I had already written in a world, but I was, quote, shopping for directors at the time when my

agent was like, look, you want to direct. So why don't you direct it? I remember being at Sundance,

and it was the first year that there were like six women in competition, six filmmakers that were

women and six that were men. And the fact that you had written it and directed it and starred in it.

And it just felt to me like you were opening this conversation for women about voice in a different way. Lake Bell. Welcome to reclaiming. Thank you. I'm so excited we got to make this happen.

Yes. I'm going to have some tea. Me too. Ready? I know. Ready? Go. Go. I'm so glad we're not chugging it because I was nervous in that moment if we were chugging.

And now I realize we were just sipping.

We're sipping.

We're sipping kind of gals today.

Exactly.

So I was thinking about, I think, where we met, I think was at the deconstructing Karen documentary premiere that you hosted, right?

Or co-hosted.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that was like I think we were doing the social media thing, but oh, human to human.

And I was so impressed by you.

Really impressed by you, I think, because I really work at trying to

unpack some of my thoughts and actions and bias and in race and so desperately want to be

someone who's doing and behaving and thinking in the right way, like the thinking leading

to the action,

if that makes sense. And so I really appreciated how you were talking about, I think,

your activism there. And I remember the feeling, the feeling of like, oh, that's how I want

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