On top of that, why they enjoy shooting on film and what they like about Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard’s screenplay.
With director Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come now plays in select theaters and arrives on request on March 2nd. I spoke to them recently Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby about making their LGBTQ theme period. Written by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard and based on Shepard’s eponymous story, the film takes place on a farm in New York State in the 1850s where Abigail (Waterston), a farmer’s wife, and her new neighbor Tallie (Kirby) become attracted to each other. The World to Come also stars Christopher Abbott like Kirby’s husband and Casey Affleck as husband of Waterston.
During the relaxed interview, Waterston and Kirby talked about what it was like to shoot on film in the Romanian countryside, their reaction to reading Hansen and Shepard’s script, how the film takes place in a time when people had to spend all their time spending just trying to survive and love was a luxury, why Kirby was very much in tune with her character, why Waterston did not want the recording to end, and more.
See what they had to say in the player above and below is exactly what we talked about and the official summary.
Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby:
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Did they start playing the junket game?
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What was it like reading the script for the first time and what kept them each from writing?
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How the film takes place in a time when people just had to try to survive all their time and love was a luxury.
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Waterston on how the recording reminded her that you can learn a lot from the people who lived in the time of the film.
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Kirby on how she very much matches the character she played.
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What was it like working with director Mona Fastvold and shooting on film?
Here is the official summary:
In this powerful 19th-century romance in the American Northeast, Abigail (Katherine Waterston), a peasant woman, and her new neighbor Tallie (Vanessa Kirby) find themselves irrevocably to each other. A grieving Abigail tends to leave her withdrawn husband, Dyer (Casey Affleck), as generous Tallie hearts over the jealous control of her husband Finney (Christopher Abbott), as their intimacy together begins to fill a void in each other’s lives that they never knew. Directed by Mona Fastvold and the screenplay by Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen, The World to Come explores how isolation is overcome by the intensity of human commitment.
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