And, yes, the friends are women played by Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein (incidentally, Jonah Hill’s sister). “I do kind of bristle at comparisons that female-led films are granted, as though we can’t be our own film,” Wilde said. “It was a story about two very smart girls who are best friends at a time in life when your best friends are what allow you to survive adolescence. I hadn’t seen that in a great young female best friends comedy. I want this to be used as an example by studios to say like well hey ‘Booksmart’ worked and made tons of money and that was a woman directing it, and it was about women, written by women, produced by women, edited by women,” Wilde said.

Source: National Post May 03, 2019 14:48 UTC