{"id":200572,"date":"2025-12-23T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/200572\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:17:07","slug":"read-the-screenplay-for-eva-victor-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/200572\/","title":{"rendered":"Read The Screenplay For Eva Victor Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDeadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay<\/a> series spotlighting the buzziest scripts of the awards season with Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor<\/a>\u2018s impressive feature writing and directing debut that has gotten serious accolades following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where Victor won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. It also played in Cannes\u2019 Directors\u2019 Fortnight section.<\/p>\n

\n\tA24 landed the indie dramatic comedy in Park City<\/a> and released it in theaters in late June. It has since landed a Critics Choice<\/a> nomination for the original screenplay, while Victor, maybe best known for their role in Showtime\u2019s Billions, picked up a Best Actress \u2013 Drama nom from the Golden Globes<\/a>. They are also up for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director at the Indie Spirits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the pic, which Victor wrote during the Covid lockdown in a Maine cabin, centers on Agnes, who we meet living in a quaint but somewhat isolated home near a New England college \u2014 they same place where she and her college roommate Lydie (Naomi Ackie, a Spirits nominee for Supporting Performer) lived when they were students. It seems Lydie and everyone else from that time has moved on, while Agnes has stayed put, on the verge of landing a big professor job in her old English department. It\u2019s slowly revealed the reason Agnes seems stuck to everyone else: it\u2019s the \u201cbad thing,\u201d being sexually assaulted by her thesis mentor (Louis Cancelmi), during her last year of school.<\/p>\n

\n\t(The act itself is never shown; rather, Agnes emerges from the event with what happened now simply a part of her. It\u2019s a stunningly effective device.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film\u2019s story is shown in several non-linear segments, and uses plenty of gallows humor to bring the reader into Agnes\u2019 mind-set, skipping back and forth from before, during and after the moment she can\u2019t forget and can\u2019t get past, living with her like a specter (the college job she takes replaces her attacker, who fled after the incident; she even takes over his office). It takes Agnes\u2019 ride-or-die buddy Lydie (now living in New York and having a baby) and a caring, somewhat smitten neighbor (Lucas Hedges) to help her maybe find a way through.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI found myself writing the film I felt I needed when I found myself in a similar crisis to Agnes,\u201d Victor says about the script, which they say didn\u2019t substantially change beyond the first draft. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to write about violence or assault specifically as much as I wanted to explore how a person heals. What interested me most was digging into that feeling of being stuck, seeing people you love moving on, while you\u2019re still caught thick in the bad thing that happened to you. I started out writing this for the person I used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film was produced in part by Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak\u2019s Pastel, which took Victor under its wing and and encouraged them to not only write and star but direct. <\/p>\n

\n\tRead the screenplay below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the buzziest scripts of the awards season with Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor\u2018s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12698,146,55400,85,46,397,105747,113016],"class_list":{"0":"post-200572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-eva-victor","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-read-the-screenplay","15":"tag-sorry-baby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}