I'M TALKING TO YOU FROM
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA.
WHAT GOT TO ME MOST AND WHAT I
THINK IS GOING TO GET TO MOST
PEOPLE HERE, IS THE FACT THAT
YOU SET MOST OF THE FILM IN
CARBONDALE.
I WAS SURPRISED TO READ THAT
MOST OF IT WASN'T FILMED THERE.
HOW DID YOU REPLICATE THAT?
AND WHERE DID YOU FILM THE
CARBONDALE SCENE?
Guest: I WANTED TO SHOOT THE
WHOLE MOVIE IN CARBONDALE
TOTALLY.
BUT I WAS IT WAS COST-PROHIBITED
IN ORDER TO GET THE CREW AND ALL
THE GEAR AND THE PEOPLE THERE.
IT WOULD HAVE COST A BIT MORE
THAN CHICAGO.
BUT WE SHOT SOME EXTERIORS
THERE.
THE WE WENT BACK FOR ANOTHER
TRIP AFTER PRODUCTION.
AND GOT SOME ESTABLISHING SHOTS.
BUT FOR THE 99% OF THE MOVIE,
IT'S SHOT IN CHICAGO.
Guest: SO YOU WENT OUT BY
YOU.
AND OBVIOUSLY, CARBONDALE MUST
HAVE MEANT A GREAT DEAL TO YOU.
WHAT DID YOU WANT TO CAPTURE
ABOUT THE PLACE?
Guest: WELL, I THINK THERE'S
SOMETHING REALLY UNIQUE ABOUT A
COLLEGE TOWN.
AND EVEN THOUGH, IT IS MODELLED
AFTER CARBONDALE, AN EXTENSION
OF CARBONDALE, I HAVE HEARD FROM
MANY PEOPLE, AND I WAS HOPING
THAT IT WOULD CONNECT WITH OTHER
PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPENT TIME IN
SMALL COLLEGE TOWNS,
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, YOU KNOW,
BEING ONE OF THOSE TOWNS.
AND THERE'S SOMETHING VERY
NOSTALGIC ABOUT THE TOWN.
THE TOWN LIKE THAT EVEN WHEN YOU
GO THERE FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU
SORT OF FEEL THE NOSTALGIA IS
KIND OF JUST LIKE THROUGHOUT.
BUT THERE IS -- IT DOES KIND OF
FEEL LIKE THIS KIND OF LIKE
MIDDLE GROUND, WHERE IT'S NOT
QUITE REAL LIFE YET.
BUT YOU'RE NOT ALSO STILL LIVING
WITH YOUR PARENTS.
AND SO THERE'S THIS FEELING OF
SORT OF LIKE INDEPENDENCE.
AS SOMEONE GOING -- A 19
YEAR-OLD GOING TO COLLEGE FOR
THE FIRST TIME, I THINK YOU FEEL
LIKE I OWN THIS PLACE A LITTLE
BIT.
SO MUCH OF WHAT THE MOVIE IS
ABOUT IS, IS KATE WISHING TO GO
BACK TO THAT PLACE.
Guest: PEOPLE TEND TO WRITE
WHAT THEY KNOW.
DID YOU HAVE AN EXPERIENCE LIKE
THAT WHERE YOU WENT THROUGH A
PERIOD WHERE YOU FELT BEAT UM
AND WANTED TO RETREAT TO SOME
PLACE SAFE?
I KNOW I'VE BEEN THERE.
Guest: YEAH, I HAVE.
I FEEL LIKE THAT SPRINKLE
THROUGHOUT MY JOURNEY AT TIMES
WHERE I FEEL A LITTLE BEAT UP.
[LAUGHTER]
Guest: I WASN'T IN THAT
MOMENT AT THIS TIME.
BUT WHEN I WROTE THE FILM.
BUT I WAS IN A SIMILAR PLACE
WHERE MY MOVIE HAD JUST -- MY
LAST FEATURE JUST PREMIERED AT
SUNDANCE AND ABOUT TO BE
RELEASED.
AND AT THAT TIME, I HAD BEEN
INVITED TO GO ON ALMOST LIKE A
TOUR OF UNIVERSITIES, WHERE I
WENT TO A FEW DIFFERENT SCHOOLS
AND SHOWED THE FILM AND TALKED
TO STUDENTS.
AND IT WAS A VERY UNIQUE
EXPERIENCE.
AS SOMEONE WHO IS LIVING IN A
COLLEGE TOWN, I'M SURE THAT YOU
HAVE HAD THIS EXPERIENCE
YOURSELF OF SEEING YOURSELF
THROUGH THE LENS OF PEOPLE THAT
ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU.
AND I THINK IN THAT PARTICULAR
MOMENT FOR ME GOING BACK TO MY
OLD UNIVERSITY AND BEING ABLE TO
SEE MY ACHIEVEMENTS THROUGH THE
LENS OF PEOPLE IN THEIR 20s THAT
WERE IN FILM SCHOOL AND AT THE
SAME TIME SEEING MYSELF FROM THE
LENS OF MY PAST SELF AND WHAT I
WOULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT WHERE I
WAS.
IT FELT VERY GOOD.
IT FELT VERY AFFIRMING.
AND I SORT OF IMAGINED THAT
WHERE YOU WERE IN YOUR LIFE AND
WHAT YOU HAD TO GO BACK TO, THAT
IT MIGHT BE VERY APPEALING TO
STAY THERE.
Guest: LAST THING, CAN YOU
SPEAK ABOUT WORKING WITH JACOBS.
SHE CHARMS ME.
EVERY TIME I SEE HER IN A FILM,
I PERK UP BECAUSE I KNOW SHE
BRINGS SOMETHING SPECIAL.
SHE CHARMS ME EVERY TIME I SEE
HER.
Guest: SHE CHARMS ME TOO AND
A LOT OF PEOPLE.
SHE'S VERY CHARMING IN REAL
LIFE.
SHE'S VERY AUTHENTIC AS A
PERSON.
AND WHEN I MET WITH HER GET IN
THE BEGINNING ABOUT THE SCRIPT,
SHE FELT SO CONNECTED TO THE
MATERIAL.
AND I HAD SUCH A CONNECTION.
AND WE BECAME PARTNERS.
ESSENTIALLY, SHE'S IN EVERY
FRAME OF THE MOVIE.
IT WAS A PLEASURE WORKING WITH
HER.
Guest: WELL, I'M GLAD TO
HEAR SHE'S AS AUTHENTIC AS I
HOPED SHE WOULD BE.
KRIS REY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Guest: THANK YOU.
Guest: I REALLY LOVED THE
FILM.
Guest: THANK YOU.
I APPRECIATE IT.