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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Director Nicole Holofcener’s Art Imitates Life

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today, we sit with filmmaker Nicole Holofcener! We discuss the making of her new A24 film You Hurt My Feelings (5:44), her creative upbringing in the ‘70s (15:00), and the Jim Jarmusch film that made her want to become a director (17:25).

On the back-half, Holofcener reflects on her early apprenticeship on Hannah and Her Sisters (23:54), her intensely personal collaborations with actors Catherine Keener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (26:20), and a defining scene from her latest film (32:05). To close, she talks about the importance of supporting writers (36:57), her first day on the set of Walking and Talking (37:33), and why, after three decades, she continues to stay on the “seesaw of art and life” (40:02).

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0:00.0

Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Frig and director Nicole Hollif Center.

0:45.0

She began her career back in 1996 with Walking and Talking,

0:50.0

a modest film about two young women, played by Catherine Keener in the late Anne Hesh, whose friendship

0:56.7

takes a turn when one of them decides to get engaged. The film is funny, tender, a little bit thorny.

1:04.0

It's also a blueprint to the human comedies

1:07.0

Hollov Center has made in the intervening 27 years.

1:11.0

Whether it's in pictures like Friends With Money, Please Give, or Enough Said, her stories are often

1:17.2

populated by what writer Ariel Levy calls people confronting ordinary circumstances and falling short because they're afraid of getting

1:25.8

hurt or of getting old or simply of changing.

1:30.8

It's a good description from her and one that aptly describes Hall of Center's latest film entitled You Hurt My Feelings. In it, Julia Louis Dreyfus plays a teacher and writer whose marriage is upended when she overhears her husband offering a critical assessment of her latest book.

1:50.0

Here's a clip from the trailer.

1:52.0

So Elliot tells me you're a writer.

1:55.0

And you're the last one.

1:56.0

It should have done better.

1:58.0

There's lots of new voices.

1:59.0

Refugees, cancer, murder, abuse.

2:02.0

I'm an old voice.

2:03.2

You're the best voice.

2:04.3

Maybe if dad hadn't just been verbally abusive,

2:07.6

it would have been a bestseller.

2:09.0

Don't say that.

2:10.4

Your memoir is great. your new book is great.

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