Julianne Nicholson

“You know what’s funny?” Lacy says flatly at one point. “Every moment of my life is Hell.” Rather than offer platitudinous reassurances that things will get better, Janet emerges from a momentary absence to reply: “I’m actually pretty unhappy too.” In another revealing exchange, Lacy asks, in what seems more a hypothetical question than anything sparked by inchoate desire: “Would you be disappointed if I one day dated a girl?” While telling her that would be fine, Janet observes that she respects her daughter’s forthrightness but had often wondered how that would work with a man.”

“I’m definitely not waiting for it,” she added. “I’m not losing sleep over it. But if that was happening and I was invited to join, yeah, definitely.””

““If there were one and Kate still was Mare and Jean [Smart] was her mom and Brad wrote it,””

““He takes the work so seriously. But he still has a sense of humor about himself, and I find that a very charming combination.””

““wackiness” in the film stems from the dynamics of his and Janet’s “normal working longterm relationship.””

““I’ve loved Nicholas Cage forever,” praising his performances in Raising Arizona, Adaptation, and Moonstruck. “He’s endlessly watchable and interesting to me. It feels great to be surprised by someone.””

““I do have scary acting dreams.” She explained, “Mostly I have recurring anxiety dreams [where I’m] right about to go on stage or about to film a scene, and you don’t know what the scene is!””