Lacie Harmon: That became Real Girls, the play, and then that was adapted into the movie.

AE: So the movie is based on your relationship in real life?
LH: This is true story. We are really together; we have been together 8 1/2 years now.

AE: How did the play get made into a movie?
RG: Lee Friedlander, who directed the film, had seen the play in almost every stage of its development, because we did several incarnations of it. She fell in love with it the first time she saw it, and came back to the theater every single time that we did it. She kept mentioning that it would make a good movie. She had been a producer at the time for most of that time and was just starting to get into directing and we sort of toyed with the idea of shooting it. Not really making it into a movie, but shooting the stage version so we would have something for posterity.
LH: Our original thought was to do with something like you might see on PBS, where they are essentially pointing a camera at the stage.
RG: We decided to call Lee and she said, "Let's just do this, let's just get something on film. We will do it really cheap, we'll borrow some money and we will do something." Then somewhere along the way it turned into a real movie.

AE: What surprised you along the way, as you made the film?
LH: I think the most surprising thing for both of us initially was that if we just gave up a little bit of our control, things that seemed miraculous could take place. That began with going to Lee in the first place, because we had not really wanted to bring on anyone else. We didn't want to take on a lot of responsibility, or give over a lot of responsibility. But when we finally said to Lee, "Do you want to do this?" she was excited, and we went forward. It was a huge step, because suddenly it was her baby too. That happened throughout the project.

AE: In the play, you two voiced all of the characters. In the movie, you were suddenly working with other actors. Was that a difficult transition?
RG: It was extremely surreal, especially the part where I come out to my mom, who is played in the movie by Mink Stole, an amazing and hilarious actor. It was really surreal not only to be reliving the experience of coming out to my mom pretty much word-for-word, but then to be doing it while playing myself, with an actress playing my mom. It was totally strange, cool, and amazing.