Yes, God, Yesis masturbatory in the best possible way.
“I initially sought another director to do it, and was meeting with other directors.
And then one of them said to me, ‘This is your personal project.
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I was like, ‘No!’
“Natalia was incredibly kind and patient with me on set,” Maine says.
“I think you gave great notes!”
It was a really lovely back and forth relationship.”
“There’s so many layers to a simple expression that she does.”
“I’m not going for the gross-out laugh,” she notes.
“I wanted it to feel young and inexperienced and sort of fumbling, in a way.
Like, when she first tries masturbating, she’s been eating Cheetos!
And we’ve all had Cheetos they’re gross, if you think about it.
And that’s what I liked about it, this teenage sort of acting on impulse and instinct.”
And that’s part of what makesYes, God, Yesquietly groundbreaking.
“[Female sexuality] is not something that’s readily discussed,” the filmmaker says.
And there’s always a sense of shame around that.
“Film, I think, is powerful, screens are powerful.
“Print that!”
Maine says with a laugh.
