Barbarella Chats With Cool Peeps from EDIE ARNOLD IS A LOSER
Hey friends. Barbarella here, coming at you from deep in the heart of Texas. That’s right. It’s spring, and I’ve been SXSWing hard this year. One of the films making a splash here is EDIE ARNOLD IS A LOSER. This high energy comedy about Catholic school girls who form a punk band only has one more screening at this fest.
I took a break from the movies, music, and mayhem to sit down with the the film’s directors Kade Atwood and Megan Rico (who also wrote it) and actors Adi Madden Cabrera (Edie) and McKenna Tuckett (Francis). Check out our conversation!
Barbara: I’m going to start with the Catholic school question, because when I was a kid, my dad was in the military, and we moved around a lot. We lived in El Paso for a couple years, and he didn’t want us in public schools there so they sent us to Catholic school. We’re not Catholic, so it was a weird thing because we were not allowed to do the religious stuff. We were really outcast. It was a very uncomfortable, bizarre experience. I would like to know, what is your experience with Catholic schools?
Megan: I went to an all-girls Catholic school in Miami, Florida so a lot of stuff from the script is pulled pretty directly from that experience. It is a weird experience. I feel like as an outsider, you probably noticed it even more. It’s a lot of arbitrary rigidity. It was like, why are we putting so much emphasis