Alison Brie worked with Jeff Baena on four films and remembers him as a director who wanted to ‘bring people out’
Alison Brie is recalling the amazing experience she had with Aubrey Plaza’s late husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena, just weeks after his unexpected death.
Brie worked with Baena on four films, with the two cowriting and producing Horse Girl and Spin Me Round together. “There was a magic about working with Jeff — he could sell people on this magic artistic situation,” she continued. “It wasn’t about, ‘Let’s see if this person can act this role.’ It was about, ‘Let’s get a great collection of people and hang with them.’”
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