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Lemonada. This is Talk Easy. I'm Stan Forgo, so welcome to the show.

Today, writer-director, Yolkeem Trir.

Last week, we spoke with Noah Bombok about his latest film, Jay Kelly.

And you can imagine a pretty good double feature with Jay Kelly and Trir's latest sentimental value. Both are inside Hollywood ruminations on memory, movies, and regret, especially of the male variety. Well,

actually, of the father variety. Each movie orbits around a man who is too busy making movies to

raise his daughters, And sentimental value,

that man is Norwegian author Gustav Borg, who attempts to reconnect with his two estranged

daughters after the death of their mother, his ex-wife. Although the attempt is a little selfishly

motivated, because Borg, who hasn't made a new film in decades, has a promising script

he's ready to direct. And so in turn, he offers the lead role to his daughter, Nora,

played by Renata Rinesvay, who's a working actor in Oslo. When she rejects his offer for a variety of

reasons, Borg casts an American movie star,

played by L. Fanning.

Here's a moment from the film

where Fanning's character, Rachel,

wonders why Nora didn't take the part

originally written for her.

Why didn't you want to do the role?

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