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Before tonight's premiere of MyAnimal at Sundance, director Jacqueline Castel shared how the real-life friendship between Bobbi Salvör Menuez & Amandla Stenberg enhanced the intensity of their characters' relationship:
This year's Sundance selection is full of films about self-expression, though each filmmaker uses very different means to show their cinematic heroes breaking out of their shells. In My Animal, an outcast teenage goalie named Heather Anderson falls for the new figure skater in town, Jonny .
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant prior to My Animal's midnight screening, the director shared the perfect synchronicity in her casting choices. As the central point-of-view character, Heather dictates how the rest of the story progresses, so the process of finding the right actor was naturally intense. But Heather's feelings for Jonny make up a large part of My Animal, so Castel naturally thought of them as a pair while on the hunt for talent.
When we approached Amandla, there was a formal approach, but then there was also Bobbi on the side being like, '"You should really do this project. I really think that this would be so much fun to do together." Amanda read it, fell in love with the material, and really connected to it personally as well. They were at the center of it, and they're the heartbeat of the movie. We built out the project with their involvement, so they were really part of the core creative team.
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