Zoey Deutch and Dylan O'Brien improvised the most outrageous lines from 'Not Okay'
In the new Hulu movie "Not Okay", Zoey Deutch plays aspiring influencer, Danni, whose lie about attending a writing retreat in Paris turns into a lie about surviving a terrorist attack there. The reason for his first lie? She's desperate to impress her colleague Colin, a successful influencer played by the hilarious Dylan O'Brien. Deutch and writer-director Quinn Shephard tell POPSUGAR that some of the characters' funniest moments were actually improvised by the pair of actors.
"Zoey and Dylan are so funny in the raw footage of this," Shephard says, noting that there's a blooper in the works, which Deutch is excited to see herself.
"There's definitely a lot of improvisation on Dylan's part," says Deutch. "He's so funny." Some of these moments even made it into the film.
"'Licking a titmouse, we did it.' I didn't write that. Dylan O'Brien, guys," Shephard said. She credits O'Brien's improvisational skills to the depth of his understanding of the character. “He totally saw the character in exactly the same way I did,” she explains. "When we first met, we just had the exact same vision, we even literally had the same sartorial ideas, and we really clicked. And I honestly think he totally transformed for it."
Shephard calls Colin "the iconic f*ckboy." "It's the Pete Davidson, Justin Bieber, MGK aesthetic – the tattoos and the blonde hair and all that – but it's also all the thirsty boys from TikTok. It was really fun to create a character that was worse than Danni, who was all bad about the internet that Danni idolizes."
O'Brien recently joked in an interview with E! News that her portrayal of Colin drew a lot of inspiration from her own "bitch era." But he's not about to become an influencer himself; he told POPSUGAR on the "Not Okay" red carpet that he had a burner account from which he tweeted about the New York Mets, but he only had about 15 followers.
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In the new Hulu movie "Not Okay", Zoey Deutch plays aspiring influencer, Danni, whose lie about attending a writing retreat in Paris turns into a lie about surviving a terrorist attack there. The reason for his first lie? She's desperate to impress her colleague Colin, a successful influencer played by the hilarious Dylan O'Brien. Deutch and writer-director Quinn Shephard tell POPSUGAR that some of the characters' funniest moments were actually improvised by the pair of actors.
"Zoey and Dylan are so funny in the raw footage of this," Shephard says, noting that there's a blooper in the works, which Deutch is excited to see herself.
"There's definitely a lot of improvisation on Dylan's part," says Deutch. "He's so funny." Some of these moments even made it into the film.
"'Licking a titmouse, we did it.' I didn't write that. Dylan O'Brien, guys," Shephard said. She credits O'Brien's improvisational skills to the depth of his understanding of the character. “He totally saw the character in exactly the same way I did,” she explains. "When we first met, we just had the exact same vision, we even literally had the same sartorial ideas, and we really clicked. And I honestly think he totally transformed for it."
Shephard calls Colin "the iconic f*ckboy." "It's the Pete Davidson, Justin Bieber, MGK aesthetic – the tattoos and the blonde hair and all that – but it's also all the thirsty boys from TikTok. It was really fun to create a character that was worse than Danni, who was all bad about the internet that Danni idolizes."
O'Brien recently joked in an interview with E! News that her portrayal of Colin drew a lot of inspiration from her own "bitch era." But he's not about to become an influencer himself; he told POPSUGAR on the "Not Okay" red carpet that he had a burner account from which he tweeted about the New York Mets, but he only had about 15 followers.
“Disagree” is streaming now on Hulu.
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