Willamette Week’s Jay Horton interviewed the filmmakers of the upcoming #OregonMade comedy “Raging Midlife.”
Nic Costa and Rob Taylor, stars and the respective producer and director of upcoming Portland-made nostalgia fest Raging Midlife, have over the span of three films shown a certain facility for wringing laughs from genre pastiche and absolute genius for luring familiar faces to their elongated productions.
Raging Midlife’s premiere at the Austin Film Festival in October won rave reviews and heightened expectations for its release. Cinema 21 will host what’s billed as the movie’s theatrical world premiere on Thursday, March 13, the night before Raging Midlife hits video on demand platforms. Costa and Taylor told WW about the trouble with casting locals as camera-ready wrestlers, the delights of hugging Paula Abdul and how they cope when filmmaking feels like one step forward and two steps back.
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