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“I always knew that the structure of the movie was going to be that we would be dropped into this match, and these people would be looking at each other like something really serious and deep was going on between them,” he said. “And then we would gradually figure out how we got here.”
Kuritzkes said he discovered a lot about the characters himself as he was writing, but he kept asking himself one question, no matter what.
“How does this change the stakes?” he said. “How does this change our understanding of what we’ve been watching? And how does it change what we think about where all these people are in relationship to each other?”