Visual Perspectives
Right: The 2017 festival featured Tribeca Immersive’s Storyscapes and Virtual Arcade, with twenty-nine virtual reality and innovative exhibitions at the Tribeca Festival Hub inside Spring Studios. Opposite: Justin Timberlake attends Tribeca Film Festival 2016 as the composer of the score for The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Actress Jessica Biel, Timberlake’s wife, stars in the 2017 Tribeca TV drama The Sinner, which premieres on USA Network August 2.
for me at that point in my life, and I didn’t want to leave it behind. Moreover, I didn’t want to leave the character of Abigail behind. Similar to what happens in the movie, I felt like the character of Abigail Williams had bled into my real life. Obviously, I didn’t start accusing people of witchcraft, but I did start dressing a bit like her. I used it as a way to infuse some excitement into going to public high school in suburbia every day. So, when the play was over, I was reluctant to let go of that, and I started writing and thinking about a way to tell Abigail’s story in a setting that I knew a lot more about, which was being a teenage girl in the New Jersey suburbs. That’s where the idea started. H C : You’ve been acting since you were a child, but when did you start writing? Q S : I’ve been writing for most of my life. I actually had a hard time physically writing when I was young. My thoughts came so quickly that it was difficult sitting down and writing them out. I used to make my dad type things out for me as a kid. He would type, and I would dictate to him. I managed to write a novel when I was twelve. It was three hundred pages, I think. I’m sure it would be quite funny if I tried to read it now. But I think it’s just in my nature to be a writer. And it’s not like I have any writers in my family; there’s no one in my family who sits down and writes stories. So, it wasn’t an outside influence. It came from inside of me. H C : What was the process like of getting this movie made? Q S : There’s no real moment where I felt like, “Oh, this is happening now!” It