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DIANE KEATON:
“I thought this film was funny. What else am I going to do with my life? I’m happy to perform and I thought it was great. Show me a script and if I’m available I’ll do it. I mean how many women that are my age are working? So many other people are extremely talented and they’re not working. It doesn’t make any sense.”
MANDY MOORE:
“My mom has never been a big meddler and isn’t extremely opinionated, or at least doesn’t voice it to me. It wasn’t hard to find the grating fester from Diane’s character annoying. It really did drive me batty. But meeting Diane, I was completely nervous, I remember shaking her hand for the first time and being completely in awe, like how am I going to pretend like she’s my mother?”
KEATON:
“What I really love about Mandy is she’s a little workhorse, like a filly out there. She loves to work and you can see her progress as an actress. She’s a very emotional actress, but she’s funny, she’s adorable and she’s beautiful to look at. In this movie, she looks to me like Claudia Cardinale, She’s got this gorgeous face. It’s going to be really interesting to watch her in life. I think she’s going to be really surprising.”
MOORE:
“I think the scene in the movie I felt the most uncomfortable and awkward with in front of everyone at first was describing an orgasm to my mother. That took a little getting used to, to just kind of jump into that. It was written out, but it was written in a way where obviously Milly is finding her words, and finding the right way to approach it with her mother, so I think I infused a little bit of myself in there as well.”
KEATON on turning 60 herself during filming:
“That’s so interesting. My dad died when he was 68 so to turn 60 is like, ‘Oh, I’m 60.’ You really are older. You’re very definitely reaching a new phase in your life. I’m really happy I’m around, number one. I love being alive and moderately healthy. You just go, ‘Okay, alright, moving on.’ I mean, what can I do? I’m not going to get depressed about it, because I’m amazed by how life has changed so much. I’m not really who I thought I would be, and the process of living is much more of a mystery than I ever imagined, and also much more compelling as you go along. The more I know, the less I know, and the less I know the more amazed I am by life.”
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