The Knockturnal sat down with the cast of “Dirty 30 to talk about what it was like making the film! It premieres today!
Hi! Congrats on the film I thought it was really funny and there were a lot of moments of truth in the comedy of it. I know your character, Mamrie, goes on a really terrible date in the beginning of the film. Can you guys relate to that? What is a date you have been on that has just been awful?
Hannah: Any date that I’ve been on that’s been bad has been my fault. So I went on that date from an online dating thing, but I got way too drunk way too fast and totally blew it.
Mamrie: I can attest to that. I have not forayed into online dating. But I have heard other peoples horror stories about this. Mainly the like – “you look nothing like your profile photo.” Like people are still trying to catfish.
Grace: I also haven’t online dated and mainly for that reason. What if you get there and you instantaneously realize –
Mamrie: What if I get there and realize he was just face-swapping with Leonardo DiCaprio the whole time?
Grace: That could happen
Mamrie: Technology is scary for the future.
I know you are a writer on the film. So tell me your involvement in it and how did you guys get on the project?
Mamrie: Oh well we’re best friends! In real life…IRL. So we’ve had a friendship from Youtube and doing live shows and stuff and then we did a feature film together that I also wrote. And from that we wanted to do another movie and now it’s just a matter of what kind of movie. We love the kind of movies that we watched in high school. Movies that are contained to one night one place. So that was the springboard for it.
Wow, awesome. And you all go through a journey with your characters, which go through these twists and turns throughout the film. Can you guys relate to that in your real lives?
Grace: Yeah, I’ve been in a relationship similar to Edie, my character, where everything seems fine – but then when you sort of reflect on it, it’s not as fine as you could have. Fine isn’t great, so you may as well figure out how to get great. She’s also just really excited about partying and hanging out with her friends which is a thing I do in real life so.
Marie: Yeah Definitely, my characters kind of in a rut. She doesn’t really know where she wants to go until she’s presented with this letter she wrote when she was 16. Which I actually really life my life. SO basically thank the academy. But definitely we all have moments where we have to step back and look at our lives and reflect and make sure we’re living it as full as well life and not just full enough.
Hannah: Yeah absolutely, my character charlie has a bit of a comeptivie streak in her. She likes to get drunk and then challenge to a push up contest. And when I first read Charlie I was like awesome give me a character that will stretch me as an actor. and then my roommate was like, no dude, you totally do that.
Grace: But charlie still has the most functional relationship out of al of them.
Hannah: Which is where the stretch comes in.
Gotcha. What was it like working with the director Andrew?
Mamrie: Andy is amazing. He had to come into the project and just grab it and go because theres so many moving parts not a little contained indie feature theres’ a lot of moving parts including 70 extras a night. that you have to choreograph cause its a party scene. And he took it and ran with it he was an absolute mad man.
Hannah: He had a lot of Five hour energies in him.
Grace: We’re hoping that he finally got sleep at some point.
What was your favorite scene to film?
Hannah: You know I really like the scene where we are tee-peeing someones house and I actually think that might have been my favorite scene it was actually the last scene that we shot, it was our wrap. and I just had so much fun tonight. But we were also freezing cold. So maybe what I think was joy was actually just my bodies response
Marie: There’s a scene where we’re in a room. And we’re pretending to take shots and body shots and we’re jumping around and punching a cake. so that was really cool.
Pretending to.
But she really punched that cake,.
I really did and it was really stale. and my hand hurt very bad and my knuckle got very bloody.So I do not recommend that.
Hannah: So when you see Dirty 30, you know there is blood sweat and tears in that movie.
Marie: Yes, lots of sweat.
Well thank you all, congratulations on the film again!
