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Film School Rejects: Nia’s Back: Star Talks ‘My Life in Ruins’

  • ANGRYBROOMSTICK · 6 months ago
    no offense, but the questions in the interview are horrible and insulting. Nia Vardolos is an inspiration for female filmmakers and she deserves a better interview than this.
  • Cole_Abaius · 6 months ago
    Wait, why? I don't really care, because we didn't ask most of the questions, but I fail to see what's insulting about them.
  • RobertFure · 6 months ago
    She is just Angry, possibly due to the location of her broomstick.
    BAM. POW. ZING. OH YEAH.

    Or she probably takes offense at a woman being asked about motherhood because a woman is not defined by her vagina. Except, you know, physically and scientifically.
  • Robert Levin · 6 months ago
    The fact of the matter is that were I given a 1:1 exclusive with her I'd have asked different questions, certainly better and more intelligent questions, but this was a roundtable interview and that's not how roundtables work. It's also not a movie that really demands probing analysis; trust me on that one.

    That being said, I fail to see anything insulting about the questions (aside from their slight insipidness) and frankly I'm not sure what makes Nia Vardalos such an inspiration for female filmmakers. Maybe another commenter can enlighten me.
  • kwehle · 6 months ago
    MBFGW was a great indie picture that managed not to get ruined by studios that think they know better than the creator of the story. Many films aren't so lucky.

    As I recall, Vardalos did MBFGW on stage for a long time before it made it to screen. And then, in trying to make the movie, there was talk of her not being in the film though (duh) no one could tell a story about their own family better than that person, who's already been doing it onstage already night after night anyway.

    BTW, can you name other relatively unknown women who've made a picture like that, with a lot of humor, truth, and heart, that wasn't riddled with compromises to the story, in recent times? Well that's why Vardalos is a female indie-film legend.

    Sarah MacLachlan is legend for LilithFair in the 1990s, it was a project that flew in the face of music industry attitudes about an all-female lineup. For more inspiration, see the Big Moo by the Group of 33.