One day I'll say, "I met Taylor"

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“The script had dialogue, we had actually scripted out some scenes of them falling in love, the scene of them falling apart, breaking up, and then it had this argument. So the argument was the one we ended up keeping as a scene—I knew I wanted one scene to play out, but I didn’t know which one I wanted it to be—play out without music because I thought that it was just important to get a very potent glimpse into their dynamic and I didn’t know if that would come through best with them falling in love, breaking up, or fighting. It turned out the fight was where we saw the most of who these people are and what the problems are. We have [the other versions] in the edit, they’re on film somewhere, but we didn’t put it in because I just thought, I want to tell this whole story but I want there to be one portal glimpse into their life where we stop the music, because the music does a pretty good job of explaining the arc. [The fight] ended up being one shot. We had Rina with the Steadicam and we were just going to shoot it as many times we needed to to get the covers we needed but it turns out it was one of those magic takes where we don’t cut until probably 85-90% through that scene. My producer and I were just at the monitor clutching each other. It was fantastic, and I think you strike me as someone who has a lot of trust in your actors, and that was that leap of faith moment, of putting them in a room, they’re having to fill in all the blanks of this chemistry. We’d talked at lengths about the dynamics of this fight, and it really comes down to the fact that she does not feel seen within this relationship and on some level he doesn’t either, because both of these people are essentially saying, ‘You don’t understand where I’m coming from, and you can’t understand where I’m coming from.‘”