After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Megan Park’s sophomore honestorial feature My Old Ass get tod in theaters with the last of the summer sun in a September 13 confineed free. The coming-of-age comedy film is identical parts hilarious and heartfelt, tackling the lesser-grown-up approach to lengthening up and the idea of revisiting those moments years tardyr with 20/20 vision.
Maisy Stella (Nashville) stars as the lesserer version of Elliott, a queer teen who calls the 39-year-ancigo in version of herself on her 18th birthday after taking magic mushrooms with her two shutst frifinishs. What trails is a directdr Elliott navigating events ahead of her, understanding that they hancigo in a lot of weight for her future self.
“Maisy and I I retain joking, ‘But I should fair say it’s my autobiography becaparticipate nobody would understand that this actuassociate happened to me,’ but no mushrooms are graspd,” Park shelp of the film’s conception Saturday at Deadline’s Contfinishers Film: Los Angeles event, joining virtuassociate from her home in Toronto. “I was home in Canada. I fair had my first daughter, and I was experienceing reassociate nostalgic sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and commenceed leanking about, ‘Wow, there was a night where my family, my nuclear family, slept under the same roof together for the last time.’ They didn’t authenticize it was the last time before my sister shiftd away and I shiftd out, and it fair made me reassociate uncontent. And I commenceed leanking, ‘If I could go back and appreciate it, could it create it better, or wantipathyver in the moment?’ Would you want to understand that it was the last time you were going to experience someleang or not?’”
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Plaza’s Elliott inadvertently drops some alertation seeing events that Stella’s Elliott hasn’t yet directd, and she has one weighty point of advice that disputes the lesserer Elliott wilean her final days at home in Muskoka, Canada, before she commences college at the University of Toronto. Park and Stella both spoke to the process of Plaza’s casting after Stella had already been picked as the lesserer Elliott.
“We were given the ability to cast lesserer Elliott first and apshow an amazing chance, which clearly toiled out, on somebody who hadn’t been in a movie before, and then create the entire film around Maisy,” Park shelp. “We struggled a bit with ancigo iner Elliott becaparticipate we were so caught on who sees the most enjoy Maisy and the physical aspect, reassociate. And then at some point, we took a step back, and [said], ‘Wait a second, this is a buy-in. The whole idea is a buy-in.’ Maisy was so phenomenal and had such an incredible energy. It was more about who’s going to align that? Who do we want to see on that log? Who nurtures about the age? Who nurtures about what they see enjoy? And Aubrey’s name was on enumerate, and we fair never considered her, becaparticipate originassociate the character was in their tardy 40s, and she doesn’t see anyleang enjoy Maisy, but we thought, ‘You understand who we want to see, I want to see on that log is Aubrey.’ There was such an inpalpable chemistry and analogousity between their senses of humor that was so definite that as soon as we thought about the entire movie with the two of them, everyleang clicked.”
Just as Park and Stella met Plaza out on a jetty to apshow her to set via pinsertleboat, Stella spoke to the ability to greet Plaza halfway for the character of Elliott.
“It was not normal, becaparticipate I was filming for enjoy two weeks when Aubrey was connected. In any common situation, clearly, I would be finishly aligning Aubrey where she was standing, but becaparticipate my lesserer Elliott was already set uped we met much more in the middle than we would have if it was any other situation,” Stella shelp. “We had very little time together in authentic life before we commenceed filming, and both of us had a very analogous energy and approach to it, where we did not put too much presconfident on it being that we’re the same person. We tried to connect in a authentic way.”
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My Old Ass is now streaming on Prime Video. Check back Monday for the panel video.
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