‘All Of Us Strangers’ director reveals unusual reason why new gay drama is so personal to him
All Of Us Strangers stars Andrew Scott as a gay screenwriter “who, after an encounter with his neighbor (Paul Mescal), is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) are living and look the same age as the day they died.”In the story, the parents die in their 30s, while Scott’s character is still a child.The trailer makes it clear it’s quite an original tale, mixing passion, romance and ghostly fantasy.
Haigh has now spoken about what inspired him to make the movie, and why it’s so personal to him. He reveals that he shot the film in his own childhood home.
He says he went looking for the house he lived in up until the age of 7 or 8. Haigh knocked on the door and spoke to the current homeowner.“The owner agreed to let us film there,” Haigh says, reports Variety. “He hadn’t really decorated it in 30 years, so all these memories came flooding back.
And then we used my old photos to make it look almost exactly as it had. It was so emotional for me, but it was also cathartic.
