I always wanted to be directing and writing and stuff. I think she's really inspirational as a director and a writer. I don't always agree with what Julie Delpy says, but I think she's just fiercely creative, and I think she doesn't wait to be put in stuff. It doesn't make her a bad person, but also she doesn't need to be a good person necessarily either. She doesn't always make the right decision. I think characters like Jessie are inspired by those roles. And I think Julie Delpy would always play characters who are just absolutely mad and they would do unpredictable things and they were impulsive and they were interesting and quite challenging. Because often they're only one dimensional, or they're there to be the moral compass of the story or the mother or the person you go to to get advice.
She's pretty fucked up." But flaws are what makes the character complex, and so that just more reflects how underwritten female characters are. Like, "Oh, Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown. I think there are a lot of spaces for flawed female characters in television, but it's strangely always something to write about. Because I think in the series, Jessie is a very flawed character, but you like her, hopefully. And particularly, I realize maybe in retrospect Julie Delpy. I think the Before Sunrise trilogy has always been an inspiration. I'm so deeply attracted to you but also I could throw something at you right now.Īmong the women she considers reference points, Matafeo cites the real (Shirley MacLaine) and the fictional (Jo March from Little Women ), but she reserves some of her effusiveness for French star Julie Delpy. I love the combination of people arguing like crazy, but also basically having sex mad as well. Something like Barefoot in the Park was quite a cool example of newlywed new love with the arguments that happen.
So that was a definite inspiration, I think. Don't be with someone who drives you crazy. But the reality of that is that's terrible. That's such a trope, the ex-husband that drove you crazy, but you have to end up together with him. Spoiler alert, that does not happen because you realize that they're actually a nightmare. It's that annoying ex where usually they end up back together with them. That relationship was a real big inspiration for the Ben character. The scene where Jessie's ex-boyfriend comes and offers her a job, the audio is the scene in His Girl Friday where Cary Grant is trying to get Rosalind Russell to come back and work at the paper. And I keep trying to get people to add this to IMDB trivia. That's the film they're showing in episode four. So just watching people be happy is very boring and there's no stakes to that. Maybe I'm just a cynical bitch, but I don't find relationships terribly interesting all the time.
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And I think because that's been clearly confirmed by the end, series 2 is very much tackling the actual reality of being in a relationship. The first series is, I guess, the blueprint of a lot of rom coms, what they usually are, which is missed connections and coming into each other's lives and not knowing if the other person likes you. Meanwhile, Matafeo managed to work some of her biggest influences into the series as Easter Eggs. Jessie works at a cinema and hosts a discussion club with some eager older ladies. Both Jessie and her creator/portrayer are classic film nerds, and Matafeo has found ways to work her own opinions into the series, including her wild take that Bringing Up Baby is overrated.
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