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,
00:09tells the story of a 90s pop star and her delusional stalker who breaks into her home.
00:15You're hilarious, Sophia. I'm ready to be yours forever. We're gonna be married.
00:22What, are you having second thoughts?
00:23The stars of the film and writer-director Jimmy Warden spoke to The Hollywood Reporter
00:28all about the new movie. Now, this is a creepy character, so for you,
00:32what drew you to this script and this movie?
00:34It's so weird.
00:38It's so weird, you know? It 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,
00:51Jimmy was really, like, absolutely the first person I felt that truly believed in me.
00:55Not even in filmmaking?
00:57Yeah, not even, just, like, in general.
00:59Like, it came from that, you know what I mean? It came from, like, someone just seeing, like,
01:04you are the person that should do this and, you know, filling in that work and talking to each
01:10other about what we thought was gonna be the best for the character.
01:13Weaving and Warden are married in real life. This film marks the first time the couple has worked
01:18together in an actor-director capacity.
01:20Jimmy and I had wanted to work together for a while. I was just waiting for him to
01:26write a script that had a role for me in it, and I love Jimmy's writing and I'm such a fan,
01:31so it was awesome that we could work together.
01:34What iconic pop stars did you look to for inspiration for Sophia?
01:38A lot. Kind of all of them. I think kind of like a bunch kind of smooshed together.
01:43But just that idea of being a female pop star in the 90s, like, how hard it would have been,
01:49how strong you would have had to be 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, like, a whole backstory together where we, like, shot album covers of, like, what her,
02:04and a lot of them are in the movie, maybe just in the background.
02:08But it was, like, that type of character that was too young when her, or just young when her first album
02:14was, like, sexualized and objectified. I think that first one album was called, like,
02:20Minor Crimes. Her name is Sophia Minor, and, like, I don't know.
02:24Yeah, but, you know, like, Christina, Britney, Madonna, yeah, just, like, all those classic 90s pop stars.
02:33Warden also opened up about how Madonna's 1983 song, Borderline, inspired the title of the movie.
02:39The song title actually was from a cover of that song, um, that the Flaming Lips did,
02:47and it was just, like, listening to them do it, and it just changed the entire meaning behind the song
02:56for me. Like, when you hear it from a guy saying, like, something in the way you love me,
03:00well, let me be, it'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 14.
03:14For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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