Allison Janney plays a grieving widow in “Miss You, Love You.”
Rash was inspired to write the story after his sister brought her assistant to their father’s funeral.
“He didn’t know anyone in the room, and I thought that was such an interesting lens to see us when we’re most vulnerable,” Rash says. “I then started pulling and crafting the story from my life. You pull from what you know and then (the actors) elevate it and make it their own.”
A big fight between the “Miss You” characters took three days to shoot. The two started at a table, then Rash introduced a hand-held camera and allowed them to ramp up the drama.
“I would just follow their emotions,” Rash says.
Both actors say the story would still make a great play. Neither is rushing to do it.
“To be true to a moment eight shows a week is very challenging,” Janney says. “And this movie, at least, we can get two or three takes and when we got it, we got it. It’s still challenging but it’s a different thing.”
Rannells, who made a splash onstage in “The Book of Mormon,” says it’s difficult to do a show eight times a week.
Andrew Rannells stars in “Miss You, Love You.”
“You find yourself locked into a performance, and you have to remind yourself what you did on Thursday you don’t necessarily have to do on Friday. You can change and play around with that,” he says. “That’s what made doing this with Allison such a joy. She very much works that way and there was room to figure out different colors of things.”
Then, too, there’s the matter of personality traits. Janney says her character is controlling and hard on herself.
“I’m the opposite, which makes her fun to play,” she say. “Playing Diana let me get some of my inner anger out at family members.”
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