When I hired them I brought them together and said: "We're going to read the script and every time something feels inauthentic, I want you to raise your hand and tell me. On asking her Generation Z cast members to help make the script sound authentic
And so we really worked hard on that argument and showing that in order for these two to continue as friends they have to go through this kind of traumatic break.Īctors Kaitlyn Dever, left, and Beanie Feldstein work with director Olivia Wilde on the set of Booksmart. You must be able to tell your closest ally: I disagree with you. I wanted to highlight that that kind of trauma to a young relationship is something that is necessary in order for relationships to evolve and for us as individuals to evolve.
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And in that moment there is a fissure - there's a crack in between this very, very intense union. And there is a pivotal scene in the film where one character reveals that she isn't actually on board with the plan that the other thought they had agreed upon. There is something in these very intense friendships in our youth where any sort of resistance is seen as betrayal. On teen friendships as a training ground for loyalty and betrayal They lived together in LA for at least 10 weeks, and they spent every waking moment together, and they drove to work together - and what they created is a texture that you can feel when you watch the film. They needed to sink into it a little bit more and spend some time just getting to know each other in all types of moods. Because they needed to spend enough time together where they were no longer sort of charmed by the newness of a friendship. So I suggested that they live together and during preproduction as well. They knew that in order to create this chemistry they were going to have to build a history. On how actors Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein prepared to portray a "layered, deep," 10-year friendship And I hope that this film allows people to look around them and value those friendships even more. People realize this later in life after maybe romances come and go - that those friendships are incredibly significant. We have very few love songs, movies, stories about friendship - platonic friendship - and yet it is in so many ways deeper. Society gives us so much context for the romantic relationship - there are so many love songs about romantic relationships. We wanted the audience to go on this journey of realizing that every stereotype they expect from a teen high school film is actually not what it seems - and that there's complexity and nuance to these characters that I hope will inspire people to allow for that same complexity in their peers and in themselves today. They've just been living their lives differently. What it really is, is the story of two very smart young women who are unapologetic about their intelligence, who go through a transformation to realize that they have misunderstood their peers to be one-dimensional when actually everyone around them is also very smart.
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You think this is going to be a movie about two nerdy young women who are eager to assimilate to be accepted by their peers. On pushing back against the stereotypical "boxes" of teen movies