“I understood that this was her primary nature, and he or she had loads to lose, however I did not prefer it,” stated O’Shaughnessy, though love in the end triumphed. “I want we may have been extra open. I cherished her. It might have been enjoyable to share her extra, even with a few of her buddies that she would not let in. She solely let in sure folks. And as soon as we began the science schooling firm, there was no means. We knew we have been depending on company sponsorships. We simply determined, ‘We have to cover it.'”
A personal life
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Tam O’Shaughnessy and Sally Journey in Sydney, Australia in 2004.
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Courtesy of Tam O’Shaughnessy
Sally Journey as an adolescent enjoying tennis within the Sixties.
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Astronaut Sally Journey poses in her basic leather-based bomber jacket on this undated photograph.
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Sally Journey as an adolescent enjoying tennis within the Sixties.
Courtesy of Tam O’Shaughnessy
Astronaut Sally Journey poses in her basic leather-based bomber jacket on this undated photograph.
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Juggling between these two very completely different facets of Journey’s life posed a problem for Sally‘s director. “I actually assume there are two completely different movies right here,” stated Costantini. “One is that Sally that all of us knew, who was nearly too properly documented. We had to herald 5,000 reels from the NASA archives and type via them to seek out some gems. It was a mountain of footage and a variety of it was labeled as simply ‘shuttle period’ or one thing very nonspecific. We additionally needed to sound sync all of it, because it did not have sound.”
On the personal aspect, she determined to depend on a number of re-enactments. “There weren’t very many footage and never any footage of the 2 of them collectively,” stated Costantini. “So we determined to create our personal visible language round that love story that will assist illustrate Tam’s storytelling in these personal moments. It is a cautious weave of stepping away from the very public and going into the very personal. I like that the story has these large, epic area moments and likewise these very quiet, intimate moments, the microscopic and the celestial.”
“We actually made this movie for anybody who’s ever needed to disguise a part of themselves to get the place they need to be, which is, in 2025, a extra frequent expertise than ever,” stated Costantini. “I am very impressed personally by Tam and Sally’s bravery: Sally’s bravery to launch on a rocket up into area, Tam’s bravery to stay as a queer girl throughout a time when that was not celebrated by mainstream tradition. I usually assume there’s an actual lack of courageous folks these days. I open the newspaper and assume, ‘The place did all of the courageous folks go?’ Wanting into Sally’s previous, you’ll be able to see echoes of among the similar struggles that we’re dealing with immediately.
