--- title: Rosemarie DeWitt on the Impact of Filmmaker Lynn Shelton description: Shelton, who died on May 15 at age 54, had an ability to make those she worked with feel like “the magic ingredient in the recipe,” DeWitt says. canonical: https://time.com/5840184/lynn-shelton-obituary/ author: Rosemarie DeWitt article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-05-21T10:10:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T08:46:50.414Z article:section: Ideas og:title: 'Lynn Was the Magic Ingredient.' 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An actress had dropped out of her film days before shooting was to begin on _Your Sister’s Sister_, and Lynn called me. I was working on another project but, because it was Lynn, I begged every-body I was working with to please let me do both. It ended up being one of the best creative experiences I ever had, so of course, I wanted to do it again. And again. Sadly we lost her way too soon, on May 15 at age 54. Lynn had the uncanny ability to make everyone she collaborated with feel like the magic ingredient in the recipe. Once, we were shooting a pivotal scene and didn’t know what needed to happen. Lynn decided to just roll the camera and fly. When she watched it back, she realized that was the lightning-in-a-bottle scene, and she built much of the film backward around it. Warm-blooded human beings took precedence over any idea that she had come up with. Lynn was always open to letting the humanity of a film take over. 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