Anne explained astatine the movie’s premiere astatine SXSW: “For immoderate reason, we speech astir coming-of-age stories arsenic being thing that happens to you successful the earliest portion of your life, and I don’t cognize astir you, but I consciousness similar I support blooming. So erstwhile Cathy [Schulman] and Gabrielle [Union] truthful generously offered maine the part, I was thrilled to accidental yes.”
“I don’t privation to beryllium pigeonholed and don’t privation to beryllium placed successful a container of what benignant of films I person to beryllium making due to the fact that of my age, gender, and due to the fact that I won an Oscar,” she continued. “I privation to person fun, dammit. It speaks to me.”