That scene in the script is a huge part of why I agreed to do the movie. I agree 100% with what the character says about Woody Allen in the movie. The two main characters bond while watching Friends, and there’s a scene where they discuss intergenerational dating and Woody Allen. But a lot of the dramatic dialogue, the more grounded stuff, we were very script attentive. And Nicole allowed us to do that in certain places, too. Coming out of Shrill, depending on who’s directing, they’ll let you ad lib sometimes, you can pitch ideas if you have them. It was way more dialogue than I’m used to memorizing. She was the one who I would think of when I was getting tired shooting. It was incredible to see how much she worked. She's an EP on the show, she's writing on the show, she's just completely like, up 24/7 awake. Meanwhile, Aidy Bryant is literally there every day. I would only shoot in Portland, like, on average, two days a week. Yeah, it was way more work than I'd been used to.
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How did this role compare to characters you’ve played in sketches or in TV series? Did it feel like a level up in your acting? And so it was just very cool to have them there, it felt very surreal. And same with Jo Firestone and Greta Titelman. I met Julio pretty early on in my time in New York. Which I think worked for the movie, we mostly shot chronologically as the characters got to know each other. At that point, most of my scenes had been with Ed, who I didn't know very well, so I was pretty nervous around him still. He is a very close friend and it was so fun. No, no, I want to include the whole spiel. And I feel like you're probably going to be able to run maybe one line of what I say when I'm like, "Oh, no, but he was actually nice." I like that I'm spending most of my time saying this stuff. It sucked that he would do something so selfish. And it just held up production for so long. You're the ugliest person I've ever met." And he got really, really upset, like, didn't want to shoot, wouldn't come out of his trailer. I tried to tell him in a really light way. And I don't know if a lot of people know this, but he is one of the ugliest people I've ever seen in person. And then he smelled like there was unwiped poop in his butt. But then he would try and improvise and everything was so unfunny and bad. He was on time, and he remembered his lines. Onscreen from the first scene, her performance rises to the occasion, communicating layers of feeling with a glance.Ī week before Together Together opened in theaters, Patti talked to GQ about the distinction between the film’s leads, rom-com cliches, and the cult following around her I Think You Should Leave sketch.
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Harrison’s character is the heart of the movie as she navigates the challenges of pregnancy and her unique relationship with her client-turned-friend. Nicole Beckwith, the film’s writer-director, first saw Harrison on the Tonight Show and cast her in the role without an audition. In Together Together, Harrison plays Anna, a young woman working as a barista who agrees to be a surrogate mother for app developer and would-be single dad Matt, played by Ed Helms, who finds new emotional dimensions in the manchild archetype. “With my luck I would be like, ’I'm fully vaccinated, I feel safe to go to the theater,’” she said over the phone from her home in Los Angeles, “and then I roll in and I get bedbugs.” Pondering gross-out body horror amidst personal triumph is typical for Harrison, who began her comedy career with gonzo sketches in New York’s live scene and has since built up an impressive resume onscreen, including several Tonight Show appearances, a recurring role as an acerbic assistant on Shrill, and award-winning writing for the most recent season of Big Mouth.
The indie rom-com garnered buzz and a lucrative distribution deal after premiering at this year’s virtual Sundance festival, and since then she’s only seen the film at a socially distanced rooftop screening for cast and crew. Patti Harrison is making her big screen debut in Together Together, but she’s not sure when she will actually get to see the film in a theater.
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