Kaufman: It’s funny, you know, because I was really worried that you weren’t going to do it. But with those things, it’s kind of a shot in the dark. And then the Charlie in my mind became the Charlie on the piece of paper in front of me. And then I flew home for Christmas about three years ago and my agent sent through the script. And I didn’t expect it to go anywhere beyond that. And I remember going to see Anomalisa and realising that Charlie was pretty brilliant. Not… to death." – Jessie Buckleyīuckley: I probably watched Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind when I was at college. "When a Charlie Kaufman script comes, it’s like being electrocuted. So I asked her if she wanted to do the movie. And it was memorised, which blew my mind because it’s a long poem. And Jessie sent hers back, I think, the next day – was it the next day? It was really soon. I was looking at a couple of other people and we sent the poem around and asked people to record themselves.
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So, I watched the movie Beast, which is just extraordinary – Jessie’s performance is extraordinary. But I was really excited by the notion of somebody I didn’t know. And I didn’t know who that was – hard to believe – but I didn’t. Molly asked her while we were on the phone and she said: "You have to cast Jessie Buckley". I called my production designer, Molly Hughes, who happened to be in London at the time at the house of the director she was working with, Thea Sharrock. Kaufman: I had cast somebody for this movie and I was looking for somebody to replace her. They joined the Zoom call wearing red clown’s noses.Ĭoat, knit and trousers, all by Ami Hat by Simone Rocha Josh O'ConnorĮsquire: How did you end up working together? She was in Chicago, where she was finishing up the next season of Fargo. I’m Thinking of Ending Things joins his brainy resumé of absurdist masterpieces: Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York.īuckley and Kaufman recently spoke with Esquire about their new film. Kaufman based the film on the 2016 Canadian novel of the same name and you can see why the story appealed to him. The Irish actor is presumably the only person ever to take Hollywood by storm after starting their career on a BBC talent show in which Graham Norton and Andrew Lloyd Weber attempted to find a new Nancy for Oliver! (She came second.) But it’s Buckley, already on a vertiginous trajectory after the 2017 thriller Beast, and 2019 awards-magnet Chernobyl, who steals the show. Most of the action takes place in a car, in a snowstorm, where the dialogue and pace resembles a play. The majority of the film is a two-hander with Plemons and Buckley.
And is her name Lucy, or Louise? (It’s ‘The Young Woman’ in the credits). What might be in the basement? Why can’t the family dog stop shaking? Is anything what it seems?īuckley’s character is introduced as a physics student, then later she’s referred to as a painter, then a poet. As their hosts’ appearance starts to change, so do clothes, furniture and anecdotes. At the family farm she meets Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (a delightfully awful David Thewlis) and they settle down for dinner. She doesn’t know why she agreed to go or why she started dating Jake in the first place.
Now they’re taking a long, uncomfortable, snowy road-trip together so she can meet his parents for the first time. It’s about a student, played by Jessie Buckley, who for six weeks has been dating Jake, a frustrated intellectual played Jesse Plemons. Charlie Kaufman’s new film, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, is very funny and very strange.
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