Kristen Stewart is crediting The Wrong Girls writer-director Dylan Meyer’s script for giving the cast room to improvise, saying the strongest moments on set came from unplanned chemistry rather than anything scripted. The Neon film also stars Alia Shawkat, and the two play “two codependent best friends living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip” who “get caught in a case of mistaken identity that throws their lives into chaos.” The stars exclusively spoke to BLKCinema.com ahead of the film’s release.
How much of ‘The Wrong Girls’ was improvised?
Stewart said Meyer’s script functioned as a foundation the cast could build off of once cameras started rolling.
“The script was like incredible framework, like a really nice soft, like, funny, flotation device to then let us like blast off into whatever like impulsivity that we found on set,” she said. “Like, I would say the funniest stuff is probably written, but then the stuff that feels the most like joy, you can’t plan for when you’re actually gonna like crack someone up. Like you don’t know when the moment is gonna be when you’re just like, ‘I love you so much, dude.’”
Stewart said Meyer built the script with enough openness to let those moments happen naturally, adding, “So those are like the things that I think Dylan had all the room for it, but then also like just like hopeful expectation, like if you choose the right people, then they’re gonna like pop off.”
What does Kristen Stewart say the movie is really about?
Despite the film’s chaotic premise, Stewart said Meyer was deliberate about keeping the story grounded in the central friendship at its core.
“I think that’s again, a lot to Dylan’s writing, and it was like so important to her that even though all this like crazy shit’s happening around them and very surreal, unrealistic stuff, that at the core it is about a friendship, and are they growing away from each other and like the fear of like your best friend moving out and things changing, like that’s really the core of the movie is what it’s about, you know,” she said. “And playing that with like all kind of earnestness and like the emotional drama of that is actually there.”
Stewart added that the emotional stakes are what make the film’s more absurd elements work. She explained, “I think that’s what makes the surreal stuff fly because at the end of the day, it’s just about like, ‘Oh, I’m so glad the squid didn’t eat you, But also, I love you, dude, you know, like that’s really the most important part. I feel like I haven’t told you that enough lately [laughs].’”
The Wrong Girls also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Zach Fox, Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Kate McKinnon, Tony Hale and Geena Davis.
The Wrong Girls is in theaters now.
Featured image photo credit: Neon
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