“Directing is a very lonely job, I’ll just be very candid, because you are kind of at the top of this totem pole,” he explained on the Dec. 4 episode of the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast. “In your moments of quiet, everybody has a thousand questions for you and also nobody wants to disturb you. And you don’t really have many people to talk to and you can’t necessarily share your anxiety or your nervousness about something because you’re also the leader.”
And embodying the character of Ryle—Lily’s abusive husband—likewise weighed on Justin’s mental health.
“It’s a very strange place to be, let alone directing while trying to play a character who does the things that Ryle does in the movie,” he said. “There were moments in the filming of this where I would just have to leave. I’d have to remove myself and go shake it out.”
Yet, while he admitted he even had dreams from Ryle’s point of view and took four months after filming to feel like he’d rid himself of his character, Justin added, “It lived in my body, but I think for the most part, he’s out.”
–Reporting by John Redmann
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