So, I was running back and forth between the two units, but I knew that the pool moment was my baby. How did it feel? You can give the full interview a watching using the video embed at the top of this article and, if you’d like, there’s a handy breakdown of the conversation below. I didn’t expect it. 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However, now that I’ve seen and completely fallen in love with the film, I’m downright ecstatic to share the chat and shine a bigger spotlight on Booksmart, which I can’t recommend enough when it hits theaters on May 24th. Wilde’s efforts paid off with a Gotham Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Director, and it could also land her in the Directors Guild Awards race for Best First-Time Director — not to mention the Oscar race. And I felt that this was a sign that my work was being appreciated not because of box office numbers, but because of the effect that it’s having on audiences that did get to see it. They wanted to feel represented onscreen but no longer put in a box of a superficial obsession with boys, or assimilation to pop culture. WILDE: It was extraordinary and unexpected. There was a certain sort of wisdom beyond their years that Beanie and Kaitlyn’s characters of Molly and Amy represented. So, so many female directors had one chance, and they aren’t given another chance as rapidly as the men are. I think because of Trump, and because of social media, there is a fast pace to the aging, the growth, the evolution of these young women, and by the time they’re 15, they understand their identity in the world, their political identity, their feminist identity, in a much clearer way than past generations, or at least generations since maybe the Sexual Revolution. © 2020 Collider Cryptomedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Everything. I just hoped I’d be able to direct again, and this was even before the release. You know, just finishing the film, I thought, I want to do well enough that I get to do this again, and then, when I did feel an incredible amount of curiosity about what I wanted to do next, and a lot of offers coming my way, I was encouraged. “While it was intimidating, I just had so much fun, and I really felt lucky to be able to do it.”. OLIVIA WILDE: I think the reason it hadn’t found its home was because in many ways, society wasn’t yet ready for it. So, you know, it’s still completely impossible to grab everyone, and of course, our box office numbers weren’t what maybe a film like this could’ve garnered 10 years ago, when it was possible for you to target your audience and bring them into the theater. I’d also like to take a moment to give special thanks to our Collider Studio partner, A-List Communications. “I loved the idea of telling a story about two smart women who loved each other deeply, who respected each other, and who weren’t trying to assimilate, but had to go on this journey to understand themselves.” She also felt strongly that “this generation deserved a story that reflected how kick-ass they are.”, SEE Is ‘Booksmart’ this year’s ‘Lady Bird’? WILDE: The biggest lesson is to allow for that constant evolution of your ideas, to continue rewriting as you shoot, as you edit, as you sound mix, to allow everything to continue to evolve. Back in 2012, I got the opportunity to chat with Olivia Wilde about her second documentary short film serving as executive producer, Baseball in the Time of Cholera. The script “came to me as a concept that was looking for a reinvention,” she explains. Launch dates for broadcast, cable and streaming programs, Up-to-date lists for broadcast, cable and streaming series, Pandemic-proof vs. pandemic-contingent broadcast lineups, Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters, Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks. Although it was Hughes’s films — plus Amy Heckerling‘s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” — that first inspired Wilde to become an actor, she didn’t want “Booksmart” to simply recreate them. I feel that what we were able to tap into was the intelligence of this demographic, who felt like they wanted to see a story about their lives. Make YOUR predictions at Gold Derby: Win prizes! That was kind of my obsession, that scene, and I knew that we would have to get enough footage to build this moment, this concept, and this idea. Silberman on joining the project and what she brought to the script in the re-write phase. There’s now a sense of having to own your voice and define it, and I think this film felt like it was acknowledging that shift. Dever on the vibe Wilde created on set; Wilde on what she likes to do to ensure everyone feels comfortable on set. I felt that I was being given an opportunity that many male directors, frankly, have been given, a chance to do it again. Olivia Wilde has been acting in film and television for over two decades. This is something new, and something we have been looking for.” And then, what moved me beyond that was that the men were feeling that way—young men, older men, older women, younger, all genders, all races, all ages feeling represented by this film. I wanted to make this about judgment, and what can we do to flip the tropes on their back, and her very simple and brilliant answer was: What if all the other kids were smart, too? Booksmart Interview Olivia Wilde & The Cast Of ‘Booksmart’ On Teen Film Inspiration, Creating Chemistry & More [Interview] October 9, 2019 Posted by Alex Arabian Interviews, Professional Publications No Comments. What does that message have to do with skin care? How accurate are Gold Derby's predictions? 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Booksmart made quite the impression at SXSW 2019 and we got the opporunity to chat with director Olivia Wilde and stars Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein! The pic follows two brainy high schoolers played by Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever who realize they have only 24 hours before graduation to finally let loose. I feel that tapped into what we’re seeing now in these young women who are so much more mature than at least I was at that age. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. At the Supper Suite venue in Austin, libations were flowing courtesy of El Tesoro Tequila, Blue Moon Belgian White, and Hint Water. See latest Oscar predictions by our top Experts. I love magical realism, and what I was trying to bring into the film, in all three scenes, was a chance to enter into the internal world of this character, and to really lean into the kind of impressionistic perspective of adolescence that she would have in that moment. All Rights reserved. That scene was a sort of guiding principle. COLLIDER participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COLLIDER gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. Make your early predictions NOW, Netflix's 'Disclosure' could be historic for trans representation at the Oscars. You know, there are three scenes in Booksmart that I was encouraged to cut until the very end, and I’m glad that I didn’t, but you really do have to know what’s worth fighting for, and know what isn’t working. So when she got this script about two A students (Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein) who decide to cut loose the day before high school graduation, it was a perfect match. I didn’t know what to expect. And I think just hiring the team that allows for that, delegating well, and allowing for the respect for the artists you hire to be so great that you can embrace ideas that are not your own, and personalize them, and incorporate them into ideas that are. Be sure to make your Oscar nominee predictions today so that Hollywood insiders can see how their films and performers are faring in our odds. And the answer is, of course, when they are linked, when they work together, when they collaborate, when they support each other. They’re high school overachievers bound for prestigious colleges who have basically forgone having a social life in order to focus on their studies and ensure a bright future. Feldstein, Dever and Lourd talk about their characters and one thing about them that they’ve never seen before in a movie. 'Euphoria' to Air Two New Episodes on HBO, Including Christmas Special, ‘Avatar’ Sequels: First Look at Edie Falco Reveals a New Character for the Franchise, 'Helstrom' Creator on the Lessons From 'Lost' He Brought to the Marvel Thriller Series, First Poster for the New 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' Sequel Reveals a Terrifying Leatherface. You can keep changing your predictions as often as you like until just before nominees are announced on January 13. As a kid, she would watch John Hughes‘s ’80s teen comedies (“Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) “over and over and over” again. I think that the question resulting from what happened in the 2016 elections and everything since is: What are women capable of, and when are they at their most powerful? Olivia Wilde has been acting in film and television for over two decades. WILDE: The stop-motion animation scene, the dance fantasy and the pool scene. WILDE: It’s fascinating to me, because they are such a discerning demographic, and they have so many options and they don’t want to be underestimated and patronized.

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