Daisy Ridley Discusses Sometimes I Think About Dying at Sundance 2023
38One of the films that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was director Rachel Lambert’s touching comedy-drama, Sometimes I Think About Dying, starring Daisy Ridley. Adapted from a short, the movie follows the somewhat awkward Fran (Ridley) through her day-to-day, from the workplace to home, and rinse, repeat. Finding comfort in her mundane routine, Fran is a restrained woman, opting to withdraw into her own mind rather than engage with co-workers or the outside world. As the title suggests, she sometimes even considers the alternative to this life.
When Fran meets her new co-worker, Robert (Dave Merheje), an overly amicable and social fellow, the two strike up a friendship. Robert sees the quiet humor Fran possesses, and even manages to coax bites of information about Fran from her disciplined timidity. Through their growing relationship, Fran begins to slowly reveal more of herself and learns to find comfort in the world around her rather than just in her mind.
After Sometimes I Think About Dying’s Sundance screening, Lambert, Ridley, Merheje, Parvesh Cheena, and Brittany O’Grady came by the Collider Studio presented by Saratoga Spring Water in Park City. During their interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, they discuss embracing the small details in life, what drew them each to the script, from diversity to vulnerability, and how freely they were allowed to play with that script. Lambert also explains the importance of the cast’s authenticity while onset and improvising their characters, the set design’s impact on the story, and how the editing process changed the film from what even the actors expected.
For interviews, movie reviews, and more visit https://collider.com
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL
https://twitter.com/collider
https://instagram.com/collider
https://facebook.com/collider
Other Videos By Collider Interviews
Other Statistics
Sundance Statistics For Collider Interviews
At this time, Collider Interviews has 88,491 views for Sundance spread across 37 videos. His channel currently has around hours worth of content for Sundance, roughly 1.66% of the content that Collider Interviews has uploaded to YouTube.