Transcription (en)

The idea that relationships can come to a place where you become strangers. Like I remember the date because it was my birthday, but this is March 2020, March 10th. And Jason and I had been having a rough time for a while. Like we had we had a real bumpy, bumpy ride. And we were driving home from my birthday party my friends had had. And I said, did you give me a birthday present? And he said, what would I get you, Olivia? I don't know you. and he wasn't wrong we didn't know each other anymore and this is the thing that made me want to make this movie because you can get to a place in a relationship where you stop engaging in the knowing of each other in the curiosity about each other and you find yourself in a place where you're like i don't even know you that was when we realized it was over and it was fucking tough and and it brought us to the place of like, okay, this is done. We're going to end this. And then literally two days later was lockdown, COVID. We are now co-parenting in the same house and obviously trying to make it work and trying to put it back together because you want to always put it back together for your kids until you realize like, this isn't helping anybody. There's so many couples who are like bickering in a way that becomes kind of a little comedy act, but there's contempt underneath. And we all know contempt is the end. And it is this kind of poking and scraping, but you can go a long time with that. And it takes somebody stopping engaging in that to have the real conversation.