Whenever I dream up these names, I’m like, ‘Oh my god. I better pick someone good so that I get to work with them next.’ I mean, Martin Scorsese is incredible. I just got to work with Ron Howard, and that was a dream of mine. So one of my dreams came true.
Was there anything that you wanted to turn down but did it in the end and gained something from it? I was really scared to do ‘Reality’. My agent, Jen, she really advocated and pushed me to do it. And I was just scared of it because I’m usually very free with my
words.This project, was the transcript from the actual FBI interrogation, and so I wanted to make sure that I had every single word correct. And that was a big feat. We filmed it in 16 days. It was a million-dollar production. And we were filming, like, 25 pages a day, and it was just pure dialogue. And it was a challenge, and I was scared of it. And this is one that I’m really glad that my agent pushed me to do.
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Anyone But You’ was such a success. How has that impacted your approach to producing? ‘Anyone But You’ was such an incredible experience from the beginning when I was working on the script, and then, I hired Will [Gluck] and I hired Glen [Powell] and we sold it to Sony. I wanted to bring back those early 2000 rom-coms that people went and then they left wanting to fall in love. And they left wanting to sing and dance in the rain and have big romantic gestures. And I didn’t want to look at the rom-com as something small. I wanted to have big set pieces. And Will did such an incredible job at really amping up those set pieces in this film.
What is your favourite Rom-Com? So this is really fun because it’s ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ and Dermot [Mulroney], I was, like, obsessed with. And then we got him as my dad [for ‘Anyone But You’], and I was so excited and freaking out [laughs]. And then we ended up screening the movie with him and the whole cast, and he watched it for the first time since the premiere. And that was, I mean, we were all crying our eyes out when he was talking about the entire experience.
What was the first movie you saw that kept you up all night? Either ‘Friday 13 th’or ‘The Exorcist’. I was really young. My dad loved horror films and he showed them to me way too early [laugh]. My dad would say, ‘Yeah, you can watch that.’
When it comes to your film ‘Immaculate’ what would you say is the biggest difference between how you pictured the film and the movie you wound up making? I got to make it myself, which, when I’m 16, like, I don’t know. Yeah I mean, I auditioned hoping I’d get cast in a movie. And now I look back, and I’m like, ‘Sid, you made it.’ Like, that’s so cool. Originally, it was set in Ireland, and it was a boarding school. And her parents died, and she got sent to this boarding school. But the basis and the groundwork is pretty much the same.
Who is a director you haven’t worked with and would really like to?
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You received a critics' choice nomination for that too! When you start preparing for a role, what do you do to step outside your inner self and become that character? I create character books, and it’s a book that is basically this entire character’s life from the day they’re born to the first page of the script. And it’s all of their memories, their relationships, their childhood bedroom, their school locker. It’s everything that makes a person so that I’m not putting anything of myself into a role. I can’t be thinking about if I have to be sad in a scene,I don’t want to be thinking about my own personal things because then what makes me sad might not be portraying the same sadness that the character would be portraying.
Where did the name of your production company fifty-fifty films come from? I truly believe that it takes everybody to create something. Like, it’s not just one person. I want to be fifty-fifty with all of my partners. I want to make sure that everybody has equal deals, feels that they are all equally at the table, and I just want to make sure that I’m fifty-fifty.
Finally, would you be interested in directing in the future? Maybe. It has to be the right story. And then maybe.
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