Les voies jaunes

An indie film crew throws caution to the wind when it attempts to shoot a completely improvised drama where the film's big twist is being kept secret from the lead actress, while also navigates on-set mishaps, bizarre twists of fate, and the first year of a global pandemic. —Anonymous Is a behind the scenes making of Ashgrove (2022). The two primary creative forces, director/writer Jeremy LaLonde and producer/writer Jonas Chernick, who does triple duty in also acting in the movie in a lead role, talk about the experimental process they used where the actors, including Jonas, only know what their characters know at the time of filming, which is done in chronological order primarily over five days. Thus only Jeremy knows the complete arc of the characters from start to finish. While the structure of the story is mapped out, much of the dialogue is improvised, the actors reacting to the situation as their characters make discoveries. While most of the actors know the general nature of the story, lead Amanda Brugel is the one who knows little, she however told that there will be a twist in the story. The challenge is keeping Amanda in the dark specifically about the twist over the nearly one year period from when she agreed to do the movie to the day of filming the twist scene, and what Amanda's reaction to the twist will be and whether it will match what her character, Jennifer Ashgrove, should feel, the potential issue being whether Amanda as a real person will feel betrayed enough not to continue with the process. —Huggo