According to Linklater, the writing process “never really broke down along gender lines.” Delpy says her favorite material “is actually what I wrote for Ethan,” and Hawke acknowledges that the collaborative back-and-forth ensured that the characters are in a sense collective alter egos: “Jesse is one-third me, one-third Rick, and one-third Julie’s idealized male. Celine is some version of Julie, some version of who she wants to be, and Rick’s and my fantasy of some French babe,” he says. “The characters have parallel lives to us. With no plot and no real narrative, what it has to rest on is some kind of truth, right?”
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