Casey Affleck and Director Mona Fastvold on Their LGBTQ-Themed Period Drama ‘The World to Come’

With The World to Come now playing in select theaters and arriving On Demand March 2nd, I recently got to speak with director Mona Fastvold and producer/star Casey Affleck 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 (Katherine Waterston), a farmer’s wife, and her new neighbor Tallie (Vanessa Kirby) find themselves drawn to one another. The World to Come also stars Christopher Abbott as Kirby’s husband and Affleck as Waterston’s spouse. During the interview, Affleck and Fastvold talked about why everything was built for the film rather than using soundstages, if they tried to arrange the schedule to film certain things at the beginning or end of the shoot, the long road to getting the film made, how Affleck and Ron Hansen got involved in this project, and more.