‘It Shattered My Confidence’: Diablo Cody Talks About Her Experience On 'Jennifer’s Body' And Why She Finally Returned To Horror

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Almost 15 or so years ago, Diablo Cody’s follow-up to her debut feature script Juno, Jennifer’s Body hit theaters to a disappointing run. The movie starring Megan Fox was a box office failure and flop with critics when it initially came out, but in recent years audiences have warmed up to the movie big time. Nowadays the horror flick is thought of as a modern cult classic and that success has led to Cody’s first movie from the genre since, Lisa Frankenstein.   When CinemaBlend spoke to Diablo Cody and Lisa Frankenstein director Zelda Williams about Lisa Frankenstein, Cody talked about how the 2009 movie connected to her return to horror.

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00:00I feel like this movie doesn't exist without Jennifer's body and I was curious for you,

00:04Diablo, if there's something that you learned on that project that you really feel like you

00:09brought or learned from that you brought to this script specifically.

00:13Well, you know, I love that movie and so for me, you know, I knew that I wanted to capture

00:20some of the tone of that movie in this one. However, the one thing that I've gained over

00:25the last few years is confidence because when that movie came out, it shattered my confidence.

00:30And so I thought, oh, I don't really have any business writing in this genre because people

00:33didn't love it the way I wanted them to. And then when they started to love it, that was when I said,

00:38oh, like, I'm going to do this again. And I did it with this really renewed appreciation for the

00:44fact that I get to do this job. Like, I don't think I was as appreciative going into Jennifer's body,

00:50but now knowing how difficult this business can be and being older and wiser, I'm like,

00:54gosh, this is such a gift.

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