'The Invite' screenwriters Rashida Jones & Will McCormack

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I'm Tanya Mosley, and my guests today are writers and performers Rashida Jones and Will McCormick. They dated Forstett in their 20s. It didn't work out, but what they found instead was one of the longest-running creative partnerships in Hollywood. Their first screenplay together, Celeste and Jesse Forever from 2012, followed two people who couldn't stay married, but also couldn't imagine life without each other. It's the kind of complicated relationship stories that they've returned to throughout their careers.

Their latest screenplay is The Invite, directed by Olivia Wilde, who also stars alongside Seth Rogan, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton. The entire film unfolds in a single San Francisco apartment. Two couples gather for dinner, and as the evening unfolds, the stories they've been telling about their relationships and themselves fall apart. It was inspired by the 2020 Spanish film Sentimental The People Upstairs by Cess Gay. In this scene, the couple who live upstairs, played by Cruz and Norton, have just arrived at their host's apartment, played by Wilde and Rogan.

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