The road-trip movie isn’t kidding around with the warning it kicks off with.
Warning: This story contains spoilers forDon’t Make Me Go.
It’s revealed that she had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart condition that’s often hard to detect.
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As it happens, Max is hiding a rough health prognosis of his own: bone cancer.
He’s been given a year to live.
The shocker twist ending was always the plan screenwriter Vera Herbert had for the movie.
Then the rug is pulled out from under them.
“That’s a bit how life works in these moments,” Herbert says.
Cho’s confident karaoke turn was another piece of the puzzle.
The screenwriter has had to stick to her convictions for nearly a decade.
But it wasn’t until 2021 that Amazon Studios signed on to develop it.
(Actor Cho describes reading Herbert’s ending as a “Keyser Soze moment.")
“He knows he needs to keep going, because that’s what she wanted him to do.”
Don’t Make Me Gois now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
