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“My go-to for any dysfunctional husband character is Seth—and Seth, with his production team, I kind of wanted to have a bigger project to work with them on, and we were pretty clear from the beginning for me to come and direct it so he could have an acting role in it. It’s important for us at Gamma to have a distinction that if someone is going to be in front of the camera, they’re not also directing the scene. We keep those roles unique,” Mills said further. “So, this was a good choice for him to be in front of the camera while he evolves as a co-producer and for me to come in and direct. It was a good way to flex that with this team, and it was instantly a really good chemistry.”
It was Gamble’s LucidFlix van in the driveway and his crew on the last set day of the production, which, as co-producer, he said had been smooth and well-organized after a year’s worth of planning.
“So, this project specifically, we were talking about a year ago, and Bree was like, ‘Hey, you’ve been over at Wicked,’” Gamble said, describing his process as a producer. “And we’d done some things together. I think the first project we co-produced was Serial Breeder? It was for Pure Taboo... That was really at the inception of producing and directing for myself, and as time progressed, I think Bree had seen that I built a more tuned ‘machine’ and more consistency, and she was like, ‘Let’s do something together.’”
“If anybody knows anything about [shooting] features, we haven’t hit a 12-hour day. So, I think we’ve shown that this working collaboration is going pretty well,” he added, then named off the crew (several of them longtime colleagues at Wicked), all eagerly awaiting a lunch delivery of sandwiches and salads. “... Sammy Slater, my second camera is Nick, my lighting tech is Billy, Claudia Ross—she’s been production manager and set designer, and Ezra—he’s my set designer/production assistant. That’s pretty much my main team... and my makeup artist is Lucy Rita.”
Before lunch, supporting actress Dahl was looking forward to shooting her main scenes, and said, “I have worked with Lexi before, but this will be our first time working together. I think we’ll probably shoot it last today. We have a dialogue scene coming up next.”
“I love it—being the more experienced woman,” Dahl said of her character Lucy. “There’s a part in the dinner-girls’ night, where we’re playing ‘Never Have I Ever,’ and I ask, ‘Has anyone been with a woman?’ And everyone raises their hand—except for Charlotte... She and her husband have been growing apart, so the way I come in the story—she’s already experiencing having dreams about having sex with women, then she meets me and is immediately attracted to me, and she’s like, what do I do? So, I comfort her, and then it does lead into her having her first experience with a woman.
“I’m bisexual personally, but in my real life, I’ve had a lot of experiences where I was the first woman with another woman for the first time,” Dahl shared. “And it does require a little extra... it’s a vulnerable thing for anyone to have a first-time experience, so I think that will play really well.”
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