The film was a metaphor of rebirth literally, at the end, she goes from a fetal position, then in the water, to come out, crawl, go on her knees, and then stand on her two feet and walk again. It’s the first moment in the film that you see her walking. For me, there was an ending and the ending was: She walks. Because, you know, it’s like when you are a film student those are the endings that you make. It’s always a temptation - and then you finish the movie and go with credits in silence.
I hope this doesn’t come across as sort of vulgar, but watching the film, I couldn’t help wondering: Did you ever consider a different ending? Did you ever consider killing Bullock’s character? You have an amazing partner when you work with him. When she has this dream and starts talking to Kowalski about her daughter. I probably shouldn’t, but it was when was ready to go back. And then one night I receive an e-mail from him, saying, I heard you were struggling with this. There was one scene we were doing over and over and over, and George overheard that we were dealing with that. We were struggling with rewrites, we’d stripped everything, a lot of the dialogue we knew that anything that was going to be said, it was going to have a lot of weight. He’s concerned about not just his scenes, but the film.
And George is a terrific actor, an amazing writer, and a gifted director. We’ve been approaching each other to work together for years, and it was almost like something that completely made sense. How did Clooney come onboard, and what was it like to work with him? attached to the role George Clooney ultimately played, as astronaut Matt Kowalski. Various actors “attached” and “detached” from the project as so much time went by before you were ready to start the actual shooting. (This conversation includes several spoilers about the film.) Here, Lee presents outtakes from the conversation, touching on the real-life science behind the filmmaking, Cuarón’s head-butting with some of his advisers (until they saw the finished project), and why he has no interest in awards talk. The resulting feature is a must-read for those still marveling at the film, but space constraints didn’t allow for the inclusion of all their fascinating exchanges. Over four-plus hours, they discussed everything from Cuarón’s childhood to his filmography to his take on the state of world affairs to the challenges he experienced during the four and a half years it took to make Gravity.
Late last summer, Cuarón sat down near his London home with New York contributing editor Dan P. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney with Alfonso Cuaron on the set of GravityĪlfonso Cuarón’s new film, Gravity, opened last weekend to nearly unanimously rapturous reviews (scoring a near-perfect 96 on Metacritic) and grossed an outstanding $55.6 million.
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