![]() ![]() Greenfield also says it was helpful to “shed” his New Girl character for a bit, but he found that the skills he’s picked up from working on the hit Fox comedy helped him with this film. VIDEO: Tribeca Co-Founders Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal Talk MSG Deal, Hopes For This Year, Future of Festival Everyone goes through that when they turn 30.” “I usually play characters that are a lot younger than me, so I really loved the idea that I could actually play someone that was late 20s and at that time in her life when she’s trying to re-evaluate things and figure out what she wants. “I really loved the character because she was actually my age and going through things that I can relate to, which is rare,” she says. Plaza adds that she also liked that her role in About Alex was much closer to who she really is. “So for me it’s just helpful to break out of doing TV and just do something that’s challenging in different ways.” “Being on TV is a totally different thing than doing independent films,” Plaza tells THR. Many of the film’s stars say that it was the involvement of other actors in the cast that made them want to sign on and some, such as Parks and Recreation‘s Plaza, liked the opportunity it provided to break out of their well-known TV roles. STORY: Nas Documentary ‘Time Is Illmatic’ Opens Tribeca Film Festival With Album-Length Concert ![]() Jesse Zwick, who explains that he was able to learn by observing the behind-the-scenes process on his father’s sets, also says that his experience writing for Parenthood helped him with the ensemble and dramedy qualities of About Alex. I just felt really passionately about this movie. “I hadn’t seen that kind of thing done so articulately before. “I hadn’t seen a movie that really captured this concept of how social media has changed our friendships and that kind of thing,” he says. Saunders says it was the incorporation of social media into that story that hooked him. And it was a story about a group of people who are sort of entering adulthood and maybe their sort of last throes of adolescence, asking themselves what they all still mean to each other.” “We’ve tried throughout the years to stay in touch with each other, but it grows more difficult as we all get older and take jobs and have girlfriends and boyfriends and sort of move on with our lives, so we’ve tried mightily to maintain those bonds. “It was inspired, in certain ways, by a real group of college friends that I had,” Jesse Zwick tells THR. STORY: Hillary Clinton Supports Chelsea’s Producer Debut at ‘Of Many’ Tribeca Screening The Big Chill-like film focuses on a group of college friends who reunite for a weekend away after drifting apart following graduation. “And he sent me the script and asked my opinion of it, and I said, ‘It’s amazing, and you have to let me produce it.’ He said, ‘It’s not my decision it’s Jesse’s, so he introduced me to Jesse, and I was lucky enough to have Jesse choose me to produce it.” “I met Ed through our last movie he sort of mentored us,” Saunders explains to The Hollywood Reporter. He also helped get the film’s primary producer, Adam Saunders, on board. ![]()
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