The character audiences keep naming as their favourite was written as somebody else entirely, and when the casting photo went round in pre-production, several people on the team said out loud that it was not who they had pictured.
Lauren opens up about the thing that bonded the two of them immediately, which is that they are both twins, and about how that ended up shaping who was actually on set every day. She talks about the years directing narrative music videos with almost no budget and a single shooting day, and the single most useful thing that trained into her, which is what to do in the first two seconds after somebody tells you no. She gets candid about the scenes that had to change, including one built around a piece of medical equipment that turned out to be genuinely scarce in the state they were filming in, and the version of it that ended up in the film instead. Lillian describes negotiating, before she accepted the role, whether the production wanted her input or only her performance, and what she pushed back on once she had it. She also talks about a television character she recognised herself in years before she had the language for why, and the two of them each name the thing in their own life that other people refuse to take seriously.
An essential watch for anyone whose plan has just fallen through this week.
