Emma Seligman tells zoemaywhitfield about the process of making the Jewish comedy – and who she made it for
“Rachel sent that to me!” exclaims Emma Seligman, the writer and director of the new awkward Jewish comedy,. Seligman was still in the press cycle for her debut feature film when a second project with the former’s lead, Rachel Sennott, was announced in April and quickly secured its own Letterboxd page: “Gerwig/Ronan walked so Seligman/Sennott could run,” reads one standout quote.
opens with Danielle leaving the chic apartment of her sugar daddy , a man who “thinks it’s great to support females, particularly female entrepreneurs of the future,” wrongly believing their transaction is helping Danielle put herself through law school. The lie continues as she describes brunch plans with another client, instead meeting her parents to attend a shiva for a woman who used to play bridge with her bubbe.
The cooperation of the wider cast – which includes Polly Draper, Fred Melamed and Jackie Hoffman – further underscored the collaborative nature of the film, which Seligman describes as having been made with “no time and no money” over an uncomfortably hot summer, and with a relentlessly tearful baby in tow: “we had to rewrite scenes on the spot that would accommodate him crying.
“A lot of actors suggested things that I felt went against my vision,” Seligman says, “but it felt important to accept ideas and changes, and to work with things as they go. Polly really pushed for her character to have more of an understanding of what her daughter was going through and I wanted her to stay oblivious, so I was surprised by the end how many of her ideas I ended up taking, and how much worked within the film. The song ended up becoming a really fun day of shooting.
When she first began writing the film Seligman’s reference points were mostly Jewish romantic comedies such as
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