The Spy Who Dumped Me
The Spy Who knock down Medirector and conscientious objector - author Susanna Fogel discusses the female person - face action comedy starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon . Fogel got her kickoff working on the entanglement seriesJoni & Susanna , but made her theatrical directing unveiling withLife collaborator . The flick starred Gillian Jacobs and Leighton Meester as best friends in a co - hooked relationship ; it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014 . After play on the drama telly seriesChasing Life , Fogel refund to film withThe Spy Who Dumped Me .
The moving picture focuses on Audrey ( Kunis ) , an aimless 30 - something who ’s recently been ditch by her boyfriendDrew ( Justin Theroux ) . However , she learns that he ’s actually a undercover agent and he gets her amalgamate up in his existence of espionage . With the help of her in effect friend Morgan ( McKinnon ) , Audrey must go to Europe so as to complete a mission . However , with other spies making contact - includingSebastian ( Sam Heughan)- Audrey is n’t certain who she can swear . apart from Morgan , of course . Together , the friend will have to last their mission and the world of spies .
Related : Screen Rant ’s Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me
Now , Screen Rant sit down with Fogel to talk aboutThe Spy Who floor Meand the author - director utter about her and Colorado - writer David Iserson ’s inspiration for the film , work in the realm of natural action , and what ’s next for her .
Screen ranting : So first off , I have to say , I hump this moving-picture show , I laughed so much .
Susanna Fogel : Oh good ! That make me really happy .
Screen Rant : I wanted to ask , what was your stirring for it ?
Susanna Fogel : The inspiration was actually that my admirer David [ Iserson ] and I were both looking for way to differentiate our modest observational dramedy ideas and stories on a bigger canvas and we were also obsessive witness of action movies . One day I was reading an clause in a newsprint about some undercover agent prank , like genuine lawful story , and I forwarded it to him and I said , ‘ God , if we were just the kind of writers who could compose this , this would make a swell moving-picture show . I ’m sure someone ’s optioned it , I ’m sure someone else had the idea , but oh my god , what if we write this ? We would at last get a picture show made . ’ And then that twenty-four hours at tiffin he said , ‘ Well why do n’t we just seek to do something like that . What if we tried to make Bridesmaids meets Bourne . ’ From then on , we just barrel in front and prove .
Screen Rant : One affair I love about this film is the relationship between Audrey and Morgan , and distaff friendly relationship was at the etymon ofLife Partnersas well . So how was it tackling this friendship as opposed to that one because the musical style are so different ?
Susanna Fogel : Yeah , y’know aboveboard , it was similar in a draw of ways because I imagine despite the framing and the toolbox and the resource of this motion picture , what ’s of import to me is the friendly relationship and I think that ’s the hinge on which everything either work or does n’t . So I do n’t know , trying to really connect to actors who have really never met before we started practise and really get them to talk about their friendships in their life and - it was the same variety of like feisty , feely rehearsal process with both pairs , of figuring out how much we all have in vulgar and how important all of our friendly relationship are in our own personal lives . Once we got into that , we had Kate and Mila , who are both miss who have groovy , deep friendship and a hatful of like passion and groundedness . So , it was different only in the sense that we also had to cope with these other elements , which were stunts and a giant work party and a little bit more potential to have things be a niggling more serious because we had a lot to do . But it was still peachy . I intend , Kate and Mila ’s dynamic and their chemistry is completely literal . Like , the first twenty-four hour period of rehearsal , without having met , Kate just like lay down in Mila ’s lap - I do n’t sleep together why she did that , but that friendship was formed .
Screen Rant : I visit someone made an observation based on the trailer , that Audrey ’s character play shooting video game and that sort of translates into give birth some kind of skill with an actual ordnance and that ’s the kind of regard fulfillment we see with virile characters more often than female characters .
Susanna Fogel : Oh yeah .
Screen Rant : So that was intentional ?
Susanna Fogel : Y’know , it ’s mirthful , when I suppose about the sexuality politics of the moving picture , it ’s mostly … I just compose from a place of my own experience and my own variety of truth , which is that I ’m a girl and that ’s just my reality . So , it ’s only after I ’ve written it that I realise on some level , it becomes political just because it ’s an underrepresented person or type of affair , but it ’s not like it ’s necessarily like the intention of it or advisedly overturn a trope or something . I ’m thrilled that that ’s the outcome . So that was n’t intentional , but it was emphatically significant to me to make a movie where the action is just as good as a guy cable action moving picture and just as real - was n’t softer - and the body fluid was n’t softer because it ’s not really my taste and I did n’t require to palliate it for the sake of some melodic theme of what women want to see because I think women are actually more hardcore than we get credit for .
Screen Rant : So you ’ve done a smaller film and now a great picture , what do you want to do next ?
Susanna Fogel : It ’s interesting , I want to keep doing both . I ’m aim a pilot this fall that ’s very small and dramatic . It ’s not something I wrote , but it ’s this very nuanced , pernicious , kind of My So - Called Life - esque drama . And at the same time I ’m writing a huge Millennial distaff superhero movie , so - the two . Yeah , anything that feels dissimilar . I want to be someone who drive risk , but also stays rent by attempt fresh things . I had a good experience with this movie trying something really dissimilar and just taking the plunge and have it be a great experience where I learned I could do more than I might have thought and I ’d like to see what my limit are in other areas , too .
