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Aline Brosh McKenna

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501 total appearances

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And every actor you just mentioned is completely different.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

The movie with Harrison had Rachel McAdams and Diane Keaton in it, all very different actors.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

So were Reese and Ashton different?

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

I just was remembering that like Reese has a different... I would go to Reese and I would say... I would say something about the character and she would say, am I saying that or am I thinking that?

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And I would say, you're thinking that.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And she was like, okay, cool.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

You know, like she was...

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And she also likes to do a scene in the moment right as you're about to do it and then talk to me.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And so that was interesting because it makes it more alive for her.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

Like she's extremely prepared and then you come and you do it and then we would look at each other and be like, oh, we'll go this way.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

In fact, when we were making this movie, we shot some of it in New York.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And I remember we went out on the pier and Reese did the scene and then she turned to me and she goes, I don't think that works.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And I was like, I know, I don't think that works either.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And I took a piece of paper and I put it on my knee and I wrote a new scene and I handed it to her and we looked at it and then we did that.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And then with Rachel, you know, Rachel was so is so flexible that you can sort of say to her, like, do this line and hold your arm out at this angle.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And she's like, I got it doing it.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

And I mean, I could go on and on about how brilliant they are, how brilliant all of these folks are.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

I mean, I Emily and I, I love to run a joke into Emily Blunt.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

That's my favorite thing to do is she'll do a tick because because.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Aline Brosh McKenna - The Rom Com Queen Who Wrote The Devil Wears Prada

When you're on set and the actors have done a joke a couple times and you feel like you have it, then it's really fun.