Its very random, but awesome.
It gripped me, Mendes told Deadline of the film ahead of its premiere Wednesday.
Shes like, Babe, Im with you.
Anna Baryshnikov in ‘Idiotka’Kristen Correll
I just read the first two pages and Im in.
It was so gripping and captivating.
And Nas[tasya] had that all in the bag.
So it was just like, OK, like we have a visionary here.
Shes got a vision.
She continued, Everything from there just became a matter of developing what was already there.
That was my contribution to it as a producer.
It was really funny, claustrophobic, chaotic energy that inspired me to start writing this.
Then we spent another year developing it from there.
And then we shot a sizzle in the apartment where I was living, very scrappy.
From there, more drafts.
At that point, the reality TV draft of the story really clicked.
I think we found the tone of the movie while we were shooting the sizzle.
After the sizzle was made, really, things started snowballing.
I found that to be really just exquisitely captured in the script.
I was just desperate to do it.
I grew up in Los Angeles.
So I was lucky to know someone like Owen Thiele from growing up.
I had seen him inTheater Camp, and thought he was just hilarious, Popov said.
So I actually wrote the host role with him in mind.
Celebrity judges on the competition series are played by Benito Skinner, Julia Fox and Saweetie.
With the judges, it was really a collective effort.
Cami was friends with Benny so we reached out to him.
We showed up and got copies of her book and got it signed by her.
And she said, Yeah, I like the script.
And is also just an incredible collaborator.
Baryshnikov recalled taking a photo of producer Cohen and Popov ahead of Foxs reading.
They told me that they hung around until the end to talk to her.
Sometimes theres this idea that it all, everything happens through agents, the actress said.
And Julia, I think, really responded to that.
Popov agreed with that summation of the spirit of this film which she described as banging down doors.
So keep networking, and people will help you down the line.
Camila really mined the nuance in Nicols character.
Theres personal gain to be had with Nicol, but also it benefits Margarita as well.
Baryshnikov agreed, looking at it from her character and contestants perspective.
And on the other, they have an agenda to make good television.
What do you put yourself through in the name of truth?
