Unjoo Moon’s (“The Zen of Bennett”) latest film, “I Am Woman” charts Helen Reddy’s journey and career as she arrives in New York during the ’60s as a singl…
’s journey and career as she arrives in New York during the ’60s as a single mother follows her struggle ahead.
I sat down next to Helen, and I’ll admit, I barely knew she was Australian. But, as soon as Unjoo learned I was sitting next to Helen, she made me swap seats. She spent the rest of the night digging into this amazing journey that Helen had been on. If you look at how Tilda holds herself early in the movie, from the clubs or walking in the streets, you’ll see how she holds herself. There was this conscious decision to emphasize the photography to try to show her in this diminished position she’s in. Later in the film, she grows into this confident woman, this person who found her voice.
That was one of my concerns, and Unjoo’s too. The character ages through this. She starts in the ‘60s in New York. We looked at how to get to the final sequence of the movie and believe that this was the same woman we discovered at the beginning. We tested wigs and prosthetics with that. We couldn’t rely on visual effects to achieve those things because this was a low budget film. It wasn’t like the other blockbusters I had worked on.
The Washington scene is indeed a key moment in the film. It’s this full circle for her where she’s performing the song and rediscovering it and understanding what it means to the audience in front of her.
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