Through the vision of director Jason Pollard, The Sixth Borough documents the history of some of the most important rap acts that were birthed in Long Island. So many people will know the names Public Enemy, De La Soul, EPMD, Eric B. and Rakim. But too many people don’t realize they all grew up and started their careers just minutes from each other in different Long Island towns. As Jason puts it, “Rakim is the godfather of lyrical dexterity…without Rakim you don’t have the artists that you have now, expanding the art form the way they are. So he deserves all the props we can give him.”
Oh, Hi!
Guests: Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, and Sophie Brooks
Relationships can be hard. That shouldn’t be a shocking statement to anyone. Yet, we still live in a world where playing weird relationship games/being woefully non-committal is a thing. And when Isaac (Logan Lerman) drops the bomb of how he sees his relationship with Iris (Molly Gordon) whilst in a very compromising position…things don’t go the way anyone planned.
From a script co-written between Gordon and director Sophie Brooks, Oh, Hi! takes a high concept look at relationships. While the situations are heightened, everything starts from a real place for its creators, “The true jumping off point for this was that Sophie and I had relationships in our 20s that ended and we weren’t able to have a conversation that we wanted to have with them,” explains Gordon. Expanding on top of that, Sophie Brooks describes how that blossoms into what we see on screen, “There was certainly an element of wish fulfillment: In our darkest moments what would we do to try and keep someone’s attention?”
It also may be hard to find the right tone for telling a story like this. Do you go for the over the top comedy? Or do we make this a horror film? Sometimes these decisions come out of the shooting and editing process and not just the script. As Logan Lerman puts it, “There’s so many movies you could make out of the stuff we shot. Went in so many directions with it, tonally.”
No matter what you personally take away from Oh, Hi! you’re in for a treat because no character holds back in this one. Just take Molly’s word for it, “It was so fun to get to play a character that would say some of the things that I would actually say because I have a very dirty, wild humor.”
