Lisa Cholodenko Chats with Filmmaker and GreenCine Daily

The Kids Are All Right's writer-director Lisa Cholodenko has been hitting the junket trail, and in the last 24 hours two great interviews with her have appeared on the Filmmaker magazine and GreenCine Daily websites.

Below are a couple of choices, starting with Cholodenko talking to Filmmaker's Damon Smith about the experience of writing the script with co-scribe Stuart Blumberg over a number of years:

It was kind of a meta experience because I was working out a relationship with Stuart, trying to figure out my life in L.A., and having a kid. I have a really generous girlfriend [musician Wendy Melvoin, of Wendy & Lisa fame] who was like, I’m going to keep humping and working so you can keep going and finish. So that was great. And then there was this whole thing of “How are we going to have a kid?” I got into a really crazy domestic space, because we were getting older, pushing 40, so I think all this attention to how are we going to do it—with a friend, a straight person, a gay person—then picking the person, going into those files [at a sperm bank], that’s very intense, very weird. Like, I’m picking the father of my child! For me, as a writer, it became a totally mind-boggling, absorbing, frightening, freaky, sci-fi venture, and so I think I took a lot of time with that and then translating it into fiction. It just took a while to process.

And here is her responded to GreenCine interviewer Jeffrey M. Anderson's question, "Will anyone be offended by this?"

Bring it on! People need to drop their stuff. How can you speak for everybody? I don't feel like I'm selling out. This resonates for me. If people really open themselves up, it's cool that we get to see these lesbian moms and their teenage kids on the big screen.