Not Okay

Deutch has mastered the "unlikable female protagonist," giving a delightfully unhinged performance in Quinn Shephard's internet fame satire.

“But the problem with this apology is it was never going to be for Rowan, it was going to be for Danni,” Deutch said. Danni Sanders is a fascinating character,” Deutch said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I was really excited that Quinn wanted to invite me in to the process of producing it alongside her and being her partner in crime.” Though it still doesn’t contain the word “sorry,” she comes prepared with an apology on her phone. Initially, Danni’s scheme is inspired by her desire to interest Dylan O’Brien’s influencer Colin, but when Paris is the site of a tragic terrorist attack, Danni feels forced to pretend as if she was there, she survived it, and she’s got plenty to say about it. The “Set It Up” star was immediately impressed with Shephard’s script, which offered her a new twist on the kind of “fascinating character” she loves to play. As Shephard told IndieWire, Deutch was always her first choice for the part, and she was extremely impressed by Deutch’s desire to get honest with such a prickly character.

Director/writer Quinn Shephard (Blame) tackles themes of privilege and adopted trauma in Hulu Original movie Not Okay. The film stars Zoey Deutch as Danni ...

“Danni is intentionally both terrible and very relatable,” Shepherd said in an interview with Newsweek. “I think especially for young white women on the internet.” Danni becomes close with the young activist, at first because of her fame, but soon comes to see Rowan as her little sister and best friend. With her story exposed, Danni Sanders becomes the most hated woman on the internet. Not Okay ends with Danni attending one of Rowan’s spoken word performances, intending to apologize. It’s Harper who sees Danni for the fake she is. With Danni’s new celebrity status, however, she has had to defer to her judgment at work. Danni becomes deeply involved with Rowan’s cause to reduce gun violence, but she isn’t self-aware or compassionate enough to see how she’s stealing from her new friend. She shares with her followers that she survived the attack and is safe. Danni creates a fake website for the writers’ retreat, photoshops pictures of herself in Paris, and posts them to Instagram with cutesy sayings about baguettes. She finds a workaround, however, in joining a support group for survivors of shootings and bombings. Through co-opting the trauma of others and pretending to be a bombing survivor, Danni soon gets a taste of the fame and followers she’s always wanted. She adopts a friend in school shooting survivor, Rowan (Mia Isaac) to make her own ‘survivor story’ seem more credible.

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Shephard breaks the story into chapters, which helps with the pacing of a relatively slim story. But when a terrorist attack happens there, people instantly want to know if she's alright, and instead of coming clean, she spins an increasingly fabulous tale about what she experienced and witnessed, winning new social-media followers and attention from her peers, including the handsome Colin (Dylan O'Brien). Heck, even her mother (Embeth Davidtz) is suddenly nicer. ), an aspiring writer not being taken very seriously at the magazine where she works.

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Canfield also introduces themes related to the American frontiersmen’s cruel treatment of the natives — a note of seriousness that, while admirable, conflicts with the film’s overall tone. “Neptune Frost” is unlike any other movie released this year: a gender-bending science-fiction musical set among a band of revolutionary hackers living in a Rwandan village surrounded by electronic waste. The Australian survival thriller “The Reef: Stalked” isn’t a sequel to writer-director Andrew Traucki’s acclaimed 2010 film “The Reef” so much as it’s a new iteration of the same story. The shark’s prey this time are all women: a band of skilled snorkelers that includes two sisters still recovering from a sibling’s recent murder. It’s reassuring in a way to know that even an online utopia is imperfect, and that in the end it only succeeds because of the goodwill and bright ideas of the people who gather there. To her credit, Webster doesn’t shy away from the sex part of this sex comedy. Sally Phillips gives a winning performance as Gina, a 50-year-old who loses her job, then takes advantage of an awkward encounter with a friendly stripper named Tom (Alexander England) to start her own business: hiring out hunky guys to clean houses and, if asked, to provide sexual services. For all the reasonable anxiety we may have about whether we’re spending too much time online, it’d be wrong to deny that many people rely on the virtual world for a sense of community, a creative outlet and a way to safely explore other cultures and alternate identities. Instead, Hunting just roams openly and curiously through brightly colored fantastical realms, meeting some of the sexy human-animal hybrids and whimsically goofy creatures who have found little corners of VRChat where they can go on dates, have outings with friends, take classes … really, do whatever people do in the outside world but with far fewer physical or logistical limitations. But “Not Okay” hits surprisingly hard with its ending, reframing a lot of the preceding 90 minutes from a different and harsher perspective. These shifts in the film between earnestness and anything-for-a-laugh comedy sometimes feel off, allowing the audience to excuse the characters’ bad behavior as silly, not reckless. Zoey Deutch plays Danni Sanders, an aspiring journalist tired of being overlooked by the much cooler colleagues and editors at the New York-based website where she works.

This week, Not Okay, the satirical dark comedy starring Zoey Deutch as a fame-hungry influencer faking her way through a terrorist attack, premieres on Hulu ...

She’s tasked with helping out his business with the help of a charming lawyer. The young adult romance Purple Hearts stars Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine as Cassie and Luke, a struggling songwriter and a troubled Marine who agree to marry each other for the sake of military benefits. Discovering his latent talent as a barber, Richardsson raises money in a last ditch effort to save the salon. brand-new? Here’s a shark movie about four young women on a kayaking trip who — you guessed it — are pursued by a shark. Bergholm tells Polygon that she literally Googled the world’s best specialist in movie animatronics, then reached out to him about working on the film. Zoey Deutch (Vampire Academy) stars in the satirical black comedy Not Okay as Danni, a misguided influencer who fakes a trip to Paris in order to boost her clout.

Zoey Deutch and Dylan O'Brien star in the comedic drama, which arrived on Hulu on July 29.

Not Okay is streaming exclusively on Hulu, at no additional cost to subscribers. Subscriptions start at just $6.99 a month (or $69.99 a year) after a free 30-day trial. Interested in live television? Of course, it’s only a matter of time until the entire façade falls apart and her lie gets exposed. Deutch portrays Danni, a photo editor/aspiring writer who doesn’t have any friends and can’t even get a lunch date with her mom. All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors.

Writer-director Quinn Shephard's takedown of clout chasers isn't as biting as it should be. not-okay-dylan-obrien-zoey-deutch.

Especially in our social media-consumed world, there’s room for a satire that can lambast the current environment, but Not Okay, unfortunately, isn’t that film. Why should influencers be getting all the attention, when people who have gone through travesties and are fighting to make the world a better place only receive a fraction of the traffic? Shephard’s screenplay also makes some solid points about people trying to be in the limelight, when the focus should be on other people attempting to make a change. Like Danni, the desperation and desire to be something else permeates Not Okay to its core. The problem with Not Okay isn’t that Danni is unlikeable, that’s completely understandable. Danni tries too hard to be liked, which emanates from her every action as an awkward person awkwardly attempting to not be awkward.

'Not Okay movie fails to impress and can be termed a terrible social media satire. The writer-director Quinn Shephard's portrayal is not quite biting and ...

Rowan fights for a change since she survived a school shootout. Parisfor a writer's retreat. Hulu, seems to be a terrible social media satire. It is also what the film felt like. Danni tries very hard to make people like her, which is quite evident from her persona. Quinn Shephardis the writer-director of the film.

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“I wrote the first draft of the script in 2018, which was peak summer of scam, and I had her in mind as somebody who could do a cameo in the online-cancellation-support-group scene,” writer and director Quinn Shephard said at the movie’s July 28 premiere. When it came to writing her lines in Not Okay, they “collaborated a little bit.” “I definitely went in with some jokes prepared, and we kind of hashed out what she was comfortable saying in terms of self-satire,” Shephard added. These days, Calloway is somewhat offline, but she’s allegedly writing a “very real book,” according to her Instagram bio.

Shephard dreamed of a scene with all sorts of internet-famous scammers, but she got lucky with a big name willing to play herself.

“It was always an idea to have Caroline in it, because right when I was writing the story, it was about to be the summer of scam,” Shephard said. It’s pretty horrible to be a woman who the entire internet piles on and rips apart for making some mistakes. Shephard soon met with Calloway for a revealing evening in which they discussed Calloway’s experience, how it’s reflected in Shephard’s film, and the general ickiness of internet culture. “We got drunk and talked about the internet. “The idea initially was that the support group was full of people who had gotten online shamed and canceled,” Shephard told IndieWire during a recent interview. Although not as well known as scammer brethren like Anna Delvey, Elizabeth Holmes, or Martin Shrekli, Calloway is infamous to a certain class of the very online who are also the kind of people who will enjoy Shephard’s (very smart) film.