The cast of ‘Rosaline,' including Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Kyle Allen, Sean Teale, and Minnie Driver are joined by Director Karen Maine to discuss Hulu’s hilarious twist on ‘Romeo & Juliet.’ Watch as they discuss their favorite recreated scenes and characters, past works like ‘Booksmart’ and ‘Will and Grace,’ and future projects like Sony’s 'Madame Web.'
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00:00When you were working endlessly, me and Kyle had some time and we really did develop a bromance.
00:05I was like, what a shame that we let this Rosalind get in the way of our good times.
00:10Shall we?
00:10Whatever.
00:11Have a good time.
00:18What's something new you feel like you guys have brought to Romeo and Juliet
00:21that we've yet to see in books before?
00:23Because, you know, obviously it's such a character that's been played so many times.
00:28I think we get to see them outside of the relationship that we normally see them in,
00:32outside of the settings that we normally see them in.
00:35I think it's important to do that with these love stories and these female characters that
00:40we know to be kind of one-dimensional and kind of motivated by love as opposed to motivated by,
00:47you know, the self-seeking kind of tendencies.
00:51So I think, you know, we get to see Juliet find herself in a way and then at the end
00:56realize, you know, what she actually wants.
00:58They didn't teach that in school.
01:00Wait till you get to page 74.
01:02What about you, Kyle?
01:03I think that Romeo is seldom played as ridiculous as he is.
01:11And I think I got to sort of show up and be about as ridiculous as Romeo actually,
01:21actually is.
01:23I think he's clueless and I really got to play into that.
01:26I never saw true beauty until this night.
01:29Why are you talking like that?
01:30What I really, I mean, what drew me to the script was that it's very much
01:34kind of a coming-of-age story of a young woman really finding her voice.
01:39And, you know, she thinks at the beginning of the film that she's,
01:43you know, already found it and that she's sort of railing against all these
01:48pressures that are put upon her as kind of an open-minded
01:52woman in a very closed-minded world, which was Renaissance,
01:57at least in terms of how women were treated.
02:00I'd rather eat rotten goat innards.
02:04I don't want an arranged marriage.
02:06You're a woman.
02:08You're not supposed to talk about what you want.
02:10I just like to, I'm drawn to projects where women, you know,
02:14feel like women I know or feel like myself.
02:17And I feel like Rosalind could easily be me.
02:21And she's very stubborn and headstrong in the beginning
02:24and thinks she knows everything.
02:26And then, you know, her world is kind of exploded open
02:29and she, at the end, you know, finds what she needs.
02:33And I just think that's a classic story.
02:35Really beautiful that anyone can relate to at any age in their life and any gender.
02:41Star-crossed lovers that couldn't live apart.
02:43That's pretty good.
02:45What classic, like, Romeo and Juliet moment was, like,
02:48the most fun for you to put a twist on?
02:51Oh, um, I mean, I guess even starting with the opening.
02:57I mean, this obviously isn't a part of the original Romeo and Juliet,
03:00but it's sort of the audience kind of first thinks,
03:03oh, you see this woman on a balcony.
03:05She's calling Romeo.
03:06Who is this woman?
03:07And I think that that was a really fun little moment to sort of, like,
03:11trick the audience into thinking that this is a Romeo and Juliet story.
03:15Yes, it's adjacent.
03:17Yes.
03:17Like, it is the same, but it's not.
03:19Right.
03:19By yonder blessed moon I vow I shall speak.
03:25Okay.
03:25Are you okay?
03:26No.
03:27Solely in a selfish way because it was a fun day filming it,
03:30but the death scene.
03:31Oh, yes.
03:32We put Aspen on it and the death scene in the movie was just great.
03:36It was all of us together in this big, beautiful church
03:39and we just laughed for two days, actually.
03:42So that was, for me, that was it,
03:43because actually the rest of my story doesn't involve Romeo and Juliet at all.
03:48So I didn't put a spin on Romeo and Juliet at all.
03:51Definitely the scene at the end where we believe the lovers are dead in the crypt
03:54and in our story they're not actually dead
04:00was very difficult to do because you do have grieving parents,
04:04but you also have this comedic moment of,
04:07um, you know, Rosalind looking at Juliet,
04:11telling her to pretend to stay dead and looking at me to try and...
04:15Whilst also Caitlin's character, Rosalind, has this wonderful moment
04:18where she really gets to speak to the two warring houses and say,
04:23pull yourselves together, why are you always fighting?
04:26So there's, I think it's my favourite scene
04:28because it's this wonderful coming together, it's artful,
04:31it's really well written and I think it's very well acted.
04:34They couldn't live in peace.
04:37At least let them rest in it.
04:42I love, I don't know if you have one,
04:45I really loved when I'm kind of just sitting in my room and Rosalind surprises me
04:50and then you hear Romeo outside going,
04:52throwing rocks at my window and going like,
04:54Juliet!
04:55And I'm like, I don't know what, I gotta get rid of him.
04:57And so seeing that kind of similar setting that we're used to seeing
05:01but then a completely different backstory as to how it goes down
05:05is really incredible to me and refreshing and it's funny
05:09because she's getting her lines from Rosalind, which Romeo has no clue.
05:16So you're gonna break them up?
05:17Of course I am, Romeo and Juliet.
05:19Doesn't even sound right.
05:21I absolutely loved the soundtrack and the things you got to do with them.
05:24I was wondering how fun it was to work with those modern songs in a classic setting.
05:30Yeah, it was great.
05:31I mean, I wanted the music to really encapsulate that anachronistic feeling
05:36between old and new that's present in the film.
05:40So we took songs from all recent decades
05:46and put a sort of old renaissance spin on them
05:50by using period instrumentation that we actually recorded.
05:54Lutes, flutes, harpsichord, harp, organ,
05:58all sorts of things to give it a kind of older feel
06:02but obviously still recognizable and modern
06:06which is what the general film is going for in general.
06:10So it was really fun to do a renaissance cover of Dancing on My Own by Robert.
06:17I mean, who could?
06:19It's a dream.
06:20So we did that with so many other songs.
06:24I think it's really great.
06:26I just wonder if all this drama is adding to the attraction.
06:31Kind of in honor of this film,
06:33is there any side character from one of your other movies
06:36or personal favorite movies that you'd like to see explored
06:39from another perspective after watching this film?
06:42Good question.
06:43Okay.
06:45That's going to be tough.
06:46I got it.
06:47You got it already?
06:48Go, go, go.
06:49So Booksmart.
06:51I think seeing Noah Galvin and exploring his perspective
06:58would be a dream come true.
07:01I mean, his character is just, George is just iconic
07:07and I'd love to see a George film.
07:10I will be directing and Alan may be starring pending auditions.
07:17He is fantastic and that whole film is amazing.
07:20That character is so, so good.
07:22Yeah.
07:22What other side characters would we like?
07:24I mean, I'm sure there's some side characters in Superbad
07:27that had just flashes of being in it.
07:30I'm blanking completely on any movie I've ever seen,
07:33obviously, because you just asked that question.
07:37My pick for you is Billie Lourd.
07:38So perfect.
07:39I'm so happy you said it.
07:40That's what my next thing, I was going to say,
07:42like maybe Billie Lourd would be an amazing,
07:44and she's also iconic in that.
07:47No, no.
07:50Both, honestly, both of them.
07:52Both of them.
07:52They could be in the movie together.
07:53Let's talk to Hulu.
07:54All right.
07:55All right.
07:55Well, I mean, no, I mean, seriously,
07:59Lorraine Finster on Will & Grace needed her own spinoff for sure.
08:04I would like to see her in lots of different shows.
08:08I wouldn't dream of not being here.
08:10I also love the character that I play on Starstruck,
08:13which funnily enough, Karen Mayne directed.
08:17I play a really terrible agent,
08:19and I would really like her to be in something else.
08:23I should fire you.
08:24Oh, you're not going to fire me.
08:26A star has formed you.
08:27There's a few.
08:28I mean, yeah.
08:30God, I could go on.
08:31I could go on and on.
08:33I love the character in Big Night.
08:34I want to know what happened to her.
08:3750s girl on the Jersey Shore,
08:38just treated badly by Stanley Tucci.
08:43I don't know.
08:45Maybe every supporting character I've played,
08:47I'd love to know what happened to them.
08:49I want to explore Steve the Courier from this film.
08:52I want him to have his own movie in the sequel
08:55because he's just incredible
08:56and probably my favorite character in this movie.
09:00Yeah, 100%.
09:02I think it was discussed at length on set
09:05that I would love for there to be a spinoff romance
09:09between Romeo and Dario
09:12because I just feel like everyone can fall in love with Dario
09:16and Romeo falls in love with everyone.
09:17So it'd be a great story.
09:20I just think they'd have a great bromance.
09:23That'd be fun.
09:24I would love that.
09:26We got so excited when we saw each other on set.
09:28We were like, we actually have a moment
09:30to actually do something.
09:31And we'd spend the whole summer together.
09:33We did a lot of historical tours together.
09:35We spent a lot of time just riffing
09:37because being around Kyle is a day very well spent,
09:40as you know.
09:41I mean, with anyone.
09:42Me and Kyle had a lot of...
09:43When you were working endlessly,
09:46me and Kyle had some time
09:47and we really did develop a bromance.
09:49So I was like, what a shame
09:50that we let this Rosalind get in the way of our good time.
09:54So I would happily do a spinoff
09:56as long as we could do some more too.
09:57I would have a spinoff.
09:59We have one moment at the end of the movie
10:00where he tries to speak to me.
10:02That moment is so good.
10:03I'm really glad they get that in.
10:05It's so good.
10:07And it's the most that we got
10:08and it's the only thing we get
10:09and it's quite special to both of us.
10:11So I'd love to do that with Kyle.
10:13Anything with Kyle would be great.
10:16Okay, buddy.
10:18I'm so excited to see Kyle as T-Man
10:20and Isabella in the Spider-Verse.
10:23I was wondering what your reactions were
10:25getting to be part of these upcoming
10:27high profile projects.
10:31Kyle?
10:32Go for it.
10:33I'd love to know, Isabella,
10:35how excited you are.
10:37I'm excited.
10:40I am excited.
10:44Very excited.
10:46So I like the Spider-Verse.
10:51I just, you know,
10:52discovered the Miles Morales game
10:55on the PS4.
10:58So that's very fun.
10:59I hope there's a Madame Web game too.
11:01I'm very, very excited to see this universe
11:04kind of play out.
11:06As one might say, suspiciously.
11:10Well, that was awkward.