Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston on Their LGBTQ-Themed Period Drama ‘The World to Come’

With director Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come now playing in select theaters and arriving On Demand March 2nd, I recently got to speak with Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby about making their LGBTQ-themed period drama. Written by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard and based upon Shepard’s story of the same name, the film takes place on a farm in upstate New York in the 1850s where Abigail (Waterston), a farmer’s wife, and her new neighbor Tallie (Kirby) find themselves drawn to one another. The World to Come also stars Christopher Abbott as Kirby’s husband and Casey Affleck as Waterston’s spouse. During the relaxed interview, Waterston and Kirby talked about what it was like shooting on film in the Romanian countryside, their reaction reading Hansen and Shepard’s script, how the film takes place in a time where people had to spend all their time just trying to survive and love was a luxury, why Kirby felt very in tune with her character, why Waterston didn’t want the shoot to end, and more.