This movie is awesome and you guys haven’t been able to show it as much as you’ve wanted to because of COVID. I just wanted to know how you guys felt about that and also how a virtual festival is different than an in-person one.
Rehmeier: For me, I absolutely love the connection of just being in the same space, just like with any show. I enjoy the live performance of it. This film in particular plays a little bit differently in a theater. I feel like it’s designed for you to have a good time. The types of events and the types of festivals it’s playing are heavy genre, if not horror festivals. It’s so rad to play a horror festival and to not have people feel cheated because somehow it caters to that space as well, strangely enough.
Yeah, my boyfriend asked me about that, he said ” this isn’t a horror movie,” and I said, “yeah, but somehow it works, it makes sense.”
Rehmeier: I’ll tell you why it works. Part of the energy I’m putting in really comes from that genre space and the love of that so you can’t fake that. So, that part is why I think it works with a more genre crowd.
I totally get that. I wanted to ask everyone, if you have an answer, what was your favorite scene to shoot?
Gallner: We really had so much fun, I’ll sit there on random days and think about Emily shooting baskets and laugh. I’m not even part of that, and I think of her shooting baskets and laugh by myself.
Skeggs: I love you, Kyle.
Gallner: I love the opening, smashing through a plate glass window and the scene with Lea (Thompson). I love the diner scene where me and Patty first kiss. I love that. I love the basement. I love the punk show. It was all so, so much fun that it’s like there’s nothing I don’t like. What about you Emmer?
Skeggs: That, all of that, and I guess the only thing I’d add is that the movie has how many other characters besides Patty and Simon? Like 77.
Rehmeier: There’s a lot of people.
“Shooting the couple of scenes with them…was like a master class of improv.”
Skeggs: –and every single one of them is incredible. I want to highlight–Pat (Healy) and Mary Lynn (Rajskub). They’re so phenomenal. Shooting the couple of scenes with them at the dinner table, it was like a master class of improv. Because they are absolutely incredible, they’re craftsmen. We also had a couple of people who came as background, just like on the day that were local to Detroit. Like the lady who pops the peppermint in her mouth.
Gallner: We found her at like a YMCA. They were talking about it was so hard. We can’t find an old lady, we can’t find an old lady. We were filming outside of a YMCA and there’s like this line of old ladies going in. They go up to this woman and say, “Would you like to be in a movie?” and she’s like “I have to go swimming, but afterwards, sure.”
Rehmeier: We’ll wait for you. We’ll wait for you, Shirley. We’ll wait for the right gal.
Gallner: She did her swimming aerobics, came out
Rehmeier: She’s like, “I got swimming, and then I gotta go get my hair done,” and she came back, and she did it.
That’s actually one of the scenes that I laugh out loud the most with is when she sits next to Simon on the bus. I was like, “Holy Sh*t.” Because of course, something like that would happen to that kind of person.
Skeggs: and also the ladies who are staring at Simon and Patty while they make out. There’s just so many good, the entire cast stands out.
I was going to ask you guys what it was like to work with everyone else but you kind of just answered that but I think the cast is just incredible. If you guys want to plug what you’re working on now, feel free.
Skeggs: I’ve got a Hulu movie coming out that’s called The Ultimate Playlist of Noise. Look out for it sometime in the future.
Gallner: I have this movie out called The Cleansing Hour that just came out on Shudder on Thursday, and then I have this movie called The Catch that’s premiering at the Austin Film Festival and I’m filming the new Scream movie now, so that’ll come out in like two years.
Rehmeier: I want to tell my favorite scene to shoot.
