Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards: Pedro Pascal – Best Body of Work (Materialists, Eddington · The Fantastic Four: First Steps)

Lucy: One day, for no reason in particular, you two will start to hate each other. You’ll resent each other, you’ll take each other for granted. You’ll stop having sex, somehow manage to make a couple of kids. And then you’ll get sick of each other, and one of you will cheat on the other. And then you’ll fight. At first, not in front of the kids, but then in front of the kids. And then you resent the kids for seeing you fight. And then you file for divorce, and you fight about who owns what and who gets the kids when until it’s all over.

John: You asked how I could love you. I just do; it’s the easiest thing.
Lucy: I love you too. More than you know. You’re the only reason I know I’m capable of love.
John: I’ve been doing some math.
Lucy: Yeah?
John: Yeah. And I’m ready to make you an offer.
Lucy: Okay.
John: Here’s the offer. I love you now like I loved you before. I’ll love you till the day I die. It’s a lifetime guarantee. And I won’t forget it the way I used to, even when things are shit. I’ll make a calendar item every day, reminding myself that I love you. I’ll be your certainty. It’s my final offer. You can’t negotiate because I don’t have anything else to offer you.
Lucy: Deal.

Harry: You must know a lot about love.
Lucy: I know about dating.
Harry: What’s the difference?
Lucy: Dating takes a lot of effort. A lot of trial and error. A ton of risk and pain. Love is easy.
Harry: Is it? I find it to be the most difficult thing in the world.
Lucy: That’s because we can’t help it. It just walks into our lives sometimes.

John: Why does anybody even get married?
Lucy: Because people tell them they should, and because they’re lonely, and because they’re hopeful.

Audrey: I don’t want to date a liberal, and they have to go to church every Sunday. I don’t want someone who likes cats. I’m a dog person.
Lucy: Is a moderate Democrat okay?
Audrey: Only Republican. I want someone who identifies as a conservative.
Lucy: Audrey, I don’t know if there’s a cat-hating, Christian conservative lesbian in most parts of New York who wants to date a closeted 49-year-old with three children. Would you be willing to date someone in Long Island or New Jersey?

Lucy: Marriage is a business deal. And it always has been, since the very first time two people did it.

Lucy: I don’t know if I like you or if I just like the places you take me to.

Lucy: You’re investing a lot in me, huh?
Harry: I just want our dates to be romantic.
Lucy: How expensive a meal is makes a date romantic?
Harry: Doesn’t it?

John: How would you like to make a very poor financial decision?

• Writer/director Celine Song’s name is listed as the playwright for John’s play on a poster outside the theater, because the play is actually a real one she wrote back in 2016.
• The leg-lengthening surgery discussed in this movie is real, although far less common than procedures such as rhinoplasty or breast augmentation. The cost of $200,000 stated in the film is also generally correct.
• John Magaro, who voices the character Mark P. (never seen on screen), played a key character, Arthur, husband of Nora, in Past Lives, also written and directed by Celine Song.
• While Lucy and Harry’s apartments were filmed on-location, John’s apartment was built in-studio. Director Celine Song shared photographs of a place where her husband, Justin Kuritzkes, formerly lived, as a reference point for the dilapidated apartment.
• First thoughts for the film began around 10 years ago, when writer/director Celine Song worked for a professional matchmaking service for about six months.
• The film was shot during peak wedding season, which restricted location options. Rather than being able to film the wedding sequence in one venue, production was split across four locations.
• The makeup desk where Lucy sits at the start of the film once belonged to Norman Rockwell, according to set decorator Amy Silver.
• At the end of the credits, there is a scene of people getting married, and the cave people are seen happily walking out of the room together.