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Is There a Literacy About Mental Health?
Paul Mescal plays the dad and you have given him such a hard job because it's a character with real serious mental health issues. The whole point of the movie is how he can keep them buried almost all the way. I had to be coming from a specific place to write it even though I was trying to write it in a way that didn't succumb to cliche. We had to know but I think Paul had to then bury it because Calum doesn't understand what's happening to him.
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