 I'm Jordan Rosales for CalTV Entertainment and today I'm here with the writer and director of the new film Thoroughbred's Corey Finley. Corey, thank you so much for joining me today and congratulations on all the success of Thoroughbred's. Thank you for having me. No problem. So we're gonna get, it's like, really hard-hitting questions because I'm an investigative reporter. Good. Thoroughbred's has been compared to the Cold 80s classic Heather's a lot. How do you feel about that? Heather's is an amazing, iconic, crazy cold movie so I will gladly take the comparison. You once said that every work of art is political whether the creator wants it to be or not. One, what do you think that means and two, how is this piece in particular political to you? I think some people try to say I'm not making a political movie, I'm just making a movie to entertain or whatever. I think all movies have a political dimension. They entertain but they also say something and if you're not thinking about what they're saying then they're probably saying something you don't intend them to say. And so this movie is political for me in that it's about, it's sort of fundamentally about class I think about social class and about the way that privilege sort of traps the characters but also allows them to benefit from it. The characters of Lily and Amanda are very complex teenage girls. What was your writing process since you are not a teenage or a girl? Did you like listen to a lot of One Direction in preparation? I probably should have now that you say that but I... One deep for life. One deep for life. I don't know, in general my philosophy was just, you know, worry less about the ways in which those characters are different from me and focus on what parts their personality and their struggle I connect to. I've written so many bad female characters as a young male playwright before I ever wrote movies and it was sort of a challenge to myself just to write two kind of strong female leads that were not about their relationship to Amanda. Do you think you're more of a Lily or an Amanda? That's a great question. I'm really good at this. Yeah, I'm disappointed I haven't been asked that yet. This is a big moment and I haven't really thought of it. I will say they're both, there's a lot of me in both and in some ways like writing a movie was sort of, you know, like a psychotherapy like pitting parts of myself against one another. I think there's probably more Amanda in me. I think a little more. Yeah, you're more of an Amanda. Hashtag team Amanda. Hashtag team Amanda. I'd be a little scared of anyone that said they were too Lily. I think this is probably the most important question that I have for you today as a very successful screenwriter, writer, director. Whose Netflix account do you use? Like be honest. Yeah, it's my parents. Your parents still? Same. I know, I feel like an infant for admitting this but the whole family uses the parents account. That's great of your parents. That's a real sign of their love for us. Thank you so much for joining me today, Corey. It's been super fun. Everyone, I've been Jordan for CalTV Entertainment. Make sure you go watch Thoroughbreds on March 9th in theaters. Are you a Heather's fan? Yeah, I mean every teen movie is a fan. But obviously Thoroughbreds a hundred times better. Oh stop. Yeah.