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To say more about the story’s twists and turns would spoil the fun, though part of the journey involves two of the main characters getting hot and heavy in the bedroom. Sweeney jokes that directing himself in a sex scene was “wonderful.”
“It’s just part of the story,” Sweeney says. “It’s uncomfortable; there’s the director side of my brain and the actor side of my brain. The director is like, ‘This is what needs to be done,’ and the actor is like, ‘Fuck you.’ It’s the war I’m always battling in my head.”
Sweeney hired an intimacy coordinator to make sure everything ran smoothly on the day. “Dylan and I had a comfortable rapport with each other,” the filmmaker says, “but it never hurts to have another set of eyes on the day.”
