James Sweeney, Dylan O'Brien & More on Creating Their New Film 'Twinless' | THR Studio at Park City

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Director, writer and star James Sweeney, along with castmates Dylan O'Brien, Lauren Graham and Aisling Franciosi of 'Twinless,' sit down for an interview with THR at our studio in Park City to chat about the film. They also dish on the moment they were first recognized, the celebrity that left them starstruck and more.

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00:00Describe the movie in one sentence.

00:04Two lonely men make each other less lonely.

00:09Nice.

00:10That sounds like a porno.

00:13That's what we're selling.

00:20Is it sort of true that this movie

00:23was sort of inspired by the Olsen twins?

00:26I'd say inspired in the sense that they were

00:29a source of formative inspiration for me,

00:32but I wouldn't say anything about their lives

00:35or their films directly inspired the plot.

00:37Love, love the parentress.

00:39Not bad.

00:40Oh, that's why someone asked me yesterday

00:42if Lindsay Lohan was a twin.

00:44Well, it's sort of similar because she's,

00:46she played twins.

00:47I understand.

00:50I have a British sister and people always say,

00:54oh, like the parent trap.

00:55And I'm like, no, we're just sisters.

00:58And we grew up in different countries.

00:59That's my relationship to the parent trap.

01:01But you knew each other as children.

01:03Yes.

01:04So not like the movie.

01:05So not.

01:07Dylan and I met in 2020.

01:09And then we were green light two weeks before the WGA strike.

01:13So that we were kind of in a holding pattern for half a year.

01:17And then we got the green light, go, go, go, go.

01:20And then we rushed to cast these lovely ladies.

01:23I got offered it on a Wednesday night and set on a Friday morning.

01:25So it was quick.

01:27Oh, it was fast.

01:28It was fun.

01:30What is, Lauren, what is the fastest that you have ever done from,

01:33from author to showing up on set?

01:36Um, it was Gilmore Girls.

01:39What?

01:40Whoa, whoa.

01:41Really?

01:41Sorry.

01:42Breaking game.

01:42Whoa.

01:43Because I was on another show, so they wouldn't see me for a long time.

01:48And then they finally, I think I got it on a Friday and flew to Canada on like,

01:53Saturday or Sunday.

01:54Wow.

01:55Yeah.

01:55I know.

01:56Okay, so that worked out.

01:57It worked out okay.

01:58It worked out.

01:59What were each other's first impression as playing?

02:03Ooh, fun.

02:05Yeah, just fun.

02:06I, I don't know.

02:08I, I adore him immediately.

02:10I, is that wrong?

02:11Uh, I didn't feel that way.

02:13I understand.

02:15No, I do, I do feel like we, we sort of instantly had

02:19like, uh, some kind of just connectivity that was like really natural.

02:24Yeah.

02:24Like, I wonder if you had that with everybody because you're so charming.

02:28Certainly not.

02:28No, no.

02:30Who haven't you had that with?

02:31Ah, we're getting to the juice.

02:35This is why I'm sitting far away from you.

02:40No, I don't have that with everybody.

02:42Wow.

02:42I'm in a birth sign.

02:44Oh, which one specifically?

02:46Which one?

02:47Yeah.

02:47Gaps.

02:47Oh, you're a Virgo.

02:49Oh, sure.

02:49Ah.

02:50We're opposites in a good way.

02:52Like, all my college roommates are Virgos.

02:54Like, it's, it's a good, it is.

02:56It's a good.

02:57What kind are you?

02:57I'm Pisces.

02:58Me too.

02:59Oh, really?

02:59You have Pisces room.

03:00Oh, my God.

03:01Hey.

03:01See?

03:02I'm your mom.

03:03That's fine.

03:04I'm your mom.

03:07Did you do this right after Speak No Evil?

03:09Did I do this?

03:11No, I actually had done something right before it, like a little improv movie.

03:15But yes, so shortly.

03:17I was curious about like the going from tone to tone.

03:20Oh, yeah.

03:20That was, I mean, I've never done anything in this tone ever.

03:23So, yeah.

03:25Smiling a lot was new for me to like practice.

03:28The improv movie was also a James McAvoy, wasn't it?

03:31Yeah.

03:31Cool.

03:32Just six days of improv.

03:34Oh, wow.

03:34Yeah.

03:35The first time you got recognized on the street.

03:38Does anyone have a memory of that?

03:42I was in a shoe store and someone asked me for an autograph and I signed it.

03:48And then somebody tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around.

03:51I was like, oh, my God, this is crazy.

03:54I am huge.

03:55And the person goes, do you have these in a night?

03:59I was like, oh, yeah, I'm just regular still.

04:04I was in Walmart yesterday.

04:07The other night.

04:08And a woman asked me if I knew where the linens were.

04:13And I said, I don't work here.

04:16What about anyone's first time being starstruck?

04:19I was very excited when I sat next to John C. Reilly.

04:23And then once I was in the lift with Willem Dafoe and I was like, I love it.

04:27Amid it.

04:27Did you say anything?

04:28No.

04:30Yeah, I had to play cool.

04:31Yeah.

04:33Seems like you were real good.

04:34I interned on a film in college where Kristen Bell was one of the actresses and I was standing

04:44guard and I had some sort of snack and she's like trying to get in and I have to stop her.

04:48I'm like, do you want some?

04:50And she's like, no.

04:51Oh, she's very sweet, but it was embarrassing for me.

04:57I'm starstruck by everybody.

04:59It's really a problem.

05:01I did a movie with Meryl Streep.

05:04I was a nightmare the whole time.

05:06That one's kind of fair.

05:07Yeah.

05:08There's like a little mic to drop just there.

05:10That was pretty cool.

05:10No.

05:11Just throw in there.

05:12I didn't film with Meryl Streep.

05:14To the degree that just blood was pounding in my ears during all of our scenes,

05:19which is not a good way to be an actor, but it was pretty cool.

05:25My dad was a camera operator.

05:27And when I was, I think, nine, he was working on the New York unit.

05:33He was BTM up on the New York unit for Spider-Man.

05:37And Bring It On had just come out and I was in love with Kirsten Dunst.

05:41And I got to go there shooting in Queens one night.

05:43My mom took me to watch from the set and they were shooting a scene.

05:47And I was just watching Kirsten Dunst from like afar, like a really long far away.

05:52With binoculars.

05:53Yeah.

05:56Couldn't hear them, but I thought that was so cool.

05:59Does anyone have a one movie that like they always watch over and over again?

06:04It's weirdly Godfather one and two.

06:06Oh, thanks.

06:07Oh.

06:07I can, I can never not, I can never turn away.

06:10Do you have a preference between two?

06:13I feel guilty if I rewatch movies.

06:15Really?

06:15Oh my God, I love it.

06:17Because I'm like, there's so many movies to watch.

06:19No, I feel that.

06:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.

06:20Yeah.

06:21Favorite movie is Barton Fink though, shout it.

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