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"Licorice Pizza is actually a really famous San
Fernando Valley record store that was very popular in the '70s,"
said Alana Haim, the musician who makes her screen debut as the
witty but prickly young woman at the heart of the story. The
film arrives in U.S. movie theaters nationwide on Dec. 25.
"It took us a second to figure out what we were going to name
the film. The second that 'Licorice Pizza' was in the mix all of
us in our gut felt like this is the title," Haim, 29, said.
Greeted by critics as the funniest and most personal film in
Anderson's 30-year career, "Licorice Pizza" is on several 2021
top movie lists and is expected to do well at the Oscars next
year.
It tracks the unconventional relationship between Haim's
photographer's assistant character and a 15-year-old budding
entrepreneur played by Cooper Hoffman, the son of the late actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Sean Penn and Bradley Cooper make cameo appearances as
larger-than-life figures during a summer of mischief that
involves water beds, pinball machines, gasoline shortages, city
politics and first love.
Haim, who with her two sisters form the rock band Haim,
described her character as "ferocious and strong, and (she) kind
of feels like she knows everything about the world, but she
knows absolutely nothing."
"She's very complicated," Haim added.
Anderson, whose films range from the comedy "Punch Drunk Love"
to the drama "There Will Be Blood," is a Haim family friend.
Haim's mother was his art teacher and he has directed music
videos for the band Haim.
But Haim never dreamed of acting in his movies.
"It came about very spontaneously," she said. "I just heard
rumblings. He would mention, 'I'm working on a movie,' and I
would hear, like, water beds or something like that. But the
pieces never came together until he had sent me the script and I
had seen my name on the page."
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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