Aubrey Plaza Fell Back In Love With Acting Because of This Rising Star - My Old Ass Interview

There is nothing better than walking out of a Sundance screening confident that, in January, you have already seen one of your favorite films of the year. It happened to me in 2019 with Brittany Runs a Marathon. (A movie that literally inspired me to run a marathon.) Sundance 2020 gave me a trio of favorites -- Promising Young Woman, Palm Springs, and His House. In 2021, that distinction went to Mass and CODA. In 2022, I fell hard for Cooper Raiff's Cha Cha Real Smooth. In 2023, it was the Philippou brothers' first feature, Talk to Me. Now, in 2024, it's Megan Park's second feature film as a director, My Old Ass, a movie that is bound to get a theatrical release this year given Amazon MGM scooped up the worldwide rights via a massive $15 million deal. The film features a star-making turn from Maisy Stella as Elliott, a teenager enjoying one last summer at home before her first year of college. During a mushroom trip, Elliott is visited by her 39-year-old self, played by Aubrey Plaza. During their chat, adult Elliott reveals a few things that heavily influence how young Elliott opts to spend her time in her final weeks at her childhood home. My Old Ass is brilliant. It's a wildly creative and thoughtful way to explore one's relationship with their past, present and future selves that's phenomenally well executed by Park and her main ensemble, including Stella and Kerrice Brooks, who plays one of Elliott's close friends in the film, Ro. The movie is bound to be a 2024 gem, so get ahead of the game by watching the video interview at the top of this article to learn more about Park's experience going from her first feature, The Fallout, to My Old Ass, what it was like for Stella to headline her very first movie, and why Brooks deeply appreciated the creative freedom Park offered on set. All of that and so much more in my interview with the trio at the Collider interview studio in Park City brought to you by Film.io! #margotrobbie #interview #aubreyplaza For interviews, movie reviews, and more visit https://collider.com FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL   / collider     / collider     / collider