Rachel Getting Married

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Um, Rachel Getting Married, not really Morning Glory, Something's Gotta Give.

Uh, okay, I'm not gonna do the whole thing.

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Maybe that's a bit of a stretch.

Jenny Lumet's only produced project before The Mummy was Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married, and she would talk about this in an interview too, saying, "...kind of tragically, for a woman screenwriter, you get produced every 10 years.

That's pretty much the average.

I've been really lucky in the sense that I've been employed since 2007, just not getting produced.

And I knew she could do that.

Like, I knew f- you know, from Rachel Getting Married, from all, from, from everything she's ever done, she's just one of the great actors of our generation.

But I also knew she could sing, 'cause we've seen her sing in movies.

What I didn't know was that singing pop music is very different than singing a Broadway-

because

I really, I don't know why, but there was a stretch this year where I watched Married to the Mob, Rachel Getting Married, Melvin and Howard, Something Wild, and I'm just like, this guy's filmography is very varied.

yeah and interesting i might need to get more of his films because he just there's a style like he still does the close-ups and everything like he does in silence of the lambs in philadelphia but yeah everything was just so vastly different every vibe of the film was different he i I'm trying to think.

Like, he does have a style, but he doesn't have a style at the same time.

um anne hathaway and rosemary dewitt

Oh, Rachel getting married.

Rachel's getting married.

I was going to say Margot getting married because that

And also, I, I wanted to give her that responsibility 'cause at that time I thought, "Okay," this was also a month before she died.

I thought, "If I show her that I have faith in her that she can do this, then maybe I wanna show her that I, you know, that will be good for her." And so, and, and I was willing, I said, "Okay, look, if it crashes and burns, well then, but I wanna give her that opportunity." But even years before, you know, that movie, Rachel Getting Married.

Mm.

People would say to me, "You know that's gonna be your wedding." I'm like-

I thought that he was just a cool club kid with an electronic hairdo, as I say in the piece.

And he came up to me and said, "Hey, Holly Watts, I, I, I really like your energy.

Do you wanna hang out with me? You wanna go to the movies? There's a new movie called, um, King of Comedy.

You wanna go to the movies?" Um, that's what I remember, and that's what, you know, I try to share with the audience who obviously didn't have the opportunity to know him in the way that I knew him.

Yeah.

It's funny, I just did Rachel Getting Married, which he did, Jonathan.

Ah.

Amazing.