But there were certainly a couple times where in the director's chair

And I think every director feels this where you're just like in the inside

You're like I have no idea how to fix this

And and you're faking it

I'm Sean Fennesee editor in chief of the ringer and this is the big picture a conversation show with some of the most interesting filmmakers working today

The studio comedy is dead

That's something I've heard a lot lately. You know the kind of movie I'm talking about

Three or four close friends get together for the night of their lives

But before the sun comes up everything you can imagine goes wrong

Think the hangover American pie old school

But today's guest K Cannon is bringing them back her movie blockers as in cock blockers is an already

Comedy that's obsessed with the teen girls on a quest to lose their virginity on prom night as the parents who fear for their daughter's moral purity

Cannon is a veteran screenwriter having worked on 30 rock and new girl as well as writing all three pitch-perfect movies

blockers is her first movie as a director and it's an assured funny ridiculous but sweet story about families

I talked to Kay about making her first film balancing but chugging with big ideas and what a movie like this has to say in a fraught political moment

Here's Kay Cannon

I'm so happy to be joined by Kay Cannon Kay. Thanks for coming into the thanks for having me. Okay

Directorial debut blockers congratulations. Thank you. So you know, you've been a writer in the industry for a long time

Why this movie well? I mean it was the only thing that was ever offered me to direct

Totally alright. I'll say yes to that one. No, but why was so lucky because all the themes that I really

Love and I'm attracted to work within the movie so I when I read the script I thought it was funny

And then I felt like I connected to it because I'm a parent of a daughter and

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