Park moved beyond acting roles in The Secret Life of the American Teenager and the Hallmark universe to experience her own coming of age: “I get so much joy from writing and directing that I never really felt being in front of the camera.”
“I kind of feel like healthy love is safety and freedom,” Park told Stella. It’s a line that wound up in Park’s script for her poignant coming-of-age film, My Old Ass. When Elliott, the film’s main character, hears it, she doesn’t exactly embrace the observation. Neither did Stella, who plays Elliott. “She really did look at me like, ‘Cool. That doesn’t sound very hot, but cool,’” Park recalls in a recent Zoom. “I’d never felt older in my entire life.
“It’s about creating this really open dynamic where the young actors can be like, ‘Megan, that joke, you’re dating yourself as a millennial,’ which they did.” As a result, her films tackle topical issues while somehow feeling timeless. “Coming of age has, recently, gotten a bad reputation,” she says. “When I was growing up, there was just as much gravitas given to coming-of-age movies as any other movie.” She cites “those Chris Columbus, classic-feeling movies” like Stepmom and Mrs.
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