Nobody in the movie is a weakling, even thought their lives are hard.īridget: Yeah, even when they’re calling Patti “Dumbo.” Certainly, Barb is a mess when people say hurtful things. Geremy keeps saying it’s about the big, strong women he grew up with, which is a great description. I loved that Geremy embraced the kind of women that we are, and the whole scope of the size and limitations. My character Barb’s sadness, and her being stuck, and her drinking and all that - I related to a lot of it. I was also excited to be in a movie, to do something other than one little scene in something. The script showed a girl in the same vein, who really wants something and goes for it, and that’s a really important message to send out to the world: You can do what you want to do, even when people say no.īridget: I like that it’s about all different kinds of women. Did that resonate with you?ĭanielle: I related because I’m in an industry where you don’t see many plus-size actresses, and I was like, “No, this is what I want to do and I’m going to do it.” I came out to America even though in Australia it was like, “Yeah, you’ll probably go and come back disheartened.” I love acting and I’m going to continue doing that. This movie hits on what it’s like to be marginalized as a woman of a certain size. and Bridget comes out and I’m like, “What is going on here?” And then your boob came out! My friend was like, “Oh my God, the poor woman!” I was like, “No, I think that was meant to happen!” I thought she was this heavy, hard-hitting dramatic actress! Then I went to her show in L.A. You fall in love with her right away.ĭanielle: It’s really funny, because I met Bridget and she was really sweet and shy, and we were doing this intense scene. The warmth and heart that her character, Patti Cake$, has, that’s Danielle. But it didn’t happen, miraculously.īridget Everett: Danielle is the girl you want to sit next to on the first day of school. Geremy was like, “I want you guys to do the movie” and we both thought we’d get replaced at some point for, like, names. We found time with Everett and Macdonald afterward to chat about being big, strong ladies in a world of Hollywood twigs, and the making of this Sundance charmer.īridget, I’ve been to your cabaret show and had the privilege of nuzzling my face in your cleavage.īridget Everett: Oh! Nice to see you again!Īnyway, about this movie, did you two meet when it was being workshopped at the Sundance Labs two and a half years ago?ĭanielle Macdonald: Yeah, we’ve been attached ever since. “Why can’t I stop smiling?” Because the movie’s that good. “I can’t stop smiling,” a reporter friend said to me as we left our screening. It’s almost impossible not to get swept up in Patti’s fantasies (of flying through the air, or killing it onstage with her rapper idol, O-Z) her confident rhymes (the refrain of one is, “My life is fuckin’ awesome!”) and the ragtag group, PBNJ, she forms with her Nana, her Indian-pharmacist best friend Hareesh (Siddharth Dhananjay), and a hermitlike, black Marilyn Manson type who calls himself the Antichrist (Mamoudou Athie). The scrappy story of a plus-size female rapper trying to spit her way out of stagnation in New Jersey, it sold to Fox Searchlight for a reported $10.5 million - from a first-time feature director, Geremy Jasper with an unknown Australian star, Danielle Macdonald and cabaret goddess Bridget Everett and Raging Bull’s Cathy Moriarty as its only semirecognizable faces. This year’s Sundance hasn’t wanted for rapturous standing ovations or big sales, but of all the movies to debut at the festival, Patti Cake$ may be the most endearing surprise. This Q&A originally ran during Sundance 2017.
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