Terri is a familiar coming-of-age story, but director Azazel Jacobs (who previously did Momma’s Man and The Good Times Kid) puts his personal spin on it by looking for the idiosyncrasies in each character. I had the opportunity to sit down with the director and talk about several scenes as well as how the project came together. During the interview, we chat about how his taste in music influenced the film, how the California Tax credit majorly helped get it off the ground, and how his lack of familiarity with a person like Terri encouraged him not to fall prey to generic images. Hit the jump for the full interview.
Most of the people in this film are not into mainstream or commercial things, was that something that interested you in particular?
JACOBS: I think that well, the truth is, when Patrick [deWitt] gave me the writing about Terri, I got faced with a person who is a true outcast. You know, a lot about being an outcast is stuff that you can just buy in a store—but Terri had something that was very different, and then being punk-rock, that he just was different and I liked having a character that was true, and different—that this wasn’t a character who decided to be different and who was dressing up.
Was Terri a character from the book Ablutions?
JACOBS: No, it was just that Patrick became a good friend after I read Abolutions, which mostly takes place in a bar. And we wanted to ...
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