The idea of writing a script started out as a phone call between Danielle Agnello and Joe Hall. Agnello was calling from the parking lot of her acting teacher’s studio which happened to be her home at the time. Agnello had just been through a catastrophic car accident that resulted in a coma, multiple hospitalizations and psychiatric wards. The psych wards were a horrifying experience and malpractice at best. The hospitals prescribed a myriad of medicines for Post Traumatic Stress causing Agnello to have an adverse reaction and severe pharmaceutical drug induced hallucinations. When the medicines started to make Agnello violently ill, she started purging her system of the pharmaceuticals and she abruptly snapped out of it and was discharged. The writing of the script was instrumental in keeping Agnello alive and reinstating her as a functional member of society. Agnello was compelled to dedicate her life to helping people and using art as medium to do so was the next step. Joe Hall agreed and the two of them began their collaboration and started writing immediately, communicating daily until Hall moved back to Los Angeles a month before shooting Lime Salted Love... read more here
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