I’m not happy, of course, that he died, but not having to show him the film, it’s relieving. Knock ’em dead.” I don't know if he could let it in, and I have to confess to you now something that sounds almost cruel but I must be honest, I feel almost a sense of relief that he never saw it. I remember the last time I spoke to him, which was on the telephone, his voice was really raspy, and he just said, “knock ’em dead, kid. He died of COVID and I couldn’t see him and he was in isolation and all of that. I was on very good terms with him when he died. It’s the first time I’ve been asked that, amazingly. I started to get stressed out and, in the end, I got very uneasy about when I would have to remove a scene or when I’d have to add lines or make a small change for story concerns that didn’t actually literally happen.īefore he passed away, your father knew you were making this movie. And then you get to the editing room and all of a sudden I was seeing my house and my school and it felt like a weird Beatlemania version of my childhood, like a Beatles cover band-it’s not actually it, but it’s similar. I have to say with the details, get the right lunchbox, get the right shirt-and at the time I was like, this is all coming together. We were shooting maybe 90 feet from where I grew up, we shot in front of my public school. I would’ve said it was easier in some ways, but that’s a complete lie because what happened was shooting it, I must have been in some state of denial. When you were writing this story, or maybe it’s more in the editing process, was it more difficult than your other films to either cut to get to the final version because it is a more personal story? I never told him to wear that kind of jacket my father wore that jacket. I remember there was a scene: A car drives up after the funeral and somehow Jeremy Strong gets out of the car and he says to the kids, “Lock the doors,” which is exactly what my father used to say all the time. It’s funny, I encouraged them to take it on their own and they always wound up coming back to my parents. My daughter actually videoed my father answering these questions, so he had that to go by. My mother has been dead for many, many years, but in the case of Jeremy, he made me take a video my father answering the Proust Questionnaire. They’d say, “but this is all we’re getting?” I’d say, “yes, it’s all you’re getting.” And then they would go around me, they would go to the production, design department and see the photos that they had been given. They would ask me for family albums, I would send them some stuff. So I gave them as much as I could, as little as I could get away with. I wanted them to bring beautiful things because they’re great actors, they can bring beautiful things to the table. "I knew I would definitely be shunned by friends, but I honestly didn't think my siblings would shun me because of what we'd all been through together," Ms Whitby said.It was in a way the principle challenge because I did not want the kind of Rich Little impersonation of my parents. In 2017, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found the total social exclusion known as "shunning" made it difficult for abuse survivors to leave the organisation, was "upsetting" and "particularly devastating" for those who suffered child abuse and left because their abuser remained in the congregation. They remain cut off from their families and closest friends: those they love the most. The people who break away from the Jehovah's Witnesses like Amy Whitby and Theresa Clare pay a terrible price. Ms Flynn's firm, Shine Lawyers, is representing 10 former Jehovah's Witnesses who allege they were abused within their congregations. In a statement to Four Corners, the Jehovah's Witnesses said, "The organisation responds directly to any claim for compensation in a caring, fair and principled manner". "That continuous denial, the continuous delays certainly has a significant impact on our clients," Ms Flynn said. Open Arms Veterans & Families Counselling 1800 011 046.Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN) on 1800 008 774.Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander crisis support line 13YARN on 13 92 76.Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467.In Australia, a similar pattern is being seen. They say the organisation drags cases out until the last possible moment, then settles to avoid a courtroom examination of its practices. Lawyers who have battled the Jehovah's Witnesses in the US and UK have told Four Corners the organisation has a global problem with both child abuse and the way it responds to victims. "We think that the Australian courts will make that same determination when they're called on to do so." Lisa Flynn is the national practice leader for Shine Lawyers.
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