“Knowing that you don’t know is the most essential step to knowing, you know?” says Claire (Michelle Williams) in Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York. This post was written by Matt Fagerholm. Arthur De Larroche and Micaela Wittman had no intention of making a movie together. Booking jobs as an actor in Hollywood was Wittman’s top priority, and she felt that making her own projects would be tantamount to admitting failure. De Larroche had already directed and starred in a couple of features, neither of which had left him satisfied. “When you’re working with any person you already know, you get kind of afraid,” said De Larroche. “You don’t want to find out that they’re worse than you think they are. Micaela and I looked at each other like two dogs at the dog park for a long time before we decided to work creatively together.” “We were constantly marinating in each other’s existential dread,” said Wittman. “We wanted so badly to be successful, and we both harbored the same pain over rejection, that eventually, we decided to collaborate.” Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 9 March, 2022