Leslye Headland and Jason Sudeikis discuss Brad Pitt, 'Working Girl' and their new movie, 'Sleeping With Other People.'
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Leslye: I was just going to say I saw Working Girl, which I hadn’t seen in a while. At the end, she gets her own office. It’s a shitty little office. It’s funny the way he shoots it, because nowadays, if it were a studio film, Kate Hudson would walk into a corner office just because she had one idea.
Jason: And she walks past the girl who was really mean to her.
Leslye: And then the shot pulls out and it’s just like one of many shitty offices. But you care because you saw her work for that.
Jason: I love those tiny little story arcs. In the British Office, it was all about David Brent telling Finchy to fuck off.
Leslye: Sometimes with romantic comedies, I don’t know if it’s the overproduction of them, there’s a tendency to over-reward everyone a lot for basically being a decent person. And then make sure that everyone who wasn’t decent gets horribly punished. Even Adam Scott’s character in the film, I don’t think it ever occurred to him that he’s the bad guy in someone’s movie. I don’t think it’s occurred to him that he’s become the mustachioed, evil villain.
Jason: It’s so there in his performance where this freaking guy comes out of nowhere and punches me. He doesn’t even know who I am. He’s been the bane of my existence; the third person in this ménage a trois. Then I deck him in front of his pregnant wife and he’s like, ‘who is this dude?’ He’s like, ‘I’m not a bad dude. I’m complicated.’
We’re all complicated right?
Jason: Sure we are. Absolutely if we live long enough.
Sleeping With Other People is now playing in select theaters.
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