.
02:41So we were able to build some trust early on and we were staying in the same apartment complex.
02:47And so we just like made chicken soup some nights.
02:51Had dinner.
02:52Had dinner.
02:53That's my favorite thing about what you guys did.
02:54Yeah.
02:55Of all the things like making soup is the most.
02:58That was it.
02:58It was.
02:59That was my heart.
03:00That was the most romantic thing.
03:02It was my heart too.
03:02It was.
03:03It was.
03:03We got to take a camera out on the weekend and like shoot some B-roll and, you know, be in character on the weekend.
03:10And, I mean, you guys sent us those 36 questions to fall in love.
03:15And so we did that.
03:16And so we sat in my apartment with candles lit and asked questions very early on and I think that really helped.
03:25Because as you say, when you're doing such intense scenes, you know, on the scale, you know, you're shouting one second and you're so in love the next second.
03:33And it's really good to have such a strong foundation of trust so you can really go.
03:38It's a great headline because you're like, whoa, I could fall in love with somebody.
03:42It gives you like a framework where you, it allows you to get vulnerable really quickly with yourself and feeling comfortable getting vulnerable in front of somebody that, I think the movie that, I think with the script you would get to the end and it's like the first thing you would talk about is your own life and like the, the own, your own relationship.
03:59Kind of like everybody has their own Charlie or Harper from, it's like living inside their memories.
04:04And so it was nice.
04:06You would just get to know people really, really well because you'd be having these like deeply personal conversations really quickly.
04:13We did though make CDs for Nick and Amelia before the movie started.
04:19Like what was Charlie listening to his senior year?
04:22What was Harper listening to?
04:24And going back and forth, like trying to like talk about the character through tracks of songs and all that sort of way.
04:30Uh, that was like a really fun exercise for us to, uh, ship off to them with like Walkmans that, yeah, I loved it.
04:36I'd never had that before.
04:37Did you discover any songs from it or was it all stuff you did?
04:41Yeah, I think I had definitely discovered if you, I think you guys did what you've just said.
04:45It's like you came in really hot with something that like you knew I was going to like, it was going to grab my attention.
04:49Tom had the best needle drop with you, uh, going no diggity for track number two.
04:55Yeah, track number two, no diggity was awesome.
04:57It was like such a good pick on that one.
04:58It's funny, I've actually made a playlist since and I've put that as my number two.
05:01Yeah, yeah, you cannot go around.
05:03Yeah, you cannot go around.
05:04Yeah, smooth.
05:04Did you know how to cook already or did you take?
05:07I did not cook before this movie at all, which is actually like when this film came to me and I told all my friends and family that I was like playing a chef, they were like, thank God, you're going to learn how to cook finally.
05:17Um, so I did, I went, I worked in the Ritz kitchen for a few weeks and got shouted at by a bunch of very, very, very talented chefs.
05:26Um, I really thought that like I'd just be shadowing and I'd be like in the corner somewhere and they, I was in charge of the amuse-bouge station and every day I would like wake up in the morning and be worried that they were going to lose a Michelin star and it was all going to be my fault.
05:39Um, but it helped me learn really quick and I can like chop, chop, do the chop, really fast chop.
05:44I would send Nick videos of me like chopping at 1am being like, I hate this, I hate this, I hate this.
05:49A lot of cucumbers.
05:50Yeah, a lot of cucumbers.
05:51Amelia's like so disciplined, like she would have different styles of cutting, uh, depending on where in the story she was too.
05:59Harper, you can see Harper grow as a, as a knife wielder as the story goes on.
06:05Totally.
06:05Thank you guys so much for coming in.
06:07Thanks for having me.
06:08So nice to see you again.
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