Alison Brie is gearing up to direct her first feature film.

The GLOW actress revealed to Marie Claire that she’s planning to direct a horror comedy from a script she wrote with Wine Country scribe Alice Stanley Jr.

“While we were writing it,” she shared, “I felt like I was writing it to direct it. I could see every shot in my head.”

While plot details remain under wraps, Brie described the horror comedy as “female-forward” with “very fun energy”.

The star previously directed an episode of her TV show GLOW, as well as Marvel 616, and co-wrote and produced the indie films Horse Girl, Spin Me Round and Somebody I Used to Know.

The Promising Young Woman star explained she shadowed directors, attended a seminar and read books before moving behind the camera herself.

“I think women carry a lot of self-doubt and we have a desire to make everything perfect before we attempt something, or we learn everything we can learn,” she said. “You want to really check the boxes and go, am I prepared for this? And at a certain point you have to just take the leap and believe in yourself.”

Brie felt ready to make the jump into directing features five years ago, but the pandemic and Hollywood strikes pushed her plans back.

“It’s taken me five years, basically, to build back up the confidence and desire to want to do that and to find the right thing,” she added.

The actress is currently starring alongside her husband Dave Franco in the body horror Together, which will be released in U.K. cinemas on 15 August.

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