In Kate Cobb’s BRB, Dylan (Zoe Colletti) is left to babysit her younger sister Sam (Autumn Best) when her parents go away on a cruise, and a lackluster sibling relationship soon develops into something much closer as Dylan encourages Sam to pursue the boy she’s been chatting with online and take a road trip to meet him in person.
Awards Buzz spoke with Best about marking her third on-screen role following The 4400 and Woman of the Hour and what appealed to her about this part:
“I came to the film because I read the script on a plane and I emailed my team and I said, I cannot wait to self-tape for this, and please tell them that I will do literally anything in my power to play Sam. Please tell them I really love this script. And then I auditioned for it and I ended up booking the job and here we are. By the time I got the audition, Zoe was already attached as Dylan, so that was also exciting because I was like, I feel like Zoe and I could totally play sisters. I’m an older sibling, so I think in some ways, I do relate to Dylan a little bit more in my personal life, but also Sam is so me when I was a child. It’s crazy. But I remember reading the script and saying to myself, Sam is so close to home and I would do anything to play her. I think she’s such a beautiful, nuanced, funny interesting character. It was a great time.”
On whether relating to the age of Instant Messenger was challenging for someone who grew up in a different Internet era, she shared:
“As much as it is different, I did grow up in the age of Instagram. I think I got on Instagram in 2011 or 2012, so it was very early stages of Instagram. I remember being an awkward teenager on Instagram and I remember the weird stuff I was posting and that I had random people that I followed because they also liked the Disney movies that I liked. I definitely remember being in that mind space, so then it was the vocabulary, the Instant Messenger-like vocabulary of it, even though it’s different, I still feel like I didn’t really have to do too much work to be to be like, okay, I know where Sam’s at right now, because I was there, you know?”
Watch the video above to hear about incorporating her own disability into the character and how she feels about working across different art forms.
BRB makes its world premiere at the 2026 Slamdance Film Festival.
