“So it was just us, saying, ‘Hey, do you want to try to make something right now?’ We’ve always wanted to make a feature.”Ĭall and Everton have been friends since age 8, growing up in Portland, Ore. “Because we had no work, we had all the time in the world,” Call said.
ANYTHING GOES ORIGINAL CAST MOVIE
The pandemic forced Call and Everton to shut down their production company, JK! Studios - where they make the web series “Freelancers” - and Everton was in the middle of shooting a movie that had to stop production. They thought seriously about what humor they could find out of a tragic, and universal, situation. They must get there before their sister, Erin (Julia Jolley), who’s so oblivious to COVID-19′s dangers that she left for a cruise during a pandemic, gets back and reaches Nana first.Ĭall and Everton started brainstorming for “Stop and Go” shortly after the coronavirus shut the world down. The sisters hatch a plan to drive 1,200 miles and 20 hours - through Utah, Idaho and Oregon (though the movie was mostly shot in Utah) - to rescue Nana, while making contact with as few people as possible along the way. The action begins when the sisters talk to their grandmother (Anna Sward Hansen), who’s stuck in her room in a nursing home in Washington state, quarantined because of COVID-19. They have self-isolated, put on their masks, and spray each other and their groceries with disinfectant when they return from the store. 1 at the Megaplex Theatres at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, and in other theaters around the country, as well as on demand - Call and Everton play Jamie and Blake, two sisters in Albuquerque trying to get through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. “What we could do was just make something light, and just hope that people had a good time with us going through it.” As alumnae of BUYTV’s sketch comedy series “Studio C,” Call and Everton are used to finding the funny where it may be least expected. “We weren’t trying to say anything about the pandemic, about the world, because we really had no ground to stand on, no context,” Call said over a recent Zoom call, talking about the Utah-made comedy. Whitney Call and Mallory Everton, the writers and stars of the new movie “Stop and Go,” know the question is coming: Is it too soon to laugh about COVID-19?