, her seventh feature-length motion picture, loosely set in – and certainly filmed during – the summer of 2019, she didn’t realise it would turn out to be “a period movie”. Yet here we are. It is the night after the premiere and the 49-year-old filmmaker finds herself in a very different New York City, albeit one in which she is still chicly polo-necked, bespectacled and looking generally divine.
In the film, the domestic espionage is pretty out there, racing around town in a vintage sports car while eating caviar, yet it somehow all feels very… real.Had you been keen to work with Rashida for a while? You’ve known each other forever, right… Christmas special aside, it’s the big reunion with Bill Murray. Did you finally just cave and give the people what they want?