Comedian, writer, and director Sandy Honig (sandyhonig) discusses the surreal, comedic short film Pennies from Heaven, which stars her co-writers Annabel and Sabina Meschke. BrookeKnisley has more:
We weren’t sure if we were going to have another season. So I kind of scheduled [making] being like, “Okay, maybe we’ll have another writers room and this is kind of my opening to make something”—because having a show really does rule your entire life. And so I was really trying to make the most of my downtime between things and then it turned out I didn’t have to. But I was glad we rushed to film it. It worked out really well.
, they’re not twins, but they’re basically a set. Their identities are all kind of merged and in this short film, the twins literally share a name. So I have to ask you, what draws you to that narrative of shared identity?It’s hard to say because this short really was completely about the two of them—about Annabel and Sabina [Meschke]. Because they have such an amazing energy, and it’s so infectious.
Annabel and Sabina are so emotional, and their relationship is so important to them, that even when we were writing the scene where they get in a fight, or if we’re rereading it, they get really emotional about it. One time we even read it in silly accents so we wouldn’t get too upset about it. Because it really does feel like extensions of them and their real relationship even though it is so heightened and silly.
A lot of the other twins that we met filming the short, they really do operate as a unit. A lot of them live together, share a phone number, share social media accounts, some of them date the same people. And I think because [Annabel and Sabina] were raised really to be individuals, and forge their own identities, they don’t really do that as much. But yeah, the twin dynamic is really interesting.
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