
When presented with Alana’s version of events over the phone later that same day, Anderson sighed and then laughed for a long time. “It was like ‘EXTERIOR,’” she recalled, giddily.

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“And the first name on the script is Alana.” Save for a few appearances playing herself in music videos, Haim had never acted before, and this was the first movie script she’d ever read. “All of a sudden, a script opens up,” Haim said over a video call from her home in Los Angeles, But this message was different, and a little mysterious: Just an untitled Word document. (Their mother, Donna, was also Anderson’s beloved elementary-school art teacher - a fortuitous coincidence he realized only after having already met her daughters.) When the band is on the road, Anderson will occasionally send the Haim siblings affable emails: a silly YouTube video, an article that might inspire them. This was not particularly out of the ordinary: Anderson had become a close friend of the family in the years since he’d started directing music videos for Haim, the Grammy-nominated rock band Alana is in with her two older sisters, Este and Danielle. One summer night in 2019, Alana Haim was jet-lagged, tossing and turning in a London hotel bed, when her phone pinged with an email from the acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.

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