The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Tyler Treese: I know you appeared in some of your mother's films such as Everybody's Fine, but this is kind of your big acting debut as an adult. What led you ...

It was amazing, that was one of the things that really drew me to the script initially was, I love that kind of stuff. I can’t wait to kind of see as many scripts as possible and be able to, I’d love to follow Nic. I want to see how many different kind of projects I can do, and just consistently best myself as much. He really made sure to kind of, really specifically make sure I was doing all right, which I was really grateful for, and just check in on me and check in on the rest of the cast and make sure that we were all getting along. So I feel like every movie I’ve seen of his has gotten kind of better and better and better. Pedro [Pascal was always riffing, and he was coming up with some of the stuff in the movie, that whole part about the dead cat at the end, about Grandma’s dead cat, was just off the cuff of me and Sharon [Horgan] were like, just trying our best not to be laughing through it. I kind of wanted to soak up as much as that as possible. I mean, she was sort of who I’d love to be when I was 16. It’s amazing to see, especially in film acting, I feel like it’s not as typical to have that kind of freedom that he has with acting. I got to grow up and had the privilege of growing up with a ton of respect for actors and being able to kind of have a helping hand and all of that, but you know, I was really lucky. And I started really liking the feeling of being able to play someone else and feeling feelings through another person’s experience and being able to kind of live out experiences or whatever that I might not feel comfortable doing in my own life. The cast is fantastic, and they’re like, you couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to kind of help you out in the beginning. And that started really coming through and acting for me when I was about 15 in school, and it’s been fantastic.