The director shot his 2014 film over 12 years, documenting his cast growing older. As it’s re-released, the director reflects on his beautiful ‘time sculpture’ as well as a potential follow-up to Before Midnight and his 20-year project with Paul Mescal
– two films back to back. And the finish line was still so far away. But it’s interesting, because then you turn a corner and the momentum starts building. I started to think that the kids were the analogy. Because as you get older you empower yourself. You get more freedom. Life gets better. And the film was like that, too – it became that bit more fun with every passing year.”
He used to joke that if he dropped dead, Hawke would have to step in and complete the picture. In the event, the one person who almost bailed out was the director’s daughter, Lorelei, who co-starred as Mason’s sister. It was an understandable wobble; he doesn’t blame her at all. “That little extrovert kid who you see singing and dancing in the early scenes? Well, suddenly she hits puberty and everything changes. So one day she asked me: ‘Can you kill me off?’ Like an actor leaving a TV soap.
Boyhood, as Linklater puts it, is about growing up and being a parent. Relatedly, it’s also about responsibility and compromise, conflict and love. But at its core – in its essence – it is a film about time. The director wanted to make a coming-of-age tale that slipped the constraints of the typical shooting schedule; one that didn’t resort to flashbacks or lookalikes and instead showed the years slipping through our fingers like sand.
“It was weird when it finished, when the next year rolled around and we weren’t shooting that summer,” he says. “When there was no longer the phone call to discuss what we’d do. It took probably four years to get used to that. It’s like when your parent passes away. You think: ‘Oh, I’m gonna call Mom,’ and then you think: ‘Oh wait, no, I can’t.’ People do that for years before it drifts out of their consciousness, and the ending of Boyhood was the same way for me. It was a major adjustment.
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