Leah McKendrick (SCRAMBLED): “I have to make the kind of work that I want to see in the world”

SUCOPRESS/Raquel Laguna.

Actress and writer Leah McKendrick makes her feature film directorial debut with SCRAMBLED.

The film premiered at SXSW 2023 and is based on Leah’s real journey through egg freezing and 30-something singledom.

In this interview, Leah McKendrick talks about her biggest challenge making the movie, her character and about her next projects.

In SCRAMBLED, quintessential eternal bridesmaid Nellie Robinson (Leah McKendrick) constantly finds herself between weddings, baby showers, and bad dates.

When she begins to feel like the clock is ticking and is faced with bleak romantic prospects, Nellie decides to freeze her eggs, setting her on an empowering journey to a brave new world where she ultimately discovers “the one” she is looking for might be herself.

SCRAMBLED earned the Critics Choice Seal of Female Empowerment in Entertainment (SOFEE).

Leah McKendrick has multiple projects in various stages of development including the Paramount romantic comedy BETTER LATE THAN NEVER which she is attached to direct, and penning the screenplay for TriStar’s reboot of the 80s cult classic, TROOP BEVERLY HILLS.

Up next, she will be writing the legacy sequel to the 90s slasher, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.