Sean Fennessey

How did you think about putting that on screen and making sure that it was right?

Indeed.

Indeed.

I never would have imagined that's what it would have become.

You did.

I was, like I said, uncanny for a reason.

It's really quite something.

So how did roommates happen?

Can I ask you something about that time then?

When you were teaching that class, were you thinking like I'm going to be a professional movie director for my life and like I'm going to be successful and be able to sustain myself?

Or were you thinking like I need to have multiple irons on the fire at that time just to pay the rent or whatever?

Did you, well, I want to hear what your conversation with him was like, but did someone slide it to him and say, hey, there's some Sandler stuff in here?

How did it come across his transom?

But did he watch it and say, oh my gosh, this is going to make sense?

So what did Adam say?

And Betty Thomas.

So I imagine it had to have been somewhat challenging because you're making a movie for a big streaming platform, plus also the producer of the movie's daughter's in the film.

That's complicated.

Plus, you know, you're making a movie, honestly, about a generational experience that you're now a little removed from.

I don't know where you want to start from that, those challenges, but, like, what was the most trickiest thing to unlock in making the movie?