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From writer/director Mary Bronstein comes If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, a darkly funny and heartfelt story starring Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, and A$AP Rocky. Now playing in select theaters and nationwide October 31.
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00:00I'm a perfect mother, and I never make mistakes.
00:02Yeah, me too.
00:03How would I describe if I had legs, I'd kick you?
00:06It's like a fever dream about motherhood.
00:09Mommy!
00:10Whatever!
00:11We've seen many films about women having a nervous breakdown or having crises.
00:15Yo, crazy pants!
00:17But I am excited to have this now through the lens of a female filmmaker.
00:22I had never seen before in a film concentrating on the mother
00:27not as an appendage of her child, but as an individual.
00:31You have to go there today.
00:33I'm not a housewife.
00:34I work too.
00:35Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:36It's about trusting the audience with it.
00:38It's just asking them to go on it with you.
00:41Everything is under control.
00:44Ha!
00:45Rose is a powerhouse.
00:48No one will tell me what to do.
00:50You know what to do.
00:52I wanted her so badly for this part
00:54because she is a very rare type of actor
00:57who has impeccable comedic instincts.
01:02What an opportunity to sink your teeth into this.
01:05I really resonated with her.
01:07It's hard to pull off getting a laugh on the heels of a cry and vice versa.
01:11One thing goes wrong and another thing goes wrong.
01:15Valve is released and the audience is allowed to laugh.
01:18You're gonna laugh or you're gonna cry.
01:20It's not a story about a family.
01:24It's a story about this person.
01:29Mom.
01:30Don't fucking call me mommy.
01:31The audience, I trust something is going to resonate.
01:34This isn't supposed to be what it's like.
01:36This isn't it.
01:37This can't be it.
01:38This can't be it.
01:42Oh my god!
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