![]() "That's why this process has been like f-ing blinders coming off. "How often do we really look at somebody and say, 'How are you?' and actually hear them back," she says, getting emotional. I only see it in retrospect, 20 some odd years later." Near the end of the doc, Frye said the process also made her realize she has "so much guilt that I didn't know I had until I started watching the tapes back." She explained how, watching and hearing some of the footage and audio, she realized "some of my friends really needed to be heard and to have a friend listen. There was so much joy and bliss that I remembered and there were also some internal struggles we were going through, some of us more than others." "I think we all had different levels of it. "It was so moving and there was so much pain, because I didn't see how much pain some of the people I loved most were going through," she continued. ![]() Finding the voicemails from Johnathan - when we were kids he'd press pound, because literally Johnathan would have this thing where he liked to fill up my tape - so he would just talk for 30 minutes at a time and it was really in those final moments of those audio recordings that he really shared so much of himself and you hear that through the documentary." ![]() I really love people, so the realization that I was so loved back was incredible. "I love people, even with our flaws and our ups and our downs. "It was such an incredible process because seeing the depth of love that was all around me was really awe-inspiring because I've always loved people. For Frye, who also directed and produced the documentary and is still in contact with Brandis' parents, seeing those who are no longer around was bittersweet. In the documentary, Brandis is a warm presence, leaving Frye silly voicemails and even visiting her in the hospital after she had her breast reduction surgery when she was just 16. And then it ultimately became very much a coming of age story of the teen me and adult me."įrye lost a number of her friends at a young age, including Jonathan Brandis and "Kids" star Justin Pierce, who both died by suicide at the ages of 27 and 25, respectively. I really was so focused on making it about everybody but me. I didn't intend for the documentary to be about me. "And it was only about four years ago when I was wondering if things happened the way I remembered them that I started unlocking the vault. So, on a subconscious level, I think I probably wasn't ready to look back at it," she explained. "I think on a subconscious level, I probably locked it away for so long because I had lost some of my closest friends so young.
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