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Steven Soderbergh Has a Secret Ingredient
People are ultimately unknowable — even your spouse. The key to coping, the Black Bag director says, is trust.
When I asked him a week ago what movie would be next, he said,“We just wrapped one on Thursday.” That would be The Christophers, “a dark comedy about the estranged children of a once-famous artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death.” He hopes to premiere it this fall. Sometimes Soderbergh sets very tight parameters for production, mainly because he’s curious to see the result: every scene in Presence is done in one take, while his 2003 HBO political series K Street consists of 10 episodes that were conceived, shot, edited, and premiered within seven-day spans. But by the time we got to the wrap party for the shoot, I was already pitching David a different version of that opening scene that would feel a little less genteel, and that would also play directly to the theme of the movie: What if George has to go fish this guy out of a club where he shouldn’t be hanging out in order to get this information that he needs about a possible mole within the agency?
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