I Saw the TV Glow Interview: Making an A24 Film Was a Dream Come True for Jane Schoenbrun

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Published 2024-01-30
Jane Schoenbrun’s narrative directorial debut, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, but that happened in 2021 when the festival was entirely virtual. A huge achievement nonetheless, but one that didn’t give Schoenbrun the opportunity they had while in Park City for the festival this year — the opportunity to celebrate their latest film, I Saw the TV Glow, with a wildly enthusiastic crowd that made the debut screening a truly unforgettable shared experience.

Ian Foreman and Justice Smith lead the film as Owen — Forman in his younger years and Smith as a young adult. Owen’s a “conflicted and deeply repressed” kid just trying to make it through growing up in the suburbs. However, everything changes when Owen meets Brigette Lundy-Paine’s Maddy, a “cooler older girl” who’s extremely into the late-night TV show, The Pink Opaque. As described by Schoenbrun, The Pink Opaque “is maybe a little too scary for kids and teenagers, and that's why they like it.” As Owen’s own obsession with the show grows, his view of reality cracks more and more.

Soon after I Saw the TV Glow’s world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Schoenbrun, Lundy-Paine, and Lindsey Jordon swung by the Collider interview studio brought to you by Film.io to discuss their experience bringing this one-of-a-kind vision to life on screen. Check out this interview to learn about Schoenbrun’s journey from first narrative feature to sophomore effort, Lundy-Paine and Jordon’s biggest burning questions for Schoenbrun after reading the script for the first time, and loads more.

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All Comments (10)
  • @wearethebomb42
    It’s really cool in retrospect how this interview was framed to have each person staged from right to left to be one level deeper into the narrative. Perri as the interviewer on the outside, Jane as the writer, Brigette as the star of TV Glow, and finally Lindsey as the star of The Pink Opaque within TV Glow
  • @AxioMunk
    Maddie / Tara’s monologue is… GORGEOUS. I felt like I was watching a play
  • @mattb2906
    Excellent interviewer and I think I said that about this same woman before!
  • @AxioMunk
    Im a big fan of Jane. 2 movies and both are bangers
  • @celebro469
    Any reason why I can't find the trailer for this film?
  • @AxioMunk
    So, according to Jane, the next movie or the movie after next will be a sellout sham bc I imagine Jane is like out of lenience from film critics and whoever produces the next one unless they stick with A24, which I would not mind at all
  • @heiebdbfn
    how tf did a24 approve something so meaningless and loose? cinematography was top-notch, but it felt like we're all going to the world's fair Trans Edition(TM). it got lost in everything it tried to do and it looked like if you asked ChatGPT and SORA to make a pretentious A24 film that utilizes trans analogies and 80's nostalgia. utterly terrible.