A hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival, 'Palm Springs' is a breakout film role for Cristin Milioti, the mother from TV's 'How I Met Your Mother' who also was a Tony nominee.
There is a love story, but Milioti, 34 – the mother from TV's “How I Met Your Mother” who also was a Tony nominee for the Broadway musical “Once” – views"Palm Springs" more as “an existential comedy,” she says. “It speaks to how often we try to escape ourselves and our lives, and when you're made to sit in the choices you've made or the things that have happened to you, it can be wildly uncomfortable and you try everything in your power to run away from it.
So the movie was"wildly universal" already,"and then obviously all of us having these feelings of repeating the same day over and over, it became eerily prescient in that way as well,” adds Milioti, who was halfway through filming the new HBO Max comedy series “Made for Love” when COVID-19 shut production down.
USA TODAY talks with the New Jersey native, who’s quarantining in California with her dog Rupert , about the new film, bad weddings and Black Lives Matter.It would be genreless, honestly. So much has happened during this time, both incredibly shattering and then incredibly galvanizing and hopeful. It would be like a four-hour epic.I had my script on me at all times.
Q: Of all the shenanigans Sarah gets into during her infinite time loop – choreographed bar-room dancing, stealing an airplane, learning quantum physics – what would make your bucket list?I'd probably do a bunch of the stuff she does at the wedding, like really with people. And maybe the dance sequence as well.I was a guest at a wedding once where I didn't know anyone, and it was a country wedding in this field.
Q: I saw on your Instagram that you attended the recent Black Lives Matter protests. What was that like?It was beautiful. It's really a testament to the change that people want to see in this country that 30,000 of us – in just one city on just one day – took to the streets during a global pandemic to demand change and to stand with the black people in this country who have suffered atrocities that are unspeakable.
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