I think sometimes to go to your first question about the rom-com, there's this like, well, we can't do the same thing.

It's a formula.

We have to change it.

And I think there's something unsatisfying in that because it is a fun genre.

No, totally.

So is blowing shit up, you know?

Exactly.

Yeah. know, exactly.

Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In today's episode, marriage at first sight leads to an unlikely romance in director Kat Koiro's new romantic comedy, marry me.

When pop star Kat Valdez learns that her fiancé has been unfaithful

seconds before their wedding in front of a global audience of fans,

she decides to marry Charlie,

a middle school math teacher and stranger in the crowd instead. In addition to marry me,

Ms. Coyro's directorial credits include the pilot episodes of Girls Five Eva and Florida Girls,

and episodes of the series Libra, Single Parents, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and The Mick.

Following a recent screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Ms. Coyro shares

insight into the making of Married Me with fellow director Gillian Robes-Pierre.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

So we were just talking briefly downstairs, and I asked Kat, when did you shoot this?

And the end of 2019, we were in post when the pandemic happened.

So it's been a long time.

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