KP speaks exactly like brendan in the movie, and even looks a bit like. CS asked a few very good questions, and KP's answers are recorded here:
- At that time, the script had been written for many years, and it was difficult to find investment, and it took a lot of time to prepare. But here's a message to young filmmakers, if you want to make a good movie, you should get paid before you get paid. A lot of times, when we're ready to make a movie, we mortgage our house, save money, and don't give up now that we've made it this far.
- It took three years to find actors. We interviewed a lot of actors, including straight girls and curvy ones, but none of them were suitable. Some people are too straight, and some people are too curved, which is not enough. The performance of the actors should be better with tension. The relationship we are looking for here is a more masculine actor, but after many gay or transgender actors come, there is always something wrong with being on camera. We even considered making brendan black for a while, because one time we went to New York to interview and put all the people in the city who were interested in playing the role -- because a lot of people weren't willing to play such a role at the time -- We found them all, and we found that the most suitable ones were all black people, broad shoulders, tall people, very masculine. But really making Brendan black still did not meet the requirements of the region and culture at that time. So we paid a fortune to fly one of the casting directors to LA, which is very, very expensive for an independent film, and I get a stack of VCRs every day, and one is worse than the other. Finally we see hilary and she feels right in the VCR. We had three rounds of interviews, and after she came, we felt that she had a very big problem, that she would smile and be warm. And real men are not very good at smiling, but then we want brendan to go to so many people's homes and be welcomed, which is actually related to part of her femininity.
- Editing is very, very important. Our editors are now Hollywood editors, and they used to be very well-known. According to our budget, we may not be able to invite him, but it happened that he had time, so we invited him anyway. The role of the editor is so important in the movie, hilary including some of the other actors is not always perfect like you see in the movie, more often they have a lot of their own little action, on the screen Clearly, the editing room could cut out these unwanted movements and allow the actors to truly become characters in the movie. They'll do a camera cut before a personal little action starts, or add other elements.
- When writing the script, if you always feel that a certain paragraph is not well written, it means that this paragraph is really not well written, and it is very likely that it will not appear in the movie in the end. I wrote about brendan's appearance for a long time. I always thought that I should let brendan show the woman's appearance before, and then make a change. I wrote maybe hundreds of appearances, but they were not good enough. I also shot some, but they didn't use. Now the scene in the movie is where brendan comes through the mirror, and the combing is better than all the previous ones, and it made me cut out 20 minutes of shitty scenes. At that time, my producer told me that the opening paragraph had to be cut. I still didn’t believe it. In the end, I felt that it should be cut, cut, cut.
-Peter wasn't that famous at the time. He was 15 pounds thinner than in the movie. It was for a very sweet boy, and he had absolutely nothing to do with the murderer in the movie. Later, we asked him to gain weight, and slowly through the development of the plot, The actor also developed together, and in the end he became the murderer in the film.
- The rape scene was filmed several times, because we felt that the two male protagonists were not fierce enough. Even Hilary said, you should be more fierce. Although we worked together a lot of time, the male protagonists were embarrassed when filming this scene.
- The script of the film has more than 130 pages. According to 1-2 pages a day, it will take at least 90 days, but we finished filming in 30 days because of limited funds.
KP also said some on-set gossip, which has nothing to do with the title, so I won't go into details.
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