“We Thrive in Chaotic Good”: New York Comic Con Could Be the Antithesis of SDCC’s Strike-Affected YearThe writer-director opened up about his approach to casting and talked about shooting the movie in his childhood home and capturing its intimacy scenes alongside editor Jonathan Alberts during a post-screening discussion at theon Sunday.
As for Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, who portray Adam’s mother and father, Haigh said he was looking for characters who could feel like Scott’s parents, but who also felt personal to him. “I wanted them to make sense as Andrew’s parents, but I also wanted them to make sense as my parents,” he explained. “So I was trying to find people that made sense for both things, which wasn’t always easy.”
During the moderated conversation, Haigh also opened up about the film’s intimacy scenes from both a filming and editing perspective. The mind behind, the intimacy moments he says were ultimately different from what he’s done before — despite the director still believing that “they have to feel like they have story relevance, otherwise there’s no point.”