The great switcheroo

No-holds-barred actor, writer, stand-up comic and producer Amy Schumer is back on the big screen as Renee Bennett in I Feel Pretty. Renee is a woman who struggles with feelings of deep insecurity and low self-esteem that hold her back every day. One day, Renee wakes from a brutal fall in an exercise class believing she is suddenly a supermodel. With this newfound confidence she is empowered to live her life fearlessly and flawlessly, but what will happen when she realises her appearance never changed? The idea for I Feel Pretty and the premise that a head injury causes a major change for a woman and her self-image began brewing with writer-directors Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein several years ago. “We knew we’d be threading the needle with the tone, but thought it could be really funny and say something we believe in,” says Kohn. “We also knew we wanted to direct it, so we kept it on the back-burner until we could give it time.” Inspiration also came from some of their mutual favourite films. “It’s an homage and also makes fun of Big and Tootsie and some of the other great switcheroo movies we loved growing up,” said Silverstein. “They don’t really make movies like that now,...