Hannah Marks Interview: Don't Make Me Go
Director Hannah Marks'Don't Make Me Go stars John Cho and Mia Isaac as a father-daughter duo, Max and Wally, traveling across the United States to find her estranged mother. When Max is diagnosed with a practically inoperable brain tumor, he strives to teach Wally about life during the time he has left.
Prime Video's Don't Make Me Go is Marks' third feature-length film following 2018's After Everything and 2021's Mark, Mary & Some Other People. As an actor, Marks has appeared in movies such as The Amazing Spider-Man, Banana Split, andDinner in America.
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Screen Rant interviewed Marks about filming Don't Make Me Go and how the movie's story resonates with her.
Screen Rant: You’re obviously early on in your directing career, so what drew you to this project?
Hannah Marks: I loved that it was a father-daughter story. It's pretty rare to see that on screen for whatever reason. It doesn't actually make sense to me, I mean, it's such an important relationship, such a universal dynamic, and such universal themes. I thought it was really, really beautiful.
With Don’t Make Me Go’s story being this road trip across America, how did you go about choosing a variety of locations to depict that?
Hannah Marks: We actually filmed in New Zealand, so we filmed in Auckland in the winter, which was pretty crazy for an American summer road trip movie. Thankfully, as an America, I felt like I had a pretty good handle on what those parts of the country looked like and we tried to replicate them as best as we could. But sometimes it was a little sad not getting to film the beautiful New Zealand landscapes because they didn't look like America. So, it was a bit of a challenge in that sense, but I think
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