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Speaker 1: Let's have some fun. One on one interview with Alex Akerman.
Speaker 1: Here's this bio. Alexander Akaman is an editor for wirecutter
Speaker 1: Discovery team from the New York Times. He has worked
Speaker 1: as a journalist and on documentary film projects. One on
Speaker 1: one interview with Alex Ackerman. Here's his bio. Alexander Akaman
Speaker 1: as an editor for Wirecutter's Discovery team from the New
Speaker 1: York Times. He has worked as a journalist and on
Speaker 1: documentary film projects, and he has also worked as a
Speaker 1: screenwriter for Amazon and lions Gate. When he's not working,
Speaker 1: can you can probably find him bird watching, running or
Speaker 1: making pasta. We found the ultra pricey ice cream maker
Speaker 1: larel I Gilmore got as a wedding gift. She should
Speaker 1: have kept it. That's according to Alex's article. Even twenty
Speaker 1: years after the episode's original air date, fans and chronic
Speaker 1: rewatchers of Gilmore Girls, we'll probably ask themselves the same
Speaker 1: question at some point, who gave laurel I the ice
Speaker 1: cream maker. In the show's second season, win A Lello
Speaker 1: forty eight Musso Lucino, a long time wirecutter pick arrives
Speaker 1: at Larele's home just weeks after she's called off her weddings. Suki,
Speaker 1: Ry and Lorelei all stand staring at the gleaming spaceship
Speaker 1: like appliance shown in the scene above. I'm sure exactly
Speaker 1: who sent it. There is no note, no card, no
Speaker 1: return address. Lorelei is dead set on finding out who
Speaker 1: sent it, but the gift giver's identity remains a mystery,
Speaker 1: and Lorelei ultimately gives the appliance away. But we think
Speaker 1: she should have kept it. And this young gentleman, this
Speaker 1: young talented gentleman who is making his way through Hollywood
Speaker 1: screenwriting projects, which he cannot discuss yet, but he will
Speaker 1: if he comes back. Wrote an article about this ice
Speaker 1: creammaker here he is, let's bring him in. Alex Ackerman, Alex, Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: how's it going. First of all, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Great to have you. And what made you want to
Speaker 1: write an article about an ice cream maker? Laurel I
Speaker 1: was gifted in season two.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things. So I work at Wirecutter,
Speaker 3: and it's the New York Times product review service, and
Speaker 3: it's one of the great thing about working there. It's
Speaker 3: sort of this like effervescent collective process. And at some
Speaker 3: point we were one of the writers was testing ice
Speaker 3: cream makers and I jokingly asked if we tested the
Speaker 3: one from Gilmore Girls, And as it turns out, they
Speaker 3: had and it was really really good, and it just
Speaker 3: sort of went from there. And I think that my
Speaker 3: editor and I both knew that this was a show
Speaker 3: that had this kind of like endurant love from its
Speaker 3: fan base and like people coming to it every year
Speaker 3: new because of you know, it's because of streaming, and
Speaker 3: so I thought it would be fun. So it just
Speaker 3: sort of just sort of came about.
Speaker 1: Who do you think gave Laurel I the ice cream Maker.
Speaker 3: I think it was Emily. I think her mom gave
Speaker 3: it to her. I think that it's like extravagant enough,
Speaker 3: and it's almost like a repudiation of the way that
Speaker 3: they eat while also being like an endorsement of it
Speaker 3: in her own Emily way. That's my theory. That's what
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: Have you written any other articles about Gilmore Girls or
Speaker 1: just this one?
Speaker 3: Not about Gilmore Girls. I did a sort of similar
Speaker 3: thing earlier this summer, right before The Bear season two
Speaker 3: came out, where we just went through all the different
Speaker 3: wirecutter picks in the first season of The Bear. So no,
Speaker 3: I haven't, but hopefully soon, you know, I'd love to
Speaker 3: write more about Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1: And why do you think it is so well received
Speaker 1: by ever new generations of people, younger audiences. What is
Speaker 1: it about this show? That's a really good question, because
Speaker 1: it really is a phenomenon, isn't it. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is a cultural phenomenon. Really, is there any other show
Speaker 1: like it in the history of television that has continued
Speaker 1: to gain a fan base? I mean, it's really not
Speaker 1: a fair question, because you know, streaming didn't exist back
Speaker 1: in the day, so it's a whole new landscape now.
Speaker 1: But why do you think the show endures?
Speaker 3: I think there are I think there are a very
Speaker 3: select handful of other shows, like I think The Office
Speaker 3: and The Sopranos have been able to like. But you know,
Speaker 3: we're talking about like the crrndules of TV shows, you
Speaker 3: know what we're talking about, those three. But I think
Speaker 3: it's I mean, I'm someone who came to it new,
Speaker 3: So I only really started watching it in maybe twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen because my fiance is a big fan of
Speaker 3: it and I'd never seen it. So we started watching it,
Speaker 3: and then I was living in LA for a little
Speaker 3: bit and she'd sent me like a list of all
Speaker 3: her favorite episodes and I sort of was working my
Speaker 3: way through them while I was there alone, and I
Speaker 3: fell in love with it. I think it's very similar
Speaker 3: to I mean, it's sort of the same reason that
Speaker 3: people love like it's a wonderful life or like you know,
Speaker 3: old Frank Capra movies. It's because there's something ethereal and
Speaker 3: timeless about like the exchange between like this world that
Speaker 3: is like really really warm and serene and tender, but
Speaker 3: also that is like populated with people that are experiencing
Speaker 3: their own turmoil in search of connection. Like that feels
Speaker 3: like a very timeless story. And when it's written and
Speaker 3: executed as I think as so expertly as Gilmore Girls is,
Speaker 3: I think you have that kind of like magic winning combination.
Speaker 3: That's that's my theory.
Speaker 1: I don't recall a show ever having the lead character
Speaker 1: Lorela Gilmour basically be a stand up comedian through the
Speaker 1: entire seven seasons. She just did joke after joke after joke,
Speaker 1: and we still took her seriously as a character, and
Speaker 1: she was doing fairly sophisticated humor that was going off
Speaker 1: for everybody's head.
Speaker 3: Was it that way on set? Were you like, wow,
Speaker 3: I'm just amazed by Like was that the experience of
Speaker 3: filming the show?
Speaker 1: Well, the thing about the show was always the dialogue.
Speaker 1: So it was dialogue, the dialogue, the dialogue that was
Speaker 1: the focus. Are we going to be able to execute
Speaker 1: and serve this dialogue at the speed and with the
Speaker 1: intention with which it was written? So that was the
Speaker 1: challenge every day. So it was really more about the technical,
Speaker 1: mechanical aspects of what we do as actors, as opposed
Speaker 1: to over analyzing everything and trying to, you know, get
Speaker 1: the deeper meaning of it. It was just such a
Speaker 1: from from the start of the first episode, the first
Speaker 1: senior shooting of that season, and then nine months later
Speaker 1: you're you feel like a train ran over you and
Speaker 1: backed up and did it again, because it is just
Speaker 1: such the pace and the hours and the volume. We
Speaker 1: did eighty pages and it was all black inks. So
Speaker 1: it was fifty percent more dialogue or one hundred percent
Speaker 1: more dialogue than anybody was doing, or two hundred percent
Speaker 1: more dialogue.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's sort of thing that blows me, is
Speaker 3: I know that, like you know, those fifteen hour days
Speaker 3: that just I can't imagine like what any of you, like,
Speaker 3: the amount of energy. But also just like especially like
Speaker 3: someone like Lauren Graham who was in every single scene
Speaker 3: like and then being able to like show up and
Speaker 3: then do that sort of like Ernst Lubitch, like excellent,
Speaker 3: perfect timing, delivery, amazing rerippart that like I don't know how,
Speaker 3: I don't know how you did it. It's it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's now I think I answered my own question.
Speaker 1: I think there are two reasons that the show endors
Speaker 1: I think it's because it's so fast, and it's so
Speaker 1: filled with pop culture references in clever, little funny anecdotes
Speaker 1: and stories and jokes, jokey jokes that people miss half
Speaker 1: of it or they get it and they react after
Speaker 1: the fact, but they want to experience it again and
Speaker 1: again and again and again. There's so much. It's so compact.
Speaker 3: You just keep discovering new things everything.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's far more interesting to watch it than it
Speaker 1: was ever to make it. It's not okay. So when
Speaker 1: you're on a writing jack, Let's say you get into
Speaker 1: a writing jack, you're writing a screenplay, you're writing something,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know what your process is,
Speaker 1: but you know a lot of writers talk about their
Speaker 1: process like they'll sit with their characters for a long
Speaker 1: time until the characters start talking to them and demanding
Speaker 1: that they'd be written and that you follow those characters.
Speaker 1: You don't impose anything on those characters, but they're real,
Speaker 1: living things inside your head, inside your being. And you
Speaker 1: get on a three four day writing jag and you
Speaker 1: blast out a first draft and it's like you didn't sleep,
Speaker 1: and it just goes by. And that's kind of what
Speaker 1: like filming the show was. Every week you're just occupied,
Speaker 1: you're taken over.
Speaker 3: You can do that with one like I just don't
Speaker 3: know how like even I mean even just as like
Speaker 3: a writer, like I like, writing a sixty page script
Speaker 3: is hard enough, and then doing four of them in
Speaker 3: a year is like, I don't know how it gets done.
Speaker 3: It's it's either it's the old I mean there, but
Speaker 3: there is so much like one of the I mean,
Speaker 3: one of the things that I feel like i've and
Speaker 3: I'd be curious to hear like sort of like how
Speaker 3: it came about. Like one of the things that you
Speaker 3: sort of notice as you rewatch this show is that
Speaker 3: you in particular sort of like I don't know, like
Speaker 3: you move very very gracefully. It's almost like a ballroom dance.
Speaker 3: It's like it seems like the more stuff that they're
Speaker 3: putting in your hands, the more graceful movements become. And
Speaker 3: then there's also this like moving master that the that
Speaker 3: the show is shot in, and those two things just
Speaker 3: really seem to like have this like wonderful symbiotic inter
Speaker 3: like it they like it just seems to suit everything,
Speaker 3: like it just works together so well. And like that
Speaker 3: was one of the things that I noticed, like when
Speaker 3: I rewatched it recently, I was like, that's kind of
Speaker 3: an amazing touch that that manages to come out.
Speaker 1: That's really interesting that you point that out, because I
Speaker 1: just remember my best memories of doing that show were rehearsals,
Speaker 1: and you know, you rehearse and you rehearse and you
Speaker 1: figure out the dance steps right, and it was always
Speaker 1: and you're always with Lauren, You're with you know who
Speaker 1: am I with? In the dynam with Lauren most of
Speaker 1: the time, you know, and we speak pretty much the
Speaker 1: same language and our approach to the work, and it's
Speaker 1: really about making sure that we can justify every single
Speaker 1: line of dialogue, every single movement that we make. It
Speaker 1: has to be supported by something that is real. It's like,
Speaker 1: we can't do it unless we have to do it.
Speaker 1: So we we would spend a painstaking amount of time
Speaker 1: in rehearsal getting it right before we shot it, and
Speaker 1: everybody had to be And the thing that I miss
Speaker 1: most about working with her is is having a partner
Speaker 1: that knows how to construct a scene, choreograph a scene
Speaker 1: with another person, you know, because it's because you know
Speaker 1: what it's like if you've tried to co write with somebody,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a lot of back and forth. And
Speaker 1: when you've got two people as stubborn and uh and
Speaker 1: Lourene and myself, and I think that's that's why it
Speaker 1: was so electric between us, because we were acting out
Speaker 1: choices that we both fought for in the rehearsal process,
Speaker 1: not each other. We didn't fight each other, it's just
Speaker 1: we we had to state our case as to why
Speaker 1: I listen, I can't move over there because of X,
Speaker 1: and I think I need to go around the diner.
Speaker 1: And you know, it was all very, very very It
Speaker 1: was technical based on the impetus of an emotional life.
Speaker 1: It had to be real. It's gotta be real. You
Speaker 1: gotta you can't move until you till you feel it.
Speaker 1: And if I didn't feel it and she didn't feel it,
Speaker 1: we weren't. We were going to continue to rehearse until
Speaker 1: we found something. And then you have these wonderful directors
Speaker 1: come in. They have all kinds of ideas, and they
Speaker 1: they know well enough to stay away when we're sort
Speaker 1: of getting into it and creating it. But if we
Speaker 1: hit a glitch, then they'll, you know, they could say
Speaker 1: the magic words and we go ah. So I love
Speaker 1: that collaboration, and I love that kind of collaboration with
Speaker 1: with really gifted artists like you know, Lauren and and
Speaker 1: all the other actors. I mean, it's Kelly Bishop. I mean, imagine,
Speaker 1: you know, crafting scenes with these people. I miss that
Speaker 1: so very much. But I'm getting to do it now.
Speaker 1: I'm doing a new series up in Canada, and I'm
Speaker 1: getting to do it now. So I it's what I
Speaker 1: miss about acting the most is the rehearsal process. So
Speaker 1: thank you for noticing that. And we took great care
Speaker 1: in crafting those the movement as well.
Speaker 2: We've we because.
Speaker 1: We saw it from you know, ten thousand feet Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we wanted it to look a certain way too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's cool. That's very cool.
Speaker 1: So so look, gil more questions. We have big fans
Speaker 1: who write in. They want to know how many times
Speaker 1: you've seen this series. This is Jane from Walla, Walla, Washington.
Speaker 1: Jane from Walla, Walla.
Speaker 3: There's no good answer to that. Like, there's some episodes
Speaker 3: that I've seen once, and then some episodes that I've
Speaker 3: seen like nine times. It's sort of the math. I
Speaker 3: don't know, I like, maybe collectively, like maybe four three,
Speaker 3: four times. Truly, it's like disproportionate.
Speaker 1: Right, Amanda from Amarillo, Texas. Who is your favorite character
Speaker 1: from the show? Uh?
Speaker 3: I think I think Laurel is probably my favorite character.
Speaker 3: I think that sort of as as I said, the
Speaker 3: show has a sort of like you know, his Girl Friday,
Speaker 3: like Earn Slubitch style like component to it, like this
Speaker 3: really old Hollywood feel, and I feel like Laurel I
Speaker 3: really really brings that sort of high. It's the tragic
Speaker 3: com like even when something is going dismally or something
Speaker 3: really tragic is happening, like there's this she finds this
Speaker 3: vein of irony and finds a way. And also you
Speaker 3: know that irony I think, especially from old movies, comes
Speaker 3: from characters deflecting. And I feel like I do that
Speaker 3: too personally, like in something the the the unwillingness to
Speaker 3: take seriously a really bad thing just to deflect, and
Speaker 3: so I couldn't relate to that impulse. But so that
Speaker 3: I think is my answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one has ever had more sass. I refer
Speaker 1: to it as sassy. She's say, uh okay, Charmaine from Buffalo,
Speaker 1: New York, what is your favorite episode and why? If
Speaker 1: you have a favorite episode.
Speaker 3: I do have a favorite episode. I think my favorite
Speaker 3: episode it's a big it's actually a big Luke episode.
Speaker 3: It's in the first season, and it's when Richard has
Speaker 3: a heart attack. I think that there is like, it
Speaker 3: does have this tragic comic effect to it. There's something really,
Speaker 3: I don't know how it becomes such a warm, intimate episode,
Speaker 3: but it does. And there's something. And then especially you
Speaker 3: know at the very end when you're watching the Christmas
Speaker 3: carollers and you were lucky to turn off the lights,
Speaker 3: there's something really, I don't know, there's and then also
Speaker 3: that conversation that you know, Luke and Emily have. I
Speaker 3: it's a I think it's a really beautiful episode.
Speaker 1: Let me see Laura Lee from Portland, Oregon. If there
Speaker 1: was a storyline you could change, what would it be?
Speaker 3: That that's kind of this might be controversial. I think
Speaker 3: personally my least favorite storyline was when Richard and Emily separated.
Speaker 1: Feel did that leave? It left a massivoid? It did?
Speaker 3: And seeing Ed Herman and Kelly Bishop on set like
Speaker 3: on screen together is like to not have that was
Speaker 3: right kind of disappointing. I mean, what was that like
Speaker 3: to experience like, do you you know, is that something
Speaker 3: that like you've you've like was that also felt.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, but rewatching it as we did recently, because
Speaker 1: I've never seen any of these episodes, by the way,
Speaker 1: except the pilot. So when I saw that, I, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the writer in me went crazy and I said,
Speaker 1: what are they doing? You know you built you build
Speaker 1: this house, This foundation is built upon this. You don't
Speaker 1: wreck this. You don't even.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: We we uh, we took it to task. We took
Speaker 1: them to task over that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I one of the few north stars in
Speaker 3: the show is that Emily see ida eye on a
Speaker 3: lot of things, and to take that away as can be,
Speaker 3: I feel like a little destabilizing for the ecosystem of
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 1: You know, mm hmmm. I don't know if you're I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're a fan of it or familiar
Speaker 1: with it, but I love the actors in it. There's
Speaker 1: a show called Billions, yea Dami, Damian Lewis and Paul
Speaker 1: Giamaudi and it's a real Shakespearean mono imano type deal.
Speaker 1: When Maelan Ackerman left him took the kids away from him,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a big mistake. She was his
Speaker 1: moral compass, and now he was alone, without his sons,
Speaker 1: without his family. I thought it really weakened his character.
Speaker 1: And I don't understand maybe she got another gig and
Speaker 1: she wanted off the show, or she wasn't getting enough,
Speaker 1: but she was a really integral part of the show.
Speaker 1: And I think actors don't understand the effect they have
Speaker 1: on our own audience. But I thought that that particular
Speaker 1: example was unfortunate for that show. He needed to have
Speaker 1: a moral compass and you just can't take that away.
Speaker 3: No, it's the beginning of the end.
Speaker 1: It's the beginning of the end.
Speaker 3: They I will say, they got back together on Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1: So I'm.
Speaker 3: I think it was figured out that this that having
Speaker 3: those two actors not on screen at the same time
Speaker 3: was doing nobody anyways, right right, right?
Speaker 1: Okay? So was that the most upsetting thing you saw
Speaker 1: on I would say that that was the most of
Speaker 1: saying right, right, okay?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So this is from Trish from Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Was your favorite boyfriend for Rory? Do you find any
Speaker 1: of them intolerable?
Speaker 3: Uh? I'm gonna give the most diplomatic answer that I can.
Speaker 3: I think that they were all good boyfriends that didn't
Speaker 3: meet them at the right time, that they all cross
Speaker 3: paths at the wrong time with each.
Speaker 1: Other artfully, artfully expressed, artful. That is a wonderful dodge.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is this is uh Shanikwa from the
Speaker 1: Bronx wants to know do you think Logan is a
Speaker 1: bad influence on Rory?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Rory is a bad influence on Rory.
Speaker 1: You know, you know a lot of people are going
Speaker 1: to agree with you in this fan base.
Speaker 3: He can be a little jerky sometimes, but I don't
Speaker 3: think you know, he means well. Whether he does well
Speaker 3: is different. But I don't think he's trying to push
Speaker 3: someone in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. All right, here's a big, big question, alex uh. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Ramola from New York City. Do you
Speaker 1: think Emily and Richard are good parents to Laurel I?
Speaker 1: Or maybe the question should be were good parents to
Speaker 1: Laurel I? Because I mean, there she's what thirty six now?
Speaker 1: So thirty seven? So yeah, he stopped. I mean, when
Speaker 1: does the parenting end?
Speaker 3: I maybe I think they did the best at what
Speaker 3: they thought was right. I think and Also, I think
Speaker 3: Laurel I says that too in that episode that I mentioned.
Speaker 3: She's like, my you know, my dad is from a
Speaker 3: time and a place. He has these values, he believes
Speaker 3: in these things. He did right by his family as
Speaker 3: far as he saw. And I think, I mean, first,
Speaker 3: I don't think you can necessarily look at Laurel I
Speaker 3: and be like, I mean, this is the person who like,
Speaker 3: I don't think that they did a decent job like
Speaker 3: she turned out okay. But I would also say that
Speaker 3: I think that they did what they thought was best
Speaker 3: and they did that well. So I think that whether
Speaker 3: or not they're good parents is a hard thing to answer,
Speaker 3: but I do think that.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I think that they had a vision of the world
Speaker 3: and I think they lived by that and I think
Speaker 3: they did that well.
Speaker 1: Right, lots of questions about Luke and is that her
Speaker 1: best lorealized best match? All right, so let's just let's
Speaker 1: just talk about Luke, because we never really talk about
Speaker 1: Luke that much. Did you think that Luke was her
Speaker 1: best match loraalized best match?
Speaker 3: I do, And I also and I think that the
Speaker 3: I think that the writers did as well. I think
Speaker 3: that I actually I would love to know if my
Speaker 3: theory is correct, and maybe it's too far back of
Speaker 3: an answer, but like I feel like you can tell
Speaker 3: when the season two pick up order came based on
Speaker 3: when they sort of pull off the gas for the
Speaker 3: Luke and Loral like they're like it's like they are
Speaker 3: not saving any any energy for the swim back to shore,
Speaker 3: and then at a certain point, like it's clear, like, well,
Speaker 3: we can't do it right now because presumably they got
Speaker 3: renewed for a second season, like in that hospital episode,
Speaker 3: like you you know, that feels like it's the beginning
Speaker 3: of something incredibly magic and charming, and it doesn't really
Speaker 3: come back there for another for some years. So I mean,
Speaker 3: I would I would love to note that that's my theory.
Speaker 3: That's my theory about.
Speaker 1: The time of things. From what I can tell and
Speaker 1: what I have gleaned, I think the network wanted it sooner,
Speaker 1: and I think Amy and Dan fought him tooth and
Speaker 1: nail to drag it out, which I think was the
Speaker 1: smart move obviously, and I actually think they could have
Speaker 1: milked it for another couple of seasons.
Speaker 3: That that would have been a controversial move. I meant
Speaker 3: that I actually have a new question for you. I'd
Speaker 3: love to know, Okay, when you I guess like when
Speaker 3: as an actor, I you know, you you shut the
Speaker 3: door on a character when the show ends, and then
Speaker 3: nine or so years later, like you have to you're
Speaker 3: you know, like you have to find a way to
Speaker 3: open that door again, like well like and to do
Speaker 3: that very seamlessly and to be to sort of rediscover
Speaker 3: that character, Like did you have a process for doing that?
Speaker 3: Like during the not the reboot, but the like, what
Speaker 3: were you like, did you have tools? Did you have
Speaker 3: like a touchstone? Did you like how did you know
Speaker 3: that so well?
Speaker 1: Because the band got back together and you're playing with
Speaker 1: your old players and it's like we didn't forget how
Speaker 1: to play. And the panic was in the beginning that
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like this guy anymore. But then I
Speaker 1: put the clothes on and put the hat on, and
Speaker 1: I took a walk around stars Hollow, which they built
Speaker 1: back up again Netflix did, and it was a better, brighter,
Speaker 1: shinier version of what we remember. There was a bigger
Speaker 1: budget for these four you know, hour and a half
Speaker 1: movies is basically what they were. And just talking with
Speaker 1: Lauren again and talking with Michael Winners and talking with
Speaker 1: you know, Rory and doing scenes with them again and
Speaker 1: rehearsing again. It all just, you know, it all flooded back,
Speaker 1: and I, you know, the time that went by was
Speaker 1: no longer an issue. You know, I changed a great deal.
Speaker 1: I'd gotten married and had a son, so I didn't
Speaker 1: I couldn't relate to Luke as he was, But how
Speaker 1: could you. He wasn't that Luke anymore. He was this
Speaker 1: guy now. And it's just this time went by and
Speaker 1: I looked different, and Lauren didn't look that much different,
Speaker 1: so it was a little more and h But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really just being around the old players again and
Speaker 1: you know, playing the music again and it all sort
Speaker 1: of comes back.
Speaker 3: That's that's kind of a that's a I know, it's
Speaker 3: a very it's a very heartwarming thing to hear as
Speaker 3: a fan because like you do sort of imagine, like
Speaker 3: I know, you see a lot, you see a lot
Speaker 3: of reboots of a lot of shows that don't go
Speaker 3: so well, and then on this one, like I know,
Speaker 3: people had varying, very strong, varying opinions, but I don't
Speaker 3: think that anyone felt that anyone was not in the
Speaker 3: scene and not in the moment. That's I don't know,
Speaker 3: so it's I was just always amazed by that aspect
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: Certainly, I really think that, you know, the other actors.
Speaker 1: Actors breathe life into each other, and we're solely dependent
Speaker 1: on each other, you know, and it's an exchange. It's
Speaker 1: like an exchange of energy and light, if if you will,
Speaker 1: And that just sort of activates the whole process and
Speaker 1: it and it becomes, oh, yeah, this is how it feels,
Speaker 1: and this is who we are, and this is how
Speaker 1: we relate to one another, and this is what it is,
Speaker 1: and this is what it sounds like, and this is
Speaker 1: what it feels like, and let's go. Give us the words,
Speaker 1: let's go.
Speaker 3: That's very similar to writing. I mean, because I when I,
Speaker 3: you know, do any screenwriting, I write with a very
Speaker 3: good friend of mine, and like there's this sort of
Speaker 3: kinetic exchange, and then there's also this like like damn,
Speaker 3: that guy really just come up with that awesome line.
Speaker 3: I got to come up with a better line. I
Speaker 3: got to do better than that. It's like the most
Speaker 3: exciting thing is to find yourself in a situation where
Speaker 3: you're playing cap with people. So I feel like it
Speaker 3: sounds very similar.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think you've nailed it. It's,
Speaker 1: you know, just keeping that ball in the air and
Speaker 1: making it go higher and higher and higher. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about your screenwriting. How did you how long have
Speaker 1: you been wanting to write? And did you want to
Speaker 1: write novels or how did you sort of rotate into
Speaker 1: writing screenplays? Not not that that's that's it's an extremely
Speaker 1: difficult thing to do. Yeah, to write a good screenplay
Speaker 1: is no mean task. No, it's it's it's not it's daunting.
Speaker 1: It is did you grow up loving literature and and
Speaker 1: you were well read kid, and and you admired certain
Speaker 1: writers growing.
Speaker 3: Up completely totally. And but I also sort of like
Speaker 3: very parallel to that, really really loved movies. I really
Speaker 3: liked old movies. I was and still am a big
Speaker 3: movie nerd in high school. And a lot of my
Speaker 3: favorite writers did. But like Graham Green and Raymond chandl
Speaker 3: like did they did both, you know, novels and screenplays,
Speaker 3: And so I feel like a lot of that is
Speaker 3: very very very close together. And I and so, as
Speaker 3: I mentioned, I write mainly with you know, a very
Speaker 3: good friend of mine, and we both sort of love
Speaker 3: the same movies, and eventually we were just, you know,
Speaker 3: just just happened, and it's a really exciting, really fun thing.
Speaker 3: Very can be very frustrating sometimes in the development.
Speaker 1: But anything anything worth it is right, it's yes, but birth.
Speaker 3: Pangs, yeah, it's it's and then you know, obviously there's
Speaker 3: a unlike journalism, I feel like there's also sort of
Speaker 3: like a very. You have to be willing to say
Speaker 3: goodbye to projects that you really love almost as quickly
Speaker 3: as you fell in love with them. For you know,
Speaker 3: let's say producers move on, or someone drops out, or
Speaker 3: this happens, that that happens, or the weather changes, and
Speaker 3: you have to be willing and able to like close
Speaker 3: the door on something and move on.
Speaker 1: I remember falling in love with movies as a young boy.
Speaker 1: We went to a lot of movies. It was my
Speaker 1: generation went to tons of movies. I remember seeing, you know,
Speaker 1: the Exorcist came out and I don't know, I was
Speaker 1: all of ten or eleven years old, and my mother
Speaker 1: was like, you're not going to see that film, and
Speaker 1: I said, no, I'm going to see that film. We're
Speaker 1: going with my Italian friend and he's going to wear
Speaker 1: a Crucifix. We're gonna be fine, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: The devil can't get to us. And we were so
Speaker 1: terrified by that film because she she acquiesced and we
Speaker 1: went to the theater and she actually was sitting in
Speaker 1: the back of the theater, you know, just sort of
Speaker 1: watching us to see what anybody would pass out to
Speaker 1: protect you. Yeah, she wasn't buying it. So we ended
Speaker 1: up sleeping though there was three of us that went
Speaker 1: to see A three uh, my other friend Tommy, and
Speaker 1: we stayed at the Italian boys home that night. We
Speaker 1: slept on his floor in his living room floor and
Speaker 1: sleeping bags to be protected from from Satan because we
Speaker 1: were also freaked out from that film. And and I
Speaker 1: really must say that it is not a horror film,
Speaker 1: and it and it defined horror for me and my
Speaker 1: generation in a different way that horror is defined. It's
Speaker 1: really a film about the fear of a woman losing
Speaker 1: her little girl, and that's all it is. That's what
Speaker 1: it that's the that's the horror. And it's such a
Speaker 1: beautifully written and such a beautifully acted and beautifully directed film.
Speaker 1: And when I saw so, I was always fascinated with
Speaker 1: the power of film, and I didn't understand it was
Speaker 1: the It was really the writing that was the thing,
Speaker 1: because great writing is going to find a great director,
Speaker 1: is going to find great actors, going to find a
Speaker 1: great studio starts with the writing. So I see Altered States.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the film, and I
Speaker 1: don't know what you think of Patachevsky, but I just
Speaker 1: felt I fell in love with acting because of that film,
Speaker 1: because of Hert's performance, because of the concepts behind what
Speaker 1: he was representing that entire world academia, and knowing that
Speaker 1: Chayevsky moved to Cambridge, lived there for three years and
Speaker 1: did his really did his research, I mean, really dug
Speaker 1: in it's it's it's very similar to how todd Field
Speaker 1: is now behaving. I just saw tar on their on
Speaker 1: the airplane and say what you want about the ending,
Speaker 1: but I thought, this is as well researched and and
Speaker 1: Toddfield has learned the language of classical music on a
Speaker 1: level of a Tchaievsky and level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and well, I mean, one of the amazing things
Speaker 3: about Chaiovski is that like it wasn't just like it
Speaker 3: just feels like everything that he writes is like like,
Speaker 3: how can you know so intimately? So many things like
Speaker 3: how can you? And then like network and you're like what,
Speaker 3: like how did now you know?
Speaker 1: How? This?
Speaker 3: Like it just it was one thing. And he's an
Speaker 3: incredible writer. And I don't know if you've read Sydney
Speaker 3: Lumet's book Making Movies, which is one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: He has a lot of very very funny stories about
Speaker 3: Patty Chaowski having tantrums with the studio.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, I will, I will read it. I have
Speaker 1: not read that one. I've read most of them, but
Speaker 1: I have not. I will read that one.
Speaker 3: It's it's a it's like half memoir, like There's a
Speaker 3: great Thing where he very very very poorly disguised as
Speaker 3: the fact that Robert Redford wanted to play in the
Speaker 3: like the leader on the Verdict, and kept trying to
Speaker 3: like make the actor more virtuous and better and not
Speaker 3: an alcoholic and not mean, and then at some point
Speaker 3: he was like, no, that's a fire Redford, and just
Speaker 3: bring back Paul Newman. And it worked great. It's very funny.
Speaker 3: It's a really funny book.
Speaker 1: Will I will, I will. I'm on location, so I
Speaker 1: will have plenty of free time to read and I
Speaker 1: will read that one. Thank you for that recommendation. All right,
Speaker 1: so we'll have you back on after the strike is resolved.
Speaker 1: We can continue the conversation. You're a fascinating young man.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and then we can we can talk about
Speaker 1: some of your work maybe.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's it was a pleasure meeting you and me too,
Speaker 3: and yeah, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 3: Yep, take care.
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