Actresses Alisha Wainwright and Christine Lahti Discuss Their New Film Bird in Hand at Its Tribeca Festival Premiere

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Alisha Wainwright and Christine Lahti play daughter and mother in new film Bird in Hand which debuted at the Tribeca Festival at the Village East Cinema in New York City this week. Bird in Hand , directed by Melody C. Roscher follows a biracial bride-to-be seeking a connection with her charismatic hippie mother, while using her wedding plans to manipulate everyone in her orbit. We spoke with the films' two stars as well as the director about working with each other on this personal story and relating to their complex characters. Keep tuned in to LifeMinute.TV for daily coverage of the fest running from June 4-15.

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00:00Hi, I'm Alisha Wainwright and you're watching LifeMinute.tv.

00:13The film is about my character who goes home to plan her wedding and spend the week with

00:17her mom.

00:18But what you come to find out is that none of that is true and it's sort of about the

00:22relationship between mother and daughter.

00:25It was really important for me to make this film because as I was raised by a single mom,

00:29I also met my dad in my adult life like this character in the film does and it drastically

00:35changed my life.

00:36Christine is an icon.

00:39What I love about her is that she knows what she wants and she effectively communicates it

00:44and I feel like as young women we're always very like trying to please and trying to make

00:49sure where everyone else is good around us but I think what she has taught me is to kind

00:54of command a little bit more of my own space and I think that has changed the way I work

00:58and live in my own personal life.

01:00I hope that they can take away the conversations we have about family, connection and who we

01:05blame for our own problems.

01:07I feel like that's pretty relatable.

01:09It's about a biracial young woman who is in search of her father and I play her mother

01:18and I am not helpful or supportive.

01:21I'm kind of an evil mom which is kind of typecasting I guess because I've been playing a lot of

01:26evil moms.

01:27I love the character.

01:28She's really complicated and flawed.

01:30I think it's really about how to move on as an adult.

01:33We're all scarred from childhood.

01:34We just have to figure out how to have some kind of clarity, closure, understanding and

01:40then move on and not be held back by what happened to us as kids.

01:46It's a really personal tale and I really wanted to create a very buoyant, vibrant, fast moving

01:54fun world for what's a very ultimately touching and true and earnest film.

02:01I was so lucky with the cast and crew.

02:03The cast was just fearless and amazing and so fun to work with.

02:07All of the characters are very messy.

02:09No one has like a clear answer for you in this film and hopefully what audiences will get

02:15is a connection to all of these people as complicated and as sometimes destructive as they can be

02:20to one another.

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