June Squibb, 94, and the late Richard Roundtree star in a chase scene from Josh Margolin's 'Thelma,' debuting exclusively with EW as part of this year's Summer Movie Preview.
"We told her to do this very lightly, but she was like, 'I'm just going to go for it. I'm just going to ram him.'"
That intrepid spirit is part of the reason Margolin knew Squibb was the perfect choice to play his feisty grandma. "There's a reason she was right for the part," he says with a laugh. "She has that spirit; she has that tenacity, and that scene was both stressful to film and also a lot of fun." Her skills extended beyond being able to stop it; she was just supposed to gently bump into Roundtree when he was also on a scooter during that assisted living home sequence, but she had something else in mind. "This was a fairly new one and they said, 'Just tap his scooter. Don't try to do too much, we'll fix it'," Squibb explained. "But I decided, oh, what the hell? So I powwed into him like that and they were all, "Oh! Oh! My God!" But they got it.
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