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Eva Victor touched down astatine Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting show this week, wherever nan actor-writer-director collapsed down nan challenges and lessons they learned erstwhile making their debut feature Sorry, Baby.
The film, which Victor wrote, directed and starred in, premiered astatine Sundance successful 2025 earlier it was snapped up by A24 for $8M. The film’s logline is ‘Something bad happened to Agnes, but life goes on…for everyone astir her astatine least.”
Victor said that aft they wrote nan book “the situation was really pinch nan truth that I realized I wanted to nonstop it but didn’t cognize really to do that. It took astir 3 years betwixt sending nan book and shooting it and, successful that time, I needed to hole to nonstop because I wanted to do it very well.”
Barry Jenkins produced nan title pinch Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak’s Pastel. Victor recalled Jenkins sending them a DM aft watching immoderate of their viral videos that they had posted connected Twitter. When they first met Jenkins, Victor said: “I was wearing excessively overmuch blush – I ever deliberation astir that actually. He was very complimentary of my videos and said what I was doing was directing, moreover though it’s really different, it’s a mini type but you’re making decisions, you’re choosing really nan camera goes and you’re choosing what changeable you want to use. He was very affirming that what I was doing had a worth successful immoderate filmmaking believe way. I deliberation that placed a small seed successful maine that made consciousness for illustration these group spot maine successful a measurement that is beyond nan drama world.”
Victor explained really Jenkins’ support helped them to study to fto spell of things erstwhile making a movie. Speaking astir a circumstantial segment aft their characteristic Agnes is sexually assaulted and goes to her car, Victor recalls “ultimately wanting that full thrust to beryllium during nan bluish hour, that magical 20-minute model of nan day.”
“My producers told maine it wasn’t imaginable because we would person to travel backmost for illustration six times and I was really worried astir it because I didn’t want it to consciousness for illustration she was successful nan location forever,” they said. “But past yet Barry was nan 1 who talked maine down and said it was good for her acquisition successful nan location to consciousness subjective, astatine times moving successful a subjective way, and she emerges astatine nighttime because her full world has shifted.
“And it’s good if that’s not existent to reality, but it tin beryllium existent to really she feels. So I was like, ‘Ok, that releases me.’ And that was bully producing.”
Storyhouse runs April 16-17, 2026.
