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and now to the Netflix new dramedy about the complexities of grief the film gives viewers a rare portrait of what loss looks like in adulthood the heartfelt heartbreaking and hopeful moments are all captured in good grief take a look death is so hard because your brain has been trained to feel things for a person when they go away your head is still operating under the impression

thank you so much uh you have this cast of characters uh and the complexity between them and then this big event happens and there's loss um the the moments in good grief capture lessons of of of friendships and romance that you would see in a romantic comedy but you see them here too and there's romance as well was that what you set out to do I

would argue it's almost the inverse what I wanted to say with this movie is that the friendships deserve the spotlight so it's the reverse it's kind of a love story about friendships and the romance lives on the side and for everyone out there who's you know unpartnered and their friendship are the great loves of their of great loves of their life as they are for me

it's a movie about that it's a movie that really centers friendship in the wake of a of a great loss and it was very meaningful story to tell for me well the the romance you're talking about in the film is between your character Mark uh and your late husband Oliver who we meet in the beginning but it also shows the love as you're talking about of

your friends so let's take a look at that can you both relax please Marcus love we we have been here for you whenever you've needed us for almost a year now we built you the nest and we sat on you for a year it's time to [Music] hatch I like watching actors watch themselves act I just love watching Ruth Nega screen she's amazing right unbelievable Ruth

that Dynamic um you know you you trying to be the best friend you can be um to someone who's had this incredible loss what's that like as an actor well I mean as Dan said I mean why I was drawn to this project was I think for me it was an authentic celebration of of the very um real connections that you have with your pals you

know and how they support you through the hardest times of your life but we we do need sort of um a gentle nudge um Sophie says out of the ne nest because we do we do need to sort of pick ourselves up and carry on even though um you know we might feel like not doing that at all and I think that's what um our friends

are there for you know is to remind us that there's a whole life out there that we we we must re-engage with oh you really built up the characters and their friendship I'm curious for both of you why do you think grief is such a hard topic to approach in a film like this grief can be very confusing and and I found myself constantly asking myself

was I doing enough am I honoring in my case it was my I lost my grandmother am I honoring her enough what are my feelings are they enough and what a strange question to ask yourself in the wake of something so sad and yet in sharing the script with people and letting people into the idea as I was writing it I was realizing other people were

having these questions and and that felt worthwhile it felt like a worthwhile conversation to push out into the world so that perhaps that there are people at home who are wondering whether they're doing it properly or really questioning their own relationship to grief that maybe there's something to look to that makes them feel less isolated what do you both hope and of course you as a

writer you have your hopes but also acting in it and being a part of it what do you hope people take away from this film when it comes to grief oh I think I I hope that people feel less alone and that that that you know maybe it helped let understand that grief isn't something you solve you know it's something that you you move through at

your own pace and your own in your own organic way I do hope that it acts as a comfort to people because grief can be an incredibly sort of lonely experience and I think to put something out there that hopefully allows people to feel a sense of community around it is is is is important and Ruth thank you so much the film is beautiful it's wonderful

to meet both of you uh and you can watch good grief now streaming on Netflix hi everyone George Stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the ABC News YouTube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our Channel and don't forget to download the ABC News app for breaking news alerts thanks

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