'Adulthood' cast talks about new dark comedy, director Alex Winter
NEW YORK (WABC) -- From an excellent adventure, to a dark family satire, there's a new movie out this weekend directed by Alex Winter.
"Adulthood," starring Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario, follows a brother and sister dealing with a series of comedic missteps after they make a shocking discovery that their parents may have been killers.
After their mother's death, they find a behind-the-basement wall, setting up a wildly escalating spiral of crime and coverups that become seemingly impossible to escape.
Eyewitness News entertainment reporter Joelle Garguilo spoke to the cast.
Joelle Garguilo: If you could give your characters advice, because I'm watching this being like, don't do it. Don't do it. What would you say to them?
Anthony Carrigan: I would say, Bodie, don't do that.
Kaya Scodelario: Well, I would advise Meg to trust her brother a little bit more, and I think that doesn't make sense because he's the one that keeps messing it all up. But actually, if she was on his team a little bit more from the beginning, maybe that could have helped.
Josh Gad: Stay in California. Let your sister handle, all of these affairs. We joke, but, like, leading into this production, I think Kai and I were asking all of these questions. And when you sort of sit with it and you actually analyze what you would do in a similar situation to protect a secret that could define the rest of a valued person's life that you hold dear, you sort of understand how things can go awry very quickly.
Garguilo: I think about the movies that I grew up on, and I love the fact that I can support Alex Winter in in this way because his movies were, like, part of my formative years?
Billie Lourd: Ted was so integral part of my childhood, but he's so different from that character, obviously.
Gad: In many ways, my childhood was equally defined by Alex Winter. It was surreal getting to work alongside this guy that I idolized growing up.
Carrigan: He's so smart. He's such a genius. And as a director, he's he's such a visionary too because he just he knows exactly the story. He wants the tone, and he makes it fun. He makes it fun for actors to just get in there and play.
Garguilo: What does everyone need to know about this movie?
Carrigan: It's a ride where you see where it's going, and you're like, oh, no. No. Please don't go there. And then it goes to another direction. You're like, oh, no. Not there. Oh, and please not there.
Lourd: Kinda like the teacups. Like, it just keeps going around, and you're like, can we stop? Like, we have to stop. Like, let's turn it the other way, but we can't turn it the other way. We're just... we keep spinning.
Carrigan: You're gonna laugh. You're gonna cringe. You're going to walk away feeling better about your life.
Lourd: You're gonna think, you're you're gonna go away feeling like you're a much better person than you are because these people are mostly not good people.
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