Cate Shortland

it up! I think there was a pitch at some point to do a throwback spy thing.

Because by starting the movie this way, which is like an episode of The Americans in Ohio, Clearly, people who developed this, Eric Pearson, who wrote it, Kate Shortland, who directed, probably watched FX's Americans, which is a perfect series.

And they're like, what if Natasha's story could have tied in with that? But then they quickly moved past that.

If the whole movie was set in the 90s, then it's a different movie.