The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

Ned Benson's experimental drama is a male and female perspective on the history of complex marital relationships. Initially, the picture was divided into two parts "He" and "She". Read more Daniel Craig was originally supposed to play the role of Connor in "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" instead of McAvoy. A similar situation was with Jessica Chastain, who replaced Eva Green. Ned Benson began shooting his feature-length debut, divided into two films, in the summer of 2012. The work boiled for about two months, and already in August of the same year, the material moved to the stage of post-production and installation. The story itself was told almost in two scenarios, even if the basis of both was one story. The unusual format of Benson's dilogy even before the stage of launching it into production aroused the interest of the audience. The project was put into production in February 2012, when it was already known that Chastain and McAvoy would play the main roles. True, as the latter had already worked for Danny Boyle in the film "Trance", for some time his participation in the film was in doubt. Jessica Chastain's character Eleanor Rigby was named after the Beatles song of the same name. Despite the still "green" status of Ned Benson, already in this film, after several shorts, the cast includes far from the last stars. Among them are Viola Davis, William Hurt, Isabelle Huppert.