191|The Reality of Independent Filmmaking: Lilia Ahearn on Starlight and You, Acting Careers & Bigfoot Movie Legends

The opposite.

So do you wanna tell us about the movie? Or I don't wanna-

Oh

... let the cat out of the bag.

Yeah.

I'd love to talk about it.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, um, how I said, it is based on my, on my love story.

I would say 80% is true and 20% is fiction because, you know, why not? [laughs] I mean, it's a fantasy world.

Um, well, it's a love story.

It's about a woman who falls in love with this future person that she never met, but she meets him in a dream, and then when she meets him in real life and hugs him, she, I don't, her soul automatically knows who he is.

It is definitely not your chick flick movie.

It is very much realistic how life is, but at the same time, the cool thing is that it's based on a true story, so it can happen to anyone, as it did to me.

I love that.

What made you decide, I'm gonna make this into a movie?

I was on a podcast like this one, actually.

[laughs] Yeah.

Uh, it was with a friend, and he, you know, we were actually talking about a previous movie that I did in Canada.

It was a short film.

It was Capture Hearts.

I was just saying that I was in this town where a lot of films are done, which is Hallmark, and so I just t- briefly talked about my personal love story, and he's like, "Wow, that, your love story really sounds like a Hallmark movie.

You should make it into a film." And I'm like, you know what? I should, because there isn't a lot of love stories in Washington.

You know, we have a lot of other type of genres, but not of this refreshing type.

That really prompted me to, to start going in that direction, and it has really grown and evolved and to the point that I'm like, it's not just for Washington, but also for Spain, Latin America, and, and any place that people watch it.

So it has a lot of cool marketability.