Yeah.
I don't think I've ever been cute.
I don't think that [INAUDIBLE].
I don't even know how to do that.
We find you cute.
Oh, boy.
I'm Lena Dunham.
This is the cast of Sharp Stick, and we are here to answer
IMDb's Burning Questions.
How would you describe Sharp Stick in one word?
Fable.
Empowering.
Complicated.
Fairy tale?
I don't know.
We're grooving on the same energy.
Fairy tales are all about archetypes.
And this movie lives at this sort of cross-section
between a very complicated reality
and a very heightened reality.
It started from a personal place, which
is this character, Sarah Jo, has sort of
had this arrested development.
And so when she meets this person
Josh, who's played by Jon, they start on a relationship that's
really beautiful, but also really painful
and kind of cracks open her sense of herself
as a sexual being.
Just one partner?
Or?
Should I get more, 'cause the one I got is kind of a handful.
Who has the quirkiest on-set habit?
I feel like Taylour, you had so many quirky little things
that you would do.
Oh, God.
What did I do?
I don't know.
You... just, like, your little mannerisms.
You do have really charming mannerisms.
It's called trauma and filling the space.
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Taylour always has her costume on, I feel like.
Yeah.
You will be like, hanging out in your costume
over lunch looking really glam.
And I feel like if I have to have a costume,
I run away from it as quickly as I possibly can.
I'm like, let's live in it, you know.
Let's-- let's be here.
Jon's costume and his life clothes
were like, a little confusing except that he
was wearing an assortment of gold necklaces
that were not very Jon.
So you could recognize when he was [INAUDIBLE]..
Those chains.
Did you save the chains?
Are you still wearing them around?
I'm not.
I did save them, but I'm not wearing them around.
You wear every single chain, even when you're in the house.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
What's that?
Who in the cast would you go to for relationship advice?
I've actually gone to all of these people
for relationship advice, and they've all been really good.
Like, Jon said a few things that literally I
feel like changed my life and my sense of self-respect.
Kristine and I have had incredibly deep conversations
about sort of moving on and recovering from a relationship.
She has the most beautiful perspective.
And Taylour single-handedly talked me
through the early weeks of dating my husband
and made sure that I didn't destroy it.
So any of them.
Any of us would go to Lena, I think, with anything.
The wisdom and the heart there is
like, undeniable and endless.
It's safe.
Thank you.
That was amazing.
Thank you.
I mean, you're my guardian angel.
I noticed that you thanked both Taylor
Swift and Joe Alwyn.
What was their involvement?
What did they get a thank you for?
They're just really great friends
of mine who watched a really early cut of the film
and gave me notes.
They're both just really interesting, perceptive people.
Taylor's been one of my close friends for a really long time.
And Joe is an actor who I actually ended up
working with on a project that I shot
just a few months after this.
To have those smart people who are titans of industry
in their own way look at the story
and give me honest and generous feedback, that's all you
could ever hope for.
Pretty good.
Uh, could you try to be sexier, maybe more likable this time?
What scared each of you guys the most
about approaching this project?
I mean, every time you do a project, it's scary.
I'm always just hoping that, like, it's
so OK, like, that I'm like, not [BLEEP] up.
I always hope I'm not [BLEEP] up either.
Yeah.
I mean, I was terrified for so many things.
I mean, I was really wor-- like, so honored and so excited
but also so scared to work with these guys.
You guys just went for it.
And it was really inspiring.
And I was just terrified to like, fall on my face,
as we, I guess, all are sometimes.
I didn't want to let Lena down.
Before I found this, like, personal love for her,
I just was such an enormous-- and am-- such an enormous fan
and admirer of hers.
So I just really did not want to let her down.
It was very mutual, my angel.
We have to watch Lena Dunham's movie!
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