00:00Look, something like her gagging is all Dakota, and it is all, you know, her being willing to push herself
00:09way farther than I, even when I wrote it, I had imagined that she would be willing to go.
00:15And, you know, you almost, you know, I ended up gagging on, off screen, like, because I, it was so,
00:24like, it felt so real, and, like, you're almost like, we should give her a safe word because we won't
00:29be able to tell.
00:30But, like, yeah, she was so committed from the beginning that it really opened up the doors of what we
00:38could do as filmmakers because she knows herself and knows what she's capable of.
00:48And that, you know, you could have her breaking down, sobbing, and then instantly turn, you know, on a dime
00:55or then start to choke and, or sob, and, and then, and then I call cut and then we're ready
01:02to go again.
01:02And it was, it was such a gift to have somebody so committed.
01:07And, and I think that that really comes through when people watch the movie.
01:10That's, the gagging is, honestly, I don't like to listen to people choke.
01:16So I think that might be, I have a really bad gag reflex.
01:20I, you know, I watch everything now.
01:24I've, I've, over the course of my career, I've cut off enough.
01:28I've, I've, I've stabbed people.
01:31I've, there's not much anymore that actually bothers me in the same way.
01:38And so I don't know.
01:40I mean, I think, I think I end up reacting more to the moments that I find that feel the
01:45purest.
01:46Like those are the, you know, if I'm going to tear up or, or get emotional at my monitor, it's
01:53usually from, you know, like her on the phone with her dad and hearing his voice for the first time,
02:01like grabbed me in a way.
02:04Like, even every time we were watching it, it was just like the, the feeling that that would elicit for
02:10a person, I think would be a pretty terrifying and emotional moment.
02:15Like those.
02:16Like those.
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