 rehearsed beforehand at Meryl's house we all lived in this little there was a new community of houses being built but no one had moved into them yet so we were all there it was the craziest block to live on with those being your neighbours and we all went over to Meryl's one night and it was sort of potluck and we had dinner and we rehearsed the scene a bunch and then just all of them Chris Cooper, Margot, Ewan um