We chat with TheDropMovie stars jillianbell and Joshua Leonard about the existential exploration at the heart of their hulu comedy and making a film without a script:
Currently available to stream on Hulu, The Drop is dark cringe comedy with an outlandish, yet compelling premise. The film was directed by Sarah Adina Smith and originated from Smith's inclination to approach Force Majeure from a female perspective. Starring Anna Konkle and Jermaine Fowler, it follows the story of Lex and Mani—a married couple who are ready to expand their family.
Jillian Bell: I think when I read the logline, I did something like [gasps]—like that. Then I just kept going and there were more gasps as I went on and that, to me, is a juicy script. There was a scriptment for this, it was a little bit different, and the idea of being able to work with these brilliant actors and get to improvise, but we have the scriptment to know where we're going and what the arc of every scene was...it was just such a joy.
Jillian Bell: There's no way that that happens within your friend group, and you don't go home that night having the conversation of it. Of, "What would you do if that was me?" I found that so interesting. At the beginning of the scriptment, it describes all the different characters. I'm like, "What are they going to think? Are they a baby dropper? Are they not? Do they think they're too good for that?" So I found it fascinating.
This technically wasn't scripted, and you said some of it was improv. Can you give some more insight into what that looked like as an actor and as a writer?
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