Today, in their first interview together about Nicole Holofcener’s acclaimed You Hurt My Feelings, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michaela Watkins display the same sparkling bond they have as sisters in the movie. The actors first worked together 15 years ago, on Louis-Dreyfus’s series The New Adventures of Old Christine, in which the running joke played off of how much they look like each other. The new movie is a perceptive (and still very funny) look at relationships and, in particular, the extremely thin skin that makes creative people sensitive for better and sometimes worse. The cast nailed it, even during a low-budget production in New York. “We had some issues with paparazzi,” says Louis-Dreyfus. “We also had issues of just New Yorkers walking through the shot and giving us the finger. But what was fun about all of that is that we had to move quickly and think on our feet.… There was a guy in the park who would not stop playing music just across the way. And so then we’d pay him $50: ‘Can you just stop for half an hour?’ And he does. But then at a half an hour he plays again, so we have to pay another $50.”
Elsewhere in our Hollywood coverage, Joy Press talks to the wonderfully unfiltered Teamsters boss Lindsay Dougherty,who’s becoming an icon with the writers strike. Chris Feilgives a brief history of Cannes Film Festival scandals. Rebecca Ford chats with Beef star Steven Yeun. Richard Lawson reviews a moving addition to the queer coming-of-age canon.
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