We chat with ImTotallyFine star Jillian Bell about improvising with Natalie Morales, finding the comedy in tragedy, and how she'd react if an alien that looked like her best friend showed up at her house:
In I'm Totally Fine, Jillian Bell's Vanessa gets to spend one last weekend with her best friend Jennifer . After the tragic death of her business partner and best friend, Vanessa retreats to the desert for a getaway when an alien taking on the form of Jennifer arrives to study the human response to grief and loss. Naturally, Vanessa is both shocked and comforted by the presence of this Jennifer lookalike as she learns to move on.
We had just gotten into lockdown, and everything was out of our control, and he was talking about what that's like; to know you're out of control, and just go with it. And I thought that was a great theme for a movie. When they presented what the movie would actually be about, I was like, "Oh, it's so bizarre. We have to get the right person to be my buddy and co-star."
I thought that this could be hopefully the one, and it was great. Because of COVID, we shot it in November or December of 2020. It was pre-vaccine, so everything was on lockdown. We shared a house together and shot with about 20 cast and crew total, which is a totally different experience than what normally goes into making a movie. But the craziest thing is that they had this idea at the beginning of the pandemic, and then we were shooting by December 2020, which is not a [long] period of time.
Despite her being an alien, the love between Vanessa and Jennifer comes through so well. As an actor, how do you tap into that and combine this grief and humor into one amazing comedic, dramatic, heartfelt performance? Jillian Bell: There were definitely time restrictions because we had 10 days to get everything. But we found ways to make it work and improvise some bits. Definitely, the whole scene of me before the alien arrives, where I'm getting drunk by myself, is all improvised. And some of my favorite lines were. Natalie improvised that her favorite song is [Electric Boogie], which just made me laugh. There are some little moments throughout.
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