Dave Franco Explains Why He Didn’t Cast Himself as His Wife Alison Brie’s Love Interest in ‘Somebody I Used to Know’ (Video)
thewrap.comany love story. And that’s why they were particularly deliberate in casting.“It was about sending people the material, seeing if they connected with it,” Brie said. “And then really important to Dave and I to get in a meeting with them over Zoom — it was during COVID — and talk them through the tone of the movie, what we were going for, what the themes were that we were exploring, and kind of let them know.”She continued, “Because on the page, I think you could take this movie a lot of ways, and we have some comedic set pieces in the film that might read more broadly than we play them in the movie.
So it was like, it was all about us connecting with people and speaking to like the heart of the film, and everybody really connected with it.
And we lucked out.”You can watch TheWrap’s full interview with Dave Franco and Alison Brie in the video above. And the full movie is now streaming on Prime Video..
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