00:00I wanted to know what was your first reaction when reading the script?
00:04Oh, my first reaction, first of all, was just how honest the script was.
00:08But I think what really stood out to me, you know, there's a lot of movies that deal with divorce and deal with marriage.
00:14What my first reaction was was how sweet the movie was.
00:17You know, it was not adversarial, and I feel like we're very used to seeing that when it comes to movies that deal with this subject matter.
00:23I thought it really had to do with, it was very sweet, and I thought it was more about self-discovery or self-rediscovery than it was just about their marriage.
00:34And I think it really, it was, it put a spotlight for me on how important it is to allow yourself to evolve and change and how good that can be for your relationships and for your marriage.
00:46So I just thought it was really sweet.
00:47It wasn't adversarial, and that was nice.
00:49And from working on this film, is there anything you learned about stand-up comedy that surprised you?
00:56Anything I learned about stand-up comedy?
00:59Oh, I think that, I think the main thing that I learned from this film is just how honest comics are.
01:06I think like, I guess in my mind, my idea of comedy was that, oh, they are, they tell jokes, and they tell great jokes, but they're really actually just being authentic people.
01:15And they're being very honest about, I always like to talk about the inner monologue, like the thoughts we have internally that, like, maybe we shouldn't have in the moment.
01:23Like, they're very authentic and very open about those things, and I think that's probably what I learned most about comedy.
01:29They're really just living out loud, and I think that's what makes it so funny and relatable.
01:32And, you know, Bradley is, he takes on so many interesting projects, and they're all very different, the projects that he directs.
01:41So what is it about him that makes him such a unique director?
01:46Ooh, well, first of all, he has the perspective of an actor.
01:48That's hugely important.
01:50And I think when we were in the space, we could feel that, you know, the same instincts that we have about a certain scene or about a certain delivery or about just the overall spirit of a certain scene.
02:03Like, he's usually there already, you know what I mean?
02:06And so he can kind of, he films in a way, he films with that intuition, if that makes sense.
02:11And so it's interesting being in set with someone who's a director who's operating the camera, but is also, like, it gets very vulnerable, you know what I mean?
02:20Because you're, like, completely transparent because he can kind of feel all those instincts in you.
02:25And so it just made everything really, really urgent, like, very in the moment and really just very grounded, very real.
02:32And then how did filming in real New York City locations help influence your performance?
02:37Well, I mean, first of all, New York has an energy that is unique to everywhere in the world.
02:44And so I think it influenced the pace of the film.
02:47I think it influenced the, even the sound of the film, if that makes sense.
02:52Because, you know, like, growing up, I grew up in San Diego, right?
02:56And I live in L.A. now.
02:58You know, and still Los Angeles is a big city, but there is such a, like, I don't want to use the word congestion, but everything is so much more compact, right?
03:05This is, like, a very vertical city, so you're in everyone's faces all the time.
03:10So the background sound of New York feels like a character in this movie.
03:14Because, and I think it reflects sort of maybe the inner chaos that Alex's character was feeling,
03:19or that all of our characters are feeling when our world is sort of upended and we're like, oh, divorce, rediscovery.
03:25We don't, you know, I think that has, there's a sort of a cacophony of sounds internally that I feel like the city actually represents.
03:31So it was just great filming here.
03:33It's also such an iconic city, you know, it just, it just, it had the right pace, if that makes sense.
03:39And now we're here, full circle, at the debut.
03:41At the New York Film Festival, it's such an honor, I'm telling you.
03:45Girl, I keep saying this whole time, I was like, I feel very overwhelmed.
03:47They're like, you okay?
03:48I was like, no, in a really good way.
03:49Like, it's almost like so many amazing things happening at once.
03:52So really excited.
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