Directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s Ordinary Love—the tale of a long-married couple facing a cancer diagnosis—began as a script from playwright Owen McCafferty. “It’s n…
the tale of a long-married couple facing a cancer diagnosis“It’s no secret that it’s a very personal story to him,” Barros D’Sa said at Deadline’s TIFF studio, “because it had its seed in a journey that he and his wife Peggy went through when she had a cancer diagnosis. So, that was the beginning.
As Joan, opposite Liam Neeson’s Tom, Lesley Manville took an on-the-spot approach to some of the more traumatic scenes. “I found that with the difficult scenes, the emotional scenes, or the scenes to do with the procedures she was going through, something that I would just open myself up to in the moment, rather than pre-decide how to play them,” she said. “Because we did work with some fantastic nurses, who really were chemotherapy nurses, breast cancer biopsy nurses.
That marital chemistry with Neeson came naturally, Manville found. “I think both Liam and I work quite instinctively,” she said, “so we would do scenes together and something would come out of them that you couldn’t have predicted. So, I tried not to be too formulaic about it, and just get myself to a place where I was a bit more of a sponge.”
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