00:00Has anyone had a quarter, is anyone in a quarter-life crisis? Like, how do we get through?
00:04Actively.
00:05I don't know what to do.
00:10Trying to figure it out.
00:13I think you're on such a good path.
00:15It's going well.
00:16Yeah, from the outside it doesn't seem like that.
00:18I appreciate that.
00:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20That's awesome.
00:21That's not how it feels, though.
00:22Not how it feels.
00:23It's turmoil.
00:24I don't know what to do.
00:25It all probably started on the set of this film.
00:27Yes, exactly.
00:28Yeah.
00:29Actually, yes.
00:30A little bit.
00:36What is it about this story that only you could do?
00:39I don't know if only I could do it, but I think I felt very connected to the relationships.
00:46I loved the family dynamic, and I loved Cooper and Andrew's friendship.
00:50I've never really seen a male friendship portrayed that way, and I liked that it was a quarter-life
00:57crisis and a midlife crisis sort of intercepting, and they're helping each other through it,
01:04and somehow it all worked out.
01:07But when I read this, it was very clear, and I felt like I had a good handle on the material, and that maybe I could pull this one off.
01:17Did you ever consider also acting in this?
01:20Or that was like, no way?
01:22Yeah, no way.
01:24Honestly, I have so much.
01:26After doing this, I was like, I don't know how people act and direct at the same time.
01:30Yeah.
01:31First of all, you're just so tired.
01:32I'm like, how do you look okay?
01:34How do you remember all of the things you need to remember?
01:36It seems so hard, so I have a whole new respect for everyone who's able to do that.
01:40Who did you have in mind first, like when you were reading the script, thinking about it?
01:44Who came?
01:45Who before me and Andrew did you think about to play these parts?
01:48Who of the group came to your head?
01:51Nico!
01:52It was number one.
01:53It was number one.
01:54What?
01:55It was kind of all one.
01:57I'm not going to lie.
01:59Did you know that?
02:00Wait, Brittany?
02:01It was.
02:02I love Nico, so I was a big fan of Nico.
02:05And when we first were talking about Dora, kind of before we had anyone set, I was on Nico's tail.
02:12I was trying to get Nico.
02:14And then, yeah, we auditioned a ton of people.
02:17And I think the duos, like Dora and Liz and Ari and Sam were like the most important.
02:23I think the movie kind of doesn't work if those dynamics don't work and the chemistry isn't there.
02:26And so we auditioned a ton of people.
02:29Andrew, I mean, you guys should tell this story because...
02:31We were filming Saturday night when we...
02:34And Cooper was on his way to hanging out with me when we got asked to do the chemistry read the next day.
02:40So we ran lines that night with Dylan O'Brien playing Liz.
02:44I was...
02:46How did you?
02:47A little disappointed that he didn't get the job.
02:49Leslie was great.
02:50Yeah, he killed it.
02:51He killed it.
02:52And that was it.
02:53We were already really close.
02:55We became really close on Saturday night.
02:56We wanted to stay really close.
02:58And so this movie felt like a gift as actors to get to play best friends with somebody that you already really connect to.
03:04And a gift as people that we got to keep being friends.
03:07Yeah.
03:08We did our chemistry read on Zoom.
03:10Remember?
03:11Yeah.
03:12And I was in my living room on my couch.
03:14And somebody was being loud in your house.
03:16Yeah.
03:17It was my grandson.
03:18He was being loud.
03:19He was like, be quiet!
03:21And then you come back to the Zoom.
03:23They were gracious enough to...
03:25Yeah, it was fine.
03:26I got the parts.
03:28Did either of you have hesitations about working together in this format?
03:33Well, I just want to be around Maude every day of my life.
03:37So I was thrilled to be able to do this.
03:40And she was forced to have to spend every day with me.
03:46I loved it.
03:47It was a great working relationship, wasn't it?
03:50Yeah.
03:51Wasn't it?
03:52I don't think...
03:53But beforehand, I mean, we haven't ever worked in this way together.
03:57No?
03:58Um, I was a little worried on the first day.
04:01Like, how is she going to be as a director?
04:04You know?
04:05Jesus.
04:07And then she was, like, just so decisive, super self-assured,
04:15and, you know, created a really safe space for all of us.
04:19And that's like a dream for a director.
04:22Yeah.
04:23I say well done to me.
04:26Yes.
04:27Congratulations, Leslie.
04:28Exactly.
04:29Congratulations, Leslie.
04:30Thanks, you guys.
04:31She's always finding a small little hidey hole.
04:33But it's so nice.
04:34She's in, like, a tiny nook with the thing,
04:36and then she kind of will disappear,
04:38and then when she comes back in, it's like,
04:39where do you keep going?
04:40Because everyone's in a video.
04:41Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:42You know, open a closet, and she's in.
04:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:44But when she comes out, she was so completely dialed in,
04:48always to what we were doing and what was working
04:51and what wasn't working.
04:52And so she would, like, rally back and forth,
04:54and at some point all of us would be like,
04:56okay, okay, it's time to shoot right now.
04:57Like, right now, right now, right now, right now.
04:58It was amazing.
04:59It was so cool to be, to have that level of collaboration
05:03so constantly.
05:04It was amazing.
05:05And the way you led the crew was just so beautiful.
05:07Yeah.
05:08It was an amazing group of people that she assembled, really.
05:09It's awesome.
05:10And it was, like, summer camp for you guys, right?
05:11Oh, my God.
05:12Yeah, it was so much fun.
05:13We had, like, a blast.
05:14Genuinely.
05:15What did you guys, what did everyone do for fun?
05:18And were you guys part of, like, knocking on the door,
05:21wanting an invite?
05:22Or were you like, no.
05:23Not invited.
05:24That is not true.
05:25That is not true.
05:26We invited you.
05:27Okay, that is crazy.
05:28You were like, we, we, no.
05:30Like, please come hang.
05:31Church and stay.
05:32And you're like, and we really respected you.
05:33You're like, I don't hang out.
05:34I don't hang out.
05:35I respected you instantaneously.
05:36Atlanta is amazing.
05:38Atlanta is such a cool city.
05:40There is so much to do.
05:41I love, like, kitschy stuff.
05:43Like, I love the Coke Museum.
05:44You know what I mean?
05:45But also.
05:46The Puppet Museum.
05:47Yes.
05:48The Puppetry Museum is amazing.
05:49I cannot recommend that.
05:50The Christmas restaurants.
05:51The Christmas restaurants.
05:53The Christmas restaurants.
05:54We'll find the craziest, most fun, like, Disneyland-esque.
05:57What's the, there's a restaurant, I think it was for infatuation.
05:59That's crazy because Leslie asked me about the strip clubs.
06:01Oh, yeah.
06:04We all did go to a strip club.
06:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:06I did not like that.
06:07What was that called?
06:08What was that called?
06:09Magic City.
06:10No, we went to the Claremont, the Claremont Lounge.
06:11Yeah, Claremont Lounge.
06:12I stayed in the hotel above the Claremont Lounge.
06:14Oh, Magic City.
06:15Yeah.
06:16You hear some things.
06:17Yes.
06:18Stay in that hotel.
06:19We went to see, we were like touring, or scouting a high school.
06:24And they were rehearsing Hadestown in the theater department.
06:27And I was like, when's the show?
06:29We all went to see this local Atlanta production of Hadestown.
06:33It was amazing.
06:34Which was incredible.
06:35It was incredible.
06:36They killed it.
06:37They had swinging lights.
06:38They had treadmills.
06:39The production design was unlike anything.
06:41They get like pulled out from under something at one point.
06:45Yeah, the treadmills, the treadmills.
06:46It was like crazy.
06:47No, but the lights all swinging.
06:48Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:49It was incredible.
06:50This is an ad actually for Decatur High School's production.
06:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:54Oh, Hadestown is not playing at four performances, I think.
06:58Yeah.
06:59I just can't stop laughing.
07:00I feel like you posted a still of this or a picture of this.
07:02But when you guys are on the moped, how fast were you going on that?
07:08When you were...
07:09Yeah, how fast were you going?
07:10Was that an action scene?
07:11I'm so sorry.
07:12Andrew, how fast were you going?
07:13I felt afraid for my life.
07:15Andrew, how fast were you going?
07:16For real.
07:17It was fast enough.
07:18I'm so sorry.
07:19And it wasn't...
07:20Wait, hold on.
07:21I think that's so scarier about it.
07:22Wait, wait, wait.
07:23Am I crazy or is the shot of them two...
07:25That's not you guys on a truck?
07:26No, it is.
07:27No, no.
07:28The close-up was also on a truck.
07:30But there was...
07:31I'm just an uncoordinated human being.
07:35Terrible moped rider.
07:36And I had like, every other day, lessons with our stunt coordinator.
07:42Learning how to drive the Vespa safely.
07:44And in many ways, he became my new dad.
07:47And I...
07:49But getting on the back of the moped with him felt very...
07:54And nobody told you that you were going to have to do that right then.
07:57And I was like, oh, you didn't know this was happening.
07:59Okay.
08:00Well, here we go.
08:01And it was like this.
08:02Yeah.
08:03Yeah.
08:04I feel like...
08:05You did it though.
08:06It looks good.
08:07We got there.
08:08We got there.
08:09We got there.
08:10That's the double.
08:11We did it.
08:12We did it.
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