Chloé Zhao

So that... And to answer your question, he's very different than in the book.

Actually, Maggie reminded me a couple weeks ago when she was here.

She's like, do you remember that?

You see in the book, he's quite talkative.

He's expressive.

You know, an actor.

And...

I guess that was me.

I guess I made a decision to change his character because I find a lot of artists, male artists, get into expressing themselves in their arts because they never felt safe to express their emotions in real life and in our society.

As a little boy, they're told to toughen up or there's no space for your emotions because mom is crying.

My sister is crying.

So I was raised by a man like that.

I've loved and beloved by a man like that my whole life.

So it just became natural for me.

And Paul as well was part of that decision as well, watching him.

There's him in this character as well.

And I can only work that way because

moment by moment I need to feel love towards this character and I need to feel like I understand him and there's a part of me that is like him I feel safe in my fantasy world on set then I can deal with emotional situations in life so Paul was under a lot of pressure because we don't talk about who this character is

we start shooting and find him.

So that's day three when we did the Orpheus scene.