Lizzy Caplan
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Director Leslye Headland on Bachelorette
Tall and part blonde/part brunette, Leslye Headland darted into our interview and gave me a warm greeting and an intense gaze. She explained that she had just run across town in Manhattan to walk her dog in between interviews while promoting her debut film, Bachelorette. The film is based on her stage play of the same name, about a gang of attractive girls (Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Kaplan and Isla Fisher) behaving badly before their friend’s wedding. I ask what her dog’s name is. “His name is Ramius. Which is Sean Connery’s name in The Hunt For Red October,” she says, […]
by Miriam Bale on Sep 7, 2012 -
TRAILER WATCH: MATT WALSH’S “THE HIGH ROAD”
As one of the four founding members of seminal New York improv group The Upright Citizens Brigade, Matt Walsh has been thinking on his feet for years. And with The High Road, his directorial debut, he’s taking that skill to a new playing field, crafting a feature-length “improv movie.” Throughout the shoot, Walsh presented his actors with scene outlines and plot points, but left it to them to fill in the details and the dialogue. In lesser hands this might prove a recipe for listlessness, but with a cast that included improv stalwarts such as Ed Helms, Lizzy Caplan, Zach […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 31, 2012
