Clara: Patrick J. Adams, Ari Lantos, and Director Akash Sherman on Their Grounded Sci-Fi Film

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Clara: Patrick J. Adams, Ari Lantos, and Director Akash Sherman on Their Grounded Sci-Fi Film

My favorite part about getting to attend a film festival is the movies that come out of nowhere and completely surprise you. At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, one of those films was the sci-fi drama Clara. Written and directed by Akash Sherman, it follows an astronomer consumed by the search for life beyond Earth (Patrick J. Adams) who starts working with an artist (Troian Bellisario) who shares an attraction for the wonders of space. As they search the stars for distant worlds, they stumble onto a discovery that could change everything we know about our place in the Universe. Clara also stars Ennis Esmer, Kristen Hager, and R.H. Thomson and is produced by Ari Lantos.

As someone that considers sci-fi his favorite genre, I especially love movies that try and ground their stories in real-world science and make you believe what you’re watching on screen could actually happen. Which is why I had such a great time watching Clara. At only twenty-three years of age, Akash Sherman has helmed an optimistic science fiction feature that not only got me interested in learning more about astronomy, but made me leave the theater thinking about what else is out there in our universe. Which is not an easy thing to do. Of course it helped that Patrick J. Adams and Troian Bellisario delivered fantastic performances and helped make me believe what I was seeing on screen was real. While I don’t know when Clara is getting released, I absolutely recommend checking it out down the road when you get the chance.

Shortly after seeing the film, Patrick J. Adams, producer Ari Lantos, and director Akash Sherman came into the Collider studio at TIFF to talk about the film. During the wide-ranging interview they talked about how they got Clara made, what it’s about, how Sherman grounded his film in real science, what they discovered in the editing process that impacted the finished film, a day or two that each of them will always remember from shooting Clara, how Adams and co-star/wife Troian Bellisario spent a large portion of their honeymoon working on the film, and a lot more. In addition, towards the end of the interview they played “Get to Know Your TIFF Attendee”, which includes questions like what TV show they’d like to guest spot on, what film scared them as a kid, what is the background photo on their phone, what TV show have they watched all the way through more than once, have they watched a movie more than 20 times, and more.



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