Arts: A Conversation With Lynn Shelton

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Brow Beat A Conversation With Lynn Shelton By L.V. Anderson Posted Monday, Jun 18, 2012, at 12:34 PM ET After building a career in film editing and then directing a few short and feature films, Lynn Shelton garnered big raves for Humpday, her 2009 comedy about two male friends (Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard) who decide to make a gay porn film together, even though one of them is married and both are straight. This week, she returns to the big screen with Your Sister's Sister, a romantic comedy starring Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt as half-sisters and Duplass as a friend whose feelings for both sisters becomes complicated when he spends a few days with them at their family cabin. Slate spoke to Shelton about how she imbues characters with humanity, why she loves working with Mark Duplass, and what it was like to direct an episode of Mad Men. Slate: Your Sister's Sister is similar to Humpday in that both films are about interlopers: There's an intimate relationship between two people, and then a third person comes in and changes it. What draws you to that kind of dynamic? Lynn Shelton: I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people. We have a perception of who we think we are and expectations about who we believe we are. And then we get into certain circumstances where those beliefs and those expectations and that perception are challenged, and I'm fascinated by that: when people so want to connect to each other ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Drones Aren't Just in the Sky. Now They're in the Ocean Too. A Job-Loss Map That Should Throw the Obama Campaign Into a Panic We Don't Need More Scientists—We Need Better Ones	Advertisement
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