and I'll honest to God wow that's a heck of a compliment and I'm pretty sure I've said that to you before but you know that was a really I don't know I just could not find like this story is so focused around the Hayley Greenheart character and her relationship with her sister

in Abbas 1 we see her in pretty horrific abusive environment and I think that has informed a lot of the character and then growing up.

And then Haley is essentially gaslit for the entirety of the middle chunk that we're missing between one and two and told like, you don't know what you're talking about.

Like you're lying, you're making this up, you're crazy.

Um, and that was just a really interesting thing to play with.

And I think like, for me, there's all the alien stuff going on.

And then there's also like Haley's mental stuff you've got going on because like, I think there's so much going on with this character in terms of how she grew up.

So you could see just in that scene the progression of character development that Hayley Greenheart has to go through.

Yeah

... character.

She doesn't really trust a lot of people.

You see this throughout the film.

She doesn't trust her sister.

She doesn't trust her friend.

She doesn't honestly trust anybody, and he is not an ex- exception.

Um, same question for you, Paige.

So have you learned a lot about the, the end of, I wanna say, uh, the end of directing? Have you learned a lot about directing at, from an actor's point of view, would you say?

Yeah, I mean, I think some of the best directors have a hand in acting as well, because it's really har- actors, the way that we're interpreting language and understanding things and trying to make, you know, shape them and put it out in a way that is understandable to an audience, our brains work a little bit differently.

[laughs] And, uh, I think really, uh, having someone who understands the way actors ... are coming at things and coming up with a way to, you know, approach them with a, a sense of kindness and, you know, just humility and like, "Let's work on this together and see what we can figure out." Instead of just...

I've been on some sets, not yours obviously.

[laughs]

You get another scene time

... it's run by the charity that my character is the president of, so I was like, "Don't you think I should be there?" And they were like, "Oh, no, no, no, you're just in jeans and a sweater." And I was like, "All right," like whatever.

So I'm sitting and holding in my jeans and sweater.