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9 Apr 2024, 14:39
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Emma Westenberg has admitted she was nervous about working with real-life father-daughter duo Ewan and Clara McGregor on their new film, Bleeding Love.
In Bleeding Love, Ewan and Clara play an estranged father and daughter duo who struggle to reconnect with each other as he secretly drives her to rehab after an overdose.
While the story itself is completely fictional, the Trainspotting star and Clara’s onscreen connection naturally draws on their real-life father-daughter bond. However, as Westenberg explained during an exclusive interview with virginradio.co.uk, when joining the project she couldn’t feel one hundred percent sure the duo’s chemistry would translate for the film.
“You never know what it’s gonna be like to have a father and daughter on set,” the director admitted. “You never know on any set that you go on what the dynamic is going to be… I’m a doomsday thinker, so I always think ‘worst case scenario’.”
But the director also stressed she never doubted Clara nor Ewan’s ability to deliver a good performance for the film. She just arrived on set keeping her “fingers crossed that they [would] allow” her to access their connection for the film.
Westenberg’s pre-shoot nerves also came from the fact Bleeding Love was her first feature-length film after experiencing success directing other projects such as music videos for Janelle Monáe.
“It’s my first big movie,” Westenberg continued. “I was, of course, [finding that] terrifying. But then it’s funny because I’ve had this before when I did my first big music video for instance. Actually walking on set is like ‘Oh God, okay. Here we go.’ But then as soon as you’re working and as soon as you’re in it - because obviously you don’t make a movie alone… you’re dialled in.”
Thankfully for all involved, Ewan and Clara’s real-life relationship did translate well on screen. “They’re both such professionals that it was like working with just two actors that happened also to be father and daughter,” Westenberg said. Although, she also added that in between takes there were sweet moments where the two “would sometimes be joking” and “hanging out” together as family.
Emma also opened up about how the process of filming the roadtrip movie seemed to have a positive effect on the pair’s relationship away from the cameras too.
“When you’re filming, it’s so intense and it’s such long days,” she shared. "It’s like, either it can go really well or it can go really bad, and I think that it definitely brought us and them closer, because you go through all these emotions together and I think that is a really healing thing.”
Bleeding Love is out in cinemas on Friday, 12th April.
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