April 19, 2023 • 8 mins
Actress and director Kyra Sedgwick talks new movie, directing her husband Kevin Bacon and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On with Mario Lopez?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
What's up on Maria Lopez joining me now on Zoom?
Director and AMMI winning actress Kara Saderwick, Welcome to show, Kiera.
How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm well? Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Congratulations on your big screen directorial.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Debut, Space Oddity.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
For those who may not be familiar, tell us the
premise please.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
The premise is a young man in his twenties who
has grown up on a flower farm has decided that
he is going to train and give all his money
to a company that's going to send him on a
one way journey to Mars. His family is understandably very
upset by this, and he ends up.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Falling in love with a young woman in the town.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But it's about a lot more than.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Just its premise.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's about love and loss and how we need to
learn to fight the good fight here on Earth, and
that there's no planet B and there's no family Bee,
and there's no and that you know, falling in love
and staying present in the world is a scary thing
(01:16):
to do, but it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, No, absolutely, all great themes there. What was it
about this particular project that that was attractive to you
to want to direct.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think that because all of those things that I
just mentioned are so critical to me.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I feel I feel like, you know, so.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Much of our world is about checking out and not
being present and getting distracted, and and you know, thinking
that you can that you can run away from your problems,
and and I think that where the real gold is
is staying present, and where the real gold is is
(01:59):
fighting for.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
The planet and fighting for love.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Even though people die, and even though there's loss, it's
still worth.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Fighting the good fight here.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And you know, it's really most of all, it's incredibly entertaining,
and it's a great ride, and it's very moving, and
it's very funny, and it's very hopeful the end that's awesome,
all the things I love.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I've been trying to work on staying a little more
present too, because I'm a big like always thinking ahead,
and I have the calendar, and I'm like, I gotta
be more present, So I'm gonna have to definitely check
that out. You also got to direct your husband in
this film. Is is that a challenge or a joy?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I think it's both.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, mostly it's just an absolute joy. I think that,
you know, directing actors is a complicated thing to do.
Everyone has a different language as an actor.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Having said that, I also know.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
A lot of the language because I've been an actor
for such a long time, and I know when I
get direction from directors that are helpful, and then I
get direction from directors that are monumentally unhelpful.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So I have a lot of really good, you know
practice and with that.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But you know, he and I know our language together,
and in some ways we've been sort of giving each
other acting notes our whole lives because we've both been
in this business for so long and shown up on
set or worked through scripts with each other. So so
it's something that comes really naturally for us.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I love directors that are actors, I guess just being
an actor too, because you're exactly right the way well
they give you. I feel more a creative liberty. Sometimes
there's a sort of shorthand the way to convey their
notes because you're right. Sometimes they could it could be
such a hindrance if they're not right from the creative process.
So I'm a big fan of that. So that's awesome.
(03:57):
You directed episodes of a series man each times, Well,
what of the biggest differences would you say for a
feature film and a show.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, I mean the most of the all the episodics
that I've done are somebody else's creation. They come from
somebody else's brain, the writer's brain.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And then you know, the person.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Who directs the pilot picks everything including cast and the
look of the piece, et cetera. So that's something that
you know, I get to do in a film, I
get to pick everything from soup to nuts, and that
feels much more.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You know, I'm really putting my stamp on it as.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
A creative, whereas I love doing episodic television. But you're
you're really a guest, and there's many things that come
along with being a guest, right, like don't hang around
too long, don't keep actors too long, and don't overstare
you welcome, and don't try to change, you know, change
the wheel, you know what I mean, Like it's a
(04:56):
wheel that's working well.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Don't try to come in there and things up just
because you want to be heard and seen.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, I know you're exactly that's interesting, but you're exactly
right on that note. You're directing an episode of the
HBO series The Girls on the Bus.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What is that about? It's it's I'm sure it'll get
a it'll get it hasn't been announced when. It doesn't
have a date and opening date yet, but it is
in a great show about female journalists following presidential hopefuls
on press buses, and it's present day, and it is
(05:34):
very female centric and was kind of based on a
book called Chasing Hillary that the journalist Amy Chosek, who
wrote for The New York Times and the Washington Post,
wrote about her years following Hillary Clinton as a candidate.
And you know, from two thousand and six to twenty sixteen,
(05:57):
I think it was okay.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So it's great.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's smart, and it's funny, and it's and it's it's
it was great to work with a bunch of fantastic women.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Nice being on the lookout for that. And you're also
joining the cast of the Summer I Turned Pretty for
season two. Can you tease us with anything about that?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Gosh, I really can't.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I think I'm under lockdown there because ipt to say.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That I am in it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And then I play Elsie Fisher's mom, Elsie Fisher from.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
The movie Eighth Grade Fame, and I.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Had a great time doing it. Jenny Hahn is a
is a fierce and incredible writer, leader, creator, And I
can't believe I got to hang out in her in
her sphere for for even.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
A little while. Wow. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And last question, I know you got your start as
a teenager on the soap Another World. What do you
How long was did you work on that show? And
what do you remember about the first days on the set?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I was a year and a half. I was on
that show a year and a half. I was still
in high school and I would and I was I
only could work maximum three days a week. My mother
set up this whole, uh weird schedule for me. What
I remember on this set was.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Being very being.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You really were thought of as a professional, even at sixteen,
Like no one was going to cut you any brakes,
no one was going to be like, oh she's only sixteen.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
No, they got to keep moving, but they got to
keep moving on so yeah, they got to keep moving exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
And I also remember that you know that they would
take almost anything that they would hardly ever reshoot anything.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
In fact, they never did. One day. I literally said
up south of course, when referring to down the South,
and they kept that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We gotta moved that's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
She's blonde. It'll explain a lot. No worries.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's great. It's a great boot cap, though it is
obviously worked out well.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Congratulations on everything. So nice to UH to get to
chat with you and listen. You can watch Space Oddity
in theaters or on demand, Kira, thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Okay, take care now
Speaker 1 (08:14):
With Mario Lopez
On with Mario Lopez?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
What's up on Maria Lopez joining me now on Zoom?
Director and AMMI winning actress Kara Saderwick, Welcome to show, Kiera.
How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm well? Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Congratulations on your big screen directorial.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Debut, Space Oddity.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
For those who may not be familiar, tell us the
premise please.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
The premise is a young man in his twenties who
has grown up on a flower farm has decided that
he is going to train and give all his money
to a company that's going to send him on a
one way journey to Mars. His family is understandably very
upset by this, and he ends up.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Falling in love with a young woman in the town.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But it's about a lot more than.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Just its premise.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's about love and loss and how we need to
learn to fight the good fight here on Earth, and
that there's no planet B and there's no family Bee,
and there's no and that you know, falling in love
and staying present in the world is a scary thing
(01:16):
to do, but it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, No, absolutely, all great themes there. What was it
about this particular project that that was attractive to you
to want to direct.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think that because all of those things that I
just mentioned are so critical to me.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I feel I feel like, you know, so.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Much of our world is about checking out and not
being present and getting distracted, and and you know, thinking
that you can that you can run away from your problems,
and and I think that where the real gold is
is staying present, and where the real gold is is
(01:59):
fighting for.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
The planet and fighting for love.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Even though people die, and even though there's loss, it's
still worth.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Fighting the good fight here.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And you know, it's really most of all, it's incredibly entertaining,
and it's a great ride, and it's very moving, and
it's very funny, and it's very hopeful the end that's awesome,
all the things I love.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I've been trying to work on staying a little more
present too, because I'm a big like always thinking ahead,
and I have the calendar, and I'm like, I gotta
be more present, So I'm gonna have to definitely check
that out. You also got to direct your husband in
this film. Is is that a challenge or a joy?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I think it's both.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, mostly it's just an absolute joy. I think that,
you know, directing actors is a complicated thing to do.
Everyone has a different language as an actor.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Having said that, I also know.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
A lot of the language because I've been an actor
for such a long time, and I know when I
get direction from directors that are helpful, and then I
get direction from directors that are monumentally unhelpful.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So I have a lot of really good, you know
practice and with that.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But you know, he and I know our language together,
and in some ways we've been sort of giving each
other acting notes our whole lives because we've both been
in this business for so long and shown up on
set or worked through scripts with each other. So so
it's something that comes really naturally for us.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I love directors that are actors, I guess just being
an actor too, because you're exactly right the way well
they give you. I feel more a creative liberty. Sometimes
there's a sort of shorthand the way to convey their
notes because you're right. Sometimes they could it could be
such a hindrance if they're not right from the creative process.
So I'm a big fan of that. So that's awesome.
(03:57):
You directed episodes of a series man each times, Well,
what of the biggest differences would you say for a
feature film and a show.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, I mean the most of the all the episodics
that I've done are somebody else's creation. They come from
somebody else's brain, the writer's brain.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And then you know, the person.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Who directs the pilot picks everything including cast and the
look of the piece, et cetera. So that's something that
you know, I get to do in a film, I
get to pick everything from soup to nuts, and that
feels much more.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You know, I'm really putting my stamp on it as.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
A creative, whereas I love doing episodic television. But you're
you're really a guest, and there's many things that come
along with being a guest, right, like don't hang around
too long, don't keep actors too long, and don't overstare
you welcome, and don't try to change, you know, change
the wheel, you know what I mean, Like it's a
(04:56):
wheel that's working well.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Don't try to come in there and things up just
because you want to be heard and seen.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, I know you're exactly that's interesting, but you're exactly
right on that note. You're directing an episode of the
HBO series The Girls on the Bus.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What is that about? It's it's I'm sure it'll get
a it'll get it hasn't been announced when. It doesn't
have a date and opening date yet, but it is
in a great show about female journalists following presidential hopefuls
on press buses, and it's present day, and it is
(05:34):
very female centric and was kind of based on a
book called Chasing Hillary that the journalist Amy Chosek, who
wrote for The New York Times and the Washington Post,
wrote about her years following Hillary Clinton as a candidate.
And you know, from two thousand and six to twenty sixteen,
(05:57):
I think it was okay.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So it's great.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's smart, and it's funny, and it's and it's it's
it was great to work with a bunch of fantastic women.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Nice being on the lookout for that. And you're also
joining the cast of the Summer I Turned Pretty for
season two. Can you tease us with anything about that?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Gosh, I really can't.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I think I'm under lockdown there because ipt to say.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That I am in it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And then I play Elsie Fisher's mom, Elsie Fisher from.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
The movie Eighth Grade Fame, and I.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Had a great time doing it. Jenny Hahn is a
is a fierce and incredible writer, leader, creator, And I
can't believe I got to hang out in her in
her sphere for for even.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
A little while. Wow. Very cool.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And last question, I know you got your start as
a teenager on the soap Another World. What do you
How long was did you work on that show? And
what do you remember about the first days on the set?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I was a year and a half. I was on
that show a year and a half. I was still
in high school and I would and I was I
only could work maximum three days a week. My mother
set up this whole, uh weird schedule for me. What
I remember on this set was.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Being very being.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You really were thought of as a professional, even at sixteen,
Like no one was going to cut you any brakes,
no one was going to be like, oh she's only sixteen.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
No, they got to keep moving, but they got to
keep moving on so yeah, they got to keep moving exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
And I also remember that you know that they would
take almost anything that they would hardly ever reshoot anything.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
In fact, they never did. One day. I literally said
up south of course, when referring to down the South,
and they kept that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We gotta moved that's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
She's blonde. It'll explain a lot. No worries.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's great. It's a great boot cap, though it is
obviously worked out well.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Congratulations on everything. So nice to UH to get to
chat with you and listen. You can watch Space Oddity
in theaters or on demand, Kira, thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Okay, take care now
Speaker 1 (08:14):
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