I made my first feature over nine years ago, when I was in my mid 20s. We premiered “The Boy Downstairs” at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017, and it was all gloriously magical. “This is how movies happen,” I thought. You write a script (it was my first feature screenplay), your first choice actress says yes (that was Zosia Mamet), and you make the movie in the same year. It’s pretty straightforward! I thought.
How sweet was she? My younger self. I sort of envy the hopeful naiveté I had at that time, with so little experience in the industry and relatively fresh out of film school, I was
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