“I think the movie does a great job of portraying Google’s culture,” she says. And now that Ewing has seen the movie she’ll vouch for the truth behind the tale it tells. But the The Internship, made with the company’s full cooperation, is most decidedly about Google-which is portrayed on screen in a nearly 100-percent positive light. When Vaughn (who co-wrote The Internship) and director Shawn Levy first reached out to the company about the project, she assumed they were researching a fictional tech company like Google. More to the point, she and her team advised the filmmakers throughout the production. And she should know: as Google’s head of global staffing programs, she’s in charge of the company’s internship program. ( VIDEO: Check out the trailer for The Internship)īut Kyle Ewing doesn’t think the movie’s premise is that far-fetched. They soon learn that landing the coveted internship comes with no guarantee of a job, as they have to join a team and compete against bright college students-in what they dub the “mental Hunger Games”-hoping to qualify for eventual employment. The two play old-fashioned salesmen who, after their company goes under, apply for summer internships at Google-and get them. Follow one will ever mistake the Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson comedy The Internship (in theaters June 7) for a piece of gritty realism-in fact, the movie’s basic plot seems fairly ludicrous.
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