Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick), Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision, Avengers: Endgame), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers), and John Early (Search Party) join The Female Lead to talk about Eternity – a new high-concept drama exploring time, memory, and what really matters.
We ask the question, if you could live forever at your happiest age, what age would you choose? From hilarious school memories to emotional reflections on the relationships that shaped them, the cast reflect on how the film’s themes hit close to home.
A group of individuals discuss a movie's premise regarding returning to one's happiest age, leading to a heartfelt conversation about their own favorite life stages, personal growth, and the influential relationships and environments that shaped their creative identities.
Right now for me.
That's really nice to hear.
Wish I could say the same.
No!
I loved the movie, guys.
It was so funny, but also so moving.
Absolutely brilliant.
I think people are just going to love the kind of new vibe that it brings.
I really like the idea that according to this world,
when you die, you go back to your happiest age.
I would love to know what is an age that you loved being?
11, 13, and 17.
Why?
I just felt very cool and confident at those ages.
Elizabeth, what about you?
I mean, 12 was a pretty strong year.
When you're the oldest of the elementary school,
it could have been a peak part of my sense of humor.
I think I peaked at 12, largely.
I think I've kind of sustained the humor that I have today there.
I mean, Waiting for Guffman was a film I was referencing constantly at the age of 12,
and I continue to, to this day.
So there really hasn't been that much evolution.
But yeah, 12 is pretty strong.
So if you were to spend a day,
what do you think you'd be talking about on that day?
Would you give them any advice?
Dude, let's just go out back.
Let's grab the boys.
Let's play some baseball, dude.
Ride some bikes.
Perfect.
Play some video games.
Would he be like, who the hell are you?
Why are you asking me to do this?
Just chill.
We'll get to that.
I think I would just like to observe.
We just were so creative.
If we had a school assignment, it always became a musical or a theatrical experience.
It wasn't just a normal presentation.
And from such a pure place and sense of freedom.
And I think I would just like to watch it.
It's clear that these are very joyful times.
So it's lovely to hear.
Right now for me.
That's really nice to hear.
I wish I could say the same.
No!
No, I'm pretty happy.
I would say probably 24 because I was hosting a variety show in New York.
And I was having the time of my life.
I was doing comedy and it just was the kind of structure of having
a little show to look forward to every month was a really nice.
Gave my life a nice little shape.
And now it's utterly shapeless.
I love that you said right now.
Life is hard.
It comes with a lot of ups and downs, but I feel myself adulting.
I'm proud of the person I'm growing up to be.
And especially as a woman, I think this is the hottest I've been.
Just like I'm in my essence.
I think when I was younger, life was great and good things were happening.
But I think I like myself more or the most than I have in a long time or if ever.
What I most like about it, that it attracts my alignment,
attracts and aligns me to other people and things that enhances my life to make it even better.
I think when I was younger, I was searching for the things.
And now it's like presenting itself to me or just coming to me.
And that doesn't always mean like money and jobs.
It literally is just like if you randomly meet someone, a complete stranger,
and then you're like, oh, this is a really great person.
I'm going to now hang out with like just random coincidences that aren't random
have been happening a lot.
And I think it's just because I'm like, I'm an alignment of like me.
I love that.
That's the dream, right?
Hopefully that continues every year.
You're like, yeah, really?
Right now.
Perfect.
Could you guys tell me about a friendship, relationship,
you know, of any kind that has had an impact on your life?
And I think we are the people because of that.
Yeah, 100%.
I guess one that jumps to mind is one of my best friends passed away way too young.
And he's just somebody that I've thought about all the time.
He was a year older and me and all my buddies looked up to him, you know.
And so I've often thought about where would he, what would he be doing now?
Where would he be?
You know, would he have kids and things like that?
So that's, that's one that comes to mind.
Yeah, that's pretty special.
Thank you for sharing.
Yeah, yeah.
I like, no, I'm going to go back even further.
No, because I was going to say, I was going to say like graduate school.
Oh, yeah.
And then I saw you in my periphery and I was like, no, Interlochen.
It was.
Yes.
And it's not even one specific person,
but we both went to this performing arts school, not at the same time,
but like literally a year or two after each other.
But the experience was the same.
The people who I met, even if I never see them again, utterly changed my life.
Because we were all in the process of becoming the creatives that we are now.
And it just was a very sacred and vulnerable space,
like listening to someone's musical that they wrote for the first time
or a song that they wrote, or it was so vulnerable.
And I will never forget those moments.
It was heaven.
And just, it was a beautiful place, too, just on a nature level.
Yeah, it's like in the woods, like two hours outside of Detroit.
Yeah.
On a lake, it is idyllic.
It's the typical idyllic summer camp in the woods, but it was magical.
And it's funny because even though we weren't at the same time, there's a bond.
That when he said that, I was like, makes so much sense.
I know.
And it's just really special.
It's a really special.
I've never felt that whatever they do and how they bottle that up
and every year produce that for these young children.
I mean, give them all the awards.
I know.
It's really amazing.