A lot of the material that ended up in the movie was in that script.
Here, Gerwig explains how she crafted a family fight thats almost too real.
GERWIG:The final movie hews almost exactly to the words on the page.
Ill even have exact cuts in the film are cuts that I knew about in the script.
Here, I wrote her mothers lines pre-lapped, Suspended?
How does this happen?
Then they go into that scene.
I knew thats what I was going to set up against.
One thing that Ive always loved in plays is cacophonous dialogue.
I like that it seems so chaotic and also like a symphony.
People, especially when fighting, dont wait for the other person to finish.
I thought there was something specific to the time about playing solitaire on the computer.
Everyone had that preloaded on their computer.
I also thought it was funny but also sad.
Larrys unemployed and trying to fill his time while he figures out what the next thing is.
I like things that cut both ways.
Its the same thing with the way the wrong side of the tracks is threaded through.
The first time you hear her say it is to Danny as a strange joke.
Then you hear Danny say it back to Marion before Thanksgiving.
Now, in the spring, Marion brings it up again.
What Marion wants to say to her daughter is, Im terrified that I have not done my job.
But all of that is so scary to say, you focus on something else.
In the midst of that, you get distracted.
Some teenagers would just say, F you.
Im never going to talk to you again.
It both explains something about her and also reduces what her parents did to economic, and its cruel.
And Marion meets her right there with equal venom, but thats why Lady Bird is who she is.
She can sling it, and her mom can sling it right back.
Something I always wanted to do was make them the same.
On some level, they cant knock each other over because they have equal weight.
We rehearsed before, and I knew that the hand raising wasnt right.
Saoirse actually came up with throwing the notepad.
