MISTLETOE and Pride
I’m a huge fan of Christmas movies. I feel like I’ve made myself immune to them now, though. I’ve been watching this Christmas movie for the last nine months...” Writer-director Clea DuVall is joking with Total Film about being stuck in the Christmas spirit with romantic comedy Happiest Season – and that’s just looking back over its relatively speedy production, too. Turns out, the personal project had actually been but a fairy light-esque twinkle in DuVall’s eye for a few years before she finally sat down in 2017 and penned a screenplay with her Veep co-star Mary Holland.
“I had had the idea for a while and wrote an outline for it, but I was working as an actor and got super busy.” DuVall, whose yuletide faves include , and , tells , “I met Mary, and we just got along so well. Writing can be so lonely… With comedy, it’s nice to have someone around to bounce things off of. I
