Wander Darkly's Diego Luna and Sienna Miller on Navigating Painful Relationships | Sundance 2020

Wander Darkly's Diego Luna and Sienna Miller on Navigating Painful Relationships | Sundance 2020

Wander Darkly stars Diego Luna and Sienna Miller and writer-director Tara Miele stopped by the Kia Telluride Supper Suite in Park City, where Collider spoke with the trio about their spiritual relationship drama.

"It's about a couple who are new parents, and they're going through a difficult time in their relationship when they get into a pretty brutal car crash. In the aftermath, Adrienne (Miller) finds herself in this state of purgatory and is questioning everything about her life, and Matteo (Luna), her partner, tries to sort out truth from fiction for her, and together they sort of relive the past to see how they'll navigate their future," said Miele, who was inspired to tell this story by her own near-death experience.

"My husband and I survived a pretty bad crash about six years ago. We're fine, totally fine, but I was quite concussed for a bit, and we have two little kids, which also changes your sense of your own mortality," said the filmmaker. "We were at my Mom's house for Thanksgiving that year, and the kids are crying, and someone's fighting about turkey, and I was just like, 'we're so lucky.' I was overwhelmed by this sense of gratitude for the messy little lives we were leading, and I was very desperate to share that feeling."

Miele funneled those complicated emotions into a screenplay that elicited strong reactions from both her actors.

"When I read the script, I had a pretty intense emotional reaction to it, and I think whenever that happens, you have to look a little deeper at why. It probably means it's something that I'm gonna want to explore, said Miller, who confessed that she thinks back on her past relationships from time to time, trying to pinpoint what went wrong. "For me personally, the notion of spending the time to go back and reflect, and look at the beats of a relationship that could be minor and insignificant, but where people just go wrong, that really landed in a beautiful way. It was a very moving script, an amazing piece, and I thought Tara did such a wonderful job." She elaborated later in the interview.

"I've definitely hit bumps in relationships, and I've definitely, in reflection of those moments, been sad that something wasn't examined perhaps as deeply as it could've been. I've never had a significant life-or-death moment that then caused that kind of reflection, thank God, but personally, I do look back, so this suited me."

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