![]() ![]() “The idea was to create a heightened version of what the world is already like. ![]() Evidently it worked, as Her captures the intricate conceptual powers of his first two films while also delivering a more emotionally transcendent experience.ĭuring the course of our interview, Jonze admits to feeling a little under the weather – “My brain is working at a quarter of the speed it normally works at.” Regardless, his speech still flows with an immediate intelligence, as with his explanation of this futuristic vision of Los Angeles – a near utopian environment to live in, which is undermined and contrasts with the feeling that its citizens are disconnected from each other, from intimacy and ultimately from love. “Knowing that I’m with my friends and we’ve figured how to get out of it before and trusting and hoping that we’ll figure how to get out of it again gives me some piece of mind,” he summarises, adding that the editing process drifts between waves of uncertainty and encouraging breakthroughs. ![]() Ultimately, says Jonze, it’s a process that combines a feeling of stress with the awareness that experience will eventually triumph. With the resources invested in a project and the sheer time it takes to complete a film such as this, it must be inevitable to experience such wavering emotions. On reflection, however, it must be an innate part of mankind’s emotions regarding the creative process. To an outsider, it sounds unlikely that two towering talents could feel that way. There are definitely moments in the day where you’re like, holy f*ck, is this going to work?” You kind of have an instinct that it’s working, but ultimately you have to have a blindness to that instinct, you just have to trust it. Even though I’ve made three movies before (the third being 2009’s Where The Wild Things Are) and Joaquin’s been in other movies before, you never know if something’s going to work. It wasn’t easy and we don’t know what we’re doing. “Yeah, I guess that’s true, but I also wouldn’t want to make it sound like it was easy at all, because I think that’s misleading. Is it a case of being able to rely on your intuition? I think any great actor is a true listener. Asked about the challenges that such an unconventional performance entails for director and actor alike, Jonze explains: “I think he’s got such a rich imagination that it was like, ‘Oh, this is what the reality is.’ Also, good actors are good listeners, and he just listened. After the breakdown of a relationship, his bond with an intuitive, highly advanced operating system named Samantha grows into a full romantic relationship in which her artificial intelligence flourishes into something palpably real.Īlthough Phoenix’s role sees him interact with a cast including Amy Adams, Rooney Mara and Olivia Wilde, he mostly plays off Samantha – depicted solely by the voice of Scarlett Johansson. In Jonze’s new movie Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, a lonely soul drifting through a near-future Los Angeles with little connection with the rest of the city’s population. ![]()
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