00:00I like this question because I love talking about my mom but also I feel like this is so
00:06it's so important to remember about anybody who has dementia.
00:10Mom?
00:11Sarah something is going on with her.
00:13She gets really mad when you bring it up.
00:15Okay I'll talk to her.
00:19Hi Leah. Hi Sarah. It's a pleasure to meet you both and congratulations on Tangles.
00:24Thank you.
00:25I want to start with Sarah.
00:27Sarah. Your memoir was published in 2010 and the film arrived 16 years later.
00:32Has the way you remember your mother changed during this time?
00:37Wow that's a good question. That's the first time I've been asked that.
00:40So I would say that when the memoir came out it was still pretty fresh in my mind and heart
00:48and you know she felt a lot closer and now it's been you know more than 20 years.
00:54she died actually in November, November 29th. So it's almost 22 years. So I can't help feeling
01:01like you know she's further away. One of her sisters has also died since then. I mean I still like
01:08I'll
01:08have these flashes of remembering her where she seems really close but it's so different right?
01:13I mean I'm sure you probably know as well from your own experience but these people are in our hearts
01:21but it can't we can't help like some of the memories and the emotions fade a little bit.
01:27And God bless her soul.
01:29Thank you.
01:31We can never know with absolute certainty in these situations.
01:36Leia I want to ask you how did you bring together such an incredible cast including Seth Rogen,
01:42Jolie Lewis-Dreyfus and Bryan Cranston. How did you bring them together for such a personal experience?
01:49She just made some phone calls.
01:52I sent a couple emails.
01:56Was it easy? Was that easy?
01:58No, no, no. It was helpful to have Seth Rogen as a producer of the project and his team
02:04and having the phone calls and emails come from hey we're making this film and Seth is doing a voice
02:10already.
02:11and you know that was very helpful.
02:13Together with the other producers we just came up with the absolute best list that we could think of
02:19of the best people to play these characters who were masterful comedians
02:24but also could deliver those really authentic emotional performances
02:30and that's the list that you see in the cast in the credits roll
02:34because they all said yes to this project and it is not lost on me that that doesn't always happen.
02:40You know this is very rare to get that to go out with to people with the script and get
02:47and get yeses in every case.
02:50And so we were just so fortunate that they that they said yes.
02:55And I think they you know we were with them last night and they talked about how they were sent
03:00the script and they both and they all you know Julia and Bryan specifically said that they they felt that
03:06the script was really strong.
03:08But then they also have connections to Alzheimer's very close connections.
03:12You know Bryan's mother had Alzheimer's and Julia has Alzheimer's in her family and many of the other cast members
03:18do.
03:19I think was another reason they wanted to to come down this path with us.
03:23For both of you what's the one thing you hope audiences would remember about Midge beyond the Alzheimer's diagnosis?
03:30I like this question because I love talking about my mom but also I feel like this is so it's
03:37so important to remember about anybody who has dementia that that person is a whole person who like has this
03:45whole personality in life.
03:47And yeah my mom was very outspoken and sometimes said things that would embarrass you like if she thought something
03:57was unjust or unfair or sexist or racist.
04:03She would tell you when I was a teenager I didn't like that I'd be like please stop.
04:09But I'm so I'm so proud of her for being that way and she was very very very loving so
04:15I guess I want people to be able to think about her as like somebody who is very vibrant and
04:25alive and then also that when she was ill she was still a person she was just a very different
04:31version of herself.
04:32Thank you so much for your time and such a fantastic movie.
04:36I watched it in Cannes Film Festival and I really loved your movie.
04:39Yeah.
04:40And best of luck in the movie and all your career.
04:43Thank you so much.
04:44Nice to meet you.
04:45Thank you so much.
04:46We're probably looking at some form of dementia here.
04:51Most likely Alzheimer's.
05:02See you soon.
05:02Maybe you are a little bit more.
05:03We will see you soon.
05:03Okay.
05:04I'm gonna see you soon.
