Inspired by the death of Cronenberg’s wife, the film is rooted in the director’s experience of loss. For actors Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger, that made for an uncanny, emotional, and at times plain bizarre experience.
That night, Cassel decided to call Cronenberg and address the elephant in the room. It wasn’t until this moment that they’d acknowledged Cassel’s character was essentially a fictionalized version of the director. “That night I said, ‘David, it’s freaky,’ and I told him all these little things that had happened. He said, ‘Vincent, I’m watching the dailies—and I see myself.’” Cronenberg’s wife and partner of 43 years, the film editor Carolyn Cronenberg, died of an undisclosed illness in 2017.
Those flashback scenes were predominantly nude and romantic, an examination of the physical closeness Karsh continues to heavily grieve. As they progress, we see her body increasingly covered with scars, indicating the progression of an illness. “ precise moments actually happened, and I don’t know, I felt almost like an intruder sometimes,” Kruger says. “ is reliving. And he did hide a little bit, I felt, in those scenes. He directed us, but he was in a director’s tent.
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