Ask the Author: Yannick Thoraval
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Yannick Thoraval
I was surprised at how difficult it was for me to find my true answer to this question (prompt soul searching). My gut response was 'man' and 'boy' from Cormac McCarthy's The Road because, for me, that relationship beautifully renders the role of duty that eventually becomes part of every serious relationship. But you used the word 'couple' so I felt like my father and son answer cheated the spirit of your question.
So, after drinking a coffee, my answer is Charles and Sebastian in Brideshead Revisited. Why? Because their relationship is complex and driven by so many of those messy human capacities: envy, pity, awe, hope, sacrifice, regret. Their relationship draws out the dynamic of fear and comfort that is central to life as a couple.
I was surprised at how difficult it was for me to find my true answer to this question (prompt soul searching). My gut response was 'man' and 'boy' from Cormac McCarthy's The Road because, for me, that relationship beautifully renders the role of duty that eventually becomes part of every serious relationship. But you used the word 'couple' so I felt like my father and son answer cheated the spirit of your question.
So, after drinking a coffee, my answer is Charles and Sebastian in Brideshead Revisited. Why? Because their relationship is complex and driven by so many of those messy human capacities: envy, pity, awe, hope, sacrifice, regret. Their relationship draws out the dynamic of fear and comfort that is central to life as a couple.
Yannick Thoraval
I had a character, an engineer, who had a positivist, mechanistic view of the world. For him, everything could be fixed. But I didn't have a story to put him in.
I had also been following former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed's struggles to save his people from rising sea levels.
Then I thought: what would happen if my engineer met someone like Nasheed?
I had also been following former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed's struggles to save his people from rising sea levels.
Then I thought: what would happen if my engineer met someone like Nasheed?
Yannick Thoraval
I read (predictable, I know).
I also watch people, how they talk, how they walk, and wonder what those characteristics reveal about their inner world. What are they showing? What are they hiding?
I ask myself a lot of 'what if' questions.
I also watch people, how they talk, how they walk, and wonder what those characteristics reveal about their inner world. What are they showing? What are they hiding?
I ask myself a lot of 'what if' questions.
Yannick Thoraval
I'm working on a romantic comedy. It's my best work yet.
Yannick Thoraval
Write. Even if it's for five minutes on the notes function of your phone.
A year's worth of five minutes adds up.
A year's worth of five minutes adds up.
Yannick Thoraval
I'm always intrigued by actors who have to gain some new skill for an upcoming movie role - learn how to sword fight, work in a mine, that kind of thing. As a writer, you do the same thing. It's your job to inhabit as many people and places as possible.
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