[Editor’s note: The following interview contains some spoilers for “Fair Play.”]All Chloe Domont wanted to do was direct.
But film directing assignments aren’t handed out to NYU Film School grads, so she apprenticed in television to make a living, starting out as a writer’s assistant, eventually moving onto being the only woman in an otherwise all-male writer’s room on “Ballers.”That intense, life-changing experience inspired her directorial debut “Fair Play,” which she wrote during the pandemic.
The basic outline: a young hedge fund executive (Phoebe Dynevor) is so happy with her boyfriend (Alden Ehrenreich), who also works at her hedge fund, that they agree to get married.
They keep their forbidden relationship secret at the firm, going so far as to take different routes to the office.
But when she’s suddenly promoted over him, becoming his boss in the process, the dynamic swiftly changes.The movie is intimate, sexy, and violent — and quickly got financed.
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