简介：Baker had been planning to make a film about this period in his life (he’s clean now, though did admit he enjoys his THC), but unfortunately, it fell through during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Describing the project, Baker said, “It was my tackling of that world and it was about drug user activism up in Vancouver because it actually made me — I think going through it — understand an insider’s point of view of that and know that these aren’t evil people, these are people who unfortunately are just stuck in active addiction.”
Baker explained how, like sex work, drug use and the drug trade are far too stigmatized, especially in America and he views that as “incredibly unfair,” especially because most people facing active addiction would much rather be clean. He admitted that the decade he spent doing heroin set him behind many of the filmmakers viewed as his peers.
“I’m 10 years older than the Safdies, I’m 10 years older than Barry Jenkins and Chloé Zhao,” said Baker. “It’s because I was 10 years doing heroin in New York by myself and it’s something that I don’t recommend. It’s not good for filmmaking.”
