A Wild Ride From ‘Dilettante’ to Director
The New York Times
Theda Hammel wasn’t always sure her varied résumé would include “Stress Positions,” her directorial debut.
Theda Hammel is under no delusion that Covid is box-office gold.
“I don’t think it’s going to draw people in, the idea of dwelling on that time,” she said last week at the Soho Grand Hotel in Manhattan, sipping an herbal tea on a leather couch. “But I think it has value as a little bit of a time capsule.”
Later this month, her debut film, “Stress Positions,” an ensemble comedy that showed at Sundance, will ask audiences to return to the early days of the pandemic, a time that many people would rather forget.
And what about the no-straight-people-in-her-entire-movie thing? Was that some sort of canny strategy?
No, just a function of circumstance.
“I don’t know any straight people,” Ms. Hammel, 36, said. “I don’t know any.”
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