This is why ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ is not the typical transformation film.
When the director and Broadway playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo talks about his directorial debut, the film “Brittany Runs a Marathon,” he stays relatively focused on his experience making that movie: working with the lead actress Jillian Bell, shooting in New York City, premiering it at Sundance — where Colaizzo had to ask the theater manager to turn up the movie’s audio because the audience was laughing so hard.
“And that’s the truth in life,” Colaizzo says. “My goal was when people left this movie, they saw themselves, able to see parallels between the character and the story of your own life.” The first few discussions Bell and Colaizzo had consisted of their relaying to each other just how scared and terrified and frightened they both were — the director was doing his first film, the actress in her first starring role. They ended up clicking so positively that Bell signed on to become a producer. They talked daily for almost seven months, discussing scenes, wanting to make sure every line had purpose and intention.
Paul Downs Colaizzo and Jillian Bell at a screening of the film at the Metrograph Theater in New York. Todd Williamson/January Images/Shutterstock
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