00:00You and me all the time.
00:04Honey, there's something I gotta tell you.
00:09You know, it was the scene I was most terrified about, man.
00:12Because, you know, I'm not a woman, James Baldwin's not a woman.
00:15And visual storytelling is very different than literary storytelling.
00:18And I wanted to make sure the scene was framed through the prism of the female gaze.
00:22But Tish is not very experienced, and so what does that gaze look and feel like?
00:28And it's interesting because if you really pay attention to the film,
00:31and I'm not saying you have to pay attention to the film,
00:33but craft-wise, it's the only time that we look at that room, at that space,
00:38from that side of the wall.
00:40We literally took the wall off the set that one time,
00:43just to facilitate the filming of that scene.
00:45And the reason for that was to stay near to Tish.
00:48And so for me, it was an encapsulation of the whole process where,
00:52I'm a man, this movie's told from the female point of view,
00:54let me listen to the women who were helping me make this film.
00:57And I think the whole reason for the staging, the blocking,
01:00was to have a tenderness to Tish's experience.
01:02I mean, the first take of it, I remember thinking like,
01:05dang, it'd take a long time to get undressed.
01:09But then, you know, watching it, I had so much respect.
01:12I mean, just overall, Barry Jenkins is just such a patient director
01:16and really allows for these moments and these things that these characters are experiencing
01:22to really live in the time that it actually would take for these things to live.
01:27And so, even though there's no dialogue in this scene, you see all of this, you know,
01:31unspoken communication, you know, checking in with each other.
01:35Like, it just, I don't know, it was just, I think it's, that's one of the most beautiful intimacy scenes, like, to me.
01:41Yeah, I would agree with that.
01:44I think that Barry's patience is evidence, his attention to detail is evident.
01:49You know, it's an incredible thing to be adapting Baldwin because he's so descriptive,
01:55especially when it comes on to love and to passion.
01:57So, you know, you almost find yourself, like, rehearsing these words that are in the book
02:02while you're going through these scenes and realizing that there's so much to be said
02:06without anything being said at all.
02:08And then, you know, the patience of Barry Jenkins, the fact that he allowed that lovemaking scene
02:12to happen without cutting it.
02:14And, you know, however long it took, it was just like, you know, three minutes of just no cut.
02:19And you're just living with these people in real time, experiencing it in real time,
02:22I think is very powerful.
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