If I Had Legs Id Kick You cast and director reveal why we rarely see Lindas family

Right from the start, A24's If I Had Legs I'd Kick You takes a big stylistic swing.

Directed by Mary Bronstein, the film centers on Linda (Rose Byrne), a woman who must juggle caring for her sick daughter (Delaney Quinn) and dealing with a collapsed ceiling in their apartment. Throughout it all, her husband, Charles (Christian Slater), is away on an extended work trip and heard only over the phone. Similarly, Linda and Charles' daughter spends most of her time out of frame in scenes with Linda, so audiences only know her voice, not her face.

In an interview with Mashable Entertainment Reporter Belen Edwards, Bronstein, Byrne, and Slater discussed the decision to visually isolate Linda from her family members and how it felt filming Linda's phone conversations with Charles.

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