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This interview originally ran on January 18, 2024.I Saw the TV Glowis now streaming on Max.
But their second feature is also a product of their experience with gender transition.
Schoenbrun infusedI Saw the TV Glowwith a lot of their own sometimes life-saving cultural fixations, among them music.
Here, the place is called the Double Lunch.
the singer-songwriter Snail Mail) the latter named after aBuffycharacter.
Like the WB drama,The Pink Opaquefeatures goofy-looking monsters brought to life with practical effects.
Still, the directors aim is neither to dwell on nor distance themselves from that desperation.
I hope this is multilayered.
Its a film about being lonely and looking for something that feels like real life.
Schoenbrun remembers feeling almost assaulted by that ending.
There was something horrible unresolved in my subconscious.
In Smith and Lundy-Paine, Schoenbrun enlisted two queer actors on the rise.
Music like Limp Bizkits is like a Rosetta stone for understanding our current white-male moment, Schoenbrun explains.
Her presence on set felt healing in a way, they explain.
