People are always looking at my cannula, my scars, my G-tube, not at me.
Rachael really nailed how Stella feels about her body here. While writing the script, I wanted to make sure that Stella’s scars, her cannula, her G-Tube, would serve as an anthem of her survival against all odds. I wrote a moment into the script in which Stella is looking at herself in the mirror, and all she sees are her scars and her G- Tube. She couldn’t yet see that these battle scars were the most beautiful thing about her. This mirror scene is important because we need to know that when Stella bravely reveals her body to Will by the pool, we understand that she is accepting her flaws as beautiful, because she finally sees herself through Will’s eyes, through our eyes.
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