Lake Bell
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How did Lake Bell transition from acting to directing?
I had already written In a World, but I was, quote, shopping for directors at the time when my agent was like, look, you want to direct, so why don't you direct it? I remember being at Sundance and it was the first year that there were like six women in competition, six filmmakers that were women. and six that were men. And the fact that you had written it and directed it and starred in it, and it just felt to me like you were opening this conversation for women about voice in a different way.
Lake Bell, welcome to Reclaiming. Thank you. I'm so excited we got to make this happen. Yes. I'm going to have some tea.
What challenges did Lake face at Sundance as a female filmmaker?
Me too. Ready? I know. Ready? Go. I'm so glad we're not chugging it because I was nervous in that moment if we were chugging and now I realize we were just sipping. We're sipping. We're sipping kind of gals today. Exactly. So I was thinking about, I think where we met,
How does Lake Bell view the concept of voice in storytelling?
I think was it the Deconstructing Karen documentary premiere that you hosted? Yes. Right? Or co-hosted? Yeah. Okay, you're right. I think we were doing the social media thing, but oh, human to human. And I was so impressed by you. Really impressed by you, I think, because I really work at trying to unpack some of my thoughts and actions and bias and race and so desperately want to be someone who's doing and behaving and thinking in the right way, like the thinking leading to the action, if that makes sense. And so I really appreciated how you were talking about I think your activism there, and I remember the feeling, the feeling of like, oh, that's how I want to be. That's where I want my thinking to be.
It's funny, I find more and more community that way, where I can find resonance in how... we're moving through the gross hypocrisies and pains of what social and cultural structures are. So I find that if I even relate to someone and meet them for the first time, sometimes it just comes out naturally. But immediately I can tell like, okay, you are my people because you are conscientious, you're thoughtful, you want to do better. Because you recognize that it is so bad. Right. All of it. And I think that's a good way of putting it because we can always do better. Right? Yeah. We can always do better. I should say that Deconstructing Karen was a documentary about race, right, by Regina Jackson and Syra Rowe.
Syra Rowe. Right, and it was about their – is it a nonprofit? Race to Dinner? Race to Dinner, yeah. So basically they would host these dinner parties where they would invite white women. As two women of color.
What impact has parenting a child with epilepsy had on Lake?
And to have meaningful and very honest and sometimes, well, deeply uncomfortable conversations about race. And so I think this was just an interesting exercise in a kind of clunky and uncomfortable but really effective way to hold a mirror up to women who were kind of... feeling that they wanted to learn more about race and how to be participatory in society as a positive force and an ally. And then, of course, getting jostled into the reality of like, you're racist. And that's not an accusation, it's just a fact. So I sort of appreciated what they were doing. I thought it was like all these kinds of conversations, all this discomfort, which I think white women traditionally are very uncomfortable.
It feels like an affront, the idea of discomfort, whilst I am a white woman who also am guilty of all kinds of shit. And I think having that kind of accountability and... you know without self-righteousness of like i'm doing it the right way and other people aren't you know it's like all of that that's all white supremacy is all that shit is just folded into these systems and structures and so i think i was like very um open and flowing with what they had to say and what they were doing certainly with that documentary i thought it was really interesting Yeah, yeah. I had a very hard time having to look at some of my reactions to things. Oh, great. I mean, I know that's the point, but I'm like, oh, I think I might have put them in a box away faster than I should have.
Which is so great to even talk about, right?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Lake Bell transition from acting to directing?
0:00–0:48
2
What challenges did Lake face at Sundance as a female filmmaker?
0:48–1:07
3
How does Lake Bell view the concept of voice in storytelling?
1:07–3:16
4
What impact has parenting a child with epilepsy had on Lake?
3:16–12:57
5
How does conscious uncoupling work for co-parenting?
12:57–19:06
6
What insights does Lake share about neurodiversity?
19:06–22:08
7
How does Lake Bell describe her experience on 'The Chair Company'?
22:08–24:24
8
What does Lake Bell mean by reclaiming her artistic identity?
24:24–1:07:47