Josh OConnor and Director Eva Husson on Mothering Sunday and Filming the Intimate Scenes

One of the many films to play at this years Toronto International Film Festival was director Eva Hussons Mothering Sunday. Based on Graham Swifts bittersweet novel about secret love in postWWI England, the film is about a maid (Odessa Young) working at a manor in the English countryside that gets to spend a rare day with her secret lover (Josh OConnor) while her employers (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman) are away from home. Unlike many period pieces that take place during WW1 and WW2, whats unique about Mothering Sunday is it focuses on the time between the wars and the grief of losing your children on the battlefield, or the sense of duty to your family for being one of the few to make it home from the front. Hussons film does a great job at capturing this rarely shown time period and making you feel what all the characters are experiencing. In addition, unlike so many films where two lovers feel like they are in a movie, the way Husson shot the intimate scenes between Young and OConnor felt li