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00:01How do you make a movie about cancer?

00:03Like, it's not like the hot babe movie, man.

00:07Even Nora Ephron, did you read that article I sent?

00:10I haven't, no.

00:11Where she was like, oh, well, I can make a movie about anything,

00:14but not about cancer.

00:16I was like, well, that's what I'm making a movie about.

00:19So my name is Alex Echelle, and I'm here because I'm making a movie.

00:22Okay, guys, first shot of the movie.

00:24Thank you, everyone, for being here.

00:26We haven't even done that part.

00:28Welcome.

00:29And I'm actually making a movie about making a movie

00:32about living with stage four breast cancer.

00:34I was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer two years ago

00:37just before my daughter started kindergarten.

00:39Do you want to watch it over here?

00:41I wanted to find a better story for her.

00:43Action.

00:45We tried fiction.

00:47We tried documentary.

00:49We looked for so many ways to tell this story.

00:52It's a story that's happening on a lot of different levels.

00:55This is the moment where we're making two movies, guys.

00:58Yeah, exactly.

00:59Excuse me.

01:00Excuse me.

01:01Excuse me.

01:02Can I ask you something?

01:03Yes.

01:04The truth of the matter is that any one of us could die today,

01:09and are you ready to go?

01:12Reality, fiction, life, death.

01:17We needed everything.

01:19We're making a movie.

01:20We're not curing cancer.

01:21Have you ever heard that expression?

01:22Yeah, exactly.

01:23I can shoot my husband, too.

01:25He doesn't really want to be on camera much either,

01:27but I get sick of looking at myself.

01:30Hey, listen, we're about to roll.

01:31Can you just get out of the way?

01:32It's my house, dude.

01:33So we finally ended up making documentary and fiction

01:36all at the same time.

01:40So the movie's about me, but it's also about a me that's not me.

01:44Her name is Anna.

01:46I started imagining this other person who was having much more fun

01:51having terminal cancer than I was.

02:05Otherwise, I've just been living in the terror of cancer,

02:08which I'm trying to climb out of.

02:11Okay, this is what the chemo came in.

02:14I'm very sorry.

02:16Nothing's for sure, but there's no cure.

02:21By having a fictional version of me, I get to change the story.

02:26I get to rewind it when I want to.

02:29I get to rewrite the facts.

02:31I get to see what it would be like if things were totally different.

02:35I don't know how to explain this.

02:37It's really a most unusual case.

02:39According to your scan, you're not going to die.

02:43Ever.

02:46What does it mean to be looking at a different version of yourself,

02:49like a mirror playing your life out in front of you?

02:53Hello.

02:54Hi.

02:55Hey, what are you doing?

02:58I'm practicing.

03:00Practicing what?

03:02Practicing my death scene.

03:03Have a seat.

03:04And I thought, well, she's committed to the truth.

03:07And so we have to, we have to just, we have to go to all those places.

03:13Or why the hell are we doing this?

03:15Maybe by rewriting fiction, my reality can change.

03:19Or maybe by looking at the fiction, I can face the reality as it is.

03:32I see you breathing.

03:33Okay, I'll hold my breath so it's more realistic.

03:35Don't hold your breath.

03:36It's okay, honey.

03:37Cut.

03:38Can we do one more, guys?

03:40Just a boom and, that was beautiful.

03:43That's it.

03:44Is it okay if we do all the way through like that again?

03:50Yeah.

03:51Amen.

03:52Amen.

03:53Hmm.

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