Ritorno al cinema per Peter Bogdanovich, un’icona della New Hollywood degli anni ’70, costretto ad un lungo silenzio, almeno sino a quando Noah Baumbach e Wes Anderson non hanno deciso di aiutarlo a produrre la commedia She’s funny that way, che approderà a Venezia, fuori concorso.
Il film, interpretato da Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, Tatum O’Neal, Rhys Ifans, Will Forte, Lucy Punc, è una screwball comedy, su un produttore sposato di Broadway che vuole far cambiare vita ad una squillo.
E’ un vecchio progetto di Bogdanovich che vede finalmente la luce: “The script we originally wrote back in 1998 around a difficult time in our lives but it sort of kept us laughing. It was originally written for John Ritter and Cybil Shepherd and then John died and we put it on the backburner because we couldn’t think who to cast in that part. Then I got to know Owen Wilson quite well and I thought he could pay the part, because he had to be likable and attractive and not threatening sexually, and Owen fit the bill. Then we sent it to Jennifer Aniston to play his wife and she preferred to play the therapist, which is a much showier part. And then we got the rest of the cast after that.”
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