So I feel like, honestly, that being the case may have made things even a little bit better because we have to put in a lot more work to understand where we were coming from, which builds a stronger connection on screen. It was a tight timeline, and I mean, there were already challenges because he was 15 and I was 18 at the time, so we were coming from very different walks of life. But other than that, we both were just kind of winging it, I think, and hoping for the best. We would rehearse and just walk down a road. There was a short rehearsal process where Zach and Sarah, the directors, kind of just had us walk around and move around, like during those really elongated scenes where we had conversations. Sarachan: How did you and Quinn develop such beautiful chemistry? Was there a rehearsal process?Īzhar: We met a few days before filming. And I would just walk down the stairs and walk right in. So anytime we wrapped, and we were filming around the house, I’d be like, alright guys, going back to my spot. Sarachan: Is it true that you lived in the director's basement during the filming of Young Hearts?Īzhar: Yeah, it's very true. I think the film is really all about mistakes and the reality of them and how important they are. And I think that is captured so well in the film - both in the writing and the directing. It's all about the mistakes that you make. But within that little universe that they're living in, it is a big deal, and the mistakes that you make have repercussions, and you feel it because you're emotionally attached to all of the people around you. It feels like from an outside perspective that whatever is going on in a teenager's life isn't a really big deal.
I think that Young Hearts captures the awkwardness so well and the mistakes that are made, and the repercussions that it has within your little social group in high school. Sarachan: What do you think Young Hearts gets right about the nature of young love and being a teenager nowadays?Īzhar: Oh, gosh, I think the biggest thing is how messy and sticky it is socially. Live Concert Tonight On CBS, Paramount+ Will Celebrate ‘Broadway’s Back’ One of many reasons to watch Young Hearts is the film’s success at treating charged moments without preciousness or melodrama, and at depicting contemporary teen culture without getting lost in the digital-age details. The upshot is a profound relationship between two people in the process of forming their own identities and beliefs, who find a haven within each other.
At an after-school hangout, consisting of smoking pot and playing video games, Harper begins to see Tilly as more than just her older brother’s friend. Raised together in the Portland suburbs, Harper (Anjini Taneja Azhar) and Tilly (Quinn Liebling) have known each other since they were babies. Produced by the Duplass Brothers and co-written and directed by brother-sister team Sarah and Zachary Ray Sherman, Young Hearts is a nostalgic exploration of the enormity of teen feelings. Young Hearts, which aptly premieres today for Valentine’s Day, is a sweet film about teenagers that explores the awkward encounters of first love. Quinn Liebling and Anjini Taneja Azhar in "Young Hearts" Courtesy of Blue Fox Entertainment