Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

fb and this is a film not only about the relationship between this mother and daughter but it's also a lot about friendship too winship do great danger them on a celebratory my day i've inflicted what i wanted this you know i'm just his experimental arm lonely out as a kind of the archetype all gang of friends aren't they people with jimmy bond really really really sort of self knowing yourself is this unbreakable group in and live lives that the film a prophecy i thought you had probably one of the hardest roles and that's because

it was a very emotional that their part you know when you play tv part of her life that you're trying to get yourself prepared to take on that oil well i tried to organize all of the thoughts and scenarios that are presented in the book i mean first there's the the act of getting always yahya straightened who's who and what they mean to me and i love i learned a lot from the book about from the letters that he writes to each woman when she's gone away if he was deeply put it and that there was so much revealing emotional content that you just raised the bar and i knew dead in addition to what is so wonderful about the book and ellen burst and performance to anticipate this kind had to do my best did you meet with her and discuss kind of hired to do their certificates task we got together once on just the two of us went through the script and kind of looked at each other and then we got together with caitlin who

plays us in the youngest incarnation we tried to settle upon a few things that we were definitely haven't common gesture as well and others things end up in the movie i don't know but i hope that and some unconscious way they are felt what did the young guys mean to you you mentioned that you examine how they affected your life a you know well of course you've got nice see being jack sister and so they're going to have a really unspoken incredibly bittersweet bond because of that and no care i think is really one who calls a spade a spade and is blunt a little bit and fifties face kind of demanding about okay enough of this the time has come you have to tell a story and then numb teves is just so dear to know kind of the day all of the incredible they are all incredible why do and be involved in this story in the spotlight well for a lot of reasons and

probably the least of which is the old sucker firing line from the director nobody can play at a barbecue is worse than any other recent you know it's was an incredible i liked the emotional stuff all that challenge and textures really fun to play and i knew that i had a chance to let it all hang out very freeing that is what to me is what makes acting purposeful exciting i think he'll visit yeah because i think she was a slow travel to places and said ok why what

interested you in this part what did you about this role now she's fun to ski complicated sees them at a dark sky and she's a multi dimensional character you know like you don't see too often until you were really helped her when you read the script ohio sure i've recognized this year seductive com well when i said that she said and not just a one dimensional characters you are so many sides to or and down and i think she's well written that really knew her from from read the script i do think that this film portrays women well i think in a much more realistic way than most films do on the glitzy the many different sides of it the most of the way they relate to each other and to have the french open the lion tamer level of truth and honesty in

them and female friendship what are the qualities of the idea and what is the idea that finally it just a bunch of friends now the old friends who tell the truth to each other and have a good time and support each other and time you know speak about what's real and what's important to them at the time and kind of hold continuity over a long period of time so being an old friend i think is how we sell am honored place in someone's life and that's who they are to return why it's so rare to have the navy's these lunar friends since childhood mean how many people can say that they have a friend without locked his friendships come and go and they also live in the same house that they grew up in you know and i think that's something we've kind of lost will move around

so much but they're really anchored in this in the arab area that they grew up in and identified with it and i think that gives them some kind of character and solidity as characters who is this a normal mother daughter relationship how would you describe this relationship that your character has for sandra bullock's well i think it's i think it's pretty normal i mean i don't feel normal is the right word is that maybe usual and they're very close and competitive and to calm down angry sometimes and learning and wanna stay together and be close and the same time one break apart in a separate i think it's got all of the ambiguity of most mother daughter relationships because another guy relationship is said it so special and and so wonderful but like you said it could be you know they there are different qualities

in a person i guess you know you do you can be competitive with each other maybe when you don't want to you know we often hear about it being harder in hollywood for women when you reach a certain age to get good roles that you don't seem to have any problem with that it's an amazing part i have gotten some good roles and i decided i would have more to choose from i wish there were more to go around but i've been very lucky and the rules of the senate and then we all fly now tell me what your hat before we get into the actual movie here i'll

get my hat in the mermaid yeah yeah it's a lovely i now coming over the eye i'm wondering what they were afraid i didn't make it but they made him do you make a real life pat summitt at that last bit actually my daughter made it she's real craft person says she made this hat and it's a disgruntled little it's lavender because you know everything i wear in the movie is a lavender so the hat is lavender and its cultural thing on this around here that she made this is nice see is nice and it's got it as silly play and it's got all kinds sunflowers on this and it's like it's wonderful it's going to be a new york about our event and it is very very much it when i read about last night's scene in movie lamenting the fact that for women we really don't have a rite of passage we have note celebration amongst ourselves especially at the time of our lives when so much is changing yes

that's to be like can i come and meds father something good a problem for everybody are you still friends with many new childhood friends refuse did you have any rituals what else did we have been in a group you know and we had we had a recall the top notch ears and therefore of this from one of my one friend passed away that i still talk to your the two and then johnny edwards who my friends she lives outside of dallas and my other friend jane events and lives in albuquerque new mexico and my friend geneva for each passed away i went to her funeral but i and i have dear dear dear friends in miami adult life that i met my friend kathleen widows who

starred with me in the group another woman's phone and we became friends then and we've been best friends ever since they have very close and what was it like working on the sat this has to be a lot different than a lot of other movies was great when you're calmer it you know what i mean and and i i don't know for some reason i don't know why they should think that there's not as much ego i guess you know nobody was like a diva and there was no there were no at this is that they are all well maybe james garner what they like or do as a little bit fabulous she is the nicest person and everyone said this every before i did the films oh you're in a lot of sandy she's fabulous she is wonderful and you think oh yeah well nobody's that wonderful and you know what she is she really is she's not wonderful she is fabulous i have to say that in the chair across her every time in your influences the same person she's that genuine a real person carried yes ma'am i think you know it's

just nice now tell me about the book versus them what reaction did you have the book or what impacted the book about you know i'd read the script first in and i wanted to do the script it so and then i read the book and i i thought that was a nice walk into it i didn't i mean i didn't have any and a whoa this is the book in this film are no deer in your things like that the way that people often do i mean i loved the cider house rules the book i read it way before saw the film i love the field but the cell is wonderful so i think on that i look at one has a book and one is a film i love the book love the movie and loved the differences as well as embrace the differences fb easily a movie i've never seen but it took a rent the unsinkable molly brown

in a local forties to charge around in elysium she was in oh she was wonderful and then get the hechinger of someone else of the new hall yes yes mr gardner we go now i've heard some instance about you from the ladies of the i yeah one of the groups that were showing it says you are the biggest diva on the set of the news of the renewable fuel lot of sorrow one of the meeting she said that time and think that you're the most high maintenance with all the women around their livelihoods well beyond anything but a little less often on to set a new they couldn't get you into the fall you're offering detective novels their second thing well i read every

line and you were with that i joined the case research ethanol and i were just talking about how much we women most frustrating and then tell me if you agree with this and we always say we'll take care of everything going and then when you don't get involved with your plane maker not doing enough to help her for so long to fix a woman thing why are your biggest frustrations with women with women yeah i don't know boy was that a loaded question tommy martinez and of all a superman

logo those great she's gorgeous shoes talent she's funny she is a professional league the us for more and i thought i'm a little better because all these women need their own ya ya hats that they're going to auction off her big sister others and it says there's been an honorary james garner had in there believable but talk to me about it a little better but i forgive him what was it like being on the set of the ever been on animal they were just so many dire and women in iraq victor jara was like this is like any other picture in those years we had a few more females have been unlikely these are completely so that's really what the company will have a much different that that's wonderful you know you go along with the difference is

awareness of vail director of female director of male or female letters to the jews only a man let's let's have more of that than you know as a more willing to the book did you read that before the script have you ever read about their interesting and i really i hadn't wanted to choose either morsi something a book about what the only in the script stood and you know i'm the book changed how i deal with my mother now that book changed my life for the better and yet i love the movie even though it's different even though it's it stands on its own saturday night to say i don't think it was a trip so nobody's about to find out fb ah and

beating out that no actually it's just fake you know its painted on the change that and arrow i hate you know so many women i know we're so emotionally attached been impacted by the block and it was one of the last major screaming rival studio women the mother's now a i mean you realize that this is a movie that mothers and daughters can go to and that is a man yeah no the book was huge and strangely a heated i mean not strangely but huge among women i've met thousands of women who read his book and got so excited nobody really the book and now that i've seen the movie i was so afraid that it wasn't a live up an even though was different i loved it and that book changed how i look at my mother and how i deal with my mother is that strong and homes as avery you can have i think the rate is this film could stand

alone ii began but the book you know and dead i think the film is really import the film but tribes and families and what we do to each other and how we keep people out but how we keep the man out there on the sidelines now i'm liz go go duck hunting us some money and i'll do this do you said you're a little you know i'm sure i know i do in my own way i mean i will do the same thing oh it's all right darling take care of this go in there you know go untreated patient or something that i've married to a doctor or go do something useful and i'll take care of all of this my domain you know we keep men out i do that and then i complain that they're not doing enough exactly won't let him in the kitchen and then complains that are helpless that's right yes don't don't don't pick up that charge and only drop but did you ever growing not have that rite of passage like the irs had with a hat or any group we have a name for them or anything like that all

out we had it rhymes a kid at school when i was about like nine ten eleven am i my best friend and one of my best friends till i think or one whose father was a magician which i was madly jealous about you know my father is just a newspaperman are volatile the magician and professional well we after we had a little solar secret society would we we didn't have black outfits or hats but we just had a secret society and we had secret signs you know we were masons in the making i suppose an athlete is it a well lit cigarette little sides but appeared here we have a sign that went like this and that that meant was strange you know i want to speak to you privately they'll come out into the corridor no i thought it was done on the winter weather no selling i just said that james garner biggest event on the set all leads that man's a pussycat you know i had a crush on for so long that i want work with him he's got such a voice you know how you to sit in the

detective stories when he wasn't in the senate play golf you know and so rage realize that you made for this celebrity idea how he has the hats them yesterday said because big sisters of america and we're doing this event and women all over the country were invited to make hats and i got to make a hat and i decided i would make is have my head is purple and day and it has a lot of black veil on and a lot of black flowers in and rather sort of raucous silvery purple cherries on the back and it specifically geared toward those moments on the divorce court steps when satisfied enough with your settlement you can either choose to drop the veil and retired discreetly into the anonymity of your poverty stricken divorce would or else you know you can withdraw the hat pin and not so discreetly stab your lawyer in the hot for making such a terrible deal for you yu is the choice you yeah yeah instance will guide you know the party really encounter a

very much of an island last night the screening we saw a rival studio people from another studio coming into the screening and they brought them out with great i think this is going be a film where everybody wants to go mother daughter i hope so i think it'll be really interesting to see if any you know the old routes are patched up or you know a lot of people getting together with the groups of old friends i know in louisiana there's sorority groups they're getting together and having reunions an ongoing together so it's it seems like a fine group experience but also i've talked to several people that are like i can't wait to take my mom

is elated that my mom says he's telling amount of luck i bought a main backer of her bookstore on a friday going to new york to work right then i come back on sunday things like her flight attendant said to me i have to know what books you're reading could you look at me like it's a good fighting for the book because she read like the last fifty pages of marriages both cried it's one of those bills and i feel that it made a huge difference in how i treat my mother and how idyllic another lab and now the challenge for you is you take this book that so many people felt so passionately about and make it into a movie what was your experience with the book mr lawrence well you know i was nervous because i am yours can have to change several things in the book you'll probably remember that said i went off by herself to a cabin i was along for all of the entire book in a course that would've made a very interesting movie and she spoke with the audience on the telephone

and they were never all together till the very end so i knew all of those things we're going to have to be changed and you know other points were going to have to be kind of focus and so basically i just tried to take the spirit of the book if not the letter and take the events from today's childhood and younger wife and to make them add up to the healing of this mother daughter relationship and you know i thought it was really an interesting challenge to take a book that was so loved by so many people and know that i was going to have to make some pretty significant changes and yet still see if at the end it had the same impact that the book out and fortunately it seems as if i've succeeded it's somewhat in that endeavor that i am almost always disappointed when i love a book and the movie not this time i'm crazy i think everybody really feels they have so much invested in socio the movie is about you know a lot of the book fans who haven't seen it yet and you know there are certain things they changed the elephant to an airplane because you know i just

thought well gosh i wanna bring an elephant over and marched around the parking lot and i feel so terrible for elephants eritreans michael what can i do that you know no animals will be hard so in her plate of course and also it's about you know kind of the metaphorical lifting often live uplifting feeling that vincent and now comes to have about her mother and remembering that there were bad things that there were also tremendous efforts that her mother made make her happy to now tell me about being on the set because was it a wonderful estrogen force you know yeah it is the greatest time we really had so much fun i mean it's the most boring story because nobody thought nobody cried nobody truly cared for and you know there were any rivalries going on and we just and really good time everyday everybody unfortunately that worked on this movie seemed to have a fantastic sense of humor on the maggie smith of vilified in a chilly night are all extremely funny as isabella and the two girls that play the younger

kierstin warren and jacqueline mckenzie are whole areas together and anne cady silverstone also plenty of maggie smith very very funny so funny and lisa stewart myself and i'm glad the one of the other producers week at the end of it we went oh my god you realize we've left every single day we have left heart every day so he can really ask for more than that i just wish that we had more rights of passage for women so i got maybe this will help leno instigate sound like i'm hoping that the younger women see this movie you know and that they'll come up with their own rituals and bonds and whenever i mean i'm still friends with many of the people i grew up with and some of them are going to come to the premiere and i'm very excited about that but you know i think just kind of providing a framework to say you know these friendships that you have now they are important to last your whole life and you know you won't be lonely thank you