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Courteney Cox & Seann William Scott on Their Indie Dramedy 'Just Before I Go'

Courteney Cox & Seann William Scott on Their Indie Dramedy 'Just Before I Go'

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YH climbs to the rooftop of the London Hotel in L.A. where we find Courteney Cox and Seann William Scott to chat about their indie dramedy 'Just Before I Go', which Courteney directed! They tell us the premise behind the film and how it came together with their talented supporting cast, plus they reveal some of their own "just before I go" to-do items and discuss a special cameo in the film from Courteney's daughter, Coco Arquette!

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Young Hollywood

I'm Oliver Trevena here with Young Hollywood on the rooftop of the London Hotel about to talk with Courteney Cox and Seann William Scott about their new movie Just Before I Go.

Young Hollywood

I'm going to go.

Young Hollywood

I'm Oliver Trevena joined with the lovely Courteney Cox and Seann William Scott.

Young Hollywood

How are you?

Courteney Cox

Good, how are you?

Seann William Scott

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

I'm good, I'm good.

Young Hollywood

I saw the movie last night, I love it.

Young Hollywood

Just Before I Go.

Young Hollywood

It was a it was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.

Young Hollywood

I'm not gonna lie.

Young Hollywood

I was laughing, crying.

Young Hollywood

Just a normal, a normal evening for me but this time it was because of a movie.

Courteney Cox

Because of a movie.

Young Hollywood

I'm gonna go now, I'm gonna go now.

Young Hollywood

No, great movie, direct, produce.

Young Hollywood

How is it uh Courteney is the is the boss?

Seann William Scott

I just Awesome.

Seann William Scott

She was Fucking awesome.

Seann William Scott

As I expected she would be.

Seann William Scott

I was depressed when we're done filming it.

Seann William Scott

It's such a great experience.

Seann William Scott

It's a hard movie to pull off too, the tone.

Seann William Scott

There's so much going on and she just knew exactly what she wanted to do and

Courteney Cox

He's not see, vulnerable.

Courteney Cox

He's earnest.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, I I I haven't seen that side of you before Seann, so well done Courteney for bringing it out.

Seann William Scott

Yeah, thank you.

Young Hollywood

You took Courteney Cox to get that get that out.

Courteney Cox

Yeah.

Courteney Cox

He's really sarcastic and I'm a real jerk.

Courteney Cox

And and yeah, he's yeah.

Courteney Cox

No, he's the most genuine person and I knew that when I sat with him.

Courteney Cox

I didn't know from his past work except for there were a few things I was like, oh, he's really sincere and You know, he does more comedies, broader comedies and even though this is a comedy, it's more based in reality except for maybe a few characters.

Courteney Cox

Like Kate Walsh.

Courteney Cox

Yep.

Courteney Cox

People have to express themself in some way if they're in pain and that's the way she shows.

Seann William Scott

My name is Ted Morgan.

Seann William Scott

And it's time to punch out.

Seann William Scott

You're serious?

Seann William Scott

You came back here to fight a bully and then kill yourself?

Seann William Scott

Jesus, it's like Jurassic Park when he walks.

Seann William Scott

Teddy, good to see you.

Seann William Scott

You need to hurt me like I hurt you.

Seann William Scott

Bring the pain.

Seann William Scott

Pants.

Seann William Scott

Are you okay to drive?

Courteney Cox

There's a great cast and some interesting characters.

Courteney Cox

And Kate Walsh especially, Kathleen, she's uh sleep.

Courteney Cox

Sit, sleep.

Courteney Cox

Sleep.

Courteney Cox

That's what she does.

Courteney Cox

That's what she does.

Seann William Scott

How can you say that?

Courteney Cox

We we said it, we said it already.

Seann William Scott

Don't say it again then.

Courteney Cox

Yeah.

Courteney Cox

Oh, you can say that in the show.

Courteney Cox

You can say anything.

Seann William Scott

Oh good.

Courteney Cox

You should have seen his mouth tonight.

Courteney Cox

I don't think we used any of it.

Seann William Scott

No, really?

Seann William Scott

We didn't.

Courteney Cox

No, we didn't.

Seann William Scott

I thought so, I thought so.

Seann William Scott

Just a lot of bleeping.

Seann William Scott

Just a lot.

Seann William Scott

I have an an I'm not a custom loop in my house.

Seann William Scott

Yeah, um like to watch myself.

Seann William Scott

Thanks man.

Young Hollywood

Um, going back to that part though, when I'm watching obviously bursting out laughing, is it hard directing behind the cam, how'd you keep a straight face with someone like Kate Walsh standing in front of you?

Courteney Cox

Yeah, it was really hard.

Seann William Scott

I've always played the characters that you know you're doing a good job when you're making other actors laugh.

Seann William Scott

But here I'm just playing like the straight guy who's just be serious.

Seann William Scott

Everybody else is funny.

Seann William Scott

Especially like the stuff with Kate.

Seann William Scott

My eyes are closed, I'm supposed to be sleeping and Kate Walsh comes in and disrobes Takes her clothes off essentially.

Seann William Scott

And uh Plays the banjo.

Courteney Cox

take them off.

Seann William Scott

Plays the banjo.

Seann William Scott

Yeah.

Courteney Cox

That's that's how you put it.

Courteney Cox

She's making noises and stuff.

Courteney Cox

She's just hilarious.

Courteney Cox

And everybody in the movie is so talented.

Courteney Cox

Garret Dillahunt plays this character that is really ignorant.

Courteney Cox

I mean, and says the most inappropriate things but he's really got a heart and all the characters that are struggling with different issues whether it's, you know, being gay and scared to come out or being bullied or they all have a journey to go on and it's kind of it's it's a bold movie but it's it's real.

Young Hollywood

Right.

Young Hollywood

When I finished watching the movie, I did leave my door unbolted just in case.

Courteney Cox

Just in case, but nothing happened.

Young Hollywood

No one came in.

Courteney Cox

No one came in, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Um hopefully this movie will start to

Courteney Cox

Maybe, that would be great, wouldn't it?

Courteney Cox

What a great trend to start.

Courteney Cox

Let's start that.

Courteney Cox

Unbolt your door and see what happens.

Courteney Cox

Hashtag.

Young Hollywood

Um, so Terrible.

Young Hollywood

And the process itself when when you read the script to like and did this in itself, you were like, right, I I I vision that person for this.

Young Hollywood

Did anyone pop up in your mind immediately?

Courteney Cox

Well, I always said I'm gonna work with Garrett.

Courteney Cox

Always just because I'd worked with him before and we just we work together well.

Courteney Cox

We understood each other.

Courteney Cox

For this one I just I I was not gonna take anything that wasn't perfect for the part.

Courteney Cox

And I met him and I sat across from him and thought, this is the guy.

Courteney Cox

He really was he's just sweet.

Seann William Scott

He is, I wanna kiss him right now, but I'm not gonna.

Courteney Cox

Not a chance.

Seann William Scott

Not a chance.

Courteney Cox

I'm not gonna.

Young Hollywood

You can do it in just one second, I'm sorry.

Courteney Cox

Okay, okay.

Courteney Cox

Well unless that's gonna help get people on the theaters, go ahead, okay.

Young Hollywood

She said kiss.

Seann William Scott

Kiss.

Young Hollywood

One last question.

Young Hollywood

If you were to say just before I go but not too deep, obviously, is there anything in life that you'd love to do right now that you haven't done?

Young Hollywood

You you've both had amazing lives, but, you know, I mean, this is silly, but this is not funny.

Courteney Cox

I just really want to go rent a house in Italy for a month in the summer and have all my friends fly over at different times and eat tons of homemade pasta, cheese and drink a lot of wine.

Seann William Scott

I'm there.

Seann William Scott

I wanna do that.

Seann William Scott

I wanna do that so bad now.

Young Hollywood

We can all split the rent.

Courteney Cox

We can all split the rent.

Young Hollywood

This is perfect.

Young Hollywood

This is perfect.

Young Hollywood

One last question that I'm gonna ask for myself.

Young Hollywood

Was that Coco singing at the beginning of the movie?

Courteney Cox

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

I've heard her sing before.

Young Hollywood

She's got the best voice ever.

Young Hollywood

But you were at the wedding?

Courteney Cox

I was at the wedding.

Young Hollywood

She's stunning.

Young Hollywood

She made me cry.

Young Hollywood

I was crying my side.

Young Hollywood

And I've met she's just the most amazing girl ever.

Courteney Cox

What's this wedding you're talking about?

Young Hollywood

Yeah, and it was h- it was so lovely.

Young Hollywood

So lovely, yeah.

Young Hollywood

I'm off to get singing lessons and then you'll see us in Italy next night.

Young Hollywood

Watch the movie, it's beautiful.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Courteney Cox

    Director of 'Just Before I Go' and interviewee

  • Seann William Scott

    Actor in 'Just Before I Go' and interviewee

  • Oliver Trevena

    Interviewer for Young Hollywood

  • Kate Walsh

    Supporting cast member in 'Just Before I Go'

  • Garret Dillahunt

    Supporting cast member in 'Just Before I Go'

  • Coco Arquette

    Courteney Cox's daughter, performed a cameo song

FAQ

What movie did Courteney Cox direct?+
Courteney Cox directed the indie dramedy 'Just Before I Go'.
Who stars in 'Just Before I Go'?+
Seann William Scott stars in 'Just Before I Go', alongside a supporting cast that includes Kate Walsh and Garret Dillahunt.
Where does the interview take place?+
The interview takes place on the rooftop of the London Hotel in Los Angeles.
Does Courteney Cox's daughter appear in 'Just Before I Go'?+
Yes, Courteney Cox's daughter, Coco Arquette, has a special singing cameo at the beginning of the movie.

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