00:04Hi, everybody. We are the cast of All That She Wants.
00:08And those are the directors.
00:10And those are the directors.
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00:25Hi, I'm Saya Rankin with The Hollywood Reporter,
00:28and I have the cast and directors of All That She Wants.
00:31Hi, guys. Thanks for joining.
00:34Let's have you guys go down the line, introduce yourselves.
00:37Tell me a little bit.
00:38You guys can tell me a little bit about who you play in the movie.
00:42I'm Annie.
00:43I play Emma, who is a bit of a messy lady in her 30s,
00:52whose life doesn't quite go in the path that she expects it to.
00:58But then realizes that that's not such a bad thing.
01:02I'm Cooper.
01:03I play Luke in the movie.
01:06And Luke falls in love with Emma.
01:12Spoiler alert.
01:13Oh, yeah.
01:14Spoiler, it's a rom-com.
01:18The rom.
01:19Yeah, it's just a rom.
01:21I'm Scarlett.
01:22You guys made the movie.
01:24I'm Andrew.
01:24We made the movie.
01:25Yeah, we directed it together.
01:26David wrote the movie.
01:29Did he write it for you while you guys were working on Schitt's Creek?
01:34Or how did that?
01:35He wrote it for me after Schitt's.
01:37He needed more.
01:40Schitt's were over.
01:41Yeah, Schitt's, Schitt's.
01:43We needed something.
01:45And I just, I felt so lucky to, I've never had anything written for me before.
01:52And he knows me so well, and there's a lot of me, and it just, it was a really, really
01:59special movie to make.
02:01And he wrote such a, like, his sweet spot is heartfelt, but also very silly and funny.
02:07And so, yeah, it was a ton of fun.
02:09This might be a question for you, or it might be a question for the other three of you, but
02:13what in it, what in the movie is you?
02:16Like, what, can you tell what parts of the movie?
02:18We'll answer that.
02:20Use it tight.
02:22Like, super sexy.
02:26What else, what else, what else?
02:29I think that's so much of it, like, watching Annie, just her physicality, and just, you know, I would imagine
02:37a lot of people are, think about your character on Schitt's Creek so much, and you're so different from that
02:42character, and you are so genuine, and, like, you have a sweetness, but also, like, such a strength in gravitas,
02:49too, and yes.
02:51But I think, like, your, like, ability with physical comedy just was able to shine through so much.
02:58Um, with the script, the script is so, we were so lucky to, the first time we read it, we
03:02had just met Annie on a different project, actually, so her voice was so fresh in our head, before we
03:06even knew it was written for her, and it's just, we had her voice from the very first moment we
03:11read it, and it's just, like, it is you.
03:13It is you, yeah.
03:14Yeah.
03:15Everything about Emma is, is Annie.
03:20Meow.
03:20What did, what did you guys learn from making Plus One, like, about what makes a good rom-com?
03:26Like, what, what'd you take from that?
03:28Let's see.
03:29Um, well, uh, I know that one of the things that we, uh, taking from Plus One and into this
03:38one, and the initial script, I mean, the first minute we read this script, it was fantastic.
03:43I'd read a lot of romantic comedies, uh, coming out of that, and this one just, like, immediately jumped out.
03:49Um, one thing that the initial script we read actually started with a later scene, that's such a funny dialogue
03:55scene between Emma and her sister, um, but we knew that in, when we were kind of coming onto this,
04:00like, one of the first things we got to work with David on was just, like, knowing that we really
04:04wanted to open the movie with, like, some energy, some music, and just, and so that was a really fun
04:08process.
04:09And one that kind of went all the way from post-prep shooting, so coming up with that sort of,
04:14like, opening dance number, and the sort of fake commercial, and the sort of establishing Emma as a character, um,
04:21was something that was just, like, scaled kind of the whole process of the movie to kind of, like, dial
04:25that in and get that right.
04:26Like, right up to the end of post, that was still being, um, just, like, finessed, and, uh, yeah.
04:30Um, are we, um, to tell me if this is a spoiler, but, like, what your meet-cute is that
04:36you realize, well, after some things have happened, you realize you were his babysitter, right?
04:39I think that's, like, the log line.
04:41Yeah, that's not a spoiler.
04:42I'm sure I'm getting on, like, that spoiler.
04:44I mean, you already spoiled what happens afterwards, so I suppose spoiling the meet-cute is not quite this big
04:50of a deal.
04:51Um, which, like, has anyone ever run into their babysitter?
04:55Like, was that, did that pull from anyone's real life?
04:58In my dreams.
05:00Did you have a crush on your babysitters?
05:02Yeah, everyone did.
05:03I feel like every, yeah.
05:05Yeah.
05:05Andrew talks about his babysitter a lot.
05:07I mean.
05:08It's, uh, contentious.
05:10Hello.
05:11I, as a former babysitter, I was, like, I would be, yeah.
05:16Can you stop that?
05:17Um, I, I, I would be horrified if I bumped into any of the children I babysat at a club.
05:23But, yeah, you know, like, but.
05:25Yeah.
05:25But also, you could kiss them.
05:27He swooped in, and it's just, there's.
05:28Yeah.
05:29It's swooped in.
05:30It's him, so.
05:31Um, yeah.
05:32Yeah, running into, I mean, like.
05:34Nothing grotesque about it.
05:35No.
05:37Even just, like, looking up people you babysat on, like, Instagram.
05:40Yeah.
05:40You're just like, oh, God.
05:41Don't do it.
05:41And now they're, like, 45 years old.
05:43Yeah.
05:43Everyone I babysat has multiple children.
05:46They run for it.
05:47It's so spooky.
05:48You just leapfrogged me in life.
05:52And it's fine.
05:53It's totally fine.
05:54Which leads me to my next question, which one of the things that she's reckoning with in
05:58the movie is sort of like, well, I guess she's not reckoning with it.
06:01She wants to have kids.
06:03Like, she decides.
06:03Right.
06:04Did working on this movie, like, make anyone think about, like, that question?
06:09I guess it's the question of, like, where is my life going?
06:11What do I want to do?
06:12What decisions do I have to make?
06:14Did you?
06:14I feel like we should go to raise your hands on that one.
06:16I feel like we should go to raise your hands on that one.
06:18Hit me.
06:19We were, like, having the conversation about if we were going to have kids.
06:22We're married, by the way.
06:23But we were like, are we going to have kids?
06:24And we joke, but we're actually so serious that we read this script.
06:27And we were like, why not?
06:29And like, and we had our, we were on this, attached to this movie for four years.
06:35And then a day before we got greenlit, I found out I was pregnant with my second kid.
06:42And now he's six months old.
06:44And it's all been so tied up to, like, I think this movie and David's script, like,
06:48just really validates the experience of so many women I know that just are like,
06:53yeah, I want this.
06:54And this is maybe not, like, sexy rom-com, like, being a mom or having a baby is not,
06:59like, tied into rom-coms as much.
07:01But it really is so grounded in this and feels like it really validates that experience for
07:05this woman.
07:06And I had to pretend to give birth, spoiler alert, in the movie.
07:10And then I was like, I'm good.
07:12You're like, that?
07:13I think I'm good now.
07:14Yeah.
07:14Everyone wants, you're like, I wanted to maybe experience it.
07:16And I sort of did it.
07:17That's enough.
07:18Yeah.
07:18Yeah.
07:18I can say.
07:19Yeah.
07:19I got handed a greasy baby, and that was fine.
07:24I think I'm good.
07:24Yeah.
07:24Do you have to practice your screams?
07:26They just came.
07:27They just came.
07:28And that was it.
07:28They're good.
07:28That was it.
07:29They're good.
07:30They're a pubic.
07:30They're very good.
07:31Yeah.
07:31They were good.
07:32It was shocking how good you were at that.
07:34Yeah.
07:35Yeah.
07:36Something like a lot of movies that come here that are for sale, I feel like we talk
07:39a lot about, especially in, like, at a trade, kind of like the indie, making a movie
07:43independently, selling it, et cetera.
07:45And, like, Cooper, I feel like you just had a really interesting experience where you tried that with
07:48a TV show.
07:49And failed.
07:50No!
07:50Movie is so cool!
07:52No, yes.
07:53Movie's amazing, yeah.
07:54But I want, I guess maybe you just answered, I wanted to ask you, like, now that you're
07:57sort of on the other side of it, do you think that system works for TV or how does it?
08:03For TV, I tell everyone, just wait, like, five more years.
08:08I think in five years, people will get smart to it, but right now, it's really not the time.
08:14In five more years, we'll look back and be like, look at how I'm harder.
08:17This trailblazer.
08:19The indie trailblazer.
08:21Oh, and wait, and you reunited with Christine Baranski on this from Non-Perfect Strangers.
08:27What, like, did you learn anything new about her on this one, or you had already excavated?
08:32I mean, we spent, like, six months living in Germany together, so I feel like I knew her
08:36pretty well.
08:38She's just the, like, I can't sing her praises enough.
08:42She's the classiest, most professional woman with the goofiest side and, like, dirty jokes.
08:49And, like, she's just, she's the perfect, perfect woman.
08:53So literate and educated and kind.
08:58And she's, yeah.
08:59You guys liked her too, right?
09:00Oh, my God.
09:01Oh, my gosh.
09:02Loved.
09:03Wonderful.
09:04Yes, Annie, we loved her.
09:06She's amazing.
09:06She really is incredible.
09:07And so, you just get, like, oh, this is why you are who you are.
09:11She's so professional and just came in.
09:13And did us such a favor.
09:15Like, she, we, up until, like, ten days before we started shooting, we didn't have anyone.
09:21My mom.
09:22And she was like, darling, I'll do it.
09:23I'll do it.
09:24And she came in for a week.
09:25And we were so lucky.
09:26And we put her right on a process trailer.
09:27Yeah.
09:28In the middle of the night.
09:29Right into her, yeah, most emotional scene.
09:31Yeah.
09:31Like, hop in, Christine.
09:32Perfect.
09:33What was everybody's most formative rom-com?
09:37Ooh.
09:41I mean.
09:41My, maybe not formative, but Bridget Jones' Diary is my jam.
09:46And maybe, like, Notting Hill for formative.
09:5013 going on 30.
09:52For sure.
09:53Is that a rom-com?
09:54I don't know if that's a rom-com.
09:55I think it is.
09:57Mark's a rom-com?
09:57I think it's a com that they threw in a little rom.
10:00There's some rom in there.
10:01But who did you identify with in that?
10:04The person who was 30 but felt 13.
10:10That's how I feel right now.
10:13Singing in the Rain Count is a rom-com?
10:14That was, like, that's the most, like, formative for me.
10:16I mean, but, yeah.
10:18That's cute.
10:19I like that.
10:19That is sweet.
10:20I like that.
10:20I don't know if it counts if it's super technical, but it's still a really good answer.
10:24Does Manchester by the Sea count?
10:28I don't know if this is, like, I don't know.
10:30I have a little yearning in that one.
10:31This is, honestly, I think if I have to be totally honest, it's probably while you were
10:35sleeping because I remember, like, the VHS was the only VHS in, like, the room where I had
10:40to sleep, like, sleepovers.
10:41And I just watched that movie so many times.
10:44It's like, Sandy.
10:46Yeah.
10:46Yeah.
10:47That's a good one.
10:48Okay.
10:48Last question.
10:49What was everybody's first, like, real job in the biz?
10:55And when that paycheck came in, what did you buy yourself as your kind of treat?
11:03I'll go.
11:04My first job was, I was a PA working in New York.
11:08And my job was to go to the, it was, like, a studio that wasn't really converted, and
11:13there was a construction site next door.
11:15So my job was to go to the construction site next door and tell the pile driver crews to
11:19please stop rolling, or to please stop pile driving so that the actors could act in the
11:23unsoundproof soundstage.
11:25And the treat I bought myself was the book Cavalier and Clay, which I think is, like, a
11:29700-page book.
11:30And I read in a port-a-potty in February in the rain at a construction site.
11:34And that was my introduction to entertainment.
11:37Wow.
11:37Wow.
11:38You're not bored to death?
11:38Yeah.
11:39It was the TV show Bored to Death.
11:44I played Hot Neighbor.
11:48Yeah, you did.
11:50So, and then I paid my rent.
11:52Oh.
11:52What were you Hot Neighbor?
11:54Whose Hot Neighbor were you?
11:55It was a movie of the week.
11:57Okay.
11:58I came in and delivered a letter, and I don't even think I said anything.
12:03But you just were hot.
12:04You're delivering.
12:05It was a neighbor, and I, yes.
12:06Yes.
12:07Yes.
12:07It was a very sensual delivering of a piece of mail.
12:13What about you?
12:14My first, I made a movie when I was 21.
12:19So annoying.
12:20Oh, you just like, oh, it's a family and one film festival holds it.
12:24But when I, when I, when we sold it, we made up some money, and I bought a house.
12:30Oh.
12:31No, I just.
12:34Get out.
12:35No, I'm joking.
12:36I'm joking.
12:37I'm joking.
12:37I'm joking.
12:37There's no movie.
12:38There's no money in it.
12:39Yeah.
12:42I bought a donut.
12:44Oh, wow.
12:45I think mine's embarrassing.
12:46I, I did a, a commercial for an anti-nausea medicine.
12:50Nice.
12:50Nice.
12:51Did you have to go like?
12:52Um, yeah.
12:53I was on a turntable, and I kept turning, and every time I turned, I had to have a different
12:57expression, and, um, I bought myself lunch, and I was like, that's where that money went.
13:03Yeah.
13:03Yeah, you're looking at me great.
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