Eva Victor gives Mass. a starring role in “Sorry, Baby”

Eva Victor spent two years preparing to make Sorry Baby their film directing-writing debut in which they also star We shot it for days And the main thing was they mentioned in a phone interview I planned the whole movie to have a lot of snow in it And Boston that year did not want to snow So the movie looks really different than I originally imagined But I ended up loving the brown ground and winter colors we ended up getting That was a surprise Not so surprising perhaps the raves Sorry Baby has gotten since its acclaimed Sundance premiere At its center is Agnes Victor a university English guide raped her freshman year by her English mentor As her story unfolds nonchronologically in titled chapters like The Year with the Bad Thing she finds life goes on It s a real personal story for me I desired to create a story that felt like it really centered the aftermath of a trauma The healing the attempted healing and not the violence itself So it was all about figuring out how to sponsorship that desire for the film to be about that aftermath That meant building it around a New England school with a cabin And it all sort of fell into place once I placed the characters in my graduate activity Naomi Ackie Mickey I Wanna Dance with Somebody costars as Lydie Agnes longtime best friend and Lucas Hedges Manchester by the Sea is both funny and poignant as the nice guy next door I spent a lot of time with an acting coach prepping the role as an actor Victor explained So most of of the work the emotional work had been done before I got to set Thank God Mostly it was about adjusting to my fellow actors performances and trying to stay really present So it was less checking on lines but more tonally Is this the right tone for the scene For the film as a whole The Massachusetts locations are major We had an amazing locations manager named Stephen Hartman who does a lot of the movies in Boston He helped us get locations I could only have dreamt of We shot like percent of the film at Appleton farms which is where the cottage was That was an amazing find Once we got that cottage I feel like the whole world opened up because we ascertained that perfect location that could in a few scenes feel like a cozy bubble for these two friends and then also a scary isolated cabin in the woods for scenes where the character is experiencing a scary night Sorry Baby is in theaters July Eva Victor during the filming of Sorry Baby Photo Courtesy of A