![]() I talked with the actress about stress and solutions at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York. That is the state of youth mental health." Now imagine about 450 of them saying they are persistently sad or hopeless, 200 saying they've seriously considered suicide, and nearly 100 saying they've tried to end their own life over the past year. "Imagine a high school with 1,000 students. Levine reflects on his eighth directing credit on a feature: “I’m happy with how it turned out … If this movie does well enough to make a sequel, I’ll do a thousand sequels."Since the pandemic began, anxiety, depression, loneliness and negative emotions and behaviors have increased among young people," he wrote. “There were jokes in the movie that crossed the line, and those jokes we cut out of the movie.” There are lines that you don’t cross,” he explains. You never want to make light of something like that. “We’re pushing the envelope by mentioning that word, but it’s not something where we would ever make light of that actual act. Levine also spoke to the decision to keep jokes about rape whistles in the film. ![]() I think we originally did have Formation in the trailer, and we took it out.” We didn’t put any Beyonce songs in the movie. This was just the character in the movie referencing Beyonce as a character who would like Beyonce. “Perhaps this is kind of my bad, but it didn’t even really resonate with me. The final cut of Snatched includes a Beyonce reference to her song “Single Ladies.” When asked about leaving that line, the director says the connection to the parody video “didn’t even occur” to him. As a director, if you go obsessively down these rabbit holes, you probably start to go crazy, so maybe that’s my blind spot, but it’s one that preserves my sanity.” The director shares his small role in the making of it, which involved playing the Formation song for Hawn and Schumer to dance to from his phone. Levine offers his take on the situation: “That’s the thing about working with Amy is she really is a lightning rod for controversy, but she also is someone who speaks her mind, so it becomes a double-edged sword. Critics slammed the spoof as cultural appropriation and racial insensitivity, as Beyonce’s video is perceived as an instruction for black female empowerment. The 40-year-old director suggests that the lack of meaningful roles in Hollywood for women of a certain age impacted Hawn’s break from the film business.ĭuring production, Snatched came under fire when Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer filmed a parody video of Beyonce’s Formation. “You definitely feel like it’s a big responsibility. To harness that energy and to selfishly draft off that good will and put that in our movie - I’d be crazy not to do it.” But he admits it was “scary” to work with the Hollywood veteran. “You can feel the excitement that people have about seeing her on screen again. Once Fox was convinced, Levine did not look back. From that moment on, I was completely on board.” He continues, “We were all like a team advocating for her with the studio. Levine recalls seeing Schumer light up around Hawn and vice versa: “There’s just no other word for it but chemistry. Levine, Schumer and Hawn met at the Sunset Marquis Hotel to discuss the potential casting in person. Hawn reportedly took a 15-year hiatus in order to pursue other interests, including writing books and creating MindUP, an educational program for children.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |