THC: It is striking how much of a physical departure that the two of you made in creating your characters for this movie. You're both great, but totally unrecognizable.

JC: Yeah, I've done a moustache and beard before, but never to the extent of the Craig Schwartz look.

CD: To help us come up with our characters, Spike had taken pictures of random people with a long-lensed camera on the streets of New York. We pieced our characters together from these images, by asking, "Who's Lotte? Who's Craig? Who are these people?" It wasn't about snubbing anyone, or taking down looks, or just creating a shocking effect. We just to find the people whose stories we wanted to tell. That's acting, which is really fun.

THC: I thought that both Cameron Diaz and Catherine Keener did a wonderful job with Lotte and Maxine, but that, as two versatile actresses, you probably could have played either part. Did you gravitate towards these roles when the script first came across your desk?

CD: I don't have a desk.

JC: Next question?

Saffold is just one voice in an often silent chorus of minorities who have felt the chill in that September afternoon. How are the players in Harvard's dramatic community reacting to the perception that theater is a white-only world?