plays a tennis player turned coach who helps her husband, played by Mike Faist, overcome a professional rut by pitting him against her ex, played by Josh O’Connor. The Luca Guadagnino-directed movie is the brainchild of New York-based playwright Justin Kuritzkes, who turned an afternoon of watching the U.S. Open into the screenplay for the most anticipated movie of the season. Recently, theHALINA REIJN: What time does the Super Bowl even start? I have no clue.
KURITZKES: So, I’m not a sports guy. I wasn’t even a massive tennis fan until a few years ago when I happened to turn on the U.S. Open, and it was the final between Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams, where Serena was accused of receiving coaching from the sidelines. It was this big controversy. The ref said that her coach was trying to send her hand signals and communicate with her in the middle of the match, and she was furious about it, saying, “I had never heard of that rule before.
REIJN: It’s also incredibly luxurious for him to be with someone like you, because that’s the thing with writing: Like you said, everything has to become reality, which means that things are not always possible, no matter how big your budget is. You always have to adjust. KURITZKES: I started really early. As a teenager, I wrote short plays and I’d do them at my high school. And then I was working as a playwright in New York for 10 years before I wrote a screenplay.KURITZKES: The process of making the movie didn’t feel that different from being in rehearsal for a play. We had this really luxurious time period of three weeks before we started production where we were just rehearsing in a room in Boston with the actors and with Luca.
together. One day on set, Luca gave me the book, which meant a lot to him because he had read it at a very formative time in his life. He said, “Read this today and tell me if you think you can adapt it.” I read it that day and I said, “Yeah, I want to do this.” And that was it. It was a very different process thanKURITZKES: Completely. I would catch myself in the middle of writing it and go, “No, Luca’s not going to shoot it that way.
REIJN: Do you find it hard to find the work ethic to really do it? Because there’s no boss, especially when you’re writing on spec. How do you start when nobody tells you to?
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