![]() What was your approach to telling that part of the story? It’s about their lives and them growing up, but it’s also about how they discovered both separately and together that they’re very gifted musicians and forming the band Tegan and Sara. lt was really remarkable that they let me do this at all! I can’t imagine what it would be like to write a memoir and have todelve that deep into your life, and get everything in the right order, and then have someone come along and shake that all up. They worked so hard on it, so then me coming in, being like, “What if this happened instead?” They were like, “Wait, what! But that’s not what happened.” That was an adjustment. That also took a little bit of getting used to for them. ![]() ![]() So then it was just about having a conversation and finding a happy medium where they didn’t feel like it was so far from reality.Īlthough as the show evolved, it did sort of become its own thing, and there were more fictionalized parts of it. We won’t feel good about that in the show.” But there were certain times that something needed to happen in order to move the story forward. We never wanted to do anything that they were like, “We hate that. Given that it’s their lives, were there things where you were, like, “Oh, I really wanted that in there, but they don’t”?Ī lot of their notes were about accuracy, details of like, “Oh, that would have never happened.” There were a couple of things that they really didn’t want us to do, and in those cases, if it was important to the story, we would have bigger conversations, and usually end up compromising. We would write the scripts, they would read the scripts, and again, sign off on those as well. We would send them outlines, and then they would let us know what they were OK with, or not OK with, in those. How did the Tegan and Sara of it all work with them as executive producers - were you sending them scripts? How were you getting their feedback? DuVall directed six of the eight, with Rebecca Asher directing the other two.ĭuVall spoke with Variety about creating the universe of “High School,” why it was “a real dream job” and her hopes for its future. Laura Kittrell (“Insecure”) joined the project as co-showrunner with DuVall, and the two of them wrote the entire eight-episode season. But for DuVall, “the world around them also felt very rich,” and in “High School,” we also see the perspectives of their mother, Simone (Cobie Smulders) their stepfather, Patrick (Kyle Bornheimer) their father, David (Nate Corddry) and the friends who populate their lives.Īfter she got the Quins on board for a potential television adaptation, they worked with producers Plan B, and sold the show to Amazon Freevee (which at the time was IMDb TV). The chapters of the book are divided between the sisters, and for a television show about identical twins, that format would eventually serve as the template to keep track of whose eyes the audience is seeing the story through. “Even though I was a woman in my 40s reading the book, feeling seen at that time - who I was at that time, it was just so powerful.” “The way they captured what it was like to be a queer teenager coming out and coming of age in the ’90s, it mirrored my experience so much,” she said. So when DuVall read an early version of “High School,” the Quins’ 2019 memoir recounting their teenage years in Calgary, it only made sense that she envisioned adapting it herself. ![]() Sara Quin scored DuVall’s 2016 feature debut as a writer-director “The Intervention,” and Tegan and Sara wrote the Christmas song “Make You Mine This Season” for her second film, 2020’s lesbian romcom “Happiest Season.” Since then, she’s collaborated with them a number of times: Among other things. Nonetheless, after DuVall - a prolific actor in movies such as “But I’m a Cheerleader” and “Argo” - was introduced to the duo when she joined some friends who were seeing them perform, the three women eventually all became good friends “through being in the same circles.” As DuVall began to explore directing, the first things she ever did were promotional videos for Tegan and Sara’s “Heartthrob” record, released in early 2013. When Clea DuVall first met the Canadian indie musicians Tegan and Sara Quin years ago, “I was not familiar with their music,” she recalled in an interview this week. SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains light spoilers for the first four episodes of “ High School,” now streaming on Amazon Freevee.
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