Q: One of the reasons this film works so well is because of the way your characters are written and your performances. Aaron, what was your take on your character? He’s very complex but at the same time very simple and sweet.

Aaron: Beagle is unique. He’s definitely an eccentric kind of character. One of the things that struck me about him reading the script was just his purity. He’s an incredibly decent and good person. He’s the caretaker of his family. He’s the youngest and he’s the least noticed but he’s actually the patriarch. He’s the one who does all the work. He’s the one who cares for everyone and I feel like, as for his relationship with Georgia, he’s also a character with a tremendous amount of love to give and he hadn’t ever really found anyone to give it to. Then he finds this other person and it’s difficult because of conventional morality. Is she too young? Is this right? Is this wrong? But, the great thing about the relationship between the two of them is it’s a situation to which conventional morality does not apply at all because her character is going to die. She only has a limited amount of time in which to live her life so the conventions sort of fly out the window in that situation.

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