Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “B.A.P.S”

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What did Beyer think about the film?

Let’s just say it’s not a film she would consider to be her best work. It actually took me quite some time to find anything where she would even speak about it. In an interview with IndieWire.com, discussing her next film, Let’s Talk About Sex, Beyer explained how disappointed she was with the way B.A.P.S turned out.

I had written a film called B.A.P.S. When I saw the final cut, I was so devastated because I really believed that my words had not honestly made it onto the screen. The director was a writer/director himself and it was the first time he had directed someone else’s writing. He took the liberty of changing stuff as he shot the film. At the end of the day, when I saw the film, I hated it. I was really embarrassed and it was too late for me to take my name off the picture. Then I got killed by the critics. Me! The writer! I just thought I’m gonna take the money from this awful experience and put it into my own film. I’m gonna direct it and make sure my words make it to the screen. If the critics try to kill me now, there’s nothing they can say that’s gonna hurt me because I know that I did my very best. Those are my words on screen and I stand by them. So I took the money from B.A.P.S to make my movie.

Well, that’s pretty clear. Her independent film, Let’s Talk About Sex, wasn’t the last time we heard from Beyer. She would later write the script for the teen movie Love Don’t Cost A Thing. 

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