VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Justin Bartha & Anna Camp On Relationships During Trying Times In Their Tribeca Movie ‘Nuked’

Veteran comedy actors Justin Bartha and Anna Camp shared their experience working together on the 2024 film Nuked, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last week, in their new uInterview. 

Nuked is a comedy about a group of friends who attend a technology-free dinner party fueled by weed, only to learn that a nuclear bomb is headed their way. Bartha and Camp play a couple who are going through some transitions. 

Camp provided an overview of their roles. “We played Jack and Jill, respectively, and it’s our 40th birthday party,” Camp told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “Jill is an influencer; she’s very excited about this new career she has; she’s a podcaster, she’s really becoming successful for the first time in her life, and she’s really proud of the work she’s doing. She’s making money doing what she loves. She’s questioning, ‘Should I have children?'”

She added, “It’s all about finding that balance and I think that that’s something that obviously Jack and Jill are working on and talking about, but maybe one of them isn’t being as honest as they should be.”

Bartha jumped in when asked what drove the dynamic between the two characters.

“Well, first of all, Anna’s one of my favorite actresses of all time, and we’ve known each other for a long time. We did a play together in New York a long time ago. I’ve always liked working with her and always felt a bond there.”

He continued, “But when it comes to the project, a lot of this movie was really born out of the pandemic. When I first met the director, Dina, you know everything was shut down, and she had sent me this script. I’m married, and we have kids. We were trapped inside, and everything was very confusing. It felt like the world was ending. I found myself every night talking to Dina about relationships and about how odd it was and how hard it was to navigate marriage and long relationships and reassessing your love, ‘in the time of cholera,’ if you will.”

Bartha went on, “So a lot of the kind of ridiculousness and comedy comes out of this, literally life and death situation, where you’re like, ‘Okay, I’m trapped in my house with someone that I’ve never really assessed within these circumstances,’ so when your life is on the line…when you’re just stuck there, and you have to be like, ‘Okay, I’m always with you now,’ how then do we change, evolve, and can we actually stay together.”

He added, “I don’t know about you, but a lot of my friends during the pandemic broke up, got divorced, opened their marriages.”

Bartha gave his overall thoughts on the movie with a laugh: “I think so much of the fun is had seeing each character in the movie – how they not only react to the news that the world is ending but also how they handle their weed.”