David Duchovny and Meg Ryan discuss their new movie What Happens Later

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Meg and David talk about how they met, filming their new movie What Happens Later (directed by Meg) and shooting in an actual airport in Arkansas, visiting the original Walmart, a mystery celebrity voice that comes over the PA system in their film, Meg visiting the town of Dildo in Newfoundland with Carrie Fisher, and David getting questioned by

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[alwayspolaris]

I absolutely want more romcoms (especially mid budget) and I'm glad to see our romcom queens are back/there's more later in life romcoms, but I think I'd also really like to see some fresh-never-frozen faces and a little more diversity in casting and storytelling. I actually just watched Rye Lane on hulu and it was a delight!

I'm also hoping we can also have more happy queer romcoms (no cheating or hate crimes or sad endings) that AREN'T set in high school and are above Hallmark level quality - obviously those can exist too I just want more content in general. It's a bit older but I highly recommend Big Eden if you can find it anywhere. I never see that one on anyone's lists but it's so sweet and healing.

[waffletaco]

this movie was so damn weird.
It's like a disney fairy tail live action film.
NOOOTHING was realistic, hah. All those small town mountain people would NOT be giddy about getting 2 gays together.

Also, the world that they create in this movie seems to show how accepting people are to gays, but the white leads former love of his life (the divorced father), doesn't want to be gay because he's sort of embarrassed/ashamed. When they were making out, he stops and is like " i cant..."

And at the end of the movie, they show him smiling at a new woman, so i guess he'll have a happy ending. A repressed homosexuality happy ending.

But it was cute i guess.

/random thoughts.

[alwayspolaris]

I liked the unrealistic aspect, that's part of the romcom manual. Nowhere has cute small town neighbors or even friends getting them together, that's purely fiction but also very fun. But then again my coworkers absolutely do not get homosexuality, but they're nosey and match-makey enough that they'll at least get excited and try and inquire any time I mention a woman I might be interested in - though they stop short of trying to devise situations to get us together. Just every time we chat outside of work they ask about my love life and "that girl (you) talked about" and they've even asked to see photos. They're trying at least.

To my reading of the the film, the former love of his life isn't actually gay, he just loves his best friend and tries to give it a shot because he loves his friend/wants them both to be happy. I don't think he's repressed, just less flexible than he hoped. I think we've all been with a person who confused platonic affection with sexual attraction 🙃 And the two of them were both grieving, which can double mess up emotional awareness.

Actually, one did try to set up a situation - she wanted to put me at the singles table at her wedding so I could meet someone. I asked if she actually knew any other gay women besides me, and she actually went to ask her fiance if there was anyone gay on the guest list - there wasn't, lol. But an attempt was made. My labmates are from fairly homophobic countries/small towns but sometimes people make exceptions for friends and neighbors.