Warning: The video interview (above) incorporates spoilers for Eenie MeanieScreenRant hosted a screening and Q&A of Samara Weaving’s new comedy thriller, Eenie Meanie, and discovered loads of enjoyable tidbits concerning the film. The movie follows Weaving’s character Edie, a reformed getaway driver, who’s pulled again into her previous life to save lots of her unreliable ex-boyfriend–Karl Glusman’s John.
ScreenRant’s Eenie Meanie overview suggests the film deserved a theatrical launch (it’s streaming on Hulu), and the screening supplied audiences on the Regal North Hollywood that full cinema expertise. Following the movie, ScreenRant’s Ash Crossan moderated a Q&A that includes Samara Weaving, Karl Glusman, and author/director Shawn Simmons.
The Q&A was full of bits of details about how the film got here to be, what it was about Edie that drew Samara Weaving to the function, and extra. Weaving even revealed one talent she needed to hustle to study earlier than filming. Test it out:
ScreenRant: Is it true, Samara, that you just didn’t know tips on how to drive previous to the movie? What’s the story behind this?
Shawn Simmons: She lied within the interview. [Laughs] Lied to get the job.
Samara Weaving: Yeah, I simply totally lied and stated, ‘I can completely drive. No downside. Do not even fear about it.’ After which I acquired the job and actually freaked out, shortly known as Melrose Driving Faculty, and a soldier named Adam taught me tips on how to drive. The following minute I am surrounded by stunt drivers, and they’re one of the best on the earth, they usually’re instructing me tips on how to do donuts and managed slides. And I am simply going, “Yeah, no. This is very easy for me.”
There is a motive why you learn to drive at 15 when your mind is not totally developed. As a result of at 30 years previous, I am going, “How come the one motive my automobile is not touching one other automobile is as a result of paint is on the bottom and there is lights flashing?” That is the one motive!
ScreenRant: Would you get in a automobile with Samara now?
Karl Glusman: Properly, after I get within the automobile with Sam, there is a man on high of the automobile additionally controlling it, and he is a extremely good driver. However I belief Sam. I belief you. All the time faux it until you make it.
Different Reveals From ScreenRant’s Eenie Meanie Screening
Samara Weaving’s horror profession is well-known to followers of the style, however the thriller movie, and the character of Edie, introduced one thing completely different for the actor. “She’s so robust and humorous and gritty,” Weaving stated, including, “Shawn simply wrote such an incredible character; I fell in love together with her on the web page.”
“I feel she nearly is the viewers’s perspective within the film. She simply encounters all these insane folks and [she’s] making an attempt to make the correct alternative … I used to be simply excited to do it.”
The expertise supplied one thing new for Karl Glusman, too, albeit not in a approach he may need anticipated. An early scene sees his character within the nude and beneath assault, and when filming it, Glusman prompted a bit little bit of a stir.
“There’s this Instagram account known as This Is Cleveland, the place you possibly can publish unusual and weird occasions in Cleveland,” the actor stated (you possibly can think about the place that is going). “At a sure level,” he continued, “folks on their balconies had been reporting this loopy white boy operating by way of their neighborhood with no garments on.”
“And in addition no penis,” Glusman added. “There’s a cover-up factor … I’m a human Ken doll in that scenario.”
Eenie Meanie can also be Shawn Simmons’ function movie directorial debut, however he didn’t count on it to be. “Once I pitched for the job, it was [to] Rhett Reese and Paul Warnick,” the director revealed. “I had written the script … and I feel Paul had stated, ‘Who’s David O. Russell, however does automobile chases?’”
“We talked about it [for] a very long time, and immediately Paul Warnick, out of the blue, says, ‘Let him do it.’”
Simmons had heard comparable issues earlier than. “I’d labored on Wayne, and by the tip of the method, lots of people had been going, like, ‘You’re going to direct, proper?’ As a showrunner, they had been like, ‘You’re fairly choosy about the whole lot from buttons in your shirts to hair and music and each script.’”
“I began to consider it, however didn’t take it critically,” Simmons admitted, “after which Paul Warnick in a short time made me take it very critically.”
For the complete Q&A, together with spoiler-filled discussions of among the film’s largest moments, try the video above.
Supply: Display screen Rant Plus
Eenie Meanie
7/10
- Launch Date
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August 22, 2025
- Director
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Shawn Simmons
- Writers
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Shawn Simmons
- Producers
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Marty P. Ewing, Rhett Reese
