And she’s kind of following, she’s trying to get him to focus on what she’s trying to say, and he keeps finding odd jobs in the apartment, he’s picking up Henry’s knapsack, he’s going to put stuff away in his room,” Baumbach says. And Bird Box, a futuristic thriller starring Sandra Bullock, is likely to blame. Which is what makes a recent visit (or revisit) by Noah Baumbach to a pivotal location in his Oscar-nominated “Marriage Story” so special — when Variety followed the director to the apartment set that was redressed almost exactly as it appeared in his Netflix film, shot two years prior, in Los Angeles. Are you "Team Charlie" or "Team Nicole?" Catharsis. And they're trying to figure out, as they're talking, where they are and what they think. And when he does, we see the painful toll that takes on him. GQ: Tell me about writing the big fight scene.Noah Baumbach: It came really in the context of the movie and the story as a whole. pic.twitter.com/eqT1AnXYAJ. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. still not over this lil gem of a monologue from laura Dern#MarriageStorypic.twitter.com/mcczmhTJGG, — Strangers in a dream ☁️ (@LocationUnkn0wn) December 8, 2019. Terrible things have been said. I knew at some point that there was going to have to be some confrontation between the two of them because of the way that the story was shaping up. “It actually gives me anxiety to be in this space,” Baumbach admits, surveying the empty walls. But the character's specifics? We had a breakaway thing in the wall, but it was still quite hard. Baumbach indulges us in great detail, his intention behind every frame of the scene — one designed to show the uncomfortable closeness of his characters despite their total individual isolation. Second, Driver’s reel will be the big, emotional fight scene that comes midway through the film. Madison is a staff writer at ELLE.com, covering news, politics, and culture. A melancholic, heavy-hearted yet joyously bittersweet story about marriage and its unfortunate path to severance in order to find happiness. “What was very important to me was to have that kind of kitchen and living room so that we could see them in separate rooms,” he explains, “so they can’t see each other, necessarily, but we can see both of them. On Twitter, some viewers were stunned by or related to the scene, which was posted without any context and is only a small part of the longer scene. “We had rooms upstairs, the actors had rooms and I had a room, and we’d sort of come down, it’s almost like a boxing ring,” he says, removing his jacket and rolling his sleeves. But he's actually holding ice on his hands.