Trish Sie Opens Up About Upcoming Film Sitting In Bars With Cake: Female Friendship & Lots Of Cake

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," said director 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."

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 in a statement, "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 couldn't eat gluten and some couldn't 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 available exclusively on Prime Video from September 8 in more than 240 countries and territories around the world.