Which Guy Madelyn & Zoey Deutch Fangirled Over Most in A Year of Spectacular Men

Hey guys, you're hanging out in the Young Hollywood studio with Madelin and Zoey Deutch. How's it going, guys?

Hi!

Thanks for having us.

Now, who's older? Who's younger?

I'm older.

Three and a half years older.

Yeah. So who's more mature though? Cuz see my little sister's more mature than me. She's like four years younger.

I would say you're definitely more mature than.

Really? I don't think. I think different things. I think in different areas. We're really different. So when it comes to like business, she's brilliant. And I'm like so do I press send if I want someone to get the email? Or like I'm not totally sure how to do this thing.

Yeah, but I have younger sibling syndrome. So I walk in for I'm like, pay attention to me. Like I need to love. Yeah, thanks. I'm here. Yeah.

Or like you'll ask me questions that you don't need to ask me.

Oh, I've never.

You'll be like I've got black converse and white converse. Which converse? And I'm like, really? Honestly, like any converse will do.

Every Every Every time I've ever gotten my nails done, I've texted her like, should I do ballet slippers or should I go for something else? Just something crazy? Like I can't even make it.

That's sweet cuz you respect her opinion, right? It's like you you get each other's advice.

Is this too codependent?

It's very codependent. Super codependent.

See, that's fine.

But we're we're we're we're we're working on. We're heavily in therapy. Question mark.

So how did you guys get into the whole acting world? How did you guys get into this together?

We just grew up in it. Like I think so people know about our mom and our our dad, you know, our dad's been a director for a million years. Our mom's been an actress for such a long time. But they don't know that our family actually has been in entertainment for really even longer than that. Our our grandpa was like the head of music publishing for United Artists. Gave Buddy Holly his first publishing contracts. Stuff like that. So it's it's been really around forever. We're just super entrenched in it. And I feel like it's kind of enmeshed with our sort of makeup as human beings.

I think I definitely agree with you that um it is embedded in our DNA via Osmosis. We've picked up on so many different things that would be hard to identify. They just are in us. But I also think that it comes from a different place too. I was reading too. Cuz yeah, it's like when you grow up in a family of doctors, you'll probably be a doctor, you know? At least they hope you will be. It's it's just what you're used to.

I think they hope we would be doctors too.

I was just about to say, they were really hoping we'd be doctors. They tell her like, Zoey, you can stop anytime. You can go go to law school. You can do it whenever you want. You just go.

It's good cuz you guys got to work on this movie together as a family, right? You guys and your mom. You produced it, right? You wrote the screenplay.

I wrote the screenplay and I wrote the score for the movie. And I starred in it alongside her. So we just did this so we could like give each other jobs. Get each other employed.

To be able to have some semblance of control in an environment where you're usually at the mercy of so many other people's so many strangers' opinions and decisions and wants and needs and to be able to, you know, start it from the ground up and have it be as grassroots and personal as it was, um this will be forever one of the most special things that I've been a part of.

You're post-breakup. You're pre-real world. Why don't you take the year for yourself? You're a millennial. You can try the whole like having fun in your 20s thing. Smooth move. Bet you get a lot of girls on their backs every day. I'll work on that one some more.

So The Year of Spectacular Men. I already love the title.

Thank you.

So Zoey, can you tell us about the movie?

Uh, so So it's a sci-fi thriller. Takes place on his tropical thriller, futuristic. The Year of Spectacular Men is about a girl named Izzy. She's 22. She gets out of college and doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, which I think is a huge um sort of issue that's kind of swept my generation. I call it millennialitis. She is sort of floundering. She moves from New York back to her hometown of Los Angeles to move in with her younger sister who happens to be, funny you should ask, a lot more mature than her. And it's about five guys she dates over the course of this year. There's these five love stories that happen, but ultimately the movie is really about it's a love story between sisters. Four sisters, made by sisters. So that's you can have the dynamic.

But you're the more mature one in the movie, right? Technically. And you have like a full-time boyfriend, but you get to flirt with a lot of cute boys in the movie, right?

So many cute boys.

How did you choose the boys?

Zoey had done Vampire Academy with Cameron Monaghan and she had done a movie called Good Kids. Good Kids with Nick Braun. And so we began there because I became friends with both Nick and Cameron through Zoey and we had good relationships with them. I sort of sent them the script very early and was like, is this something you'd be interested in? Nick was the first person to sign on. He was so generous and he made me really believe in myself as a writer. He was like, he really gave me the confidence to believe in the script because it was the first person outside the family who was like, no, no, this is good. Yeah. And I love him forever for that. And then from there, uh really for me personally though, I mean, Brandon T. Jackson is such a star. He's so amazing in the movie. He's so good. And Zach Roerig as well. Um but for me, I really freaked out when we cast Jesse Bradford cuz Bring It On was my favorite film ever ever ever growing up. Yeah. So I was really geeking on a level. Jesse, I'm sorry. It was really I freaked out. It comes out. I freaked out.

Well, thanks guys so much. I can't wait to see the movie. You guys have to check out The Year of Spectacular Men. Woo!

Yay!

Thank you for having us.

Thanks guys.