Rachel Brosnahanis trading in her girdle and black evening gowns for some bellbottoms.
In the background, driving the car is her mysterious rescuer Cal (Arinze Kene).
I’m Your Womanwill be released via Amazon Prime Video later this year.
Credit: Amazon Studios
Read our Q&A with Hart below.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: LikeFast Color, this new film revolves around a woman on the run.
What is it that keeps bringing you back to that narrative?
Why did you want to set it in the 1970s?
They are always pushed to the edges of those movies.
The men are always the protagonists, and a lot of the time it’s white men.
He often sends his wife and his children to safety.
So I just decided to make it.
Where did the title come from?
We wanted to have songs from the ’50s and ’60s as well as songs from the ’70s.
We wanted cars from the ’50s and ’60s as well as the ’70s.
To create that realistic image of what America looks like in the 1970s.
Music is really important in your films, fromFast Colorto the jukebox musical stylings ofStargirlto the soundtrack here.
Why is it so essential to your process?
It’s funny because movies are my calling.
It’s my career.
It’s what I do and have wanted to do for a long time.
But music is my passion.
I have never played an instrument.
I cannot sing to save my life.
I was a dancer my whole life.
I do have musicality.
I feel so lucky that I get to do that all the time.
How early do the songs come into the storytelling process?
I work with this incredible music supervisor, Dan Wilcox.
He’s also a KCRW DJ.
I work with him on a script level.
I just feel so lucky every time that we actually get to have those songs.
It’s an incredibly important part of the process to start early because it can be tricky.
Did you write it around her, and why was she your choice for Jean?
We were working on the script for about six years.
Not trying to get it made, it wasn’t like one of those stories.
And we were like, “Oh my God, that range.”
It also really helps that she loves babies.
She’s the only person I’ve met who loves babies as much as I do.
Considering the amount of screen time they share, I’d say that’s hugely important.
We didn’t know that when we cast her in the part.
It was just a lucky happenstance.
They literally tell you, “Don’t work with kids and animals.”
A baby cannot act.
A baby is just living its life.
A baby can only work a couple hours a day.
It was so cool to watch everybody on set every day [the babies] grounded everyone.
