Director Laura Chinn, Laura Linney and Ariel Martin stopped by The Hollywood Reporter's Park City studio during the Sundance film festival to chat about 'Suncoast.' Laura Linney recalls what she remembers about 2005 and Ariel Martin shares her reaction to nostalgia items like a flip phone.
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00:00 Do I remember 2005? Do I remember 2005?
00:04 I love it.
00:05 Because it was placed in the real life of the Terry Shivo case, that does make your decision of placing it in 2005.
00:13 But were you always wanting to keep all of those elements in reality?
00:18 Because you could have made it, I guess, a fictional case or just a current day or things like that.
00:22 Well, I think the coincidence of my brother being there was just something that was the impetus for the idea of wanting to write about it in the first place.
00:31 It was just the odd fact that that occurred in my life.
00:35 And so I think then the fun of 2005, that became like, "Oh, that's fun. We can use flip phones and we can have all of our music be from that era."
00:43 And that added, I think, to the overall fun of the movie.
00:47 I think there's also something about a significant moment in American history and a significant moment in your personal history.
00:55 And when they're both so intense and they intersect and collide, there's something about it that is-
01:01 And thematically, too.
01:02 That's just interesting.
01:03 The theme of Terry was so, yeah.
01:05 Laura, Lenny, when you think about your 2005, what was significant for you during that era?
01:12 Do I remember 2005? Do I remember 2005?
01:15 I love this.
01:16 What happened in 2005?
01:18 I was a freshman.
01:20 Oh, don't tell me that.
01:22 Anyone from Searchlight remember what was happening in 2005?
01:26 What was happening?
01:27 Terry Shiloh.
01:28 As I'm making a movie for you.
01:29 It's a blur, to be honest with you, 2005.
01:34 If someone could tell me what movie I was making in 2005, I can tell you what it is.
01:39 Or the aughts.
01:40 What do you, when you think about, I guess, even just anything from that general era.
01:44 Or were you using flip phones?
01:46 Was this new to you guys, all these props?
01:49 Yes.
01:50 Okay, yeah.
01:51 I was five.
01:52 2005.
01:53 So this was all-
01:55 And it was so fun for us because we were like-
01:58 Because I think now the 2000s, everybody's getting into the 2000s.
02:02 We want to wear the clothes.
02:03 And so getting back into that world.
02:05 And Laura created such an authentic world of walking onto the sets.
02:10 The flip phones and the little, what she had hanging on the mirrors or on the refrigerator.
02:15 It was just so from that time.
02:17 Even the music that we would listen to on set.
02:19 The music we'd listen to in the car and the wardrobe.
02:21 It was, you know.
02:23 It definitely made me feel elder.
02:25 Because these kids didn't have anything like, "Oh my God, we're in a museum."
02:28 They were like, "Oh, look at the TV."
02:30 Yeah.
02:31 Well, I remember I had filmed Squid and the Whale around that period of time.
02:37 So yeah.
02:40 It was, you know.
02:41 And the thing that's wonderful about it is that there's a continuity of how independent film is made.
02:46 And there's something about, you know.
02:50 When you're doing independent film, there is an ownership to it.
02:53 That I think, because it's a scaled down group and because there is this very unified effort being made.
03:01 That you feel very close to these films.
03:04 And that is the same in 2005 as it is now, you know, fortunately.
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