WEBVTT - Holiday in OTH with Austin Nichols 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.240 First of all, you don't know me. 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.840 All about that high school drama Girl Drama, Girl, all 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:06.400 about them. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.440 High school queens. We'll take you for a ride. And 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.600 our comic girl sharing for the right teams. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.479 Drama Queens jis go up girl Fashion, but your tough girl, 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:17.480 you could sit with us. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.239 Girl Drama, Queens Drama, Queise Drama, Queens Drama, Drahn The 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:27.120 Queens Drama, Queens Drama, Queen's friends and fam We have 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.000 none other than our very own Austin Nichols. Should we 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:34.400 bring him in here? Hey buddy, Hi buddy, Welcome back 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:34.920 to the show. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:35.240 Pal. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.440 Are you Are you at home in Texas at the moment? 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.920 Yeah, I'm in Austin and it's gorgeous. It's a beautiful 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.760 day in Paradise. It's spring and it's not hot yet 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:45.920 and it's green. It's awesome. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.720 Oh my goodness, that's so fun. Are you, like, are 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.880 you doing stuff on the lake? What's keeping you busy? 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.720 Yep, I've been out on the water getting ready. I'm 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.480 going to Peru to do this surf trip that I've 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.800 wanted to do, like for twenty years, going and I'm 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.840 finally finally going. It's this wave that's like three kilometers long. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.720 It's just this thing I've always wanted to do. And 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.000 I finally said, what am I waiting for? 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:11.120 Yeah? 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.640 So is the idea that you you ride the wave 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.000 for three kilometers? Is that the goal or the whole? 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.360 Well, you don't have to, I mean, I think that's 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.920 part of the attraction to me. Is to do something, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.120 is to catch something, catch lightning in a bottle, something 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.679 that's unattainable and natural in the in the world, in nature, 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.800 and harness it for as long as you can without 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.200 having to have a machine. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.160 So is the goal? Then? Is this like an operation 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.600 where you and at least one other buddy, you like, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.800 park a car down approximately where the wave ends, and 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.400 then you drive back up to the top. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.280 Well, I've done something like that, but this is better 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.880 because there's a booat and there's actually going to be 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.600 drones and cameras, and it's there's eight people and basically 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.280 we just tow each other into the wave and then 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:01.840 you try to ride it all the way in and 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.040 then you get picked up in the boat and you 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:03.600 go back out. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.080 Oh that's so cool. Is this what I saw? I 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.680 sawn your Instagram? You were doing wall sits. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.000 I'm trying to get my legs strong because the thing 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.040 I'm doing, like you're up for so long that your 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.200 your quad's just just get out. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.080 Yeah sure, Oh cool. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.520 I'm so glad to know. I mean, obviously you are, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.320 You're a very prepared person and you're an athlete, but 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.440 I'm so glad to hear you talk about the fact 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.200 that you are training for this. I did a dumb, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.679 cocky thing that really reads a theater kid who knows 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.919 nothing about her body. A couple of years ago. I 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.600 was like, ski season, didn't get to go last year, 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.440 Let's hit it and went up a mountain I've skied 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:52.760 a hundred times, not having skied in essentially two years 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.440 because I'd skipped a season, hadn't been in the gym, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.360 hadn't done shit like all three Thanksgiving over the holidays, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.679 And halfway down my first run, I was like, my 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.120 squads are going to explode. I'm gonna die. I'm like, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.120 I want to die on this mountain just because I 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.720 forgot that I needed to, like, I don't know, do 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.120 some squats before I tried to do this again. Yeah, 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.880 it was very humbling and deeply embarrassing for me. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.240 I committed the same party foul. I was asked to 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.760 go on this. It was sort of like an interview show, 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.000 but the whole thing was like you taught you do 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.320 the interview on the chair lift, and then you snowboarder 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.120 ski all the way down the mountain. I was like, 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.400 I was like, can you snow where? I'm like, yeah, man, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.760 I snowboarded in high school. Mind you. I snow word 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.800 like four times in high school. And when we shot this, 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.640 I was thirty five years old. It didn't occur to 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.200 me until I was getting off the lift that I 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:48.000 was like, oh, farts, I haven't done this in like 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.480 eighteen years, And like you, I paid the price. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.320 It probably made a bunch much better show. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.760 It did. The falls were more dramatic, sure, just the flailing. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:01.640 The language was more colorful. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:06.920 Yeah, so cool. Basically, what we've learned so far today 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.240 is that Austin will be the one on the wave, 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.360 and Rob and I would likely be the friends on 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.680 the beach with the beers waiting for you, and you're. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.880 Dad, dude, I'll be holding that big towel for you 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.279 with a chair roh or a corn dog, whatever you're into. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.479 I want to be there too. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.240 Great. We love it well. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.360 We asked fans for questions and they did not disappoint. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.479 So if you'll allow it, how about we just jump 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:31.880 right in. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:32.839 Let's jump in. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:38.159 Okay, First one, what did you steal from set? If anything? 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.520 A fake Eames chair? Well we did. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.599 Yeah, we put that thing right in the back of 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.839 my audie that rob ed Hardy bombed one time. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:52.520 Yeah, so in last season, like I think, so if 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:53.880 you tell me if I'm wrong, But it was maybe 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.839 like there was maybe two one or two shooting days left. Yeah, 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.559 and we knew that the Brooks House was getting wrapped. Yep, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.720 we've done shooting in there, and we were like, we 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:07.480 got to get that chair. Those chairs are so expensive 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.520 and the like I wouldn't never pay for one. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.680 No wait, so who got the chair? You stole it together? 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:15.640 But who got the loot? 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:17.880 I think I carried it? Did I carry it? And 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:18.880 we put it Who's truck? 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.719 We put it in the back of my car in 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.440 the little hatchback station wagon. I don't know how we 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.920 even got it in there, but we made it work. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:28.919 That was a good some good fever. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.640 It was fun and it's nice to be like a 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.599 gentle thief and feel like you're in a buddy cop 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.800 movie because the two of us were like running and 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.440 then hiding behind a wall and then running, and then 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.960 Austin would be like, I'll go duck, and you know, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.600 we like made it all the way through the stages 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.080 with these two pieces of furniture, the chair and the ottoman, 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:50.599 and by the time we got in the car, I 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.200 was like, well, that's going to be my favorite part 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.279 of this whole thing, just the caper of it. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:55.880 Absolutely. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:56.920 Yeah, it was the adventure. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.360 Yeah, made a little documentary. I think I definitely got 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.640 clothes over the years. But that's kind of that's so 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.000 that's sort of normal. What about you did, Rob? Did 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.839 you steal anything? Man? 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.360 Same as you. I close. But then the only I 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.680 could think of was I still have to this day 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:22.039 some Fortitude cards Clay Clay's business card, So talk about 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.120 being a gentle thief. While you guys were stealing large 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:30.000 pieces of designer furniture, knockoff, knock off, I was stealing 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.560 about five or six business cards. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:33.400 Hilarious. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:39.880 I love that I still have business cards from Good Sam. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.320 So I have these business cards that say I'm a 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.240 cardiothoracic surgeony make me feel very smart. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:47.600 So if I would ask you what you stole from set? 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.479 But I know you have a storage unit full of 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.039 multiple boxes of things from the show, so you don't 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.160 have the time for that, do we No. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.520 I probably have like four plastic bins of stuff from 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.440 over the years. But honestly, the funniest thing is we 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:05.000 we capered a chair and an automan together. And the 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:10.200 most like large stuff I've quote stole from set I 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.080 stole for Hillary, like I took her. I took this big, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:19.560 beautiful like maroon silk lamp shade with tassels and the 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.440 standing lamp, and then this really cool like I think 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.640 they called them telephone tables, a chair with like a 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.760 little attached side table from the fifties that your phone 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.000 would sit on. Uh, And they were from Red Bedroom Records. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.440 And when we wrapped out the sets, obviously she wasn't 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.040 with us, and I was like, this is bullshit, I'm 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.920 taking her stuff, and so I had to. I had 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.680 to get the chair and automan out of the tiny 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.680 station wagon to then go back and lift the rest 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:47.520 of the stuff for her. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.679 Nice you did some damage, Sofia I did well done. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.560 But listen, I own it. Here. We are that's the 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:53.920 same here. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.600 It's also funny that the idea that you guys even 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.920 were trying to be sneaky about it, because no one 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:02.880 would have said boo. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.360 But you don't feel like that in the moment you 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.200 feel like you're gonna get busted. Yeah, sure, totally. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:08.760 But you're right. 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.600 I don't think anybody would have said no. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.080 The crew liked you. Wait, I mean, come on, yeah, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.200 I know you guys would have been fine. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:14.800 Right. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.880 Did you know from the beginning that Brooke was going 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:18.760 to be your endgame? 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:19.120 Oh? 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.600 I think I kind of did, but I'm trying to 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.840 remember how things went down. It was like, you're gonna 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.440 we're gonna explore the past with Peyton, and then you're 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.960 gonna be Brooks new love interest and then yeah, I kinda, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.040 but I didn't know it was gonna go four seasons 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.440 and end in marriage and kids. I didn't know that. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:41.040 I don't think. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:46.640 Yeah, I don't think we really could have, you know, 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:51.000 especially because when you came in season six, we didn't 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.560 really know what was going to happen with the show, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.080 and then we wound up getting the seven and eight 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.240 pick up together, which had never happened before, and to 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.800 get two seasons picked up at the same time is 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:08.520 so surreal. So yeah, I guess I wonder if maybe 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.839 the reason by the middle of season eight they had 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.679 the characters get married was because everybody thought we were 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:15.920 going to be done at the end of eight. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.360 Yeah, we weren't sure about doing nine. Remember, I think 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:20.079 we weren't sure. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.840 No, yeah, I remember they came to the cast and 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:27.040 were like, Hi, how would you guys feel about a nine? 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.640 And people were like, how about half a season? Yeah, 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.439 And so I think that's why we did the truncated thirteen, right. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.040 Well, you know what I remember, And I was really 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.079 proud of us all, like we grew up on the show, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.439 you know, especially those of us who had been there 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.959 since we were twenty one. I remember just not knowing 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.280 anything about the business, and by the time they came 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.040 to all of us to be like, Okay, if you're 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.720 all into a season nine, let's talk about it. What 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.280 I loved And I have this memory of all of 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.360 us being like, it feels cool. We don't feel like 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.960 we're ready to be done done, but we also know 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.079 we're all going to need to get jobs after this, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.600 So how about we wrapp by the end of December 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.400 so we can have the next pilot season free. And 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.880 then it was like it was like summer camp, because 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.840 you're never going to book a show between July and December, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.079 at least in the traditional network world. And so we 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.200 were like, wait, we get to go do thirteen more 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.480 episodes and dink around with our friends and then like, 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.000 I guess we all start auditioning again. Oh my god, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.760 what a time. But I like that we had that foresight. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:37.640 Yeah, that's good. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.520 I had never seen and we'll get into the we're 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.439 going to talk about this on the episode recap as well. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.079 But I had never seen your guys of stuff from 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.280 season six. I had only I knew of it from 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.679 listening to the podcast before I joined. So it was 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:58.040 so fun. And the flashback montage, yeah, of Julian and Brooke. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:10:59.959 It was so cool because like Austin, I knew your 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.720 hair got cut too high on the back when you 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.800 got there, and so as I was watching, I was like, Oh, 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.439 there is the actual haircut he was talking about, and like, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.200 here's the edge you're Julian, And it was it was 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:11.640 so fun to watch. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.880 That yeah, I agree. That montage made me emotional because 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.800 you see all these iconic moments, like the one that 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.920 that it gets me is when. So if you help me, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.840 remember it was that outside the USO concert when I 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.800 first got there. No, no, when was this? It was 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.720 when you said I'm finally ready to let someone in. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.680 I think that's when. Isn't that when Brooke goes to 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.160 see Julian on his movie set. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.360 That sounds right because it's all lit and it looks. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.560 Like, Yeah, it looks that's what it is. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:57.359 That's my favorite moments me too. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:03.560 Catching up, somebody wants to know what does a day 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.319 in the life of Austin look like? And if I may, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.360 I kind of want to add to that because you 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.560 have just completed this movie that you have been working 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.680 on for so long that you're so excited about, and 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.440 I know you're about to open a film festival in 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:28.680 Dallas with the Salamander King, So I I want you 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.160 to talk to the fans about what a day in 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.520 the life of making this movie has looked like for you. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.120 Oh my god, Okay, yes, I'm so excited and proud 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.160 it's finally finished and we're going to Dallas at the 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.960 end of April. It's so good to like finish something 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.040 and you know, see it all the way through from 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.720 beginning to end. But you know, there was three years 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:58.440 of just talking and sending people a pitch or a 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.800 script or just get a phone call her a zoom, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:05.760 and nothing happens. And about a year and a half ago, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.120 I guess, Jennifer, my producer, came on, Jennifer Kuchai and 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.760 she that was the moment where the ball started rolling, 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.920 and so thankful to her. And we raised the money 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:23.560 pretty quickly for a small indie, and we shot it 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:30.120 in Austin in last June, and post took me all 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.959 the way to I guess about a month ago when 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.400 I finished the sound mix and we're in a festival 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.280 and like that feels it's a year sounds or just 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:46.120 under a year sounds slow, but it was fast. Like 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.080 I can't believe we're already done, and you know, in 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.200 a festival and now we're looking to you know, go 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:56.040 sell it to buyers, and I you know, I'm kind 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.240 of rambling here, but I just I've never felt this 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.600 feeling of sort of pride in completing something and just 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:08.480 starting and completing something that feels just so hard. It's 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.000 like the Sissifian task of rolling, you know, the boulder 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.360 up the mountain and yes, man, and then I just 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:15.360 can't wait to do it again. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.760 I just can't wait, oh, buddy. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.880 And so often what we do is that we're either 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:26.240 joining something halfway in or we're just doing the starting 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.120 stuff and then handing off to someone else. So it's 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.120 so cool that, I mean, you saw this thing through 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:35.960 from inception to premiere, Like, that's awesome. That is a 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.320 huge accomplishment. Man, you should be proud of yourself. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.720 I'm so happy. And had so many great people. By 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.960 the way, Peter Kowalski was my DP, oh lucky, our 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.880 DP on One Tree Hill. For some of you may 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.880 not know his name, but he was such an important 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.560 part of One Tree Hill. And I was so lucky 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.360 to have such a crack team because Peter was working 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.080 on a TV show in Austin and I went and 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.400 directed that and then I got all that crew to 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.040 come and they'd been working together for four years. So 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.800 I just had this team that was just so dialed 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.640 into each other. Yeah, that was that was part of 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:17.240 why you ran so smoothly. We didn't have problems. Every 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.240 day was everyone just laughing and having fun. And I 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.360 never thought I would my first movie would be a comedy. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:27.640 Never I'm going to make some dark, indie, crazy. 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.680 Darling deep bartsy thing. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.240 And the first thing I makes a comedy, and I 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.400 just want to keep making comedies now. It was just 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:41.040 so fun and it's funny the way life happens to 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.640 you in that way, and you something you didn't expect 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:49.640 becomes maybe your next you know path. But to get 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.360 Leaven a little bit more specific about. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.920 Like my day, I mean, yeah, what does a day 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.120 look like as a director? 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:55.080 Love? 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.200 I love to I wake up early. I love to 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.760 have some coffee. Sometimes I'll go to the coffee shop 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.520 on South Congress and have a little social time with 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:09.440 some local Austin coffee stop. Not the I call myself 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.520 a coffee slut, but these local coffee connoisseurs. There's this 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.040 little group and we gather and drink and talk in 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.600 the morning early and then I go home. And I 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.400 don't do this every day, but I like to exercise 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.000 in the morning if I can, and then I get 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.720 into writing and I'll sit down and I'll write for 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:31.520 a while. And then writing is weird because the schedule, 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.080 like everyone's writing habits are different. I like to write 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.600 in the morning, get some done, and I like to 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.040 move and walk or do something, take a break, have lunch, 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.360 get out, get away from it, and then come back 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.520 to it later, whether that's in the afternoon or at night, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.720 and that helps. I don't know, there's something about like 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.880 flow state, and like, I don't know how it all works, 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.160 but getting the blood pumping and stepping away and then 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.080 coming back is really helpful. If I can't write all day, 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.400 it just for sure crazy. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:05.679 Yeah, that totally tracks. I was talking through something with 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.920 my therapist about just like, you know, when what are 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:14.480 tools for resilience when time is so jammed like March 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.639 For whatever reason, I felt like I was working twenty 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.639 four hours a day, just like meeting to meeting to 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.439 meeting to meeting, and it was making me feel nuts. 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.520 And he was like, I'm telling you, I want you 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.000 to start setting thirty minute timers and if you have 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:29.879 to be on a zoom or in a thing for 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.000 an hour, set a timer for an hour and then 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.080 just go on a walk for five minutes and then 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.919 you can come back. And I started just trying to 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:42.600 reclaim minutes in certain spaces and like, I feel you 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.720 when you say that helps your flow state. It felt 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.719 like it brought me back down to earth, Like I 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.359 was so high strung from the stress and then it 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.400 like just five minutes here and there and I got 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.520 right back into my body and was like whoa. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.720 Yeah. And the one thing I also discovered by accident 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.840 was the little coffee group friend thing in the morning, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.960 saytates my community societal thing, and I don't have FOMO 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.439 the rest of the day. M So if I can 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.800 be social talk to some people for a little while, 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.919 then I can go focus and I'm not like wondering 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:18.960 what everyone else is doing. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.960 That's brains out, like let's check let's check Instagram for 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:23.320 a false sense of community. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:24.720 Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.600 Well it's funny. It's like I remember someone just saying, 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.080 like go touch grass, and it was that same thing 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.400 where it's like just go outside, yeah, get away from screens, 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.000 go out, take your shoes and socks off, walk around 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:38.639 in the lawn for a little bit, and it's like 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.720 it's the truth. Though. Man, it is such a good reset, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.160 all right, So another question here, says uh. Sophia said 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.440 she rewrote her wedding vows herself. Did you rewrite or 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.040 punch up Julian's. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.480 I did come on Austin's laughing because mine were trash 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.000 like what we saw in the script. We both were like, 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.720 you gotta be kidding. Made Brook Davis wait eight seasons 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.399 for this and the fans are so amped and like 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:11.760 we're doing call and repeat with like the traditional vows. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.840 Everybody does know, and so I had to and I 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.880 had to open with a joke because it felt right 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:18.280 for her. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:20.760 Well, I thought you did a great job, but it 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.879 was it was really well well done, and glad you 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.640 fought for that, you know, I think, you know, I don't. 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.040 There's no there's no blame or throwing any into the 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:34.440 throwing anybody under the bus. But we thought that maybe 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.520 the church was weird, the location was. We wanted to 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.919 do something outside with lights and like trees and you know, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:45.119 something a little more magical, you know, with you know 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.040 how it is with shooting, like it's expensive and locations 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.520 and money, and you get to season eight and people 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.879 are not as don't have the energy they had and 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.920 like that happens, and you know, that was my one 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:01.199 thing was really the location. Yeah, kind I kind of 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.680 wanted something a little more magical. I guess I. 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.719 Think we wanted it to feel like that scene you 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.399 brought up from the montage, like when Brooke and Julian 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.359 meet on that soundstage and it looks like they're in 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.479 the park and then all the lights go on, Like 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:18.439 we wanted that for the wedding, and then we got, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.000 you know, no shade, but like we got brown wood walls, 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.040 and we were like, oh, no. 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.600 Liking shade. It's fair because also before you lost the company, 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.240 Before Brook lost the company, you guys were at this 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:36.320 stupidly palatial estate with like a never ending fucking go 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.199