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A ‘Booksmart’ Reunion With Olivia Wilde and Beanie Feldstein; Chloe Fineman Wants to Play Melania Trump on ‘SNL’: Inside Chanel and Tribeca’s Through Her Lens Luncheon

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Michaela Zee Olivia Wilde and Beanie Feldstein had a mini “Booksmart” reunion Tuesday at Chanel and Tribeca Film Festival‘s Through Her Lens luncheon in New York City.

Wilde and Feldstein are jurors for this year’s Tribeca Chanel women’s filmmaker program, which provides industry support and artistic development to 10 self-identifying women and non-binary filmmakers.

The jury will decide which of these emerging filmmakers will receive full funding and support from Tribeca Studios to create a short film. “I’m thrilled that I get to be on this jury with Beanie and to deliberate together because her taste is unmatched,” Wilde told Variety on the carpet for the Through Her Lens luncheon at Locanda Verde, the Italian restaurant in Tribeca. “She is so empathetic in the way she consumes materials with such thoughtful, emotional intelligence.

So I feel very lucky.” Wilde then reflected on her directorial debut “Booksmart,” saying that the 2019 coming-of-age comedy was “like witnessing the next generation of Hollywood in front of me.” She hopes Feldstein and her co-stars “work together and orbit each other for the rest of their careers.” Wilde added: “I know Beanie’s going to direct an incredible film someday soon.

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