On the latest episode of The Work with Michael Dunaway, Richard Linklater talks about his new movie Where’d You Go, Bernadette, starring the inimitable Cate Blanchett.
“Just when you think you know what you’re doing something as complex as cinematic storytelling,” he says, “it’s going to throw you a curve ball. I spent more time editing this than any movie I’ve ever made. You know, finding the movie. The adaptation process never really ended. It just went on, shaping this. You know, I’m not a find-it-in-the-editing-room kind of guy. I really am not. It’s all there at front. But this one kind of was. There was like, ‘Oh, what? Where is the story?’ Anything that gets too far off the Bernadette-B track feels like kind of going sideways. I just had to feel my way through it, Sandra Adair and I. Yeah, it was quite a sculptural process.”