00:00a romantic comedy renaissance it's a gennaissance on the floors on the charts again it's a gennaissance
00:07romantic comedy out we're back to that you've been doing romantic comedies your whole career
00:12why do you think that hollywood took a little bit of a pause on them and is bringing them back
00:17you
00:17just think things go in phases it's like whenever something great is made everybody kind of does
00:21that thing for a little while everybody's trying to like do game of thrones you know what i mean
00:25it's just like depends on the era and what's going on in the world and the zeitgeist and
00:29all of that and but i think with romantic comedies they always come back because
00:34they include two of the things that are most i think real about life which is
00:40life is funny and we're always going to be laughing through even the hardest darkest moments you'll
00:45find yourself like laughing with your friend just to survive it right like laughter is a key comedy
00:51is a key and then we're all like searching for someone everybody in the world is looking for
00:57their other half in a way or that person to spend their life with and that's always going to be
01:03part of life even with all the disconnection with tech and all of that kind of stuff people still need
01:09that human contact we need that connection with other people that's real tangible felt and i think
01:17that's what romantic comedies give us we know how they're going to end but it gives us hope that it
01:23could happen to us too and speaking of laughing i laughed so much in this movie oh my god it
01:29really
01:30surprised me people can't go in thinking it's your typical like typical like j-lo rom-com but i love
01:36that that's what drew me to it there was two things one is that we got to see a latina
01:41ceo which in all
01:43of these movies previously for me i was always like the aspiration the person who was aspiring to be
01:49something the working girl right who's trying to figure it out and quirky and whatever and this
01:55woman has it together she's created this company she's latin and nobody talks about it and she's the
02:01ceo she's the boss and i think for me that was a big part of it and the other thing
02:08that i really
02:08liked about the script is it had hard jokes it had adult jokes it was for it's for grown-ups
02:15in that
02:16sense they're hard jokes and i think it's unexpected but the minute you have that first
02:22thing that happens people go oh oh that's what we're doing okay and i think because brett wrote
02:29it with his partner joe kelly on this it has a male sensibility to it so it's not the typical
02:36rom-com
02:37in that way where you think people think oh chick flick this or that which i think reduces the genre
02:42so much it's not that at all but it is has this kind of male edge to it and so
02:50it's really a twofer
02:51in that way you get the romance but you also get this really great jokes and everybody's happy i love
02:58your note about the woman ceo even though she's in this position of power in an industry that's very
03:05male dominated she is still being underestimated in every way was there any experiences that you've
03:12been underestimated from that you drew from i think i've always been underestimated and in a weird way
03:17continue to be but i also feel like that's the secret to my success is you keep surprising people
03:23oh and you're like yeah but it's and it's fine it's like they they underestimate you and they do that
03:30for women a lot it happens right and so you just have to just keep doing your thing um and
03:37keep
03:37proving everybody wrong and not that i feel i have anything to prove anymore but it's always funny to me
03:43that people will continue to do that to you for whatever reasons and but most of mostly because
03:48you're a woman i think that's something that was so refreshing to me was that we don't see her career
03:54as this problem that has to be solved no it's it's lots of times men are often intimidated by a
04:01woman's
04:01success but in this movie he really champions her he's attracting her ambition why do you think that
04:08was like an important story to tell i think brett has said this a few times is it was a
04:13love letter
04:14to workaholics in a way because he's a workaholic and he loves what he does and i love what i
04:20do and
04:21sometimes you're right that's looked down upon and by some people but the truth is it's some people
04:28just love really love and are passionate about their work although some people other people would
04:33say oh because you're avoiding life and i think that's also true here in this movie they're both kind
04:39of have left that part of their life out because they don't want to feel or they are afraid or
04:46they are
04:47too private it's definitely the thing that connects them is that they both love what they do and respect
04:55the other and admire the other person for how good they are what they do yeah i think that is
04:59rare to
05:00find sometimes yeah yeah it's also a bit of a love letter to new jersey yes it is it is
05:07did it give
05:07you like a new appreciation for new jersey jersey i'm like such a new york east coast girl even though
05:14i've
05:14lived in california for so long it's just it's something that never leaves you and i think brett
05:20and you know they wrote that because they really felt like jersey's the most beautiful place on earth
05:25we love it here and it is really a love letter and all the crew a lot of the crew
05:30were from jersey and
05:31we had a good time doing it the chemistry with brett is amazing did you guys when you were first
05:37interacting was that natural do you have to work on it it's funny we both say like the first zoom
05:42that
05:42we had there was other people on it but i remember getting on the zoom and seeing him and he
05:49just
05:50smiled he like had got this big smile on his face and i guess i smiled too and i was
05:55like oh there's
05:55the guy who wrote this for me who sent me the note that said it's a list of one if
05:59you don't do this
06:00movie it's never being made you know like oh there he is and he said something like well jennifer
06:05lopez as i live and breathe or something like that because he had been a long time fan and then
06:10when we
06:11met in person it was a very natural easy chemistry i feel like people so often are shipping you with
06:18your co-stars because it's a constant but they ship me with anybody i could go to lunch we could
06:22go to
06:23lunch today me and this guy and they'd be like oh there's a new boyfriend oh should she get married
06:28fair i've done these things before but it's so it's fine and you've got to play so many fun jobs
06:36in
06:36your roles what about being a pilot did you do anything to prepare to make that come and it is
06:41bossy to be the pilot the ceo you know and i love that line i'm not just a pilot i'm
06:48also this year
06:49it's like one of those like cheesy commercials but i i loved it i don't know how to fly i
06:54did not do a
06:56simulator or anything like that but i did get a quick kind of like course on how to fly a
07:03little bit
07:03and where i have to do so i looked believable and all of that kind of stuff yeah that one
07:08turbulent
07:08scene so yeah a little bit of the sex scene on the plane with the titanic i know i was
07:15like i have
07:16this idea i think it's gonna be great so many of the scenes you know with like hard jokes and
07:20a little
07:20more outlandish scenes were those as funny to film in person as yeah they are when you're doing like
07:28pushing the envelope in those ways and doing things that haven't been seen on screen and that way
07:33you're always kind of like is this gonna work is this weird is this too much even when we're doing
07:38the scene with betty that's what i was thinking about yeah just trying to up the stakes and she was
07:45really like oh my god what am i doing but it it all works really well it's really funny do
07:51you think
07:51that was important to show the full childbirth experience i think why not this it's real it's
08:01natural and if she would have had that way that's what would have happened and it would have been
08:06that oh my god you know what i mean and i think it really gives you that feeling and at
08:10the same time
08:11is really a great vehicle for a lot of comedy yeah yeah the movie is definitely surprising and
08:17lots of surprising comedic moments
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