Reading the script, she fell quickly for the open-hearted Lucy. WWE superstar John Cena and Australian newcomer Geraldine Viswanathan walk into a bustling brasserie for lunch on a rainy spring day in Beverly Hills, cosmically and accidentally twinning in patterned suits to talk “Blockers,” their heartwarming new R-rated comedy about teen sexuality, parental anxieties and a phenomenon known as. Movies How John Cena and Geraldine Viswanathan became “Blockers” comedy breakouts “Broken Hearts Gallery,” on the other hand, felt like an introduction to adult relationships and breakups, “how normal and inevitable they are, and the maturity that you have to have.” “It was very much growing pains of, where are you going to go in your life, and where am I going to go in my life?” she remembered. Viswanathan hadn’t racked up too many Lucy-like breakups herself, other than a high school-era split. Onscreen, Viswanathan exuded the screwball energy of a young Lucille Ball, but also showed she could mine more dramatic layers. The range impressed Krinsky, who’d written “Broken Hearts Gallery” in her twenties, landed it on the 2011 Black List, and several years later made it her own directorial debut.
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The next year she flexed versatile chops, joining Daniel Radcliffe on the TBS comedy series “ Miracle Workers” and drawing acclaim as a Muslim teen coming of age in the indie drama “ Hala,” acquired by Apple+. With her playful charisma and quick comic timing, Viswanathan made a splash in the 2018 Universal comedy “Blockers” as one of three high schoolers trying to lose their v-cards on prom night. It now arrives in theaters where local guidelines allow - Viswanathan plans on catching it at a drive-in, at least - marking a new chapter in her career. Initially set for a pre-”Tenet” theatrical opening in July, it moved to September when it was clear major chains would begin to reopen. Just over a year ago, Viswanathan was filming “Broken Hearts Gallery,” which was executive produced by Selena Gomez and acquired by Sony in June. I wish I could show you, I’m truly surrounded by donkeys!”
“Alone in your room can be pretty uninspiring.”Īs she describes the creative freedom Krinsky gave her on set and the colorful lines about vibrators she improvised with co-stars Molly Gordon and Phillipa Soo, who play Lucy’s best friends, Viswanathan interrupts herself with an excited shout.
“I do just miss working on things with people,” she said. What she’s currently working on, she says, was born out of the lockdown and has been a welcome source of creative fulfillment. “I did feel the pressure, I think we all did, of, ‘What do we do with this time?’ Are we supposed to be productive?” she said. She admits that earlier this year she spent much of the pandemic like the rest of us: devouring movies, journaling and cycling through existential quandaries.
As a horse girl, this is just heaven,” said Viswanathan. “Right now there’s a cat rubbing against my leg, there are horses - every kind of animal you can imagine, we are surrounded by. The project has, however, led to her spending some quality time with donkeys on a desert ranch, which tickles her and also explains a recent Instagram post in which she’s posing with an Equus asinus, grinning mischievously, with the caption, “Check out my ass.” It’s early morning and Viswanathan is calling from the Palm Springs set of a secret project she can’t say much about. Artifacts pile up as strangers exorcise their romantic demons by donating to the collection, but nothing quite comes close to one item Viswanathan saw while researching the real museum in Croatia that inspired the story.
Nursing a freshly broken heart, Lucy befriends the emotionally closed-off Nick (Dacre Montgomery of “ Stranger Things”), who’s renovating his dream boutique hotel, and builds a gallery in his lobby enshrining tokens of loves lost. (Helmed by writer-director Natalie Krinsky and inspired by the filmmaker’s own bad breakups, the film’s production design, by Zazu Myers, creates impeccable chaos out of Lucy’s world and its chic, sleek NYC setting.) “Doorknobs! I wonder where she gets all this stuff,” Viswanathan laughed. An outgoing aspiring curator who wears her heart on her sleeve, she clings so hard to souvenirs from failed relationships that her apartment is cluttered with mundane mementos of her exes: plane tickets, bags of string, even an assemblage of emotionally vivid doorknobs. Lucy, the 20-something New York City gallery assistant Viswanathan plays in “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” needs something a little more concrete.
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