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Samara Weaving and Ray Nicholson star in the new comedy thriller 'Borderline' from writer-director Jimmy Warden. The two stars of the movie and the filmmaker spoke to The Hollywood Reporter's Tiffany Taylor all about the project, including how popstars like Madonna and Britney Spears inspired the film and its lead character, Sofia. Plus, Ray Nicholson, the son of Jack Nicholson, details why he wanted to be a part of the project and how Warden was the first filmmaker he felt truly believed in him. And Weaving and Warden, who are married in real life, opened up about working together in an actor-director capacity for the first time. 'Borderline' is theaters and on digital March 14.

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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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