“I understood why she was like that,” Caswill says. “And yet she does relinquish (her position), and that’s a beautiful journey she goes on.”
Leads Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers brought the kind of “dualities” they mined in horror films.
“You need both a vulnerability and a hardness (in horror films) and that worked well in our film,” Caswill explains. They also needed an openness that would work well with Zoe Kosovic, who plays Monroe’s daughter.
Zoe Kosovic, left, and Tyriq Withers in “Reminders of Him.”
“We got tapes of loads of little girls, and there were so many great ones,” Caswill says. “But (Kosovic) really stood out.” During an in-person audition, “she was just so in the moment, so alive and passionate about what she’s doing. I was worried with a kid that age that she wouldn’t remember her lines, but that wasn’t the case at all.”
While Hoover has written sequels to certain books, she makes no promises about “Reminders of Him.”
“If you give me structure, I will crumble,” she says. “I write when I’m in the mood and, sometimes, that happens every day for a couple of months at a time, and sometimes I can go six months without writing a single word. I just listen to my creative side and (do it) when I feel like it. I don’t want this to feel like this is a job that I have to show up to every day.”
Hoover has three sons who frequently ask to see her novels before they’re published. And, yes, they do offer advice.
She had them watch “Reminders of Him” with their friends.
“We had a theater full of guys in their 20s and a lot of them cried … which was fun to see,” she says. “This film translates to anyone with a heart.”
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