Indie Wire released a featurette with several clips from All of Us Strangers that were not in the trailer (contains some spoilers!) and also some short clips from the director Andrew Haigh, and some from the cast, presumably filmed before the strike.
For Haigh, Scott felt like the only choice for Adam. The director is 50 and the actor is 47, which gave the two men a certain shorthand. “He’s a man of a certain generation like me. And we both grew up gay and there was a lot of stuff that was coming out about that for both of us,” he said . “We bonded as you do often with people when you’ve had the same experience or a similar experience.”
The specificity to which Haigh alludes is being a queer Gen Xer who must come to terms with their sexuality during the AIDS crisis. “Obviously, things have got so much better,” he said. “But all of that pain that a generation of people felt growing up, that hasn’t all vanished, that pain is still there, it’s still lurking..."
A few shots I managed to edit and export before my external drive decided it would rather die than edit one more photo 🥲
Thankfully, the show is still on the SD card, but I may have just lost an entire years worth of photography 😅 let this be a friendly reminder to have backup drives