The edge of seventeen3/14/2023 ![]() I talked to probably 50 or 60 teenagers from all over the country. I really was struck by just how easily I could remember those feelings. It’s interesting, because I found that the core issues are just the same as when I went to high school in the late ‘90s, it’s just technology amplifying the same things that were always there. How did you go about your research? It seems like technology means what it’s like to be in high school changes so quickly. You’re confused and lost and emotional and unsure of yourself, and you’re positive everybody else is happy and confident and having fun all the time. I was interested in exploring a feeling that I remember vividly at that age: this kind of gnawing loneliness, when you really feel like you’re the only person in the world who feels like that. Where did the first idea for the Edge Of Seventeen come from? Instead, in that first meeting, he said, “I think the voice is really specific, so I think that you should direct it.” I wish somebody had a video of me when he said that, because I don’t know how well I hid the shock on my face, but probably not that well. ![]() I got really lucky because when I first wrote the script and I sat down with Jim Brooks, I was prepared to pitch myself to direct it. With the Edge of Seventeen, after you wrote the script, did you feel any pressure to hand it off to a different director? As it should! The director should make their choices and figure out what movie they want to make. But again, it’s a director’s medium, so it all kind of gets thrown out the window. It’s hard because you put so much of your heart and soul into something and you’re obsessive over every word and every period and comma. It’s incredibly hard because you have something that’s in your head and you see it, and it’s just such a distant, distant, distant cousin. I could just see so clearly that if I really wanted to see something realized, that I would have to find a way to direct.ĭo you feel like the film you worked on as a screenwriter, when watching it, it wasn’t what you had written? And then I started to write and had the experience of having my first film made, and through that process, I realized just how much feature filmmaking is a director’s medium. I loved picking up the camera and just shooting things, but I never really thought of it as “Oh, I could make a career out of this” - it was way too fun for that to ever enter my mind. When I was 12 or 13, I started to make little films. I had been wanting to direct since I was growing up. Had you been wanting to direct for a while, or was it something about this particular story that made you want to direct? I know this is your first film as a director, though you had been a screenwriter before. BUST called Craig to talk about how the Edge of Seventeen got made, making a movie about teens that’s not a “teen movie,” and the Oscars - both Hailee Steinfeld’s snub and the complete lack of nominations for women directors. ![]() If you haven't seen it yet, the Edge of Seventeen will be available on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow, February 14th (it's already available on Digital HD). She finds a confidant of sorts in her teacher (Woody Harrelson), who soon becomes the only one Nadine can really talk to about her life - but who doesn’t seem to have much sympathy for her. As the title indicates, the Edge of Seventeen follows a seventeen-year-old girl, Nadine (Steinfeld) as she fights with her friend, brother, and mother finds out her crush is a jerk and falls for someone else and grieves the death of her father, who died suddenly in front of her four years earlier.
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