JULIA SCHLAEPFER: You know what?
It’s a whole different ballgame watching it.
It’s been a lot, it’s been overwhelming.
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I haven’t watched it yet.
I read it and I did it, and it was just emotional.
It’s really emotional.I still get teared up talking about the finale and those scenes.
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It’s like we lived it all so much.
We went to Africa, we were on the beach in Kenya.
We flipped over in a car.
We swam in the ocean.
We were on the backside of a boat.
We did all that stuff, and we did it for months and months and months and months.
Every moment that they have together is a key moment in their relationship on screen.
I was like, “I don’t want to exhaust…
I don’t want to tap this well too much.”
But there’s still water in it to this day, just talking about it.
It’s just so well-written.
SKLENAR: It was towards the end, right, Jules?
SCHLAEPFER: It was definitely towards the end.
Well, I think, but I do…
It was towards the end.
But it was nice.
I was like, “This is it.”
And then we shot it.
We work with so many cameras.
There are five cameras on us all the time.
You do a fallout, and it’s so much fun that way.
And I was like, “What are you talking about?
That can’t be it.”
It was this really almost anticlimactic thing, butwe both felt the weight of how big this moment was.
So it was really surreal, I would say.
SKLENAR:It was an out-of-body experience.
I was like, “Whoa.
This is… That’s it.
A lot of just sitting and nodding.
And it’s also just profoundly beautiful.
It’s like, get out of here.
That is another actor.
That is an actor who actually isn’t as old as that.
They found an actor older than me and then made him look older.
I lobbied…I wanted the makeup, I lobbied for it.
I was like, “Put me in the chair.”
And then [director] Ben [Richardson] was like, “Absolutely not.
We’re not dealing with all that.”
I was like, “Fair.
I’ve just always wanted a reason to pretend to be really old.
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