Daniel Levyhas an emotional and personal new movie.
“Marc’s world shatters, sending him and his two best friends, Sophie (Ruth Negga) and Thomas (Himesh Patel), on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each needed to face,” a synopsis teases.
The cast also includes Celia Imrie, David Bradley, Arnaud Valois, Emma Corrin and Kaitlyn Dever.
Levy, 40, toldEntertainment WeeklythatGood Griefis “absolutely not” a romantic comedy, and instead more of a “drama or a dramedy.” The themes were also personal to the Emmy winner.
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Daniel Levy and Luke Evans in “Good Grief”.Netflix
Netflix
He said, “I lost my grandmother toward the tail end of the pandemic, and I was in a very strange headspace in terms of feeling the weight and the profound sense of tragedy of what the COVID pandemic had done for all of us, while at the same time trying to honor the passing of someone who meant so much to me.”
“It was hard for me to feel the specificity of loss when all I was feeling was grief for so long,” added Levy. “It was that conversation that really expedited the concept of the movie.”
Jamael Westman, Himesh Patel, Ruth Negga and Daniel Levy in “Good Grief”.Chris Baker/Netflix
Chris Baker/Netflix
Levy said he found “catharsis” through writingGood Grief.
“When I went into it, I was still processing a lot. Not that we ever fully process grief, but that question of, am I grieving properly? Have I done enough?” he explained toEW. “I do feel like, in making this movie, I have honored the grief that I felt at the time, that this is all I could do to celebrate the feelings that I had when my grandmother and my dog passed away.”
He added, “Sometimes if you have the ability to write, it’s the greatest outlet for pain and catharsis.”
Good Griefis in select theaters Dec. 29, then streaming on Netflix Jan. 5.
source: people.com
