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Alone together full movie hd10/7/2023 ![]() Katie, do you feel like you went into directing confident in your own voice as a filmmaker, after spending so many years on sets as an actress, or has it taken you some time to feel comfortable and confident in yourself and your vision as a filmmaker? I just have incredibly fond memories of the whole experience. It was a lifeline for a lot of us to get onto set and to be in this house and tell this story and get back to work. And then, getting to meet and work with Katie, it was just all these really incredible experiences that were really necessary. I wanted to be a part of something that would create a time capsule of this moment, for myself and for anybody else. There was a lot of devastating stuff that happened within the movie, but this beautiful bubble of these two people that are locked down together, having a heightened experience because of everything that’s going on around them. I loved that it had arrived for me to read, and I was reading it going, “Wow, we we’ve just been through that and we’re still going through it right now.” I loved that it was gentle and hopeful, and that the backdrop of the pandemic was very real outside. Jim, when you got to read the script, what was your reaction to it? How did it feel to read a story set in this strange world that we were experiencing while we were actually experiencing it? It turned into what it is now, but it started as this idea of really wanting to put some joy into the world. And then, I met Jim and he brought his ideas. So, I got tips from people, and then it became fun. We did a film ( The Son of No One) together, a couple of years ago, and he’s a wonderful writer. And then, I wrote a draft sent it to a friend of mine, Dito Montiel. I wrote a draft of this thinking, “I wanna create something that we can actually shoot during the pandemic,” which is something that’s contained in pretty much just one space and not a big cast. I was inspired by movies that I was watching again, like Manhattan, Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally, and Husbands and Wives. KATIE HOLMES: No, it was actually pretty fun, the entire process, to be honest. What made you want to do that? Was writing this cathartic for you, in any way, or were there times that it ever felt like too much? Katie, you wrote a pandemic romance during an actual pandemic, which seems crazy to even think about the reality of that.
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