'Cha Cha Real Smooth' writer/director and star Cooper Raiff sat down with FOX Television Stations to chat about his new romantic dramedy, 'ghost director' Dakota Johnson and more.
In other words, Andrew’s charming outward empathy hides just how much interior work he still has to do, which he eventually comes to realize over the course of the film. "I love where he’s headed," Raiff acknowledged. "I love that he gets to a place where he’s, like, ‘I don’t have any sense of self and I’m gonna try to find that.’"
Given how many hats Raiff had to wear as an actor, writer and director, he’s also quick to credit Dakota Johnson as a crucial collaborator on the film, going so far as to call her his "ghost director." She pushed him to give Andrew and Domino’s conversational scenes more interesting blocking, which led to one memorable sequence built around ice pops. When they needed to figure out how to adjust a scripted moment of physical intimacy, they came up with the idea mid-scene.
And though Raiff isn’t so sure he’d make a good party starter in real life , he did come to realize that "directing is just like party starting.... So it was easy to be a party starter on set."
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