Rose Byrne

We had a period of really like five or six weeks where I would go to her apartment and we just started from page one and just went through every single, you know...

comma and syllable and dialogue and everything just carving through and sharing stories and as to your point yeah Mary Bronstein has shared that too it was based on a you know something she went through with with her own child um and obviously she didn't behave like my character does in the film but um the fears behind that and what went into it and she shared her journals from that time um and yeah and I shared my own personal experience of being a parent and how that feels and

struggles.

And it was really an incredible period we had there.

So then when we got to set, obviously it was a short shoot.

It was only 25 or six days or something.

We sort of had every conversation so we could really leap off and play the scene and discover stuff.

And as an actress, I can't make any sort of decision until the other actors in front of me and I'm, you know, responding to what's happening.

So I'm so grateful we had that period.

Mary Brownstein has said that, you know, she wanted to capture that visceral feeling of, you know, desperation, that mental state when you feel everything is falling apart because all these things.

She has a child who's ill and then there are all these other things that are happening, too.

And as these things feel like they're falling apart, you feel like it's your fault.

Like it's the state of where you're so stressed that all these problems become equal.

And that felt real to me.

And I was wondering how you and Mary Bronstein wanted to convey that and if you've ever had that kind of feeling before yourself.

What Linda's going through of having a seriously critically ill child, you know, knock on wood, most parents won't have to go through that, you know, 99%.

It's a very extraordinarily specific illness that she has too.

But I was sort of obsessed with, like, what happened before this?

Like, what led to this moment?

Who was she before?