Both of us were like the new kids in class, first day of school – I end up sitting down next to him, and then I go up and all the scenes are from different films and stuff. Govier: First day, we walk in, and I’ve never met Will. When we met, Michael was doing a scene from Celeste and Jesse Forever in class. We really had to get the script as tight as we could to kind of maximize all of our money that you see on screen. Michael Govier: We met in early 2017 and became friends, and then we started the project late 20, and then we wrote the script for about a year, because we didn’t have the luxury or time to explore things or animate things. I thought, “God, that’s such a beautiful representation of grief, of that disparity.” Then we just kept reading over and over and over again about gun violence and mass shootings, and we thought, “What would it be like to try to tackle that?” That’s how it really began.īTL: About how long ago was that between meeting and saying, “Hey, let’s do something.” Michael had this beautiful sort of Jungian idea of these shadows that sort of represent the pain and the agony that people who are grieving can’t reach, because they’re just so distraught.
I think we were both interested in writing about grief and trying to wrestle narratively with some of the loss in our own lives. Will McCormack: We actually met in an acting class in the Valley, which is so L.A., right? We’re both writers, and we met as writers do to talk about what we were working on.
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While I’ve personally been a fan of all the shorts we’ve featured in this series so far, this is the one that just feels like it has the opportunity to go all the way to Oscar night, and maybe even win? (It has won a bunch of awards at the festivals at which it was able to play in 2020 before going onto Netflix.)īelow the Line spoke with the two collaborators over Zoom a couple weeks back.īelow the Line: Neither of you are the typical people involved in animation so what got you going on this, how did you guys start preparing to do this? If Anything Happens I Love You is another wordless animated short that looks at two parents trying to get over the loss of a child, a story that unfolds slowly over the course of the film until its devastating reveal at the end.
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Govier is a TV actor and writer who has written and starred in a couple shorts but neither of them animated. Granted, McCormack had worked with his writing partner Rashida Jones on a fairly recent Pixar film after that same duo wrote the Sundance favorite Jesse and Celeste Forever. For our next to last Animated Short Spotlight, we’re back at Netflix for If Anything Happens I Love You, an incredibly powerful and moving film by Will McCormack and Michael Govier, possibly the unlikeliest pair of collaborators you’re likely to meet when it comes to the world of animation.
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