“We wanted the audience to experience what we were experiencing, what changed us over that week – which was spending time with them, and sitting around a dinner table with two extraordinary people who are also just as ordinary as the rest of us,” Fernandes tells Stir. “They have kids. They struggle with being hopeful. They struggle with living in the world that we live in. And yet they do such extraordinary things. And we felt inspired and moved by that, and we thought, ‘What an amazing thing it would be if we could create this experience for a whole audience.’”
