It’s not exactly a sex scene — it doesn’t go that far — but at one point during Bo Burnham’s directorial debut “Eighth Grade,” the film’s lead, Kayla (played by Elsie Fisher), finds herself alone with an older high school boy in the backseat of his car.
Kayla, an eighth grader, has never been in a situation like this, nor has she been prepared for how to deal with it, despite an earlier sex ed scene. The moment in the car is tense, uncomfortable and, as Fisher said when we sat with her and Burnham at the Sundance film festival, weird.
“It’s a really interesting environment already. Aside from the actual scene itself, just being in a car mostly alone with an older guy, that’s weird. And the actual content of the scene is weird, but it’s important we had it,” Fisher told TheWrap. “No...
Kayla, an eighth grader, has never been in a situation like this, nor has she been prepared for how to deal with it, despite an earlier sex ed scene. The moment in the car is tense, uncomfortable and, as Fisher said when we sat with her and Burnham at the Sundance film festival, weird.
“It’s a really interesting environment already. Aside from the actual scene itself, just being in a car mostly alone with an older guy, that’s weird. And the actual content of the scene is weird, but it’s important we had it,” Fisher told TheWrap. “No...
- 7/17/2018
- by Trey Williams and Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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