WOLFE: I also liken it to a hot-air balloon. It’s, like, the balloon wants to lift but the basket is staying on the ground, and through the course of the preview period you find the right balance of timing and pausing and emotional moments and the way it’s lit and the way it’s blocked and the way it’s staged before it starts to actually lift. And that to me is the journey of the preview period: The balloon is already the balloon, and hopefully the balloon is already blown up and ready to go, and you just have to figure out how to get rid of excess weight so that it can float away.
