ELLE: How did you and Miximilla come up with the concept?
SSF: I had been obsessing over this Dory Previn song. She was someone who my parents listened to a lot when I was little. They actually had dinner with her right as the whole Mia Farrow and Andre Previn scandal broke, and my mom remembers her singing “Beware of Young Girls” at this dinner party. So anyway, it was a song I had always wanted to do. And I guess the idea really stuck because I feel like there is this emergence of really smart young women right now and sort of a reclaiming and a love again for feminism. I just felt like the title in and of itself worked. Not in the sense that the song actually implies, but more in the sense of beware of young girls because they’re smart and powerful and they’re coming to take over the world in this great way.
When we reached Flicker at home, she was in the middle of bath time with her kids, Arrow Marie and Wilder Stauning, and packing for a ten-day vacation in France. Passing off duties to her husband, Flicker spoke to Elle.com about redefining the song’s meaning to fit her modern muse, shooting on an unusually cold day in LA, and having Lula Magazine’s Leith Clark style via Skype!
ELLE: What are you working on next?
SSF: The Citizens Band has a lot going on. We’re doing a lot of stuff leading up to the election. We have a big surprise happening at the end of the summer. Both my husband and I are pretty obsessed with politics so prepare to be inundated by the both of us getting super annoying and nerdy leading up to this election.
ELLE: You, Melissa, Tavi, Maximilla, Leith—what brought everyone together to work on this film?
SSF: Maximilla and I have been directing films together for about 12 years. Melissa is an old friend and I’ve met Tavi a few times—it actually looks like I’ll be writing for Rookie magazine, which is super exciting—so it was just one of these convergences of all these smart, interesting women. I was coming back from SSXW with The Citizens Band and my husband was working in LA so I just happened to be in town and it all worked out. The Sunday we shot in LA was the coldest, rainiest day I had ever experienced there and magically it really worked for the mood and tone of the film. Leith had a really clear vision about how she wanted to style the whole thing. It was really funny because she actually had a visa problem at the last minute and so she styled over Skype. I was nervous about it Coach Outlet Online, but it really worked!
Taking Elle.com through the making of the film, Sarah Sophie Flicker, who co-directed with Maximilla Lucaks, says that keeping things age-appropriate was in fact something she was concerned about from the very beginning. For starters, the title, “Beware of Young Girls,” was borrowed from the 1970 Dory Previn hit that the singer wrote while in despair over her husband, composer Andre Previn, leaving her for the much younger Mia Farrow. (Flicker thought some of the song’s lyrics to be too mature—“And she just took him from my life/Oh yes she did/ so young and vain/ she brought me pain”—and suggested that Gevinson sing only the chorus.) But also Flicker, who has two young children, found herself feeling overly protective of the 15-year-old Gevinson Coach Outlet Online, only to realize that her subject was hardly a rookie.
ELLE: What was it like directing Tavi?
SSF: She’s incredible. I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with Lena Dunham and I know that people are probably mushing them into a category right now, but there is something really similar about the two of them. I’m really trying to remember people from when I was a teen or my early 20s who were that intelligent and driven and I can’t think of any. I have a five year-old daughter and it just makes me feel really excited about the future of young women and female role models. As a mom, I walked in feeling really protective of her. But by the middle of the day I realized that she was fine and in fact probably knows more than I do.
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