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‘My Old Ass’ Writer-Director Megan Park Talks Making People Cry & Multiple Upcoming Projects With LuckyChap

Bought at Sundance for $15M by Amazon MGM Studios, at first glance, perhaps the premise of My Old Ass seems like relatively light fare: a young woman coming of age in a beautiful Canadian lakeside town gets high on shrooms and meets her older self for a ‘what do I need to know’ chat. She also reveals how she first conceived of the story, connected to her LuckyChap producers and cast Maisy Stella( Nashville) as her lead, along with Aubrey Plaza. It was really interesting because I was totally in my own way a little bit about casting the older Elliot and I had written the role for somebody I’d always imagined maybe late forties, early fifties even.

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