Elliot Page Interview: Feeling "Scared Shitless" Making a Fully Improvised Film
28It’s been about six years since the release of Elliot Page’s last feature film, but he finally returned to the big screen at TIFF 2023 and did so with an especially ambitious and impossibly sincere project — the fully improvised film Close to You.
Page plays Sam in the Dominic Savage-directed movie. Sam hasn’t been home to see his family since his transition, but now the time has come. After four years away, he ventures from Toronto back to his hometown of Cobourg for his father’s birthday. While Sam isn’t concerned about being outright rejected by his parents and siblings, the reunion does challenge Sam to figure out when to bear the weight of his family’s ignorance and when to put himself first.
While in Toronto for Close to You’s world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, Savage, Page, and Hillary Baack who plays Sam’s friend from high school visited the Collider media studio at the Cinema Center at MARBL to discuss their unique approach to bringing this story to screen. Page and Baack revisit making an entirely improvised film under Savage’s direction, Savage discusses finding a cinematographer who could handle 50-minute takes, Page pinpoints some of his top priorities for his production company, Pageboy Productions, and loads more.
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