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She wanted to stay sharp.In 2015, stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger went on the TV show This Is Not Happening and told a story about a Yale-educated hedge fund manager she met on a plane, then subsequently dated. Over quarantine Shlesinger saw a lot of her peers using the lack of a stage as an opportunity to take a break. I’ll put on a play on Mars, I don’t care!” Everything I do, I do with the intention of opening a door to get to do bigger and better things on my own creative terms,” she said. I hope people want me to star in their movies. I hope people want me to write movies for them. “I think a lot of women will relate to that.”Īnd she hopes this might be a new chapter in her career. “This story is actually about an incredibly normal girl who wasn’t hurting anyone and didn’t need to learn a lesson or be taken down a peg,” she said. Now, she’s just preparing for the world to discover the film. I thought, why not give it to him?”Īnd on set she took her role as the top person on the call sheet seriously, wanting to make a happy, fun work environment for everyone.

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We have a guy who plays the director in the movie who is an actor who is also is my favorite bartender at our favorite restaurant in LA. “I was doing that because nobody ever did that for me. Like, you know your friend is funny, you can trust them with two lines,” she said. “We really wanted to be generous with this movie. She didn’t want to make anyone jump through hoops. Shlesinger called on Margaret Cho to be the best friend and then she and Gatewood had a bit of a free-for-all casting many of their funny friends in other roles. Iliza Shlesinger presents the award for collaborative video of the year at the CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 9, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee. Although he didn’t even meet her until the table reads, he quickly realized, “How incredible she really is and what a good writer and actress and standup (she is).” Hansen said he was a fan going in, having known her from the stand-up specials. Shlesinger hadn’t heard of him but liked that he wanted to “play a liar and a narcissist.” She suggested “Veronica Mars” veteran Ryan Hansen for the role of the lying suitor. In 2018 she met producer Paul Bernon and much to her surprise, when he said he wanted to make the movie, he meant it. I would turn to this screenplay it would always remind me, you’re in control of your own destiny as an artist.” I was constantly auditioning, constantly getting rejected, always on the road, always doing stand-up. “The screenplay really became a sort of respite. “It was cathartic, you know? It was a way to make something funny out of something truly horrific,” she said. The experience was awful, she said, until she started putting it down on the page. She realized he’d been lying about everything from day one, from his college to his job on down.

Something seemed a little off, but she fell hard. Years ago, Shlesinger met a guy on a plane. The project is as personal as they come: it’s based on something that really happened to her. So she didn’t take it for granted when she clicked with a producer who wanted to make “Good on Paper,” which is her first produced screenplay and first leading role in a film. (It’s just a coincidence that two of them starred Mark Wahlberg.) She is, she likes to say, the queen of the general meeting. She also auditions constantly and despite a few breaks in films like “Instant Family,” “Spenser Confidential” and “Pieces of a Woman,” is no stranger to rejection.

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In 2008, she became the youngest person ever (and first and only woman) to win NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.” Since then she’s written a book, hosted five Netflix stand-up specials, a Freeform late-night talk show and created and starred in a sketch series in addition to regularly touring. It’s not that she hasn’t had successes already. Shlesinger is on a forever quest for the elusive Hollywood “yes” and said everything she’s gotten she’s either created for herself or has been hard-fought.