When journalist Matthew Teague's wife Nicole was once identified with cancer, their very best friend Dane Faucheux moved in to assist out for a couple of weeks... then didn't pass house for a few years. Over the process Nicole's analysis, treatment, and eventual loss of life, Dane remained a constant component of enhance to Matthew, Nicole, and their two young girls. His presence moved Teague so much that a 12 months later, Teague wrote "The Friend: Love is Not Enough" for Esquire. The article, which won the National Magazine Award, is a 6,000-word ode to Dane's selfless act and Nicole's ultimate days.
Matthew, Nicole, and Dane's true tale has been remodeled from the page to the screen in the new film Our Friend, which is available to stream now. Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the movie stars Jason Segel as Dane, Dakota Johnson as Nicole, and Casey Affleck as Teague. From studying Teague's devastating essay, we know Nicole in the end passed from ovarian most cancers. But where is Teague now?
A word ahead of the ultimate credit of Our Friend explains that Teague nonetheless lives in Fairhope, Alabama, in the similar space where he and Nicole moved to raise their circle of relatives and lived together her final few years. He lives together with his and Nicole's two daughters, Molly and Evangeline, and has since remarried. According to the New York Times, the family has recently welcomed a son, Wilder, who's 3 months old. Teague still works as a journalist, and on his website, he details that he is a contributor to National Geographic, The Atlantic, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Men's Journal, and different magazines.
"The girls and I are doing well," Teague tells Bustle in an e mail. "They're so strong and so smart, and — I can only attribute this to their experience losing their mom — they're so compassionate. In one sense I hate that they're wise, at such a young age. But in another sense I'm grateful that's what they came away with...every time I watched a scene involving the young actors playing my daughters it felt like re-living those moments. I was wrecked. Then at the end of the scene, they'd bounce off set looking for snacks, and I'd think, 'Oh. Right. This is just the pretend version.'"
Our Friend used to be actually shot in Fairhope, Alabama as smartly, in a house only a few doors down from the Teague's real house. In a junket video released by Our Friend's publicity workforce, Teague defined that he used to be overjoyed on the prospect of the film shooting so as regards to where Nicole lived and died and where he nonetheless calls home. "I think it imbued the project with something that you would have a hard time getting [somewhere else]," he says, "because everybody here in town knows my family, they knew my wife. She's here, she infuses everything and that would be difficult to capture otherwise." And it's simply otherwise Teague is helping to stay his wife's reminiscence alive.
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