David Crow Mar 19, 2019
Olivia Wilde talks directing the next great teen movie, Booksmart, as well as the influential friendship she has with Reed Morano.
Booksmart was the toast of SXSW, and it’s easy to see why. The funniest of several R-rated laughers that played at the festival last week, we found the film to be ahead of the curve as an incredibly intelligent, raunchy comedy that was more concerned with creating a truthful experience about the high school experience of young women than it was with simply being hilarious—although it was that too. A triumphant directorial debut for Olivia Wilde, the picture lived up to what she told us she wanted it to be the day before its SXSW premiere: a touchstone for the next generation.
“I wanted to make a kind of generational anthem,” Wilde says while sitting down with her cast and screenwriter Katie Silberman. “I...
Olivia Wilde talks directing the next great teen movie, Booksmart, as well as the influential friendship she has with Reed Morano.
Booksmart was the toast of SXSW, and it’s easy to see why. The funniest of several R-rated laughers that played at the festival last week, we found the film to be ahead of the curve as an incredibly intelligent, raunchy comedy that was more concerned with creating a truthful experience about the high school experience of young women than it was with simply being hilarious—although it was that too. A triumphant directorial debut for Olivia Wilde, the picture lived up to what she told us she wanted it to be the day before its SXSW premiere: a touchstone for the next generation.
“I wanted to make a kind of generational anthem,” Wilde says while sitting down with her cast and screenwriter Katie Silberman. “I...
- 3/19/2019
- Den of Geek
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