Blu Hunt on Misanthropy, Harry Nilsson's Think About Your Troubles, Spry Gum, and more.
October 13, 2022
Blu Hunt is a Los Angeles-based actress, writer, and director. Her career has been thrown a few loops…when she was 21 she starred in an X-Men film, The New Mutants, that was buried by the studio and by the time it came out during the pandemic she was already 25. These days she’s ready to leave her superhero era in the past and focus on writing + directing, what she really cares about. Blu has made a few smaller short films that are still being edited, but the one she’s most excited about is titled BATS and was cowritten with her best friend Sally Sum, who’s also the star. Recently she also starred in, and executive produced, an indie horror film directed by Elric Kane (@purecinemapod) that’s called The Dead Thing. Lucky for us, Blu is here to tell us what she’s been into.
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I love baking cakes for people. Store bought cakes are so boring. What do they show? That you have fifty bucks and a half hour to kill? Who even needs a cake at all at that point. Cakeake isn’t about being a cake, it’s about thoughtfulness, decorum, and perseverance. I will exhaust myself and push myself to limits I didn’t know existed in order to make elaborate cakes for my friends’ birthdays. The funny thing is, I always run excessively late at finishing them, barely getting the frosting on… And by the time the cake reaches its destination, it inevitably falls apart. But they always taste good. People think they can’t bake, even people who like to cook think they can’t bake… And I guess I kind of just explained how baking is hard and I’m not great at it, but that’s exactly why you should do it! It’s good to not be good at things and who knows, you could be really great at it. And if you aren’t it’s still fun and makes people happy.