Rachel Ziegler and the A24 team Y2K I enjoyed describing a favorite scene in which a group of fleeing high school students slide, stumble, and crash down a hill into an overflowing potty
“So, like, the big thing — let’s nip it in the bud — the big thing was a mixture of hot chocolate with glycerin, so it smelled amazing,” said star of the disaster comedy Kyle Mooney, which premiered at SXSW tonight. “That’s really confusing.”
The porta potty was “on its side, under bumps. “Yes, it was actually bouncing up and down,” Ziegler said. “And you can see the beautiful (co-star) Jayden Martell here was covering my ears because I kept talking about I don’t want water in my ears. And Evan kept saying ‘take your hand off her ear, we can’t see her face,'” she said in a Q&A after the show. “But The shot that was used was of Jaeden protecting my ears.”
“The actual year 2000 was a disappointment if you lived through it. So, it was fun to reimagine it,” Mooney said. So his version is not benign. The 1990s are there, from the Tipper Gore reference to dial-up Internet.
“I found a video on YouTube from my friend Curtis Connor, where he was watching a VHS tape. Yes, he was watching a VHS tape of the 2000 Survival Guide. And I thought that was the weirdest thing.
Mooney said that on New Year’s Day 2019, “after a party to celebrate with Evan and our friends, I texted him that there should be a movie about two kids going to a party at Y2k on December 31, 1999. And things quickly went wrong. And a few things… that you see on the screen and happen.
Winter: “I woke up so dumbfounded and I just read this script, which is sort of a finished idea. I was like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
The film stars Julian Dennison, Lachlan Watson, Daniel Zolghadry, Mason Gooding, and The Kid LaRoy.
Produced by Johan Hill, Matt Deans, Alison Goodwin, Chris Storer, Cooper Wehde, Evan Weiner.