I feel like my sense of humors like a 12-year-old boy.
When somebody makes sexual humor in an adult way, it makes me cringe and makes me really uncomfortable.
I kind of look at it in such a 12-year-old boy sort of way.
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Its goofy, almost like a Monty Python kind of way, more silly.
But there was some misconnects with people not knowing what the tone was, or not understanding the tone.
I was such a new baby writer back then.
I didnt know to do that.
I wasnt invited to do that.
I just didnt know.
Also, back then screenwriters werent as [involved].
Im just so much more vocal now than I was before.
I dont think its anybodys fault, I think it just was a misinterpretation of tone sometimes.
Still, the movie was really the forerunner to films likeBridesmaidsandGirls Trip.
I was [also] doing standup comedy at the time.
Good luck, honey.
I was getting messages like that in everything I was doing.
Things I would be writing, even before I sold anything, and I was struggling.
No, I just knew it was bubbling and people were ready for it.
I remember I pictured this song about gonorrhea on the subway.
He just looked at me like I was crazy, absolutely like I was crazy.
She sent me this congratulatory basket of cookies that were in the shape of penises and boobs.
Thats something that, for me, has always been that weird window.
I would say to her, Your presentation, youve got that sexuality covered.
That box is checked.
That equals comedy, doing what youre not expecting.
If youre expecting somebody thats sexual to be grabbing their titties like that, its not as funny.
It should have been them being more goofy and silly.
I just thought it should have been campier.
Theres a rumor this film is based on your friendship with Kate Walsh.
True or False?Thats a little bit of fake news.
Before I wrote the movie, I was waitressing at this place on Sunset Plaza.
There was a restaurant called Le Petit Four.
Anytime a man came in, they were like, Youre not qualified.
Im still friends with these women 15 years later.
It was this weird attention that we got at this restaurant.
We made so much money.
I mean, I can remember one table gave me a $1500 tip.
Yeah, we decide if we want to give you a fake number or not kind of thing.
There wasnt this empowerment, I guess, or this example of it.
Anyway, thats really how it started.
Then what happened was, at the time I was friends with Kate.
I mean, Im still friends with her.
you’re free to do whatever you want.
Were going to send a film crew over to your house on Friday.
I was like, What, are you serious?
It doesnt even make sense to me.
It was going to be very tongue-in-cheek and ironic.
Kate had said in this thing that we were best friends and the movie was based on our friendship.
Its so funny how people just said, Oh, well the part that Kate said must be true.
The crew that came over here, I ended up doing EPK with them for years and years.
That crew travels around.
They shot so much footage.
I thought they were going to cut it down to a funny three-minute thing.
They ended up making it 20 minutes.
Im surprised that Sony put it on the DVD.
Even that, people dont totally know, Wait, is this real, is it not?
Yeah, I just think its funny.
He embellished that and made that a bigger moment in the movie.
Everything had some sort of origin, a lot of stuff, definitely.
The glory hole, I cant remember what it was, but there was definitely something at the time.
I want to say that it was something that happened to a friend of mine in Boston.
Yeah, everything had a little bit of something in there.
The trio joked that these moments all seem relatively tame to what we see in films now.
Do you feel like, in hindsight, thats true?
The story was the first moment.
Every episode had to start with a story that had a beginning and a middle and an end.
Its out of the story and out of the characters and out of the situation the big moments came.
And lastly, would yoube interested in writing a sequel toThe Sweetest Thing?Yes, I would.
Read our NSFW convo with Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, and Selma Blair about filmingThe Sweetest Thinghere.
