There’s a reason the filmmakers gave Gwyneth Paltrow such a grisly death.
I didn’t know for certain it would be Gwyneth, but Steven and I had a conversation that whoever was going to play that role needed to be someone notable enough that it would inflect the rest of the movie. We knew that we needed somebody who you wouldn’t think could possibly die in the first 15 minutes.
We’ve met her husband, we’ve seen a familiar scene of her coming home. We don’t know exactly how she got sick or what she did on her way home. What we were betting on was, the notion that your mom comes home from a long business trip around Thanksgiving, and that it’s this very iconic kind of moment for a family to come together. And to see that shattered by something that appears to just be a random cold or flu and then escalates into something deadly, that was the emotional underpinning to it.
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