Summary Produced by Elliot Page's Page Boy Productions and Devery Jacobs , Backspot premiered at the South By Southwest film festival 6 years after its original conception. Filmmaker D.W. Waterson was inspired by their own family's love of sports, and they collaborated with screenwriter Joanne Sarazen after researching competitive cheerleading in-depth to weave a coming-of-age tale about young athletes balancing their passions with the pressures of perfection.
Backspot’s Backstory Is Very Personal Screen Rant: D.W., while Backspot is not really based on your life, it is inspired in part by your family's love of sports. Can you talk about the long journey from the germ of this idea? Devery Jacobs: Yeah, I think I started producing on Backspot in 2017, going on six years ago now, even before writing and directing on Reservation Dogs. But this was . I used to be a competitive gymnast, and I used to be a former provincial champion, so this was combining our love for underestimated sports, female athletics, and queer stories.
And then it also helped that we went to the gym and Devery saw me falling all the time. So, I threw embarrassment to the wind. I did cheer for eight years, so it was like stepping back into it. But with not nearly so much finesse because I'd been out of it. Devery Jacobs: I was just gonna add, we had essentially an all-queer team behind the camera. But as a producer, I thought Thomas' performance was really nuanced and incredible. Had it been a non-queer director behind the lens, they probably would have cast somebody who was or straight. But it would have been maybe more of a caricature, and we just really wanted to make sure that we could find somebody who was able to play Devon's depth and humanity and that connection.
D.W. Waterson: When people are throwing bodies in the air, you're really like, "We're insured, right? The paperwork's in?" I felt pretty comfortable, to be honest. I did three seasons of a digital web series that I created and produced called That's My DJ. We kind of did that with no money and shot it super guerilla-style, and that's party scenes, so you're dealing with a lot of extras and a lot of crazy things.
Devery Jacobs: We were completely geeking out. In what world with our debut feature film would we ever get Evan Rachel Wood? What a heavy hitter and what a force. We were so fortunate to be able to collaborate with her.
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