'Mack & Rita' Director Katie Aselton Wroking with Diane Keaton

By Dharmesh Patel Aug 14, 2022

'Mack & Rita' Director Katie Aselton On Currently Working With Diane Keaton and Grounding the Story.

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'Mack & Rita' Director Katie Aselton On Currently Working With Diane Keaton and Grounding the Story.

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Director Katie Aselton, the dramedy Mack & Rita follows 30-year-old self-proclaimed homebody Mack Martin (Elizabeth Lail).

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who finds herself coming out of a regression pod during the bachelorette weekend for her best friend Carla (Taylour Paige), having suddenly changed into her 70-year-old future self.

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Coming to Aunt Rita, so as this is not to attract too much confused attention, the old soul learns to free herself from other people’s expects.

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she realizes that maybe she wasn’t being as authentically true to herself as she previously thought about.

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During Interview with Us, Aselton talked about why she needed a little convincing to take this film on and what she was most excited about getting to shoot.

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she also said how COVID changed things, the ways this production was different from the other two films she’d directed.

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