“It didn’t feel like we were creating something that fit neatly into a box,” Lili Reinhart said of her Mubi series Hal & Harper as she accepted the Art of Light Award during the Miami Film Festival Monday night. “It was messy and emotional and sometimes uncomfortable and that was the point. We were trying to tell a story about grief, codependency, love and family in a way that didn’t simplify or commercialize any of it. This project reminded me of how powerful it is when we let people be seen in their full humanity and not just the polished version, not the easy or likable version, but the real one.”
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The eight-episode comedy-drama created, written, directed and produced by Cooper Raiff, who stars in the series as Hal, opposite Reinhart’s Harper, is as uncomfortably real as the pair intended it to be,
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