Adult Beginners Interview with Nick Kroll

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Nick Kroll explores the themes and inspiration for his SXSW Film Adult Beginners. Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale take a dip into adulthood from the kiddie pool.

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00:00We're outside the Four Seasons in Austin.

00:03We're about to head inside and talk to the cast of Nick Kroll's Adult Beginners.

00:07Now, Nick, this is your story, right?

00:09What was the inspiration?

00:10I have 12 nieces and nephews, and I realized that I am not fit to take care of any of these children.

00:19So it led me to think about an idea of a movie of a younger brother who's incapable of being a nanny.

00:24This is Teddy's nanny.

00:25Actually, his uncle.

00:26Teddy!

00:27Let's go crazy!

00:28I made the movie with my sisters and brothers and their husbands and wives in mind.

00:33I really like the idea of, like, you know, adults that weren't quite adults yet,

00:36even though they had the sort of trappings of adults.

00:39A great Instagram would have been the baby in the suitcase.

00:43How did that whole thing go?

00:45It was the first shot we did in the movie in the suitcase,

00:48and he hopped right on in there and was super comfortable,

00:52and it was a real test of, like, how is this going to be working with these two very sweet boys

00:57who play Teddy, and it was this great question of how we were going to get along.

01:02Why are you holding on to me?

01:03I'm not entirely comfortable here.

01:05Me neither.

01:05The thing that I loved about this script was how much heart it has,

01:10that it's really edgy and funny, but ultimately has a lot of heart,

01:14and I related having a brother that I don't call enough,

01:18and we don't get together enough, and I think everybody can kind of relate to that.

01:22Yeah, this film is a sort of a broad comedy, like, say, what Nick Cole does on Crowell's show.

01:26A little bit different, a little bit different to that.

01:28But I personally love these sort of films, you know, that are a little bit more subtle,

01:31and you do relate.

01:32I mean, as an actor, you just want people to relate to what you do,

01:35and relationships with siblings are so universal,

01:37and that feeling of estrangement you might have with them

01:40or that loaded history you have with everybody in your family.

01:43It's such great material to mine for a writer or a director or an actor, I think.

01:47It's just endless.

01:49My sister's pregnant, so I'm, like, helping her out a little bit.

01:51Kids.

01:52Yeah, they're the future.

01:54We'll see, but...

01:55Mm-hmm. No, they are.

01:56They will be.

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