They also share how they tapped into those deeper emotions and brought themselves to the characters.
Our audience might not know aboutHal & Harperjust yet, so can you give a brief synopsis?
Their dad is having a baby with his long-term girlfriend, and he’s selling the childhood house.
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They’re going back in time a lot to deal with the pain that childhood house holds.
That’s my best logline.
Then I was like, Where did that idea come from?
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And I realized I should start digging into my childhood.
RAIFF: It was 300 pages.
I think that was why it was hard to get people to read it.
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We got people to read it because I think we lied.
And they eventually all read it, and it was all fine.
But it’s hard to get someone to read 300 pages.
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It’s hard to make independent TV.
RAIFF: It is.
I love the fact that we see more festivals like Sundance embracing independent television now.
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You would say something like…
RAIFF: Drop it down.
REINHART: It was a good reminder.
You would say, Feel it in your body.
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RAIFF: We were shooting, like, 10 pages a day.
That was just a really great experience.
And you’ll look over, and Cooper’s like, That wasn’t it, right?
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And you’re like, Yeah, okay.
Thank you so much.
I feel so validated, and I don’t feel rushed.
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I feel like I can be honest with you about, like, I didnt buy that.
And you’re like, Okay, great.
We don’t have to do that.
It was like the second day I got there, and you were like, What do you need?
Just tell me what it is, and it’ll happen.
CHRIS MEYER: Like she said, I feel Coop just made it so comfortable for me, specifically.
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To start to dig into characters, Lili, Im going to come your way first.
Did you have that with Harper, and if so, when?
REINHART: That’s such a great question.
It created going into it like a brother-sister relationship.
And hes like, No, I trust you.
But I think just the comfortability.
I felt like I could walk on set and just be her.
But also, wardrobe helps so much to me.
RAIFF: Do you remember your first scene?
You were third-grade Harper.
Weve shot seven days!
But I remember your first scene, and my favorite thing of the show is Lili playing third-grade Harper.
it’s possible for you to’t even describe it.
But that was the first scene, and I just burst into tears and was just so excited.
I always feel like a jerk asking actors, How did you do that?
It’s a fine line there, and I think you both do it exceptionally well.
RAIFF: Lili just tapped into something.
Especially with third-grade Harper, not a single note was given.
All of their performances, it’s like, How can we get into that tapped-in place?
But no one was ever in their head with a performance.
It wasn’t like, Am I doing the seven-year-old right or the nine-year-old right?
It was just like, This is what the story and the art needs.
That’s what it felt like.
The production has received permission from SAG-AFTRA to continue despite the strikes.
SCOTT: We kind of talked about this when I auditioned, and we had a Zoom.
And then it was like, No, we know why.
Our friendship in the show reflected on my friendships in real life.
It helped me realize a lot of things in my actual friendships.
You know what Im saying?
LIU: Piggybacking on that idea, I feel like Cooper brought stuff out of the character.
So, it felt very multifold in that way.
REINHART: Whatever you want!
RAIFF: We’re just saying whatever you want.
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