Olivia Wilde

When I read the script, Rashida Jones and Will McCormick had written the script, and it was based on a Spanish play that was turned into a movie, and this English language adaptation arrived, and I was like, this is so fucking funny and real, and it feels like it has Esther vibes.

And I asked Rashida, I was like, did you talk to Esther?

She's like, well, she's obviously so she inspired it, but we haven't sat down with her yet.

So I was like, let's get her in here.

We sat down with her.

We asked her to come on board as an actual consultant.

And then she became our guide through the whole thing.

And then Penelope Cruz based her character on Esther.

And so you get to kind of almost hang out with Esther through Penelope.

She really helped us resolve how to talk about

sex and kind of tension in the relationship in a way that allowed everyone in the conflict to be right.

So that it didn't become an oversimplified conflict of like, this guy's being an asshole and she's being kind of a bitch and blah, blah, blah.

It was like, everyone is right because everyone's coming from within their experience.

And that's what she sees all the time on her couch.

And so she was like,

The person never presents with the truth.

They present with, you know, their interpretation of it, the kind of reflection of the truth.

And so they don't ever say what they really mean.

They're saying this kind of... How they feel.

Exactly.