‘My Old Ass’ director Megan Park on advice to our younger selves

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In Megan Park’s new film ‘My Old Ass,’ a teenager named Elliott (Maisy Stella) meets her 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza) on a mushroom trip. The experience gives young Elliott perspective: her “old ass” tells her to wear her retainer, and be nice to her family before leaving for college. But it’s the older Elliott who gets the bigger lesson, on the stories we tell ourselves about the past. Today, Megan joins Lilah to discuss the concept of the film, and what it was like to work with a crew of mostly Gen Z actors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend.
0:04.2	I'm Lila Raptopoulos.
0:05.8	The new film My Old Ass is a coming-of-age story.
0:09.7	Its lead character, Elliot, played by Maisie Stella, is 18 years old and home for that last summer before college.
0:16.5	She's ready to leave, but she clearly still has a lot of growing to do and a lot to learn,
0:21.2	about her relationship with her family, about her sexuality, and more.
0:25.5	The twist in this story is that the person who helps Elliot understand herself better is her older self,
0:31.2	or in other words, her old ass.
0:33.4	On a mushroom trip in the woods with her friends, younger Elliot conjures the 39-year-old, more jaded version of herself up, played by Aubrey Plaza.
0:42.0	And then that version of her continues to advise her throughout the film.
0:45.9	Hey, freak.
0:46.9	Who are you?
0:48.0	Elliot.
0:48.6	Dude, I'm you.
0:49.6	You're me.
0:50.7	What's up?
0:51.6	I don't have a gap in my teeth.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:53.2	Wear your retainer.
1:12.4	Left boob. One cup smaller than the right. Oh, gosh. I'm actually kind of hot for being middle age. I'm 39 years old. That's not middle age. No, that is middle age. No, it's not. I am a very young adult. The film was produced by Margot Robbie's production company Lucky Chap, which also produced Barbie.
1:14.4	It focuses on work about women.
1:17.3	And it was written and directed by Megan Park.
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