The Stars of The Flick on Marilyn Monroe, Tasty Treats & What You Should Never Do at the Movies

Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick follows workers at a rundown movie theater in Massachusetts. The three main characters—Sam (Danny Wolohan), Avery (Kyle Beltran) and Rose (Nicole Rodenburg)—are bound together by their mundane duties, frustrations, struggles and ultimately their humanity. We asked this trio of actors about (what else?) movies! Their answers are below.

BEST MOVIE EVER?
NICOLE: It's a tie between The Wizard of Oz and The Godfather.
DANNY: Fanny and Alexander. And the next movie I'm cast in.
KYLE: Sophie's Choice. And by that I mean this is literally an impossible question for me to answer.

TASTIEST MOVIE TREAT?
NICOLE: Popcorn.
KYLE: The 10-year-old me would be so disappointed, but I'm definitely the guy who packs healthier snacks to bring to the movies. I love Trader Joe's Organic Popcorn with Olive Oil.
DANNY: Popcorn with a bag of peanut M&M's dumped in, then shake the bag so the M&M's are evenly distributed. Delicious and only 38,000 calories.

MOVIE THEATER PET PEEVE?
DANNY: Commercials are not OK.
NICOLE: Texting in the dark.
KYLE: People who talk like they are in their living room. Cannot deal!



GREATEST MOVIE STAR OF ALL TIME?
KYLE: Let's say James Dean.
DANNY: For consistent box office clout and quality of work, it's Denzel Washington. Malcolm X! Devil in a Blue Dress! He's amazing.
NICOLE: Marilyn Monroe. She's now a mythic legend, but I'm always blown away by her deep well of talent and undeniable "it" factor onscreen. And she was a box office champion!

HOW MANY DEGREES AWAY ARE YOU FROM YOUR PICK FOR THE GREATEST MOVIE STAR OF ALL TIME?
DANNY: In theater, two degrees. In movies, four.
KYLE: There are only four movies between the two of us, so our odds aren't great. But there's a great photo of him hanging in my kitchen.
NICOLE: A bajillion?

FILM LINE YOU QUOTE THE MOST?
KYLE: Something profane from I Heart Huckabees.
NICOLE: "I'm as good as I am. That's how good I am!" from Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
DANNY: "Nobody knows anybody. Not that well." As well as most of the rest of the lines from the Coen brothers' Miller's Crossing.

FAVORITE LINE (OR STAGE DIRECTION) IN THE FLICK?
DANNY: "Sometimes I worry that there's something really, really wrong with me. But that I'll never know exactly what it is." —Rose
KYLE:  All my favorites have profanity. Sensing a theme here!
NICOLE: Pause. Sam's heart breaks.

See The Flick at the Barrow Street Theatre through January 10, 2016.