The Wrong Girls director Dylan Meyer on giant squids, casting cats, and Kristen Stewarts secret side

Dylan Meyer has been building her career as a screenwriter with spirited movies like XOXO and Moxie.

Now, she makes her directorial debut with The Wrong Girls, a stoner comedy that co-stars her wife, Kristen Stewart, and Arrested Development' s Alia Shawkat.

SEE ALSO: 'The Wrong Girls' review: Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat shine in stoner buddy comedy The pair play "nimrod" besties Frankie and Molly, who are bumbling around Los Angeles while high on psychedelic drugs made from giant squid fluids.

This deep-sea dose has given them the ability to speak telepathically to each other and to their two cats, Dio and GG, voiced by Seth Rogen and Kumail Nanjiani.

To celebrate the film's release, Meyer sat down for a virtual interview with Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko.

Together, they dug into the personal origins of The Wrong Girls, as well as inspiration points like The Blue Planet, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, and Empire Records.

Plus, they got into casting cats and how Meyer's collaboration with Stewart reveals a new — and more true to life — side to the critically heralded performer Mashable: Congratulations on the movie.

It's very, very fun.

I know it came from a personal space for you.

Can you tell me a little bit about the origins of The Wrong Girls ? Dylan Meyer: Yeah, I lived with my best friend Maggie McLean, who's now my producing partner, for five years.

But it was definitely like the happiest and most, like, safe five years of my whole life.

It was the first time I ever really felt like I had a home.

Our little life together was very dysfunctional and very broke and very chaotic, but I really thought it was so sweet and funny in its own way.

Like, the things that happened to us were deserving of the same kind of care and treatment that I see a lot of men's movies about their friendships get.