Whit Stillman & Greta Gerwig On 'Damsels In Distress'

Whit Stillman and Greta Gerwig have come together to collaborate on Stillman’s first film in 13 years. Damsels in Distress is an indie rom-com about a group of girls who aim to transform the social etiquette of potentially suicidal girls and the frat boys that they’re attracted to at a fictional Ivy League school.

Stillman, director of The Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco, was born in Washington D.C. and bred in Cornwall, N. Y. Stillman graduated from Harvard, where he wrote for the school newspaper, The Crimson. Though he began his career in journalism, Stillman’s heart was clearly in screen writing and in 1991 he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Damsels in Distress is his fourth feature film.

Gerwig, a Sacramento, Calif., native, plays the emotionally distant ringleader of the pseudo-sorority in Damsels In Distress. Gerwig attended Barnard College in Manhattan, where she studied English with the intention of being a playwright. But the writer/actress has coveted some serious roles since she appeared as Natalie Portman’s roommate in No Strings Attached and Russel Brand’s Grand Central tour-giving love interest in Arthur last summer. This year alone, she has played leading roles in two other major films aside from Damsels In Distress, Woody Allen’s, To Rome With Love and Lola Versus.

Stillman found his inspiration for the script in the joys of working with such youthful cast members. "And so it’s a bit like the culmination of the story in a fantasy sequence,” Stillman told Uinterview exclusively, “and they put on a show, and they dance through the college campus.”

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