![]() There were there were a lot of oddities and unique parts to the production. ![]() We wore masks and face shields and gloves, and we had the health and safety managers walking around on-set with sticks, poking us to stay six feet apart. We had a health and safety manager, and a whole separate team - sort of a wing of production that had never existed before. We had an incredible production team that really thoughtfully went through the process to figure out how we could do this safely. “I don't have an exact number, but approximately a dozen films were shot during the fall of 2020 - that early stage of the pandemic, where there were no vaccines and everyone was really in lockdown. And it was important to me to make a film, albeit an entertaining film, that dealt with those things.” So I felt that I really understood this character's journey and a real-life setting. My best friend from growing up actually went on a very similar journey that I thought was very authentically portrayed in the screenplay, going from traumatized victim to empowered survivor by the end. And then as far as the personal connection, the Meera character, played by Frida Pinto in the film, is a breast-cancer survivor. (I) have been attached to a couple that, for whatever reason, didn't come together, so I was I was really thrilled by that. I grew up loving thrillers, so I have been looking for one to direct for a long time. And my read of the screenplay had that experience in it. It has some pretty surprising secrets that get revealed along the way. The first is that it held me on the edge of my seat. “I read the script and two things were abundantly clear.
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