"A movie like this should have come out so long ago," she said of 2020's
Happiest Season, which also starred Kristen Stewart and followed a young woman planning to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party only to discover her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
"Not to toot my own horn but I was calling my agency years ago and going, 'You know, what you should do is take a rom-com script and just... make it two women. Don't make it about them being gay or coming out or anything, just a love story with two women.'"