I’m happy we found Rocky, Bullwinkle, Jack Handsome, Hero and Jaguar because they were so much more unusual. Kittens are very hard to find and very hard to train so we kinda only had two options. We can’t just have one or two cats, it has to be a whole team of cats and kittens. This is the thing – there’s actually five cats acting. How many cats did you look at? That must have been a fun casting call. So yes, all intentional and I gave specifics references to every creative department. I love beauty and I love mystery and I’m a real aesthetic snob I think. Given that you’ve worked in fashion for many years, how much involvement did you have on the design side of things? Seamus bridges this kind of beauty and special effects so well in so many movies that he does. I think he understands women more than a lot of men that I know. Who is not a female, but is very feminine in his own way. I tried to surround myself as much as I could with people who I knew and loved.Īnd you had the great Seamus McGarvey as your director of photography. I then met two female producers and I knew these were the right people. My first assistant director is someone I had worked for a couple of times the costume designer I had worked with before. I met a lot of producers who were very daunted by the story – they thought it was too big or would be too expensive because short films have little to no monetary gain. It was a very deliberate choice, especially with the producers. You’ve spoken out about the distinct lack of women in the film industry, was surrounding yourself with female crew a deliberate response to that? There were a lot of themes that I feel I touched upon that are really like constants in my life, having lost my father and things like that. Sevigny: Yes, the loss and the remorse and the grief. LWLies: Kitty is very dreamy and wistful but has real looming sense of melancholy. She took a break from shooting her new movie recently to discuss stepping behind the camera for the first time for her directorial debut, Kitty. The actress and fashion icon reflects on her early career and discusses stepping behind the camera for her debut short, Kitty.Ĭhloë Sevigny got her acting break in Larry Clark’s hugely controversial and influential 1995 film Kids, written by her then-boyfriend Harmony Korine. Since then has been a mainstay of both the film and fashion worlds, starring in the likes of Dogville, Zodiac and Love & Friendship while also launching several clothing lines. Chloë Sevigny: ‘Movies just aren’t as bold as they were in the ’90s’
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