In terms of working on this movie, was the set atmosphere of “The Little Hours” that much different than other comedy sets you’ve been on before?
[Alison Brie]: Yes, I think it was very different [laughs]. We’ve talked about the way the movie looks so different from other comedies, because it’s so beautiful, and I think that was very different being in Italy. It wasn’t just like, “We’re all fucking around on set!” I think we were just taking in the experience much more. It more felt to me like making an experimental 70s film than it felt like being on the set of a raunchy comedy. Especially because the dialogue was very collaborative, we talk about actors not improving in the usual sense, it was more like we were collaborating with Jeff [Baena] on dialogue as we were shooting it, and some of the shots are very long and a lot of it is very quiet. So, I felt like we were all living so much more in the emotional identity of the characters, rather than just like, “Just riffin’! Riffin’ on a comedy set, hangin’ with your buds!”
Nick Allen ⬩ Sundance 2017 Interview: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci and Molly Shannon on “The Little Hours”
added December 24, 2023 ⬩ random excerpt