‘My Old Ass’ Writer-Director Megan Park Talks Making People Cry & Multiple Upcoming Projects With LuckyChap
deadline.comWriter-director Megan Park’s upcoming film, My Old Ass, is something of a departure from her first feature The Fallout — the 2021 Jenna Ortega starrer that followed the survivors of a school shooting —although both films expertly center on a teenage point of view.
Bought at Sundance for $15M by Amazon MGM Studios, at first glance, perhaps the premise of My Old Ass seems like relatively light fare: a young woman coming of age in a beautiful Canadian lakeside town gets high on shrooms and meets her older self for a ‘what do I need to know’ chat.
But then, Park works some magic, because at every screening, from Sundance onward, the audience has been reduced to sobs. Here, she explores how she stirred something deep in all of us: how quickly time passes; our missed chances, and those roads not taken.
She also reveals how she first conceived of the story, connected to her LuckyChap producers and cast Maisy Stella (Nashville) as her lead, along with Aubrey Plaza. DEADLINE: So, I have to tell you that both myself and everyone else in the screening I attended was crying.
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