Molly Gordon Is Having a Breakout Summer—and Then She's Taking a Nap
17.07.2023 - 18:05
/ glamour.com
By Molly Gordon would like to take a nap. “We all need to sleep for about a year,” she says of her best friends turned collaborators behind the hilarious Sundance gem Theater Camp, out now. Gordon co-directed the film with Nick Lieberman and co-wrote it alongside Lieberman, , and Noah Galvin.
(Platt and Galvin, who are engaged, also star alongside Gordon in the movie.) “Everyone broke themselves to make this movie.” As if that wasn’t enough, the 27-year-old also has a significant role in the current season of FX’s smoking-hot series The Bear as Claire, the love interest of Carmy (ahem, that’s to you). It’s not every day that you’re a force behind two of the buzziest projects of the summer simultaneously. So yeah, a nap for about a year sounds about right.Theater Camp began as a short film that Gordon created with Platt, Galvin, and Lieberman back in 2017.
The film follows Gordon’s Rebecca-Diane and Platt’s Amos, beloved counselors at the deliciously cringy AdirondACTS theater camp. The two hurl blood, sweat, and tears into every finger of a jazz hand while overseeing the annual original camp musical. “I was manic in my will to make this happen,” the California native says from her NYC hotel room.
“Everyone said no again and again and again.” It wasn’t until Gordon sent the short to producer Jessica Elbaum, whom she had met on the set of Booksmart, that the narrative began to shift. Initially, the plan was for a more established director to helm the script until Gordon, who had never directed a feature before, got up the courage to advocate for herself over a sushi dinner with Elbaum. “I remember eating edamame, and my hands were shaking,” she says.