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Girls Like Scrub with Hayley Kiyoko · Scrubbing In with Becca Tilley & Tanya Rad

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  Speaker 1: Scrubbing In with Becca Tilly and Tanya rad and iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 1: and two time People's Choice Award winning podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hello everybody, we are scrubbing in. We have my favorite guest, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: favorite guest in the building.
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  Speaker 1: She is She needs no introduction, but let's give her
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  Speaker 1: the guest honors.
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  Speaker 3: She's a pop artist, she's an actress, she's an author,
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  Speaker 3: she's an LGBTQ plus advocate, and she is a director
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  Speaker 3: of a first ever feature film with focused features.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome my fiance Hailey Kyoka.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, fame, what a beautiful intro. Welcome back,
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I haven't seen you guys in
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  Speaker 4: so long.
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  Speaker 3: We have so much to talk about, and I feel
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  Speaker 3: obviously so much pride for the reason of why you're here.
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  Speaker 2: But I just want to go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: And say that ticket sales are on sale for girls
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  Speaker 3: like girls in theaters right now, right now.
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  Speaker 2: So go get your tickets before you listen to our
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  Speaker 2: also or we get.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, everybody, take a pause, don't worry, want to take here.
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  Speaker 1: When you get back, go buy your tickets. Buy a
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  Speaker 1: couple extra seats so that you can bring some extra frame.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely make a plan. Sell the theaters out. Yes, I
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  Speaker 2: know the scrubbers can do it. I believe in the
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  Speaker 2: scrubbers me too. I'm grateful for them, I say, grateful. Great,
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful for them. I'm tired, grateful. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why you're tired. You don't do anything. I don't do anything.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm so close to you and I know
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  Speaker 3: the ins and the outs and everything.
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  Speaker 2: In between, but I want to talk about what you're.
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  Speaker 3: Feeling right now, Like knowing that ticket sales are on
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  Speaker 3: sale for your movie that you your first movie that
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  Speaker 3: you directed, Like what are you feeling?
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  Speaker 4: It's so crazy, It's so surreal, Like I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, you just buy tickets growing up going to
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  Speaker 4: see movies, so to know, like you can go on
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  Speaker 4: Fandego or wherever and just like see girls like girls
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  Speaker 4: there and buy your ticket. And I mean, it's been
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  Speaker 4: a ten year journey, so it's like such a surreal
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  Speaker 4: feeling and I'm trying to stay present, but it's also
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  Speaker 4: you know, nerve wracking but exciting and yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 4: believe it's finally here, Like I mean, back and Beck
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  Speaker 4: has been on this journey for eight years, with me,
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  Speaker 4: and so the fact that the tickets are on sale
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  Speaker 4: now is it's insane.
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  Speaker 2: I know, we're weally, I got pinch me moment. We're
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  Speaker 2: in it. You're in it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like T minus whatever x amount under thirty days.
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  Speaker 2: This is it, Like, this is.
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  Speaker 4: The moment that we've been waiting for. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: hopefully the community and my friends and allies.
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  Speaker 2: Show up because I'm super proud of this film. You
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  Speaker 2: should be in time. I got to see the movie
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  Speaker 2: first of all, and yeah it was so we've got
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  Speaker 2: some viewership in the building. First of all.
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  Speaker 1: I also like, I don't know the strategy the timing
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  Speaker 1: of you releasing it in June. If that what the
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  Speaker 1: strategy was, I think it just worked out that way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, it's like perfect because I feel like this
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  Speaker 1: movie is like this summer. It's like it's just the
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  Speaker 1: vibe is like summer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well the movie is set in summer, so it's
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  Speaker 4: definitely giving summer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank god, So I've done my job. Yeah, like
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  Speaker 2: it's not giving winter, it's giving summer.
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  Speaker 1: No, Like, if you if you came out with this
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  Speaker 1: in January, I'm going to be all confused.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's like really excellent timing. Thank you. Yeah, very
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  Speaker 2: well Voe thought out.
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  Speaker 1: But like when we went to go see it, like
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  Speaker 1: it's so crazy because your name is all over it,
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  Speaker 1: like you did everything, you did everything for this movie.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like so crazy because I'm like watching
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  Speaker 1: all the like all the credits go and it's like
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  Speaker 1: this by Haley Kyoko, Story by Haley Kyoko, Director by Haley,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll like, yeah, dang, Like that's usually a bunch
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  Speaker 1: like a bunch of other people, and when you did
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  Speaker 1: all of it, well, I've.
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  Speaker 4: Been kind of like, I mean, listen, it took an
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  Speaker 4: absolute team to make this happen. Yes, it wasn't just
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  Speaker 4: on my own, but I kind I'm like the baton
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  Speaker 4: r and like I feel like I've been passed, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like in those Olympic relay races and you passed the
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  Speaker 4: baton to the next person, and like throughout this whole journey,
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  Speaker 4: I have been the baton from twenty fifteen to twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty six, and I'm kind of the connected thread of
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  Speaker 4: it because someone has to be pushing and fighting to
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  Speaker 4: get this movie made. And if you're not doing it,
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  Speaker 4: then who else will you know?
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  Speaker 2: If not you, who that's good, Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But that's kind of what I want to talk about first,
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  Speaker 1: is like how many no's did you get before? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we're all talking about the movies coming out, like it's here,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming, it's so exciting, but like, how many nos
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  Speaker 1: did you have to hear before you got the one yes?
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  Speaker 2: I mean so many nos, like hundreds of no's. You
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  Speaker 2: know what kept you going?
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  Speaker 4: I was telling Beca like there was this this feeling
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  Speaker 4: in my body that I just I had to keep going,
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  Speaker 4: like I didn't feel like I.
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  Speaker 2: Had a choice because Girls Like Girls.
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  Speaker 4: When I came out at twenty fifteen, was so important
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  Speaker 4: for not only myself but for my community, and it
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  Speaker 4: was breaking stereotypes and barriers, and I felt like if
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  Speaker 4: I gave up, this story would not be told, or
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  Speaker 4: if it was going to be told, it was going
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  Speaker 4: to be told in twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Years or thirty years.
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  Speaker 4: And so that just the drive of thinking about my
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  Speaker 4: fans and the people out there, Like you think about
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  Speaker 4: a nine year old, I've had a night a twenty
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  Speaker 4: year old come up to me saying I was nine
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  Speaker 4: when I watched the Girls Side Girls music video, and
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  Speaker 4: now I'm twenty years old, out and proud and getting
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  Speaker 4: to go see the film in theaters with my friends,
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  Speaker 4: Like that is like totally why I never gave up.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean it was years and years of
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  Speaker 4: like how do you get a movie made? And like, well,
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  Speaker 4: you have to write a script and you have to
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  Speaker 4: develop the story and what does that look like? And
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  Speaker 4: then you know you're writing the script, and then it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: what is it going to cost to make this? And
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  Speaker 4: then you're like editing the script of figuring out how
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  Speaker 4: to execute a film for the budget that you may
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  Speaker 4: or may not have, and then you're just excellent, but
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  Speaker 4: thank you so much. And then you know and then
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  Speaker 4: you have the deck and then you go out and
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  Speaker 4: you pitch to all the different studios and they all
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  Speaker 4: say no, and they're like.
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  Speaker 2: But we care about queer stories.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like, well, why aren't you uplifting this one?
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  Speaker 4: But Focus Features raised their hand in twenty twenty and
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  Speaker 4: the movie was with another production company at the time
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  Speaker 4: and that fell through, and so there were so many
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  Speaker 4: iterations where I was like, I mean, I've celebrated with
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  Speaker 4: my family so many times, like we did it, the
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  Speaker 4: movie's happening, and then it falls apart, and you're starting
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  Speaker 4: from scratch all over again. And you're also just like
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  Speaker 4: as a first time filmmaker, you're having to convince people
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  Speaker 4: to invest their money into you and to believe that
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  Speaker 4: you can execute it well and that.
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  Speaker 2: People will show up for your story.
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  Speaker 4: And so a lot of the journey has been just
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  Speaker 4: convincing people that this story deserves to have a platform
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  Speaker 4: and to exist, and that we haven't had representation like
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  Speaker 4: this for our community in a very long time, or
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  Speaker 4: if we do, it's once every twenty years, and it
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't be like that, Like we should have representation all
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  Speaker 4: the time every year.
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  Speaker 1: I just have to say, like that is like serious
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  Speaker 1: perseverance and like I don't know if tenacity is the
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  Speaker 1: right word, yeah, because like I just like you hear
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  Speaker 1: just like rejection, like I when you hear nos so
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  Speaker 1: much to keep being able to push through that and
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  Speaker 1: keep going and have so much faith and hope and
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  Speaker 1: like in you and what you can produce and what
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  Speaker 1: you can like bring is like really admirable.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: It definitely I'm not like religious, but it definitely challenged
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  Speaker 4: me to have faith in the fact that that it
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  Speaker 4: was going to work out eventually and then I like, listen.
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  Speaker 2: I had yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I had tons of moments where I'm screaming, crying,
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  Speaker 4: like just devastated, feeling so alone and trapped and like
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  Speaker 4: on my own journey. And so that was like an
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  Speaker 4: extremely isolating experience trying to get this film made. But
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  Speaker 4: then the tides kind of turned when you know, the
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  Speaker 4: other production company kind of dropped out and then Mark
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  Speaker 4: Platt Productions raised their hand. You don't know Mark Platt,
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  Speaker 4: He's produced Wicked and.
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  Speaker 5: So small these really small films projects, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: he believed in the story and his team believed in
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  Speaker 5: the story, and it worked out with them and focused
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  Speaker 5: features to kind of come together and and cheer me
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  Speaker 5: on and support this project.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's when it was a really interesting turn.
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  Speaker 4: I remember talking back about it where I was like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I actually feel supported and I think
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  Speaker 4: this actually might happen.
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  Speaker 2: Like the energy really.
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  Speaker 4: Shifted, because before it was just like constant rejection, constant knows,
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  Speaker 4: you know, budgeting it out for a certain city and
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  Speaker 4: then that falling through and trying to go shoot it,
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  Speaker 4: and then there's like a fire and then there's the pandemic,
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  Speaker 4: and there's one thing after a next, and finally when
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  Speaker 4: Mark Platten Focus came together, I was like, oh, this
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  Speaker 4: might actually happen. Like this, the energy shifts and you realize,
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  Speaker 4: like when things aren't working and you're banging down the doors,
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  Speaker 4: like sometimes you want to keep banging on that door,
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  Speaker 4: but sometimes those doors are broken, Like sometimes those door
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  Speaker 4: you should your energy. You actually have to completely shift
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  Speaker 4: and go to an entirely different building and start knocking
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  Speaker 4: on those doors, and then a door start and then
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  Speaker 4: a door opens.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen you know, I have said this
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  Speaker 3: so many times. I don't I have a knockin' I
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  Speaker 3: don't know anyone who has worked on something like this
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  Speaker 3: for ten years and just person like had the goal
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  Speaker 3: to get it done and got it done. I want
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  Speaker 3: to go back to twenty fifteen when you wrote girls
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  Speaker 3: Like Girls and directed the music video, choosing not to
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  Speaker 3: be in the music video because of your own personal fears,
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  Speaker 3: and the shift from going from that to then casting
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  Speaker 3: two half Asian leads. Can you take us on that journey?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think girls Like Girls the universe kind
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  Speaker 4: of mirrors my journey when I wrote girls Like Girls
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  Speaker 4: in twenty fifteen, I wasn't out. I wasn't confident in
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  Speaker 4: who I was, and so when I was writing with
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  Speaker 4: Lily and Oen the lyrics for the song, I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to sound like I was confident and that I could,
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  Speaker 4: you know, stealing kisses from your missus, you know, doesn't
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  Speaker 4: make you freak out. Like they're very like bold lyrics,
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  Speaker 4: but I didn't feel that way at the time. So
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  Speaker 4: it's trying to like manifest feeling embodied and who I
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  Speaker 4: was and self love. And when we were doing the
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  Speaker 4: music video, I didn't want to put myself out there,
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  Speaker 4: and so I'm so grateful for Stephanie and Kelsey. They
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  Speaker 4: did an incredible job in the music video, but I
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  Speaker 4: kept my I was like coming out, but I kept
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  Speaker 4: myself separate still. And so then we went on this
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  Speaker 4: like long, long journey where it's really cool where that
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  Speaker 4: was the first step, and then there was you know,
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  Speaker 4: the novel, and now there's the movie. And the movie
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  Speaker 4: is the most authentic version of this story where the
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  Speaker 4: characters are their most authentic selves, and getting to cast
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  Speaker 4: actors that represent the characters so well reflecting my own
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  Speaker 4: journey back to me is really beautiful and like now
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  Speaker 4: I'm on stage waving the rainbow flag and screaming girls
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  Speaker 4: like girls and like super proud of being a lesbian.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's a really beautiful thing to witness where
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  Speaker 4: this ip has kind of grown with me, and so
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  Speaker 4: of course it's changed. You know, It's like the book
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  Speaker 4: is its own experience, and you can, you know, divulge
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  Speaker 4: in the description of a jacket for a page and
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  Speaker 4: a half, but in the movie you only have ninety minutes, right,
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  Speaker 4: And so the movie is you know, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: glance here and a touch here, and getting to visually
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  Speaker 4: show the feelings that I felt growing up being queer
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  Speaker 4: and being in the closet and falling in love with girls.
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  Speaker 1: There were I don't really know what I'm allowed to
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  Speaker 1: say about the movie, but there were so many times
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  Speaker 1: when I was like watching it with like what you
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  Speaker 1: were saying, with like the grays of a hand or
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  Speaker 1: like a touch or like just certain things that I
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  Speaker 1: was like.
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  Speaker 2: Only women can understand that, do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like I felt all details.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and like I felt all those like the longing
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  Speaker 1: and the like the wanting, and like I like really
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  Speaker 1: felt all that. And I was like, I think just
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  Speaker 1: because I knew that like it came from you. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that's a woman's touch. Like guys don't.
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  Speaker 2: Get that, do you know what I mean? Like focusing
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  Speaker 2: on other stuff, yes for sure, But there was so
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  Speaker 2: much but.
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  Speaker 1: It was like so beautifully done and there I just
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  Speaker 1: like felt it so much. And then there was these
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  Speaker 1: other little things that you just like put in there
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  Speaker 1: that were so nostalgic to me as like a kid,
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  Speaker 1: like having a crush and falling in love and like
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  Speaker 1: all those things.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: What was the year.
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  Speaker 2: It's two thousand and six.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, But like there were so many nods to
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  Speaker 1: that that like really brought back these like vivid memories
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  Speaker 1: of like when I had a crush on someone and
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  Speaker 1: they and they entered on the aim, the sound like
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  Speaker 1: the yeah, the opening of the door and like all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Like I was like, oh my gosh, Like
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  Speaker 1: I was coly too, do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: But just like a straight version of Coli.
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  Speaker 4: Totally, and like Girls Like Girl is unapologetically girls Like Girls.
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  Speaker 4: But this story is so universal because whether you're straight
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  Speaker 4: or queer, everyone has had to confront their crush, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: at some point in their life and had to be
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  Speaker 4: like do you like me or not?
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  Speaker 2: Is this a thing or not? Are we going steady
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  Speaker 2: or not? Like? What where are we at? No? Like
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  Speaker 2: I resonated with Cohali so much as a character.
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  Speaker 4: I literally some clarity, get me, some answers, use your
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  Speaker 4: words of affirmation.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, come on.
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  Speaker 3: But it's so interesting because there's going to be people
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  Speaker 3: who resonate with both characters so much. Because I watch
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  Speaker 3: it and I resonate with Sonya and I think about
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  Speaker 3: who When I met you and fell in love with
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  Speaker 3: a woman for the first time, I was turning thirty,
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  Speaker 3: so I had a sense of self of like knowing
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  Speaker 3: who I was. And I think if I was in
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  Speaker 3: high school navigating those feelings of my religion and falling
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  Speaker 3: in love with my best friend, and how would I
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  Speaker 3: handle it? I probably would have handled it how Sonia did.
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  Speaker 3: So I have a lot of empathy and compassion for her.
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  Speaker 3: But I know from a Coli standpoint, there's like frustrations
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  Speaker 3: of a sad like feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Like also resonated with Sonya too, so it's like there.
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  Speaker 4: Are You're more of a person?
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  Speaker 2: Ali?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: But I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I love that you made a movie that is representation
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  Speaker 3: for queer people and that we really haven't seen yet.
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  Speaker 3: And yet there's people that are going to go who
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  Speaker 3: don't have that exact represent that exact experience, but they're
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  Speaker 3: going to leave being like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: My gosh, I remember that.
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  Speaker 3: I remember falling in love with someone.
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  Speaker 4: So and like when you're sixteen, seventeen years old, you're like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to marry this person.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everything I said today, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You're like, this is the one. I'm not meaning anyone else.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And so it was really important, you know, when
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  Speaker 4: approaching making this film. You know, they are young protagonists,
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  Speaker 4: but it is told through a mature lens because I
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  Speaker 4: think when you're that age, you think you're twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Five, you think you're thirty. You're like, I know everything
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 4: And so that was really important for me and how
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  Speaker 4: we approached, you know, the cinematography and just the storytelling
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  Speaker 4: of it all.
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  Speaker 3: Can we talk about your first day on set and
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  Speaker 3: the getting house of that, because yeah, I've always thought
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  Speaker 3: about it. I never thought about it until this day,
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  Speaker 3: but I we well, actually I want to get back,
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  Speaker 3: I want to get to where we where you filmed
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  Speaker 3: the movie, because I think that was one of those
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  Speaker 3: things of like you talk about banging on every door
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  Speaker 3: and it's locked or it won't budge, and then the
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  Speaker 3: right door opens and then the doors continue to open,
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  Speaker 3: so you can go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, so I mean, you know, we budgeted the
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  Speaker 4: film to shoot in so many different places in Canada specifically,
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  Speaker 4: and they can tinuously fell through. And then finally when
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: the stars were starting to align and I got the
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: green light after the book, and.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: They called me.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: And I don't know if a lot of people know this,
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: but you don't necessarily get to choose where you're shooting
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: the film. So even though the story is set in Oregon,
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: you could be shooting the film literally anywhere, depending on
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: what the production decides and tax you know, credits and
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: all that stuff. And so they call me and they're like, hey,
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: we're going to shoot this movie in Colonna, Canada, which
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: is east of Vancouver.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Have you heard of it?
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: And most people who are listening to this podcast, most
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: people don't know of Colonna, Canada and Colonna east of Vancouver.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: It's kind of in this valley and it's called like
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: the California of Canada. And I'm like shook when they
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: call me because my grandparents are buried there, and I
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: grew up going to Colonna, Canada.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: What are you all?
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I grew up visiting my grandparents on my Japanese side
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: and we would go every.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Three or four years.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: I have a baby photo of me taking my first
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: steps during the holidays in my grandparents' house, which is
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: four streets down from where we shot.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And this whole film and.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: The process has been really embracing not only my sexuality,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: but also just like my culture and being half Japanese
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: and representing that on the screen and getting to a
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: place where I felt confident in being able to tell
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: my authentic truth and story.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: So the fact that we ended up shooting this.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Film where I got to visit my grandparents you know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: burial site, and got to be shot at this restaurant
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: that my grandma used to take us to, which is
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: like the only Japanese restaurant in town, which is like
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: one of the last scenes in the film.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, where she works. Yeah.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: So it was very like that was like a moment
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: where I was like, oh, this, whatever happens, this was
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: the post was meant to be, like the timing of everything,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: like this is a homecoming.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not freaky that's so freaky. It's very meant
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: to be though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you you. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: go up there with you for that. You had been
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: up there for a few months.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: And then I come up to be there for the
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: first day shooting and we get up super early and
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: we drive to set. And Hayley, as you know, she's
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: been an actress, she's been part of sets all the time,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: this is the first like director position.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: So we show up to set and it's chos it's chaos.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I am getting yelled at because someone's unhappy. I'm getting
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: like screamed at because you know, it's like high tension,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And also like you're the one that people everyone
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: has to like. You're like the manager of it all.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you end up like they say, like directors are
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: like the therapists of set. But a lot of the
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: times when you're making a small indie film, you have
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: to hire people that are super passionate. So with passion
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: comes passion even show emotion. People are working on very
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: small budgets, they're stressed, and so within the first ten
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: minutes arriving on set, I am getting annihilated.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: But the car right there were listening to I can
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: go the day. Everyone waiting ten years for this moment.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: He goes, I hope we can have a huddle.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: We faced on my sister so I can do like
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: a team huddle with everyone.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: And then we get there and it's just like chaos. Yeah.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: And then so eventually we i we you know, sizzled
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: the fire, figured things out.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I get to set and I'm like in such shock.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: They start rolling and my ads like looking at me,
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: and I'm like.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: What, She goes, are you gonna say?
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Action?
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Action?
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: And I like sit seven in the morning and I
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: just am like and then that, you know, obviously the
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: rest is history. And then this shoot was amazing. But
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: the first day was very intense.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: How many days all in was it? It was twenty
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: three and like a half days. That's twenty three very
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: intense day.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Very intense days, like you're doing ten to fifteen pages
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: a day, and like most big budget films they do like.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Six, so you're just cramming it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're super grateful for everyone because everyone has
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: to believe in the story to donate and their time.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: They're obviously getting.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Paid, but it's it's a tight budget, it's a tight schedule,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: and every every dollar you see is on the screen.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Every dollar that we had is on the screen, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: so yeah, it was it was a wild time.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: We were shooting a scene one time and a bear
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: was walking down the train tracks.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: We had a pause, like there was a lot going on.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: So you're you're working every shot you see in this film.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Everyone over like one hundred people worked so hard to
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: get that shot. And people always ask me, like my
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: favorite scene. It's like every scene that made it is
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: my favorite scene.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Right, because you have to leave so much on the
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: cutting round.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, like over twenty scenes are cut, Yeah, because
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: of time. Just yeah, or just like you know, it
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: doesn't irrelevant or did it not irrelevant? It's just like
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: you know, it's your you know, it's like I don't know,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: putting together a scrap book.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You have all these amazing.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Photos, but like flow wise, like the only pick certain
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: ones because that you know, elevates the story, and the
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: story is about these two young girls and elevating them
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: and having them be on the best stage possible.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: It'd be like us not editing our reels and having
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: to pick our best scene.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes you can take but it just doesn't
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: make sense. In the reel.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah no, yeah, yeah, okay, understand thank you for making
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: dumbing it down.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just need it for us to understand.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: So you so, yeah, back, I got to see like firsthand.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It was amazing, though, I mean, what can it can be?
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I was thinking about how terrifying that would be to
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: be in that position and not having never done it before,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and then it's like, hey, it's time to call action,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: and just you're just jumping into the deepest endeavor.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Nothing makes me more anxious than thinking about hundreds of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: people coming to me with very emotional drama.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, constantly. Yeah. And she loved it. Yeah, she loved
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: every second of it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I I've never I'm always impressed with you, But I
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: think those twenty four days because I knew you were
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: so exhausted, like physically just depleted, but you were so
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: grateful that it was happening, that there was this like
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: power that you just had through the whole thing.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Well, I have I have an interesting question.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: So, like you're in the thick of it, right, You're
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: this is your You're gone, this is everything that you've
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: been like building and dreaming of, and you're in it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: When you were away shooting and Becca was home.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: What were things that she did that made you feel
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: like loved and supported?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, she just we were really in a good flow.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: She knew how intense it was going to be, especially
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: because she was there for the first couple of days.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I think when you're there, you understand, like, oh, she's
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: not going to be on her phone for at least
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: eleven hours, you.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Know, right.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: But I felt like we communicated really well and I
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: felt super loved, Like you know, when Becca came to
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: visit me and just like checked in and you know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: i'd call her being stressed about some kind of scene
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: or problem that came up, and you know.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: She was just the best, super supportive.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: And cheered me on and kept me in like a
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: positive mindset because you have to stay positive and you're
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: dreaming of doing this your whole life and you get
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: there and it's not going to be easy. You're going
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: to have to fight for it. But I love, I
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: loved every second of it. And it means the world
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: that I get to share this journey with Becca, and
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: like the fact that we're going to get to go
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: see this movie in theaters together, knowing she's seen me
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: like saw on the floor.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's so important because I think, like
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: there are people in relationships who if like their partner
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: like goes and they're doing they're super busy, Like you
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: were so busy you weren't like ignoring her, like you
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: just had so much going on. If Becca could have
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: handled it very differently, she could have like demanded more
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: like time energy.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: I think when I think, it's really helpful for your
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: partner to like see it, like I think it was
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: really helpful that Becca was there at.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: The beginning and she like knew the flow of the day.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I think if she didn't have an understanding of what
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: it would be, it would probably be hard, like.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, where's my good morning text? Well, and
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: she did such a good job. We always she always
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: said good night, like we always good morning to night. Yeah,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: we both prioritize that. And she even left me like
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: a box full of.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Little notes that I could pluck out and read if
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I like needed a little book. Very I think that
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: I knew this was ten years in the making, so
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: for me, it was like I have had a really
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: hard time when she's gone on tour, which I think
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I've spoken about, but I think knowing what this, how
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: much had been building for this, I couldn't have any
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: negative impact on it. Like I knew I needed to
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: be like the support system and just be there for her.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: So I think I think that's when she knew she
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: wanted to marry me. Yeah, it's so important, I think,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Like, I think it's really important to have a like
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: supportive partner and being there in these moments that like
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: take time away from your relationship.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, because like.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you sometimes you have to be selfless and you
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: know that that's what your partner needs and you're not
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: going to really get anything out of it by pushing.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and you're stronger for it fighting it. Yeah, totally.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about because the story is loosely
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: based off of something that you did experience in your youth,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: and there are some real life scenes in the movie
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: that I wanted to talk about.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you don't know this real life see some
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: things that.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Really see a scene where she goes to get her
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: jacket from Sonya's gast that was a real that was
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: a real experience I had.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: So I didn't have that exact same experience, but I've
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: had similar experiences, and I was so pissed.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I literally yelled out loud. I yelled out loud the
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: B word.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: I well, I mean, basically, it's a pivotal moment where
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: you're Coalie is confronting Sonya about whether she likes her
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: or not. And my Sonya in high school, we would
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: say all of juice to each other, and like we
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: basically had this like platonic relationship, but we had never kissed,
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: and so I had I went to go get my
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: jacket from her house because she was leaving.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: This is separate from the movie.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: She was leaving for like a trip, and I used
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: that as an excuse to like.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Confess because we all do, and like ask her if.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: She wanted to kiss me, and she just like you know,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: shook her head no, And I was like heartbroken. And
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: so there's a lot of scenes and experiences that Coally
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: goes through, even though Coli'S environment is fictional, that I
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: got to share, and like the actual jacket because I'm
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: an emotional hoarder, I put in the scene. It's not
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: the jean jacket that Colie's wearing, but there is the
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: exact jacket from the.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Girl's house that I saved because I was.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Like, maybe one day I'll make this movie and maybe
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: one day I'll put the jacket in the scene.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: You know. What's so so there's a fun easter egg.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: It's so funny because in the scene before with the
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: scene where Sonya's like takes the jacket from her because
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: she's cold. Yeah, in my mind, I was like, give
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: it to her, that's your mom's like, it's going home
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: with her, Like you need that back, and then You're
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: like I need it back.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, yeah, can we get to well,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: first of all, Easton, do you have a microphone?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, okay, yeah, we would love.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: To bring Eastern in for a different perspective here.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to ask because Easton watched it, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: as a straight ally I wanted to and a man,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I wanted to sell what am I?
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: You're a straight ally? But well thank you, yeah, I
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: thank you.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Thank you for a straight ally, but a man's perspective
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: who is a fan of all things. I wanted to
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: have Easton's perspective on seeing the movie.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Hi, thanks for having me first time calling a long
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: time listening. My goodness, Hayley, what a masterpiece I loved
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: this so much. And I am a I'm a straight guy.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm a straight out.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: I'm a straight But I really think that this movie
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: captures the feeling of falling in love so beautifully, no
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: matter who you love.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: And also just personally.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: For me, I grew up in a town very similar
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: to now I know it's Kelowna, Canada.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I had supposed to be organ.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: I lived in the mountains of northern California, and I
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: had so many visceral memories of like riding my bike
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: through the.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Woods and like wondering if someone liked me like that,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: just daydreaming.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Of course, yes, and that hits so strongly for me,
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: and just I'm sorry, and now I want to go
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: back and watch it again. Just there's so many there's
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: so many scenes that hit so hard, and I don't
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: want to spoil anything, but like, oh my goodness, it's
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: just I.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Just think it's a beautiful story of love.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: That's that's and and also I was thinking about, like,
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: as a straight man, every story is basically for me, you.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Know, white straight man. But a lot of movies, I
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: got a lot of movies.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I watched this movie, and I'm thinking about all
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: the young girls that are going to see this and
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: see themselves see stories that they've experienced be told and
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: be told. This is an important story and this is
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: worthy of being told. And it made me so excited
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: for everyone to see it. Go see Girls Like Girls
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: in theaters June nineteen.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, thank you has already bought his ticket.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: He's going to have a watch party as we all are.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Love youson thank you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about the music for the movie,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Oh Yes, because you Miss Hailey.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Kioko decided that she.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Had the songs from the movie, but beyond that, she
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: wanted to do an inspired by soundtrack, so she went
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: ahead and wrote a how many songs?
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: It's fourteen fourteen.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Songs soundtrack with six features, yes, six features, with queer
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: all queer artists, and she did it herself.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I will say the music in this movie is perfect,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Like every scene it just hits, like the original songs
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and the other songs that you have in there. It's
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: like so perfect. And I take that so seriously. I
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: feel like, what's is it called scoring?
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I mean it's music yeah, opposition, yeah yeah, like putting
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: songs and like moments and stuff like that I take
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: that very seriously, and I feel like you did it
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: so beautifully in this movie. Thank you. Yeah, I mean
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: every emotion at the right that time. I mean, that
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: is the best news ever. Thank you. It's you know,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: it's music.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Is is everything powerful. And when I went into this film,
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: I thought that the music would be like a third
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: character and that the music would almost dominate the film.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: And when I went into editing and I saw the performances,
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: you know, after the fact, I kept for moving music
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: too overpowering it. Yeah, and because the girls were just
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: so good and the acting was so good that the
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: music was distracting and so actually, you know, it was
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: a really beautiful journey where there's minimal amounts of music
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: in the film, but when it is in the film,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: it's impactful, you know, and we full needle drops in
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: there like emmage and heap and take it in, Sarah.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: That is one of my favorite scenes in the whole movie,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: because I don't care who you are. That song hits
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: like such a like yeah, it just it was such
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: a moment in time.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I took me back there. Yeah, it was crazy.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: So we grabbed Robbie's arms this song and he was like,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: what's this song?
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: I was like, I mean the fact that we were
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: really get that song was so incredible, and so within
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: that we also, I have some original music in the
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: film as well, and that was a really cool journey
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: because I had these ideas that I had written when
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: I was sixteen, but I had never finished them or
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: you know, fully explored them, and so when we were
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: finishing the film, I was like, what if what if
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: I finished these songs for and write it for the film.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: And so that's notice and lungs that are that are
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: that are in the film. And then there's another song
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: called falling Through, where we took a sample of my
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: original voice when I was sixteen one of the demos,
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: and we sampled it and then wrote a song on
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: top of that.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: So that's a third song.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Is that when Coley's like the one that you really loved?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and myself is that falling Through?
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: And then so once I finished the film, I was like,
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: you know, I always wanted a soundtrack and inspired by album,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: and you know, this movie is not on the level
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: of Barbie or Wicked. You know, it's it's a small
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: indie film, and so they don't really do soundtracks for
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: movies this size. And so I finished the film, I
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: went into the studio, I reached out to a bunch
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: of friends and artists and collaborators, and we wrote an
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: extra ten song set our original songs inspired by different
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: scenes in the film. One of the songs Sonya wears
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: periwinkle nail polished. One of the songs is called Periwinkle Princess.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: There's a song called Choker, and so it was it's
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: so awesome to get to return to music after being
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: on this directorial adventure and to write music through the
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: lens of you know, Coley and Sonya. And my hope
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: and goal is that people are able to watch this
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: movie and then they're able to come home and have
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: an entirely different, you know, audible experience of getting to
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: listen to the album, which like almost expands an extens
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: from the film.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which we used to have. Yeah, we used to
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: get that. I mean, you get them, I mean really
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: big movies.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: But I was really inspired by Garden State and what
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Zach Braff, who actually plays the father in Girls Like Girls,
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: and what they were able to accomplish, because that soundtrack
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: was like everything to me, and it like captus a
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: specific time in my life, and I was like, gosh,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: how cool would it be to have a Girlly Girls
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: album that captures this feeling of young love and heartbreak
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: and discovery and trying to find yourself and having that
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: live forever. Yeah, So having that exist and have the
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: movie exist.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: So it's like what Gavin de Grau was for One
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Tree Hill first totally.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I think of the Want to Remember soundtrack because it
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: is one of my favorite soundtracks of all two like hearing.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: I think what's so cool is that not every the
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: soundtrack is extra songs that aren't in the movie, but
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: they are aligned with the movie.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: So like, once you see the movie.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: You can listen to a song and be like, oh
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: my gosh, this this song.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Was inspired by this scene.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Yes, and it's so collaborative and yeah, I just can't.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think I know of anyone else who's ever
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: done this.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: A director who then wrote the soundtrack.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: So wait, when does the album come out?
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: So the album comes out June twelfth, one week before
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: a small movie, so you can listen to it, listen
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: to it and you know, dive deep into the world,
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: and then the movie comes out June nineteenth.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: What are you gonna do June? I teenh Like, what's
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the day going to look like?
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: I'm probably gonna be working, but I'll probably be going
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: to a bunch of screenings and do me.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Are you gonna do that like pap into different theaters?
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: That's my plan and then I would love to maybe
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: go see the movie with some friends on the weekend.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be at the movie theater twenty four
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to seven, So come say hi, I'll be there.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: We're signing up for every membership available, egal AMC, whatever
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: result all the things.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean it's it's gonna be such a
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: surreal feeling. And you know, it's like for a movie
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: to take ten years to get made. I was like,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: I gotta just put everything I have in this film.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: I have to direct this film. I need to write
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: the music, like I have to just like push myself
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: to the limit of really embodying and connecting with my
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: sixteen year old self because this is a once in
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: a lifetime opportunity that I've.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Worked so hard to.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Achieve and to to get and so I had to
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: do everything I could to try to make it as
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: big as humanly possible with the limited resources that we had.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: You know, you absolutely have to pop into different theaters
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: throughout the weekend.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: You yeah, yeah, yeah, you did it, like you it's
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: coming out Like there were so many moments where it
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: was like, Okay, we're gonna go film this, and then.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Well, right, and then she goes many times.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: And then she films it, and then it's like okay,
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: we're editing it.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: And then hopefully it turns out good.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't think people realize that Haley Dinner,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: she knew it was going to be a theatrical release,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: but she didn't know if it was going to be
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: like very limited.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Theaters, like theaters, we don't know.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So there was so many question marks leading up
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: to this moment.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: And then the trailer comes out and it has whatever,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: twenty six million views, twenty six.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Million views, same, I mean, every single one of those
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: people who viewed it to go see the movie.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: And then I just.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Think it's incredible that every moment that's been a quote
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: mark is now an exclamation point, like you did it, beautiful,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: But I do you know, like, what are we doing
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: after the movie's done?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Like the movie is going to do with my life.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: We're gonna have the wedding plan.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: You weddy of things to me for I forgot.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I just don't want movie mode. But yeah, we have
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: so much to look forward to. Yeah, you can carry
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: the soundtrack to your wedding.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Girls Like Girls string Quartet down the aisle,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Sky's Honestly, you have to to me the string quartet
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: version of Girls Like Girls and like the vision now,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: by the way, is that the version they play when
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the credits roll at the ends?
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: It's so beautiful? Thank you? Wait did you stay till
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: the very end? Yeah? So I didn't know if I could.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't spur alert.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: We just need to let people know that you have
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: to stay past the credit.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I don't believe it's worth it.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, there's a little bonus, a peekaboo, a little peekaboo.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: There's also something else there is and what well we
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: can cut it if it's so just ye, No, I
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: don't know if it's supposed to be a surprise. What
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: the the extra scene? No, there you put like special
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: things to people?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Oh my social Oh yeah, oh my gosh, I didn't know.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I didn't know if that was like, I didn't know
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: if you've seen that a surprise and I was.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Like, I don't want to blow it is in this
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: special things. Yeah, I didn't know that. I was freaking
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: out and when I watched it, Yeah, but I was
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: that's very nice to acknowledge that. But I was talking
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: about that there's a ya that have to stay for
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: and I just have.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: To say, I also want to go before we have.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: To wrap, but I I want to talk about Maya
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: and Mara, who are the leads of this movie. Yeah,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: because are so good. People are going to know these names.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: They are incredible.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: And you know there's so many movies and shows coming
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: out and people come and like, oh they were cute.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: They were cute.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: These girls are They are Coly and Sonya and Maya.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I will never forget. Hayley started getting her audition sent in.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: It was so fun while she was casting the movie
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: because I got to see everyone's Like, it was so
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: fun getting to see everyone. Maya was the first person
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: that sent an audition for Coli.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Well, she was the first person we were that we
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: watched Yeah, yeah, no way.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Maya Acosta and they were like, hey, we just
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: got some tapes. Do you want to see it. I
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: was like, oh my gosh. We were in New York
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: and I opened it up and it was Maya. And
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: I remember it was a scene when she's with Sonya
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: in her bedroom and she was the only person where
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: when the scene was over, she just had the tape
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: roll and she just sat on the bed and just
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: like took in the space and like.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: I was like, I think I like got emotion.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: Because I was like, oh my gosh, Like I remember
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: that feeling when your crush leaves the bedroom and you're
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: in their room in their space alone, and it's such
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: an intimate feeling, and she just captured it so well,
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my gosh, she's going to
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: be the one to be, you know when we go
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: into these audition processes and she ended up getting the role.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah every time to be like, oh they're good, but
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: they're not. They're not Maya.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: She's so authentic and she's so coly and I see
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: a lot of like myself and her, but she also
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: elevated the character so much with her unique quirkiness and
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: like choices. And then you know Myra Maloy, who plays Sonya,
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: is just like.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Magnetic, Like she turned you see her and you're.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: Like, whoa, You're like, by the way, she's you.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Know, like a sixty foot screen she's your doppelganger.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Think that is the nicest thing ever, because people like
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: say that I'm the real version of Mara, like Myra's
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: like the AI version of me, which is kind of
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: a backhanded like compliment, but I'll take.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: It, no, because she's gorgeous.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: She's gorgeous, and she does such a good job navigating
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: Sonya's character is so complex because you know, I think
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: when we're navigating something new territory, we make mistakes and
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: people become victims of our experiences and it doesn't mean
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: that you're a bad person, you're just it depends on
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: how you handle it afterwards. And so she does a
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: really beautiful job navigating this character who is messy and
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: doesn't really know how to handle these feelings for another woman.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: And I'm so proud of her performance too. So they're
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: both incredible. I can't wait for you guys to see it.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they really are so special. The fact that their
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: names are Mara and my, oh my gosh, you guys
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: don't even understand.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: And then my, yeah, Mayra's mom, her real name was Maya,
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: so I had to Maya's.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I had a Mayra.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: My cinematographer was Sonya, so I had two Sonia's two
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Maya's Amyra. I was like, I can't do this. This
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: is so complicated.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like going back and seeing yourself, Well, you can
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: either go back to your high school self of navigating
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: your version of who Coli was, or yourself of writing
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: and directing girls like girls. If you could go back
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: and tell her something and see where you are now,
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: what would you say?
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: I would be like whispering to her, like you're gonna
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: do it, Like don't give up, It's gonna happen, like
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: keep going. And I think I wish I trusted the process.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: It's so hard for someone it's so hard to receive
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: someone saying trust the process, like yeah, everything happens for
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: a reason. It's so hard to accept that because you're
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: just like no, and they're like, why isn't it happening now? Yeah,
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: it's And it's also wild.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: When I had such a deep crush and fell in
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: love with this girl in high school was so traumatic
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: for me. It took me years to kind of heal
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: from that, and so to know that that trauma has
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: led to my directorial debut is so full circle and
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: so cool that I get to share that part of
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: me while also being in such a wonderful, healthy, magical
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: relationship and be in such a different you know, I
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: dreamed of.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Being where I am now.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: So it's really it's like a huge hug to my
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: younger self. And I hope that this film, you know,
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: is a hug to so many people who.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Their shit goes No.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: It's like it's such a universal feeling, you know what
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, all.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: Trying to heal our younger selves, and our younger selves
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: feel very like broken and lost and confused. And that's
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: what this film is, you know. It's my gift to
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: everyone to love themselves a little bit harder, being a
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: little kinder to ourselves and knowing that we do deserve love,
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: we do deserve joy and happiness, and we're worthy of that.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: And I think when you're young and trying to navigate it,
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: it's it can be really really hard, yeah, And so
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: I hope that this film makes things lighter and easier
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: for people that are.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Going through it right now.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: I hope this film heals our younger selves, whether you're
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: in your forties or fifties or sixties, remembering that time
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: that you fell in love with that one person that
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: you never understood what was happening, why it was happening,
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: and if they ever liked you back. And I hope
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: you're able to move forward from it.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Well, you got the girl.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: I made the girls, make you freak out, You got
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: the girl, you made the movie, you wrote the.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Soundtrack, you did it all. Yeah, we did it everyone.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: When I say, go out, buy tickets, opening weekend is
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: the most important critical.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Because it's got to happen then, otherwise it might not exist.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: June nineteenth, June twentieth, June twenty.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: First those yes, and buy your tickets today.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as soon as possible.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Let them know that we the crowds are here and
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: they're coming.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Yes. And I'm so proud of you and proud of you.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Are excited, truly one of one.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: There's not a single person that's done what you've done,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: and I hope that you, beyond hearing it from everyone else,
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: give that to yourself and be so proud of who
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: you are.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: It's special to get to to share this with such
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: an amazing, loving partner. So thank you for being there
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: for me, and I'm so excited for everyone to see it.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: So here we go. Let's go so soundtrack available June twelfth.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: June twelfth, go pre saved.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: You can order a cute vinyl for a collector's item.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: And then we got the movie June nineteenth. Let's go
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: see you in theaters. I'm going to see the multiple times.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm going to be there for every viewing.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: They're going to be like ma'am, we're hitting and like
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: you don't understand important. Yeah. We love you so much.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for coming so I know that
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: you are so busy, so thank.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: You for being here.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Like gosh, I want to miss it. I love you,
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: Love you, scrubbers, wonderful week.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Love you bye