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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Photo: Courtesy of Radius-TWC\n\nMark Duplass's The One I Love will surprise you. But we can't say why\u2014because, duh, then it wouldn't be a surprise. We can say that it's a long look at a very real relationship in a very surreal way. And it stars Elisabeth Moss alongside Duplass. And it's great. Like, wait-what-just-happened? great. We called him to talk about the movie and his process of making it.\n\n\u00B7\u00B7\u00B7\n\nGQ: How do you talk about The One I Love without spoiling it?\n\n Mark Duplass: There is a plot point that we don't want to talk about, and while it's not on the level of The Crying Game, we certainly want to respect that. It's kind of an in-depth relationship study that's funny and dramatic, and then it goes somewhere completely different. I think that form could use a little breath of fresh air and I wanted to continue to make relationship movies and do something totally different with it. And the seed of it was really about, when we first start dating someone we tend to put forth the best version of ourselves to them. We talk about how we like to go to museums a lot, when really we like streaming Orange Is the New Black at home. And we try to be more generous and more outgoing and everything. Then you date for two months and you start to reveal your real self. Why the fuck do we do that? That question sort of created the whole structure of the film.\n\nYou and Elisabeth Moss improv'd on set, right?\n\n The movie was very tightly, I guess, outlined\u2014we went through every scene was and beats of every scene, but we didn't write any dialogue. Every night before we shot TOIL's writer Justin Lader would write out a sketch version of the scene and we would kind of bandy that back and forth. It was fun\u2014it kept it fresh, kept it loose. It's a very tightly constructed narrative; it's nice to have an element of looseness to counteract that. Ultimately, my belief is you should spend, like, ten years on a script or you should write something that's meant to be improvised. If you belabor it forever, you can get the value of a well-studied and well-edited script, but unless you're doing that, I think the benefits, the freshness of improvisation with the right cast can outweigh sticking to the page.\n\nAnything to be learned about relationships from the movie?\n\n We're not coming with any lessons or any plans for people, for sure. People walk away with wildly different interpretations of what happened. And they argue with each other a lot in the parking lot. That makes me really happy.\n\nSo is this a good date movie?\n\n It's a fantastic date movie. And, more importantly, I think it's a bit of a purge-er, in some ways that I've noticed. People have really connected with the movie end up having these great conversations with whoever they're on their date with, and it usually brings up some sort of latent issue going on with them."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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