June created this atmosphere on set where it completely felt like a family, and we felt so free to do whatever we wanted to do without judgment. She trusted us. I felt completely free to explore. But the thing about her too is her performances don’t seem theatrical. Looking through the viewfinder at her face, and oftentimes I’m this close to her face on a wide lens and the nuances of her performance, it was like I would get shivers.
“It’s a movie about aging, not just about old age, in that each character in the film is going through kind of a transitional moment. I think this movie for me was a way to explore that and work through some of my anxieties about my grandma’s aging and my own aging and just being faced with these transitional moments in life.”
“I think if you were in a room with people, and everyone said this, if in a room with Keith and Mick and Anita and Brian and everything, people noticed Anita first. She was a very unusual woman for that time, very independent, spoke five languages, traveled, didn’t look to the man to talk for her, didn’t really give two fucks about anything.”
