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- Hey Olivia, how are you?
- Hi James, I'm good how are you?
- Very good, it's been a while since we've talked,
I think it was,
I don't even remember the last project it was.
Wow, what a performance you have here in this movie,
it's really phenomenal.
What was the set like for this?
'Cause I'm noticing in all the,
you guys are really doing a service
to people with disabilities, people who are deaf.
What was the set like
and what did you learn from your own experience
playing this character?
- I mean, the set was an incredibly safe space, really,
I mean, I found the set to be...
Delicately handled
in terms of addiction, in terms of deaf culture.
And yeah, I think Darius made a really,
yeah, just very safe environment.
- It's yeah, it's a powerful saying too
and I like the fact that you kind of get to experience
a couple of styles of music here.
What was that like?
I mean, do you know French or how did you do that?
- No, so the first performance that we did,
we had about two months of rehearsal.
So that felt somewhat okay but then the second performance,
I met Mathieu, who plays my father,
the night before we run through the song,
maybe two or three times in the morning,
and then we filmed it that night.
And so there was little to no rehearsal for that,
just me listening to an MP3 being like,
"I think this is what it sounds like."
But no, I didn't know French,
I've tried to learn French so many years,
so I know the sounds, but I can't speak it.
- What is it, you know,
I believe this is Darius' feature film debut,
what was he like to work with?
What did he add for you personally and your performance?
- Oh, wonderful, he likes to get to know his actors,
very, very in depth, so,
there are moments where you feel incredibly vulnerable
to him as a director,
which really helped with this film
because we put it on film, so we only had two takes each.
And so you have to really be tapped in to each other
and to the performance as the characters at all times
and I think being so raw and trusting Darius
to take on your emotions was quite lucky in that way.
- Well yeah, and this feels like a very honest portrait.
I feel like I'm watching two people
that exist easily, in this world.
Did you get anything from someone?
Did you know someone that inspired this in any way?
- Not particularly, I think I drew from a lot of people.
Margaret Sharday, who taught me how to play guitar
and taught me how to scream.
I very much rob, stole a lot of her being for Lou.
But being in that co-dependent relationship
it could come from, you know,
things that you've witnessed, past experience.
And so, you're kind of, you're juggling a lot of things
at once with this film.
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- When this...
Crappy, mundane world
suddenly becomes radiant and magnificent,
all the fear is gone.
That place will never abandon you.
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