Olivia Wilde breaks down Booksmart's pivotal fight scene
Dever and Feldstein play best friends Amy and Molly, who are about to graduate from high school. Their crowning achievement is that they’ve gotten accepted to the best colleges in the country. Then they learn that their classmates who partied their way through high school also got admitted to top universities. With one day left before they graduate, Amy and Molly make it their mission to attend at least one party.
It’s also the first time Amy becomes separated from Molly. “It was a great opportunity to isolate Amy,” says Wilde of the co-dependent friendship. I had dreams about how we’d shoot it and every bit you see was a risk in a way in a movie like this. I’m grateful because there are studios that wouldn’t let me execute this sequence the way that I wanted to. When you see it finished, it works. But when prepping and you’re describing it, people get nervous.
That moment is so much more than her just looking for her crush. It’s about realizing how happy she is. It was important that we had the beats throughout the pool scene that could lead to the fight scene. By the time you are in the middle of that argument, you are carrying all of those emotional steps that Amy has taken. Therefore, it would have a real emotional impact. Often times, in the language of film, we skip steps in the name of efficiency, we can rob ourselves of an emotional impact.
To me, it’s interesting to stage an argument where everyone is right and no one is wrong. It’s not a battle between right and wrong. They’re on different pages and so often, that is what causes our greatest conflicts with the people we love the most. If we were just able to look back at the 10 minutes of someone’s life, we might be able to realize why they’re acting this way.
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