Inside the Untold Drama: Crafting a Trump vs. Anti-Trump RomCom with Erik Bork
Ashley
Yeah. So when you were writing this, did you know as you’re writing it, this was something you wanted to write and direct and produce yourself, so you kind of kept it low budget and that, and that was part of your thinking.
Erik Bork
Oh, for sure. That was a big part of that was the whole reason, right? I’ve been doing that for a while. As you know, I wrote a few scripts, I was thinking I can make this for $200,000, maybe even 100,000, like I had several of those that I sort of threatened to try to raise the money and never quite got there. I did a short a few years ago, but this is my first feature as a director. And I, yeah, it’s all set in one house, which makes sense during COVID. That was probably another reason why I chose December 2020 was like, it could be believable that all their dates are like in the backyard at the house where she’s staying, you know, and that they don’t go out to places and go to restaurants and bars and things that are expensive to shoot. They’re just home. And it’s a big house in Thousand Oaks where I shot that was beautiful and had a lot of different places with an introduce scenes outside inside etc. So, where it doesn’t necessarily feel small when you’re watching it, but it actually we shot the entire movie at one place over 18 days and I you know, small cast also with COVID not a bit a lot of big get together. So, you’re not trying to do a big cast a lot of extras whatever it’s just a few people at a time two to three people in every scene, pretty much.
