Did you end your work on “Andor” after which go straight into making “Sharper”? What was the timeline there?

I used to be filming “Andor” from January 2021 to about April. And in December, I might been assembly Julianne Moore, assembly producers, assembly the studio about “Sharper” with a view to probably directing it. It wasn’t that simple as a result of there was one other challenge which I used to be meant to be doing. It was a ardour challenge that I might been growing for a very long time, truly with Vanessa Kirby. And I used to be satisfied it was going to occur.

However I might learn “Sharper,” and it was a kind of scripts: It was type of humorous, it was character-driven, it was an unique film, it was type of a thriller about sexual politics and belief and betrayal. I simply beloved all of the twists and all of the reversals in there. So I might learn it and beloved it and I began assembly everybody. And I stated, “Look, I am unsure I can do that. You need to begin in the summertime. I’ve obtained this different movie. And I am doing ‘Andor’ proper now and I will battle to offer you a lot of my time.” And [producers] Erik [Feig] and Julie [Moore] have been like, “Oh, no. We simply need you to fulfill the folks from Apple and possibly the folks at A24.” … I talked about my ardour for the movie, after which I went again to directing “Andor.”

I obtained a name on a weekend, I believe it was actually early in January. And the producer was like, “Look, Julie needs you to do it. The studio, Apple and A24, need to do it. Mainly, the film is inexperienced lit should you say sure. It’ll occur.” And so it was that second the place my total life I might been ready to — I wasn’t fairly positive when that second would occur. Here’s a absolutely packaged. Here’s a movie that you just like, and you’ve got learn, that you have loved, that you just need to make. After which somebody’s going, “For those who say sure, it is going to occur.” So in fact I simply … sure. And the opposite movie I used to be growing had fallen down just a little bit and it appeared prefer it in all probability wasn’t going to occur, so I simply jumped to it. So I might stated sure to that, after which principally went into filming “Andor” at nighttime winter months of January. 

That went throughout till Could, and we have been casting within the background. So I used to be beginning to meet potential Maxes, after which looking for Sandra. As a result of I knew that, for me, was an important half in “Sharper.” And I preferred the concept of discovering an unknown. Somebody that we might launch. With the assistance of my casting director, we discovered Briana. She simply popped up and it was like, “Wow, she’s superb.” Mainly, there isn’t any one else — she must be the one which performs Sandra.

So we did casting after which in the summertime, I moved out with my complete household to New York, and we began taking pictures in September. So yeah, it was a busy yr. It was a mad yr.