In an interview with Vanity Fair, director RaMell Ross states ""The film is conceived as all one-ers. In one scene, we shot everything from Elwood's perspective, and then everything from Turner's--one from the first hour, and then the other for the second. Very rarely did we shoot both perspectives on a scene, though, because of the way it was written and scripted. We don't always go back and forth. So it's shot like a traditional film, except the other character is not there. They're just asked to look at a specific point in the camera. Typically, the other actor is behind the camera, reading the lines and being the support to make the other person feel like they're actually engaged with something relatively real. Because they're all one-ers, though, the choreography is quite difficult."
When Ethan Herisse first read the script, he mostly ignored the lines signaling which perspective each line was being seen from and instead focused on connecting with the characters and the story. He said it never really became "real" for him until his first day on set when they had to strap a camera on him and learn how atypical this film would be.
RaMell Ross said the moment where Turner and Hattie hug was the hardest shot to shoot, however after practicing with Ross' own DSLR with Director of Photography Jomo Fray, they got it down right.
Of the ten films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2024, this was one of only two to win no awards, the other being A Complete Unknown (2024).
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