'Rosaline' Movie Cast Interview

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The cast of ‘Rosaline,' including Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Kyle Allen, Sean Teale, and Minnie Driver are joined by Director Karen Maine to discuss Hulu’s hilarious twist on ‘Romeo & Juliet.’ Watch as they discuss their favorite recreated scenes and characters, past works like ‘Booksmart’ and ‘Will and Grace,’ and future projects like Sony’s 'Madame Web.'

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00:00When you were working endlessly, me and Kyle had some time and we really did develop a bromance.

00:05I was like, what a shame that we let this Rosalind get in the way of our good times.

00:10Shall we?

00:10Whatever.

00:11Have a good time.

00:18What's something new you feel like you guys have brought to Romeo and Juliet

00:21that we've yet to see in books before?

00:23Because, you know, obviously it's such a character that's been played so many times.

00:28I think we get to see them outside of the relationship that we normally see them in,

00:32outside of the settings that we normally see them in.

00:35I think it's important to do that with these love stories and these female characters that

00:40we know to be kind of one-dimensional and kind of motivated by love as opposed to motivated by,

00:47you know, the self-seeking kind of tendencies.

00:51So I think, you know, we get to see Juliet find herself in a way and then at the end

00:56realize, you know, what she actually wants.

00:58They didn't teach that in school.

01:00Wait till you get to page 74.

01:02What about you, Kyle?

01:03I think that Romeo is seldom played as ridiculous as he is.

01:11And I think I got to sort of show up and be about as ridiculous as Romeo actually,

01:21actually is.

01:23I think he's clueless and I really got to play into that.

01:26I never saw true beauty until this night.

01:29Why are you talking like that?

01:30What I really, I mean, what drew me to the script was that it's very much

01:34kind of a coming-of-age story of a young woman really finding her voice.

01:39And, you know, she thinks at the beginning of the film that she's,

01:43you know, already found it and that she's sort of railing against all these

01:48pressures that are put upon her as kind of an open-minded

01:52woman in a very closed-minded world, which was Renaissance,

01:57at least in terms of how women were treated.

02:00I'd rather eat rotten goat innards.

02:04I don't want an arranged marriage.

02:06You're a woman.

02:08You're not supposed to talk about what you want.

02:10I just like to, I'm drawn to projects where women, you know,

02:14feel like women I know or feel like myself.

02:17And I feel like Rosalind could easily be me.

02:21And she's very stubborn and headstrong in the beginning

02:24and thinks she knows everything.

02:26And then, you know, her world is kind of exploded open

02:29and she, at the end, you know, finds what she needs.

02:33And I just think that's a classic story.

02:35Really beautiful that anyone can relate to at any age in their life and any gender.

02:41Star-crossed lovers that couldn't live apart.

02:43That's pretty good.

02:45What classic, like, Romeo and Juliet moment was, like,

02:48the most fun for you to put a twist on?

02:51Oh, um, I mean, I guess even starting with the opening.

02:57I mean, this obviously isn't a part of the original Romeo and Juliet,

03:00but it's sort of the audience kind of first thinks,

03:03oh, you see this woman on a balcony.

03:05She's calling Romeo.

03:06Who is this woman?

03:07And I think that that was a really fun little moment to sort of, like,

03:11trick the audience into thinking that this is a Romeo and Juliet story.

03:15Yes, it's adjacent.

03:17Yes.

03:17Like, it is the same, but it's not.

03:19Right.

03:19By yonder blessed moon I vow I shall speak.

03:25Okay.

03:25Are you okay?

03:26No.

03:27Solely in a selfish way because it was a fun day filming it,

03:30but the death scene.

03:31Oh, yes.

03:32We put Aspen on it and the death scene in the movie was just great.

03:36It was all of us together in this big, beautiful church

03:39and we just laughed for two days, actually.

03:42So that was, for me, that was it,

03:43because actually the rest of my story doesn't involve Romeo and Juliet at all.

03:48So I didn't put a spin on Romeo and Juliet at all.

03:51Definitely the scene at the end where we believe the lovers are dead in the crypt

03:54and in our story they're not actually dead

04:00was very difficult to do because you do have grieving parents,

04:04but you also have this comedic moment of,

04:07um, you know, Rosalind looking at Juliet,

04:11telling her to pretend to stay dead and looking at me to try and...

04:15Whilst also Caitlin's character, Rosalind, has this wonderful moment

04:18where she really gets to speak to the two warring houses and say,

04:23pull yourselves together.

04:24Why are you always fighting?

04:26So there's, I think it's my favorite scene

04:28because it's this wonderful coming together.

04:30It's artful.

04:31It's really well written and I think it's very well acted.

04:34They couldn't live in peace.

04:37At least let them rest in it.

04:42I love, I don't know if you have one,

04:45I really loved when I'm kind of just sitting in my room and Rosalind surprises me

04:50and then you hear Romeo outside going,

04:52throwing rocks at my window and going like,

04:54Juliet!

04:55And I'm like, I don't know what, I gotta get rid of him.

04:57And so seeing that kind of similar setting

05:00that we're used to seeing within a completely different backstory

05:04as to how it goes down is really incredible to me

05:07and refreshing and it's funny

05:09because she's getting her lines from Rosalind,

05:11which Romeo has no clue.

05:13I got this feeling on a summer day when you were gone.

05:16So you're gonna break them up?

05:17Of course I am, Romeo and Juliet.

05:19Doesn't even sound right.

05:21I absolutely love the soundtrack and the things you got to do with them.

05:24I was wondering how fun it was to work with those modern songs

05:28in a classic setting.

05:30Yeah, it was great.

05:31I mean, I wanted the music to really encapsulate

05:34that anachronistic feeling between old and new that's present in the film.

05:40So we took songs from all recent decades

05:46and put a sort of old Renaissance spin on them

05:50by using period instrumentation that we actually recorded.

05:54Lutes, flutes, harpsichord, harp, organ,

05:58all sorts of things to give it a kind of older feel

06:02but obviously still recognizable and modern,

06:06which is what the general film is going for in general.

06:10So it was really fun to do a Renaissance cover

06:15of Dancing on My Own by Robert.

06:17I mean, who could?

06:19It's a dream.

06:20So we did that with so many other songs.

06:24I think it's really great.

06:26I just wonder if all this drama is adding to the attraction.

06:31Kind of in honor of this film,

06:33is there any side character from one of your other movies

06:36or personal favorite movies that you'd like to see explored

06:39from another perspective after watching this film?

06:42Good question.

06:43Okay.

06:45That's going to be tough.

06:46I got it.

06:47You got it already?

06:48Go, go, go.

06:49So Booksmart.

06:51I think seeing Noah Galvin

06:55and exploring his perspective would be a dream come true.

07:01I mean, his character is just, George is just iconic

07:07and I'd love to see a George film.

07:10I will be directing

07:12and Alan may be starring pending auditions.

07:17He is fantastic and that whole film is amazing.

07:20That character is so, so good.

07:22Yeah.

07:22What other side characters would we like?

07:24I mean, I'm sure there's some side characters in Superbad

07:27that had just flashes of being in it.

07:30I'm blanking completely on any movie I've ever seen,

07:33obviously, because you just asked that question.

07:37My pick for you is Billie Lourd.

07:38So perfect.

07:39I'm so happy you said it.

07:40That's what my next thing, I was going to say,

07:42like maybe Billie Lourd would be an amazing,

07:44and she's also iconic in that.

07:47No, no.

07:50Both, honestly, both of them, both of them.

07:52They could be in the movie together.

07:53Let's talk to Hulu.

07:54All right.

07:55All right.

07:55Well, I mean, no, I mean, seriously,

07:59Lorraine Finster on Will & Grace needed her own spinoff, for sure.

08:04I would like to see her in lots of different shows.

08:08I wouldn't dream of not being here.

08:10I also love the character that I play on Starstruck,

08:13which funnily enough, Karen Mayne directed.

08:17I play a really terrible agent,

08:19and I would really like her to be in something else.

08:23I should fire you.

08:24Oh, you're not going to fire me.

08:26A star has formed you.

08:27There's a few.

08:28I mean, yeah.

08:30God, I could go on.

08:31I could go on and on.

08:33I love the character in Big Night.

08:34I want to know what happened to her.

08:3750s girl on the Jersey Shore,

08:38just treated badly by Stanley Tucci.

08:43I don't know.

08:45Maybe every supporting character I've played,

08:47I'd love to know what happened to them.

08:49I want to explore Steve the Courier from this film.

08:52I want him to have his own movie in the sequel

08:55because he's just incredible

08:56and probably my favorite character in this movie.

09:00Yeah, 100%.

09:02I think it was discussed at length on set

09:05that I would love for there to be a spinoff romance

09:09between Romeo and Dario

09:12because I just feel like everyone can fall in love with Dario

09:16and Romeo falls in love with everyone.

09:17So it'd be a great story.

09:20I just think they'd have a great bromance.

09:23That'd be fun.

09:25I would love that.

09:26We got so excited when we saw each other on set.

09:28We were like, we actually have a moment

09:30to actually do something.

09:31And we'd spend the whole summer together.

09:33We did a lot of historical tours together.

09:35We spent a lot of time just riffing

09:37because being around Kyle is a day very well spent,

09:40as you know.

09:41I mean, with anyone.

09:42Me and Kyle had a lot of...

09:43When you were working endlessly,

09:46me and Kyle had some time

09:47and we really did develop a bromance.

09:49So I was like, what a shame

09:50that we let this Rosalind get in the way of our good time.

09:54So I would happily do a spinoff

09:56as long as we could do some more too.

09:57I would have a spinoff.

09:59We have one moment at the end of the movie

10:00where he tries to speak to me.

10:02That moment is so good.

10:03I'm really glad they get that in.

10:05It's so good.

10:07And it's the most that we got

10:08and it's the only thing we get

10:09and it's quite special to both of us.

10:11So I'd love to do that with Kyle.

10:13Anything with Kyle would be great.

10:16Okay, buddy.

10:18I'm so excited to see Kyle as T-Man

10:20and Isabella in the Spider-Verse.

10:23I was wondering what your reactions were

10:25getting to be part of these upcoming

10:27high profile projects.

10:31Kyle?

10:32Go for it.

10:33I'd love to know, Isabella,

10:35how excited you are.

10:37I'm excited.

10:40I am excited.

10:44Very excited.

10:46So I like the Spider-Verse.

10:51I just, you know,

10:52discovered the Miles Morales game

10:55on the PS4.

10:58So that's very fun.

10:59I hope there's a Madame Web game too.

11:01I'm very excited to see this universe

11:04kind of play out.

11:06As one might say, suspiciously.

11:10Well, that was awkward.

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