Plaza’s sparks with “Spin Me Round” co-star Alison Brie was built into the script after writer-director Jeff Baena realized Plaza’s status as a queer icon from the 2020 Hulu holiday film.
Spoilers ahead! Some viewers were rankled by where Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis’ relationship ended up in the film. DuVall thinks that’s OK.
She’s having quite a season between Lawrence Michael Levine’s genre-bending indie and Clea DuVall’s rom-com “Happiest Season,” but as she tells IndieWire, that’s just the start.
Armed with a “radical” idea for a rom-com and inspired co-writer Mary Holland, the filmmaker tells IndieWire how she made the kind of movie she’s always wanted to see.
Hulu’s shiny gay Christmas comedy is perhaps too beholden to the same uptight white lens that has long guided the rom-com genre.
The comedy centers around a marriage proposal that goes awry when a woman finds out her girlfriend isn’t out to her family.
The film will be the next directorial effort form actress-turned-filmmaker Clea DuVall.
