00:00There's so many films about, like, violence against women and women's trauma, and they don't reflect, I think, the ways in which young women actually talk about, like, how much of a nightmare it is to be a young woman in the world sometimes.
00:14It was very early on that I thought of Rachel for the role. I had seen her stand-up a really long time ago, in probably, like, 2016, so when you were two.
00:31Yeah.
00:32Yeah.
00:32Your stuff was so raw then, too.
00:35It was really fresh and new.
00:36You were finding your voice, but it was there.
00:37That was your face so good.
00:39That was full of poopies.
00:40Um, I already knew Ali. Not super well, but I feel like we, like, everything I had heard about her and seen of her work, all amazing, and then we had that chemistry read together, and I just felt like we clicked, which is hard to do.
00:57On Zoom.
00:58On Zoom. On Zoom, with all these chemistry reads in a row, and you're like, I'm somehow connecting with you, which is really-
01:04I'm connecting with everyone.
01:05Yeah. No, it was, it's rare, and then Ali sent me the script.
01:10And, um, it was just beautiful, and I really felt like I had never read a script that handled trauma and, like, PTSD in this way that was not some sort of, like, revenge thing or just one moment in time.
01:28Like, it was that kind of what it is in real life, which is, like, slow-burning and brutal and then sometimes boring and sometimes funny, and then you become a bad person or you're rude to your roommates.
01:40Like, you know, it's all, it was just so nuanced and real, and I, I related to the material and I connected with it.
01:48The vision she has for this movie is so clear, and I was just, like, lucky to be a part of telling the story.
01:56No, I think we got very lucky with when you did the film.
02:01Maybe we're all lucky to win this cast.
02:03Yeah, maybe we're all lucky.
02:03Maybe we're all lucky.
02:04Maybe we're all lucky.
02:04There's a scene where we're in the green room at the comedy club, and I come up, my character comes offstage, and there's a guy in the green room being shitty.
02:11And that felt probably the most, there's a straight, there's a straight guy being shitty, and I was like, that's, yeah.
02:16Maybe you know that situation exact before.
02:19That's it, yeah.
02:19I was like, this is every night, actually.
02:21That was just a reality show camera we put up at the comedy club.
02:25Something that attracted me to stand up from the beginning was being able to sort of take things that felt traumatic or embarrassing and then own them on stage and transform those things into empowering things.
02:36And that was sort of like the electric drug that Olga will once, at one time, one day, get addicted to.
02:44Dealing with trauma in a way that leads to some sort of ownership of your own story.
02:49There's so many films about, like, violence against women and women's trauma, and they don't reflect, I think, the ways in which young women actually talk about, like, how much of a nightmare it is to be a young woman in the world sometimes.
03:03And I was like, you do, you develop a sense of gallows humor about it.
03:08And I didn't really see that in culture, in pop culture, and I wanted to kind of honor that process that I think women and queer people have together and sort of the reality and the way that we talk to each other about things.
03:27I think also stand-ups are people who are, like, desperate to, like, say something.
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