PASADENA, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 15: Derek Cianfrance of ‘I Know This Much Is True’ poses in the green room during the 2020 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 15, 2020 in Pasadena, California. 723750 (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for WarnerMedia)
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HFPA in Conversation: Derek Cianfrance on the Power of Family Stories

normal’>I Know This Much Is True when Covid-19 hit Brooklyn, where he lives and has his home studio. “We shut down about a week before the restrictions came into place and just moved everyone home. We were all working from home.”

Mark Ruffalo who plays two leads, twin brothers, in the story.  “I’d long been a fan of Mark as an actor. In fact, with my film Blue Valentine when I was first trying to pitch that around and get it going back in 2003, 2004, I sent it out to Mark because I loved You Can Count on Me.”

normal’>Sympathy for Delicious. We were just instantly bonded. I felt like he was my brother immediately.”

Place Beyond the Pines is about fathers and sons and Light Between Oceans was mothers and daughters and this is again about brothers.”