{"id":71166,"date":"2025-08-10T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71166\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T00:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:11:07","slug":"molly-gordon-on-why-she-didnt-want-oh-hi-to-be-a-horror-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71166\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Gordon On Why She Didn&#8217;t Want &#8216;Oh, Hi!&#8217; To Be A Horror Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOh, Hi! may be some young couples\u2019 worst nightmare, but star, co-writer and producer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/molly-gordon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_molly-gordon\" data-tag=\"molly-gordon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Gordon<\/a> was adamant the project not be a horror film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuring a recent appearance on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QmLS-nE-bNA\" target=\"_blank\">Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a>, Gordon explained that as she was attempting to get the Sophie Brooks-helmed project off the ground, those she was pitching to suggested she change the genre and tone of the movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s interesting. We were discussing that it\u2019s such a dark time [in the industry], but horror\u2019s kind of the only thing that\u2019s working,\u201d she said. \u201cBut yeah, people would go, \u2018I love the movie, but can she kill him at the end?\u2019 But it\u2019s like, when you think of When Harry Met Sally, what if Meg Ryan just killed him at the end? I want some just romantic movies, does there have to be death always?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Oh, Hi! a romantic getaway turns sour as Iris (Gordon) realizes she and Isaac (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/logan-lerman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_logan-lerman\" data-tag=\"logan-lerman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Lerman<\/a>) are not on the same page about their relationship and its presumed exclusivity. Indignant at the prospect, Iris holds Isaac hostage as she navigates what she sees as a lovers\u2019 quarrel and not the dealbreaker it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile Meyers argued there was a \u201cpatina\u201d of the film <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/misery\/\" id=\"auto-tag_misery\" data-tag=\"misery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Misery<\/a> \u2014 the Kathy Bates-starring thriller in which she plays an obsessive fan who kidnaps her favorite author and for which the actress won an Oscar \u2014 in Oh, Hi!, Gordon described her onscreen character as \u201c10% crazier\u201d than her real-life self, while Bates portrays someone \u201c100% crazier.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTo that end, The Bear actress is also releasing a cover of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers\u2019 \u201cIslands in the Stream,\u201d featured in the Sony Pictures Classics movie, on Aug. 15, complete with cover art that pays homage to a scene from Misery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince its July 25 release, Oh, Hi! has amassed a box office cume of\u00a0$1.8 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch Gordon\u2019s interview in full below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oh, Hi! may be some young couples\u2019 worst nightmare, but star, co-writer and producer Molly Gordon was adamant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,11576,25253,51242,51243,206,51244],"class_list":{"0":"post-71166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-late-night-with-seth-meyers","10":"tag-logan-lerman","11":"tag-misery","12":"tag-molly-gordon","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-oh-hi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}