![]() That scene feels like a turning point for your character. NADWORNY: One night there's the scene where Tara is drunk and dancing and all you hear is her breathing and the pounding of the music. So it was, like, an interesting comparison that they were sort of drawing to that meant, you know, yes is yes, basically. WALKER: Yeah, you know, it would say, like, very clearly in the stage directions that Tara was very uncomfortable, and they would be like, but she said yes, so that's fine. NADWORNY: You know, without giving anything away, is it true that in workshops before filming, girls who read assault scenes from the film didn't consider what was being described as assault? ![]() That's it for her, which just goes to show, you know, we're getting pressures from from all angles without having the tools to actually talk about it and understand what, what that means. And one of her lines is literally, I don't want to die a virgin, which is hilarious because, I mean, we're looking at young girls that are, like, 16 years old and she thinks, you know, if she doesn't lose her virginity on this holiday, that's it. MCKENNA-BRUCE: Yeah, so when we first meet Tara, she's a virgin, and we see the girls discussing a lot that she is going to lose her virginity on this holiday. What's her relationship to sex in this movie? So constantly trying to live up to the expectations of what people have of her, which I think is one of the things that resonates with a lot of people when they watch this film. And she does have this incredible energy, but then feels like she's got to continue with this energy, you know, even when she's not feeling like she wants to. MCKENNA-BRUCE: Yeah, I mean, Tara kind of embodies that period of youth, you know, where you would really think you're a lot older than what you are, and you're kind of figuring it all out. Can you just start by telling us about her? NADWORNY: (Laughter) Mia, your character Tara starts off as this ball of energy. Like, is there anything you want? And I was like, a drone shot of the pool. And then, like, halfway through the shoot, the line producer came to me and was like, we're kind of under budget. WALKER: And we picked the right hotel, I guess. NADWORNY: Yeah, you're like, I'm spot on, actually, in making this movie. WALKER: And I guess that says a lot about kind of the environment and the sort of expectations of the environment. And we're like, is the pool a penis shape? And turns out the pool was a penis shape. It wasn't until like a later date where we were all standing on the roof for a tech recce, and we were all looking at the pool and our heads like kind of craned. And we spent a long time scouting, and I guess we sort of eventually settled on probably the most party hotel in the resort, which is, like, right next to all the clubs. The production design or the costuming was all sort of referenced from vlogs and TikTok. We hired a documentary cinematographer, so that was one of the main things. I wonder if you could just talk about kind of that world-building, and especially I'm interested in the pool, Molly. There's like this emotional roller coaster of it all. NADWORNY: One of the things in the film that really struck me is the storytelling felt so realistic, that kind of drunken chaos and confusion, the head-spinning feeling of being at a frat party and kind of not knowing where your friends are. NADWORNY: So it's probably already clear to our listeners that we're going to be discussing things that might not be suitable for children who may be listening, but that's also, in a way, kind of what this movie is about - that middle period when people are doing adult things with bodies and brains that aren't necessarily fully formed yet. ![]() Some of the memories are like the best memories of my life, and then some of them are obviously more complicated. I went on, like, maybe six of them between the ages of 16 and 20. They described it as like going into battle. MCKENNA-BRUCE: It's kind of - someone described it to me a couple weeks ago, and I was like, that's it. MCKENNA-BRUCE: For me, it was - I mean, pretty much what you see in the film. NADWORNY: Did either of you do a spring break trip like this before? Like, can you relate to this experience in the film? For 16-year-old British teens Tara, Em and Skye, it's off to Greece for a holiday of clubbing and carousing on Crete in the new movie "How To Have Sex." Molly Manning Walker wrote and directed it. Partying on Lake Havasu, crowding into a hotel room at Panama City Beach, Cancun or Cabo - the spring break trip, a so-called rite of passage.
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