My name is Andrew Haigh, and I am the director and screenwriter of ‘All of Us Strangers.’ So here’s Adam, played by Andrew Scott, who reunites with his parents for the first time after they’ve been dead for 30 years. And the father is played by Jamie Bell, and the mother, who is about to come out of her childhood home, is played by Claire Foy. “Yes, that’s you.” And I think it’s a really kind of special, weird, weird moment. I mean, the idea of meeting someone you’ve lost is so powerful and strange and unusual. But what I like is that Adam was not surprised at all. He was not even afraid to enter. He wants this reconnection. “Where?” “Do you live by yourself?” “Do you have your own place?” “Yes. It’s just flat.” “What did I tell you? What did I tell you? I told you he’d be good for himself, didn’t I?” And it was actually shot in my own childhood home, where I lived until I was about eight. So it was a magical experience shooting here. It’s like a haunted house. “Now, I know you’ll always be creative.” It was very important to me that they didn’t look like traditional ghosts. I don’t want to get wrapped up in the logic of regular ghost stories. They held him. We see that relationship very early on. There is a lot of touch and tenderness in this movie. And that was the key for me. And it’s surprising, because they treated him like a child, but at the same time offered him a drink. It is obvious that he is not a child anymore. And I think slowly in the scene, I want you to really feel like, oh, yes, we are not in the present day. The way parents dress. The fact that they both smoke. The language they use is really important to me, because I want the audience to be unsure of what we’re seeing. Are they ghosts? Are they manifestations of his subconscious? Is it a fantasy? And I wanted to play with those different elements, so I felt like it could be all of those things, and you keep asking questions about what’s real and what’s not. [CLINKING]
