Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins Star in 'Brittany Runs a Marathon' | Sundance 2019 - video Dailymotion

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Written and directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo, the film also stars Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lil Rel Howrey and Micah Stock.

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00:00I think there's Brittany in everyone.

00:02I'd like to.

00:03I think, you know, that's the point of the film is you start the film thinking,

00:06oh, I know this girl.

00:08But as it goes on, you realize we're all that girl and she's us.

00:11And that's the journey we go on throughout the film is asking for empathy and sympathy and respect

00:17as we zoom in on what about her story is everybody's story.

00:21So first, I think huge congratulations to Paul on your directorial debut.

00:34It's exciting.

00:35So do you want to give us the pitch a little bit?

00:37Yeah.

00:38It's a movie inspired by my real life best friend who in her late 20s realized she wanted more

00:42from herself and more from her life and decided to make a change.

00:45And she didn't know what that change was.

00:46So she just took it one step at a time and went for a run.

00:50Went for one block, then the next day too.

00:52And as she started to change her habits, it bled into other areas of her life and things

00:59changed maybe for the better, maybe for the worse.

01:01But that's sort of what the film explores.

01:03Any time you change your life, the course of your life, it's a very scary thing.

01:07And I think that's really relatable.

01:09And every human being can relate to that.

01:12Yeah.

01:13Nobody's got all their shit together.

01:14Yeah.

01:15We all have things that we want to improve on, but we always say like, I'll start tomorrow.

01:19And we keep putting it off and putting it off and putting it off.

01:22And like, what happens if like Brittany, you just, you just start and you learn incrementally,

01:26slowly, like, you know, progress, not perfection.

01:29You like, you build these moments.

01:31Yeah.

01:32Hopefully.

01:33You find out that when you do get that money, that car, that body, that boyfriend, that

01:38you're not okay.

01:39Right.

01:40Because there's so many, because that actually wasn't the impetus for what needed to change.

01:45You needed to heal something on the inside.

01:47And it was just amazing to see Jillian laid so bare in this role.

01:53Like, it was just such a beautiful ride to go on.

01:56That's what made it real.

01:57I think that's, you know, we sat down after I read the script.

02:01I just like how real the character is because when you're going through a change, you go

02:05through all different types of emotions.

02:06It's not just positive.

02:08That's us in life.

02:09Like you, as you grow as a person, like, and I think that's what the audience is going

02:12to be really familiar with is that, you know, I've been through changes before and it

02:16wasn't easy.

02:17And I did go through every type of emotion to get to where I wanted to go.

02:21So much of the movie is about breaking out of the box you've built for yourself.

02:26Yeah.

02:27So many times in life, I find myself enacting the thing that I think someone thinks they

02:32want me to be or not.

02:34I think so much of the movie is Brittany, you know, trying to not fulfill these predetermined

02:40ways of that people have decided she's going to act or that she's going to act for other

02:45people.

02:46And I think that's true of all the people in the movie.

02:48You guys are such a close knit group and I have to compete against each other for the

02:51ring toss challenge.

02:52Are you up for that?

02:53Yeah, you're throwing down.

02:54Absolutely.

02:55All right, go.

02:56Do we all just throw it at once?

02:57Oh, shit.

02:58I really thought that was happening.

03:01Oh, did you see that?

03:04That was incredible.

03:05That's amazing.

03:06I'm going to give these away.

03:08He won for all of us.

03:09Oh, my gosh.

03:10Don't.

03:11Oh.

03:12Oh.

03:13Oh.

03:14Oh.

03:15Oh.

03:16Oh.

03:17Oh.

03:18Oh.

03:19Oh.

03:20Oh.

03:21Oh.

03:22Oh.

03:23Oh.

03:24Yes.

03:25Yes.

03:26Yes.

03:27Yes.

03:28That's the greatest moment of my life.

03:30This is what the movie is about.

03:33You don't give up.

03:34I want to thank Paul.

03:36What is the strategy?

03:37Practice now.

03:38Practice now.

03:39Practice now.

03:40Practice now.

03:41Yes.

03:42Yes.

03:43That's why you don't give up.

03:47Thank you so much.

03:48This has been a great day.

03:49This has been a great day.

Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins Star in 'Brittany Runs a Marathon' | Sundance 2019

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