Your mother and I are getting divorced.
Monogamy isn't realistic. BOTH:
'I didn't understand that word at the time...
'but now, I know exactly what he was talking about.
'I'm just a modern chick who does what she wants.'
I'm giving you an assignment. I need a profile on a sports doctor.
You're doing the article on me?
Do you follow sports?
I love them.
The Orlando...
..Blooms?
TRAIN BLARES
In my stand-up, it's really personal,
but then I'll also just write the funniest thing I can think of,
so I think this was the same, it's...
I haven't been that sort of promiscuous and spreading myself
that thin, sexually, since I was probably 19,
but I remember it.
Erm, and I know I was in a lot of pain
at that time and so I just really wanted to communicate this story
of this girl and just sort of my journey with self-esteem
and feeling worthy of someone else loving me.
So it was worth it for me to put all of my personal stuff out there,
because I feel a little bit removed from it,
but not so far that I can't really remember.
And it was also an opportunity for me to kind of write a love letter
to my sister and my father and show our relationships.
Sorry I'm late, I...
There was this wounded sparrow outside my apartment
and I was, like, looking for a shelter that's open
and it's a Sunday.
That's old.
It's called Instagram.
I was listening to her on this radio show, The Howard Stern Show,
in the United States and she was doing a really long interview
and she was talking about her dad, who has MS,
and what it's like having a sick father
and she told these really intimate, dark stories,
but she found a way to make them really funny and really warm.
And I thought, wow, no one can do that.
And she was so honest and hilarious that I thought,
OK, I think this is a writer. I bet you she's a writer
and doesn't know how strong a writer she is.
So I called her and said, "Let's, you know, kick around a movie idea",
and that became Trainwreck.
I slept at the doctor's place last night.
Oh, my God, cos you were, like, blackout drunk?
No, that's the thing. I was dead sober.
I had, like, two drinks. Three, max.
Four, now that I'm tallying, but it was like...
I was sober.
antibiotics or something?
Oh, my god. He's calling!
Why would he call? You guys just had sex!
It's probably a mistake. It's mistake.
He's...he's butt-dialling you.
Oh, hey there, it's Aaron.
Oh, this is Amy. I think you butt-dialled me.
No, no, I dialled you with my fingers.
Usually, you have a really silly script and then,
as you're performing it, it'll be like, hey, it would be nice
to, you know, make these people real, you know,
"grounding it" is a phrase you hear all the time.
Like, "We need to ground it, you know?"
But this just seemed so genuine and honest that you didn't need to
do anything with it.
I could tell it came from Amy,
but it was interesting that that person is a very erm...
There's an archetype you see in a lot of comedies,
but she's usually the best friend.
And I felt like this movie was...
You know, usually, it would be Anne Hathaway
and her best friend would be this kind of boozy, party girl.
It was kind of, this movie says,
"Whoa! Let's follow that girl home.
"What's her life like? Is she self-aware? Is she happy?"
Erm...
"What if she fell in love?"
'There are certain rules that I wasn't aware of'
that just aren't in a screenwriting book. You know, the different...
I initially didn't have us introducing Bill,
the romantic lead character, until, I think page 60,
which is, like, completely unacceptable.
First she wrote a movie that was a little bit more of a high concept
and it was very funny, but there were moments in it
that were really personal and I thought,
"Oh, the whole movie should be, like, these scenes",
and so we talked about it and had this long conversation
on the phone one night, where I said,
"Well, what's happening in your relationships?"
You know, "Why don't you have a boyfriend right now?
"What you think the obstacle is to having a healthy relationship?
"What goes wrong when it goes wrong? How does it melt down?
"And if you met the right guy, could you handle it?"
The sex is good, it's, like, really good.
Like, it's...it's great, but it's not, like, the best I've ever had.
You know?
You don't want Best Sex That You've Ever Had Guy.
No. You want to stay with the Best You've Ever Had Guy.
No, you don't. That's a creepy guy. You don't want to be with that guy.
Best Sex That You've Ever Had Guy is in jail.
Most people will censor at some point and she never did.
There were a lot are times where I would say,
"Are you comfortable saying that?",
or "Would you say that about your family in a movie?",
and she's like, "Oh, yeah. No, they don't mind."
And that never happens.
'The hardest for me was to write'
my own story and also to imagine the guy that I would want to be with.
That was a struggle for me,
but I love writing for other people and...
and, a lot of it...
I mean, we got our first choice everybody.
There's no one...
Yeah, there's no one that said no and then we got a backup,
so it was...
The casting was kind of beyond my wildest dreams.
I thought we'd have to get the budget version of someone,
but it was like, no.
Tilda Swinton said yes and LeBron James said yeah,
so it was...dope.
From now on, we need to just...
keep it professional.
You know?
I think we really like each other and we should start dating.
N...
No, I'm...I'm saying...
I'm confused. Am I not communicating this right? Like, I...I...
No, I hear you. I'm just saying I disagree.
Do you like me?
Yeah.
So we should be a couple.
SHE LAUGHS
HE MUTTERS
What are your plans?
Dentist.
No.
I really understand the character of Amy,
because it's a combination of me and then the elements I added in
to be this other woman.
And so, I thought long and hard and really figured this guy out
and I thought he'd have to be really funny and really smart.
I was calling to say I had a really good time last night
and I was wondering if you wanted to hang out again.
You know what? I'm going to call the police.
I did a scene about it on my show
and it was a parody of Weird Science,
where it's what women want.
It's like, I want someone, like, really sensitive,
who can cry, but he's, like, a man.
And he's, like, really strong, but he doesn't get jealous.
Except for once in a while, so it's...
it's a lot. It's a cauldron of traits
and so...
that was my cauldron.
He loves her in a very...
..uncomplicated way, you know? He's just really taken with her.
I think he loves her honesty and, er...
..and, you know, that she's funny
and he really legitimately thinks she's a good writer.
Like, he can't help but be genuine.
He's one of those guys that kind of...
genuine to a fault, you know?
'Judd has the most experience of,'
well, anyone I know, of understanding, most importantly,
the balance of funny to sad.
What the audience is going to be experiencing.
He's really thinking of it in those terms
and knowing how long you can leave them in that lull that movies have.
Cos I know, when I watch a movie,
when there's conflict, I'm like, "Ugh!"
Like, you just want to get to the...
I'm like, "Would I like a movie that didn't have a conflict?
"What if it's two people just kind of hanging out?"
And you can't do that, it turns out.
And so, yeah, Judd has such a good sense of that balance
and we think a lot of the same stuff is funny and...
LAUGHTER
...neither of us are competitive.
It doesn't need to be our joke, we just want whatever is the best.
I always liked movies that felt natural, but were still really funny.
So if you watch something like Terms of Endearment,
it feels like life, but it's insanely hilarious and truthful,
but, yet, it's funny.
So that's, you know, that's the bar for me.
I want you to feel like you're watching a documentary, in a way.
'He just added wonderful parts to it that I wouldn't have thought of,
'because I'm so used to having to make'
my TV show for five dollars, so...
And it's like, "Well, we can shoot at Madison Square Garden".
And I'm like, "What? I thought we were going to have to use, like,
"a high school gym and just...
"you know, use the crew to act like extras".
So, yeah, he was the director, he gave me notes, he pushed me
when I...when he thought I could go a little further
with the drama of it.
And he loves alternate jokes
and I love writing jokes, so it was, er...
yeah, it was a match made in heaven.
Amy?
What's up?
Is that wine in a box?
Is this guy ever going to shut up?
Mm, please watch the movie.
Stop, no. That's not right. Don't do this to me.
Why is he yelling?
Hey, er, Mark Wahlberg? Shut up.
Mark Wahlberg? Me?
Who else looks like Mark Wahlberg? Your girl?
Mark Wahlberg's like 150 pounds.
I'm 250, lean!
I look like Mark Wahlberg ATE Mark Wahlberg!
'I'm surprised that I wrote the script, cos, even though I know
'I work really hard and I have no free time,
'I think of myself as, like, inherently kind of lazy,'
but I know I'm not. Like, anyone who knows me
would be like, "That's insane."
But I really love...
stand-up and writing and I love what I do
and, yeah, I would say
this movie is 30% just taken from my life
and then the rest is a movie.
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