Summary
After years as a choreographer, Anne Fletcher moved into directing with Step Up and 27 Dresses. Her newest, The Proposal, is a comedy about dancing around the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com. |
| 0:19.2 | My guest, Anne Fletcher, is now a director, but for years she put this as a choreographer and as a dancer. |
| 0:23.8 | But her movie's been kind of about dancing around the truth between 27 dresses and her newest proposal. |
| 0:29.7 | And thanks for being here. |
| 0:30.8 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:32.2 | But these are classic screwball comedy situations in these last two movies. |
| 0:35.7 | Definitely this last one more so than 27 dresses, although we were trying to definitely go with that vibe more so than trying to stay in the really specific romantic comedy genre. |
| 0:46.5 | And then we did the proposal and it really just felt so screwball comedy for us. |
| 0:50.5 | And then you have Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds who are amazing a comedy. |
| 0:54.8 | So we just went for it. We took what we had on the page, which was brilliantly written and just went for it. |
| 1:00.3 | I love the idea, too, that these women are written mostly as the male character, especially in the proposal. Sandy's character was written normally for the male and Ryan's character |
| 1:11.0 | was written for the woman. This had been 10 years ago. She would have had the Ryan Reynolds part probably. |
| 1:16.2 | Absolutely. No doubt. And I think that that's why she kind of stopped doing romantic comedies for a long time is that she was sick of playing the same part. I mean, she's been in some really great romantic comedies. And I think that all the ones that were offered to her were endless amounts of the same thing. |
| 1:30.2 | And so she kind of stepped aside for a second. |
| 1:32.1 | And when she read the proposal, she was so excited that the role was actually written for a man. |
| 1:37.4 | And Ryan's role was essentially for a woman, you know, Spencer Tracy and Catherine Hepburn or flipped. |
| 1:43.5 | Ryan was Catherine, as he likes to say. |
| 1:46.1 | And I think that that's why Sandy was really super excited to do the movie, that it was different. |
| 1:51.3 | It was a spin on it. |
| 1:52.2 | It was more screwball comedy versus romantic comedy. |
| 1:55.9 | I mean, she actually will not let you call it a romantic comedy. |
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