When it involves nude scenes, Alison Brie has no qualms. If something, it was her director and real-life companion Dave Franco who was feeling a bit awkward.
The couple co-wrote Somebody I Used To Know, a coming-of-age dramedy starring Brie and directed by Franco. The closing scene referred to as for Brie to be starkers.
“I’m this super comfortable naked person, I’ve spent 11 years just getting Dave a little more comfortable with my nudity,” Brie advised news.com.au.
“Even when we were shooting that scene, I kept disrobing before we were even shooting and Dave was like, ‘Babe, not yet, too soon.’
“Part of the reason why I love being naked and streaking and stuff like that, part of it is it’s funny to me. It lifts my energy, it makes me laugh. I was streaking around the hotel last night before our LA premiere just to get my energy up.
“But it also has a way of bonding you, right? You’re literally stripped down, looking at another person.
“We were shooting that last scene with that actor, and we started with [the camera on her]. She was a little nervous because she had never done a nude scene before and I was like, ‘Solidarity, let me disrobe, how are you feeling?’ We locked eyes and we were really in it together. It was special.”
Working with Franco was a no brainer for Brie. They had beforehand collaborated on The Rental, which Franco directed and co-wrote with Joe Swanberg whereas Brie performed one of many leads.
That expertise satisfied them to develop how they labored collectively.
“It really unlocked this thing, working in this new dynamic with one another, realising how well we work together, how much we love to be on set together and have that emotional support and how much we trust each other and admire each other as artists.
“This was about taking it to the next level, and it was even better because we were together for the whole process.”
Somebody I Used To Know is a narrative about Ally, a workaholic TV producer who suffers a profession setback. She returns to her childhood residence to go to her mom, and runs into Sean, the ex-boyfriend she left behind to pursue her skilled ambitions.
Plunged again right into a world that belongs to a special period in her life, she begins to surprise if she made the suitable life decisions – together with whether or not she ought to have deserted that ex.
The genesis for the venture – identical to within the movie – began with a go to residence, to Franco’s household in Palo Alto, California.
“While we were there, we were exploring this idea of going back home and seeing people that used to be a part of your life and what emotions that brings up for a person. You can’t help but maybe compare yourself in the present to how you used to be in the past.”
Wedged inside this late-coming-of-age story about self-discovery is a rom-com, a “weird detour” into My Best Friend’s Wedding territory when Ally thinks about making a play for Sean throughout the weekend of his marriage ceremony to Cassidy (Kiersey Clemons), somebody Ally thinks is a youthful model of herself.
Even although Brie and Franco spent a variety of time watching Nineteen Eighties and Nineties rom-coms, the core of the story is that this nearly midlife disaster of, “Is this all there is? What am I even doing with my life?”
Somebody I Used To Know is a pandemic venture, one thing the couple began whereas in lockdown, unable to work as actors.
Brie mentioned: “We started writing this during the first two weeks of lockdown in 2020 and then over the course of writing it, we were watching a lot of people, and ourselves, going through this moment of reckoning and analysing our lives because we were trapped in our homes.
“We had nothing else to do but assess, ‘Do I like where I live? Do I like the person I’m with? What is my life? What is the meaning of life?’
“It was a real existential crisis for everyone and those elements found its way into the story.”
Somebody I Used To Know will probably be streaming on Amazon Prime Video from Friday, February 10
Source: www.news.com.au
