You might assume that after over a decade of acting together and raising a family together, Lily Rabe's latest creative collaboration with her partner Hamish Linklater would have seemed like a no-brainer. Instead, the Tony Award-nominated actor and "American Horror Story" veteran said, "We had a lot of friends who were like, 'God, guys, I don't know.'"
Based on Chuck Klosterman's 2008 novel, "Downtown Owl" tells the story of a disparate group of small-town residents whose fates are interconnected via a catastrophic winter storm. Rabe, who co-produced and co-directed the film, also stars as an emotionally adrift new schoolteacher in town. Linklater, meanwhile, co-directed, adapted the screenplay and has a small role as a school administrator. Looking back on the scale and intensity of the project, Rabe called it "a massive risk for our relationship and our children."
