00:00Jimmy was really, like, absolutely the first person I felt that truly believed in me."
00:05Borderline, a comedy-thriller starring Samara Weaving and Ray Nicholson, tells the story
00:10of a 90s pop star and her delusional stalker who breaks into her home.
00:14You're hilarious, Sophia.
00:16I'm ready to be yours forever.
00:19We're getting married?
00:22What are you having second thoughts?
00:24The stars of the film and writer-director Jimmy Warden spoke to The Hollywood Reporter
00:27all about the new movie.
00:30Now this is a creepy character, so for you, what drew you to this script and this movie?
00:35It's so weird.
00:38It's so weird.
00:39You know?
00:40It was definitely one of the more excited I felt about reading a script.
00:44It was just something that I felt that I could really play.
00:47Always like a character type that I wanted to play, and when we first met, Jimmy was
00:51really, like, absolutely the first person I felt that truly believed in me.
00:56Not even in filmmaking?
00:58Not even, just like in general.
01:00It came from that.
01:01You know what I mean?
01:02It came from someone just seeing, like, you are the person that should do this, and filling
01:08in that work, and talking to each other about what we thought was going to be the best for
01:13the character.
01:14Weaving and Warden are married in real life.
01:16This film marks the first time the couple has worked together in an actor-director capacity.
01:21Jimmy and I had wanted to work together for a while.
01:24I was just waiting for him to write a script that had a role for me in it, and I love Jimmy's
01:29writing and I'm such a fan, so it was awesome that we could work together.
01:34What iconic pop stars did you look to for inspiration for Sophia?
01:38A lot.
01:39Kind of all of them.
01:40I think kind of like a bunch kind of smooshed together, but just that idea of being a female
01:46pop star in the 90s, like how hard it would have been, how strong you would have had to
01:51be to survive in that world, but also how much fun it would have been.
01:57Yeah, it creates an amalgam of pop stars.
02:00We created a whole backstory together where we shot album covers of what her, and a lot
02:05of them are in the movie, maybe just in the background, but it was that type of character
02:09that was too young, or just young when her first album was sexualized and objectified.
02:17I think that first album was called Minor Crimes.
02:21Her name is Sophia Minor, and like, I don't know, it's just...
02:24Yeah, but you know, Christina, Britney, Madonna, yeah, just like all those classic 90s pop
02:32stars.
02:33Worden also opened up about how Madonna's 1983 song Borderline inspired the title of
02:38the movie.
02:39The song title actually was from a cover of that song that the Flaming Lips did, and it
02:47was just like listening to them do it, and it just changed the entire meaning behind
02:55the song for me.
02:57Like when you hear it from a guy saying something in the way you love me, well, let me be you.
03:03It's like, it's creepy, and that's just kind of, it snowballed from there.
03:10Borderline is set to be released in theaters and on digital platforms March 14th.
03:15For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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