Director Kay Cannon on 'Blockers,' Consent and Sexism
"There’s this idea that women don’t find this genre funny, but women laugh at the same things men do. I find butt-chugging hilarious," Cannon says.
Kay Cannon was on vacation in Maine when she was offered a new job: directing , an R-rated comedy about parents trying to “cock-block” their daughters that hits theaters on Friday. It would be her directorial debut after a decade of writing scripts nonstop, including three movies and back-to-back gigs on , and the short-lived Netflix series . Cannon had sworn to her husband and his parents that she wouldn’t work on her first vacation in six years, so she read the entire script on her phone
