Jay Duplass had come to a turning level in his life and profession. After years of mining private tales, add these of his household, he’d determined that he was prepared to inform different folks’s tales.
That’s when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon approached him with a particular mission that match the invoice, Adam Cayton-Holland’s tragicomic script, and memoir, about his PTSD after his sister dies by suicide. It had Duplass each laughing and crying and wanting to assist inform the story.
“You really have to be like irrationally in love with the movie that you’re making,” Duplass mentioned. “We’re really standing on the shoulders of the Cayton-Holland family in Denver who got hit with something surprising and unbelievable. It’s the story not only of how they survived it but came through better people.”
The movie, “See You When I See You,” is having its world premiere Tuesday on the Sundance Film Festival the place it’s looking for distribution. It stars Cooper Raiff, Kaitlyn Dever, David Duchovny, Hope Davis and Lucy Boynton.
“I kind of see it an heir to their film ‘The Big Sick,’” Duplass mentioned, of Nanjiani and Gordon’s Oscar-nominated romantic comedy.
Putting Raiff within the lead function over a extra established film star was an unconventional alternative, to say the least, however Duplass was sure it was the precise one. He’s been Raiff’s de facto mentor since earlier than Raiff made his first function. He noticed in him a spread that he hadn’t fairly noticed in a few of his friends.
“He’s just so talented and smart and funny and emotionally available,” Duplass mentioned. “Frankly there aren’t a lot of 27-year-olds who are all those things.” (Raiff is now 28).
Rounding out the solid with extra well-known names was then non-negotiable. But Duplass has seen previously 10 to fifteen years that it’s tougher to get massive title actors to hitch smaller artwork films. Part of that, he mentioned, is that actors are making “so much money in TV” and that the expertise businesses are gatekeeping their expertise on the off probability {that a} final minute provide will are available for one episode or a restricted collection.
He credit Dever, Duchovny, Davis and Boynton for being prepared to decide to this movie in any case.
“It’s not a lot of money,” Duplass mentioned. “These people are people who want to make art and who really were willing to take a chance and, you know, make something crazy with me.”
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