00:00Hi Virginia, hi Dylan, welcome in Italy, how are you?
00:04We're good, thank you.
00:05Thank you very much.
00:06How are you?
00:06Fine, thanks.
00:09Nowadays, with work, everything quickly, even relationships,
00:13we look for love in a lot of fast foods, like dating app.
00:18Do you think betting on feelings is out of fashion?
00:23Do you think betting on feelings is out of fashion?
00:26I don't think it's out of fashion.
00:27I think betting on feelings is a great thing.
00:31Yeah, I think, I mean, all relationships require some sort of risk from both
00:35to kind of open yourself up to love and, yeah, I don't think it's out of fashion.
00:40I think it still works.
00:41No.
00:43Beautiful disaster shows sex without filters, but today there's still a taboo on sex.
00:50Movies like this can help raise taboos and shame.
00:53Why can't sexuality be lived with normality?
00:56Well, I think, personally, I mean, I think sex should definitely be de-stigmatized,
01:03but I think that our movie does a really good job of involving consent, basically all throughout it,
01:10which I think is a step in the right direction societally, right?
01:16But, yeah, I think that, in general, everything's on the right path.
01:22If our movie happens to de-stigmatize some things that make people comfortable or uncomfortable,
01:28I think that that's a conversation that we're interested in having with it.
01:32Yeah, I completely agree, and I think showing a young woman coming to terms with her own sexuality
01:37and owning her own sexuality can be a really positive message for some people
01:41to not have any shame associated with it.
01:44And to echo what Dylan said, I think our movie does a good job of showing that responsibly
01:47with consent and, you know, how we shot everything.
01:50We had intimacy coordinators involved that kept the set really safe as well,
01:54so I think our film does a good job of portraying that.
01:56Yeah.
01:57Some people on the web asked to stop romanticizing toxic relationships.
02:03Do you think Beautiful Disaster tells about this aspect?
02:09Personally, I think it's easy to presume that the movie would
02:13because the book deals with a lot of this, too.
02:16But the movie, you know, we, everyone involved, from the writer, director, actors,
02:22I think we did hard work to make sure that we modernized the tale in a good way.
02:27Travis, particularly, and Abby, they're both flawed individuals, sure,
02:33but Travis is particularly very honest about who he is
02:37and he says, this is who I am, take it or leave it.
02:40If you sign up for it, please feel free to come with me,
02:43but if you don't, then that's fine.
02:46So, yeah, consent, like we said, is big throughout the entire movie.
02:50And then kind of coming into one's own honesty is another theme that we play with a lot.
02:56Yeah, and I think for us it was really important, I'll speak for myself at least,
02:59but I think I can speak for everyone else involved to not promote any toxicity in relationships.
03:04That's not cool, it's not fun, it's not anything that we're trying to promote at all.
03:08And I think we've done a really great job and we were very conscious about adapting the book
03:12and turning it into something that felt a little bit more 2023 friendly
03:15and making sure that it felt, like Dylan said, like consensual
03:19and didn't lean into the toxicity or the potential toxicity.
03:22And we certainly tried to be very conscious of not having that feel like it's a theme of the film.
03:29What makes us watch a romantic movie?
03:31Usually we know how the story ends.
03:35What makes us watch it? I don't know.
03:38I mean, there's a reason that these kind of movies have worked historically.
03:42It's because they're fun, they're sexy.
03:45People want to see that stuff.
03:46They want to see it on the big screen.
03:49So, you know, even though these things are kind of traditional,
03:53I think they're a tradition that's been proven to work.
03:57I also think it's a story that everyone can relate to falling in love
04:01and not everyone can relate to like being a spy or something,
04:04but like I think everyone can relate to the feeling of falling in love.
04:07So that makes these films feel really relatable and almost dreamlike in a sense
04:10to imagining yourself in that situation one day.
04:13And I've been a fan of a good romance movie my entire life.
04:16I love them.
04:17You can't relate to being a spy?
04:19I can't, unfortunately.
04:20Maybe one day.
04:22One day.
04:22One day.
04:23Yeah.
04:24Did this movie teach you something about love?
04:28I think, at least through Abby's eyes,
04:32she has a rough history that she's been trying to hide.
04:35And she meets Travis and then opens up about, you know,
04:39her own vulnerabilities, her past, how to trust someone again,
04:42especially how to trust another man again, and let love in.
04:46So I think that's just a really great message for anybody watching the film,
04:50what she goes through.
04:51Yeah, I like this love story a lot, personally,
04:54because it's kind of dirty, right?
04:56As real love often is.
04:59It's not cookie cutter.
05:00It's not squeaky clean.
05:03Oftentimes, love can be sloppy and dirty and weird,
05:07and it can even be awkward.
05:09And I think that this movie plays those aspects of it well.
05:13There's a lot of funny moments throughout the movie
05:15that I think plays towards the comedy of what love looks like in general.
05:21So, yeah, that would be my takeaway.
05:23I think it's a more honest representation of what love really is
05:28rather than like a dour and cold drama.
05:32Virginia Dillon, thank you for your time.
05:34It was a pleasure talking to you.
05:35Thank you so much.
05:36Thank you very much.
05:37Enjoy Milan.
05:38Thank you.
05:38Bye.
05:39Bye.
05:39Bye.
05:40Bye.
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