Olivia Wilde's breakthrough comedy, 'Booksmart,' depicts real friendships without the typical teen stereotypes.
Olivia Wilde is already known to audiences for her acting and her uncanny beauty. But it’s her newly discovered skill behind the camera that makes “Booksmart,” her feature film directorial debut, such a thorough delight.
The “Booksmart” script had been written and rewritten by the time Wilde came on board to direct it for Annapurna Pictures in 2016. “I really wanted to take the friendship and blow it out of the water, and give them more of an adventure,” she recalls. She brought on writer Katie Silberman to attack the material anew.Wilde wanted the film to look at the way people judge themselves and one another, to everyone’s detriment.
“When people told me, ‘Don’t be too heavy-handed with style because comedy is best left very simple,’ I thought, ‘Tell that to the Coen brothers.’ ‘The Big Lebowski’ is one of the greatest films of all time. I’d say it’s pretty stylish and wacky and totally bonkers, and it’s brilliant. I want to have fun with this medium, otherwise we should make documentaries or be novelists.”Wilde directs with the assuredness of a veteran, while working with a number of actors in their first roles.
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