"I had this existential dread, but I didn't know what to call it. And I realized I felt like I was disappearing. I was starting to dread, 'What happens after? So she's going to get better. She's definitely going to get better. We're going to go back home. Who am I? What am I then? What is going to take up all my time that this has taken?'"
"I wrote the film from that place of that feeling of having the worst day," Bronstein says, "where I start to feel like the universe is plotting against me and everything starts piling up."
"She turned herself inside out, upside down, every which way to deliver this performance," Bronstein says proudly."
An actress-turned-director experienced existential dread and a sense of disappearing while displaced with her ill daughter, binge eating and drinking to cope. That loss of identity and fear about life after caregiving became the emotional origin for a new film titled If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. The film follows a mother who unravels into a surreal psychological breakdown, dramatizing the piling-up of stress after one very bad day. Rose Byrne stars as the mother, delivering an extreme, physically committed performance. The film balances intense tension with underlying comedic elements to portray caregiving's emotional toll.
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