Julia Roberts digs into a meaty role<\/strong><\/p>\nThe screenplay comes from Nora Garrett, who was working as a data analyst at Meta before her script caught the attention of Guadagnino and Roberts, in quick succession.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe story really started with the character of Alma,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cI was really interested in this idea of a woman who had a lie or something that she was deeply ashamed of at the core of her being.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Alma\u2019s controlled compartmentalization of her past starts to unspool with Maggie\u2019s accusation. The part allows Roberts to do some of her best work in years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m saying something that might sound obvious, but she\u2019s one of the greatest stars and one of the great actresses,\u201d Guadagnino said. \u201cThe symbol, the beauty of the symbol, and at the same time the truth of the performance. She\u2019s so three-dimensional.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roberts was particularly fascinated by Alma\u2019s relationship with her husband, Frederik, a shrink played by Guadagnino regular Michael Stuhlbarg, whose unexpected choices had her in awe.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did catch myself watching him a couple of times instead of being in the scene and I was just like, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s so (expletive) good,\u2019\u201d Roberts said. \u201cAnd then I think, \u2018Oh, I have a line.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cThe big fortune of getting older is having more life experience and intellectual resources to bring into something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Luca Guadagnino way<\/strong><\/p>\nGuadagnino likes to shoot things quickly, which can be a little destabilizing for first timers. Garfield, who Guadagnino has been trying to work with for almost 20 years, had to do one of his most emotional scenes on his first day. He\u2019d come straight from a very different kind of film where he was playing \u201ca very goofy dad\u201d and was panicked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really struggling to transition,\u201d Garfield said. \u201cI wanted to make sure I came in as full and hot as possible. Before we had shot any takes I was just kind of pacing around just staying in (character). And then Luca comes up to me and I think he\u2019s going to give me some nugget and he\u2019s like \u2018Are you always going to be like this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Garfield quickly came to understand that the combination of speed and lightness is part of Guadagnino\u2019s magic with actors.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants urgency, he wants you to be a little bit on the balls of your feet,\u201d Garfield said. \u201cSo when it comes time to shoot, it\u2019s like the train has left the station and you just hold on for dear life or you get taken by it in a way. That\u2019s really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roberts didn\u2019t even remember a heated scene where she grabs Maggie by the face until she was watching the movie in Venice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so stunned,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI did not see that coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nods to the classics<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom the Woody Allen typeface to the mannered collegiate settings and intellectual conversations, the film is in many ways a throwback to classic films \u2014 not just Allen\u2019s but those of Mike Nichols and Joseph L. Mankiewicz\u2019s \u201cAll About Eve\u201d as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought a lot about films that have been able to resist the pressure of time and to become some insightful classics,\u201d Guadagnino said.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the most inscrutable of the bunch is Maggie. Even Edebiri said she had some trouble wrapping her head around her motivations and actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a tricky girl,\u201d Edebiri said. \u201cA word Luca kept using a lot in conversations was displacement. Maggie\u2019s such a displaced person psychologically, but also as a transracial adoptee, and occupying this space full of these professors who are performing.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the point for all are the questions, not the answers, and \u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d is not a film that wraps anything up in a tidy morality. Those conversations are for the audience to have.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are very few filmmakers who are alive for whom the priority is radical, vulnerable, unbridled self-expression and exploration and curiosity rather than something didactic,\u201d Garfield said. \u201cThe conversation is the thing, I think, that\u2019s the most we can ever dream of, that people will be confronted by their own response. The film hopefully is a mirror for every person watching, and then they can compare reflections with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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