"it was really important to me not just to talk to present day child actors but to go all the way back to the beginning of the entertainment industry and see what the experience was like for performers in that era,” Winter told Refinery29 over email. “Getting Diana Carey was a huge stroke of luck because she was not only one of the first child megastars but she had become an historian and so she had both personal experience and the ability to contextualise that experience, which for a documentary filmmaker is very rare and a dream to work with. She was also just an amazing human being.“