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'The Invite' screenwriters Rashida Jones & Will McCormack | Fresh Air
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43:50Now PlayingThe new film, The Invite, directed by Olivia Wilde, offers a portrait of a marriage in middle age told over the course of one dinner party that spirals out of control. Screenwriters Rashida Jones and Will McCormack have been mining this territory together for decades, while finding the funny inside the painful.
“We are never above a laugh,” Jones says. “There's nothing that's grave enough for us not to laugh about, because that's how we release. That's how we process our pain.”
They spoke with Tonya Mosley about their creative process and their other films, Celeste & Jesse Forever, Quincy, and If Anything Happens I Love You.
This episode originally aired July 13, 2026.
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