“It would make no sense today.
There was no other way to do it.
If it was going to be full throttle, let’s do this thing so that it’s successful.
“People always say write what you know,” the actor tells The List.
That’s what ‘Lillian’ ended up being.”
During that year, a lot of bananas things happened obviously."
She was like, ‘I need to see you tomorrow.’
I was like, ‘Okay.’
I was on a date at the time, and it ruined that date forever …
I was so baffled by this conversation I had with Lauren [Fernandez]."
What does anything mean?'
Then she left."
And while the encounter was only brief, its impact on Johnathan was monumental.
“Then a lot more heartache happened after that before we got back together,” he says.
“But the short [film] was that scene.”
It lent itself to what I like writing, where it’s like dramedy.
That’s what the short was."
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