Why do people choose polyamory?
Actors Hayley Law and Ben Rosenfeld share their theories, after starring as an ethical non-monogamous couple in “Mark, Mary & Some Other People.”
Actors Hayley Law and Ben Rosenfeld share their theories, after starring as an ethical non-monogamous couple in “Mark, Mary & Some Other People.”
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00:00I feel like people are more comfortable talking about it and being open about it.
00:03I feel like it's been happening for a long time.
00:13I think that it's great that people are trying to find for themselves what works and not look
00:21into sort of these really ancient archaic structures to give them all the guidelines.
00:26I feel like the movie kind of has, to me, a little message of if everybody is okay with it
00:34and if everybody, you know, consents and says, yeah, you can do whatever you want.
00:47Marc Mary and Some Other People is a lovely comedy, maybe a dramedy,
00:53um, about a couple who gets married and doesn't get bored but decides to discover and, um,
01:02kind of try an open relationship and, um, it gets a little crazy from there.
01:07That's what I hope people can take from this movie is that it can be chaotic and scary and
01:12funny and romantic, but it's good to figure it out for yourself what you like to do.
01:24What drew me in first was the subject matter.
01:29It felt like something that almost everybody I knew was talking about,
01:35and if they weren't talking about it, I would assume they were probably thinking about it.
01:39This thing about open relationships, I think,
01:42is very interesting and it's something that a lot of young people are trying around me.
01:51But I definitely think having a movie or music or art around it helps
01:55normalize the conversation, and I hope that this movie does that too.
02:03Yes, I have, um, and, uh, we broke up.
02:09I don't know if I could do it, and I think I would get mad. I think I'm not a sharing person.
02:16I don't want to, I don't want to know. Hats off to the people that can do it.
02:21When I'm with someone, I just, like, everyone else kind of disappears for me,
02:26so I feel like sometimes, even if this opportunity came up, I wouldn't even know.
02:32As to what makes a couple people stay together for their whole lives, I'm still,
02:38I still don't know the answer, but I certainly, it was fun to see how,
02:46yeah, how it could be, it could be a really fun adventure to go on with somebody,
02:52to break down cultural norms in that way and do things on your own term.