Musician Alana Haim who performs in a rock band with her two sisters is making her screen debut in the new movie 'Licorice Pizza,' a coming-of-age story set in 1970s suburban Los Angeles
"Licorice Pizza is actually a really famous San Fernando Valley record store that was very popular in the '70s," said Alana Haim, the musician who makes her screen debut as the witty but prickly young woman at the heart of the story. The film arrives in U.S. movie theaters nationwide on Dec. 25.
"It took us a second to figure out what we were going to name the film. The second that 'Licorice Pizza' was in the mix all of us in our gut felt like this is the title," Haim, 29, said.Greeted by critics as the funniest and most personal film in Anderson's 30-year career, "Licorice Pizza" is on several 2021 top movie lists and is expected to do well at the Oscars next year.
It tracks the unconventional relationship between Haim's photographer's assistant character and a 15-year-old budding entrepreneur played by Cooper Hoffman, the son of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.Musicians Danielle Haim, Este Haim and Alana Haim of Haim arrive to attend the 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year show honoring Fleetwood Mac at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York, U.S., January 26, 2018.
Haim, who with her two sisters form the rock band Haim, described her character as "ferocious and strong, and kind of feels like she knows everything about the world, but she knows absolutely nothing."Anderson, whose films range from the comedy "Punch Drunk Love" to the drama "There Will Be Blood," is a Haim family friend. Haim's mother was his art teacher and he has directed music videos for the band Haim."It came about very spontaneously," she said.
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