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"Comedies, and espicially rom-coms, are often overlooked and kind of marginalized, and I think this has to do with the fact [that] it's a female-led genre, and there's inherent sexism in the world," Director Kat Coiro tells RT Awards Editor and Seen on the Screen podcast host Jacqueline Coley. "There's this question that often gets asked: 'Are we bringing the rom-coms back?' [But] rom-coms have been here since the beginning. You look at the first short films, and they are rom-coms. Every generation has defining rom-coms. [...] It's not gone anywhere."
No, it hasn't. The latest one to hit theaters, You, Me & Tuscany, proved that rom-coms are here to stay when it cracked the top five at the box office during its opening weekend. And if anyone could be considered an expert on the genre, it would be Coiro, who has made a career out of bringing us the laughs and romance with such films as Marry Me, starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, and A Case of You, starring Justin Long and Evan Rachel Wood. Coiro's latest has her taking a trip to Italy with Halle Bailey, who plays a young cook crashing the Tuscan getaway abode of a recent fling, and falling in love with the fling's cousin (Regé-Jean Page).
But romantic comedies aren't the only playground Coiro has directed in; she has a slew of TV credits, including the recent hit series Matlock. She also directed several episodes of Marvel's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and shares what she took away from the show. "I learned how to be a VFX Supervisor. [...] By the end of [She-Hulk]. I could run VFX on a show because it was so intense." Fingers crossed that Coiro's next film is a romance between two giant green monsters.
Check out the full Seen on the Screen episode above, where Coiro also discusses being inspired by Nancy Meyers, her indie roots, and the "I'll have what she's having' cameo she gave to herself in You, Me & Tuscany.
You, Me & Tuscany is in theaters everywhere. Buy tickets now on Fandango.
Seen on the Screen is a Universal Entertainment and Fandango podcast series hosted by Jacqueline Coley, Awards Editor at Rotten Tomatoes.
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