Barbie Ferreira, John Leguizamo & Bob Trevino Likes It Team On The Movie's Honesty [SXSW]

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Summary Human connection is at the heart of the story behind the dramedy Bob Trevino Likes It, which recently debuted at the 2024 South by Southwest Festival. Using her own story of abandonment and the friendship she found in a stranger while searching for her absent father, Filmmaker Tracie Laymon tells the story of two people who find connection and healing in each other.

Tracie Laymon: Well, Bob Trevino's inspired by a friend I found on the internet when I was looking for my father. My father had gotten angry and disappeared, so I was trying to reconnect with him, and I accidentally friended another man on the internet with his name when I was looking for him. It's inspired by a true story and a true friendship, and that man was more fatherly to me than my dad ever was.

John Leguizamo: I just connect with the story because it's about doing one beautiful thing in life. If you do one positive thing in life, it has all these ramifications that do good around the world. When you watch this movie, it hits you so hard. The first read-through just hit me so hard, because everybody was flesh and blood and real characters. You were laughing so hard, and you were crying so hard all at the same time because of how specific and real the piece is.

Of course, I've watched her work, and I saw such vulnerability in Euphoria . I was like, "Stay on her! Stay on her all the time. She's incredible. I just want to make a movie all about her." I'd seen her wit and humor in a lot of her other work, and I just thought, "Let's just put all this " That's Lily completely, and when I met with her, it only confirmed everything I already knew was true.

Barbie Ferreira: Honestly, I am not a crying-on-command kind of girl. But with this movie, when it made sense, it completely just came out of me in a way that usually is a little bit harder to access in different projects. You have to do your little actor thing and get into the headspace and everything, but this just felt so natural. Just actually listening and being present was totally enough.

That's the kind of collaboration that we had, where it's unfolding as we go. We know you know what we're doing and how we get there together. French Stewart: One conversation that Tracie and I had over and over again is that everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to believe that you are honestly the one who is being put out in all of this. And then the rest of it was just learning lines. You fight the lines, you know.

John Leguizamo: Wow. It was one thing you what you read on the page, that's Lily. And then when you see Barbie in it, she's so present, and she's so there. It's such a joy to work with an actor who's so there in the moment and willing to just change whatever you're giving them back and forth. It's just joy.

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