EXCLUSIVE: Cooper Raiff can’t seem to catch a break from Covid. A hyphenate who comes into Sundance with one of the buzziest acquisitions titles in Cha Cha Real Smooth, Raiff is coming off th…
— it’s more thoughtful than it sounds — that won the Grand Jury Prize at 2020 SXSW. Unfortunately, it was also the first major festival forced to cancel in-person events by Austin when Covid exploded. Raiff has made another charming confused young man comes of age film that he wrote, directed, produced and starred in. And now has run smack into Covid Delta’s sequel, Omicron.
DEADLINE: You’ve taken a real jump with Cha Cha, mining a more sophisticated and emotional storyline. There aren’t that many filmmakers who handle as many jobs on their early films as you do. Do you have a North Star, a filmmaker or film that sparked you to mine this relationship drama with comedic overtones?Growing up, they were the guys; I watched all their movies and fell deeply in love with everything they were doing. I just watched Jay’s pilot,for HBO.
DEADLINE: Even though it loomed over Shithouse and Cha Cha Real Smooth with their festival premieres, were you able to make the film without being shut down?: We didn’t shut down, at all. We got out totally alive. No one got Covid on set, which felt like a miracle. I joked the other day in an interview that maybe the third time will be the charm, because both my first two experiences didn’t turn out well with an in-person festival, and I got mad at myself.
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