介绍:
Comedy "While We`re Young" sees director Noah Baumbach team up with Ben Stiller and Adam Driver for a film about trying to cope with middle age gracefully and happily.
Stiller and Naomi Watts play a married couple who find themselves influenced by a younger, more free-spirited pair, played by Driver and Amanda Seyfried.
Baumbach, who turned 45 last year, is known for his portrayals of dysfunctional relationships in the likes of "The Squid and the Whale" and "Margot at the Wedding" - and his latest project is no different.
"I had many ideas sort of floating around that hadn't, I hadn`t found a place to put them, One idea I was thinking a lot about was couples and wanting to make a movie about couples and how they interact with other, how they project their own stuff onto each other and how they might romanticize how the other couple is doing versus them or they get critical of the other couple, and somehow that found its way into this sort of generational comedy."
Playing a documentary filmmaker, 46-year-old Watts admits that part of the reason she joined the cast was because many of the film's topics hit home for her.
"It is ultimately, you know when you see a couple making out in front of you at a dinner table on one hand you`re going, oh that's a little awkward. But at the same time you go, wow why don&`&t we do that anymore? You feel like, are we giving up on ourselves here? Can we be more exciting? And they sort of reawaken that spirit in us which is great for a while. But then you it sort of becomes, I don`t know if they are interested in us is that authentic. Are we just of meal ticket for them?"
In the film, Watts` character Cornelia attempts to take a hip hop dance class. Cornelia seems hesitant at first but soon breaks free and dances at any chance she gets. This isn&`&t too far off from what Watts is like in real life.
"It was really fun to do that scene for me and he didn't want to Cornelia to be a good dancer. She wasn`t used to being in any situation like this but at the same time I loved it because he wanted her to say okay I am going to try and I am just going to forget where I am and see if that can breathe some life into her and it did."
"While We`re Young" opens March 27 in the U.S. and will be aired in the UK on April 3rd.
