‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ Writer-Director Cooper Raiff on Directing Himself: “The Closest I Can Be Is in the Scene”

Cooper Raiff began the pandemic by taking the top prize at the COVID-canceled 2020 SXSW film festival with his feature debut, Shithouse. Less than two years later, his sophomore effort — Apple’s Cha Cha Real Smooth, which follows a recent college graduate who strikes up a friendship with young mother Domino (Dakota Johnson) and her […]