Ep. 50 - Colby Minifie & Joseph Sackett "Homebody"

Johnny (Tre Ryder) loves his babysitter Melanie (Colby Minfie), and he’s heartbroken that it's her last day with him before she transitions into being a full-time doula. He discovers a YouTube video that teaches him about Free-Spirit Meditation, a practice by which you can send your spirit out of your body and into someone else’s body. Johnny sends his spirit into Melanie. He can see through her eyes and operate her body from the inside out. From there, the pressures of pretending to be someone else stack up fast. In this charming Freaky Friday meets Being John Malkovich fantasy, writer/director Joseph Sackett explores gender expression with pure wonder through a fresh and whimsical lens in his hilarious and touching feature debut. Colby Minifie stars in Homebody as Melanie, the babysitter whom Johnny's spirit inhabits her body. Appearing on Broadway, television and film over the years, Colby is perhaps best known as playing Ashley Barrett in the superhero Amazon Prime original series The Boys. She's also appeared in the Amazon Prime original series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the Netflix original film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and the AMC series Fear the Walking Dead. Joseph Sackett is an award-winning filmmaker who has written, directed, and produced projects that have screened in competition at the Festival de Cannes, Slamdance, OutFest, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the Rooftop Films Summer Series among others. He received his MFA in Screenwriting and Directing from NYU Graduate Film, and is the recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grant. He is currently in post-production on his second feature film Cross Pollination.