"Marriage Story": the real divorce that inspired the film that can give the Batacazo in the Oscars

A few days ago, Marriage Story, the film starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, landed in streaming to ratify its informal film of the film of the moment.The good reviews he received, his position as Trending Topic perpetual during the last days, the hundreds of memes to which he gave rise and the six nominations for the Golden Globe achieved this Monday certifies that the portrait of the traumatic divorce of an actress and aTheater director is the essential quotation of the end of the year cinephile.The repercussion harvested after its digital premiere and the avalanche of prizes that is coming caused that the attention of the public now focuses on inquire about the true story on which the plot is based: the separation of the filmmaker Noah Baumbach and actress Jennifer JasonLeigh in 2010.How much is Real at the Favorite to win the Oscar for the best film of the year?

"The film is not about my marriage in any way," said director and screenwriter Noah Baumbach in an interview with The Independent.In each of the promotion statements offered to date, Baumbach was explicit about the more or less direct influence of his life in the development of praise fiction.Since the public of the Venice Festival enthusiast.A logical consequence if you take into account the high biographical component of other works of the filmmaker as family stories -with reminiscences of the divorce of his parents -or The Meyerowitz Stories -especially life in the shadows of parents with great artistic prestige -.

Literals or not, the truth is that the similarities between the director and the actress played by Driver and Johansson and the profiles of Baumbach and Jason Leigh go far beyond the profession, the physical appearance or have a child in common.They start on the same film poster, with the interpreters wearing a pose similar to that exhibited by the 2006 Oscar gala, in which the filmmaker was nominated by family stories.Like Nicole's character, Jason Leigh was born in California and a name was made in Hollywood for starring a teenage film (Student Picardías).They also met on Broadway, when the interpreter worked in the work proof in 2001 and, to put more firewood to the fire, he would recognize in an interview with The New York Times four years after they were "a couple of New York but with land in Los Angeles".

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When they started dating, she was a well -based actress in Hollywood and he was a promising filmmaker at the independent cinematographic scene, seven years younger than her.They married in 2005 and until 2010, when they announced their separation, they formed creative couple in two of the Baumbach films: Margot and the wedding and Greenberg.The latter also starring Greta Gerwig, who became a couple of the director only seven months after the premiere of the film and that Jason Leigh gave birth to her only child in common, Rohmer.The actress, like the role played by Johansson, asked for the total custody of the boy and located her residence in Los Angeles, with the filmmaker being forced to travel the country to see her son just like Charlie (Adam Driver) in fiction in fiction.In 2013 they completed the divorce process.

Beyond the speculation that may be about the filmmaker's inspiration, another undoubted parallelism of the film with Baumbach's life is that the filmmaker began to make a prestigious name in the industry while the best days of Jennifer Jason Leigh began to intuitAlready distant, a situation that Nicole denounces in the movie.Like Scarlett Johansson's character, he returns to Hollywood to resume his star status with a television pilot, the most hated eight interpreter left New York to roll in Los Angeles the Open pilot, a series of Ryan Murphy for HBO thatFinally no green light.

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The director, aware that Marriage Story's success could turn his ex an unexpected protagonist of Hollywoodan rumors, he showed both the script and the film before it premiered."He really liked it, because it's not about our marriage," confessed the filmmaker in The New York Times.He also said that for him it is "a compliment" that the public draws those parallels because it means that it became emotionally involved with the work.For him, Marriage Story is a personal, but not autobiographical film and, with respect to the statements of the protagonists of the film, the life of the screenwriter is perhaps the most important piece of the puzzle, but not the only.

"Obviously I had my own fresh perspective of the subject.We wanted to build something that came from a real place so we talked a lot, not only about our personal experiences with divorce, but of all kinds of intimate relationships.We talk about the family, our parents, our past romances.Nicole is an amalgam of all those things, "he explained in The Hollywood Reporter Scarlett Johansson, Golden Globo Nominated for Best Actress.The protagonist of Lost in Tokyo admits to having transferred a lot of her personal experience to her character, who embodied while divorcing the journalist Romain Dauriac.Also an Adam Driver who, although currently married to actress Joanne Tucker, lived the separation of her parents at age seven, the same age as the son of the protagonist couple in the film."Knowing what it is to have the same age as Henry when your parents divorce, and try to do their best for your good, you can't help support you and think about that," he said in the Daily Mail.

The last divorce that inspires the argument of Marriage Story is that of Laura Dern, the actress who gives life to lawyer Nora Fanshaw and whose inspiring monologue about sexism established in society could grant her the first Oscar of her career.The Big LiIs interpreter divorced in 2013 by musician Ben Harper and his legal representative when fighting for the custody of the two children in common was Laura Wesser, famous lawyer of the stars and source of inspiration when givinglife to his character.Baumbach, intimate friend of DERN, chose her even before having the script ready because she knew, according to Sky News, that "it had gone through a separation, so we not only talked about the character, but also about the subject itself, of therelationships, life ".