


Crew Diaries:
TIN JESNECK
Set Costumer
minus the prince
I'm sitting in my trailer trying to come up with an essay of sorts on my experience with "Still Breathing". I keep rewriting and editing and nothing is coming out right. This was such a deeply moving film to me that I have trouble describing it. You know when something affects you so deeply, and you think it's so cheesy because it's only a movie that you have trouble relaying what you're feeling? That's me.
This movie is a reflection of my life (minus the prince -- I'm still waiting!). These people exist. These aren't some far-flung characters built for Hollywood. This is my life. Jim Robinson could not possibly be a man-- he is obviously a twenty-something woman living in LA. He must be Joanna Going's character! Her character is so well written that it couldn't possibly have come from a man! Jim's wife? A BEARD! That's my conclusion and I'm sticking with it.
This movie scared me like you wouldn't believe. The most frightening realization was that this girl was me and maybe (if I'm a really good person -- or not!) my prince will come some day. I just hope he's a dorky Texan with puppydog eyes. But Jim made me see, more importantly, that there are others like me, that hurt like me and yearn for that void to be filled.
It's such a wierd thing to write about something so personal without getting heart-wrenching and emotional. I cannot write about this film without my heart rising to my throat and tears welling in my eyes. It's like this man came into my mind -- ransacked my feelings, plucked out my insecurities and put them on celluloid for all the world to see.
...Tin Jesneck - Set Costumer
Director's notes: I don't know of anyone who "got" the movie on the crew more than Tin... getting inside people's heads is the goal of every filmmaker and it's humbling to know that sometimes it works. But I have to clear this up right now by saying for the record that I am NOT a twenty-something woman, nor have I ever been -- although I will claim a small dark piece of Joanna Going's character (that I am still trying to get rid of!). I have to say that I do remember Tin's first day on the set -- we had just started shooting in LA after several hard weeks in Texas. I was wondering why all the guys on the crew were fixing their hair and sucking in their stomachs -- THEN I saw Tin adjusting Brendan's coat by the camera. After that, the wardrobe trailer got to be very popular!

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