The nominated writers will break down select pages that were essential to the stories they were telling.
The scene was always there structurally.
In earlier drafts, I think it used to get even more explosive toward the end.
So we had all of that preparation by the time we got on set.
That idea was always there.
This is going to be his way of never starting the club.
This one thing will lead to another, will lead to another.
That had to take the burden of the drama.
Here, theyre seated at the table.
I wanted to limit the kinds of actions that they even could do.
They stay talking to each other.
Its all in the dialogue and what the actors bring to it.
Adding the fire alarm was an attempt to take the scene as far wrong as it could go.
Hes prepared a multi-course meal, so he might have a dessert cooking in the kitchen.
Bit-by-bit, everyone of those things goes off the rails.
The rapport between him and Mia goes off the rails.
The record stops playing.
Finally, the forgotten dessert in the kitchen just starts to catch fire.
Youre physicalizing just how rancid the love between them has become.
There used to be an issue with Sebastians door.
The door was jamming, just the way everything in his apartment is falling apart.
The door was one of those thing.
You used to kind of wallow in the frenzy and the awkwardness a little more.
Its a giant apple pie at the end.
Theres this one place in L.A. that makes 25-pound apple pies.
It couldnt be too normal of a dinner.
Hes not just burning a few apples.
Hes burning probably five orchards.
