‘The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick’ Team Felt “Baked Into This Film” Thanks To Experimental Writers’ Room

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As Hollywood finds its footing in a post-strike world, indies like The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick are shattering the industry’s arbitrary rules of filmmaking.

Following the film’s SXSW premiere this month, the film’s star and co-writer Zoë Chao told Deadline she felt “really baked into this film” thanks to co-writer/director Pete Ohs‘ “Table of Bubbles” method, which brought the actors into the writers’ room. “It’s like our whole everything was asked to contribute, and as mostly an actor, that was a new experience for me,” said Chao as she sat down with Ohs and her co-stars/co-writers. “So, it feels like a real sharing because this project was presented as a process-over-product experiment, where we hope that there will be a movie at the end of this, but that’s not really the true aim.

The true aim is to gather open-minded people together, and just see what we could make in two weeks and have fun doing it.” The film stars Chao as Yvonne, who travels to visit her friend Camille (Callie Hernandez) at her bucolic country home following an unexpected tragedy.

Upon her arrival, she’s put off by the presence of Camille’s two close friends Isaac (Jeremy O. Harris) and AJ (James Cusati-Moyer).