Diane Keaton Definitely Enjoyed Kissing Dustin Milligan in ‘Mack & Rita': ‘Don’t Tell Anyone!’ (Video)
12.08.2022 - 22:35
/ thewrap.com
When it comes to body-swap stories, there’s always the typical hurdles — figuring out what to do at work, how to avoid friends and family, etc. — but the biggest one tends to be the matter of the love interest, who often falls for the younger person in the older person’s body. This holds true in “Mack & Rita,” but you know what? Diane Keaton loved getting to kiss that love interest.Here’s how it goes down.
During her best friend’s bachelorette weekend, 30-year-old Mack (Elizabeth Lail) finds herself exhausted by the partying. She’s always considered herself an old woman, and having to act like she enjoys the shenanigans of typical 30-year-olds is becoming cumbersome. So, when she finds herself in a “past life regression” pop-up tent, Mack has a bit of meltdown, claiming that her true self is a 70-year-old woman.And just like that, poof, she’s transformed into Rita, a 70-year-old woman played by Diane Keaton.
From there, she goes through the typical struggles of a body-swap movie — including when her handsome next door neighbor, played by Dustin Milligan, falls for “Rita.” And yes, the two do share a kiss. It was actually Keaton’s favorite scene.“Oh you’re gonna really think I — this is terrible. But I enjoyed the kiss.
Don’t tell anyone!” Keaton told TheWrap with a laugh. “I didn’t say it, I didn’t say it. But I did!” Of course, getting to kiss Milligan wasn’t the only high point of the film for Keaton.
In reality, it was just that she got to have a good time — like when her character needed to be high on shrooms and talking to a dog named cheese.“It was a lot of fun. And we were all kind of loose and OK, and we tried things out,” Keaton explained. “And not all of it was perfect.