Cheryl McCollum

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because Joey sort of epitomized that.

Yes.

And, you know, that guy, that Italian Long Island guy who can do whatever and oh, he's charming.

You know, he just sort of gets away with it.

So what do you hope that the millions of people who were obsessed with this and will watch this film, what do you hope that they will get out of it?

Well, first, I hope they watch it.

I can't help it.

But secondly, I hope they get out of it the things we're actually talking about.

Yes.

How times can change, how social mores and religious mores can change, but can also really, in any direction, really influence people's opinions.

of things and the way they look at them.

And I think that I, I just want her to be heard authentically, you know, as, as herself.

Yes.

And I, I think we, you know, we worked really hard to have the, all the pieces that weren't actually her feel authentic.

You know, we had three wonderful leads and,

And, and I wasn't sure, and they were hard to, they were going to be hard to find because of the accents and the mannerisms and how many years they

The, you know, the story, a lot of these stories do not cover that many years, you know, where you're changing hair and colors and the way you look and what's going on in the world.

And, you know, so there was a lot of production, right?