IR Interview: Camille Rutherford & Laura Plani For "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" [Sony Pictures Classics] - Part I - video Dailymotion

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Actress Camille Rutherford and Writer/Director Laura Plani talk to The Inside Reel about tone, personify awkwardness and the context of approach in regards to their new film: "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" from Sony Pictures Classics.

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00:00The

00:15literature is like an ambulance speeding through tonight to save someone.

00:30In a film like this, its tone is understanding the different levels of which Agatha sees

00:50herself, but then how all the other characters see themselves as well.

00:53And that's why I think, you know, even with the mother, the father, Olympia, all this

00:58works.

01:00Could you first talk about tone as the director and how to find that?

01:04And then bringing in and talking to Camille about how to build that within the character,

01:08because she's the anchor.

01:11Right.

01:12Thank you so much for mentioning the tone, because I do feel that it's the most difficult

01:16thing to grab when you write or when you make a film, and especially with comedy, because

01:21comedy doesn't mean anything.

01:23It's about the tone.

01:25It can be so many things, right?

01:27So it took me a while to understand because sometimes you also you write, you do something,

01:32and then you understand after you're searching.

01:34It's not, you know, that you are very clear when you start doing it, you search.

01:39And I realized after a while that what I wanted to do was a melancholic comedy and a romantic

01:46comedy somehow.

01:47You know, I wanted to be on the edge of like a pure slapstick and pure depression.

01:52You know, and tears and love and absurdity.

01:57And I think what interests me the most in terms of comedy is to work on the character's shame.

02:05You know, shameful things that we think or we do, and we're trying to hide from the world.

02:11But that's how we are, we become relatable as characters.

02:15You know, it's because this shame is universal.

02:18And so I was, I think that was at the core of what I was trying to do.

02:24You know, okay, we will love her the weirdest, the clumsiest, the more pathetic sometimes

02:32and the more touching sometimes, but that's how we will, you know, so you need to think

02:37about the audience journey also by doing so, which is, I think, always a good sign.

02:42Because I don't believe in movies that we express for ourselves.

02:46You want to offer something, you want to create something to be, you know, in contact with other people.

03:01It's me.

03:06Agathe, Robinson, it's me.

03:08Sorry, I thought you'd be much older.

03:10I'm, I was asked to collect an elderly lady.

03:13I'm Oliver Lowe.

03:16I'll be driving you.

03:19Is that your car?

03:21Yes.

03:22Right.

03:23I must warn you about something.

03:25I'm really not comfortable when it comes to cars.

03:28It panics me to be in a car.

03:30It's, sorry, my head is kind of spinning all of a sudden.

03:36Are you all right?

03:39It's those great situations that you built for Camille that allow her

03:42to do that.

03:43I mean, whether it be, you know, when she walks into the room with him when she's naked.

03:47But, even more so, that first shot when she's singing in the store by herself.

03:54That's such a beautiful, almost adorable.

03:57And yet, if she knew somebody was watching, would get, you know, completely upset.

04:01Yes.

04:02Yes.

04:03Exactly.

04:04Yeah.

04:05This, this scene is, is, is crucial because it's there from the very first draft.

04:10And I wanted her to be able to dance because she was surrounded by books and not by humans.

04:16So it's exactly what we were saying, you know, she would be outraged.

04:20She would never dare moving or even singing if she was seen, of course.

04:25And it's the whole journey of this character is to be actually able to dance in the ball scene,

04:29with two men at the same time.

04:37There you go.

04:38That's Sense and Sensibility.

04:40Okay, thank you.

04:41My favorite.

04:43I think it's a good way to start with Jane Austen.

04:46You're welcome.

04:47Don't hesitate if you've got any more questions.

04:49All right.

04:50You've got a book in Jane Austen with all the circumstances?

04:53Yeah.

04:54You're welcome.

04:55You're welcome to what?

04:57Men's Field Park.

05:00Henry Crawford, it's you.

05:02Why?

05:03A mentee and a inductee.

05:05A Casanova who ends up with his own game when he's in love.

05:10Okay.

05:11And you?

05:12Who are you?

05:13Ann Elliot, Tempest Rasion.

05:15Ann Elliot, Ann Elliot, why?

05:18Because it's a young girl who is fan of a flower who wouldn't have received water.

05:25Camille, can you talk about getting in, considering what she said about getting into the skin of her, of Agatha?

05:31Because...

05:32I...

05:35I think...

05:37When I read the script, I remember, it felt like she was very relatable.

05:42Yeah.

05:43Because she's so...

05:44She doubts so much.

05:45She's insecure and she feels like an imposter.

05:48And I think we can all relate to that.

05:51We all have to deal with moments in our lives where we're shameful, yeah?

05:56And we feel like we're not talented and not intelligent enough to do anything.

06:00And whenever I start a new job, I think it's common to most of us, whether it's a play or a movie,

06:06it's common not just to access to everybody on earth.

06:09I mean, I always feel like I'm not gonna be able to make it work.

06:13I'm not gonna...

06:14I'm gonna screw it up.

06:15So it felt...

06:16I felt like I understood Agatha because she never finishes a book and she always thinks she's not

06:21cultivated enough, not intellectual enough to finish a book.

06:24But that's what I liked about the script.

06:26It demystifies the process of writing.

06:30It really shows writing like it is.

06:33Like most of the time when you're writing, you're not inspired and writing in your tower on your own,

06:39like Mozart-inspired and super intellectual.

06:42It's mostly just being on your computer and looking at your phone and trying to...

06:47Everything pushes you not to write.

06:49And I...

06:50And it's so not...

06:51It's not natural to write.

06:52And I think the film shows it well.

06:54And I...

06:55And to get into Agatha's character, I think I was really inspired by my own sister, actually,

06:59because my sister wrote a novel that came out two years ago.

07:04And I...

07:05For a few years, I saw her writing.

07:07I saw her writing process.

07:08I saw her in front of her computer, just looking outside a window.

07:15Yeah, I saw her struggling.

07:17I saw her getting annoyed and aggressive because she hated what she was writing.

07:21And I was...

07:22Like in the movie, I guess, she has a big sister and I was the big sister trying to push her to finish the book.

07:28So I think I was trying to imitate my sister.

07:34Welcome to the Jane Austen residency.

07:36And we're delighted to count amongst us this year a new recruit.

07:39Welcome.

07:40Welcome.

07:41We hope you will be inspired and we look forward to reading your work.

07:45I believe that some books become part of our lives.

07:49Because they reveal to us our true nature.

07:54I'm a very, very, very good friend of mine.

07:56I will tell you my best friend.

07:59What are you waiting for, actually?

08:00Mark Darcy?

08:01I'll talk about it.

08:24We'll see.

IR Interview: Camille Rutherford & Laura Plani For "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" [Sony Pictures Classics] - Part I

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