‘My Old Ass’ Director Megan Park & Star Maisy Stella Talk How “Buy-In” Nature Of Story Freed Up Aubrey Plaza’s Casting – Contenders Los Angeles

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After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Megan Park’s sophomore directorial feature My Old Ass arrived in theaters with the last of the summer sun in a September 13 limited release.

The coming-of-age comedy film is equal parts hilarious and heartfelt, tackling the young-adult approach to growing up and the idea of revisiting those moments years later with 20/20 vision.

Maisy Stella (Nashville) stars as the younger version of Elliott, a queer teen who summons the 39-year-old version of herself on her 18th birthday after taking magic mushrooms with her two closest friends.

What follows is a wiser Elliott navigating events ahead of her, knowing that they hold a lot of weight for her future self. “Maisy and I I keep joking, ‘But I should just say it’s my autobiography because nobody would know that this actually happened to me,’ but no mushrooms are involved,” Park said of the film’s conception Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles event, joining virtually from her home in Toronto. “I was home in Canada.