"The costume designer for House of L.L. Bean and sister to the House of Gucci designer."
The cast and crew of the indie fashion biopic House of L.L. Bean introduce themselves, positioning their film as the quiet, humble alternative to the flashy House of Gucci.
"I'm Jeff Jeffries and I played Tony Bean."
"My name is Walter Gunn, and I played Leon Leonwood Bean, the creator of L.L. Bean."
Director Sabrina Catching reveals she secured legendary screenwriter Aaron Sorkin for the project only after her niece slept with him and shared his contact info during a family Thanksgiving.
"I know him from my niece. My niece slept with him."
"Niece's kind of got this movie made is what I'm noticing."
The creative team behind the rival fashion biopic 'House of L.L. Bean' introduces their characters, including the real founder Leon Leonwood Bean and his fictional son Tony Bean.
"My name is Walter, Walter Gun, and I played Leon, Leon Wood Bean, the creator of L.L. Bean."
"The character Tony Bean was invented for the movie. We take artistic liberties."
Costume designer Effy Jacobs explains the historical tension regarding zippers, which Leon Leonwood Bean famously called the 'Devil's jacket' in Harper's Bazaar.
"Leon Leonwood Bean famously hated the zip-up. He called it the Devil's jacket."
"There will never be a zipper on my jackets as long as I live."
The cast discusses the creative editing required to avoid trademark infringement, including overlapping dialogue and changing the brand name to LL 13 Een in the final cut.
"We couldn't even say the name LL Bean in this movie."
"One of them say 13 Bean and one of them say LL Bean."
Effy Jacobs admits she got her start as an assistant manager at a Gap after her sister tricked her into a fake Spielberg interview, leading to her 'nepotism' hire via Sabrina's niece.
"I've been living in her shadow a little bit."
"I slept with Sabrina's niece to get this job."
Jeff explains his aggressive acting method, which involves ripping clothes apart and buying out the local Michaels' supply of stretch canvas to replace destroyed costumes.
"I want to, you know, tear down a wall in there. Become human, become primal."
"I had to go to Michaels at times and they would... I would buy out their cloth fabric."
Jeff performs his Grammy-winning spoken word track 'Drive', a bizarre a cappella list of morning routines that confused drivers when it played on Kiss FM.
"One, wake up. Two, coffee. Three, drive!"
"It bumped me when I heard it on the radio."
Sabrina reveals her pre-med background at UC Riverside and her upcoming Pixar project about med students watching a man die, which she claims inspired her pivot to directing.
"It is about two young med students watching a man die."