00:04I think the genesis of the movie was a conversation with a friend
00:07about what would you do if you were told this was your last day
00:11and we both decided that we wouldn't want to win an Oscar
00:15or go paragliding, that we just want a very normal day at home
00:21giving breakfast to the kids, doing the things you normally do
00:24seeing your friends, having dinner with the family and stuff
00:26and I thought that's such a kind of interesting observation to me
00:31that obviously it went through my mind
00:34how could I write a movie, the climax of which was that decision
00:39and I thought well it would probably have to be someone
00:41who can manipulate their final day or manipulate their life in some way
00:46to come to that conclusion
00:48and I think I then thought oh if you could time travel
00:50and therefore you would think where would I go to
00:53which bits of my life would I go to
00:55and the answer is you just go to the bit of your life you're in at the moment
00:59which is just full of the same joys that every day should be
01:03so that was, it came about as a result of a conversation with Simon
01:11it was quite difficult the casting process
01:14because the person who looked like they were going to be the best
01:18who was Donald Gleeson
01:20had an enormous orange beard
01:23and looked like a 35 year old Russian autocrat
01:26so trying to audition this guy
01:29because he was in the middle of Anna Karenina
01:31and trying to imagine what does he actually even look like
01:34I've got no idea what's going on behind that massive roseate bush
01:40but Donal had a lot of the qualities I most love
01:43I mean he actually has many of them as a human being
01:45but he has doubt, high spirits, optimism
01:52and so he was, you know, finally it was quite an easy decision to make
02:01You have to cast people who you really love
02:07and this was a particularly kind of complicated in its uncomplicatedness
02:14because she's not an effect, she's not, you know, it's not one of those films
02:20where she's a strong businesswoman and he's this
02:23or she's tough and he's not
02:26and what I wanted is somebody who, the texture of whom I just adored
02:32because you have to go from falling in love right through to being the mother of three children
02:37and, you know, Rachel McAdams is somebody who, every time I've ever seen them in a film
02:43I just sort of melt into this sense of comfort and love
02:49so I was lucky to get her
02:56This really is my first film about family
03:00and, you know, it's got, it's as much to do with a brother and a sister
03:05and a father and a mother as it is to do with love
03:10and of course it is the way that, you know, when two people fall in love
03:14they are finally going to turn into a mother and a father
03:18and you see that happening during the course of the film
03:25There was only one bit of the time travel which was complicated and interesting
03:32which was when the whole dynamics of how Rachel is feeling about Donal
03:39and Donal is feeling about Rachel
03:40because in so many scenes Rachel was meeting Donal for the first time
03:46and Donal was meeting her for the second time or the third time
03:50and that was quite complicated and quite interesting
03:53because she was always meant to really like the look of him
03:57but, as it were, she kept on not being able to develop
04:00You'd say, well here we are Rachel, so this is your third scene with Donal
04:04and you behave exactly the same as you did in the last two scenes
04:07because you didn't know the last two scenes have occurred
04:09so that was quite fun and complicated
04:11so that was quite fun and complicated
04:12so that was quite fun and complicated
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