Helen Smith

these millennials that kind of feel like failures.

And there's a lot of shame attached to that of kind of getting to a certain stage in life and being like, I just haven't hit those milestones and feeling like they've let their parents down.

Yeah.

Essentially, what does it do to you kind of like on more of a psychological level?

Yeah, look, it was like seeing lots of friends in this exact situation where they're being forced to move back in with their parents.

And then like, knowing that it's not ideal for either generation, it's always intended as a short stay.

And then it kind of extends because like, you think the world's going to get a little bit better and it just doesn't.

And so yeah, that was a key inspo.

And then I became so curious about the power play that was happening underneath that one roof.

Because

Of course, millennials are going to regress.

As soon as you go back home, you kind of become your worst teenage self to a certain degree.

And so it's like, what's happening under that roof and how is that power play kind of unfolding?

And then the more I kind of like pulled at those threads, it became really apparent that's a great microcosm for kind of to represent what's happening in Australia kind of more broadly.

Oh, 100%.

Like, in a way that's kind of complicated.

And I try to address that in the film that, like, I represent both the baby boomers' perspective as well as the millennials.

Like, nobody comes out unscathed.

The millennials in this film do come off looking pretty entitled and, like...

Yeah, it's a satire.