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It started me thinking about the idea of a twin narrative.
(As Wright points out, it is also the spiritual epicenter of the U.K. film industry.)
It looked like John Does apartment fromSe7en, the director says.
But long before the script-writing stage, the songs were integral to Wrights process.
Some songs were almost like Post-it notes on the fridge saying, Make this movie.
Youd hear the song and youd say, I got to make thisSohothing.
I was like, Oh, I know that bit.
Thats my bit of Soho, she says.
We were actually having dinner opposite the strip club I used to live above.
Then we went out for drinks and I took him to this basement bar thats a members bar.
We went down there and theres definitely a few criminals in there as well.
A proper Soho haunt.
Nine months later, he called to ask her to write the movie with him.
Wright drew particularly upon his co-writers experiences with sexism in the neighborhood.
I said to Krysty, What is the worst, most horrific pickup line youve ever heard?
And then that goes straight in the screenplay, he says.
(For the record, it is, Excuse me, my dick just died.
Do you mind if I bury it in your ass?)
It required a lot of rehearsal, the director says.
Its not just production design.
The camera operator has to be in the right place at the right time.
The switching places isnt motion control.
Thats Thomasin and Anya running around the other side of the camera.
Whats being shot is really there.
The sequences with the mirror stuff is not green screen.
There are tricks like double sets, mirrors that would slide back within the camera.
Theres more happening in-camera than youd think.
Theres a certain part where you cant really control it, Wright says.
Theres a shot where Thomasin first comes into the 60s and walks across the Haymarket.
We had period cars and period extras.
You cannot stop tourists in the center of London in the summer.
Youre relying mostly on just peoples better nature to play ball and not walk through and ruin the shot.
McKenzie calledLast Night in Sohothe most complicated shoot of her career.
It was the most intense introduction to London anyone could have, the 21-year-old actress said.
You say, Whose idea was it to do this?
It was your idea, Edgar.
Why did you do this to yourself?
