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Chris and Angela have been codependent chums since college.

Today, in the real 2025, knowing that people are developing serious and codependent attachments to chatbots, the story Jonze presents in Her is much, much more loaded and pervasive.

As Nicholson’s lovelorn codependent shifts personalities as she changes from partner to partner, Baker asks how headstrong girls grow up to become malleable women.

Thankfully, with her baked-in edge, Thatcher is quite good at the mix of deadpan and strength the role requires — and it’s very much OK if you don’t entirely believe her in those first scenes as an apprehensive codependent.

This connection helped Doupe and Petticrew get through some dark days on set and also served the storytelling well: the Price sisters have what can only described as an intense, codependent relationship, which becomes even more deeply intertwined during their imprisonment.