"CS: How important was it to be accurate to it? There’s always some kind of fictionalization in a movie like this to make it more entertaining, but how much did you really want to stick to just showing what happened?
Linklater: Well, it’s a nice genre, historical fiction, because the history is very accurate. I guess it’s like “Titanic,” where you really try to get that accurate. Then within that there’s this fictional element. Zac’s character really is… there really was a teenager in that play. He was 15 instead of 17, so that’s the fictional, but made him a little older so he could have these adult relations, but he really did set off the sprinklers. I talked to him on the phone and he lives in New York still…"
Linklater: Well, it’s a nice genre, historical fiction, because the history is very accurate. I guess it’s like “Titanic,” where you really try to get that accurate. Then within that there’s this fictional element. Zac’s character really is… there really was a teenager in that play. He was 15 instead of 17, so that’s the fictional, but made him a little older so he could have these adult relations, but he really did set off the sprinklers. I talked to him on the phone and he lives in New York still…"
