Who will Elizabeth Olsen choose to spend ETERNITY with? Miles Teller or Callum Turner?
I haven’t seen that movie in a long time, but I remember I saw it six times in theaters. It’s when I got my first make out. Wow. Stop that. Titanic. Have you chosen your eternity? We’re here to talk about Eternity, a movie about, among other things, a love triangle in the afterlife where a woman must choose between a love she had that was brief but passionate and a lifetime of marriage. I’m curious. Did any of you realize you’re making a spiritual sequel to Titanic? Callum actually brought that up. He was talking about got posed the question greatest love triangle in film. Um and he mentioned Titan. I did not think. No, I did not realize that you Billy Zayn for a second. Right. So you’re putting No, you’re talking about Leo and the woman that got married. Like you’d be Leo and you’d be the man we never met when she was old. I haven’t seen that movie in a long time, but I remember loving it. I saw it six times in theaters. It’s when I got my first make out. Wow. Stop that. Titanic. I hope someone says that about Eternity, by the way. That’s where I got my first make out was watching Eternity. Watching this 90-year-old I’m really hoping I I don’t get sued by James Cameron. But um yeah, I mean I think that is that is the question like is she got to go with Jack or is she got to stay with her husband though? How many years? And um and like I think most of us unless maybe a few lucky few most of us have more than one love in our lives um at different points and it doesn’t take away from uh you know the love of one person doesn’t change or diminish the love you had with somebody else at maybe an earlier point. I think what’s been amazing in this in screening this film is how much people have reflected on their own lives after watching it and to discuss, you know, discuss their their spouses or how much they mean to them or or talked about a past relationship. And that’s been really lovely to to see. We’re all human. We all occasionally question what if we had chosen something else. I also just wanted to mention that I appreciated that uh you I think you leaned into the 1940s golden age that these characters all lived in and you know romanticize and were you looking to comedies of that era because this feels like it could be go on a shelf next to Sullivan’s Travels or the best the best film ever. Yeah. No, absolutely. I think um I’ve always like I mean Sturgeis is is a genius and Billy Wilder is my hero and even Lubich um like Heaven Can Wait so I always aspired to make a film in the spirit of that golden age. Um I think that’s when romcoms were their best. I think you know they they that’s when they won Oscars. That’s when um that’s you know they dealt with really heavy topics but with a lightness of touch. you know, you mentioned Sullivan’s Travels is, you know, set in, you know, depression and it’s, you know, but it’s it’s about joy and it’s about love and it’s about the the importance of laughing and so I really wanted to hopefully add to that tradition. Um, and even though I think the film feels very contemporary, um, yeah, the spirit is is Wilderesque. One of the things I really like in this movie is obviously for all of your characters, the 1940s is an era where they’re very nostalgic. And this movie is part of the appeal not only that you’re doing a romcom, but a romcom that feels like it could be uh of the golden age Hollywood era. Yeah. I mean, it felt like a throwback to the Powell and Presburgesque movies um that we all love. Uh, and what I wanted to do with Luke was he’s at an age where he doesn’t yet know who he is yet. He’s not become a man. And so he has an idea of what a man is. And these matinea idols like Gary Cooper and Clark Gable, those were his sort of, you know, north stars of what he wanted to present and who he wanted to be. And he stuck in a world for 67 years in which you don’t evolve. And what does that do to someone? That was really my my thing to play with and still look towards Clark Gable as an example of it’s not a bad one. Yeah. Once it’s in the script, you are a Montgomery Cliff, right? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I could definitely see this being a very sweet romcom uh for a lot of audiences because I think it offers a vision of a love triangle where there’s not necessarily a right answer. Now, I’m curious for y’all, was it important to have a even balance between what could be cons uh viewed as a fiery romance versus something that’s maybe a little more soft spoken, a little more practical? I think that was David’s hope. I think David was hoping to show all the different types of loves there are including Karen’s which is a form of self love and uh or uh Dine and John’s love you know could be a complic more more complicated version of a love um but I do know that David spoke into wanting to to tell a story about how many ways that love can be experienced uh how did you develop the different ideas of what eternity could be? I mean, some of them are very obvious, like going to the beach, and then some of them get very specific. Yeah. Again, feeding into the bureaucracy of this place, the whole design of the the junction being this trade floor is that you just need people to choose where to go and go as quickly as possible. So, this place, this space does not get clogged up with the newly dead. And so, you’re just putting things on there that will catch their attention like an advert. Um, it may not be an ideal place to spend eternity, but I think in the in that that that that days of post dying, you’ll just go, “Oh, I wouldn’t mind going to Surf World.” Uh, you might regret it, but um I think that was really important in the design of of of the space. And I think we obviously have some ridiculous jokes, which I think are I love, but with be behind each of those jokes, there is a truth. there is something that is kind of essential whether it be you know uh queer people may not want a world with straight people because they kind of weren’t very nice to a lot of us um or you know some people are capitalists and do you know think there’s no point in being rich if somebody else isn’t poor and I think there’s something it’s there is a truth behind each of these things even though they can be from the ridic ridiculous to the sublime we kind of just kind of let our imaginations go wild when it came to creating those was it your idea to do vinear Germany but without the Nazis. Yeah, that was mine. I think that was one of the first ones I wrote and that probably is my favorite. Um, and actually shooting those ads, the those kind of infomercials. We did that kind of it was the very first thing we shot. Um, and it was probably the funnest day. It really set the tone for the whole shoot. We all just laughed from like medical world where you don’t need any kind of degree or vimemer Germany or naked or kind of um kind of naturist world. It kind of created a bond between me and the crew when doing those. Um, and I think I’ve said it before, but we shot those on um, Digi Beta, and I’m going to be the uh, Chris Nolan of Digi Digi Beatas. I want to bring it back. I want to shoot an entire feature on Digi Beatas. It’s just my favorite format. Well, Miles, another aspect is we were talking a second ago about how you think people might react to this, and do you want this to be a conversation starter for couples that uh, maybe have something to talk about after the movie? Well, I I just think from the experience I’ve I’ve had when we’ve had these screenings afterwards, just people just want to share uh things about their their own life, whether it’s about loved ones or, you know, their their relationship. I certainly think it is just in its nature very thought invoking and emotionally invoking as well. Um I think it’s a really beautiful film that kind of gives audiences hopefully everything that they, you know, are looking for. She has two choices. Joan has two choices and uh Miles is our hero, but do you want to offer an even-handed consideration of what I think Miles calls a fiery or a sparkling romance and something that’s uh let’s say it’s a little more practical. It was really important to me that there is no right or wrong choice for Joan. I think even though the end of this film feels right to me, she could have chosen a different path. Nobody’s going to begrudge either of these choices, whether staying with her current husband that’s been with her for so long and has loved her for so much or the life she missed out on. I think you can be team Larry or you can be team Luke, but songs were always team Joan. That was always important to me. And that there is no there is no right or wrong. No matter what happens, one of these people is going to be crushed. And I think that that’s a huge credit to I have to say Callum who put so much kind of depth into the Luke character, the first love. um and and and and really brought out his insecurities. And I think you feel the bond with him and uh Lizzy so strongly that it does feel even-handed. It does feel like a three-hander. It doesn’t feel like there’s there is a right or wrong. And also, it’s not a binary choice. She can choose to go with Karen um into fake Paris land. She can choose another path. You know, there’s a there’s an argument that, you know, she had her life, she had her two great loves, and now there’s an opportunity to do something else. And again, that’s perfectly valid. I think that’s I remember a friend reading the script when I sent it and he texted me halfway through going, “I bet you she’s going to choose neither of them.” And I kind of I love that that’s actually something that audiences might question or consider or or or even want her to do. I think that’s that’s that’s vital. It’s not a competition. Yes, it is. Sweetheart is 100% for sure a competition. competition. That’s literally what we’re here for.
Who will you spend Eternity with if you had to choose? Your lifelong partner, or a passionate but shorter-lived romance? This is the big question Elizabeth Olsen’s character, Joan, has to wrestle with in ETERNITY. Larry, (Miles Teller) is finds himself in the afterlife with his wife, but an eternity of happiness is brought into question when Joan’s first husband (Callum Turner) appears and has been waiting for decades. Who will Joan choose? Second husband Larry, or first husband Luke?
Olsen, Turner, and Teller spoke with David Crow of Den of Geek to talk all about this creative rom com, and so did dired David Freyne!
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