Leading up to production, I began to think about how I will direct the actors on set in bringing out the emotions we want for the characters. One form of research I have done is look at how a character deals with loss and the feeling of no control over what's going on.
In this scene from Interstellar, Cooper watches his children grow up in a matter of minutes which makes us as the audience feel great sympathy for Cooper as he has not been there as a father to watch his children become adults themselves.
I aim to get this same emotional response that Cooper receives from the audience within the protagonist. As a mother who has lost their child from forces they can't control; she will never see her child grow up and the only things that she has connected to her baby are the surgical scar on her stomach and the painting she draws with her own blood.
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