Can you talk about developing that scene?
What did that look like?
It was one of these things where I thought he would stay out of screen.
I wrote the screenplay forward, and so suddenly, there he was.
But that shake-up actually got me very excited about telling this story.
Thats kind of the amazing thing that films can do.
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COLLIDER: Yeah, absolutely.
That felt very specific to this situation that I’ve gone through and related to.
Soit created a working environment that I had missedsince doing films that were quite bigger in scale.
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But I think the fact that it is the father adds such an interesting and different sort of layer.
I’m curious if you could talk a little bit about this decision to make it the dad.
That it’shisthree daughters and that it was being shaped by how they saw him seeing them.
This tense, touching, and funny portrait of family dynamics follows three estranged sisters as they converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.
Again, there was just no question.
It’s not like I did another version of it.
That’s the answer.
Just the way he saw them was his three daughters.
Whether they see each other that way or not is part of the big story.
Yeah, I love that.
I’m curious how you achieved that balance.
The reality is that I do see myself.
I’m gonna just figure out how to make the food.
I’m going to be the person that’s going to venture to make peace.
It’s always fun to see the insight of how it unfolds.
If I think aboutwhen Carrie Coon drinks that first glass of wine and what it does for her.
She has this reaction from that first cup of wine I couldn’t picture that.
That was something that she, of course, brought in.
And it’s the same thing with that first phone call with Christina to her daughter.
And then the same thing,there were these moments with Natasha out on the bench.
His Three Daughtersis in select theaters now and hits Netflix on September 20.
