McInerny saw a character who deviated from the usual ingenue. “I was really compelled by it being a New York-based story because I myself I was born and raised in New York, and I thought it depicted in this really nuanced, complex way, this sort of bygone era that I certainly find myself romanticizing now as a young person in New York. Immediately following the financial crisis of 2008, and immediately preceding smartphones and social media, and just this amazing sort of gray area, — it felt like the last gasp of this era of borderline affordability, borderline creative freedom.”
The film also shows Nora’s veil being lifted, as she realizes “there’s no secret to success behind these like powerful figures. Everyone is just as clueless as the next, and the ways in which we sort of assign power can oftentimes be so political and random.”
“Magazine” makes its world premiere Sept. 11. Pechman, Anne Alexander and Tess Cohen produce; Julia Nelson and Christine D’Souza exec produce. Global Constellation is handling international sales; After Hours and UTA have U.S. sales.
