It’s like the heart, the soul, the center of the movie. It’s like, getting naked and romping around, it can just feel a bit generalized and you’re showing something private to the public that doesn’t really mean anything because just often it’s meaningless in the narrative, whereas in this case, it’s not meaningless, it’s essential to the story. I mean, what can make it difficult is if it’s meaningless in the story. Is it anymore comfortable to do it with a woman because maybe there’s some sort of more empathy or sensitivity there? Actors have spoken about the difficulty of doing love scenes on screen.
You and Rachel have a very passionate love scene halfway through the film. They really had to learn all the prayers and the customs and they had to believe that they were Orthodox Jews. They both did, I mean they both did serious Jewish immersion so you should ask them. I had to play someone who’d abandoned it and forgotten it and is not that comfortable to be back there so I didn’t have to really do deep research. They had to be English and they had to be Orthodox Jews. I mean, it’s very rare, I don’t know any other instances, in England, of someone who has grown up in that world and left it and written about it for a mainstream audience.ĭid you spend any time within the community for research? So she’s someone who’s both inside and outside, and she was an incredible tour guide to that world. Naomi Alderman who wrote the book, grew up in that place and then abandoned it and went to New York, a bit like Ronit. I definitely know some things about Judaism and I know some things about Christianity so, but this community is like, unless you’re a part of it, you can’t know anything about it. My mom was Catholic, my dad was Jewish, but I didn’t identify as anything. What was your familiarity with Orthodox culture? They’re not represented in stories as much as heterosexual white people, you know? So Sebastian just wants to journey to people who are not on the margin, they’re just on the margins of representation. She wouldn’t be a real character with an existential crisis and a longing for love, like a fully fleshed person. It’s people whose stories, living your life as a trans woman or a 58-year-old woman looking for love or a gay Orthodox Jewish woman, when you’re living that life you’re front and center, that’s your life, but in the way stories represent these people, they’re not front and center. Well at that point A Fantastic Woman hadn’t come out but I think this is a companion piece to that, you know. What was it about his films that made you want to work with him as a director on this? The antagonist is within.” He’s not going to make it that simple for the audience anyways. I said, “Why wouldn’t we have someone like a bit meaner?” And he said, “No, no, no there’s no antagonist. But he cast Allan (Corduner), who’s such a sweet guy. I thought Uncle Moshe, my character’s uncle, was going to be like a really nasty guy.
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How do you express yourself and be free? I don’t think the movie really judges them, and I certainly don’t, it’s just a really intense dilemma. I don’t have judgment over that community, it’s just, what happens if you are in that community, you love that community, you love God, you’re Orthodox, but you’re gay? What do you do? That’s the conundrum of the movie.
The question that comes to me is, are these very ordered sort of cloistered communities, regardless of religion, are they almost a thing of the past? And the second part of that question is, are we in any sort of position to make that judgment, in a sense?
It wasn’t necessarily the Jewishness that interested me particularly, but a place where it’s taboo to be gay. It’s a community where you can’t be gay and religious and the same would be said with Amish communities in Pennsylvania or Mennonite communities or strict Muslim communities. Set three stops on the tube from where I grew up and in fact it was kind of very far away, but very close. Well I mean, a lot of the lesbian literature that I read was set in the 1950s or set in a time when it was, I don’t know, against the law. What was it about the book that struck you? I thought that would be interesting, not just that one female subjective point of view, but two, and have them in relation to each other because I think all films I’ve done up until this point have been in relation to a man. Well I came to it, I guess, in that I read the book and I optioned it and I’d been actively looking for something that I could be in and be playing opposite another woman. Were you looking for something to produce? Den of Geek: This came to you as both a producer and an actor, sort of at the same time.
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