- Hi, I'm Shailene Woodley and I play Jennifer Stirling.
- And I'm Augustine Frizzell.
And we are gonna take you through a scene
from our film "The Last Letter From Your Lover,"
shot-by-shot.
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Lord, I'm so glad we got those montages.
- There's so much that Anthony and Jennifer
are communicating to one another without using their mouths.
Dear Mr. O'Hare, or shall I call you Boot?
Larry called away overseas last minute.
- Okay, this was a big crane shot.
Do you remember this?
- I remember you had such a specific vision for it.
And it turned out so beautiful with the umbrella.
- [Augustine] Shailene, did you actually eat
any of those croissants?
- No, I wanted to.
But I couldn't, I had a corset on.
I couldn't eat anything.
I just remember in this moment,
I think I was writing actual letters.
Care to pass the time together this afternoon?
I know a darling little shop where you could find
your next seaside tome.
This was, I think, day two on Mallorca.
I remember the shoes I was wearing in this were actually
from the 60s.
And the bottom of them had zero traction.
I really wanted to grab Callum's arm,
but we weren't at that place
in Jennifer and Anthony's relationship.
So, he was on standby to catch me if I were to slip.
- What did I ask you guys to talk about?
'Cause I knew we weren't gonna use the dialogue here.
- You know, Callum and I have so much
to talk about naturally that I think we tried
to limit what we spoke about
to what Anthony and Jennifer would have spoken about
with one another.
Perhaps we can spend a few hours in town commiserating
over our mutual inadequacies with the local language.
The outfit in this sequence,
I feel like it didn't get enough air time.
- I'm with you. I agree.
It's like the most beautiful.
I wish we would have had more of it.
- You know, it's Jennifer at her most expressive.
Her skirt is flowing and her belt is flowing in the wind.
I also love how small Callum's bike is.
And his knees are,
his knees are out.
Like he's on a bike that's three times too small for him.
- It's very period though, right?
Cause you always see like-
- By the time Mrs. Stirling returns,
we could very well cover the entire clothesline.
- So, where you saw Jennifer writing,
that's the same place as this.
Like, the whole villa had this vineyard on it.
And so like, one level down from where Jennifer was writing
is where this is.
- Oh my gosh. Do you remember how windy it was?
It looked so warm and sunny,
and it was actually freezing and windy.
- I know.
I felt terrible, especially here because it was so cold
and you were eating ice cream.
And I felt so bad.
- The ice cream was delicious though,
but you would never know.
I mean, like the way that it's shot,
you can't tell that it's freezing.
- I know.
- Do you remember this, Augustine?
It was the last minute.
We saw the sunset and Augustine was like,
"Get the camera! Come on, let's go!"
- I mean, it was just luck.
The sunsets there on that villa were unlike
anything I've ever seen.
- And we had like 10 minutes to get the shot, too,
because the sun was going down.
So, it really was like pedal to the metal.
- [Shailene] This was a cold scene. We had fake rain.
- Yeah. It was tough for so many reasons.
Always like those practical things,
like the water was leaking
in this old, vintage, beautiful car.
I mean, it's all those things that you're always, like,
fighting against.
But, you guys just nailed it.
- Any ideas?
- How about a picnic?
- Callum and I talked about the scene
a lot before we filmed it,
just to make sure that we were getting
all of the beats that were warranted.
- Pick a favorite spot.
- I mean, so much of the scene, you know, is in the subtext.
It's in what's not being said.
I always think that sort of friction is what like lends
to a really, really, really well done romance film.
And I think this scene is a perfect example of that.
- Out of the leftover teeth, I fashioned you a necklace.
- When he touches her hand,
you could just feel that feeling of moving
beyond the line of, like, physical contact.
And so, I was really excited.
You would expect in a film for them
to have their first kiss here.
You know, and it's building up to that, but then it doesn't.
And it's so innocent.
And it ended up being one of my favorite scenes.
- Let's try again, shall we?
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- And this was our last night in Mallorca!
- I'd love to go back there.
Are you sure we don't need to do any more reshoots?
- No, I know.
I know, I'm like the next thing I make,
it's gotta be set again in Mallorca.
It was so pretty.
- Thank you for an immensely agreeable afternoon.
- Shailene and I, we share like a mutual love
for "Dirty Dancing".
- Until next time.
- And the way that they filmed Patrick Swayze.
And there's like a definite lens there that's like sensual,
and you're experiencing his body.
And so, anytime we could add these shots
of like Jennifer taking in Anthony's physicality,
and so we held a little longer on the shot of her like
watching him go away and like seeing his bottom.
And so, that was part of that.
But then, the reverse of her there looking at him walk away,
objectifying.
- Yeah.
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- Don't miss "The Last Letter From Your Lover".
- Now on Netflix.