‘Preparing for the next life’ Spot the light of the American dark open secrets

(Left to right) Fred Hechinger as Skinner and Sebiye Behtiire as Aishe in “Preparation for the next life”.

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Unoccupied immigrants and reliance of society on their work and failures how we treat young veterans, two are very controversial issues in modern America. Preparing for the next life The light illuminates unpleasantly, but vital important realities.

Drama, Based on the novel Atticus LISHStars Newcomer Sebeii Behtiire as Aishe, Uighur Migrant, trying to earn for himself in New York. The living thing that works in underground kitchens Chinatown, but its future suddenly becomes hopeful when they fall in love with the American soldier, Skinner, played by Fred Hechinger. Preparing for the next life Countries in Theaters Friday, 5. September 2025.

“This recognizes that the history of the policy of this country’s policy is indeed complex, complicated and EBB and flows,” explains the director of Bing Liu. “We also saw a lot of veteran and veteran experience in the United States during decades. It has done really challenging to try to understand, like,” What should I say here? What will this film add to Panteon those other movies in creating conversations? “

Liu Ads, “With Casting Fred, There’s a Him That He’s Just A Kid And So Many Of The Veteran Experience Is That They’re Older and Raugher Around The Edges, But In Doing My Research, The People That Are St It Go Fight These Battles, and especially in the Forever Wars that Just Happened, a lot of thee are 17 or 18 years old. A Lot of Them Didn’t Real Their Childhood Developed and Experienced Before are back, I’m really hoping I’ll investigate that part Veterans experience, like “What if you try to enter a romantic relationship, but you don’t know how?” At the same time, it is happily because you will be a child in a relationship.

“At the end of the day, it’s about what happens when two people never had a chance to see what a healthy relationship looks like and do love, in some way. What happens when you know their realities become on the way?”

‘Preparing for the next life’ relied on a sharp real world research

In order to prepare for a role, Hechinger talked with more veterans, and many of them shared the same basic experiences. He led home sharp reality for him that too often was not talking about as well.

“A lot of people enroll in high school and grow up,” said actor. “One of the main things that seemed reasonably frustrating about many popular narratives was the one that it was so complex, and now it was much incredible writing. Phil Klay wrote. Redistributionwhich is an amazing collection of short stories. It was useful and inspiring. There is also a book called Radiationwrote Matt Gallagher. There are a lot of writing that breaks the veteran mold, which is one thing instead of each person who is their own person. “

“I was lucky to have depth conversations with younger people about multiple and complicated relationships, what they saw and was part. People need support and care and did not worry not worrying in the consequences.”

Something Behtiire, making his professional debut with star performance and Liu, nominated for an Oscar for his documentary Seeing a gapThey could have done, it was to share their personal insights into the experience of immigrants.

“I’ve seen a lot of travel for immigration that get material, socio-economic climbing, whether it seems or not,” he says. “What I really thought it was a lighting book is that it was an emotional trip, if it wasn’t working here. She worked in several Chinese restaurants. She wasn’t lonely here. She wasn’t lonely here. She wasn’t lonely here.

The actress continues, “Something I share with Aisha. People say that it’s a different way, everything was new. Everything was going to be felt in a way, and something will be in some way. Everything was that I learn and something will do.

“There are a lot of similarities between Aisha and Skinner, because there are so much loss in their heart. They are in life in life where they feel abandoned and not to think about things that happen in life.”

Liu adds, “That’s Part Of Where My Documentary My Lead Actress Had Lived A Lot of Similar Experiences to the Character She Was Playing, A Lot Of The Work That We Did Was Asping Questions About Her Personal Experiences And How We Could Use That to Be Able to Help Her Embody The Truth of this character, What Choices She would make, and why. “

(Left right) Director Bing Liu and Actor SebeiIe Behtiire on the set “Preparing for the next life”.

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Preparing for the next life It was recorded in rinse, neighborhood in the queens environment, New York. Nothing stopped that it happens, and it acts in Favorica film.

“We had a lot of fun shooting rinsing, because it was a lively community,” Behtiire, which was audio in the role after a video ad on Facebook. “Everything moved quickly. Not many people looked at what we do on the street. You felt the passion and life of the community, and that made me so much inspiration for my character.”

“It was so energetic,” Echinger enters. “Recording in New York is the best, but a lot of New York film has a very common one. It is really special. Every day is really special. They are really special. They are really a fairy. Sometimes they photographs. And People would interact with us as if the great one life. The Great of Life is when Life and Art Explode Into One Another. and Remember Days When We Started Improvising with People Who Were Around. We Also Had The Greatest Meals and Some Long, Crazy Nights BeCause We Were Often Filming In The Middle Of The Night In New York, And You See and Hear Things That Are Truly One Of A Kind. “

However, Liu admits that he had to pull several wires to keep things that is realistic possible.

“Let’s just say we had a famous woman’s location that Chinese taxes and decades worked to get access to this area, and she wore a lot of money on her,” the director revealed.

Lot Preparing for the next life takes place in public or small spaces. Although it set the challenges for Liu, he managed to roll with it because of his background.

“The way I like to make documentaries like Seeing a gap It is in style to faith in which I run around, I become coverage to play as a scene, “Muse Muse.” I also feel like my background in sketchy videos, because I really help me, because I just like to experience spaces. When you drive a skateboard, you feel like water and you experience the perception of three-dimensional space to this liquid manner that feels both human and inhumane. It was a great influence. I showed part of the work process on my cinema, showing him certain videos that used camera movements to record the way skateboarders move in a very intuitive way. “

Fred Hechinger Stars as Skinner in preparation for the next life. ‘

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“Preparing for the next life” took leading water in uncomfortable places

He was already confident in the casting choices, it was when Liu did a chemical test that he knew to attack something.

“We brought us this attic in Soho and we brought Sebeii and Fred, but when we pushed them, they felt that they felt like that they felt like such a surprising choice” “they reacted to each other. It was like, “OK, I don’t know if some of the more darker parts of their relationship will work, but I feel confident that we have a good basic line here, because we need to connect here.” “

The director is also impressed by mildly responsible Hechinger’s abilities to play against the type so convincingly.

“It was less about it,” How can we get there? “And more about what Fred’s instinctions, where he is not willing to leave and why,” he says. “One of the first things we did in the first day of rehearsal, I have two downstairs, and I was like we were just beginning to talk, but you don’t know each other really well.” I have discovered a lot of things, and I don’t get it too far away, but I feel like it can be sure that you can feel that you can feel safe that you can feel like you can feel that you can feel that you can feel If you could feel safe that you can feel safe that you can feel that you can feel safe that you can feel safe that you can feel safe

In addition to the topics, as societies, we treat immigrants and veterans, Hechinger believes that there are some key lessons to learn to overcome any policy.

“Although these characters are” history and circumstances so different, they are both united in what they are not given this shortcoming childhood. There are quality in relations that they had previously experienced, “he explained.” I felt like they shared a dream, but they have these different realities. The Novel examines him in a beautiful way, but the scenario is still left into it. It is very easy to separate people, and take it at your best. We are at the best of order. We are at the best of order.

The Preparing for the next life Actor Concludes, “They’re Both Outcasts and Essentially That Stuck With Me A Lot When Were Working Was How Much Can Be Felt Between Them, But Still Unsaid. With Skinner, There’s Such An Immense Discrepancy Between What He Was Promised and what He Thought His Life would be like. Genuine Care, Community, and People Who Are Truly That’s Needed, and It’s Something That He Doesn’t Have In His Life. Aisha Is One Of The Only People Who Show Him Possibility and Version of It. “