Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies & Nicole Holofcener Interview: You Hurt My Feelings
30Before writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s dramedy, You Hurt My Feelings hits theaters, Collider’s Steve Weintraub had the opportunity to talk with with the filmmaker and stars of the movie, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies. From filming on location in the streets of New York City to the “enormous amount of eating” involved, the trio discuss this latest slice of life from A24 Films.
Oscar-nominee Holofcener is known for films that provide intimate portraits of relationships, as in Enough Said and Walking and Talking. In You Hurt My Feelings Louis-Dreyfus plays Beth, an author with a new novel, a loving husband, Don (Menzies), their grown son and a beautiful apartment. Life is happy for the two of them, until Beth overhears her husband talking to his brother-in-law, Mark (played by Arian Moayed), admitting that he doesn’t like her novel. Realizing he’s been lying all this time, Beth’s foundations start to shake, and You Hurt My Feelings takes a look at what it means to love someone and yourself, to be truthful, and if that truth always equates to love. The movie also stars Michaela Watkins as Beth’s sister, David Cross, Amber Tamblyn, and Owen Teague.
During their interview, which you can watch or read below, Holofcener shares with us how long You Hurt My Feelings took from conception to screen, and they discuss how the script changed from the page to the ad-libbing onset. Despite celebrated careers, with roles in Seinfeld and The Crown, to Oscar nominations, the trio open up about how they relate to the characters, and who their worst critics are in the end. Read on for all of this and more on take after take of ice cream, their most challenging scenes to film, and Holofcener’s work on Apple TV’s Extrapolations.
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