violetcrush said:

Maya was great, but I think Paula Pell was hilarious. She had some great scenes- the car scene with the Uber driver, the Vibrator giveaway, the “what age do you feel” scene and more. Many don’t know that she was an SNL writer for years and created many of the classic skits - The Cheerleaders, The Kulps, the “tiny hands” skit with Kristen Wig, the Mom Jeans commercial, the Justin Timberlake singing characters etc. She is hilarious!!

Paula definitely stole the scenes she was in, I agree. One of the funniest, because it was just so simple was "I tried Molly in college," (beat) "but she went back to her boyfriend. HEEYYOOO!!"

Emily Spivey on Loving Prince, Leaving Twitter, and the Possibility of a Wine Country Reunion: https://www.vulture.com/2...-cast.html by Josef Adalian - Vulture - 27 May 2019

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Vulture: Any songs you couldn’t get in because they were too expensive to license?

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Emily Spivey: Well, I wanted to use some Prince lyrics in the scene with me and Maya in the hot tub, and I couldn’t use the Prince lyrics that I wanted to use because it was just impossible to get rights to “Let’s Go Crazy.” And then I tried to rewrite the line and it didn’t work. So that was disappointing, because I wanted to reference some more Prince songs in that scene. But you know Wendy and Lisa did the score, right?

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Vulture: I did not know that!

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Emily Spivey: Yeah, Wendy and Lisa from the Revolution. And then at the end of the movie, that’s all of us singing “I Would Die 4 U.” The Revolution came in and they rerecorded the song, and we sang it with them, which was like — I cried. It was one of the best afternoons of my entire life.

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Vulture: Where is the behind-the-scenes featurette of that recording session!?

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Emily Spivey: Somebody was filming! Maya also filmed the whole time, but we had a proper film crew there. I need to ask Poehler about that because I want all that footage. It was insanity. I floated out of my body. It was so amazing.

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fms said:

Wait...Maya Rudolph is Minnie Ripperton’s daughter? I’m serious, I just learned that right now (and I’m old). Great movie, smart and hilarious! I just needed to chime in.

Ummm, yep. The song that she's well known for, "Loving You", was just a little tune she used to sing to Maya when they (the parents) put her to bed. She has a rich music history in her family. Read up on her a bit. It's good stuff.

violetcrush said:

Trivial - just reading Per Nilsen’s DMSR (finally!!) and in the beginning either Andre’s Mom or Morris’s Mom said that Prince would play Minnie’s songs over and over trying to sing like her

That's a pretty cool bit of serendipity. I use DMSR as a reference guide for some things. I've not sat and read it in a long time, so I wouldn't have remembered that.