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TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2020
Jude Law, Carrie Coon on the moody marital drama 'The Nest'

By LINDSEY BAHR up and art teams is that
AP Film Writer when people make films
Carrie Coon so badly about the '80s, they have
wanted the slow-burn fa- too much fun with it," Durkin
milial drama "The Nest" to said. "If you look at the real
be made, she told its direc- references in family pic-
tor that she'd step aside so tures and pictures from the
that he could cast "some- street that aren't the pop
one more famous" in her references, it doesn't look
role. very different from today."
"The Nest," which is now Law said the set and cos-
playing in select theaters tume design kicked back
nationwide, is writer-direc- memories from the time,
tor Sean Durkin's first in al- like a particular pair of
most 10 years. His debut, shoes he coveted as a
"Martha Marcy May Mar- young teen
lene," was a critical dar- "But I'm at the age where
ling and had a breakout I still can't believe how far
role for Elizabeth Olsen, away the '80s are," Law
but in the years since the laughed. "A piece in the
"mid-budget" films that he '80s is like a piece in the
wanted to make became 1880s." Coon, who was a
even rarer in a franchise- This image released by IFC Films shows Jude Law, center right, and Carrie Coon, center left, in a child in the mid-'80s, dyed
obsessed ecosystem. scene from "The Nest." her hair a honey blonde
"It just goes to show how Associated Press shade that was specific to
you can be successful and the era and said that she
make a very fine and com- next," Law said. "We of course enjoyed that free to make choices, that got to wear "better clothes"
pelling and critically well- In Durkin's script, he found aspect of playing a scene their choices were valid." than she remembered from
received film and still not an intriguing challenge in its entirety and knowing "The Nest," which has been the time. "I got the best of
be able to get something in the character of Rory, where you go in isn't where described as a ghost story the '80s palette," she said,
made," Coon said. an entrepreneur whose you're going to come out," without ghosts, is a work of including a reproduction of
Coon had signed on early dreams of a high society life Law said. "You're going to fiction, but Durkin did draw a stunning black and white
to play Allison, one half of a have started to curdle into let the scene affect you some inspiration from his suit inspired by a Chloe ad-
married couple who leave delusion. When he moves and carry you." own life. He spent "a good vertisement.
their happy life in the U.S. his wife, stepdaughter and Coon was excited to dis- portion" of his childhood But at the heart of it, be-
for the promise of a grand- son to a stately old man- cover that her co-star was in England and moved to hind the wealth signifiers,
er one in the U.K. in the mid- sion in Surrey, the veneer "delightful" and "unguard- New York at age 11. the chinchilla coats and
1980s. The "Leftovers" and on their yuppie life starts to ed," which she said can "Nowadays the move be- the earnest class climbing,
"Fargo" actor has a devot- fade. be rare for someone so fa- tween New York and Lon- is a marriage and a family
ed base, but she also knew "I kept trying to color him so mous. don is a very seamless one, that's being redefined un-
that it would take a star to that he was attractive be- "So much of the tone is go- but at the time, in the late der the societal pressures
get "The Nest" made. She fore he became destruc- ing to get set by him. And '80s, early '90s, there was a of a new environment.
said to Durkin and his pro- tive," Law said. it was such a great energy. very stark difference in at- "It was a really egalitarian
ducer that they may need Although Law and Coon He's such a generous and mosphere and feel," Durkin marriage in a time when
to "let her go." were strangers coming open person," she said. said. "I wanted to capture that was unusual and she's
Durkin, for his part, declined into "The Nest," they quickly "And he was so lovely with that." thrust into a position of be-
her offer. And thankfully found that they shared a the kids (Oona Roche and The eerie tone he sets is ing more of a housewife
Jude Law entered the pic- common language in the Charlie Shotwell). He want- juxtaposed with a vision of than she's ever been. She
ture not too long after. theater. And Durkin's style ed to make sure the kids 1980s elegance rarely seen feels uncomfortable in
"Like most people, I was I of filming, long takes from understood that they were in period films. this new arrangement be-
was just curious to know a distance, complimented just as much a part of this "One of the first things I said cause it doesn't suit her,"
what Sean was going to do their stage backgrounds. film, that they should feel to my costume and make- Coon said. q

Gina Yashere memoir 'Cack-Handed' to be released in June

NEW YORK (AP) — Gina Yashere has some handed, which I am, and also awkward
tough stories to share but also some inspir- and clumsy, which I am. It also represents
ing ones. the unconventional track my life and ca-
A memoir by the comedian, writer and reer has taken," Yashere said in a state-
producer and actor is called, "Cack- ment. "This is a book about trying, whether
Handed" and comes out June 8, Amistad you succeed or not. About wanting some-
announced Monday. According to the thing and going for it, despite how ridic-
publisher, an imprint of HarperCollins, Yas- ulous, impossible, and stupid it sounds to
here will trace her life from growing up as other people. I'm excited to take you guys
a child of Nigerian immigrants in London to on this journey through my crazy life."
enduring the racist and sexist comments The 46-year-old Yashere is a commentator
Gina Yashere, left, producer of the CBS series "Bob Hearts Abish- of co-workers while she was an elevator on "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah" and
ola," and executive producer Chuck Lorre take part in a panel
discussion on the show during the Summer 2019 Television Crit- operator. It will also detail the fulfilling of has starred in standup specials for Netflix
ics Association Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton, in a Thursday, her dream of moving to the U.S. and be- and Showtime. She is a co-creator of the
Aug. 1, 2019 file photo, in Beverly Hills, Calif. coming a top standup comedian. sitcom "Bob Hearts Abishola," which she
Associated Press "The definition of cack-handed is left- also appears in and helps write.q