Love the phone acting. It was so good to connect with Larissa again, and to have her take the upper hand. At the end of the call, I was still in it. She'd hung up and I was calling her name into the dead phone.

Alex's long takes and deep preproduction frees the actors so much already, but now, here I was pacing my living room, another level removed and somehow another level invested. There was a one-take vibe and that's what happened.

While I just shot one full day, I can feel the tendrils of this story proliferating and morphing as the shooting continues. The story isn't so much filmed as it is seeded, cultivated and harvested. I have a stronger than usual sense that these characters are living.