Speaker 1: Do you prefer to make movies in English or ones?
Speaker 1: People in America have to read Pasha Tosh Show to
Speaker 1: show Tosh show time. How are you great? You guys
Speaker 1: buckled up, you filled up, you got you got your
Speaker 1: petrol in, you got a quarter taker more. Because we're
Speaker 1: about to go on a ride. I'm gonna take you
Speaker 1: guys downtown. We're going downtown. Okay, in my country, there
Speaker 1: there's a problem. What's the problem, you know? Hold on,
Speaker 1: let me tell you. I was singing. I was singing
Speaker 1: that song like I do. Yeah that that uh Sasha
Speaker 1: Baron Cone Uh sorry in Borat in my country, and
Speaker 1: I was singing in Dylan back there. I go, Dylan,
Speaker 1: you know this song? And he goes, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know a lot of the Bible songs that you sing.
Speaker 1: And I go, I go, Dylan, that's not a Bible song.
Speaker 1: This is I mean, he heard the horrific, he heard
Speaker 1: the horrific lyric line and goes, I don't know your
Speaker 1: Bible songs that you grew up on. And I'm like
Speaker 1: singing that that's Sasha bearing Cone breaking boundaries man, not
Speaker 1: not Bible songs that I learned as a child. Go
Speaker 1: tell it on the mountain. That's a Bible, songs, gospels,
Speaker 1: but he hears in my country there is problem and
Speaker 1: that problem is transport.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: I just got back from a little mini vacation that
Speaker 1: I was forced to do. My wife forced me to
Speaker 1: do it. I did not want to go. But whatever.
Speaker 1: My favorite part of vacation is when we're leaving to
Speaker 1: go home. I'm always like, oh, good going home. Yes,
Speaker 1: we went to a place that we'd been before. And
Speaker 1: when we go there, they have, uh these masseuses that
Speaker 1: come by and you get you get a BackRub. Well,
Speaker 1: last year, it turns out one of Carly's family members,
Speaker 1: uh who who were not going to say who it was,
Speaker 1: but it was a it was a cousin. It was
Speaker 1: a male cousin, uh, and he got a you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, a little they finished him off.
Speaker 1: They didn't tell anybody about it either. And then it
Speaker 1: wasn't even at the end because at the beginning and
Speaker 1: then they were like and then the then the girl
Speaker 1: was like, well, do do you still want your massage?
Speaker 1: And he's like yeah, kind of He's liked just lay
Speaker 1: in his own filth and have a massage. I've never
Speaker 1: experienced this. I've never gone to places that allow you
Speaker 1: to do this. But I was blown away. And then
Speaker 1: and then after he was finished, he left. He didn't
Speaker 1: tell us. He didn't tell us this to like literally,
Speaker 1: we were going back to the same place. Hey, I
Speaker 1: remember last year when we did this. And then he
Speaker 1: told the story Amanda, his sister, I think we've all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you still we haven't said the name. I haven't said
Speaker 1: the name. Who it is? Sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: She was getting a massage right after him, so she
Speaker 1: had to go. She went, laid in her in her
Speaker 1: brothers seed. I still haven't said who it was, but
Speaker 1: you get the idea. It was crazy. Well, anyway, so
Speaker 1: we went back to this place and then we all
Speaker 1: wanted massages this year, because you know, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to miss on that opportunity. Anyway, I got a massage
Speaker 1: and nothing there was there was no there was no
Speaker 1: hint same messus. I don't know if it was the
Speaker 1: same messuits. He said that the messuse uh while doing
Speaker 1: said things. After it was finished, just leaned down right
Speaker 1: next to his ear and goes our secret.
Speaker 2: Now anymore?
Speaker 1: Well, no, it's not a secret now. But again I
Speaker 1: didn't say who it was, and it's that's not important.
Speaker 1: John's not gonna get mad if I tell the story. Fine,
Speaker 1: He's fine anyway. Listen, the foreigners love me when I
Speaker 1: when I visit these foreign countries, they're just so nice.
Speaker 1: I always try to blend in. Today's guest is also foreign, Okay,
Speaker 1: from Switzerland, which, as you know, is in my top
Speaker 1: ten favorite European countries. Enjoy Casha. My guest today is
Speaker 1: a European film director whose work you've most definitely seen.
Speaker 1: If you have an art house theater in your town
Speaker 1: or a VPN where you can access Canal Plus streaming
Speaker 1: Netflix France or Netflix Switzerland, please welcome Luke.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 1: By the way, how do you know John? First of all,
Speaker 1: how do I know you? John? Isabella? Isabella a story
Speaker 1: as old as time? Who's Isabella? Have you known John
Speaker 1: for a long time?
Speaker 2: Five years?
Speaker 1: When he first told me that he had he goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I have this foreign director that you should interview. And
Speaker 1: I was like, for the longest time, I thought I'm
Speaker 1: not making this. I thought he said porn director. He
Speaker 1: said foreign director. It sounded like porn director.
Speaker 2: You're not the only one.
Speaker 1: Well, guess what you know? My questions might be, all,
Speaker 1: have you ever directed porn?
Speaker 2: Not yet? Would you consider it not anymore? I was?
Speaker 1: But do they have an intimacy coordinator on a porn set?
Speaker 1: That's a question I'm curious about now. Has porn gotten
Speaker 1: to that level where they're like, listen, we gotta follow
Speaker 1: a few protocols. Do you believe in ghosts?
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely you do? Not do do have never seen them?
Speaker 2: But my mom told me so vivid story about ghosts
Speaker 2: that it's difficult not to believe in them.
Speaker 1: Your mom was a good storyteller.
Speaker 2: No, my mom sole ghosts.
Speaker 1: She saw a ghost. Yes, And you're like, okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, where are you from? Switzerland?
Speaker 1: Does Switzerland lean more French or German?
Speaker 2: German?
Speaker 1: I was born in Germany where beaupart on the Rhine River.
Speaker 2: You live there?
Speaker 1: To us?
Speaker 2: Two good memories?
Speaker 1: The best one I can still taste my mother's milk.
Speaker 1: Does everyone in Switzerland know how to ski and hide
Speaker 1: assets and offshore bank accounts?
Speaker 2: Ski? Definitely had assets. We're really training them very young
Speaker 2: to do that.
Speaker 1: Do you ski? Yep? Your whole life.
Speaker 2: Sins Am two?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so beautiful burn is that that's that's your childhood home? Yes, okay, yes.
Speaker 1: Is it just a wonderful place to live?
Speaker 2: So wonderful place to live.
Speaker 1: It's a bit boring, kind of looks like a cuckoo clock.
Speaker 2: Cuckoo clock. We have one of this giant cuckoo clock,
Speaker 2: the sit clock. It's like a tower with a cucka
Speaker 2: clock and it's massive. Does it go off every hour
Speaker 2: every hour?
Speaker 1: Yes, twenty four hours a day or no?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so well.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what it's like growing
Speaker 1: up there? Was it fun? Did you have Did you
Speaker 1: have like fond memories of your childhood?
Speaker 2: I grew up so right next to the countryside, so
Speaker 2: I spent my days playing outside and the door was
Speaker 2: always open, you know, we had a We never closed
Speaker 2: our main door, so as soon as I was home,
Speaker 2: I was out of the door, running in the woods,
Speaker 2: going to swim in the river. Did you have siblings.
Speaker 2: I had a bigger brother and a smaller sister, and
Speaker 2: then I have a half brother that is twelve years younger.
Speaker 2: And then I have three other brothers and sister that
Speaker 2: are like a patchwork family. So we're seven.
Speaker 1: Do you have a good relationship with all of them? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do they love what you do.
Speaker 2: They're not watching what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: You don't watch it. They don't watch you a project.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, sometimes like six months after I send them the link,
Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, we've watched it. My my brother in
Speaker 2: law just told me he slept in on my last project.
Speaker 2: He was like, sleeping.
Speaker 1: Do they give you notes ever?
Speaker 2: No at all.
Speaker 1: You're a filmmaker who grew up in a household without
Speaker 1: a television and never really went to movies as a kid. Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, So how did you get into this career.
Speaker 2: I love to write, I love to take pictures, and
Speaker 2: I love the theater and so so that the combination
Speaker 2: from those three mixed movie.
Speaker 1: Did you go to film school?
Speaker 2: Yes, I did in Paris. Paris when you're a student
Speaker 2: is marvelous.
Speaker 1: And you spoke, you spoke fluent French.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's my mother.
Speaker 1: Ton. Since you didn't watch movies a ton as a kid,
Speaker 1: did you like go back and watch everything when you
Speaker 1: started to get into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. When I was a student in Paris, I
Speaker 2: was going to two to three movie a day and
Speaker 2: in the cinema, and I love that. Nowadays I can't
Speaker 2: do it because I'm directing and I'm working on a
Speaker 2: many projects, but at the time I was going You know,
Speaker 2: how many.
Speaker 1: Shorts did you make while you were in Paris in school?
Speaker 2: I did? Probably, I don't know. I was on forty
Speaker 2: project when I was student, and then I got assistant
Speaker 2: to the school to supervise the production and in one
Speaker 2: year probably done sixty to eighty project as a production supervisor.
Speaker 1: And the partially because you spoke fluent French and a
Speaker 1: lot of people that went to school there didn't speak French. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was in an international section and nobody he was
Speaker 2: speaking French. And in Paris, if you don't speak French,
Speaker 2: you're doomed.
Speaker 1: Yes. My My favorite compliment to me whenever I'm in
Speaker 1: Paris is that people will speak French to me and
Speaker 1: English to my wife, and I'm like, mm hmmm, yes,
Speaker 1: yeah I can. I can fake it for a few
Speaker 1: seconds and and but then they just look at her
Speaker 1: and don't even give her a second thought, just speak
Speaker 1: English right to her face. She gets mad. How do
Speaker 1: you make your way from there all the way out
Speaker 1: to Hollywood?
Speaker 2: So I spend time in Paris, I spent time in
Speaker 2: Italy where I met.
Speaker 1: My wife, and you met her on set.
Speaker 2: I met her on a set a short film I
Speaker 2: was producing. She was a PA and.
Speaker 1: A power dynamic.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, but she had the power over me, so
Speaker 2: you know, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, I met my wife on set. Some people look
Speaker 1: down on it, but I always like, well, that's the
Speaker 1: only place I'm ever at, So how am I going
Speaker 1: to beat someone?
Speaker 2: Exactly? I have now in my contracts that I'm not
Speaker 2: allowed to be in any relation personal relationship on a set.
Speaker 1: That's in the contract.
Speaker 2: Now in the some of the contracts as.
Speaker 1: That in your contract, the producer, you say, I'm a
Speaker 1: faithfully married man.
Speaker 2: That's what I said. My manager laughed so hard.
Speaker 1: Oh, because that's not a thing that a lot are
Speaker 1: directors known to frat andize?
Speaker 2: You know, as director, you don't know other directors.
Speaker 1: You don't hang out with other directors. Yeah, is your
Speaker 1: wife still in the business.
Speaker 2: No, she's she's in the photography business. She's a photo
Speaker 2: editor for a Robb Report luxury magazine.
Speaker 1: I know the magazine. I love the Robb Report. I'm
Speaker 1: not into those things that are in there, the cars
Speaker 1: and stuff of man, is it fun to look at?
Speaker 1: How long did you guys date before you got married?
Speaker 2: Fifteen years?
Speaker 1: Did you really yes, you're a better man than I have. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't fifteen. It was thirteen. I think ten
Speaker 2: until I ask her, and then two years later it's
Speaker 2: really yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I did it for like five years and
Speaker 1: then asked, and then I got married a couple months later.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, well, I think once I asked,
Speaker 1: I was gonna do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We were in LA so it was more complicated
Speaker 2: to organize the marriage in Italy.
Speaker 1: I got married in Italy as well.
Speaker 2: Okay was it one door?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, a little more. Yeah, but your wife is not Italian.
Speaker 2: She doesn't have all the tricks.
Speaker 1: She is no zero tricks. My wife has zero tricks.
Speaker 1: Do you spell any movie magic? And talk to me
Speaker 1: about how impossible it is to get a movie made.
Speaker 2: It's like a puzzle, you know, it's moving pieces. You
Speaker 2: need to have the good script, the good actors, and
Speaker 2: people that wants to invest a couple of millions or more.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like playing at the casino. You never
Speaker 2: know how it's going to turn out.
Speaker 1: Are you a gambler?
Speaker 2: I just directed a movie about poker, so a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you play poker? I do do you like it.
Speaker 2: My big problem is that I like to play more
Speaker 2: than I like to win. That's a terrible, terrible thing
Speaker 2: to play poker.
Speaker 1: Could I agree with you? I don't want to grind
Speaker 1: out twelve hours? Yeah, I just want to play exactly.
Speaker 1: Let's you're losing all the time. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because after two three hours you're like, Okay, come on, guys,
Speaker 2: I've seen it.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't sit for five hours. I don't.
Speaker 1: I've got a life. Yeah. We got to spend some
Speaker 1: money right now. I'm what they call dead money. What
Speaker 1: movies are you most proud of?
Speaker 2: I directed a short film like ten years ago that
Speaker 2: went around town. Everybody, you know, the big studios, lots
Speaker 2: of production companies saw it, and it brought me a
Speaker 2: lot of offers.
Speaker 1: When you do a short film, is the goal only
Speaker 1: for it to give you more work? Yes, they're not profitable,
Speaker 1: are they?
Speaker 2: No, they're not right, they're not. It's really to show
Speaker 2: your craft and how you can direct. It's a calling card.
Speaker 1: Do people ever turn shorts into feature films?
Speaker 2: Yes, they do. They do often. Wiplash. You heard about Whiplash.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, Whiplash it was a short before it was
Speaker 1: a feature. Let me tell you some about Damien airstream.
Speaker 1: Guy that built my airstream built his airstream. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: weird connections around here. Do you prefer to write the
Speaker 1: films you direct?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's more rewarding because it's really your baby.
Speaker 1: Are you calm on set?
Speaker 2: Very calm?
Speaker 1: And do do you get worked up? Do you like
Speaker 1: to go to battle? Do you like to fight against
Speaker 1: people that are giving you notes? Yes?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, when they're giving me notes, I'm fighting when I
Speaker 2: don't believe in it. But you know on set it's
Speaker 2: the best way to direct is to stay calm because
Speaker 2: you're basically getting so much shits thrown at you all
Speaker 2: the time. If you're starting to panic or to scream,
Speaker 2: your your, your your, your team will not follow as
Speaker 2: if you stay calm, they say they see you calm
Speaker 2: and concentrate it, they're gonna come with you.
Speaker 1: You yell at them in different languages.
Speaker 2: Most of the time not yelling at them, And when
Speaker 2: I have to choose the language that hit them.
Speaker 1: Your relationship with an actor, when they're not doing what
Speaker 1: you need them to do or the way that you
Speaker 1: envision it, how do you tell them what to do?
Speaker 1: Because see I've never learned. I worked on a small
Speaker 1: budget TV show that went for years and years, and
Speaker 1: I never had the patience. So I would just always
Speaker 1: be no, no, I need you to do that like this,
Speaker 1: and I know you're not supposed to do that, but
Speaker 1: I that wasn't what my show was about, so it
Speaker 1: didn't matter. That works well, But you can't. You're not
Speaker 1: allowed to tell actors.
Speaker 2: Yes you are, well the secrets. The secret is, you know,
Speaker 2: do whatever you need to do to make it work.
Speaker 2: Learn the language of an actor, and as you said, nuts,
Speaker 2: tell them exactly what they should do, but tell them
Speaker 2: what you want them to do in a way that
Speaker 2: they understand that they can do whatever they want, but
Speaker 2: exactly what you told them.
Speaker 1: To do, and that works.
Speaker 2: That works.
Speaker 1: Do you prefer to make movies in English or once
Speaker 1: people in America have to read?
Speaker 2: I like it in English because I think it's a
Speaker 2: language that really suits good dialogue. So that's that's really
Speaker 2: the fun. To do it in English. I think French is,
Speaker 2: you know, so elaborated language that the dialogue, the quick
Speaker 2: and snap, snappy dialogues are not as funny as in English.
Speaker 2: My goal was once now let it behind to do
Speaker 2: a language in every movie, in every language.
Speaker 1: You're talking about just the major languages, not not some
Speaker 1: of these small tribe languages.
Speaker 2: I mean, why not? Why not dialect? You know, Swiss dialect, Switz.
Speaker 1: That would be wonderful. I, as a gotten older, just
Speaker 1: love for movies for subtimes, because I can't hear to
Speaker 1: begin with. So well, when I read a movie, at
Speaker 1: least I get to hear every little thing, although sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a bit distracting because sometimes you're not supposed to
Speaker 1: hear everything. Do you care a ton about audio in
Speaker 1: your movies?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I tell Dylan this all the day. He is he
Speaker 1: the way he treats this podcast. It's like they may
Speaker 1: hear you, they may not. Yeah, I think I'll do.
Speaker 1: It's fifty one percent of a movie. What about music score?
Speaker 1: You pay a fortune for that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't pay.
Speaker 3: I get paid, but if we, if we could, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm always trying to get the producer to really get
Speaker 3: the best music.
Speaker 2: But when you want a specific song, then you have
Speaker 2: to pay a lot.
Speaker 1: Is the money in Hollywood? Is it? Is it going
Speaker 1: to dry up? No?
Speaker 2: They invest tons of money in a Yeah, are.
Speaker 1: You worried about Ai? Are you like constantly learning about
Speaker 1: AI or no.
Speaker 2: I'm not worry about it. I mean, yes, I'm worried
Speaker 2: about AI in a more general scope of our life,
Speaker 2: but not for movie making. I think it's gonna replace
Speaker 2: a lot of our jobs. But that's with all the
Speaker 2: new technology. And I think it's a technology that is here.
Speaker 2: It's not that we can stop the trend. So it's here,
Speaker 2: so you better learn how to use it. And my
Speaker 2: big fear is about the ethical side of how to useing.
Speaker 1: It's I don't worry now. I feel like now I
Speaker 1: can just deny anything that somebody says I've done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't do that. I took a photo at a
Speaker 1: party with a friend of mine recently and I had
Speaker 1: a sour face, just like just suck. And he just
Speaker 1: sent this to me because I didn't post this anywhere,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to show you. He took this
Speaker 1: photo of me and aied me like jumping up from
Speaker 1: the photo a two dimensions to now I'm dancing and
Speaker 1: I'm just like and I'm like, are you out of
Speaker 1: your none of this happened. I'm like, oh, well, I
Speaker 1: can't wait for the judge to be like critics, do
Speaker 1: you what's your relationship?
Speaker 2: I love them, especially when they're trashing my.
Speaker 1: Art. Do they matter anymore at all? Yes? A little bit, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 2: I think people read still read about before watching a movie.
Speaker 2: There is so many movies to see that they want
Speaker 2: to know a little bit what the people think. And
Speaker 2: the first thing that comes if you google it's some critics.
Speaker 1: Do you think films now are way better than they
Speaker 1: were in early Hollywood?
Speaker 2: Not at all, I sink.
Speaker 1: I sink people don't think they're better.
Speaker 2: No, I think they're different. You know, it has to
Speaker 2: go away different with the time, and right now a
Speaker 2: lot of films really feed the platform, so you need entertainment, entertainment, entertainment,
Speaker 2: and I think there was a period where we had
Speaker 2: less films but more substance.
Speaker 1: I always think of a comedian friend of mine, Nick Schwartz,
Speaker 1: and who had a bit and he talks about people
Speaker 1: that complain about movies today, and he's like, if you
Speaker 1: were to take somebody from the fifties and let them
Speaker 1: watch one of the new big budget movies that comes
Speaker 1: out now, their head would explode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have a stroke.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, It's the nonsense that we can do now is
Speaker 1: just remarkable. Do you hate the big American popcorn movies?
Speaker 2: I love them?
Speaker 1: So you would like that call, like, hey, we want
Speaker 1: you to direct this next Marvel piece of shit?
Speaker 2: Marvel maybe not that's you know, but you can do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in your opinion, who's the greatest director of all time?
Speaker 2: Obrick? Yeah, yeah, you've seen some.
Speaker 1: I've sure all of them. I've seen all of them,
Speaker 1: haven't I I've seen everything. What's your favorite movie of
Speaker 1: all time? Though?
Speaker 2: Best movie of all time, not.
Speaker 1: The best movie of all time, just your favorite to watch?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Demoliti man.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is absolutely right that I could
Speaker 1: have never guessed. That was the poll I was gonna get.
Speaker 1: You said no to a Marvel movie, though? What big
Speaker 1: budget movies are you?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: You're okay with you? Like I get why that's that's made,
Speaker 1: and I find it entertaining or not even entertaining, but
Speaker 1: you're you're okay with it, June, that's the level. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: do you like all sci fi stuff? I love it.
Speaker 1: I can't wrap my head around most of it. I
Speaker 1: watch it, but I'm just asking questions the whole time. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: my wife is a nerd and she fills me in.
Speaker 1: Just it takes a team effort. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on the movie Interstellar?
Speaker 2: I would have to watch it three more times to
Speaker 2: tell you really what I think. But it's ask more
Speaker 2: questions than it gives answer.
Speaker 1: Of course it does. It's maddening at the end and
Speaker 1: bat shit nuts and made me angry for watching it.
Speaker 1: Do people love Interstellar? Yeah?
Speaker 2: They do, definitely.
Speaker 1: Oh god, damn it.
Speaker 2: Two thirds of perfect movie?
Speaker 1: What two thirds of it is a perfect movie?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Two thirds of it is a perfect movie. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that statement, as long as we're all agreeing that
Speaker 1: the final chapter is batshit bonkers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Okay, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 1: Did you see the winner of Best Picture this year?
Speaker 2: I know right? Yes? Did you see it? Yes, I've
Speaker 2: seen it.
Speaker 1: Did you love it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Did you think it was pornography?
Speaker 2: No? No, no.
Speaker 1: Oh that's because you're European and you're so open minded.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I was like laughing watching this. I'm like, this is amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean now I felt like I was being in
Speaker 1: a like a dirty strip club. I was like, this
Speaker 1: is crazy. I can't imagine watching that with my parents
Speaker 1: my in laws, sure, but not my parents.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 1: It's just real life. It was the best picture.
Speaker 2: No, I just agree that it's the best picture. But
Speaker 2: I think there is something very interesting in the movie
Speaker 2: about how he sees the young generation compared to an
Speaker 2: older generation and how their biometers of having fun making
Speaker 2: money is completely different than ours or an older generation.
Speaker 2: And I think for that it's very a very interesting movie.
Speaker 2: And then it's fun. Like you said, all right, it's
Speaker 2: super fun.
Speaker 1: It's fun. I said, porn, but yeah, that's fun. Were
Speaker 1: you as disappointed as I was by a Mawana? I?
Speaker 1: My son and I didn't like it.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Do you let your son watch movies?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, but slowly, you know, not too many any screens.
Speaker 2: Let's entertain him and let's educate him, because I think
Speaker 2: you know, a movie and screen is an education. You know,
Speaker 2: you need to know how to read images as much
Speaker 2: as you know and need to know how to read letters.
Speaker 1: Okay, but you're not going to be one of these
Speaker 1: parents that has a child and you don't let him
Speaker 1: watch TV at all.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Well, so many of these people in Hollywood. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: they make their living. And then I go, we don't
Speaker 1: even have a television for a child and like, what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, do you will you just leave your
Speaker 1: your son and wife for like infinite periods of time
Speaker 1: when you work or do you bring them with you?
Speaker 2: The last project I did in Europe, it was so
Speaker 2: short noticed that I had to go right away to
Speaker 2: correct a TV series and they stayed here. I would
Speaker 2: love to bring them with me most of the time.
Speaker 2: That life is different. So last project, it was five months,
Speaker 2: oh two and a half months.
Speaker 1: It's like military, Yeah it is. It is leading Sam.
Speaker 2: And it was a four years old kid. It's it's difficult.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you want to be a father? I am
Speaker 1: a father, I know. Did you want to be one? Yes?
Speaker 1: Were you scared of that?
Speaker 2: Not secured that some anticipation? You know, how is your
Speaker 2: life going to change? When you have a kid? You're
Speaker 2: thinking a lot about it when it's happening, and then
Speaker 2: suddenly it's here and you're like, okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1: Now now I'm responsible for this person. Yeah, does he
Speaker 1: look like you?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not?
Speaker 1: Are you sure it's yours?
Speaker 2: Not? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: That's how I am. I'm like ninety percent positive of
Speaker 1: my daughter, but I'll never really be that ten percent
Speaker 1: unless I test. Yeah, but I don't think are you
Speaker 1: Are you done? Are you gonna? You might go again?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We have one. We're happy with one.
Speaker 1: I wanted one, but and we didn't get what she wanted,
Speaker 1: so we had to go again.
Speaker 2: See that's that's how it goes.
Speaker 1: Your wife is Italian?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Does she think Italy is the greatest country in the world?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: How many languages can you speak? Four?
Speaker 2: Five?
Speaker 1: Something like that? That's impressed? Okay, how come the number
Speaker 1: keeps going up?
Speaker 2: Define? What's speaking?
Speaker 1: Can you get to a restroom? Can you order in
Speaker 1: a restaurant? Those are all the things I care about?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Can it be nice to locals?
Speaker 2: So Spanish counts?
Speaker 1: F Mary Kill? Do you know this game? You have
Speaker 1: to marry one, kill one and the last one f
Speaker 1: someone Copla Kubrick Spielberg.
Speaker 2: I should marry Kubrick? Do I continue?
Speaker 1: You have to? Who are you gonna kill? I just know?
Speaker 2: Okay, I just got the game kill? Tell me the
Speaker 2: name is again Spielberg. Yeah, yeah, kill Spielberg. Okay, horrible.
Speaker 1: It's a horror game. Everybody's on the show gets a gift,
Speaker 1: but it's just stuff I find around my house. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then I just give it to them and they
Speaker 1: have to take it. It's the rule.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now the first thing, by the way, I don't even
Speaker 1: know if I get to watch watch, but I do
Speaker 1: have some bourbon whiskey for you. Yeah, okay. Now, this,
Speaker 1: by the way, is from my friend Jim gaff Again.
Speaker 1: He's a comedian. Yeah, and he and he he's an actor.
Speaker 1: Here's a lot of stuff, but he keeps sending me
Speaker 1: Birdman and I'm like, I don't even he knows I
Speaker 1: don't drink, but he knows I'll plug it. So now
Speaker 1: I'm giving it away father time. There you go. You
Speaker 1: get some and that's a special reserve or something. Now
Speaker 1: this gift that I'm going to give you, thank you.
Speaker 1: You're welcome this gift that I'm gonna give you. I
Speaker 1: just had a birthday. Happy birthday, thank you. That's all
Speaker 1: I want. You're a grown man. You just say happy
Speaker 1: birthday and you're done with it. Okay. My manager, uh, Christy,
Speaker 1: she got me something that was ridiculous. My agent. I
Speaker 1: put her on the spoty, so are you? She didn't
Speaker 1: give me anything? Then she sent me this do you fish?
Speaker 2: Not yet?
Speaker 1: Okay? I don't even know if I don't even know
Speaker 1: if it's for fishing. She sent me this life jacket.
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do with this thing? It's like
Speaker 1: it looks like it's for fishing. But I'm like, I go,
Speaker 1: I I don't want this.
Speaker 2: Are you offering it to me? No?
Speaker 1: No, this is your gift. Yeah, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 1: It's got pockets. That's beautiful and all right. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. I'm sure it's nice.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wear it on sets.
Speaker 1: I figured you're directing something like you bring your own one.
Speaker 1: It's got pockets. You put all your things in there.
Speaker 2: I'm going to direct to filming the mountains and it's
Speaker 2: gonna be so useful.
Speaker 1: I got this for your son. Oh this is no.
Speaker 1: This is a metal detector. Let me to make sure
Speaker 1: sure it works. I don't want to give you. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: my wife that works. Look the reason I don't want
Speaker 1: this for my son, he used like, was I'm like,
Speaker 1: now he's bringing we go to the beach. Now he's
Speaker 1: bringing more junk home. I don't want junk. So instead
Speaker 1: I swapped him with a long grabber. We pick up trash,
Speaker 1: throw it away. Get rid of get rid of the
Speaker 1: metal detector so that you and your son can bring home.
Speaker 1: The size will adjust.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring it on set.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's your son's that's your sons.
Speaker 2: It's a good for me.
Speaker 1: Come on, I got more for your sons. Despite the
Speaker 1: fact that this looks like it's been used, it has
Speaker 1: not been used. My son just rips it. It's it's
Speaker 1: a track you put it. The reason I don't like it?
Speaker 2: Why are you offering the this is?
Speaker 1: This is the show off? The show is I get
Speaker 1: rid of stuff? The reason I like this? Since when
Speaker 1: did cars that need batteries? Do I have to get
Speaker 1: a tiny screwdriver to take the the thing off? If
Speaker 1: it has the tiny screw I'm not doing it. So
Speaker 1: as soon as I saw that, I go, son, you're
Speaker 1: not getting this toy. I'm not opening up something to
Speaker 1: put a battery with the bridge For two seconds, No,
Speaker 1: I couldn't get it back. I couldn't get the bridge
Speaker 1: back in the box.
Speaker 2: Did you ask your son?
Speaker 1: No, he's not, he's not. He doesn't have a choice. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 1: he's got a great life. He doesn't need that. Your
Speaker 1: son's gonna love that toy. Love it here?
Speaker 2: Get that?
Speaker 1: Get on? Then I got you this. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I thought you'd like this. This has never been used.
Speaker 1: You need a step ladder now this step butter?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, I need that.
Speaker 1: This step letter is great.
Speaker 2: I'm bringing it to on sets.
Speaker 1: No, no, you're not gonna bring this one. But this one
Speaker 1: brand new, never been used. I have the exact same one.
Speaker 1: I said, why do we have two of these? My
Speaker 1: wife didn't know why we needed to, so I said, okay,
Speaker 1: one of them is gone. I'm getting ridy, and you're
Speaker 1: a director, so you Yeah. This ladder. It's good. It's
Speaker 1: a nice ladder. It looks sleek, it's good for the house.
Speaker 2: Uh, love it is? Your wife tall love it? She's okay,
Speaker 2: she's well.
Speaker 1: She might appreciate a few steps. That's there's no way
Speaker 1: we can keep that in front of the camera. Hold on, guys,
Speaker 1: come over here. She's gonna scratch the walls up. Luke's
Speaker 1: gonna scratch the walls up. When do you When do
Speaker 1: you leave for your next project? July Force on our
Speaker 1: Nation's holiday, Our Nations Independent? Do you love it? Fourth
Speaker 1: of July? Is that one of your favorite American holidays.
Speaker 2: Uh is it the holidays? I'm working all the time.
Speaker 1: How did you? Yes, it's a holiday. We have hot dogs,
Speaker 1: You eat a bunch of hot dogs. You have fireworks.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the fireworks.
Speaker 1: What's the most confusing American tradition that you've experienced?
Speaker 2: Columbus Day?
Speaker 1: Do we still call it Columbus Day? Or do we
Speaker 1: lump it into something else? It's now it's indigenous people.
Speaker 1: I think I think you get where we went. We
Speaker 1: made a mistake. We were celebrating the wrong side for
Speaker 1: a while, and then we're like, hey, let's change it.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite holiday?
Speaker 2: M my birthday?
Speaker 1: That is not a holiday unless it fall by holiday
Speaker 1: it should. When's your birthday?
Speaker 2: December nineteen?
Speaker 1: Oh, what a horrible birthday? December nineteenth, right up against
Speaker 1: the big one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just take a break from the fifteen to
Speaker 2: the thirty first, and that's a holiday, that's all.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of party and it's a lot of
Speaker 1: separate gifts to buy you. I'll get you something nice.
Speaker 1: I'll get you a matching ladder, something step stool. Are
Speaker 1: you easy to shop for?
Speaker 2: No? No, I like I like to keep them to
Speaker 2: have the bare minimum. M hm. So like keeping the
Speaker 2: bare minimum. So now that I have a ladder, it's
Speaker 2: like you.
Speaker 1: Got a ladder and a metal detector. That's it, that's
Speaker 1: all you need.
Speaker 2: And a saving jackets. You know, it's like what give.
Speaker 1: For three years? Now you call it a saving jacket?
Speaker 2: How do you call it?
Speaker 1: Like we called a life jacket? But I like saving
Speaker 1: jacket better.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you like to be on the water at all?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I love it. I grew up sailing.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the best life jacket. I couldn't have
Speaker 1: picked a better gift for you, exactly. He loves sailing.
Speaker 1: By the way, do you know how to do a
Speaker 1: lot of not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm learning again to do notes. But I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm like dyslexic. So it's always not.
Speaker 1: Are you really dyslexic? Or do you say you're dyslexic? Y?
Speaker 1: How does that affect you on set?
Speaker 2: On set? Not that much? But for example, the reading,
Speaker 2: you know, reading the scripts when we're at the table reading,
Speaker 2: I can't do that because I can't focus on reading
Speaker 2: and listening to the same time.
Speaker 1: Do you work with the same team of people that
Speaker 1: are like aware, Like, okay, he's a yslexic, dyslexic, so
Speaker 1: we have to you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the team is even worse. Oh, you know,
Speaker 2: they're all dyslexic, and this goutter conditions are you getting?
Speaker 2: But you're getting rewrites and pages thrown at you constantly. Yes,
Speaker 2: reading is not the problem.
Speaker 1: The thing is reading and concentrating on how people are doing. Yes,
Speaker 1: table reads. Are actors supposed to be giving it one
Speaker 1: hundred percent?
Speaker 2: No, not at all, Okay, not at all. It's just
Speaker 2: to feel the vibes. And because they're actors, they're getting
Speaker 2: into it very quickly, you know, they enjoying at the beginning,
Speaker 2: they're just reading like that and that slowly they're getting
Speaker 2: into the character. And so most of the time it works,
Speaker 2: they're getting there.
Speaker 1: I'm an awful actor, and anytime I've been given an
Speaker 1: opportunity when I do the table reads, and when I
Speaker 1: when you show up to the table read where you're
Speaker 1: practicing the script for people, I would just I would
Speaker 1: put no effort into because I was so embarrassed in
Speaker 1: front of other people to be like reading the script.
Speaker 1: I just I couldn't. I couldn't turn on the the
Speaker 1: charisma at all. They probably they probably furious, but then
Speaker 1: once we get to the set, that's when I really
Speaker 1: lay an egg. That's not good either. Explains my career
Speaker 1: in film started and ended with the Love Guru. But
Speaker 1: your father is a hard doctor holds the record for
Speaker 1: bringing a frozen person back to life? Now, is that
Speaker 1: the record the most frozen people? So basically your father
Speaker 1: Jesus No, okay.
Speaker 2: No, no, he just invented a system to rewarm people
Speaker 2: that work super well. Okay, and that's what she's doing
Speaker 2: for years now, and he's bringing people back from dead.
Speaker 1: What was the one? What was the record holder?
Speaker 2: Yeah? She was she was trapped into a ice cold
Speaker 2: river between ice and her body was in the water
Speaker 2: and they brought her back to the hospital and I
Speaker 2: don't know the numbers, but she was really really cold.
Speaker 2: Her body was her bloody temperature. I think thirteen degree
Speaker 2: cells us is considered that.
Speaker 1: You're like, it's a lost cause.
Speaker 2: Yes, and with his technique they brought her back to life.
Speaker 1: That's kind of that's a good day's work.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You gotta feel it, right, Like when that's what you
Speaker 1: do for a living, You're I go, well, I save
Speaker 1: that person's Like did you ever see the movie in
Speaker 1: Sino Man. No, I have a oh man, that's the
Speaker 1: same premise they've found a frozen cave man. Brendan Frasier.
Speaker 1: I believe, uh huh, I can't believe they were running
Speaker 1: the watch mccolton reverse that day. Nobody Paul short reference.
Speaker 1: It's been too long. It's been No. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: in Sino Man in twenty years. Where's the goal? Where
Speaker 1: would you like to if you could live anywhere full time,
Speaker 1: where would it be?
Speaker 2: I would spend my life between Los Angeles and Italy probably,
Speaker 2: you know, six months in Italy like drinking wine, eating
Speaker 2: good food, and six months in LA working on developing
Speaker 2: my projects.
Speaker 1: I like that. I don't know if I would do
Speaker 1: the same ratio, but man, the food, the food in
Speaker 1: Italy is just worth it. Have you have your son
Speaker 1: been to Italy yet?
Speaker 2: Yes? We're going twice a year.
Speaker 1: You go twice a year every year? Yes, right, you're
Speaker 1: almost living your life.
Speaker 2: Almost, you know. Now, it's just having a stated career
Speaker 2: here and there, and then I can do six months,
Speaker 2: six months, six months.
Speaker 1: Everybody that loves Los Angeles, we just want to be
Speaker 1: able to leave it for half the year. That's everyone's goal.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, we love it here, but we don't
Speaker 1: want to be here the whole time. That's ridiculous. All right,
Speaker 1: well listen, Luke, I appreciate you coming by and all
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Pasha, Thanks Luke. What a nice guy. I'm
Speaker 1: going to go home in all of his shorts. That
Speaker 1: doesn't sound right? Yeah, well you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually I am looking forward to his poker movie.
Speaker 1: What's the name of the poker movie?
Speaker 2: Dead Money?
Speaker 1: Dead Money? What's that come out? It's out? That's out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll watch Dead Money. How long is it?
Speaker 2: An hour and a half?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll watch it. Gambling movies, if done right, give
Speaker 1: me the same anxiety of actually gambling, like I can
Speaker 1: get I can it scratches the itch or makes me
Speaker 1: want to sneak out of my house at night and
Speaker 1: head over to commerce toash show store dot com. Get
Speaker 1: some sweet merch. Come see Eddie and I do stand
Speaker 1: up comedy. Please come to my show. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do a free plug. Go ahead and hit the
Speaker 1: free plug music. We're done doing free Plugs's do one more.
Speaker 1: This week's free plug is for trucky Thursdays. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: a historic downtown trucky, California. I do that twice a
Speaker 1: year usually, is all you can talk me into doing it.
Speaker 1: You know, they shut down the main street downtown truckye
Speaker 1: and all the businesses, uh you know have some some crafts,
Speaker 1: some fair going on in the street, and they got
Speaker 1: food trucks sitting in a parking lot melting. It's way
Speaker 1: too hot. Eddie, you always come, you join me. You
Speaker 1: can find me there usually early getting some nachos with
Speaker 1: my kids. We're we all just find one table and
Speaker 1: and we don't let anyone come to it. Tables are
Speaker 1: are They're in high demand. You got to get there
Speaker 1: early to get a table. But I don't let anyone
Speaker 1: else sit at our table, just my family and Eddie's family.
Speaker 1: What do you usually eat there? Do you know what's
Speaker 1: your favorite future? One time I got like a little
Speaker 1: a little hand roll from that sushi joint. That was
Speaker 1: pretty good. It's good. Should I read this? Oh there's
Speaker 1: live music, yeah, licensed alcohol area. I don't even go
Speaker 1: to the alcohol area. I do. Where's that? It's just
Speaker 1: on the other side. Now I gonna go to the
Speaker 1: other side. It's a weekly event. It's every Thursday. It
Speaker 1: starts at something like five o'clock until eight thirty. Usually
Speaker 1: I can make it to five thirty max. Ough Now,
Speaker 1: just thinking about it, maybe I don't want to go.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go. I know I will go. I'll go
Speaker 1: once or twice. Hopefully it's not too hot.
Speaker 2: It gonna be hot.
Speaker 1: It's a must do if you're up in Tahoe area
Speaker 1: this summer. Come on over to Trucky Thursdays. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I'm looking forward to. This cinnamon roll the
Speaker 1: Damn Cafe. That's the best cinnamon roll in the lake. Now.
Speaker 1: I love Tahoe House Bakery and I love I've already
Speaker 1: talked about my favorite kkery. But for a straight up
Speaker 1: cinnamon roll, the Damn Cafes cinnamon rolls pretty great. Also,
Speaker 1: like the little coffee shop behind downtown Trucky. They got
Speaker 1: a pretty good cinnamon roll they're frosting on. It's a
Speaker 1: little different, though, you gotta be in the mood for that.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. Yeah, I'm gonna get fat as fucked
Speaker 1: this summer. H What are we talking about? Okay, Trucky Thursday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, buys, buy some buy some something from their
Speaker 1: artists and vendors, a wide variety. There, you have a
Speaker 1: good time, summertime energy. See you next week.