Lauren Graham plays Mandy Moore’s sister
in Because I Said So.
Both are the daughters of an extremely overbearing mother (Diane Keaton).
With two older sisters married off, mom focuses on the youngest Milly (Moore)’s
prospects with men. While the family conflict is comedically heated in the
film, the girls got along famously on the set.
Interview: Lauren Graham on Because I Said So
“We just were lucky,” said Graham. “You
know you can have a really wonderful scene with someone you don’t
really in life have that much of a connection to and so it’s just
a bonus when some part of it is easy because you’re bringing a little
bit of the down time, real life experience into it. Sometimes that’s
helpful, sometimes it doesn’t even really make a difference but definitely
among my fake sisters we instantly took to each other and would go out and
do things and the same with Diane. I think it was really was naturally a
group of people who really enjoyed each other so you know that was just
a bonus.”
When the three sisters and mom are all together, the overlapping conversation
feels real. There was a little improvisation in there but it was mostly
scripted. “I think the feeling of the movie is quite improve-y. It’s
always tricky when you say, “It’s all improvised’ and
then the writer’s like, ‘Uh, what, I didn’t have anything
to do with it?’ So it wasn’t like that but everywhere outside
my TV show where you’re not allowed to do that, I’m improve-y.
I like to have that kind of loose thing and be able to throw in a line here
and there and this movie kind of leant itself to that. It’s like everybody
talking all over each other it must have been an editing nightmare because
we were just like yapping its like The View and so I think it had
a kind of loose [quality] which I love by the way. So yeah, some of it was
a little bit added or wanted to feel like how it is I would imagine if you
have three girls in a family. You have a lot to say.”
Lauren Graham in Because I Said So
Perhaps the biggest event on the film was Diane
Keaton’s birthday party. “It was totally beautiful. It was at
the Mondrian. Apparently Jack Nicholson was there, I didn’t see him.
I was there. We had a great time. It was like indoor/outdoor, She looked
beautiful, What can I tell you without really telling you anything? There
was all sorts of scandal but I can’t talk about it. I mean there wasn’t
any scandal really.”
What do you get for Annie Hall? “Its impossible to get her anything
and she dresses so beautifully even at six o’clock in the morning
coming out of the trailer. It’s like she is so… you know what
to get her, what do you get her? So she had mentioned that she liked salt
and I was like, ‘Oh have you tried...’ because I really like
salt but I really like fancy salt. I like just different sea salts and whatever
and I was like, ‘Have you tried this kind of salt?’ and she’s
like just regular salt. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, you guys, we should
get Diane like a huge gift thing of salt!’ So we got her like a huge
box of like all different salts like salt that you eat but then bath salt
and then like book salt, And she was so nice about it because the next day
she was like, ‘That’s just the kind of present I like, so creative
and fun and I’ll really enjoy that.’”
Because I Said So opens to theatres on February 2nd.
For the trailer, movie stills, synopsis and more movie info, go to the Because
I Said So Movie Page.
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