'Hal & Harper' Creator Cooper Raiff on Codependency & Running Into Pitbull | THR Studio at Park City - video Dailymotion

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Creator Cooper Raiff and stars Lili Reinhart, Havana Rose Liu, Addison Timlin, Alyah Chanelle Scott and Christopher Meyer stop by THR's studio in Park City to dish all about their new series 'Hal & Harper.' Raiff talks about how the show focuses on codependency and the stars dish on the moment they were left starstruck.

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00:00Does anyone remember the first time they were starstruck?

00:03Pipple.

00:05I saw him in a bathroom and he was, I kid you not, humming his own song.

00:15I made a movie and sold it and it felt like we sold it on the backs of so many independent movies that have been sold before.

00:25I really wanted Helen Harper to be a movie because I knew the model, I knew the path, but it was just a TV show.

00:32It just always felt like I wanted to explore characters in a way that only the medium of TV could allow,

00:40but it was really scary and still is really scary to think about.

00:45It makes sense on paper just to take the model of independent movies with TV,

00:51but TV people don't have any reason to,

00:56I don't know how many TV people are even at Sundance ready to buy things.

01:00We kind of have to make a little more noise, I think.

01:04Given the kind of difference in the way, in the business model here,

01:07but did it feel any different actually making it than other stuff you've done?

01:10or did it feel still pretty much the same?

01:13We were flying by the whole meat of our pants.

01:15Okay.

01:17I mean, the schedule wasn't to be taken lightly.

01:21It was like, yes, maybe what we shoot today, we may not.

01:25But we were all game and you can't make a show like this, like an indie show,

01:30with a very limited budget without people who are just game to be present and to be flexible.

01:36And I think we're lucky that we had people who were willing to do that.

01:39And a shout out to Mark, who's obviously not here,

01:41but, you know, what this incredible actor was so just very down all the time

01:49to do whatever we needed to do to make the show work.

01:52And he's incredible, obviously.

01:54Does anyone here have a codependent sibling relationship that they use to help?

01:58I battle with codependency as a human.

02:01Why are you laughing?

02:06So, yeah, I think that the show really is in every way about codependency

02:11and not the, like, we're all so close and we should rely on each other.

02:14It's like the intricacies of why that, when codependency is born in your childhood

02:22and also how it, like, how it damages relationships in the present.

02:27And I tried to, with the show, especially in the editing, show how each partner of each family member

02:35is kind of going through a very similar thing in a way.

02:39Does anyone remember the first time they were starstruck?

02:42Mine was J. Cole outside of Krispy Kreme.

02:46Yeah, I'm a J. Cole fan.

02:48And I said, or I tried to say something, and it came out, like, as just gibberish.

02:54Hey, I was like, what?

02:56And then, bro, a little bro, he was like, hi, man.

03:01I think I, um, drove five hours to Dallas as a kid from Bayston.

03:06You think?

03:07I did.

03:08To see Dim Lovato at a mall.

03:10Whoa!

03:11Yeah!

03:12She was late, and she was like, I'm sick.

03:16And then I was like, yes!

03:19And that was it.

03:20Was it a concert, or was it, like, just an appearance or a sign?

03:23I just think she was supposed to be there to be like, hi, and bye.

03:26But we, we showed up.

03:27Wow.

03:28Lady Gaga was someone that I shook hands with, and that was the first time I ever became,

03:33like, tongue-tied.

03:34She was co-hosting the Met Ball, and I was, so it was like, at the top of the stairs,

03:38you shake the hands of the people who are hosting.

03:41Sometimes.

03:42Yeah.

03:43I don't know.

03:44Well, I looked into her eyes, and I was like, I'm looking into Lady Gaga's eyes,

03:48and I just was like, I don't know, this is you too, you too.

03:51Like, whatever.

03:52She's like, it's so nice to have you here, and I was like, I don't know, the gag.

03:56Yeah, it was wild.

03:57I was like, I was just like, looking into the eyes of someone that you've seen on a screen

04:02for so long, it's like, you just, you're like, oh my god, you have eyes.

04:05You have eyes.

04:06You have eyes.

04:07You have eyes.

04:10You have eyes.

04:11I didn't see it.

04:12You have eyes.

04:13I was like, oh my god.

04:15It's amazing.

04:17You've seen it.

04:19I was having myself, and big thumbs up.

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