ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:The Souvenirfeels like a family affair for all of you.
HOGG:Theres a documentary aspect to it.
Being asked to be part ofThe Souvenirwas so shocking.
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I was so surprised and so delighted and I said yes straight away.
HOGG:And the beginning of something.
Ive got a few years in me as a filmmaker and were gonna do more together.
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Not a very flattering image.
The pain is very early on in the process, before anybody else comes in.
It does feel so naturalistic.
Was that a lot of building the relationship between Julie and Anthony?
She didnt know from scene to scene what was going to happen.
He knew where it was going, and that seemed right for the characters.
So, Honor had privy to some of my diarys notes but not to the actual story.
How was getting Tom on board for this?
Hes so incredible.HOGG:Hes fantastic.
SWINTON: Hes a really extraordinary anchor in the film.
HOGG:I cast Tom very early on.
Julies apartment in the film is based on the one that you lived in at the time.
In a way, we had to start building it to know exactly how it was going to be.
It was like a time machine.
Why would you do that?
I got major Bronte sister vibes when I watched it the first time.
That relationship with whats said and whats not said and whats demonstrated and whats not demonstrated.
And so in control.
SWINTON:Sure of everything.
SWINTON BYRNE:Sure of everything, confident, and relaxed.
She possibly wants a little bit of that self-assurance for herself.
I think that was very attractive to her.
I really believed that.
I think thats really precise to that experience at that time.
When its not even that far away…SWINTON:But its so different.
HOGG:Through the process of making this, I yearned for it, actually.
SWINTON:The whole thing of getting postcards in the mail…
It did mean that ones relationship to a sense of being powerful was different.
And shes got a lot of processing to do after what happened at the end of Part 1.
