The Session Trailer

Writer and director Ben Lewin, a polio survivor himself, first read about O'Brien's experiences with a sex surrogate from O'Brien's article "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" on the Internet.[9] He was looking for material on sex and the disabled for a sitcom project, and stumbled upon the article.[8] Lewin explained, "I felt that if I could do on film what he had done to me with his writing, then I could potentially deliver something powerful."[9] While writing the script, Lewin drew from his own experiences with polio and worked closely with Susan Fernbach, O'Brien's partner during the last years of his life, and Cheryl Cohen Greene, the surrogate.[9]
To simulate O'Brien's posture, John Hawkes used a soccer-ball-sized piece of foam which he laid onto the left side of his back in order to curve his spine.[10] Consequently, some of his organs began to migrate, and he was told by his chiropractor that his spine now has not enough movement.[10] Nonetheless, he said it is "a minute amount of pain compared to what many disabled people face minute-to-minute."[10] Hawkes also practiced dialing the phone using a "http://www.torrentbee.com/search/ben-lewin.htmll".[10]