Elizabeth Shue on ''The Good Half'' Role, Nick Jonas & Brittany Snow

Hey, I'm Allison with FlickDirect and I am here with Elizabeth Shue to talk about The Good Half. Hello, how are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm doing great. I have to tell you a story before we get into questions. So I saw this movie last year as it premiered at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival opening night and of course afterwards they had a little party, cocktail party, with hors d'oeuvres and in pure Lily fashion I stole the plate.

That's awesome. Oh my gosh, for Lily's sake. Yes, I said that's it. I like it. I'm stealing it. That's it. Oh my god, that's so great. I know I haven't stolen anything yet. I have to do that just for. You definitely have to. I have to. Although I wonder what I would take, what I really would like. I don't, it's funny, I don't, I don't really know if I would want the spoons and the cups but maybe a cool little espresso cup.

I can imagine that. Yeah. All right. So I just thought it was funny and then when I said I was going to interview, I said oh I have to show her the plate. That's awesome, that's awesome. Of course, you know, Nick Jonas in this film, we are now going to, or you are going to inspire an entire group of dishware kleptomaniacs. All right, let's talk. I thought of a klepto when I was younger but I think she's more like a benign klepto because she's not going to stores necessarily and stealing things.

You're right. I was, I was always into like lip glosses and things like, I have time not helping myself do a lip gloss. Go back to all those stores and give them $2. All right, we got to get into this. What one, what made you want to play this role because she's such a great mom. Well, what I loved about her is that she, that she desperately loves her children.

Yes. But she's also a great mom. She's also somewhat flawed in her, the way she, the way she steals things but mainly actually the way she won't face her, her disease, the fact that she's going to die. Yeah. And I found that so human and so real. And yet, I also just loved how she kind of put her kids on pedestals, but kind of put Nick's character on a pedestal more than her daughters.

Yeah. And so she kind of like, needed her daughter to take care of her and be there for her. But she also didn't want Nick to see her going through her sickness and I just thought, oh gosh that's so hard and so honest. Yeah. Yeah, she absolutely is. But I think part of that flaw makes her such a great mom because she's so fun like oh yeah it's a flaw that I'm stealing little cups and saucers and things but it makes her fun in a sense.

At least I think she is, you know. In your real life, how did you bring that being a mom into the character? Well, I am a mom, of course. I have children. I've been very dedicated to being a mom, much more so than I've been dedicated to being an actress, I would say, definitely in the last 10 years. So I think that's why I love the movie so much is that rarely do mother roles in quotation marks.

I love playing mother roles, but the mother has to be honest and there has to be something very interesting about the dynamics she has with her kids. You don't want to be like, oh, the perfect mother. You know, what can I do? Be careful when you go out into the world. Like, so I just adored how flawed and imperfect everybody was. But yet you can still love your kids with such intensity and still do it wrong sometimes.

Yeah. Trust me. There's no parent manual that comes with a baby. I wish there was. So we all make those kinds of mistakes. And I love that about her as well. How do you think her children, even after the film ends, you know, after they go and try and steal all their belongings from their stepfathers? Yeah. And everything. How do you think they fared now that mom isn't there?

Well, I feel like their shared hatred for Rick, basically my husband, the evil Rick, the funny evil Rick. I think that by the end of the film, he really brings them together. I feel like Nick's character and Brittany's character find new found sort of connection and bonding over dealing with. Rick. And so that that makes me happy to know that there was there was an impetus for them to like really bond.

And I don't think they'll lose that. I don't think they'll lose that. And I know from the loss that I've gone through that the person that you lose. Yes, they're no longer physically in front of you, but you almost become closer to them because you have them in your in your soul, basically forever. And I definitely feel like they will have. Her in their soul.

Do you think they felt in a way that they not that they couldn't live up to their mom's expectations, but because I guess they saw her. Yes, flawed, but still a great mom that they were letting her down in some way. I would hope not. I would hope not. I think one thing that I hope the gift she gave them was that she. And I think. My parents gave this to me or my dad definitely like that.

They believe so strongly that you can accomplish anything that you go out into the world almost in a naive way. And it allows you. I mean, I really don't think I would have ever become an actress. I mean, I think it's absurd that I am even that I even succeeded on some level. And I think a lot of that came from this belief that you can do anything you want.

You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. So I think that she felt the same way for them. I don't know if she expected them to succeed, but I think she believed they were like amazing. And I think that kind of belief in them will will carry them far. I hope so. Absolutely. I want to thank you for your time today. I loved the movie. I promise not to steal any other dishes.

Unless I find a cute little espresso. Let me see. Let me see the dish. It's just an hors d'oeuvre dish. It's just like this little glass. It's just a little glass thing. It's so cute. And they must have more of those. I mean, there must be like hundreds of them. Was it a big restaurant at least? Well, I'm not going to tell you where I stole it from.

Believe me, they have plenty of money. They don't need my one little dish. Okay, good. Yeah. Broken. I mean, there's many of those that just break. Right. Yeah, absolutely. So who knows? It broke. I will say I did also speak to Britney Spears, not Britney Spears, Britney Snow about not this movie, but about her movie Parachute. Did you have a chance to talk with her at all about it?

No. Tell me about it. I have to. I just told her for the first time. I haven't, we haven't been able to catch up. Ah, so it's semi-autobiographical. She directed it. And yeah, she has, she growing up, she had this deceit and eating disorder. And a very distorted view of herself. And a lot of that went into the film along with stories from people that she knows.

So such a powerful film. I loved speaking to her about it. She directed it. So definitely check it out because it was great. I was sad I couldn't talk to her about this because it was during the actor's strike. But yeah, definitely talk to her about it. Where can I find it? I don't know if it's out yet. It was in the movie. It was supposed to be coming out, I think.

But I saw it at the festival. So it's going to be somewhere. Absolutely. Definitely. It's called Parachute. And definitely check it out. So thank you again for your time. You were phenomenal in this role. I love her. I want to be her. So when I grow up and become a mom, which I already am, but I want to be her. All you had to do was do one thing. Now you are her. You're free. I am her. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you.