A monster movie is never just a monster movie. Theres always a metaphor lurking beneath any creature features surface its just not usually as odd and intriguing as the one in Colossal .

Anne Hathaway plays Gloria, a haphazard New York party animal whos lost her writing job, her apartment and potentially her boyfriend (Dan Stevens ). Returning to her modest hometown in search of a refresh button, Gloria encounters an old classmate, Oscar (Jason Sudeikis ), who owns a bar that provides no aid in curbing Glorias inebriated tendencies. But things get twisted when Gloria learns a Godzilla-esque kaiju beast in South Korea is mirroring her actions under very specific circumstances. From there, Colossal zigs and zags, morphing into clever symbolism about the commanding hand men often attempt to wield over women. Its one of the years best movies to date.

On the afternoon of the films New York premiere, The Huffington Post sat down with Hathaway and Sudeikis to discuss Colossal, which was written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo (The ABCs of Death, Open Windows). Along the way, we gabbed about Interstellar, Saturday Night Live , The Intern, being a public figure and how boys are raised to believe the world owes them good fortune.

I went into this movie cold, and I wish everyone could experience it that way. I only knew it was vaguely a monster movie. How was it pitched to you?

Jason Sudeikis: I remember there being a logline on a cover sheet, but I dont remember what it was. I got it in its full script form, and I remember being delighted by it and very curious as it went because it made some interesting choices right off the bat. I knew the idea of a Godzilla-like monster at that point because of, I dont know what, litigation reasons .

Anne Hathaway: Oh right, that whole thing . Jeez Louise.

JS: But it makes sense it helped to make the invisible visible. I was guns a-blazing. Did you read any coverage of it?

AH: No, what had happened was I had just seen a film called A Field in England, by Ben Wheatley, and it was so wonderful and weird and existed because Ben is a creative person and likes to make films and honor that creativity. So I just sent this really impassioned email to my representatives saying I need to do a movie like this. I need to know some weird things that are out there right now, I need to think, I need to be challenged this whole thing.