Rodrigo García and Holly Hunter talk Nine Lives

"Nine Lives" is a moving exploration of the individual experiences of nine women as told through nine single unbroken takes. As characters from one story reappear in supporting roles in others, Rodrigo García interweaves a grand tapestry of universal resonance that hinges on performances from an incredible ensemble. Starring Holly Hunter, Amanda Seyfried, Amy Brenneman, Sissy Spacek, Kathy Baker, Glenn Close, Dakota Fanning and Aidan Quinn, just to name a few, the movies comes to cinemas tomorrow October 14th.

Now our colleagues from Coming Soon had the chance to meet Rodrigo García and Holly Hunter in NY and ask them about the upcoming movie. Here are a few clips from the interview:

CS: How did you come up with the idea to make this film?

Rodrigo Garcia: I've always wanted to do a project that looked at the moment in the life of a person. That was the idea, even before thinking of themes or what the movie might be about, this idea that you can spend just a few minutes in the life of someone, look through a window as it were, and really get a sense of the problem as a whole.

CS: Since you had worked with some of these actresses before, did you write some of the parts specifically for them?

Garcia: I did write specifically for Glenn, and for Kathy Baker and Amy Brenneman. For Holly, I wrote one, but she ended up choosing another one, so I didn't use the one that I had originally wrote for her.

Holly Hunter: It wasn't that I disliked the other part that Rodrigo was offering me. I just thought that this one was more fun. The thing that attracted to me to Sonia was that I found the temperament of that story is very different from that of the other stories of the movie. It's more kinetic, and it has a child-like vivacity to it. Sonia has an innocence and a curiosity and a playfulness and she's chosen a man who is entirely opposite of that. Truly, they are examples of opposites attract and I found that entertaining. Stephen Dillane is aloof, cool, English, sophisticated, withholding, and the kind of man that a woman like that would try to change. She found him incredibly enticing and exotic, and I think he found her to be a purely American animal. That's what I loved about it.

You can read the complete interview here.