'The Final Girls' Actresses on Real-Life Horror-Comedy Moments

'The Final Girls' Actresses on Real-Life Horror-Comedy Moments
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YH sits down with the ladies of horror comedy 'The Final Girls', including Nina Dobrev, Malin Akerman, Alia Shawkat, Angela Trimbur, and (later) Taissa Farmiga, at SXSW in Austin! The feisty femmes dish on some of their own real-life "horror comedy" moments, talk about how the film addresses old horror movie tropes, and reveal what other movies they would love to be stuck in. Plus, check out Angela's dope moves!
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I am here with the ladies of The Final Girls, which first of all, congrats on the New York Times review.
I mean, it's a Did you guys read it?
You're No, they give you a like amazing review.
Really?
I have it here.
We've been working all day.
We haven't had time.
Yeah.
There you go.
It was really good.
They loved it.
I'm gonna kick things off a little game because this is a horror comedy.
Have you guys ever had a horror comedy in real life?
Yes.
I did a hair show once and they you're sitting on a stage and they're cutting your hair and you don't know what they're doing.
And then you get off stage and all of a sudden you have a mullet.
Uh it was it was fantastic.
I mean yeah, not a lot of people can say they had a mullet.
The sides of my hair grow uh doesn't grow and the back of my hair grows very fast.
So I always have a natural mullet if I don't get a haircut.
Right.
Okay.
So, mullet sisters.
I cut my hair like boy short once like super like Anne Hathaway boy short in the fifth grade, sixth grade, something around that time.
Um and I had to wear dresses so that people knew that I was a girl.
It wasn't a good look.
It wasn't a good look.
Um okay.
Any horror comedy first or blind dates?
Do we have enough time?
One guy cut cut me and What?
Left.
Yeah.
No, I don't know how to answer that question.
Horrible, horrible, just awkward moments of sitting and I can be sarcastic sometimes and when sarcasm goes over someone's head and you just and they sit in silence and you feel like such an idiot.
Right.
Yes.
Any horror, sort of horror, like it was such a, it was so bad.
It was like a horror comedy.
I took it literally.
I was like, I should have said it out better.
I'm sorry.
Um what was the signature dance I'm hearing about and it's going viral and
Oh, uh well, if I had a song, if I had a song I would,
What song do you want?
Don't let me know.
Push me around.
I love you still.
I need you.
I need you.
I got some little stars.
So build me up, buttercup.
That is what I call improvising.
So in this film, you guys, it's you guys are trapped in a movie, your movie.
It's the movie that you filmed years and years and years ago.
If you guys could be real life trapped in any movie, what would it be?
Dirty Dancing.
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Interview with the Vampire, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.
Hello.
Yeah.
Been there, done that.
Oh, no.
I mean, uh uh wait.
What?
Let me clarify.
Guys, I got to stick my tongue down Tom Cruise's ear in Rock of Ages.
Oh yeah.
That's real.
Tell me about this.
No, what's our greater ad?
No, but I would want to be trapped in a movie where there was a time machine element because then I would like never get bored.
Back to the Future.
Back to the Future.
Oh wait, Back to the Future.
Just know the book.
Just know the book.
Yes.
The rights of many wrongs done to women in slasher films are corrected in this film.
What does that mean?
Yes or no answers.
It means this cast is in it, so that was definitely.
Look at us.
We're like independent badass chicks.
Yeah, that kind of thing.
We got to make fun of it in the within the movie, which was great.
So it was a commentary on those really campy bad 80s movies that were great.
And you got to you got to do all that overacting that you know, it was awesome.
You're a really bad actress.
It was great.
It's the one time you have license.
Yes, you can just go.
She got the most license to do that too.
Yeah.
I wasn't allowed to have any thoughts.
Like very naive, dumb, dim-witted.
No, fair.
Going through that brain.
Yeah, like thoughts go out instead of in for this role.
Oh my gosh.
And you clearly all a lot of out and in in this interview, huh?
Um, anyway, you guys, this was a lot of fun.
Congrats on the film.
Hey, thanks, girl.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Nina Dobrev
Actress in 'The Final Girls'
- Malin Akerman
Actress in 'The Final Girls'
- Alia Shawkat
Actress in 'The Final Girls'
- Angela Trimbur
Actress in 'The Final Girls'
- Taissa Farmiga
Actress in 'The Final Girls'
- Anne Hathaway
Referenced for a short haircut
- Brad Pitt
Mentioned in 'Interview with the Vampire'
- Tom Cruise
Mentioned for 'Interview with the Vampire' and 'Rock of Ages'
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