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Speaker 4: I'm Jesse Lighteck.
Speaker 5: We've got a really big show for you tonight. It's
Speaker 5: autumn and New York. The leaves are changing, the indictments
Speaker 5: are falling, and Leslie Jones is here.
Speaker 4: But let's get right.
Speaker 5: Into today's big story. New York City's Mayor Eric Adams.
Speaker 5: He's known for a lot of things, from.
Speaker 6: Clubby downtown, to clubbing in Midtown to clubbing during work hours.
Speaker 6: He's having the best time and the party is never
Speaker 6: gonna end.
Speaker 7: Breaking overnight, indicted New York Mayor Eric Adams facing criminal charges,
Speaker 7: an historic case for the first time is sitting mayor
Speaker 7: is facing criminal charges.
Speaker 8: Indicted by the US Southern District here.
Speaker 9: In New York.
Speaker 5: Can someone check if there's bottle service at Rikers? So yes,
Speaker 5: this is a historic and sad day for New York City,
Speaker 5: which is why the subway masturbators were flying their.
Speaker 8: Sweatpants at half mass this morning.
Speaker 5: Now, to be fair, Adams is of course, innocent until
Speaker 5: proven guilty, although it would be a lot easier to
Speaker 5: believe he wasn't doing crimes if he didn't dress like
Speaker 5: a gangster from guys'n' Dolls. But the question is what
Speaker 5: exactly is Eric Adams stuff. Let's find out in our
Speaker 5: new segment, Suspects in the City. I couldn't help, but
Speaker 5: wonder how could the mayor be in trouble with the law.
Speaker 8: We know how much he follows the law because he
Speaker 8: tells us all the time.
Speaker 1: I just strongly believe you have to follow the law.
Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how much I start today with
Speaker 1: telling my team we gotta follow the law.
Speaker 5: See, as we know, the most trustworthy people are the
Speaker 5: ones who are constantly telling you how trustworthy they are.
Speaker 5: You know, It's like how most faithful spouses start every
Speaker 5: morning reminding themselves not to cheat. If you got one
Speaker 5: of those ladies, hang on, hang on, tie, don't let go.
Speaker 5: So what's the mayor in trouble for? Well, according to him,
Speaker 5: it's for simple caring too much.
Speaker 1: Always knew that if I stood my ground for all
Speaker 1: of you, that I would be a target, and a
Speaker 1: target I became.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you did that for us.
Speaker 8: Oh, oh my god, Oh my god. And I knew it.
Speaker 10: I knew that when you said the city should put
Speaker 10: garbage in garbage cans, they would come after you.
Speaker 4: I knew it, and they did. They did.
Speaker 5: I mean, unless there was some other reason why they
Speaker 5: indicted you. The indictment reads like Lifestyles of the Rich
Speaker 5: and Famous, describing a politician who wanted to travel.
Speaker 6: Beyond his means and did so with the help of
Speaker 6: Turkish nationals.
Speaker 11: On numerous occasions, the mayor would fly on Turkish Airlines,
Speaker 11: which is primarily owned by the Turkish government. In October
Speaker 11: twenty sixteen, they purchased economy tickets valued at just over
Speaker 11: twenty two hundred dollars and received free upgrades to business
Speaker 11: class worth about fifteen thousand dollars. In twenty seventeen, Adams,
Speaker 11: a family member, and a staff member accepted free business
Speaker 11: class tickets worth more than thirty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 8: Let me get this straight.
Speaker 5: I've heard of politicians getting paid off in bags of
Speaker 5: cash and fancy cars and gold bars, but this is
Speaker 5: the first time I've heard of selling out the city
Speaker 5: to get medallion status on Turkish airlines. I mean, come on, buddy,
Speaker 5: if you want to get bumped up to first class,
Speaker 5: just say you found a pub in your pretzels.
Speaker 8: It works every time, every time.
Speaker 5: And if you're wondering, isn't Turkish air an inconvenient airline
Speaker 5: to have your bribes paid in?
Speaker 8: You're right.
Speaker 9: According to the indictment, Adams insisted on flying Turkish air
Speaker 9: through Istanbul, even if it was out of the way.
Speaker 9: When is friend asked if he wanted to vacation in Chile,
Speaker 9: he repeatedly asked her whether Turkish Airlines flew there from
Speaker 9: New York City.
Speaker 5: Our mayor is bad at crime and geography.
Speaker 8: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: This isn't just embarrassing as a mayor, this is embarrassing
Speaker 5: as a boyfriend. Hey, baby, Hawaii sounds fun, but what
Speaker 5: about a three hour layover in Istanbul and then Estonia.
Speaker 5: It is the Hawaii of Eastern Europe. So Turkish Airlines
Speaker 5: is the quid Wait till you hear the pro quo.
Speaker 12: The entictment detailing and alleged quid pro quote, writing that
Speaker 12: Adams intervened with the FDNY to permit the Turkish Consulate
Speaker 12: to occupy a skyscraper that had not passed a fire
Speaker 12: safety inspection.
Speaker 8: This is the worst bribery deal ever.
Speaker 5: Listen, if you slip me a couple hundred grand, I'll
Speaker 5: make double sure there's no fire extinguisher in your building.
Speaker 5: You can thank me later. This is so upsetting. It's
Speaker 5: a sad day in New York City. When foreign nations
Speaker 5: are bribing the mayor to rush permit.
Speaker 8: That is the mob's job.
Speaker 10: Okay, those should be American bribe Americans. Now, a lot
Speaker 10: of politicians are saying Adams should resign or at least
Speaker 10: hide his face in shame.
Speaker 8: But what do real New Yorkers say?
Speaker 13: I think you should resign. I think so.
Speaker 12: He's not good.
Speaker 8: He deserved to get out.
Speaker 14: There's always been been a mayor.
Speaker 13: There's going to be another one.
Speaker 9: What's the big deal?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 5: New Yorkers feel the same way about their mayor as
Speaker 5: most people do about the Fast and Furious movies. They're
Speaker 5: all bad and there is definitely going to be another one.
Speaker 5: Maybe one reason New Yorkers aren't too worried about their
Speaker 5: mayor being indicted is that we understand the city government
Speaker 5: is so much more than just one person. The Adams
Speaker 5: administration is full of civil servants doing their job honorably
Speaker 5: like the police commissioner.
Speaker 7: In battled NYPD Commissioner Edward Kabin was forced to resign
Speaker 7: amid a federal investigation into influence peddling involving his twin brother.
Speaker 5: Okay, so the police commissioner also had a scandal, but
Speaker 5: you can always get another police commissioner.
Speaker 15: Just days after being appointed interim NYPD Commissioner Tom Donand's
Speaker 15: homes had been raided by the FUDS.
Speaker 5: Okay, police aren't everything. It's the school system that matters.
Speaker 11: School's chancellor David Banks becomes the lad's appointee to announce
Speaker 11: his departure as he faces scrutiny after FBI agencies his
Speaker 11: cell phones.
Speaker 5: Not the chancellor who will make sure the schools are chancelled. Jesus,
Speaker 5: is there anyone in this administration who isn't under investigation.
Speaker 15: Banks is among at least fifteen other members of the
Speaker 15: administration that are currently under investigation. Banks, his two brothers,
Speaker 15: Phil and Terrence, as well as his fiance, Deputy Mayor
Speaker 15: Sheena Wright.
Speaker 13: Agent searched the home of Adam's chief fundraiser, Breonna Suggs.
Speaker 13: New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda and his office are
Speaker 13: being investigated over money confiscated from illegal pot shops. Investigators
Speaker 13: searched the homes of Winnie Greco, the director of Asian Affairs.
Speaker 9: A senior aide to Mayor Adams Tim Pearson.
Speaker 8: Were there any kind of kickbacks going on.
Speaker 13: Business dealings between Frank Corone, the one time chief of
Speaker 13: staff Mayor Adams, and a mon senior named Jamie Jigantiella.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Fox News was right. Crime really is
Speaker 5: out of control in New York. This is actually kind
Speaker 5: of impressive. Adams has assembled multiple branches of an administration,
Speaker 5: all committed to a shared vision of breaking the law.
Speaker 5: I can't even get my coworkers to go apple picking
Speaker 5: with me. For more on this evolving scandal, we now
Speaker 5: go live to City Hall with Michael Costa. Michael, with
Speaker 5: all this turmoil, who is actually in charge of the
Speaker 5: city right now?
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's a good question, Dasi, And I think I am.
Speaker 17: I mean what you Yeah?
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 16: I came down to City Hall this morning to ask
Speaker 16: some questions, but it was totally empty. Everyone has either
Speaker 16: resigned or been arrested. And then the phone started ringing,
Speaker 16: So I answered one, and then I answered another one,
Speaker 16: and now I'm pretty much running the city. I mean
Speaker 16: a couple hold on, I got to sign off on this,
Speaker 16: budd thing.
Speaker 8: So wait, you should not be running the city.
Speaker 16: You know it's not that hard, DESSI I mean, I
Speaker 16: hired some firefighters, shut down the F train for no reason.
Speaker 16: I grand marshalled the gay Vietnamese Mermaid parade.
Speaker 19: Classic mayor stuff.
Speaker 16: You know, hold on, I gotta do a photo op
Speaker 16: for this. Make a wish kid, kim on, Hey, you're.
Speaker 20: Gonna be okay, buddy, all right, you're gonna make it.
Speaker 16: You're gonna make it.
Speaker 19: Stays up, You're gonna make it.
Speaker 16: He's not gonna make it.
Speaker 5: So I gotta say I'm impressed, Michael. It seems like
Speaker 5: you're actually doing a good job. Is wait wait, wait
Speaker 5: what was that? Did you just accept it?
Speaker 8: Brian?
Speaker 4: What of course not?
Speaker 16: You think I'm mayor for one day and I'm already
Speaker 16: taking cash to build a Turkish bath in the middle
Speaker 16: of Central Park. That's insulting, Shakir, I hear, Dakim.
Speaker 8: What what did you say?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 16: What crime you did?
Speaker 19: Look, I'll have you know that every morning I look
Speaker 19: in the mirror and I say, do not approve a
Speaker 19: Turkish bath house in exchange for forty thousand Turkish lira
Speaker 19: and first class seats to Boston with a stopover in Istanbul.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: Wow, you really are a New York City mayor.
Speaker 16: Yeah, well, I mean, oh what what what?
Speaker 15: What?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 21: What?
Speaker 4: Someone writed me out?
Speaker 16: Was this camera recording me the whole time?
Speaker 4: Dansey? Tell the world I'm innacing.
Speaker 9: I took those bradts for you.
Speaker 5: Tessy.
Speaker 22: Please, I'm gonna ask you to go assle picking with me.
Speaker 8: Michael Pack to everybody.
Speaker 4: When we come back, let me Jones. We'll give us her.
Speaker 14: Opinion to don't go away by show.
Speaker 5: We all know I've got great opinions, but I'm not
Speaker 5: the only ones. Study show that other people also have opinions.
Speaker 5: So here with another installment of in my opinion is
Speaker 5: our good friend Leslie Jones.
Speaker 23: Oh, I just want to say, I know what y'all
Speaker 23: all thinking. I look good, right, very blessed, very hydrated. Yes,
Speaker 23: but that's because over the summer I went to a
Speaker 23: little place called France.
Speaker 4: It was for the Olympics. Oh what's that?
Speaker 8: What's that?
Speaker 4: You want to see pictures?
Speaker 23: No, it wouldn't be right to show you, guys this
Speaker 23: picture of me looking so fine.
Speaker 15: It would be.
Speaker 23: Yes, it would be ghost, a word that I learned
Speaker 23: in France when I was there doing the Olympics. But
Speaker 23: while I was doing my eight slade love in France,
Speaker 23: I learned something very unfortunate that I want to talk
Speaker 23: to y'all about. While I was there, we were treated
Speaker 23: very rudely, and at first I thought it was because
Speaker 23: I was black, but that wasn't it. It actually was
Speaker 23: because I was American, which made me so sad because
Speaker 23: I was like, damn, can't y'all just be racist?
Speaker 4: But it turns out there's a lot.
Speaker 23: Of things about Americans that the world doesn't like, and
Speaker 23: you know what, I think I might agree with them.
Speaker 23: Take our food. When I was in France, I ate
Speaker 23: a peach and it was so good that I started
Speaker 23: crying because I don't think I have ever had.
Speaker 4: A real peach before.
Speaker 23: It tastes so natural, so sweet and ghosh. It made
Speaker 23: me think, why can't American food be that good? And
Speaker 23: it turns out the reason is because half the shit
Speaker 23: in our food isn't even food.
Speaker 20: There are more than ten thousand chemicals and additives allowed
Speaker 20: in food in the United States.
Speaker 21: Potassium brummate is a suspected cosmogen that's banned for human
Speaker 21: consumption in Europe but legal.
Speaker 4: In the US.
Speaker 11: Skittles, pop tarts, Gatorade, little debies in the European Union
Speaker 11: because of dies like yellow five, Yellow six, and red forty.
Speaker 20: For the UK bottle of Heinz Ketchup, there are about
Speaker 20: six ingredients, all recognizable, but that's not the same for
Speaker 20: the classic US one. Take a look at how much
Speaker 20: longer this thing is high fruitoast, corn syrup, corn syrup
Speaker 20: and natural flavoring.
Speaker 23: Natural flavor. What does natural flavoring being everything has natural flavor.
Speaker 23: Of dog's ass has natural.
Speaker 4: Flavor, but it doesn't mean I want to dip.
Speaker 23: My French fries in it. We are eating poisons and.
Speaker 4: We don't even care.
Speaker 23: I had so much time to do stuff in Europe
Speaker 23: because I didn't have to schedule two hours after every
Speaker 23: meal for shitting, and we're paying the price for eating
Speaker 23: all this trash. Have you ever realized that there's no
Speaker 23: more your mama so fat jokes? And huh it's because
Speaker 23: now everybody mama's fat.
Speaker 3: It ain't funny no more.
Speaker 23: Everybody is like, oh, your mama's so fat, and so
Speaker 23: is my mama, and so am I pass the car, sir.
Speaker 23: It's not just about food, though, because not only do
Speaker 23: Europeans think we're ugly on the outside, they also think
Speaker 23: we're ugly on the inside.
Speaker 4: They have really really crazy people. They're self absorbed and
Speaker 4: feel superior, so aggressive, they're quite brash, loud people.
Speaker 8: Americans talk to loud, loud.
Speaker 4: And loud loud, pretty loud.
Speaker 23: What the fuck you talking about?
Speaker 12: Loud?
Speaker 23: Y'all too y'all too quiet over there anyway, whispering and
Speaker 23: ship you got too many damn secrets. The queen is dead.
Speaker 23: And I love to push back on these Europeans, but
Speaker 23: anyone who's been on the internet knows that we can
Speaker 23: be a little combative.
Speaker 4: Meltdown on the plane.
Speaker 18: Road rage leading to fists are flying in Flagler County.
Speaker 4: So much for me because I love Hey, we need
Speaker 4: that bag. Betterhelp dot com he.
Speaker 23: You know, we should have a social contract in this
Speaker 23: country not to lose our shit in public. If someone
Speaker 23: gets your order wrong, be an adult, just.
Speaker 4: Say I'm never eating here again. Then order at the
Speaker 4: drive through like that.
Speaker 16: Else.
Speaker 23: It's not just these viral videos. Unfortunately, the rest of
Speaker 23: the world is aware of our culture of violence.
Speaker 8: The gun situations kind of freaks me out. There's all
Speaker 8: these shootings going on, guns, violence.
Speaker 13: School shootings, many people with guns.
Speaker 4: Everyone can buy a weapon there.
Speaker 11: People have so many guns.
Speaker 8: I feel like I would not feel safe there.
Speaker 23: You're right, You're not gonna be safe here. You think
Speaker 23: I do cardio for my health, I do it.
Speaker 4: So I can outrun bullets. Bitch.
Speaker 23: Everybody shouldn't be allowed to have a gun. I shouldn't
Speaker 23: even be legally allowed to own a megaphone. But ado,
Speaker 23: The point is, we got problems in America. And don't
Speaker 23: try to blame all of this on Trump, because even
Speaker 23: if you take him out of the picture, our political
Speaker 23: system is not normal.
Speaker 1: A candidate for governor is accused of making disturbing statements
Speaker 1: on a porn site, including allegedly saying he is a
Speaker 1: black Nazi.
Speaker 8: Congresswoman Lauren Bober kicked out of a performance.
Speaker 5: Of the musical Beetlejuice, and she and her companion were
Speaker 5: noticeably groping each other in front of others.
Speaker 15: South Dakota Governor Christy no revealing in a new book
Speaker 15: that she shot her dog Cricket.
Speaker 12: Federal official they're investigating Robert F. Kennedy Junior for allegedly
Speaker 12: decapitating a dead weal.
Speaker 4: Did capitate? Well, what did the Welles do to you?
Speaker 9: Come?
Speaker 10: Can't you just do?
Speaker 19: Can't you just go to a ditty party.
Speaker 23: Like a normal millionaire.
Speaker 4: Of course, Europe thinks we're fred up.
Speaker 1: I think we're stuff.
Speaker 4: We are Listen, listen.
Speaker 23: I had to leave America to realize how much bullshit
Speaker 23: we live in. I know that this last decade has
Speaker 23: been hard on everyone. I've been around the world. I've
Speaker 23: been around the country, and people feel.
Speaker 19: Helpless and hopeless.
Speaker 23: They don't trust the Supreme Court, don't trust the politicians,
Speaker 23: our criminal justice system, and our food supply. They think
Speaker 23: that the power comes from the top down. But let
Speaker 23: me let you in on a secret. The people have
Speaker 23: all the power if you but we got all the power.
Speaker 23: But we got to get involved. And I get it,
Speaker 23: I get it. You just want to go to work,
Speaker 23: come home, take care of your kids.
Speaker 4: Watch it. Who knew?
Speaker 23: But you gotta get involved. That's the way to make
Speaker 23: things change. And if we do that.
Speaker 8: We can be better.
Speaker 23: We can do better.
Speaker 1: We can be go sh.
Speaker 4: Let me John, Welcome Day Show.
Speaker 5: My guest tonight is an award winning director and screenwriter
Speaker 5: whose latest film is called Winner. Please welcome, Susannah Foegel.
Speaker 4: I'm good to.
Speaker 5: See you for being here, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 8: I adore you to pieces.
Speaker 21: I have to say when you called Eric Adams out
Speaker 21: for wearing a Guys and Dolls esque suit, I felt
Speaker 21: seen and attacked.
Speaker 5: You're missing the fat tie and the pocket square next time.
Speaker 8: No, this is this is not guys and Dolls. This
Speaker 8: is Chic, right, this is Shea.
Speaker 5: It's just cool, powerful director, Chic.
Speaker 8: I am so happy for you.
Speaker 5: Congratulations on everything with this film.
Speaker 8: It's incredible.
Speaker 5: This is based on the true story the whistleblower. Reality
Speaker 5: Winner remind people what happened to reality.
Speaker 21: So Reality is a girl from Texas who was really smart.
Speaker 21: Taught herself all these languages in high school to try
Speaker 21: to sort of her goal was to become a linguist
Speaker 21: and to help overseas. After nine to eleven, she got
Speaker 21: really kind of motivated to try to help bridge the
Speaker 21: gap between you know, us and them, and so she
Speaker 21: joined the Air Force hoping that she could go overseas,
Speaker 21: and she ended up sort of helping with thrown strikes,
Speaker 21: which is not what she had in mind and had
Speaker 21: a crisis of conscience about it and left the Air Force.
Speaker 21: Later went to work at the NSA as a contractor,
Speaker 21: private contractor, and she was there she saw something on
Speaker 21: her work computer that.
Speaker 17: Was at odds with what was in the news.
Speaker 21: This is when people were litigating whether or not Russia
Speaker 21: had hacked the elections, and the news cycle was really
Speaker 21: consumed with that.
Speaker 5: It feels like just yesterday, It doesn't end were so fun.
Speaker 8: We've come such a long way, so in the same place,
Speaker 8: you know, I know.
Speaker 21: So Anyway, so she was sort of watching this constant
Speaker 21: loop of the news saying there was no proof that
Speaker 21: the government knew that the Russians had ACKed the election,
Speaker 21: and then on her work computer, she just out of curiosity,
Speaker 21: took a peek at some classified documents and saw that
Speaker 21: in fact, we did know. And this was sort of
Speaker 21: kind of just cycling around and around, and she leaked
Speaker 21: a document to the Intercept, hoping to just sort of
Speaker 21: let the public know that in fact, they were being
Speaker 21: lied to, not to prove that the election was stolen,
Speaker 21: but just to show people that we were sort of
Speaker 21: looking in the wrong place and that we were kind
Speaker 21: of operating blindly when in fact the government knew more
Speaker 21: than they they said they did.
Speaker 5: Right, showing them the truth exposed. Yeah, and she served
Speaker 5: quite a bit of time for this crime. She she
Speaker 5: was served with the longest amount of time ever for
Speaker 5: someone who leaked government secrets.
Speaker 8: How long did she certain?
Speaker 17: Five years?
Speaker 21: Yeah, she ended up getting out on good behavior, and
Speaker 21: she was on house arrest and halfway house for a while.
Speaker 21: But basically, yeah, I mean she she didn't have anything
Speaker 21: to trade, like, she didn't have power connections. She was
Speaker 21: from a small town, and unlike a lot of people
Speaker 21: who sort of got away with actual collusions, she she
Speaker 21: was just kind of nailed and like tried to lobby
Speaker 21: for her own release.
Speaker 17: But there was no sort of no mercy for her
Speaker 17: at the time, so she was martyred.
Speaker 5: Really, Yeah, it is remarkable how so many other people
Speaker 5: have who shall remain nameless, have done far worse and
Speaker 5: aren't showing any accountability.
Speaker 17: For their action, and sometimes they can run for president.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's I feel like only you, Susannah Fogel could take
Speaker 5: this movie, this very like weighty, serious story and turned
Speaker 5: it into this beautiful, heartwarming, comedic at times coming.
Speaker 8: Of age film.
Speaker 5: It's a really beautiful, beautiful movie. What was behind your
Speaker 5: approach in taking that path with that tone.
Speaker 21: So I have to give credit to Carry Halley, who's
Speaker 21: the journalist for New York Magazine who wrote this this
Speaker 21: like long form piece on Reality that it was really
Speaker 21: striking because it mostly focused on what a funny person
Speaker 21: Reality is and how quirky she is, like her love
Speaker 21: for Futurama and Pikachu jumpsuits, which she actually wore in
Speaker 21: life and wears in the movie. You know, she's a quirky,
Speaker 21: kind of quintessentially millennial person with like a variety of interests.
Speaker 21: It's hard to pin her down to sort of one thing,
Speaker 21: like she loves guns and dogs and CrossFit, and you know,
Speaker 21: she's just kind of like a she's such an iconoclastic person.
Speaker 21: And that really came across in the piece that Carry wrote.
Speaker 21: And so the whole approach behind the movie, even before
Speaker 21: I came on to direct, was that let's show this
Speaker 21: person who is so relatable. I mean, she's very special,
Speaker 21: but she's also someone that could be any of us
Speaker 21: in this situation that feels so heightened and that the
Speaker 21: stakes are so high, and so to me it was
Speaker 21: like we've seen so many whistleblower movies. They're usually about
Speaker 21: young men, very serious men, very serious movies. But this
Speaker 21: is a funny person that was in a really serious situation.
Speaker 21: And that's kind of my favorite type of mash up
Speaker 21: is really just to show a person that could be
Speaker 21: you or me, not a person who everything is always
Speaker 21: high stakes. There's always like intense violin music playing when
Speaker 21: they're making a tough moral decision. She's just a person
Speaker 21: who you know is she listens to a fallout boy
Speaker 21: and she drives around, and she's not your typical person
Speaker 21: who would be in a drama like this as a
Speaker 21: person and in our movie, so I thought that would
Speaker 21: help people sort of see see how close to home
Speaker 21: all this stuff is.
Speaker 5: Whether you feel like you would make that decision or not,
Speaker 5: no matter whether you relate to her choice, you definitely
Speaker 5: relate to her as a human being, and you show
Speaker 5: her as this complex, really fun funny woman. The performances
Speaker 5: are incredible in this. The actress who plays reality is
Speaker 5: Amelia Jones. She's unbelievable. I could not picture anyone else
Speaker 5: in that role.
Speaker 17: Yeah, she's great.
Speaker 5: And then you have Zach Galifanakis, who's also incredible.
Speaker 8: Connie Britton. Do you I'm curious.
Speaker 5: The one thing that I that I love so much
Speaker 5: about your work is that you've You've explored all these
Speaker 5: different genres of film, but one thing that seems to
Speaker 5: be a through line is that you love telling stories
Speaker 5: of these complicated, flawed, funny, empowered women. Is that something
Speaker 5: that you look for when you're choosing to write or
Speaker 5: direct on it?
Speaker 8: I try to avoid it, you do, you do?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 21: Yeah, I mean it's it's honestly like what appealed What
Speaker 21: appealed to me about this particular story is that it's
Speaker 21: a woman in an everyman's story. The story is not
Speaker 21: about gender equality, even though the stories obviously have their
Speaker 21: place and there have been great movies about them. To me,
Speaker 21: there's I think, like progress or that sort of post
Speaker 21: that canon of movies. It's movies about women that are
Speaker 21: dealing with moral issues that usually we've seen represented on
Speaker 21: through a male perspective.
Speaker 17: So so yeah, I mean, I think I gravitate.
Speaker 21: Towards stories I feel haven't been told, and when it
Speaker 21: comes to female characters, stories that feel like they haven't
Speaker 21: been shown through a female lens, it ends up being.
Speaker 17: Something I'm excited about. It's not something I look for exclusively.
Speaker 21: But in this case, I thought, you know, this is
Speaker 21: a story that's so specific because of who she is,
Speaker 21: where she.
Speaker 17: Comes from, that she's a woman, that she's a young woman.
Speaker 21: And yet it's a story where the sort of big,
Speaker 21: serious moral issue she's grappling with is one that isn't
Speaker 21: about gender and isn't about proving that she's equal to men,
Speaker 21: which is what a lot of I think movies and
Speaker 21: shows they kind of just default to that one problem
Speaker 21: that it still exists widely obviously.
Speaker 8: But no, we have other problems. Yeah, I know, we
Speaker 8: don't feel it in late Night. I'm sorry, not at all.
Speaker 4: That's no, not at all.
Speaker 21: I just thought I I thought I would give you
Speaker 21: the exclusive.
Speaker 5: On that thank you breaking story, like the uh you
Speaker 5: also spent a lot of time with reality.
Speaker 8: I did, true, I did.
Speaker 21: I Yeah, I mean it was one of my It
Speaker 21: was my first experience trying to tell a story about
Speaker 21: a real person who's alive and there to defend themselves
Speaker 21: or get mad at me and never speak to me again.
Speaker 21: If I, you know, don't do justice to her story
Speaker 21: and her personality. At the same time, it's a it's
Speaker 21: a fictional, fictionalized movie.
Speaker 17: So yeah, there was a lot of pressure.
Speaker 21: First, the pressure to get her to trust me enough
Speaker 21: that I could talk to her about aspects of her experience,
Speaker 21: and also just to get the details right of her life.
Speaker 17: What music did you listen to?
Speaker 21: What bad fashion choices did you make in high school
Speaker 21: that we can replicate in our movie? So it feels
Speaker 21: real and.
Speaker 17: That was but to do that you sort of have
Speaker 17: to get close.
Speaker 21: And then once you're close and your friends, like the
Speaker 21: terror switches to, they're gonna see the movie and they're
Speaker 21: gonna feel misrepresented, and then the friendship is going to
Speaker 21: be destroyed, and then I'll feel terrible about it.
Speaker 8: So to see the movie.
Speaker 21: So she has sworn not to see any of the
Speaker 21: three movies that have been made about her, So we're
Speaker 21: not being singled out, but no, she has not seen
Speaker 21: the movie. I mean, basically, her philosophy on all of
Speaker 21: it is she wants her story to get out there.
Speaker 21: She wants people to kind of know what she did
Speaker 21: and why and to take action in their own lives
Speaker 21: and their own moral choices. Being and small, So she's
Speaker 21: hoping that her story makes a difference that way and
Speaker 21: counts for something, But she's not into like a public facing,
Speaker 21: branded version of herself. She's sort of introverted and shy
Speaker 21: in a weird way for someone who's so bold in
Speaker 21: other ways. So yeah, I mean, her perspective on all
Speaker 21: of that is she doesn't want to see the movie
Speaker 21: and fixate on the things that I got wrong and
Speaker 21: then hate me because which.
Speaker 8: I take is a great compliment. So the friendship is
Speaker 8: still intent, right, is intact?
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I would like to think if she saw the movie,
Speaker 5: she would be very proud and very happy with the
Speaker 5: way that it came out. It's truly incredible.
Speaker 8: Thank you for coming.
Speaker 10: On, Thank you, thank you for allowing me to blow
Speaker 10: the whistle on how good this movie is. There's now
Speaker 10: available on trying video everywhere in the you ask can
Speaker 10: in Canada.
Speaker 4: We're gonna make it.
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