“ Did we get this? How has this not been made yet?” I want to make this so badly.” We all had the exact same reaction. It’s one of those rare scripts that you read and you go, “ Oh, my God. It was a whirlwind, but it was a blast.ĭC: How did you all agree on the project? But, to the cast and the crew’s credit, everybody made it work. It was a twenty-six day shoot, which felt like not enough. And we started pre-production Labor Day of last year, 2018. Then, it was a couple years in development and finding Searchlight. Then we got together with Tripp Vinson and James Vanderbilt again and we pitched them our version. Then it came back around to us, and that was probably three years ago in March. The first time we saw the script, we tried to get it, and we didn’t get it. RS: From when we saw the script, almost five years. From start to finish, how long was the process? It is a testament to how awesome all of them are.ĭC: That is so awesome to hear. That we put them together and it worked the way that it did, we can’t believe how it happened. I think that was the big miracle of the movie: that we didn’t have the time to get everyone together and rehearse everything. There was a lot of cast that we didn’t even meet until we were on set, or had the first fitting or dinner.

And to be on that tight schedule, and to have everyone willing to go above and beyond, was fantastic. Everybody was just down for the experience of the movie. But we feel like we really hit the lottery with our cast. It was a real to-the-finish-line kind of casting process. And thankfully, the script is so specific that if people read it and liked it, you knew that they liked it for the same reasons that we did.īut we were casting up until the week before we started shooting. We had great casting directors in Toronto, but that was happening very late. And there wasn’t this huge casting team that was hitting it hard. But a lot of the work of that was being done through our producers. Part of it was just the speed and the size of the production. RS: The first piece of the puzzle was obviously getting Sam Weaving involved and tricking her into liking the movie. That’s such a great feeling.ĭC: How was the casting process? Did you know the actors you wanted ahead of time?

And then, you see that it’s over-delivering for people. That is always the best, where you sort of know the roadmap of where the scares and the laughs are. And we were saying last night, things that we didn’t expect to get a reaction to, we were getting a reaction to, which was awesome.

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