‘All of Us Strangers’ Director on Importance of Casting a Gay Actor as His Lead: “There’s So Much Nuance That I Was Trying to Get to”
That story follows the couple after they are visited by Terrance , an official from a government agency overseeing human expansion into space. With the planet now so ravaged by the effects of climate change, societies are looking to imagine a new way of survival for the global population. They are given just over a year to prepare before Terrance returns to begin Junior’s pre-mission tests, which begin to creep into a kind of psychological warfare. The reveal that an AI version of Junior will be left with Hen in his absence only adds insult to the injured couple, further threatening to tear them apart.
Climate change and the development of human-like AI as the backdrop to the film’s relationship drama is also something that initially attracted Davis to, and only increasingly so as the film moved through production. “It just felt radically close to happening. It feels like this is an imminent story and even has moved me making the movie,” he explained. “Things would happen during production, and I’d actually go, ‘Holy shit, this is becoming real.
“This whole film is of a chain of sequences set in one house, and I didn’t want to take that for granted. You can’t be lazy with talking heads drama in a space. But I had this strong feeling that he could help me bring that to life — the tension, the mystery,” the filmmaker said. “The thing that was really exciting to him, and I especially, was for first time viewers, you’re struggling to navigate what the hell’s going on here. There’s a lot of secret rivets.
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