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Detention (2026)

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What if detention were group therapy? Detention (2026), a quirky teen comedy from Washington State's Bainbridge Island, swaps the usual punishment for something harder: a room of kids made to talk about what is really happening behind closed doors. Writer-director Emma Cameron, who co-directed with her husband Mark Cameron and also plays the sleep-deprived Dr. Messerschmitt, joins Mike after the film's Pasadena International Film Festival screening and a summer theatrical run, just as it arrives on Amazon Prime and Apple TV. She traces the idea to The Breakfast Club (1985) and a job on a school mental-health commercial, explains why she cast 90 percent of the film in Washington, how she recast a major role two weeks before shooting, and how two nights of magic-hour light captured the final scene at the water's edge.

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Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth. Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.

Turn it off. Turn it off! Turn it off! Imagine growing up here. It's perfect.

We are trying something new at Agate Point High School to rehabilitate, not punish. Instead of detention, you will be getting eight hours of group therapy. Namaste. This place. It's like high school.

Freak. They want to keep us there so we don't get in trouble while our parents work. You have ruined everything. We're basically in. Daycare for 18-year-olds every hour of our lives.

I have to pump. I have to pump. I'm hot in like an angry pitbull sort of way. What is hot about an angry pitbull? You're weird.

Eden, are you dating anyone? Stop focusing on yourselves and go help someone in this group. Are you okay? I thought you were okay. I'm okay.

We've all got problems. I can help you. You just have to let me in. If you let me down, this will show me that you need more therapy. Don't overthink it.

Dr. Freak is going to freak. In it, in it, bro. Keep dancing. You are fierce.

What do you look like without the makeup on? Odd. I'd rather just do detention. Agreed. Can I also opt for detention?

Let's do detention. No. No. Hey folks, welcome to a special episode of The Projection Booth. I'm your host, Mike White.

On this episode, I'm talking with Emra Cameron. She is the co-director, writer, and one of the stars of the 2026 film Detention. It's kind of a modern take on The Breakfast Club, though not really. I actually kind of preferred it to The Breakfast Club. I know that might be heresy for some people, but I don't know.

The whole elephant thing, I just, I laugh. Yeah. Anyway, Detention 2026 coming out on demand the day that I am recording this intro, which should mean that it's pretty fresh. Go out, check it out, enjoy, and enjoy this interview. Thank you.

So that British accent in Detention is not a put-on. No. That's funny, though. Did you think maybe it was? I did think maybe it was.

I was like, I don't know why she would choose that for this particular character, but okay. It's a choice. Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, Brits, we make good villains as well. And there's something I was thinking about that.

Why did the Brits get, get cast as villains? And I think there's something to do with authority with Americans sort of feeling like that. They're a bit authoritative in the way they speak. But anyway, yeah, I thought that went along with the character quite nicely. Do you do an American accent often?

Yeah, I've been here 23 years. I used to teach dialect coaching at Lee Strasberg in Hollywood. But I like to warm up in whatever accent I'm doing. So I'll do a little improv to myself for about 15 minutes where I'm talking in character. And then I'll sort of go off into the lines.

But yeah, I can't just suddenly, if I suddenly switch it, then there'll be certain vowel sounds that'll come out and I'll be like, that's not right. Oh, yeah. You've done a lot of bit of a lot of bit over the years, acting, production design. I even saw catering as one of your credits on IMDb. I mean, how did you decide that you wanted to get into this crazy life?

Oh. Right. Well, it all started with ballet back in the day when I was young. And so I love being on stage and I was really interested in ballet. So I went to I convinced my parents to send me to a boarding school at the age of 13.

And yeah, to do ballet. And then that kind of morphed into musical theater, which then morphed into straight acting, going to drama school in London and then moving out to L.A., to pursue acting at the age of 23. And that morphed into writing content and producing. Yeah, so producing, writing, starting a production company where we would do short-form entertainment for commercials like Nike, Jaguar, a whole bunch of different low-budget commercials, big-budget commercials, all sorts, music videos. I was always, I love, my love is acting and my, and but was, that was my real love and still is a part of me.

But I think just creating, I love it when I'm producing something and I'm working with a great director. I love that dynamic. You know, I'll sit, I'll feel happy just even, you know, when I was a PA, even when I was a stand-in, I don't care really what it is. I'm always learning from people around me and there's always some genius or some great artist, whether it's a cinematographer or a director or another actor, I can stand near and learn lessons and have fun and support them, you know, support what they're doing. So it's all fun to me, just being a part of the industry and sort of being a part of creating something is very cool, especially when that thing you're creating, other people really believe in it and you can see spark you can see that they're bringing something more.

They're bringing, they're not just phoning it in. Cause I've definitely been on movie sets where people, where it's just a job. But yeah. It looks like you worked with a Mark Cameron on detention. I'm assuming husband, but maybe brother.

Yes. Yeah. Husband. Yep. How did you two meet?

Oh, well, so I moved to LA when I was 23. And then when I was 24 and a half, I met Mark and we got married when I was 27. We met at what was Film Independent. Film Independent had an office down on Robertson in West LA. And I was helping cast a um, a feature film and he was helping his friends cast a commercial at time.

We were just in the same building. Yeah. We met and, uh, he's definitely the opposite of me in every way possible. Um, there are, we're so opposite in, in he's a Northern California surfer, blonde, um, And just his upbringing, very hippie, liberal upbringing. And he went to film school.

He's also very artistic visually. So he can draw anything. He does a sketch and it's amazing. So he can do his own storyboards. He's a very, very visual cinematographer.

He's done all positions of camera department on set. He's done all the positions in the lighting department. And It's interesting. I sort of thought about all the fact that he's done half the positions on a movie set in the last 30 years, and I've done the other half. So between us, we're sort of a movie crew.

Down to even his editing. He edited for 10 years, and he was in the Editor's Guild. So he's really an interesting cat, and I really enjoy working with him because... it's like you're tapping into somebody who has all these skills that are literally, you know, the opposite of who you are. And so there is conflict sometimes it's sort of, you know, but, but ultimately it's, I like a bit of conflict. It means, you know, there's always, you know, when you're working on a movie for three years, we worked on detention for three and a half years coming up to today, there's going to be, when you've got passionate artists, you hope that those people are going to fight for what they believe in.

And so, yeah, it's about being passionate, fighting for what you believe in, and ultimately taking a step back and sort of thinking about who's saying what to you and do they have a point? And sort of seeing stuff a little bit from other people's point of view as well and seeing if this is really getting to add to the art and the feeling behind the movie. I was very lucky to have that with my editors and composer. There's a lot of people who we got on really well, but they were willing to say that to sort of, to fight me on stuff, you know, in it, I say fight is a, you know, negative, but you know, they're willing to say, listen, listen, please hear me out here. I really feel passionately about this, please, you know, and just really try to get their opinion across.

It was very, I really appreciated that. You have to help me out here because in 2011, at least according to IMDB, you made three shorts all in the same year is that true. Yeah that sounds about right yeah. You wrote and directed or co-directed one of them fashionista can you talk about what those were about and and kind of what themes you're you're pursuing with those. So i love comedy and they all had a definite comedic.

And they started off as just a comedy scene, comedy sketch. And they sort of turned into a little bit of a beginning, middle end short film. And they were all experiences I had had. So Fashionista was from my days at Elise Walker. which Elise Walker actually burnt down the flagship store in the Palisades. That was a really beautiful store and it was such fun.

Actually, they've rebuilt it now. It looks amazing. But so that was a real glimpse into the fashion world. And it's very, you know, it's consumer, but it's also high fashion as well, mixed in there. And, you know, there are a lot of celebrities and a lot of very wealthy people people going in to shop at that store and I was working there and I just felt like I really wasn't, I didn't know all the designers and I would wear what I thought was sort of cool the girls in the shop would be like, Emma, what are you wearing today?

Let's sort this out. Let's redress. And when the customers would ask me a question, I would answer it honestly. And some people would cringe at what I was saying. Like, oh, no, no, don't say that.

But, you know, and so there was, you know, the fashion world is easy to make fun of, for sure. But at the same time, it's also... it's almost like art like I'm this uh this store was almost like walking into a museum um when you walk around so it was quite beautiful and inspiring as well but anyway that was fun that was my little comedy sketch um fashionista and then the other one was uh Disney oh my gosh okay so I'm not sure if I'm not really allowed to say it because I signed a contract saying I wouldn't have I would never say anything bad. But I worked for, drum roll, I worked for Euro Disney in Paris. And I was Mary Poppins and a whole bunch of other characters, Pluto, Rafiki from The Lion King.

I was a whole bunch of characters. And I was also a dancer as well. So I danced in the parade. I had such a lot of fun, but it was a crazy experience. I, when I first got there, I went into character and parade and I saw like the white rabbit who had, his head was off.

So see the guy, his, he, he was this, this guy, good looking Spanish guy. And he had his head under his arm and he's screaming in French at, um, at this other guy who was goofy and had his head under his arm. And they were just shouting at each other. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is hilarious. And it was just, it was the drama, but the fun and, you know, dancers and all these characters.

It was, yeah, we had, it was a great summer, but there was a lot of ridiculous things that happened. And yeah, and so the Bisney, Bisney is the little YouTube comedy sketch that I did that sort of turned into a bit of a short film. But yeah, that was sort of inspired by the hilarious time at working at Euro Disney. Yeah, that was that. You said that you've been working on Detention for three and a half years, but when did the idea come to you?

How long ago was that? Probably five, six years. I moved to Bainbridge Island just before COVID. a year before COVID. And then I always wanted to make a movie on the island. It's very beautiful.

Pacific Northwest is very inspiring here. And so I kept driving past the high school and thinking about, just from a producer's point of view, going, all right, if we were to do this and we weren't to get the funding we wanted, or we weren't to raise all the money, what's sort of a really easy way of making a movie with regard to low budget? And so I started thinking about the John Hughes movie, The Breakfast Club, and how that's all in the library. And I was really interested in teenagers and sort of the differences between teens today, teenagers back in the 80s, and sort of, do we still have those stereotypes? Do we still have those today?

Or are they slightly different? What do they look like? What's cool? What's not cool? And what are the nuances and the differences?

So I was sort of interested in that. I had some acting students that would tell me about what was going on at the high school. And I also was working on a commercial at the time where I was casting and writing, producing a commercial for a social emotional learning in schools that is social emotional, it's SEL. It's sort of a little bit like therapy or sort of helping students navigate emotional stuff, and it's a good thing. But yeah, so I was creating some content for a company, and I really just got interested in learning all about mental health, teens, and really what does it look like?

What does that landscape look like right now? And that's what the seed, that was really the seed that kind of brought the film, you know, the start of the film at least. But obviously in my movie is very different from The Breakfast Club because it's a completely different movie. Although that sort of started as a seed and an influence, you see more of the backstory of the characters and the characters are completely different anyway. It's not the five stereotypes and so and obviously it's a sort of a quirky comedy with this whole idea of therapy instead of detention so but yeah that was how it all began.

They leave the library quite a bit yeah. Yeah i did i got cabin fever when i was writing i felt like i gotta get out of this library Halfway through the script, I'm like, they've got to get out. And also because I'm feeling like, wow, I'm on Bainbridge Island. I'm in this beautiful Pacific Northwest area. And so I really felt like, oh, it'd be great to capture some of that in the movie.

That was also one of the pulls. Also for me, I love to see a little bit more of characters' backstory. I'm really interested in people's home life and what happens behind closed doors. So having a bit more of a glimpse into their life was really fun. And tell me about your casting, because these actors are fantastic.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So that was one of the most fun parts of making the film. That was about seven months of casting. So I...

Felt like I saw everyone in Washington state. And that's what I was at the beginning. I thought I'm going to get everyone from Washington state. I'm not going to New York. I'm not going to LA.

I'm going to see everyone and I'm going to find these gems. And I did. I really watched all these tapes and hundreds and hundreds of tapes. And I went to all the agents, all the agencies in Seattle. And in the end, we actually cast 90%. of our cast and crew are from Washington state.

So mostly Seattle, some on Bainbridge and then 10% from LA. So I did have a couple from LA. Yeah. But they, I mean, you know, with, with Ricky, Ricky, who's the ginger head boy who plays Corey and, I saw him in an audition and the very first audition I saw actually was a tape that he'd sent in. He had a moustache and he looked older with the moustache, like a lot older.

And he was doing a play at the time. And that's why he had that moustache. So I looked at him, I thought, oh, you definitely couldn't play 18. But I really loved him. I thought, wow, he's so great.

I just want to bring him in for a callback because he's amazing. And like, maybe he's got a lot, maybe there's a character in the coffee shop or maybe there's another character that I can, I don't know. I just like this guy. I want to bring him in. Maybe the next film we do, he's in it.

I don't know. So I brought him in for the callback um, and he had shaved and he definitely looked like he could pull off 18. I was like, all right, now I'm so glad I did that. Cause, uh, yeah, it's, He was awesome. And then Bianca, Bianca Mariani, she plays Eden and she, I saw her in the role and immediately was, couldn't get her out of my head.

She just came in and she just was the character and she's very grounded. Bianca has this kind of earthy weight to her in terms of when she's in a, I see her dynamics in the friend group when the four of them are hanging out in between takes. And she's not quiet, but she's just very down to earth and grounded and like, um, calming. She's a very sort of calming, pleasant, you know, in that, in, in that dynamic of the four, it was very nice to have, to work, to work with her. And then Anna, well, Ian, so Ian's the blonde who played Nash and Ian Peterson, he's from LA and Ian, He just made me laugh.

The audition, he added in ad libs and messed things up. But he is just funny. There's so many times in that audition where I was laughing out loud, which is weird for me because I don't. You have to be really funny to make me laugh. But I just thought, oh gosh, he's going to be so much fun to work with.

And I really wanted that dynamic between the boys to feel like it was... These boys knew each other since they were young, their best friend, sort of almost brotherly, making fun of each other, relationship. We really needed that. We needed to sell that. That was so important to the movie that I needed to get that casting right.

I needed to get the boys right or else I wouldn't have had the movie I wanted. And Ian definitely brought that and the two of them together just like, Bouncing off each other was awesome. When Anna, who is Mary Beth, came to us, it was very stressful. I have to breathe just thinking about it because I'm reliving it. But as I said, it took seven months to cast.

And I already had cast a Mary Beth who I loved and was a great actress from LA. And the back and forth with the agent-manager thing, during that time, when you're a low budget, you don't have time to go back and forth with an agent or a manager. You're like, dude, like I love this person, but like I am wearing five hats right now. I have to go and rent a truck. Okay.

And then I have to go and get, make sure the grip and lighting stuff that we're getting for cheap is coming, is being driven up at the right time. And you know, you've got a million things you're doing. And so for an agent to go back and forth, it was almost like I don't know if it was a casting director told me who was giving me some advice. She said to me, it's because she thinks they think they have leverage because you're two weeks out from filming and you don't have a signed contract. And so when that happens, they think, oh, you're not going to recast in two weeks.

That would be crazy. but she said but you know what she's like you're lucky ever she gave you two weeks to recast like sometimes these people if you don't have a signed contract you know two days before they ask production for an extra ten thousand dollars for their client because they're like what you're gonna go recast I don't think so that taught me a lot um and um And I thought to myself, well, she thought, you know, maybe she's going to give us all these things and maybe we can go back and forth. And I thought, no, I won't be bullied. I'm not going to be bullied. I was very clear. I copied the actress on it because I thought, you know, the actress is young, but she needs to know what her representation is doing.

And if she's cool with it, that's fine. But I don't feel right about it. And I'm not going to be bullied. So I said, peace out two weeks before. And then I had to recast Mary Beth, which was obviously a major character in the movie.

And Ricky, who's a Seattle actor, the ginger Ricky, he, I called him, I said, look, you know, he does back-to-back productions, you know, musicals. He does a lot of, he works with a lot of actors. I said, if this is sort of what I'm looking for with Mary Beth, do you know anyone? And he sent me three three actresses and i and anna mulia got got the role i'm so grateful that she played marybeth it's so she's so wonderful she just did a beautiful job what do you think you saw it did. She's fantastic and i was going to say that's probably one of the most challenging roles of the entire film so to be able to jump in there two weeks beforehand or probably less is crazy.

Yeah she um I always say that Anna has an old soul. There's something about her that is, I don't know. It's just, I can't put my finger on it, but she's very intelligent. She's an interesting, she's an interesting girl. And she did a great audition and she kind of just, you know, she's, she has a lot of similar life experiences and a similar hardships and challenges in her life. that she, I felt, could draw from that I was really, there were a lot of similarities, honestly.

And yeah, we were lucky that she was able to be vulnerable and to tap into her own life and her own past and to generously bring that to the character. But she definitely has an element to her of another world. You know. With this being a low budget production, I'm sure you don't have all the time in the world to do rehearsals. So how do you get these characters to feel like they've been friends for so many years?

Oh my gosh. That was, yeah, we had, okay. So we had five days for rehearsals actually, which was great. But Ian was on another movie. And so he couldn't come to the five days.

He came to one day of rehearsal. And so I was actually extremely stressed. I thought, exactly what you just said, how the hell is this going to happen where they're just going to suddenly be best friends and have that chemistry? I picked up Ian from the ferry. So we got into Bainbridge on the ferry and I picked him up and I drove him.

He was staying a little hotel just off the island. And before I drove him to the hotel, I said, hey, Ian, do you want to just pop by the actor's house? Because the other actors were all in a house together. And I said, do you want to just pop by and say hi to people? He said, yeah, yeah, all right.

So we popped by the house and I said, do you want to hang out and I'll go buy everyone dinner? He said, yeah, great. So Ian said, and they chatted it up. I went off to go get my favorite Vietnamese food. takeaway, which is so good. Such a good Vietnamese place on Baymojo.

Anyway, a side note. And I came back with this yummy takeout food and they were all just chatting it up and laughing and yay. And I was like, oh my gosh, okay, phew. They're getting on. This is great.

I gave them the food and then I left. And he said, oh, don't worry. Ricky's going to drive me to the hotel. It's all good. You can go.

Don't worry about it. I'm like, great. So then the next day, it's just like they know each other. You know, they're just chatting it up. They just became, the four of them, inseparable.

They became instant friends. They're even friends to this day. They have a group chat. They support each other. They go to, Ian flies up from LA to Seattle to see Ricky in a play.

And they're all just supporting each other and just very tight, very good friends. So I just lucked out. I just couldn't even believe it. That's incredible. I know you've already had challenges before the cameras even roll, but what's your biggest challenge to solve while you're actually making the film?

Hmm. Biggest challenge while making the film. I think the idea, well, a couple of things. One is this idea of making our day. So I was always at the beginning of the day, a little bit stressed because I thought, I don't know if we're going to make our day.

And if we don't make our day, we've got to come back for another day. And I don't have that in the budget. So it's literally just coming out of our bank account. And that is so stressful. So that was my beginning of my day was always like, are we going to make it?

Are we going to make it? And honestly, we did three takes per setup. It's moving on. Three takes, you know what I mean? And so there wasn't, we got through stuff very quickly and the actors were on it.

They knew their lines back to front. They were rehearsing in the house. when they were at home in the house, you know, making dinner and whatnot, they'd be rehearsing their lines. And so they just, they knew this back to front, this material. And also they were just chill. They were on, you know, in between takes, they wouldn't leave.

They would just hang out there and chat. And so we almost had stand-ins, you know, to do the lighting and stuff. And so things just moved really quickly. Um, I thought it was great, but, but challenges, I suppose, Mark, Mark Cameron, my husband and co-director, he was very much hands-on with Peter Soto and Peter's our cinematographer. And so the two of them really worked on the shot list and getting things efficiently done.

But I think the challenging part for them was the water and, um, just, um, it being very cold, um, and also just challenges with working with water and, um, the tide being aware of the tide, where to put the camera, um, the sandbags and having the special table. They had a table that they rested the camera on, which was about an inch from the water, the surface of the water to get the camera close to the water to have that, that angle, um, at the end of the movie. So, and also just working, you know, outside at magic hour and going, we have for the most important, most emotional shot scene of the movie. We have 45 minutes, the sun, the top, the clock is ticking. The sun is going down, you know?

And so that was a lot of stress and pressure, but, Mark and Pete worked seamlessly on that. And we got it in two nights. So we filmed one night magic hour and the next night magic hour. So it's 45 minutes per night. And we got enough footage to make that work.

And it really is probably one of my favorite scenes of the whole movie. It's a great way to end it. It's a perfect shot. When did you get to see this with an audience for the first time? Oh, my gosh.

The big thing was in Hollywood. When we went to the Pasadena International Film Festival in April, we had maybe 200 people in that audience. And I was outside the movie theater, you know, bustling around, making sure everyone was in. And, you know, my VIPs had their free tickets and everyone was in there at their seats. And I was about to come take my seat.

And I walk in and I realized that, like, all the seats are taken at the back. and in the middle, really. And there was just one seat left, and it was next to this very important agent who I had invited. I was like, great, I've got to sit next to the most important person here. I'm like, oh no. And I was just so nervous.

But hearing the laughter, just everyone was just laughing a lot. I mean, there was a lot of, I thought it was very quirky comedy. And I thought, oh, I don't know if Americans will, I don't know, it's just sort of this, that kind of quirky, uncomfortable, sometimes humor that is not boom, boom, ching humor. It's not really, you know, so I thought, I don't know if people are going to really find it that funny, but there was so much energy in that room and so much laughter and it was beautiful. It was really a beautiful experience.

A lot of adrenaline. Um, and also just a feeling of, wow, people, people. Like, this. Like people cried at the end and people connected with it. This is kind of, this is crazy.

And I'm still in disbelief, to be honest. I've had a whole theatrical run this summer and Pete, the audience are connecting, but I, it's a strange, it's a, it's a strange feeling where I always feel like, Oh, well maybe that's because of that. Oh, maybe that's because it's a theater and it's live or maybe this, maybe that, I don't know. I can't quite absorb it. that it's really affecting people. So I don't know what that's about, but I'm also enjoying it as well.

I think it's just surreal. Well, yeah, to see something that you made and cared for and nurse to health, uh, over years and years, it's got to be quite an amazing experience. Yeah, it's quite an epic, it's quite an epic experience and walking into a movie theater and, and seeing the popcorn and seeing, you know, the lights and seeing the audience buying their tickets and all of that is so, wow. It's just, I've been standing at the back of some of the screenings that we've been having and listening. And some of the audience members are being very open at the end, especially the older people who don't care as much as with being cool.

They'll like, it's some, older gentlemen from this who are seniors came out and they would been crying and they told me they'd cried a couple of times. I was like, Oh, that's so, you know, that's so lovely. So anyway, it's been just a joy to watch it with, with an audience for sure. Yeah. And just to hear stories, cause it's always interesting like hearing from the audience, like who they connected with because it's not, it's different for everyone.

It's not the same characters. It's due to the backstory and the characters, what they're going through, they'll connect with, you know, different characters all the time because of, it reminds them of their sister or this reminds, you know, this character reminded them of their dad. And so that's difficult to watch or you feel for the character more, you know, just differences. Yeah. But how about you?

What was your sort of connection? I mean, you mentioned Mary Beth. I think she hits home for a lot of people with what she's been through. Yeah, absolutely. And there's such a mystery about her as far as why is she dressing like that?

Why is she acting like that? So she was the one that really held my interest through the whole thing, not to say that the other characters didn't. I really appreciated the Eden character as well and all the struggles that she was going on with at home. So Yeah, the very, very compelling characters. What is next for the film and for you?

For the film, we go to Amazon Prime and to Apple TV on October 22nd, a few days' time. And then it's there. It's there for a while. I think that we might be possibly on Fandango, possibly... other places as well. It's probably going to go to other, other platforms, but those are the first platforms to, to have the movie.

I will, I'm writing, I'm almost finished with the next movie, the next script, which isn't a sequel, but has a sort of sequel feel to it. Definitely is in the same world. It lives in the same world as Detention. And so that's exciting. I'm loving that.

I'm loving the writing and visualizing all these fun scenes. So I'm sort of still in the world of detention because I'm still, you know, promoting it. We just finished our last theatrical screening last week. So yeah, my husband Mark is writing. He's writing a sci-fi and yeah, we don't know.

We don't know what the next movie will be, but it's, um, it's exciting to have this one out there, you know? Yeah. Will there be the continuing adventures of Dr. Messerschmitt? I don't know.

Maybe, maybe. That's funny. Yeah. I was thinking it's like a spinoff show with, uh, doing group therapy every week and having different characters and, that would be kind of fun, like a TV show or something on that. She's so fun to play.

I, I love kind of being a bit of a basket case and, um, yeah. And like sleep deprivation and all that. I'm like, yeah, I can, I can channel this. I can, I can do this. Um, cause I definitely can relate to some of Dr.

Messerschmidt's characteristics for sure. Uh, just with a, sleep deprivation, postpartum when I had my baby and like all of that stuff that it does to you. But yeah, it was fun. It was fun also like the sort of making fun of those cliche therapists. So yeah.

Were you in it because you knew the character so well or just because you're the cheapest actress to hire? That's a good question. Actually, well, so when I wrote it, I thought here's a win-win. I love this character. I want to play the character, but I have a business head on me and I'm trying to make this movie and sell the movie.

So I thought to myself, do you know what? I'm going to make a list of my favorite comedic actresses and I'm going to reach out to their agents and send them an offer one by one down the list. And if someone says yes, that's a dream come true because I'll get to work with You know, these legends. And if nobody says yes, it's also a dream come true because I get to play the character. so it was a win-win and yeah the offer didn't really have enough zeros on the end of it so i don't even know if these offers even made it to the clients but i'm happy with the outcome so it worked. That's wonderful is there a place online for people to keep up with you in the movie Oh.

Yeah, thanks for asking. So yeah, there's a website, which is detentionthemovie.com. And there's an Instagram, which is a little bit more difficult, which is Illuminare Productions, which is my production company. So that's Instagram is Illuminare Productions. And then my Facebook is Detention the Movie.

But if you just go to detentionthemovie.com, you'll see them all there and you can choose which one you want to Follow. This is the first time I've ever seen a bird in the sky. Thank you. This is the first time I have seen this type of object. Thank you for watching.

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