I had never experienced anything like that before in my career and it was so beautiful, and I felt really honored to be a part of this story and to be a part of her family history in that way.
And in the hour-and-a-half that we spent together, just kind of walking around Trinity-Bellwoods (Park in Toronto) she was just so raw and open. She was this open heart and this open book and I just couldn't believe it. They're very committed to standing behind, and I was so blown away when I went for a walk with Miriam and she talked to me about her sister and her mother and her family and her experience with depression and suicide in her family. But in real life they're very guarded, or they have cultivated a persona. I've done a lot of literary adaptations and often writers are so open and forthcoming in their literature.
SARAH GADON: Although there's so much in the book when I first signed on to do the project, I reached out to Miriam and asked her if we could go for a walk together. How do you even wrap your mind around that? What kind of discussions did you have with Miriam Toews about it, because it is based on her own family experience. You're dealing with a girl who is struggling with her grief and depression and ultimately wants to commit suicide. O.C: Sarah, I honestly don’t know how you got through playing Elf. You can find a way through, and I think that it’s only with the gift of humor that sometimes you can make it through tough, tough moments. There's a scene when I ask Mare (Winningham) who plays our mother whether this is too much, how can we get through the sadness and the pain. I think those two things are what have led generations of these women through their grief and through tough lives and I think that's the heart of it. She has this wonderful, very strong matriarch who's really commonsensical and also incredibly funny. Was it difficult to find that balance?ĪLISON PILL: I think it all comes from Miriam's book and Miriam's perspective on it. Although there is a lot of trauma going on with her, she deals with it by deflecting to some dark black humor. Alison, you play Yoli, not an easy role to take on.
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