Photos by Lauren Groth of Art Room Collective
Last Friday, we had one of our friends in Los Angeles, Lauren Groth, cover the LA press conference for The Other Woman, a romantic comedy directed by Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook, Alpha Dog) and starring Leslie Mann (This is 40), Cameron Diaz (Sex Tape), and Kate Upton. The film is about three women who realize they’ve all been with the same man at the same time. Instead of taking their anger on each other, they team up together to get revenge on him. During the press conference, Lauren took some photos, as well as some of the actors’ statements on the film. Check everything out below, and be sure to catch The Other Woman when it hits theaters on April 25th.
Everyone was having a good time. It was held in a smaller conference room, so it felt quite intimate. Cameron Diaz was the main speaker out of the group. She commented on how comfortable she was working with everyone and that she had a 4 hour lunch with Leslie Mann before shooting the film, so they hit it off early.
Leslie Mann was complimented on playing a “great drunk” by one of the reporters, which she got a kick out of. She said she learned it from “all of you,” possibly because the press were given mimosas and bloody marys before the conference. Kate Upton commented how much she’s learned from Diaz and Mann. Mann replied saying that she thinks of Upton as a daughter since she’s only five years older than her own daughter.
The two guys, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Taylor Kinney didn’t speak too much. However, they did comment how they “felt” for the cheating husband character because of the sort of revenge the girls had on him. Diaz complimented Coster-Waldau for being able to play “dumb” really well. All three girls said how great the guys were in the film & how much fun they had.
Some quotes from the The Other Woman press packet:
Cameron Diaz: “I just thought it was a beautiful thing. It’s about friendship and about women. What I also loved about the script is that it wasn’t man-bashing and it wasn’t revenge. It’s about a journey that these women take with one another to learn about themselves.”
Leslie Mann: “There are certain people who have an ear for comedy. It’s like a song and a rhythm, so when you’re doing comedy, if the other person isn’t hearing the same thing as you are, it just lays there and dies. Cameron hears the same thing as I do. We can pick up where the other one lets off and it’s like a good give-and-take. And Kate Upton has that, too. She knows how to play things and she’s super smart.”
Kate Upton: “I am so lucky to have one of my first movies to be with Leslie and Cameron. They are so inspiring.”
