It was so fun, though, seeing how far we could push it in scenes together with each other.Īside from working with Mega, did you have a favorite moment on “Crush”? I got to spend some time with her when we were filming. Because sometimes she even says things that are so insane, I think it even shocks her that it’s coming out of her mouth. There definitely fun moments where I were both of us couldn’t keep it together. We definitely had a really fun time doing those scenes together. ‘Schitt’s Creek’ to Leave Netflix for Hulu This Fall And I just, I was just really excited that she was playing my mom. She’s definitely my favorite part of the movie, after seeing it. I mean, the second she was on set, I was just stoked. I don’t know how you hold yourself together in a scene with her where she’s talking about, putting your eraser through the dishwasher because she thinks it’s a sex toy. Yes, tell me about working opposite and Megan as well! Because I mean, if you want anyone to play your mom in a rom-com, I feel like it’s gonna be Megan Mullally. Because I really think that the script has such like a conversational comedic dialogue that it was a good basis for riffing off of it and made it really easy to improv.
But I felt lucky that I was allowed to improvise a lot on set, which was great. There was kind of a lot of improvising between me and Tyler and Megan. Yes, I improvise a lot! I can’t remember how much of it made the actual cut, but I improvised a lot of lines. So it was fun for me to get to do that on set. I think I was trying to find the moments where she, you know, is letting life happen to her, but also how she kind of deflects everything with humor. And everybody on set, I just feel like we were really committed to trying to make things as funny as possible.
I think I really liked Paige’s sarcasm, and kind of just her dryness. I’m curious, how much of Paige was you, as Rowan? And how much do you pull from maybe other characters in the genre? Yeah, I’m glad I didn’t skateboard, because I think I would have died.
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but I did have to not film because it was really - yeah, well I’ll save that full story for years down the road. I didn’t have to like go to the hospital. I actually am such a bad runner that I injured myself on set.
I am a pretty unhealthy person, so this was a stretch for me.
So at any point were you like, “Do we have to make them runners? Can we do something else here guys?” You guys are track stars in this movie and running is hard. I also want to ask about an aspect that would, at least if it were me, I would have said no. That was what attracted me about the script was that it didn’t feel like it was about being gay. I felt like I was just setting out to make a comedy. I think overall, just everyone involved in the project was really - it never felt like we were setting out to make something that was, or at least for me, I didn’t feel like I was setting out to make something queer.