00:00What does it feel like to finally see your novel on the big screen?
00:04It is surreal. It's not at all, I don't know, I never expected all of this.
00:11I think when you sit down to write a book, it's just you and the book and those characters in your head
00:17and you're just getting it on the page and the last thing you expect is all of it.
00:22I mean even when I like, like with like Daydream, like oh what if this was a movie?
00:26Like you don't really, I'm looking at like the posters and like you don't really, it's kind of amazing.
00:33And thinking about who you would cast or who would be your dream cast.
00:36And I've been in Hollywood, I mean I'm an actress and I've been working for like three decades in this business
00:40and so, and I know how many steps it takes from like saying okay, I've written a script or I've written a book, whatever,
00:48to like, like a premiere and it's like, it's infinite steps. You never think it's going to make it.
00:54Like you might option it, whatever, but then it's like, even for it to get greenlit is a huge accomplishment
01:00and so it's kind of crazy being here. Yeah, totally surreal.
01:05And we hear the moon heads screaming right back there.
01:07How does it feel like, or what does it feel for you to kind of see all of this
01:11and see the reaction from the fans already before the movies even come out?
01:14It's a little overwhelming, I think. It's surreal. It's not anything I could have expected or dreamed of
01:21and it's, yeah, it's a little crazy.
01:24What sparked the initial idea for you to tell this story?
01:28This is my husband, Eric Hayes, hence Hayes Campbell.
01:32And you know what, we'd had a conversation and he was the one that planted the seed.
01:39I was joking one evening, we were at a political fundraiser and I was joking that I was going to run off
01:46and leave him and the kids and I'm going to run off with a guy in a band who is half my age
01:50and he was like, you're crazy, but that would make a great book.
01:54And then he kind of like laid it out. He's like, what if it's a divorce mom
01:57and she's got a daughter who's like in love with this boy band.
02:00And I just kind of knew that that was a story I could tell.
02:04I loved, in my youth I loved boy bands. I'd had the opportunity to, I'd managed a singing group
02:15and we were produced by one of the new kids on the block when they were at the height of their fame.
02:18And so I knew what it was like to be with a boy band, be around them, see their fandom up close
02:24and see the craziness of calculating when do we leave the hotel, when do we get back,
02:28you're in this van, you're in that van.
02:30All the insanity that most people are not privy to, I experienced it up close.
02:39And so I kind of knew I could write the story and make it feel very real.
02:43What was your reaction when you first read the book?
02:46I thought it was amazing. I thought it was definitely a home run
02:49and it was going to be super successful and she did it.
02:53Can you talk a little bit about your first meeting with Anne and Nicholas
02:56and bringing these characters to life?
02:58Not yet. Maybe it's going to happen.
03:00It might happen right here on the carpet.
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