One film that is certainly not a rom-com, though, is Brie’s final pick, Jonathan Demme’s 1991 classic The Silence of the Lambs. While Brie does indeed love rom-com, she also loves “dark movies and thrillers.”.

Evidently, romantic comedy is a genre close to Brie’s heart, as three of five of her favourite films can be categorised as such. However, the next one, The American President, took Brie a while to realise that it was a rom-com at all. She said, “But I realised it took me a second to realize that The American President is a romantic comedy, because it has a political angle, and it’s got that [Aaron] Sorkin dialogue.”

Up next for Brie’s favourite films is the 1987 picture Broadcast News, in which Holly Hunter played a talented news producer who has frequent emotional breakdowns. Discussing her love for James L. Brooks’ film, Brie said, “I’m a big Holly Hunter fan. I just think it’s a great movie; it’s funny, it’s sad, it’s interesting. It’s got that archetype of the ambitious newswoman, you know? I like that she’s behind the scenes. It’s a character that I’ve never played in a movie.”

So it makes sense that her second pick is another Weaver film, Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic, Alien. Brie loved the special effects in the film in particular. “For the time when it was made, the effects, I think, hold up completely,” she said. “You know, the scene with the alien popping out of the guy’s chest. It’s gripping.“

Brie’s first pick is Mike Nichols’ 1988 romantic dramedy Working Girl, starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith. She particularly admired “Melanie Griffith’s transformation” in the film that tells of a secretary who takes on her boss’ position when he breaks his leg.