Sylvia Soska: After Katie, the first person we cast was Paula Lindberg who played Ruby Real Girl.

Because when we were pitching the movie nobody got what we were trying to do so we shot it in my godfathers vet clinic, a little teaser of what it would be like.

We didn’t have prosthetic artists at that point so Paula went under prosthetics for sixteen hours and I kept saying ‘This is what it’s actually like’. On the shoot, with professionals, it took around four hours.

Jen Soska: With the casting, when we like an actor, as proudly failed actresses ourselves, I hate the auditioning process because it’s not really a fair trial for somebody, maybe they got the note wrong or we told them something wrong or they’re coming in with having not really read the script.

If there is an actor that we like then we like to take them out in a social situation afterwards because they will drop their guard and what they don’t realise is Sylv and I are picking them apart the entire time.

If they are rude to the waiting staff, then they can just get up and walk out because we have no tolerance for that. If you’re a bit of a cunt then it doesn’t go unnoticed because we're watching every little thing you do.

We’re looking for honesty in the performances that they do. If we’re looking to cast a bit of a dick then that’s ok. There were some.

One of our actors was a bit of a dick to wait staff and unfortunately that is what we’re going for, but as human beings we were waitressing two weeks up until we started making American Mary, so anyone that treats somebody in hospitality as sub-people we strongly disapprove.