Filmmaker Cameron Crowe has biopics on the brain, being in late-stage development on his long-planned Joni Mitchell movie, the casting of which is still unknown. So he used his Q&A with Olivia Rodrigo Tuesday night at the Grammy Museum to ask her about casting thoughts — not for his own film, but for a theoretical one about her.
“In the biopic, in the kind of Broadway musical version of this album,” Crowe asked, “who plays you?”
“Well, you’re directing it,” the pop superstar answered, to audience cheers. “I don’t know who plays me… Sometimes I see a picture of Monica Barbaro, and I’m like, ‘Ooh, that’s a picture of me! Oh, no, that’s Monica.’ So, maybe her.”
“Good choice,” Crowe responded. “But then, there’s also you.”
“Yeah, I could do it,” Rodrigo responded, before passing the buck: “I mean, you’re directing it. You have to cast it.”
