Director Jacqueline Castel breaks down the influences to her LGBTQ supernatural drama My Animal and the stylistic choices she made.
), a social outcast who's an aspiring hockey goalie hoping to work her way up in her small northern town. She meets Jonny, played by), an alluring but tormented figure skater. As the two discover their love for one another, Heather has to deal not only with the pressures to perform as an athlete but also with her alcoholic mother at home and hide her sexuality in the small conservative community.
There were editorial changes made. There was a longer cap at the film's end after the climax scene. It's hard to talk about this without spoiling stuff, but there was stuff I ultimately ended up not incorporating into the final film. The ending changed pretty dramatically, which happens when you explore different things in the edit and see what feels right.
There are a lot of cerebral and psychological scenes of what Heather was going through. Was there any particular scene or sequence that was more difficult to shoot than others? For some of the more stylized moments in the film, I found that was supposed to be the easiest stuff to shoot weirdly because I knew strongly creatively what I wanted to do. It was finding the balance with the real world, how you shift between those two spaces, how you do it effectively, and how you experiment with that. That was something I was trying to hone in on.
In terms of the difficulty of stuff, it had more to do with the production side because we were shooting mostly night shoots and Northern Ontario in -30-degree weather. It was intense, and in terms of the difficulties, much of it stemmed from production. When you feel inspired and charged up by a scene, that's always the easiest stuff to shoot.
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