If you’ve seen "My Old Ass," which is new on streaming on Amazon Prime Video subscription, you know it’s one of the most endearing movies of the year. I don’t know about you, but I’m still not over the fact that in the movie, Maisy Stella’s Elliott has a mushroom trip where she breaks into song to serenade Justin Bieber to her crush. When CinemaBlend spoke to the movie’s star, she clearly still wasn’t over it either. Stella and writer/director Megan Park broke down how the scene became part of the movie.
Early into the film, Elliott and her friends go out to the Muskoka woods on her 18th birthday to indulge in a mushroom trip. It appears to conjure Elliott’s 39-year-old self (played by Aubrey Plaza), who cautions her to stay away from a guy named Chad, whom she meets not long after their conversation. As Elliott starts to find herself crushing hard on Chad without a red flag in sight, she decides to try the mushrooms again in hopes of talking to her older self again. But this time, the trip has the teen living her nine-year-old Justin Bieber fantasy, leading into an unexpected music number in the movie.
Early into the film, Elliott and her friends go out to the Muskoka woods on her 18th birthday to indulge in a mushroom trip. It appears to conjure Elliott’s 39-year-old self (played by Aubrey Plaza), who cautions her to stay away from a guy named Chad, whom she meets not long after their conversation. As Elliott starts to find herself crushing hard on Chad without a red flag in sight, she decides to try the mushrooms again in hopes of talking to her older self again. But this time, the trip has the teen living her nine-year-old Justin Bieber fantasy, leading into an unexpected music number in the movie.
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00:00has Justin Bieber, is he aware of the scene? What's kind of behind the inner workings of that?
00:06I mean, listen, I don't know, but his team approved the usage of that song and the whole
00:12thing. And yeah, we had to get his sign off to be able to do it or his team sign off and they did.
00:18Like, yeah, he's a Toronto kid, though. Yeah, he's been spotted up in Muskoka. So we hope that he
00:22saw it and loved it. So what would knowing that he possibly is like seeing the scene or will see
00:26the scene? What a weird, weird thing that would be for me. I feel like because the reason that
00:32that's in the movie is because it was so significant for me as a child, like that
00:35one less lonely girl was like really formative for me. And so me then being it would just be
00:42a full circle for him to have actually seen it. Yeah. And also, I just would hope that
00:47a love letter. It's such a love letter. And I just would hope that he would
00:51I think that I had the swag that he that he has, you know, you had some swag for sure.
00:58I think you would. Yeah, you definitely. I just hope that's all. That's all I want is his approval.
01:04That's all anyone wants. That's all I've ever wanted.
01:06With anything I've ever done in my life is just me for stamp of approval.