ComingSoon Senior Editor Spencer Legacy spoke with Wildflower director Matt Smukler about the dramedy movie.
director Matt Smukler about the dramedy movie.“A girl navigates life with two neurodivergent parents and an extended family that can’t quite agree on the best way to help,” reads the film’s synopsis.
That was from the beginning kind of when screenwriter Jana Savage and I talked about how we potentially would make this a narrative. That was always kind of part of it, is getting into her head. My niece was in a coma, and that’s where — taking some creative license to imagine what it must have been like. We did a bunch of research in terms of people who have had comas and their ability to actually hear and not speak, which is a phenomenon.
I think when the cameras stopped rolling in the documentary was when I saw a lot of laughter and joy. But I think for people who aren’t used to having cameras on them, obviously it took the cameras turning off for me to see some of that. So I was able to kind of bring that out, I think, in the narrative.Alexandra and I had just a really long conversation and we talked about the character and I believe she saw the documentary.
Huh … that’s an interesting question. I think that, again, in this inspiration, we took some of the characters and then put a lot of our own stuff onto them. There wasn’t anything that was that difficult. I think playing around with this idea of starting the movie with somebody in a coma who’s our star of the movie and for 20 pages or something … I’m thinking the original draft, she was in the coma for 30 or something like that.
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