![]() ![]() “We took a lot of them, with my wardrobe in particular. “I told her we were going to take liberties,” Stiles says. The goal was to not do an imitation of Pressler but rather learn about her process. ![]() I'm on your side.’” Stiles says she'd also text Pressler during filming with questions like, “How much do you use a notepad?” I want to know more about you, the person. She showed up at Rosie's-the woman the Constance Wu character is based on-with a box of cannoli as a sort of peace offering to say, ‘I'm not here to trash you, and I'm not here to take advantage of you. “There were so many interesting anecdotes I took away from our meeting,” Stiles says, “but I also really learned that she's got a lot of compassion for the people she writes about. “I brought my son over to her apartment, and he proceeded to destroy her living room while we talked about everything that led to this point.” Stiles asked Pressler every question she could think of-how she found out about the story, how she got in touch with the women, the process of turning it all into a film. Both women were working in New York at the time, but they had young kids and finding childcare was difficult. Stiles met with Pressler ahead of filming after reaching out to her on Instagram. That doesn't mean she didn‘t prep for the movie, of course. “I haven't seen a film that I've been in in a long time where I was still thinking about it weeks afterwards.” ![]()
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