\u201cThe Bondsman.\u201d<\/a> Though Sosie is an established performer with roles in movies such as \u201cSmile\u201d and the current series \u201cScarpetta,\u201d Travis, a musician, had never acted before. (He also did the music for \u201cFamily Movie.\u201d)<\/p>\nOne possible concern heading into the project was whether the family\u2019s off-screen dynamics translated into something legitimately special on-screen or merely a lot \u201cUgh, mom\u201d or \u201cWhatever, dad\u201d moments of behind-the-scenes tension.<\/p>\n
But that didn\u2019t prove to be an issue. Much.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say that the family dynamics were pretty evident on set,\u201d said Bacon, dryly. \u201cBut I will also say that our kids remain just wonders to us in terms of their level of hard work and professionalism and kindness. We\u2019re not really surprised, but to actually see it was very touching and really kind of magical.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sedgwick noted that all four of them lived on one property with three small houses during the shoot so they were able to spend even more time than usual together during production, often having coffee together in the mornings.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a parent, you don\u2019t really get to watch your kids navigating their way in the world as adults,\u201d she says. \u201cSo having a window into that and also to be like, \u2018Phew, they\u2019re such good people,\u2019 it was just such a gift. Because it could have been, \u2018Geez, they\u2019re a nightmare.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ora Duplass, right, and Chosen Jacobs in the movie \u201cTheir Town.\u201d<\/p>\n
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That feeling of a parent\u2019s pleasant astonishment at how their children carried themselves became a part of the making of the Aselton-Duplass family\u2019s \u201cTheir Town\u201d as well. Mark Duplass wrote the project specifically with his daughter Ora in mind, his script a reflection of how platonic friendships among Gen Z often seemed as important as romantic relationships. That wasn\u2019t being reflected in the young adult projects he saw. He quickly realized the perfect director was right there in Ora\u2019s mother Aselton.<\/p>\n
On a three-way call shortly before the start of SXSW, Mark Duplass is at his production company\u2019s office in Highland Park, Katie Aselton is at their home in Los Angeles and Ora Duplass is in Vancouver finishing shooting on the upcoming Disney+ series \u201cCoven Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust speaking candidly, you have all these ideas when you raise kids about how you want things to go,\u201d says Mark Duplass. \u201cWhen Katie and I had Ora all we could think of was that we\u2019re going to show her all our favorite movies and she\u2019s going to love all of our favorite movies. And it\u2019s just not that way. She\u2019s not as interested in our stuff and we\u2019re not always as interested in her stuff. And it\u2019s made this unexpected but actually quite beautiful blend, which is we actually come at these things from different angles.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is squarely her own person and fought kicking tooth and nail to become that through ages 14, 15 and 16 and has come out the other side,\u201d he continues. \u201cAnd in a lot of ways, this movie was a part of that process. And I think the movie is better for it. It\u2019s different than I thought it would be. And richer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a lot of wild family dynamics to sift through,\u201d says Aselton, whose previous films as director include \u201cThe Freebie\u201d and \u201cMagic Hour.\u201d \u201cBut then that\u2019s also what a film set is like. Once you\u2019re on a great film set, you\u2019re all family anyways, you\u2019re all interconnected and leaning on each other. And with similar emotional pitfalls.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ora Duplass admits she was nervous about how their mother-daughter dynamic would play out on set, but she soon found it to be much more of a bonus than a problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we were really great at separating it, but I also feel like we didn\u2019t need to,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was just kind of one in that moment: She\u2019s my mother and also my director that\u2019s comforting me, helping me through the scene. It worked really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a gift as a director to know what the true emotional depth of your lead actor is,\u201d adds Aselton. \u201cI know what she\u2019s capable of, which is so cool because when you are working with someone that you met a couple weeks prior, you don\u2019t always know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Duplass echoes the sentiments of Bacon and Sedgwick, seeing his daughter as a working adult and being moved.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot to get corny, but I\u2019m the dad here and I\u2019ve got to say just this one thing,\u201d he adds, a growing swell of emotion in his voice. \u201cAs parents, we were watching Ora, who was in that COVID generation that had it really tough. And so we wanted to set this challenge for her, but we weren\u2019t sure exactly how it was going to go. And when you watch Ora show up and do these 12-hour days out in the cold at night and just sort of rise up, it was one of the most incredible moments I\u2019ve had as a parent, when you\u2019re watching your child find that thing that they love and are good at. And it did happen on this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n
As to whether these family units will work together again, Sedgwick and Bacon acknowledge it is not entirely up to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure they\u2019ve had it with us,\u201d Sedgwick says with a laugh. \u201cFor me it was heavenly from the beginning till the end. That doesn\u2019t mean that it was always easy, but it was kind of beyond my wildest dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duplass and Aselton say their younger daughter Molly has no interest in show business. And Ora\u2019s career already seems well underway on its own.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy goal: I\u2019m 49, I\u2019m ready to get to that part of my career where I\u2019ve lost my creative center,\u201d the \u201cMorning Show\u201d star jokes, \u201cI go into the big fade, Ora becomes immensely popular and successful and I ride her coattails all the way into the sunset. I would love that so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
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