I received travel accommodations courtesy of Sony to attend this press junket.
I was very excited when I was invited with a group of select bloggers to attend the Press Junket in LA for #SexTapeMovie starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel.
During the junket I got to view a pre-screening of the movie and interview Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Director Jake Kasdan all while staying at the luxurious Four Seasons in Beverly Hills!
Interview with Jake Kasdan, Director of Sex Tape
I was very excited to chat with Director Jake Kasdan. He has directed and produced some great movies and TV shows that I am a big fan of (Bad Teacher, New Girl & now Sex Tape to name a few).
I loved the down to earth vibe he gave off; he seems like a really nice guy!
In a movie of this intimate nature was it nice to have already broken the ice with your two lead actors on Bad Teacher?
Jake: Absolutely, there’s no doubt. There was this great head start on it because we all really knew each other, knew each other together, knew each other independently. We had already had a great experience the three of us, and I know both of them really well. They had broken the ice on the first movie in a way that I think was great. And set up a movie where they were going to be really together in a lot of different ways the whole movie.
What is the biggest challenge in filming a comedy like this?
Jake: I think you are sort of figuring it out every day. This one was a really pleasant, fun thing to work on. It’s always a great job, but this was an unusually fun movie to make. I’ve made a bunch of R rated movies that have some fairly edgy sex stuff in them and sometimes a lot of sexuality can make it harder for people to laugh. Even If they are having a good time, it can just make it harder for people to laugh at comedy. It’s just like the experience of sitting in a theater looking at naked movie stars and laughing out loud don’t always go comfortably hand in hand.
We knew that in this movie, it was actually the subject matter of the movie. You couldn’t be backing away from that because that was the whole reason to do it. That was a big part of the appeal to me was that it was a really funny way of looking at something universal and human. Which is how; does a relationship maintain itself through a marriage, years and years, and kids and lives and all of that?
Knowing that we knew we had to approach it with a careful hand at how we were shooting all that stuff and approaching it so that the sex wouldn’t overpower the comedy and the content.
Why should our readers (parents with busy schedules) go to the theater to see this movie and not be lazy and wait to watch it on demand?
Jake: I feel like this is a movie about exactly people who feel that way. I would describe myself in exactly the same demographic. You eventually want to go to a movie during the summer that is for and about people who feel that way. It is still a fun thing to do. I always felt from the beginning that the great trick with this movie is; it’s this big crazy idea, you kind of know what the idea is when you hear the title: Sex Tape. If you think about it for about a minute and a half and you go it’s a comedy, it’s probably about a couple who loses their sex tape, right? What seemed like the great part about why I loved that was that this is a sneaky way of getting at something that I think is totally universal and totally human because a lot of people feel this way. Which is “My life is overwhelming, my relationship with the person that I love has just changed in a way that I love, but that other thing was great too. What happened?”
We also snapped a quick photo with Jake Kasdan it was great chatting with him about the #SexTapeMovie!
Stay tuned for my review of the movie coming later this week and in case you missed it, my interview with Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel…
Learn more about this movie at TheyForgotToDeleteIt.com
