Exclusive: Amanda Peet, Alessandro Nivola, and Matthew Shear discuss their award-winning SXSW film, Fantasy Life.
Amanda Peet is not her character Dianne inFantasy Life.
I didnt know that, and it wasnt really a happy moment.
Shear, taking it in stride, quips, Im definitely a grandmother key in.
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Hes certainly a filmmaking bang out with an emerging voice.
That was a good expression of obsessive compulsive disorder, Shear muses.
It kind of scared me and amused me.
It was also the scene that won over Peet to do the movie.
I mean it really felt like Matthew wrote [the role] for me, Peet says.
In the film, Dianne and David are obviously in different stages of their lives.
Suffering is, indeed, perhaps the best way to explain the unlikely connection discovered between Sam and Dianne.
Fantasy Life premiered at the SXSW Film and TV Festival on March 8.