00:05Hello, Chiara Nicoletti, movie player.
00:07Hello.
00:08Thank you so much, first of all.
00:10Thank you, thank you.
00:12So I have to say, I always loved Christmas movies
00:15and I decided to screen the film
00:18while I was trying to cook dinner for my kids
00:20and doing two or three things at the same time.
00:23So, and then suddenly I looked at Michelle Pfeiffer struggling
00:26and I felt seen.
00:27So I figured finally, that's a Christmas movie
00:30that I can relate to with a dysfunctional family, you know.
00:34So many people will be able to relate to.
00:36So is that why you decided to embark on this film project
00:40to give us moms and dysfunctional families our Christmas film?
00:45Yes, a hundred percent.
00:48I love Christmas movies myself.
00:52And I think those are the ones that I like the most,
00:55the dysfunctional family stories.
00:59and this story that Chandler Baker wrote,
01:02this short story that's about the mother,
01:04that's the one doing all the hard work,
01:06that's really the one and getting none of the credit,
01:09getting none of the credit.
01:11And as, you know, I have a wife,
01:14I see how hard she works.
01:16I have a mother, I see how hard she works.
01:18I have a mother-in-law, I see how hard she works.
01:22And it felt like, as someone,
01:25I wanted to make a holiday movie,
01:27but I wanted to tell a story that I hadn't seen before.
01:29And when I read Chandler's short story,
01:31I thought, how is it possible this movie hasn't been made yet?
01:36And so, yes, this is a movie for mothers and families
01:41and truly that the real, the true hero of Christmas,
01:46it's not Santa Claus, it's your mother.
01:48You know, as you said,
01:49the Christmas film is really a genre of its own.
01:52So how did you find your Christmas film?
01:54What had to be there in order to make it believable?
01:57But at the same time,
01:58how did you decide when and where to push it forward a bit more?
02:04I don't know how to explain it.
02:05Such an interesting question.
02:06I loved the chaos.
02:08I loved, from a directing standpoint,
02:12I loved the idea of trying to capture that chaos,
02:15that claustrophobia.
02:17You know, for me, when we go and we travel somewhere
02:20to see our family for the holiday
02:22and you're all like stuck in the house,
02:24you're just all stuck in there together
02:26and smushed in there together up against each other.
02:31And I love the idea of trying to capture that.
02:36And so that's kind of where it started for me.
02:38Obviously, the story of Claire,
02:41but also just the comedy of claustrophobia
02:46and of all being smushed together in the house
02:48felt very funny to me.
02:52What's the scene you had the most fun shooting?
02:54And try not to spoil too much.
02:58Which scene would you say you can become?
03:02I love, you know, I love every scene in the movie,
03:05but I have to say a scene that really touches me
03:09when I see it is the scene where Sammy,
03:12Dominic Sessa's character,
03:14and Lizzie, Havana Rose Lou's character,
03:16meet in the bar and they dance
03:18to the Gwen Stefani song.
03:24There's something about going home to your hometown
03:27as the child,
03:29got to get away from everything.
03:30I just got to get away from my family
03:32and they go to the bar
03:33and there's something so romantic
03:35about reconnecting with someone from your past
03:39that you kind of knew,
03:40but you didn't know them that well,
03:42but you always liked each other,
03:43but you never really got a chance to know each other.
03:45and then this amazing song comes on
03:49and they just dance together
03:51and there's just something so joyful about that.
03:54And so I love that moment.
03:56I love shooting that scene
03:57and I love seeing that scene in the movie.
04:00That's why you're the king of romantic comedies as well.
04:04Yeah.
04:05Thank you.
04:06Thank you so much.
04:07Thank you.
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