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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to this episode of being the in TJ.

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Speaker 1: We have a legend in the studio. Well have you

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Speaker 1: heard of a little movie called Bridesmaids? Or how about

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Speaker 1: the Heat? There's Ghostbusters from twenty sixteen, a simple favor

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Speaker 1: and this soon to be new mega hit another simple favor.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just talking about the big screen small screen.

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Speaker 1: I mean Freaks and Geeks, Arrested, Development, Nurse Jackie, Madmen,

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Speaker 1: the Office, Parks and Recreation, thirty Rock. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: just goes on and on and on.

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Speaker 2: I'm exhausted hearing about my career.

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Speaker 1: But TJ. Obviously we're talking about producer, director, and the

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Speaker 1: amazing man behind all of this, the comedic genius Paul

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Speaker 1: fig But he's more than that to us, is he not?

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Speaker 3: He is, And we haven't talked about this with him yet.

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Speaker 3: He's in the studio right here. We're going to talk

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Speaker 3: to him. But Paul, you you were one of the

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Speaker 3: very last interviews we did before leaving ABC. Yes, you

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Speaker 3: were one of the very last ones. And we walked

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Speaker 3: out of that interview. I said, yes, we're familiar with

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Speaker 3: you movies that that is my favorite director. Because we

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Speaker 3: met you, we were so excited Rose that day, like

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Speaker 3: he is the coolest freakin' dude, and we had the

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Speaker 3: greatest time with you, and that is one of our

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Speaker 3: final memories of ABC.

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Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 4: I remember it very fondly, very fondly. We were making martiniz.

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Speaker 1: Right, yes exactly, we were making mocktails, remember that, because

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Speaker 1: it's Disney and we weren't allowed to actually use alcohol.

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Speaker 1: But I do believe you left behind a gift for TJ.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, a.

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Speaker 3: Bottle of your gins, which I will I'll do. I'll

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Speaker 3: tell it at the end, But you when we left ABC, Paul.

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Speaker 3: This sounds crazy, but one of the first disappointments and

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Speaker 3: things that came to my mind had to do with

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Speaker 3: a memory of you.

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Speaker 2: And I'll explain at the end. I cyppointing people.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, but welcome everybody, who's the Paul Veiga two.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we are so excited, and today is a big

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Speaker 1: day because last night we're recording this the day after

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Speaker 1: your big movie premiere here in New York with the

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Speaker 1: red carpet. What did how? How did it go? How

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Speaker 1: did you feel?

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Speaker 2: It was fantastic? It was so much fun.

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Speaker 4: We did it an Jazz at Lincoln Center, which is

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Speaker 4: an amazing theater to show movies in. Dear Hollywood. Do

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Speaker 4: all your premieres in New York at that jazz Jazz.

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Speaker 4: It's it's fantastic because we always used to do premieres

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Speaker 4: at the Zigfeld and then that closed. And the Zigfeld

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Speaker 4: was nice because it was big, but it was always

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Speaker 4: kind of a barn and it was really long and narrow,

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Speaker 4: and the kind of sound wasn't great and stuff. So

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Speaker 4: this it was just spectacular, you know, eleven hundred people

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Speaker 4: and the place was rocking.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: The movie's very fun. It gets a lot of response

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Speaker 4: from an audience. Yeah, laughs and screams and gasps and

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Speaker 4: all that kind of thing, and it was we just

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Speaker 4: had the best time. How's the New your premiere compared

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Speaker 4: to a LA premiere? I like a New York premiere

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Speaker 4: a little bit better, just because people are very responsive.

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Speaker 2: You know, LA is such a dustry town.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they hoot and holler and share, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, so they're like, okay, well, you know, because there's

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Speaker 4: a my people in the business who are too cool

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Speaker 4: to laugh. But we still get good audiences in LA.

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Speaker 1: But New York, you know God, yeah, I mean in

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Speaker 1: the movie is just like you said, it's a fun

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Speaker 1: wild ride and it's just beautiful to look at all.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Capri, does it get? Does it get more

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Speaker 4: Wherever you point a camera in Capri, you got a

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Speaker 4: beautiful shot. So yeah, it was I'm I'm you know,

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Speaker 4: I really wanted to make this eye candy make it.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: The keyword for these simple favorite movies is they have

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Speaker 4: to be delicious, and I think this one's extra delicious.

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Speaker 2: We have to be honest.

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Speaker 3: We missed about a third of the movie because we

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Speaker 3: were planning our next vacation because we were so inspired

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Speaker 4: You were, well, that's my favorite place of vacation, and

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Speaker 4: I just can really, I completely screwed myself because now

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Speaker 4: whoever's going to book and I'm gonna be get it's

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Speaker 4: so true.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna white Lotus Caprio. Everyone's gonna watch the movie

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Speaker 1: and then book their plane tickets and no one's going

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Speaker 2: Gabrie this year.

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Speaker 1: That's hilarious. So I was looking today because it's been

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Speaker 1: wildly just people love this movie for the exact reason

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Speaker 1: you said. It's fun it's amazing, the cast incredible. You've

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Speaker 1: got Blake and Anna. And then I was looking at

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Speaker 1: some of these stupid headlines and I know you've been

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Speaker 1: dealing with a lot with them, but there's this like

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Speaker 1: fake beef that and I cannot stand this when people

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Speaker 1: pit and I say people, but certain and I don't

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Speaker 1: even want to call them journalists, certain outlets try to

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Speaker 1: pit women against each other. And they were even doing

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Speaker 1: like body language experts as to how Anna and Blake

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Speaker 1: were on the red carpet last.

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Speaker 4: Night, flat out misogyny heads. I mean, I'm telling you,

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Speaker 4: it drives me crazy. And I spend all the I

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Speaker 4: spend half my time putting these rumors out. We were just

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Speaker 4: Film Festival. I'm in the back with with Anna and

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Speaker 4: Blake and then the rest of the cast, and we're

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Speaker 4: doing these videos together and they're having the best time

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Speaker 4: and they're talking and laughing and all this stuff. And

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Speaker 4: then like people are putting on the internet, Oh, you know,

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Speaker 4: Blake's very mad at all this all, Like you guys,

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Speaker 4: it doesn't it's not true, but they just I don't know,

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Speaker 4: they somehow they love the pit women against each other.

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Speaker 1: And then I was just putting myself in their place

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Speaker 1: because they were saying that Anna Side hugged Blake, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking that gets in your head. You think

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Speaker 1: everything I do, every move I make. Anytime you've been

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Speaker 1: is going to be misinterpreted to fit the narrative that

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Speaker 1: they wanted to I was angry for it.

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Speaker 3: We've been fighting before, and I say, look, we got

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Speaker 3: a whole hands yeah, crushing each other.

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Speaker 1: Smile, don't look like you're not at me, because there'll

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Speaker 1: be a whole story about it.

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Speaker 4: But you know what, there's so much useless outrage these days.

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Speaker 4: There's plenty of stuff to be outraged about, my god,

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Speaker 4: right now, there's but the outrage over pop culture and

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Speaker 4: that kind of stuff is like, you, guys, you gotta

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Speaker 4: get channel that energy into some meaningful Please stop with

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Speaker 3: But you said just a second ago, how you put it,

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Speaker 3: But you feel like you're trying to put out fires.

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Speaker 3: You still, as much as that stuff is out there,

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Speaker 3: you still feel like it's necessary to find a way.

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Speaker 3: From a business standpoint and maybe from a personal standpoint

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Speaker 3: to still try.

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Speaker 2: To combat some of those headlines. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: I mean, business wise, it's not bad and any controversy

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Speaker 4: is good. I'm always like, no press is bad press.

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Speaker 4: But I just I know these people, and I like

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Speaker 4: want to defend them when somebody just telling blatant lies.

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Speaker 2: It makes me crazy.

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Speaker 4: Because you know, and it's why, you know, I have

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Speaker 4: so many rules that I break all the time. But

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Speaker 4: you know, I really screwed up on social media when

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Speaker 4: Ghostbusters came out because I started fighting publicly with trolls

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Speaker 4: and it's losing them every time, every time, and I

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Speaker 4: But sometimes some of you will just say something is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you went on Twitter when obviously we know

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Speaker 1: all of the the Blake and Ryan have been going

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Speaker 1: through it with all of the Justin Valdini thing. You

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I love Blake.

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Speaker 4: I love Blake, and you know, I just I don't

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Speaker 4: like to see people who I really like, who I

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Speaker 3: What you just said, I haven't heard anybody say it

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Speaker 3: There's a curiosity people are talking about it.

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Speaker 2: They're going to possibly about awareness. You want to be

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Speaker 4: And if they're talking about they're talking about it, if

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Speaker 4: they're gonna hate watch it? Sure, Hey, you know, click's

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Speaker 1: So another simple favor. It drops on Amazon Prime Video

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Speaker 1: on May first. So what is when you when you

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean they the metrics change a lot. It

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Speaker 4: It's just like whether we're getting talked about, whether I'm

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Speaker 2: So but it's a little hard, you know. I'm so

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Speaker 4: Old school, you know, theatrical guy that I used to

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Speaker 4: it's I think my fourth movie now that's been a streamer,

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Speaker 4: and uh, you know, it's different. I love being in theaters.

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Speaker 4: You know, thank you Amazon for for letting us make

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Speaker 2: So you said four movies of yours have gone, You've

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Speaker 3: How do the Does the process feel any different if

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Speaker 3: you're shooting a movie that's going to Yeah, you're.

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Speaker 2: Already shaking hand. Yeah, the same. What about promotion and

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Speaker 4: I mean, the slippery thing is that, like almost all

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Speaker 4: a thing unless they're really really small, but they get

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Speaker 4: talked about. People want to talk about movies for some

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Speaker 4: reason streamers. I think there's so many movies that come

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Speaker 4: there's certain movies that they call kind of programmers, which

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Speaker 4: two hundred million dollars. But yeah, it's I find it

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Speaker 4: slightly harder to get people excited about streaming movies. This

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Speaker 2: what genre.

438
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Speaker 3: Is simple favor? What genre is another simple favorite? Because

439
00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,560
Speaker 3: I was talking to our producers about it, what thriller?

440
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Speaker 1: I said, well, it's kind of a comedy dark.

441
00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:27,840
Speaker 2: Where do you put it?

442
00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,600
Speaker 4: I say, it's a dark comedy, dark comedy. Yeeah, yeah, yeah.

443
00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,160
Speaker 4: But you know, I'm very true to genres. If all

444
00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:36,920
Speaker 4: my movies are genre movies, if you look at them,

445
00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,440
Speaker 4: and I love thrillers, that's all I watch. I don't

446
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Speaker 4: watch comedy.

447
00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,359
Speaker 2: I just I love I love. You don't watch comedy. No,

448
00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,760
Speaker 2: I don't, really no, because I do it.

449
00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,080
Speaker 4: It's my job, you know, and I'm always trying to

450
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Speaker 4: figure out what people are doing.

451
00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:49,960
Speaker 2: But I'm more.

452
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:55,639
Speaker 4: Interested in in moving an audience, making them laugh because

453
00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,360
Speaker 4: they're so invested and they're so scared or tense or worried,

454
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Speaker 4: and watching these extreme characters in these extreme situations. That's

455
00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,600
Speaker 4: it to me is the most fun thing. And audiences

456
00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,600
Speaker 4: have gotten really suspicious about just straight up comedy in

457
00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,320
Speaker 4: the last decade, I would dare say, because I think

458
00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,840
Speaker 4: they've seen so many comedies that they didn't get invested

459
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,919
Speaker 4: in even if the jokes are funny, you're not you know,

460
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,640
Speaker 4: you're not getting pulled along, and so putting comedy into

461
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 4: all the best comedy movies right now, horror movies. If

462
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,560
Speaker 4: you see horror movies, they're funny. I mean, Megan is hilarious,

463
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Speaker 4: Abigail is hilarious, you know, and so because the stakes

464
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 4: are so high, but everything's so extreme, that's what's fun

465
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Speaker 4: to Megan.

466
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Speaker 1: Audience go, we're laughing because you are speaking our language,

467
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Speaker 1: and because we always traditionally loved horror movies, like just

468
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Speaker 1: from the time we were like five years old, the

469
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Speaker 1: two of us, we're seeking out horror movies. You know,

470
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Speaker 1: when I the first thing I saw was Nightmare on

471
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Speaker 1: Elm Street and then Poltergeist and all that. But now

472
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Speaker 1: it's gotten so elevated, and I think obviously filmmakers are

473
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Speaker 1: understanding the passion and the excitement for that genre and

474
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Speaker 1: they've gotten it now where horror comedy it's our absolute

475
00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,920
Speaker 1: favor genre totally, and I don't know that it even

476
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Speaker 1: we had can't be horror movies before.

477
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Speaker 2: I mean horror.

478
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,240
Speaker 4: The thing about horror is people who make horror are

479
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 4: laughing in the editing room tired. They are just because

480
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 4: you're because you're so manipulating an audience and the power

481
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Speaker 4: you feel of like, oh my god, they're gonna ship

482
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Speaker 4: their pants, you know, like that's the greatest feeling in

483
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Speaker 4: the world.

484
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Speaker 2: So hard eyes. Have you seen this? This is a

485
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Speaker 2: recent I have not seen that yet.

486
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Speaker 3: They've nailed both elements. They could it could be a

487
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,120
Speaker 3: standalone comedy, it could be a stand they've nailed both.

488
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Speaker 2: Blackening is a good one. Yeah, oh, I love that one.

489
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Speaker 3: That's a great one. But we have in the past

490
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Speaker 3: week watched Abigail. We saw it in the theater. But

491
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Speaker 3: it's just a fun movie.

492
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Speaker 2: Kills me. It's so funny. It's so extreme. The ending.

493
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Speaker 2: I've never seen more blood in a movie, and it's

494
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Speaker 2: so funny. It's so funny. It was the death of

495
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Speaker 2: a Unicorn. We saw that.

496
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we loved that, you know it.

497
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Speaker 2: And I just watched Smile Too, which is so good.

498
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Speaker 1: Five minutes alone, you're like, holy.

499
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Speaker 3: And in the last three minutes yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

500
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Speaker 3: That is so fun to talk films with you. In particular,

501
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,679
Speaker 3: you talk about you said something about about comedy and

502
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Speaker 3: I want you to say you get people invested, where

503
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Speaker 3: would you put the heat when it comes to getting

504
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 3: an audience invested. I'm gonna explain why we can't watch

505
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 3: this movie. We've seen it a hundred times, but we

506
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 3: can't have it on and be doing something else because

507
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 3: we get caught up in the movie. We can't focus

508
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,200
Speaker 3: on anything else. So where does where does that fall

509
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Speaker 3: in what you described?

510
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's a buddy cop comedy. But what

511
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,679
Speaker 4: I was really inspired by for that is the movies

512
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Speaker 4: of the eighties like Beverly Hills Cop and forty eight Hours,

513
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,399
Speaker 4: Because you know, I remember as a kid, you know,

514
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 4: I'd only you know, you go see comedy is gonna

515
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 4: be comedy and fun and all that. So I go

516
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Speaker 4: to see, you know, forty eight Hours, which you know,

517
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 4: oh my god, Any Murphy is so funny they can't wait.

518
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 4: And some guy gets executed, like gets his head blown

519
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 4: off right in the first few minutes, and you're like,

520
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 4: oh my god, what's happening. But you realize it's like that.

521
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 4: Now I'm so invested in the danger that these guys

522
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 4: are in. So when Eddie Murphy goes into that redneck

523
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 4: bar and starts throwing things around You're like, Okay, you

524
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 4: could get really beaten up in here, things can go

525
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,160
Speaker 4: really wrong, but that that's more fun to me now.

526
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Speaker 4: And so that was with with The Heat. You know,

527
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 4: we've you know, we got some people get killed pretty

528
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 4: badly in that movie, and it just I think.

529
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Speaker 2: It's just ups the stake. I've never made that connection.

530
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 2: You're exactly right.

531
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Speaker 3: I know Beverly Hill's cat really well, but his partner

532
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,120
Speaker 3: was Nick Nolty, a drunk, divorced bad cop kind of right.

533
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Speaker 2: It was a very intense movie.

534
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Speaker 3: I never made the connection between The Heat and those classics.

535
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Speaker 4: And I think that's where kind of comedy needs to

536
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 4: be these days again, as opposed to just it's all

537
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 4: silly and the villain is silly and we're not worried

538
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 4: abou him because he's bumbling. It's like, where's my investment

539
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 4: in that?

540
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Speaker 1: They'll buy no scene in The Heat. I could listen

541
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: to that over and over and just tears are coming out.

542
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 1: It's funny. My mom is not like really into cursing

543
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: or anything too vulgar, but I had her watch The

544
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,199
Speaker 1: Heat and she was on a plane. She told me

545
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: she saw it. She said she was laughing. So hard

546
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: that people were staring at her because just I mean,

547
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: it's just you cannot stop laughing.

548
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Speaker 4: My goal, My goal was watermelon, Yes, and you know

549
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 4: because when we shot that, the whole crew was horrified.

550
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you.

551
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 1: Worry because look, is it harder to make comedy now

552
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: this whole there was all this wokeness. Now there's anti wokeness.

553
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 1: Everyone gets offended. How hard is it to do good

554
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: comedy in that.

555
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Speaker 4: I am not a person who says, oh no, we

556
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Speaker 4: can't do anything. I think I don't want to offend anybody,

557
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 4: you know. And I think if you just make things

558
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 4: funny and based on people's personality and you're not making

559
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 4: fun of things people can't change about themselves. I mean,

560
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Speaker 4: I will say the only thing I've ever been like

561
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 4: is the Albino thing, because it' so funny, and we

562
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 4: set it up going like, look, it's it's making fun

563
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Speaker 4: of the fact that so many movies had bad guys

564
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Speaker 4: that were albino. We actually had that little montage when

565
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Speaker 4: she's flipping around the channels.

566
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Speaker 2: It's all.

567
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Speaker 4: So I tried to set it up, you know, and

568
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 4: Dan Bakeadell, who's so funny good, But then you know,

569
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Speaker 4: when the movie after it came out, I got some

570
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 4: A woman wrote me, some of my daughters in albino

571
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 4: and this is not helpful, and I and I felt

572
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 4: bad and like I kind of broke my rule or

573
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 4: making fun of something that people can't change about themselves.

574
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Speaker 2: But it's still really funny.

575
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Speaker 1: But you're also making fun of the fact that they're

576
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Speaker 1: often made into evil characters, that's.

577
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Speaker 4: The thing, and so that would and I kind of

578
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 4: want to go, oh no, here's why, but you're like,

579
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 4: it's still you've got to get caught in the blowback

580
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 4: of that. So but I, you know, I don't feel like,

581
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 4: you know, if it's good natured and kind of everybody

582
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 4: gets hit the same way, and you're not being mean,

583
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 4: if there's a difference between mean spiritedness and just kind

584
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Speaker 4: of like, hey, we're just having fun kind of making

585
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 4: fun of people things that they can change about themselves.

586
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 4: You know, if somebody's a jerk, it's really fun to

587
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 4: make fun of them, or they have really crazy beliefs,

588
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,199
Speaker 4: like that's kind of fun to make fun of because

589
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 4: they could change that if they wanted to.

590
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,719
Speaker 3: Their dialogue they're back and forth, how they equip at

591
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 3: each other in that scene is absolutely hilarious.

592
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Speaker 2: I have to have you here.

593
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Speaker 3: I'm curious what you said you don't watch comedy necessarily.

594
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,959
Speaker 3: Let's go through this the Oscar season. What were some

595
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 3: of your favorite movies that you saw during this season

596
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 3: and what kind do you have any like, oh, I

597
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 3: gotta go watch this show, or like we watched ninety

598
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 3: Day Fiance or whatever it may be. Do you have

599
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 3: as a just I'm curious what a guy in your position,

600
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 3: what kind of stuff you watch you admire?

601
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Speaker 1: You like?

602
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 4: Well, I watch a lot of thrillers and I watch

603
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 4: a lot of true crime because I'm fascinated by terrible

604
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 4: people because I like to think I'm a nice person,

605
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 4: you know, and so you know, you get to act

606
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 4: out in that way. And so I'm just watching especially,

607
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 4: I mean, we're such in the age of.

608
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 2: The con man right now. Let's not talk about.

609
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 4: Who who's leading that charge in our country right now,

610
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 4: but but that so, all these true crime things are

611
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 4: about people conning people, you know, and trying to pull

612
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 4: stuff off and being fake and putting up these scams

613
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 4: and stuff, and I'm just fascinated by it. And then

614
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 4: on top of it, just you know, a good murder

615
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 4: thing is always fascinating to watch. I really like all that,

616
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 4: like the movies, you know, the movie movies from from

617
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 4: this Oscar season. You know, I saw Honora thinking it

618
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 4: was gonna be like a drama. It turns out is

619
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 4: one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time,

620
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 4: and I didn't know that going in. And honestly, when

621
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 4: when you know the guy leaves and that those guys

622
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 4: are coming over to get her, I was like, oh man,

623
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 4: this is gonna get really dark. And that turns hilarious

624
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 4: because it's so bumbling and but that but that's to me,

625
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 4: that's what a great comedy because you don't know it.

626
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 4: It's it's hidden in there, and it still really emotional,

627
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 4: you know, And you know, I'd still tear up in

628
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 4: that end scene when she's in the car.

629
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's just a killer.

630
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: You know. We honestly everything you're saying we are vibing

631
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: with because we do murder in the morning. We watch

632
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: all the true crime stories. We love horror comedy. We

633
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: love your movies. It's about moving people and making people

634
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: feel think about things differently. I love that you do that.

635
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: You mentioned you've got this Christmas movie coming up, can

636
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: you give us a little taste of it?

637
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 2: Very dark Christmas?

638
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: We love that too.

639
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's called The Housemaid is based on this book

640
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 4: that's been a bestseller on the New York Times list

641
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 4: for a year and a half now, Freedom McFadden wrote it,

642
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 4: and uh yeah, it's Sidney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried and

643
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 4: Brandon's glenar and then Michaelay moroney from another Simple Favor.

644
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 4: And it's a dark thriller. It's still got funny stuff

645
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 4: and it just because it gets very extreme.

646
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 2: But it's great. I'm really excited about it.

647
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 4: We just started our first test screening of an early

648
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 4: cut and it tested through the roof, so I mean

649
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 4: the cast.

650
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 2: It's just amazing.

651
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love your two strong female leads there.

652
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, boy if they turned in the amazing performance.

653
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 3: Oh what is what is your assessment?

654
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Speaker 2: Right? We went through COVID. As far as the industry goes,

655
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: has the industry come back?

656
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 3: It's hard to say come back, like where is the

657
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 3: need to get? But do you feel good about how

658
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 3: the industry has recovered to a certain degree? And as

659
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 3: always back and forth about movies and what type and

660
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 3: these theories. There's all kinds of stuff going on. But

661
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 3: what is the state of the industry that you are

662
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 3: such a leader in at this point?

663
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 4: Well, thanks, I'm very optimistic about it. It's changed a bit.

664
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 4: It's contracted a little bit because it got so wild

665
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 4: West with all the streamers and everybody having a streamer

666
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 4: that there was just a glut of content, which is

667
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 4: kind of great because it got a lot of people working.

668
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 4: But I think the writer's strike made that contracted everything

669
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 4: in a way that Hollywood was looking for an excuse

670
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 4: to contract and so they really used the writer's strike

671
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 4: too as an excuse to do that. But what the

672
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,959
Speaker 4: good thing I think is that people are coming back

673
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 4: to theaters. I mean this past weekend you know we're

674
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 4: taping right now, was a big weekend in Sinners. Yeah,

675
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 4: it's holding. I mean they had like hardly any drop

676
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 4: off between weeks. So that's so it shows audiences are

677
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 4: ready for stuff. It's just we in our business have

678
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 4: to service that. We have to give them stuff they

679
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 4: want to see. We have to challenge them. Not challenge

680
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 4: challenge sounds like homework. You have to give them stuff

681
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 4: where they're like they're going to be surprised that they like,

682
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 4: you know, I mean you Sinners is a total surprise.

683
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 4: You know, if you would have asked people, you know,

684
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 4: a year ago, you know, how do you feel about

685
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 4: a vampire movie about the Blues? You know, I don't

686
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,959
Speaker 4: know if they'd be like, oh cool, but you know,

687
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 4: the minute you see what it is, you're like, oh

688
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 4: my god, I go to go see that. So yeah,

689
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 4: it's really it's the opportunities are out there. They're fewer,

690
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 4: but they're a bigger payoff for an audience when they're

691
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 4: done right, and it's just up to us to make

692
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 4: sure that we're good.

693
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: Do you have any comedic actresses or actresses that you

694
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: want to work with that you haven't yet that you've

695
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: got your eye on that you're thinking about for future projects?

696
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, there's so many people that I'm dying

697
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 4: to work with. I mean, I hate ton't name anybody,

698
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 4: but just because I'll send anybody else but Jennifer Lawrence

699
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 4: and I've been trying to figure out something to do forever,

700
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 4: and so I think we might have something for her

701
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 4: and have a.

702
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: Stone I love.

703
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 4: And you know, yeah, there are people that I know

704
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 4: that I've met with who are always kind of like,

705
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 4: we got to figure it out. But you know, it's

706
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 4: got to be the right thing. You can't just throw

707
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 4: somebody into a role if they're not perfect for it,

708
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 4: you know. And that's what's fun is trying to figure

709
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 4: out who we want to work with, finding the right project.

710
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: How do you find the you know, my daughter actually

711
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: is graduating from NYU with a theater degree, and she's

712
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: got four jobs right now, but hoping, you know, trying

713
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: to do what she loves, which is acting. But she's

714
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: always saying like, I wasn't right for it, I didn't

715
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: look the part, I didn't you know whatever it is

716
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: during these auditions. But how do you know do you

717
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: know immediately within five minutes five seconds, that's the perfect person,

718
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: that's who I need to play this character.

719
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it comes in different waves. I mean to me,

720
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 4: it's the material first that dominates everything. So I very

721
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 4: rarely kind of go, oh, we've got this person, let's

722
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 4: develop this thing for them. It's more like, we got

723
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 4: to get this story right, this has to be right,

724
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 4: and then it's like, who do I think of for this?

725
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 4: And it usually you get someone in your head pretty

726
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 4: quickly when you're working on something. It's like they would

727
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,479
Speaker 4: be perfect. But then sometimes you don't get that person.

728
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 4: You know, they turn it down or they're not available,

729
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 4: and then it's always like kind of doing that shift.

730
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 4: And I've had great success with that of like you know,

731
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 4: say who they were, you know, because but you thought

732
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 4: this person would be perfect for this, they didn't turn

733
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 4: it didn't work out. And then the person you got,

734
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 4: then you go like, I can't imagine the other person

735
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 4: ever doing this.

736
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: This is them.

737
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,959
Speaker 4: And also you tail once you get them, you tailor

738
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 4: it to them. You know, it's not these scripts aren't

739
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 4: set in stone. It's like this is their strength. That's

740
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 4: why I loved before I work with somebody new, like

741
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 4: let's just go out to dinner, let's have drinks or

742
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 4: have lefe, so I can know who you are and

743
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 4: I can see a side of you that the audience

744
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 4: doesn't know exists, and then we're gonna play that up.

745
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 3: Do you have a story of I hate regret the

746
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 3: word regret, so not one that you regret, But did

747
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 3: you have a story or a person or an actors

748
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 3: or actress that you passed on and then you saw

749
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 3: something landa go I mate the wrong.

750
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 2: Call on that. I can't say who right, right.

751
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 4: No, there's some just you get something in your head,

752
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 4: you know, and you like somebody so much, or you

753
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 4: just kind of want to I don't know, you just

754
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 4: get something stuck in your head and it's not It

755
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,959
Speaker 4: works fine, but you're kind of like, oh, I should

756
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 4: have you know, I should have? Yeah, but very rarely,

757
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 4: very rarely. It's just only been a couple of times.

758
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 4: And I have no regret about who I did cast

759
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 4: and just to go like, oh, I think maybe that.

760
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 2: Would have worked.

761
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 3: Is there a project that you passed on or something

762
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 3: that ended up being developed and I should have done

763
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 3: that movie?

764
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 4: Oh?

765
00:33:58,560 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 2: Nothing like that.

766
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 4: I can't say because it would make somebody else feel

767
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 4: bad something. But no, they do very rarely, very rarely.

768
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 4: I'm pretty good about that kind of thing. There's more

769
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 4: for me. It's more things that I've developed that didn't

770
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 4: get to go. I had a monster movie at the

771
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,760
Speaker 4: Universal called Dark Army that I was really excited about,

772
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 4: and they just we developed it for a long time.

773
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 4: They decided it was going to be too expensive. I

774
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 4: didn't agree with them. I thought I could do it cheap,

775
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 4: but they just didn't want to do it. And they

776
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 4: were kind of in a weird place with their Monster

777
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 4: Movie universe at that time. But I hope some day

778
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 4: it comes okay.

779
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: I mean I was going to say it sounds like

780
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: something that we would watch.

781
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 2: One hundred percent.

782
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: I mean, and with all I mean, with all of

783
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: your success, what would you say it is about? Paul Figue?

784
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: What is it that you bring to the table that

785
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: creates so many incredible successes? I mean, what is it

786
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,240
Speaker 1: that you do? What you know that maybe other directors,

787
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: other producers don't do it, because you really do. I

788
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: mean your list of just art because it's movies and

789
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: television is remarkable and it's lasting. I mean, these are

790
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: movies that you don't just go to the movie theater

791
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: once and see and say, yeah, that was great. I mean,

792
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: these are movies that I watch over, we watch over

793
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: and over because they're that good. They they have holding power,

794
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: lasting power, and they're still funny. What is it? What

795
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: do you do? I'm fascinated.

796
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 4: Well, I'm awesome. First of all, Well that's very kind.

797
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 4: You know, if I could really figure it out, I'd

798
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 4: be even more successful.

799
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 2: No, you know what, I.

800
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,479
Speaker 4: Try to have fun. I want to make everything fun.

801
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 4: I always kind of say, my movie these every movie

802
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 4: should be like a party, some kind of a party,

803
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 4: you know, whether it's a scary party or a just

804
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 4: a nutty party or whatever. But it has to be

805
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 4: good natured, you know. I don't like nihilistic. It's not

806
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 4: only beef with a lot of horror, is that it

807
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 4: all ends very nihilistically. And that's why I love to

808
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 4: love Megan so much. It's like there's a victory at

809
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 4: the end of it, you know, And so that's what

810
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 4: I'm always looking for because my message is never you

811
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 4: can't win.

812
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 2: Terrible people win. Good people get pushed aside, you know.

813
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 2: I don't like that.

814
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 4: So even as dark as my movies can get, they

815
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 4: are fairly good natured, even if they.

816
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 2: Get very dark.

817
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 4: And so I think people kind of respond to that.

818
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 4: And then we just try to make them as dense

819
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 4: as possible so you can watch them over and over again.

820
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 2: You know.

821
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 4: I like when people go like, oh, I missed half

822
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 4: the jokes because the audience was laughing. Like, good, watch

823
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 4: it the can and you'll pick.

824
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 2: Up the jokes.

825
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is so true. Like, and I

826
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: love the idea because we might not even realize it.

827
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 1: As moviegoers or as consumers of your art. But yeah,

828
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 1: you remember all the funny pross, but you also remember

829
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: how it made you feel.

830
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know.

831
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 4: It's I always say my movies are just dramas that

832
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 4: are funny, because that's how you have to plot out

833
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 4: a movie. It has to have a real storyline with

834
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 4: real emotions and real stakes in it, and then you

835
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 4: build the comedy up from the extremeness of the characters,

836
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 4: the extremness of the situation and how they interact and

837
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 4: react to each other. That's where the fun comes from.

838
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 3: Just hit nor to hear you put it together. We've

839
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 3: watched your movies and all that makes it. Oh yeah,

840
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 3: oh yeah that's why. I Oh, that's what that was.

841
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,439
Speaker 3: So it's it's cool to see it. It's so good

842
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 3: to have you back, just to see you again. We

843
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 3: were jumping through the phone when they say we have

844
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 3: a chance.

845
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 2: To get pauffee. I'm thrilled.

846
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: No.

847
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 4: I've always loved you guys, and you were so nice

848
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 4: to me on the show, and I've was following all

849
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 4: this stuff you went through and I was like, oh no,

850
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 4: I want to please get through this. Then you came

851
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 4: out so strong. I mean, my god, congrats, but.

852
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 3: Your name came up and it was a moment of

853
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 3: I guess just a little reverence and little strength and

854
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 3: maybe we understood that things are going to be okay.

855
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you this. Through it all, when we

856
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 3: got off the air, there there are all kinds of

857
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 3: stuff in tabloids and folks were trying to unname source

858
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 3: as this but to make us look essentially as bad

859
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 3: as possible what.

860
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 2: Was out there.

861
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 3: So one of the stories was about Robot being an

862
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 3: absolute drunk, right they did. It was, you know, better

863
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 3: than idea, but there was you were accused of being

864
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 3: drunk and on.

865
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 2: The air at the game.

866
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: Okay, while we were negotiating our exits, all of a sudden,

867
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: like literally, it's unbelievable, all of a sudden.

868
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 2: Isn't that magical?

869
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,240
Speaker 1: Isn't it weird how that coincidentally just started. No pressure

870
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: was intended. I'm sure to have all of these false

871
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: stories leaked.

872
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 2: Yes, crisis pr No, No, they would never do that.

873
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 3: So this is happening to that point, talking about her

874
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 3: drinking and working all this. Never a word anywhere about

875
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 3: me and drinking or anything else. Paul I had a

876
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 3: full bar in my dressing room a full bar, A

877
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,959
Speaker 3: hero and everybody knew it because when people come through,

878
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 3: they look.

879
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 2: We've had several people.

880
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,959
Speaker 3: Duane the Rock Johnson gave me a bottle of his tequila.

881
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 3: I had a bottle of gin from Ryan Reynolds. Cecilia

882
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 3: Vega worked there. She brought me a bottle of tequila.

883
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 3: One of the floor directors went to the Caribbean brought

884
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 3: me back a bottle of whiskey. You can only get

885
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 3: so people just gift you think. One day when we

886
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 3: were out of there, I had I needed somebody to

887
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 3: go into my dressing room. We weren't allowed in the building,

888
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 3: and somebody went to my dressing room to grab something

889
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 3: for me, and they had taken pictures and say this

890
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 3: which you needed. My entire shelf of liquor had been

891
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 3: cleared out.

892
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 2: All of it.

893
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 3: What's gone? No big deal, It's fine. But we just

894
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 3: thought it was funny. But one of the things I

895
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 3: said to her, Damn, Paul FIG's gin was in there.

896
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 3: I never got a chance to open it. No, I

897
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 3: kid you not. And we looked at each other. We

898
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 3: just kind of laughed that we were so disappointed. We're

899
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 3: in the midst of losing Careers.

900
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: For a review.

901
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 3: Losers, But it was that segment you were on talking

902
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 3: about your book about cocktails and this and but you

903
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 3: left and you gifted me that and we appreciated it.

904
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 3: But in that moment of all that chaos, we just

905
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 3: looked at each other and laughed about we were upset

906
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 3: that we didn't get your.

907
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 2: Gin sending you a bottle. So it's going to happen.

908
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 3: And we'll apologize to you as well, because in that

909
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 3: last segment we did late November, you weren't aware, just

910
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 3: like the rest of the world was, that we were

911
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 3: actually dating at that time. So excellent, Hi, paul, I'm TJ.

912
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 2: This is my girlfriend.

913
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: I could tell, and we were both in the middle

914
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: of divorces at that time, so it's just like it's

915
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: just a ridiculous thing that happened.

916
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 4: I was so happy for you guys when I despite

917
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 4: all the b you went through, just because I like

918
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 4: you too, so so I'm really happy for you.

919
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 1: The feeling is mutual, and yeah, just I'm so excited

920
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: about all the projects that you have coming up and

921
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 1: we get to have more Paula figue magic in our lives,

922
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: and I just thank you for sharing the process behind

923
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: how you make all of this great art, because it

924
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: is so cool and I understand it now. I understand

925
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: why I like it now more the psychology behind it.

926
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: But it's it's your brilliance. And thank you for bringing

927
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: it to the world because that that is a gift.

928
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: It is a gift to laugh. You know, we leaned

929
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: on a lot of your movies during there was about

930
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: a year of confinement for us where we consumed a

931
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,959
Speaker 1: lot of entertainment to try and escape our own fate.

932
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 2: There you go, And.

933
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: Honestly, your movies were a huge part of that, like

934
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 1: a huge part of that. And that's a that's a service,

935
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 1: you know, to give people an escape, to give people

936
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: a reason to laugh. And so thank you for what

937
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: you bring to the world.

938
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

939
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 4: I always say, like, if my movies can just be

940
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,720
Speaker 4: considered comfort food, I'm happy as a clam.

941
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, thank you for coming on the on

942
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: the on the podcast today because we consider it a

943
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,240
Speaker 1: huge honor for you to be here with us in studios.

944
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 2: So thank you honor for me and another simple favor

945
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 2: starts streaming on maybe first Amazon Prime Prime Video, right, folks,

946
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 2: I appreciate it always for listening. We'll see a new