Author Anthony Doerr also joins the director to talk about the four-part Netflix series and casting Aria Mia Loberti, who is blind in real life.
The Big Picture Amid the feature films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival is executive producer and director Shawn Levy’s Netflix miniseries All the Light We Cannot See.
DOERR: At first, I was thrilled. I was so excited because the original plan when we sold the film rights was for, like, a 100-minute feature, so to be able to expand the material in our first phone call, and Sean was really emphasizing, “This could be four hours…” The novel's 500 pages, so to be able to turn it into something four—even we were talking about six, maybe—[hours], something with a lot more space to explore the characters and the settings, I was thrilled. I was really excited.
I read this book when it first came out, I wanted it so badly, the rights were gone, they were developing it as a movie, and I felt like, “Oh, I feel like I know how to do this.” I will say maybe I was apprehensive on one level, but I just had this gut feeling that I knew these characters and I connected with these themes.
LEVY: Well, we filmed in Budapest, it was a long shoot, it was 80-something days, I'm dealing with hundreds of extras and military sequences and war scenes…LEVY: Oh, yes, and COVID and being on the other side of the world and eight hours ahead of my family, my company 21 Laps, and all my friends. So, on the one hand, it felt daunting, but I will say that every day I had some sense of, “Oh, this is going to be worth it. This is gonna be worth it.
LEVY: Yeah, that dream was discouraged. She has memories of being a kid and being told by theater teachers and others, “That’s not for you. That’s not gonna be your path.” And so it’s just kind of miraculous. 100%. By the way, if her performance doesn't work, the whole thing falls apart. I’m curious fo for both of you, obviously, when we see Nazis depicted in movies, they're always evil because they're fucking evil, but you do have a sympathetic character that is a Nazi, and it made me realize that maybe, in a way, not everyone was gung-ho and they were still pulled in.DOERR: Absolutely.
LEVY: Get this, we're in the neighboring country to Ukraine, and we're filming scenes of the exodus of refugees out of Paris when the Germans invaded. Some of the extras playing refugees marching west were Ukrainian refugees who had marched west into Hungary, where we were filming. So that was a mirroring of real life that was heartbreaking and kind of just took our breath away on those days.
DOERR: Well, of course, you're seeing scripts all along, so I have plenty of notes as we're getting there. I know that it was a final cut when I got to see it, but there was one chyron—those little date things at the bottom—that was wrong. I'm like, “I think I can tell Shawn about this.” [Laughs] DOERR: Yeah, this is a different thing. This is a totally different medium, and the best path to success is to let Shawn make the thing he wants to make. Whether or not it's faithful in every single detail to the book doesn't matter nearly as much as in terms of the heart, the beating heart of it.
Oh no, I'm letting everyone know Episode 1 ends on a cliffhanger… I mean, you're gonna keep pushing play.
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