How ‘Tuesday’ Brings Death to Life With Heart, Humor, and a Giant Bird

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The actor, co-star Lola Petticrew, and writer-director Daina Oniunas-Pusic discuss their surreal dark comedy about a terminally ill girl and her mom.

, funerals can be a great place to laugh — “maybe one of the best laughs you would ever have,” she says. “In dark times, a good laugh is almost like a drug. It’s bumping up against something it’s the opposite of, which makes it much more needed.”

When bringing Death to life, Oniunas-Pusic knew that she wanted a creature that could talk, dance, and tell jokes. Humans felt too mortal, she says, and puppets felt too childlike. Once she settled on a parrot, she examined 17th-century Flemish paintings as well as Ornithomimus dinosaurs to figure out how the film’s computer-generated bird should look — bright red plumage, soot and scars from the dirty work it does — and move.

Although in the film Zora is navigating her first dance with death, Louis-Dreyfus has confronted it several times, and called on those experiences, too. Her father, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, died in 2016. The following year, she was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer and underwent six rounds of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy.

 

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