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Speaker 1: Variety Awards editor Chris Tappily. Hey, how you doing? Grab photo?
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Speaker 1: got you on a tour of PMC today, like a
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Speaker 1: Actually okay, they're just like you more than another shorter
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Speaker 1: a couple of quick candidates so we can chat about
Speaker 1: what you have for breakfast? Oh yeah, or something. I
Speaker 1: was in the hotel room and I ordered the locks
Speaker 1: in bagel. Wasn't tasty? Yes, I I get that. Where
Speaker 1: am I at the Beverly Hilton, which is where the
Speaker 1: luncheon is? So oh yeah, you're going right there at
Speaker 1: right after this? Me too, so I'll see you there.
Speaker 1: But um, usually ordering that is just an excuse for
Speaker 1: me to eat a bunch of capers. That's what I
Speaker 1: really got it. I had a shake. You had a
Speaker 1: shake for trying to be good. So there is a
Speaker 1: real luncheon right there. This food, real food, obviously good.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Priscilla. All right, grab my questions here.
Speaker 1: I love this. Yeah, it's it's gonna feel like it's
Speaker 1: gonna fall on you, but I swear it's not. It's
Speaker 1: just a drafting table we're using. We're like in the
Speaker 1: middle of red building a podcast studio here, but we
Speaker 1: are recording and we'll dive right in. All right. We've
Speaker 1: got Laurie Metcalfe here, the Oscar nominated actress, and Ladybird,
Speaker 1: which were just discussing, which is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: movies of the year, one of everyone's favorite movies seems
Speaker 1: to be. It's doing for you. All right, we're talking
Speaker 1: this morning, just before the nominees luncheon, which you know,
Speaker 1: I assume you're really looking forward to that. I have
Speaker 1: no idea what to expect. I know that there's that
Speaker 1: that iconic photo taken which I've looked at over the
Speaker 1: years and never thought i'd actually participate in. Now you'll
Speaker 1: get to kind of play the wears Waldo. Yes, I will,
Speaker 1: I will. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody in that room.
Speaker 1: My god, and uh, the quality of all the movies
Speaker 1: this year, it's a great year and so diverse. You
Speaker 1: know you're looking forward to meeting anybody in particular you
Speaker 1: haven't bumped into on the circuit. Well, I it's funny
Speaker 1: I have started to see on the Did you call
Speaker 1: it a circuit or a circus, because it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of both. I've I've I've come to find out
Speaker 1: again I had no idea, no clue that that this
Speaker 1: is what happens when you're in such a such a explosive,
Speaker 1: you know, hit movie. But um, yeah, I've started to
Speaker 1: run into people that I never would have been able
Speaker 1: to meet anywhere else. You know, Willem Dafoe I can
Speaker 1: say hi to now, you know, Martin McDonough, Sam Rockwell,
Speaker 1: Octavia Spencer, Francis McDorman. You know, my god, it's a
Speaker 1: great bunch, it is. It really is. Well, as I said,
Speaker 1: you know, finally an Oscar nominee. But yeah, in some ways.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got three Emmy's you've nominated throughout the
Speaker 1: wazoo for for your various appearances on TV. What has
Speaker 1: been the most surprising thing, I guess or unexpected thing
Speaker 1: about being a part of this whole Oscar whirlwind? What's
Speaker 1: interesting about it? What's so different about it now I've
Speaker 1: never experienced it before. Is usually if I wrap something
Speaker 1: that's on TV or stage, there's a quick toast afterwards,
Speaker 1: and you either you know, pack your suitcase and fly
Speaker 1: home the next day and never revisit it again. But
Speaker 1: but with a movie, Um, I mean everybody else in
Speaker 1: the world knows this. I just didn't ever put two
Speaker 1: and two together. But like eighteen months later, you know,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the movie and about what that experience was,
Speaker 1: and it's just, um, a new phenomenon for for me
Speaker 1: to revisit something that you've done in the past and
Speaker 1: and you know, like be present with it again. So
Speaker 1: other projects I've just basically walked away from and that
Speaker 1: and that was that. I guess that deepens the whole
Speaker 1: experience a little bit, right, It gives you a whole
Speaker 1: different Yeah, it really does. And and where else do
Speaker 1: you go you know that something that you did, what say,
Speaker 1: a year ago, is then released and you see the
Speaker 1: response to it. Um, because like I do a lot
Speaker 1: of theater, and the response is only uh in the
Speaker 1: in the moment. You know, if you've got the immediate
Speaker 1: feedback from the audience every night or eight times a week,
Speaker 1: and so you know how it's being received. In this instance,
Speaker 1: I had no idea at all, um, how how it
Speaker 1: would be received. Literally, Yeah, theater's interesting. An actor once
Speaker 1: put it to me. It's like drawing in the sand.
Speaker 1: Next day you do it all over again. It's a
Speaker 1: different uh, you know, circumstance in this Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: theater has been a huge part of your life, obviously
Speaker 1: Stepping Wolf and everything. And one thing I want to
Speaker 1: jump ahead to here is in this movie, you got
Speaker 1: a chance to work with Tracy Lets the first time ever.
Speaker 1: We've known each other for a hundred years and we've
Speaker 1: always wanted to work together on stage and never have
Speaker 1: been able to have a project to do together. And
Speaker 1: so it took Greta Gerwig bringing us together into a
Speaker 1: movie where you know, we could. I knew immediately that
Speaker 1: um working with Tracy was going to be but well,
Speaker 1: I was going to say a breeze and it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a breeze. Because we have a history, we
Speaker 1: should have a similar sense of humor, and so we
Speaker 1: have an ease with each other. And I was just
Speaker 1: hoping that that would come across in the parents relationship
Speaker 1: and uh, but everything else. You know, all we did
Speaker 1: was take our cues and clues from Greta's script. It
Speaker 1: was all on the page for us. Well, uh, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Greta actually, I'll go into that. You know,
Speaker 1: what kind of director is she on the set? What
Speaker 1: kind of energy does she establish that's you know, unique
Speaker 1: compared to other filmmakers that you've worked with. It's all
Speaker 1: about her energy, I think. And the energy on the
Speaker 1: set was a one of collaboration, of support and feeling
Speaker 1: protected of watching her watch the monitor with this big
Speaker 1: grin on her face and knowing that she was in
Speaker 1: her element, she wouldn't want to be anywhere else and
Speaker 1: that she had our back, and that made everybody in
Speaker 1: the cast and crew feel very protected. Um. And uh,
Speaker 1: there was a lightness about the set and maybe even
Speaker 1: a maternal quality because um, you felt that she was
Speaker 1: watching out for everybody. Now, she had to have been
Speaker 1: going through stressful days, because I think that's inevitable as
Speaker 1: a director. Um maybe and also a first solo director. Um,
Speaker 1: nobody knew if that was the case. Um, she just
Speaker 1: has an ease. She's just a natural at it. You'd
Speaker 1: never know it was her first time. Yeah. Well, as
Speaker 1: I said just before the show. I first saw this
Speaker 1: movie at Tell You Ride where it premiered. UM, and
Speaker 1: I walked out and I tweeted something like I love
Speaker 1: Ladybirds so much I can't stand it. And H four
Speaker 1: is used it in their advertising, which, yeah, that's the truth,
Speaker 1: I mean. And what's interesting to me is that it's
Speaker 1: been such a universally a loved movie this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: all the talk of the critically acclaimed, the rotten Tomato score,
Speaker 1: all of that. Why do you think that it struck
Speaker 1: such a universal core? You know, I saw it for
Speaker 1: the first time, I tell you right. Also, um And
Speaker 1: I was so, I was right in the middle of
Speaker 1: a group of with you seeing it for the first time.
Speaker 1: And I was literally seeing most of the movie for
Speaker 1: the first time myself because all my scenes were with
Speaker 1: and no, no, I'm in like I don't know it.
Speaker 1: And so I was having a blast seeing what all
Speaker 1: the high school scenes were about. UM And and when
Speaker 1: I walked out and where, and I was hearing people
Speaker 1: saying I've got to call my mother, I want to
Speaker 1: see this with my daughter. Um father's or men saying
Speaker 1: I have witnessed that mother daughter relationship and have also
Speaker 1: felt like I was the outsider, like Tracy's character is
Speaker 1: like just just just wanting to be um, non confrontational
Speaker 1: about it and not really understanding it, not understanding how
Speaker 1: they can flip on a dime, like in the thrift
Speaker 1: store scene where they're looking for a dress together and
Speaker 1: arguing that the classic passive aggressive banter going back and forth,
Speaker 1: and then they find the perfect dress. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a complex relationship as far as the mother daughter
Speaker 1: scenes go. That Greta was able to walk such a
Speaker 1: fine line and find the balance so that one is
Speaker 1: just not an ogre, you know, one is not doing
Speaker 1: all the button pushing. The mother doesn't exist, just to
Speaker 1: show what the daughters homelike as home life is like,
Speaker 1: and what she has to put up with with parents
Speaker 1: who don't understand her. You know, she really I guess
Speaker 1: that's what people are responding to that it's it seems
Speaker 1: very it's very detailed. Um, it's not our own individual
Speaker 1: details that are up there on the screen, but it's
Speaker 1: so close. Yes, I mean for me, and and in fact,
Speaker 1: some of the specifics do ring true because you know,
Speaker 1: I graduated high school in ninety nine, so the period
Speaker 1: of the movie, I knew the guy who smoked clothes
Speaker 1: and was trying to be cool and the shallow may
Speaker 1: of it all and just all of these different moments
Speaker 1: really just you know, I recognized them. Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: always um, the struggle to fit in, whether it's with
Speaker 1: your best friend or you're the popular friend who you
Speaker 1: you know, there's all it's just finding yourself what makes
Speaker 1: me different? You know? And God, I just can't wait
Speaker 1: to get out of here and start over and reinvent myself.
Speaker 1: But and it's only in hindsight that you see that
Speaker 1: all these influences, the people who raised you and the
Speaker 1: people that you grew up with and the town that
Speaker 1: meant so much UM are a part of you that
Speaker 1: that has provided that shape. Yeah, absolutely, and I love that,
Speaker 1: you know, Ladybird can can embrace that at the end
Speaker 1: in hindsight, it's just so but it But like Gretta's
Speaker 1: writing is so delicate. Nothing, none of this is hit
Speaker 1: over the head. You know. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: little bitty lines that go by that have such weight
Speaker 1: to them, but they're just done with ease and delicacy.
Speaker 1: You know that people have been quoting like, you know,
Speaker 1: I just want you to be the best version of
Speaker 1: yourself that you can be. What if this is the
Speaker 1: best version you know that, just say so much and resonate, Um,
Speaker 1: but just go by, you know, in the blink of
Speaker 1: an eye. I think that it warrants uh, second viewing,
Speaker 1: second third viewing. This movie does because it's it's just
Speaker 1: in those tiny details. There's something to be said about
Speaker 1: finding the profound within the mundane exactly, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's that's a real trick. And she pulled it off.
Speaker 1: She did. Um. I had both Greta and Sarsha on
Speaker 1: the show earlier this year, and you know, part of
Speaker 1: this is obviously a dance with Sarsha on the screen.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about working with her. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: she's like the the the the best scene partner that
Speaker 1: any actor could hope to have. She's fully present, um
Speaker 1: in in every moment on camera. But what she does
Speaker 1: she's amazing because um, well, first of all, I looked
Speaker 1: to her for guidance because she has so much more
Speaker 1: film experience than I do. UM, but I know, I know,
Speaker 1: and talk about a natural you know, Um, she has
Speaker 1: a really great work ethic. You know, she is prepared,
Speaker 1: she's done her homework every day. She takes it seriously.
Speaker 1: She takes the job seriously. It's not a lark, you know.
Speaker 1: But yet at the same time, she can find the
Speaker 1: lightness during the day, you know. Um, and and she
Speaker 1: brings that lightness to the set, to to the hair
Speaker 1: and makeup trailer when she steps in and the because
Speaker 1: she she's there, She was there, you know, she's in
Speaker 1: every frame. Practically, she carries the movie with such ease
Speaker 1: and such grace that she really she and Gretted together
Speaker 1: set a tone that was just had a lightness about
Speaker 1: it and that everybody wanted to Everybody got very attached
Speaker 1: to the movie in a personal way and wanted it
Speaker 1: to be the best that it could be, to to
Speaker 1: support Greta and to support Serscha, who were both um,
Speaker 1: just setting this lovely tone about the day. And but
Speaker 1: it literally Sarsha walks into hair and makeup trailer with
Speaker 1: just a joyful attitude and it's in infectious that helps
Speaker 1: the shoot. I think I heard Greta say that it
Speaker 1: was thirty five days you were on four. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, probably, um, a couple of weeks, yeah, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks here and there, you know, sporadic. Well,
Speaker 1: I must say, I feel this is, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the most low key, brilliant performances of the year.
Speaker 1: And I say low key just because there's so much
Speaker 1: going on underneath the surface that could be played much
Speaker 1: bigger than you play it. And I just kind of
Speaker 1: am curious what you were drawing on personally. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have daughters, so I assume a lot of that,
Speaker 1: But just what what were you drawing on personally to
Speaker 1: kind of craft this incredibly complex mother without being big
Speaker 1: you know right right? I was, um relying on Greta.
Speaker 1: I knew that we talked early on about the fact
Speaker 1: that there are so many arguments between the mother and
Speaker 1: the daughter that we didn't want them all just to
Speaker 1: feel the same, repetitive after a while, because then you
Speaker 1: would just tune them out. So we wanted to even
Speaker 1: though even though she had crafted it, and so she
Speaker 1: knew where where the triggers were, she walked me through it. Um.
Speaker 1: We had a couple of rehearsals with with me, Sersha
Speaker 1: and Greta in the room to make sure that we
Speaker 1: were all on the same page. Um and uh. And
Speaker 1: then I think she just sort of trusted us with
Speaker 1: the material, which was also confidence building, you know, because
Speaker 1: you know, obviously she had spent years crafting this script
Speaker 1: and to turn it over to us was I felt
Speaker 1: the responsibility of that, you know. But if I ever
Speaker 1: had a question, I could go straight to the source
Speaker 1: because our director was the screenwriter, um, which was which
Speaker 1: was a comfort to have on the set. And Greta
Speaker 1: just has the ability to know how to talk to actors,
Speaker 1: not all just because she's an actor. That doesn't come
Speaker 1: with the with the job. Most actors don't know how
Speaker 1: to talk to other actors and make to me, make
Speaker 1: lousy directors um um, because we fall into the same
Speaker 1: trap that a lot of directors do, which is just
Speaker 1: blurting out what you want the result to be. Be funnier,
Speaker 1: be sadder, be you know, something like that, and it
Speaker 1: gets in the actor's head and becomes a barrier and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you've turned them self conscious and
Speaker 1: the day is screwed, you know. But so you can
Speaker 1: do a lot of damage. So it's the rare director
Speaker 1: who knows how to um toss out a couple of
Speaker 1: suggestions that spark an actor's imagination and that are doable. Um.
Speaker 1: But so yeah, I I, um hadn't done a film
Speaker 1: in a long time. So as far as the broadness
Speaker 1: of the character, you know, I I think that I
Speaker 1: was overly wary of being too big because I just
Speaker 1: stepped off thousands seat stage of yes, of playing to
Speaker 1: the back row. Yeah, And so UM I tried to be.
Speaker 1: I tried to follow the lead of everybody else in
Speaker 1: the room of how um minimal and nuanced the role
Speaker 1: could be. And one of my leads on that was
Speaker 1: Tracy because um, I've always admired his minimalist acting style,
Speaker 1: you know, very intelligent and and and so low key.
Speaker 1: And he's he was like the rock of all the scenes. Um,
Speaker 1: so I was I was trying to be. I was
Speaker 1: trying to look around and read the room. Well, how
Speaker 1: about specifically reading the room, the environments, the production design,
Speaker 1: the stuff like that living room. I mean it just
Speaker 1: you know, it feels so legit and textured. He always
Speaker 1: has to help your performance, it does. Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: no way that you could walk into Ladybird's bedroom and
Speaker 1: not feel that a seventeen year old had lived in
Speaker 1: there for fifteen years and decorated it exactly how she
Speaker 1: wanted it done. The details were extraordinary. Um. I went
Speaker 1: with um Greta early on because I think I was
Speaker 1: one of the only actors who were who were in town,
Speaker 1: because she wanted to do a lighting test in the
Speaker 1: house that she had chosen to shoot all the interiors
Speaker 1: and it was pretty bare. There was hardly any furniture
Speaker 1: in there. But just had me walk from room to
Speaker 1: room and see how the light played. UM and and
Speaker 1: and uh she thought. I think that it was really
Speaker 1: valuable because she I don't know it just it just
Speaker 1: lent a um a real realism to her that all,
Speaker 1: and to me to walking through before it was even
Speaker 1: deck set decorated, that oh, this is our house. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it now, I understand this family a little more.
Speaker 1: The flow stuff like that probably helps. Yeah, for sure. Well,
Speaker 1: you know you've you've received more critical awards than than
Speaker 1: any other actress in your category this year. I believe
Speaker 1: you're do one more. I hope you. I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: I hope you. Want to ask her a couple of
Speaker 1: random things here, I just want to branch out. You know,
Speaker 1: this isn't even really a question, it's uh, I guess
Speaker 1: it's a confession. I was a big fan of Scream
Speaker 1: and I put together a group of seventeen people in
Speaker 1: eleventh grade to go see Scream too. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: just want to throw that out. Did it not disappoint
Speaker 1: It was an interesting film. I think that the reveal
Speaker 1: was pretty clever. Yeah, mom, yeah, absolutely, yeah, exactly. You
Speaker 1: have to go off the hinge a little bit. I did.
Speaker 1: Was that fun? Yeah? Who was the director on that?
Speaker 1: Was okay? Yeah? What was he like to work with? Oh?
Speaker 1: He was fantastic, like like wicked sense of humor? Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then listeners realized by now, any time I ever
Speaker 1: have anyone on the show who was in JFK, I
Speaker 1: have to talk about working with that cast, working with
Speaker 1: Oliver Stone. Does anything kind of immediately come to mind
Speaker 1: about that production? Wow? You know what, I want to
Speaker 1: see it again because I saw it once when it
Speaker 1: first came out, and that's been way too long. Um.
Speaker 1: I was I didn't get to work with that many actors,
Speaker 1: you know, because it had such a deep bench of
Speaker 1: really great actors in all those roles. Um theater actors too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were there were. Um. I just remember, you know,
Speaker 1: being in New Orleans and like stepping out in the
Speaker 1: morning to go to work, to go to the set
Speaker 1: like at six am and being immediately drenched in sweat.
Speaker 1: You know, it was balmy. But yeah, and uh, and
Speaker 1: working with Kevin Costner was was great. Uh he said
Speaker 1: a great tone on that film also, as did Oliver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you like Oliver? I loved him, I wanted
Speaker 1: I was almost gonna work with him again. And I
Speaker 1: can't remember the project name, but it fell apart shoot.
Speaker 1: But anyway, um though he was he was fantastic. But
Speaker 1: you know, like I've I feel like I've only done
Speaker 1: a handful of movies and so my references are just
Speaker 1: so scattered. You know that I don't have my bearings
Speaker 1: within that world yet. Um so, and and it was
Speaker 1: so long ago, it was sort of dreamy. It seems
Speaker 1: sort of dreamy. Now, Yeah, you should watch it again.
Speaker 1: I need one of my favorite movies. I think it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I need to. I want to. I've actually I think
Speaker 1: within the last year, we've had Kevin on the show,
Speaker 1: we had Donald Southerland. Earlier this year, we had Gary
Speaker 1: Oldman on the show. We're doing good on JFK. Cast
Speaker 1: members here play back, And then I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Roseanne coming back. You know, it's interesting because this
Speaker 1: is one of an absolute slew lately of TV reboots,
Speaker 1: and this isn't really a reboot so much as we're
Speaker 1: getting the band back together and continuing the story. But
Speaker 1: we've got things like Magnum p I, Cagney and Lacey.
Speaker 1: I didn't think they would ever reboot Cagney and Lacey,
Speaker 1: but they're going to. They brought Will and Grace back,
Speaker 1: they brought brought Murphy Brown back. What do you think
Speaker 1: about all? I didn't even breaking news for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're bringing Murphy Brown back. Wow. I mean what, I
Speaker 1: guess it's good with the bad on stuff like that, right,
Speaker 1: I guess it's just you know, it's nostalgia. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess it's just like a craving fool or you know,
Speaker 1: take me back to you know, nineteen whatever. Um. But
Speaker 1: it's interesting. But I think that the Rosanne one is
Speaker 1: fascinating because you take the Connor family, who everybody knew,
Speaker 1: well a lot of people knew or even grew up with,
Speaker 1: and it was a unique family for in the day,
Speaker 1: blue collar and people who looked not like other people
Speaker 1: on camera on on TV shows and now and and
Speaker 1: so you're automatically curious about as what what what is
Speaker 1: those family members doing in the year two thousand and eighteen,
Speaker 1: So it has a legit curiosity factor to it, I think,
Speaker 1: And and we did nine of them, and I think
Speaker 1: that the writers wrote very true to the characters and
Speaker 1: the stories, and it has little arc, which is nice
Speaker 1: when you when you know you're just going to do
Speaker 1: the nine um it dress. It addresses uh, some issues,
Speaker 1: some you know, um, current events, Yeah, current current events,
Speaker 1: but also issues that haven't changed since the family was
Speaker 1: dealing with them, and then some new ones also. But
Speaker 1: the Roseanne Show because of the groundwork that Rosanne laid
Speaker 1: early on, I think about being willing to sacrifice laughs
Speaker 1: in a particular show to make it to make the
Speaker 1: episode about an issue. It was always a show that
Speaker 1: could handle some weight and could go to some dark places, um,
Speaker 1: whereas on other sitcoms that might have been too jarring. Um.
Speaker 1: And so these there are a handful of those moments
Speaker 1: again in these nine that come up and maybe a
Speaker 1: lot of it also has to do with the maturity
Speaker 1: of the characters. Is fascinating to watch the two daughters,
Speaker 1: who are in their forties now have an argument in
Speaker 1: the same kitchen and they really do literally have a
Speaker 1: thirty year history together because they grew up as sisters
Speaker 1: on the show, and so you can best actors, you know,
Speaker 1: to play a family and as as you have to.
Speaker 1: But it was just there's just that added layer in
Speaker 1: this go around. It was fun also to watch, like say,
Speaker 1: Darlene's character parent her daughter in the same kitchen that
Speaker 1: she grew up in with Roseanne, watching and watching all
Speaker 1: the mistakes that Darline is making and commenting on you.
Speaker 1: So you've done all your all of that we did
Speaker 1: n Yeah, was it did it feel like old times?
Speaker 1: Was easy to slide back into it? It was? It
Speaker 1: was strangely easy. Yeah, because just what they recreated the
Speaker 1: set to perfection, which brought back a lot of so
Speaker 1: many memories of the nine years and and uh it
Speaker 1: clicked right away around the table where we did the
Speaker 1: first read through, everybody was happy to be there and
Speaker 1: so it had a freshness to it, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think that if it is hopefully received well, that
Speaker 1: we'll do another batch. Cool. I look forward to that.
Speaker 1: When where did you shoot the new stuff on the
Speaker 1: same lot that it was the same? Okay? I was
Speaker 1: curious about that too. Well, was that the Golden Globes
Speaker 1: where John Goodman and Roseanne We're on? Yeah, they presented yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: correct up at her. I know she managed to wrangle
Speaker 1: a laugh, a huge laugh out of I think the
Speaker 1: word yes. Oh yeah. She's the only person I know
Speaker 1: who can do that. Well, we both got to get
Speaker 1: out of here. We've got a lunching to get to.
Speaker 1: You're the one being honored. I'll just be there hanging out.
Speaker 1: But again, movies called Lady Bird. If you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: you should absolutely see it. It's one of the best
Speaker 1: movies of the year. And I'll say once again, I
Speaker 1: hope that my guest today wins the Oscar because it's
Speaker 1: an amazing performance and you deserve it so much. Thank
Speaker 1: you for coming on the show. I hate California. I
Speaker 1: want to go to the East Coast. I want to
Speaker 1: go where culture and like the world that at least
Speaker 1: Connecticut or New Hampshire writers in the world of those schools. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Mom should just go to City college, you know, with
Speaker 1: your work ethic. Just go to City College and then
Speaker 1: to jail and then back to City college, and then
Speaker 1: maybe you'd learn to pull yourself off and not expect
Speaker 1: everybody to do everybody. Lady Bird, is that your given name? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why is it in quote? I gave it to myself.
Speaker 1: It's given to me by me. Ladybird always says that
Speaker 1: she lives on the wrong side of the tracks. But
Speaker 1: I always thought that was like a metaphor. But there
Speaker 1: are actual train tracks. What you do is very ball
Speaker 1: or very anarchist back. She has a big heart. Your
Speaker 1: mom she's warm, but she's also kind of scary. You
Speaker 1: can't be scary and warm. I think you can. Your
Speaker 1: mom is so You're not interested in any Catholic colleges,
Speaker 1: No way. I want schools like Yale, but not Yale
Speaker 1: because I probably couldn't get in. You definitely couldn't get in.
Speaker 1: Just mom hate me? Retired weeks to down. I'm not
Speaker 1: tying which reg in your feet. You are so infuriated
Speaker 1: off yelling. I'm not yelling. Oh it's her sect love it.
Speaker 1: You both have such strong personalities. When is a normal
Speaker 1: time to have sex. You're having sex ready. I just
Speaker 1: wanted us to be special. Why so much on special
Speaker 1: sex in your life? We're afraid that we will never
Speaker 1: escape our past. Whatever we give you, it's never enough.
Speaker 1: It's never enough is enough. We're afraid of what the
Speaker 1: future will bring. We're afraid we won't be loved. We
Speaker 1: can't do anything unless you're the center of a time.
Speaker 1: We won't be liked. Well, you know your mom's hips.
Speaker 1: They are totally fish. She made one bad decision in
Speaker 1: ninety to bad decision, and we won't succeed. I want
Speaker 1: you to be the very best version of yourself. This
Speaker 1: UE could be. What if this is the best version.
Speaker 1: What I'd really like is to be unmath oldimpiat But
Speaker 1: math isn't something you'd every strong in that we know
Speaker 1: of yet. M hm.