Trish Sie On ‘Sitting In Bars With Cake’: I Love The Theme Which Is That Bold, Unstoppable, Unflinching Friendship Between Women

‘Sitting In Bars With Cake’, directed by ‘Pitch Perfect’ and ‘Step Up’ fame Trish Sie, skillfully constructs a narrative around the unbreakable friendship between two women. Trish confessed to initially being drawn towards romantic themes, but after reading the story of ‘Sitting In Bars With Cake’ she promptly changed her mind. She wanted to surprise the viewers with a heartwarming relationship between Yara Shahidi and Odessa A’zion that promises to evoke genuine tears of emotion with a powerful portrayal of female friendship.

“Female friendship is the prevailing theme of ‘Sitting In Bars With Cake’. What I love the most about it is the most obvious theme in the movie which is that bold, unstoppable, unflinching friendship between women,” says Trish Sie. “I’m all for romance and love, but I wasn’t particularly interested in making a romantic movie. I was pleasantly surprised that that’s really not the theme. Besides the friendship, it's the tenacity and the courage and overall collaborating with life to the fullest while we're here and helping each other do that.”

Trish Sie further talks about how working on a movie set with a seemingly unlimited amount of cake sounded like a dream come true. She said, “Oh my gosh, there was so much cake. There was a fair amount eaten on screen, but the cakes were seriously delicious in real life. We also had to have so many of them, not just because we had to cut into them, but because some actors could not eat gluten, and some could not eat dairy. So, we had different versions of all of them. It was just cake from dusk till dawn.”

Directed by Trish Sie, ‘Sitting In Bars With Cake’ stars Yara Shahidi, Odessa A’zion, Ron Livingston, and Bette Midler. Inspired by real-life events and the book of the same name by Audrey Shulman, who also wrote the screenplay, it will be released on Amazon Prime Video on September 8.