actors that were concerned
about, ‘Oh, my God, we’re
doing 10 pages today?’ I was
just like, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be
just fine.’ That background
played a lot into us being
able to get this movie done.”
Cook is happy with
the finished product. “I’m
really proud of this film,” he
enthuses. “I’m proud of it
for a lot of different reasons.
It’s an improbable story with
the way that it got made with
the kind of story it is. It’s not
conventional. If you want to
watch a very conventional
romantic comedy, this is not
the movie for that night. It’s
not like you really have to
think hard about it, but it’s
just a different kind of movie
experience.”
The film has already
found success on the festival
circuit. “It’s been winning
some awards at film festi-
vals,” reports Cook. “We
were nominated for a bunch
of awards. And then we’re
getting a lot of distribu-
tion. So far we’re doing a
lot of theatrical releases inSpain, Peru, Colombia and
Ecuador, to the point where
we had so much interest in
Latin American markets that
we had the movie dubbed.
It was really funny when we
were dubbing the movie in
Spanish. They sent me the
audition tapes for the actors
and actresses. I’m listening
to auditions in Spanish. I’m
like, ‘I don’t think I’m quali-
fied to make this decision!’
I have a lot of friends who
speak Spanish and the pro-
ducer of this movie speaks
Spanish, too. I was reliant on
what they thought and not
what I thought.”
Cook is looking for-
ward to the wide release
of the movie on August- “When you make a
movie, I really do compare
it to having people over for
dinner,” he notes. “You
want to enjoy it, except I’m
not going to eat because I
already had this meal 300
times! I’m really excited to
share it. It’s a little nerve-
wracking. To be honest,
the first time people saw it
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I was surprised. I was like,
‘Oh, okay, cool. Those ideas
did translate, in a way.’ ”
The movie isn’t Cook’s
only project in the works. “I
have a book coming out on
October 1,” he adds. “It’s
called Love Life to Death
and it’s a 1950s thriller about
a scientific cult that, should
you become a member, you
can predict your death to
the day. And I love it. I’ve
always loved writing.”
To say the least, it’s been
a big year for Cook. “I’m
bringing a lot of things to
fruition that my mother
anticipated 10 years ago,”
he reflects. “The dedica-
tion in my book is, ‘To my
mom, turns out you were
right,’ because she always
said, ‘Keep writing. Don’t
stop writing. You’re gonna
get published.’ So with
the movie coming out, I’m
really proud.”
The Creatress will be
released on every digital
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creatressmovie.com. just my way of kind of doing a little send-out
to him because the meta style of the movie
is a lot of the meta style of his books. So,
we had to clear it before we shot it, and
we submitted it to his agent and Penguin
and they’re like, ‘Nope, can’t do it.’ They
declined. And I’m like, ‘That sucks. Well, I’m
gonna shoot it anyway, and I’ll just submit
the scene to them at the end and if they turn
it down then, then I’ll cut it out.’ The way it
was written, he throws the book down and
then the assistant asks, ‘Is it any good?’ He
goes, ‘I have no fuc***g idea!’ He’s just totally
bewildered and freaked out by this book.
So, when it was done, I sent Pynchon the
movie, I sent his agent the movie, and we got
an answer within two hours. They were like,
‘It’s approved. He wants to be in the movie.’
I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh! This guy!’ And we
had the approval from Penguin within three
days or something like that. That was one
of the big wins. I learned a lot reading him.
I’m saving one book of his. I don’t want to
read it yet because I’ve read everything that
he’s written. I just want there to be one more
thing left to read.”