SXSW 2015: Trainwreck – Amy Schumer, Bill Hader… by CraveOnline
Amy Schumer knows that romantic comedies are a cliché, but she made one anyway. The star of Inside Amy Schumer wrote and starred in the upcoming comedy Trainwreck, co-starring with Bill Hader (The Skeleton Twins) and directed by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up). And CraveOnline got them all together for an exclusive video interview at the DailyMotion Lounge at SXSW 2015!
Our own William Bibbiani grills Amy Schumer, Bill Hader and Judd Apatow in front of a live audience about why the SXSW audiences are seeing a “work in progress,” casting Bill Hader against type as a dashing megastud, and how they brought Amy Schumer’s singular standup comedy style to the screen without sacrificing the Trainwreck‘s Judd Apatow-iousness.
Trainwreck crashes into theaters on July 17, 2015!
From the Press Release:
No contemporary filmmaker has chronicled the messy human experience with the eye and ear of a comedic cultural anthropologist like Judd Apatow. Hits as varied as those he’s directed, like Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and those he’s produced, like Superbad and Bridesmaids, are all unified by their honest, unflinching, comic look at how complicated it is to grow up in the modern world.
Apatow has also built a history of helping break distinctive new comedy voices into the mainstream, from Seth Rogen to Lena Dunham among many others. Now, in his fifth feature film as a director, Apatow again brings a portrait of an unforgettable character, and a portrayal by a breakout new comedy star, together in Trainwreck, written by and starring Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer) as a woman who lives her life without apologies, even when maybe she should apologize.
Since she was a little girl, it’s been drilled into Amy’s (Schumer) head by her rascal of a dad (Colin Quinn) that monogamy isn’t realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo—enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment—but in actuality, she’s kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she’s writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners (Bill Hader), Amy starts to wonder if other grown-ups, including this guy who really seems to like her, might be on to something.
The comedy, from a script written by Schumer, co-stars Brie Larson, John Cena, Tilda Swinton and LeBron James. Apatow produces Trainwreck through his Apatow Productions alongside Barry Mendel (Bridesmaids, This Is 40). www.trainwreckmovie.com
