With How I Met Your Mother now well into its sixth season, Josh Radnor, who stars as Ted in the series, has experienced the ups and downs of a young adult trying to establish himself in New York.
Radnor's new film, happythankyoumoreplease, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and showed this weekend at the Virginia Film Festival, deals with a similar, although more weighty, theme, following several New Yorkers as they try to settle into their new lives as adults.
Radnor stopped by the Virginia Film Festival during the showing of happythankyoumoreplease Sunday night, which he directed, wrote and starred in, and spoke with tableau beforehand about the process that went into creating the film as well as what he considered when casting it.
tableau: What was your inspiration for the film?\nRadnor: I wanted to write a great movie to give myself an acting opportunity. I had some great ideas that could be linked together to make a great film.
tableau: There's been talk of this film being a "classic New York" film along the lines of some great Woody Allen movies. Was this New York "spirit" something you were consciously trying to capture, and how do you do that?\nRadnor: You shoot in New York for one thing. New York has the best production design of any city. If you can shoot outside, the feel and texture is amazing. One of the things about movies is that it's really hard to show New York life. It's challenging to make New York apartments seem small.
tableau: How would you describe the experience of directing your first feature film?\nRadnor: All final decisions go to the director. Whenever it came to the look of the film, I really trusted my production designer. The final decision is yours, but you hear all the opinions, and generally we were always on the same page.
tableau: How did you go about casting the film?\nRadnor: I had done a bunch of readings in New York and L.A., and I knew that there is a realism that needed to be hit. I was fortunate to find actors who understood that as well. I once had a director tell me, "Everyone's making the same movie." It's a clich
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