Julia Stiles has long been an expert at multitasking.
Twenty years later, shes still at it.
Stiles serves as both director and screenwriter on the production and spent years developing it.
I was just like, I have to do this, she adds.
Doctors do it all the time doctors go back to work after giving birth very quickly.
The end result is a moving account of two people who fall in love in heartbreaking circumstances.
It is a tragic love story but it is also ultimately hopeful, she says.
Namely, some of her recent favorites.
First up:Dont Call Me Homeby Alexandra Auder, a book with personal resonance for Stiles.
Itsis a memoir that [Auder] wrote abouther childhood and teenagehood in the Chelsea Hotel, she says.
My mom was not very happy about it.
I think she didnt know that we didnt have parents with us.
Stiles turned to her second choice,Ill Show Myself Outby Jessi Klein,after a big life event.
Its like, Oh, you should be so appreciative its so complicated.
And when you have somebody whos hilarious about it, it really feels so much better.
It was a huge reference for me withWish You Were Here.
I sent clips nightly to our production designer, costume designer…
I actually reached out to Susan Seidelman Im getting bolder in my old age.
Two other books by friends and collaborators also make the cut.
Its a book of essays encouraging you to listen to your inner voice and follow your gut.
It sounds so simple but it can be really hard.
Some of that we can delay until they become teenagers, but a lot of it is early on.
I saw this and I think I got it for my husband or secretly kind of for me.
If I talk about the poem that I particularly love in this book, Ill probably start crying.
We had to rerecord all of the audio in ADR because there was a creaking dolly, she says.
So I had to recreate the sound of me getting choked up months earlier.
