WEBVTT - Ep23 - Denis Villeneuve / "Arrival" 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.560 Welcome to Playback, a Variety podcast. On today's show, we 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.160 talked about this year's OSCAR Nominees luncheon, as well as 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.720 some new releases like the Lego Batman Movie and John 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.400 Wick Chapter two. A little bit later, I'll be talking 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:50.080 to a rival director, dune Ville Noeuve. So stick around. Okay, 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.440 we're back. I guess we're getting into the home stretch here, 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:58.120 Joannelle ready to de claric part runners. Like two weeks 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:04.200 out before the Oscars, I'm ready to say spoken. I 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.880 think she's gonna be all right. D g a U 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.680 the a S c American Society of Cinematographers. That was 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:14.560 a throw loop there, Yeah, a little bit um, you know. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.600 I Greg Fraser Lion DP, he won Camerone Mage, so 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.240 I kind of thought there was gonna be a surprise. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.040 I just didn't know what. I didn't know, maybe Bradford 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.880 Young would win for Arrival or if uh, you know. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.440 I didn't know that La La Land was gonna win 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.560 that and it didn't. But I talked to Gregg Fraser 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.520 at the Nomineese lunch and he said his money was 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:37.920 on Lena's. What are we supposed to say, though, Like, oh, no, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.920 I'm totally gonna win this thing, right. Like, I don't 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.560 know if you saw the little snappy of me and 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.039 Emmistone at the Oscars luncheon, but she was talking about 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:46.880 premiering La La Land in Venice, and I said, well, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.000 you're being modest, but you also won Best Actress there, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.760 and she does, that's not being modest, Like am I 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.440 supposed to just announce that? Like, oh, and by the way, 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.640 I won Best Actress And I was like, yes, you 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:01.400 should talk on your forehead put resume forward every time. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.760 Uh so, you know, what can you really say? D 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:11.080 g A went to Damien obviously. Yeah. I mean it's 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:15.800 like except in those boring below the line categories. Oh whoops, sorry, 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.920 I fell asleep for a second there. What were you saying? Yeah, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.960 so I hear the words below the and it's like 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.720 a you know, a trigger, I just fall asleep. This 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.519 is a joke. By the way, Chris seems to think 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.720 that I am not impressed by which is hilarious, because 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.359 you know, I have a thing for editors. Really why, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.280 I don't know. I just dated a lot of editors 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:36.880 in a row. I also went through a magician phase 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.680 because they spend time in dark rooms by themselves growing 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.000 their facial hair, and that could pretty much describe any 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:47.120 living on um. You know, so I was just like, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.400 let's talk about some other stuff, Like what else can 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.480 we talk about? You've seen Lego Batman movie. Yeah, I 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.200 was really pleasantly surprised. And let's you know, when um 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.200 is it Chris Miller and Phil Lord did the first 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.240 Lego movie. I was like, I'm not going to see 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.399 that. That That looks terrible. What a dumb idea? Then it's amazing, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.040 which was sort of how I felt about their twenty 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.040 one Jump Street movie and also how I felt about 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.480 their series Last Man on Earth. And I realized these 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.079 guys just take terrible ideas and make wonderful things from them. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.320 That seems to be their brand. Let's see how Han 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.920 Solo Han Sologo. Yeah, I'm very excited, but uh so 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.079 I didn't. I thought that, you know, Lego Batman Batman 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.400 is very funny in the Lego movie. You know, he's 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.640 an eggsty orphan. But I was like, are they going 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.560 to sustain that joke for a full movie. It turns 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.320 out they did. It's in the music there and this 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.760 isn't there like a song and the songs about me 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.520 being an orphan. No, no, there's like there's some there's 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.200 some like death metal thing that happens there where they're 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:43.440 like no parents anyway, who's the guy Will Who's like 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.720 might be one of the best Batman's ever, I'll say 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.000 him in Christian Bale are my favorite Batman's or Batman Batman? 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.000 I don't know if I'm going to be into that 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.080 or not. I like the Lego movie. I thought that 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.680 the call to worship on that movie was a little overblown, though. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.560 I was like, come on, I don't disagree with that, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.840 and I think I had such low expectations that I 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.160 was like, oh my gosh, this is actually clever um 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.920 like how Batman was really everyone. Yeah, for the most part, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.560 it's really really well done. I saw John Wick Chapter two. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.880 Did you see the first one? I did? But we 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.880 have discussed my triggers before, and this is an entire 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.440 movie built around my trigger. Oh well, the second one 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.240 is not okay. Can you say that twenty dogs die 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.359 in this one? New dogs die? I'm in In fact, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.720 I think I would say that there's something in this 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.880 movie that specifically for the people they triggered as an apology. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.479 That's fantastic. Then I am. I am all in on 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.160 John Wick too. Hear great things about I loved it. 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.320 I mean I told I mean, look, I'm turning my 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.159 brain off when I go into these things. But like 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.800 I saw it like two nights ago or something. Uh, 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.640 they're just yeah, it's ultra violent and I'm desensitized as hell, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:54.640 but like it's awesome. There's a place for that. I 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.280 think our critic Bruges was writing about it like it 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.839 was like it's like a dance the way that just 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.560 choreography of the action, And yeah, it totally is. And 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.200 but there's there's funny character elements, and there's this whole 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.120 built in mythology that they've expanded further in this movie, 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.160 just this underworld of Hitman essentially, and and and just 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.160 it's it's really fascinating. And I walked out of there. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.000 I was like, I could do John Wick movies forever. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.520 I totally could just do one every other year or something. 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.160 I want to get Kanu in here to talk about 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.080 that who, by the way, everyone says, the nicest person 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.160 alive and I would never talk too. No. I don't 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.080 know if you know this, but he looks exactly like 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.599 my brother, because my brother is also actually from the 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.240 same town that I believe. I don't know if he 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:37.680 grew up in or he was born in, but his 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.760 half Hawaiian, and my brother gets stopped all the time 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:45.360 and given that, like, you know, you look like and 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.000 it's kind of ery. And I've actually been told that 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:48.600 I look a little bit like a sister, but I've 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.800 never seen a picture of her that's true or not. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.840 But I saw him out I think it was outside 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.480 of like Alien three years ago, and there was this 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.599 weird moment when I was like walking down the street 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.520 and I locked eyes with Kanda Reeves, and you do 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.000 sometimes you're just like, oh, hey, there's that person I 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.640 know and then you realize, oh my god, I don't 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.839 know you at all. You're you're a celebrity, and I 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.760 just recognized you. But he was looking at me like 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.119 we were kind of kind of like this weird, quizzical look, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.680 and I was like, maybe I really, like, do look 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.920 like someone from his family? Well, he's he is one 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:24.000 of the nicest guys I've ever talked to. But amazing stories, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.520 Like a couple of pieces a few years ago on 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.919 the twentieth anniversary of Speed, which is unequivocally one of 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.720 my favorite movies of all time. You know, one of 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:36.280 my best friends is in that movie, that Grant because 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.159 I talked to all of the passengers on the bus. Yeah, 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.080 I think two of them had passed away, but that 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:46.760 was a fun story. And she just sings canons praises. Yeah, 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.680 they all do. Because he had there was somebody on 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.320 that bus, one of the we're on a tangent now, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.400 one of the one of the passengers, one of the 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.479 actors that played one of the passengers like taught him 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.279 Shakespeare and can it really? So it was like his 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.960 Shakespearean teaching was that when he then went and did Hamlet. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.520 Oh interesting. I remember there was a review of his Hamlet, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.720 um and it was mints a compliment, I believe. But 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.920 the poll quote was funny because it was something like 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.960 he gets all the words in the right places. Okay, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.760 what else? So? Um, can I ask a questions? At 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.560 the end of John Wick, he adopts, well, he steals 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.840 actually a sweet little baby kit Bull. Is that dog 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.920 in this movie? That dog is in this movie? I'm 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:35.200 so in Okay, Uh, we've got a Tony Erdman remake 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.960 on the Way that I'd love to talk about kind 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.440 of amazing casting. I'm looking at the story now and Variety. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:45.040 It's got a hundred and thirty six comments. Like, I 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.720 don't think any story about Tony Erdman has a hundred 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.960 thirty six comments, But the fact that there's a remake 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.000 with Jack Nicholson finally back in the saddle is a 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.080 big deal. I was excited about that. Then I was 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.640 really excited that it looks like Kristin Wig Christian Lady's daughter. Yeah, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.760 I'm not a huge fan of Tony Ordman, but I'm 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.600 there for this. I liked it. I think you should 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.920 have been about three hours shorter. I'm sorry it was 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.760 six hours long, right, Yeah, it felt like it. It 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.760 wasn't necessarily long. I feel like, yeah, there's like a 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.640 rhythm you can get into watching it, but like it's 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.480 a little arbitrary, like you don't you don't need that. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:23.480 But he's he's back. I think everyone thought he was 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.120 just done. Yeah, I mean it's not like he needs 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.400 the money, like just go hang out at Lakers games. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.560 This feels like an Oscar nomination. Like, I mean, I 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:35.959 find retily, but come on, come on, He's perfect depending 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.120 on where they take, like what direction they take the movie. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.800 If it's if it's like you know, like they go 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.679 to uh glossy comedy with it, then know. But like 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.280 I suggested somebody like Kelly Fremont Craig to direct it, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.240 some somebody like that's the name, right, I don't know. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:54.200 You're looking at me. Oh gosh, that would be amazing. Yeah, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:59.640 like you seen I haven't seen it. I suggesting they 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.439 need to have a female direct this film because if 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.040 they if Paramount remakes a film, a foreign film from 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.760 a female director and then just swaps like Alexander Payin 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.200 on it or something. I was gonna say, Alexander Payne, 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.120 it would be so great. That would be a great movie. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.440 But like, come on, they would probably get hit with 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.319 some bad press for that, I think. And this day 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.000 hadn't even occurred to me, which is funny because I 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.199 don't know if you know this, but I'm a woman. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.720 I noticed. I just think, you know, like Kelly would 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.600 be great because there's the James Brooks connection there too 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.080 that I'm sure that you know Brooks would have a 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.000 great recommendation for Jack about that. But anyway, I was 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.120 trying to think of directors who are mainstream but quirky enough. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:40.480 You know what, let's let's let's do h Phil Lord 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.520 and Chris Miller. It does seem to be able. They 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.360 were a little busy though. Right now we were talking 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.440 briefly about the luncheon. You were backstage talking to the peeps. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.080 I was not backstage. I was in a hotel room. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:57.240 It's the weirdest set up. UH. Publications and media basically 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.360 get hotel rooms at the hotel where the luncheon is held, 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.080 and then you wrangle all the nominees who are there 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.480 twitting the luncheon to come into your hotel room. And 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.760 it's um sounds kind of peculiar. They just basically popped 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.200 from where you're in an aquarium or something. What do 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:17.840 you say that? Oh? I know everyone, I'm curious what 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.080 was going on like it was and we were trying 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.199 to be atmospheric and different everyone else. I'm making fun 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:24.600 of a creative choice. I didn't mean to do that. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.280 I'm sorry again, No, I mean it does look odd 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:27.559 when you watch the video, but I have to say 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.480 the photos look amazing. There's this photo of Mel Gibson 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:34.040 that it's just you look at that and you're like, yeah, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:39.840 that's that's a star. Yeah. Mel was really wonderful. You know. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.560 He came by and talked about working with Vince Vaughn 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.319 and how some people thought it was a little strange 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.640 to cast Vince Vaughn in such a serious role in 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.480 Hacksaw Ridge, and he's like, it didn't even occur to me. 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.360 You know, he's just a great actor. He is. But 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.400 it threw me out of it. I know, I think 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.800 Vine is fantastic in the movie, and you that that's 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.319 one of your problems. I don't think he's bad in 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.960 the movie. I just think it it just takes me 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.200 out of the movie. And that's all Like It's it's like, 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.320 like he's clearly committed to the part and playing a 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.280 serious role. But I'm looking at dude from Swingers playing 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.680 a drill sergeant and it's you know, it just takes 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.200 me out a little bit. Also, Sean Levy dropped by, 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.360 you know, because he's the producer on Arrival, and uh 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.880 keeps insisting he's also an EP on Stranger Things, keeps 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.719 insisting Barb is not alive. People, you need to let go. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.160 Barb is dad. I hate to be the want want 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.320 guy here, But I'm not feeling Stranger Things either. You 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.280 didn't like the Prost season like stranger? Did you make 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.680 it through it? I did, and it just felt like 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.319 the same kind of nostalgia that the entire community that 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.520 embraced that show usually just dumps all over. So I 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.560 didn't know what. I couldn't figure out what this had 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.840 did other things don't have, you know. But I felt 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.720 the same way about Super eight. I could not. I 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.480 didn't like Super eight at all. I thought this this 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.599 succeeded were Super eight failed? Um? You know. One of 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.280 the things I really liked about it was that it 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.560 gave answers, and even though those answers might be kind 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.040 of crazy, it committed to them. Like on The o A, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.560 which just was announced for a new season today. Um 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.360 we we we get some answers, you know. And again 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:13.280 I admire that they went with like crazy answers, um, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.720 but they also leave a lot open ended and Stranger 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.960 Things just felt very satisfying because they answered pretty much 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.559 all my questions. Did you see I'm gonna watch it again. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.640 I'll check it out again with Ryan Reynolds. Do you 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.319 ever see what we call the Nines with Ryan Reynolds. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.360 I remember that movie not And I freaking love this 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.920 movie because and I don't want to give any spoilers, 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.600 because I think it's on Netflix. A different one should 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.600 watch it because all these crazy things happen, and it 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.839 tells you why, and you almost kind of have to 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.040 laugh at how absurd the explanation is, and you also 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:46.120 have to admire that they committed to this batschick crazy premise. Yeah, well, 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:50.520 I'll go back and watch again, I promise. Okay, we're 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:56.320 talking about I was at a table with Rich Moore, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.000 director of Utopia, one of the makeup guys on Suicide Squad, 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.800 Andy Nelson, sound mixer for La La Land, and Just Goneta, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.800 the production designer for He's Awesome. Yeah, he did her. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.480 I think he might have been that. That was KK Barrett. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:18.160 You're right, just does uh. I don't know if he 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:19.560 has he done this bite movie. He does been at 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.760 Miller's movies, He does Coen Brothers movies. He did Live 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.559 by Night this year. He built an entire town. The 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.120 production design't Live by Night was fantastic. Yeah. Yeah, I'm 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.240 glad he at least had Hail Caesar for like a 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:33.120 backup this year to get nominated. But he's fun. Um, 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.080 what is it like in there? Like do they have 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.600 I hear that they tell the nominees like keep your 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.560 speech is short, and you know, well this year they 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.679 did that really fun in a really fun way. They 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.680 had this short film that they made with Kate McKennon 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.360 as like a Golden age starlet. Oh is it the 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.240 character she plays in? Said night Live? So what he 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.520 was like, I was addicted to pills? Is that is 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.040 that the I couldn't tell if it was because it 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.480 was ringing a bell, Yeah, but I don't. I don't 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.360 know if it was an actual would you recognize the 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.960 name was like Olivia Concave or something like that. I 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.079 know Concave was the last name, so it was it's 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.600 hilarious last name. But anyway, the idea was she it 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.600 was a short film that was made for the nominees 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.680 of the eleventh Annual Academy Awards, and it's like tips 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.720 for for your speech and stuff, and it was they 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.600 kind of put this online. It was hilarious. I hope 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.800 they do. There's no reason not to, but they do that. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.080 They have you know, the producers come out and Goldry 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.280 is the name of the character she plays on Somebody 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:32.720 Wasn't different Hollywood Golden Age Starlett. But the producers come 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.480 out and talk about like the same thing, like no 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.560 one wants to hear about your agent, and you're what's 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.040 kind of annoys me? Did they come out and tell 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.440 people what they should say? Well? And also like every 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.560 year we have like six tributes to shoes and then 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.640 they give the speakers what is it seconds to give 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.240 a speech, like they should be able to say what 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:51.960 the hell they want. If I want an oscar, I'm 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.160 gonna if and I don't want to get there and 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.240 chew gum and stare at the camera forty seconds and 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.280 I'm gonna do that. Oh my god, I would pay money. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.320 I hope herschel Ali. If you're listening, just chew gum 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.040 and stare at the camera to gom like Melissa McCarthy 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:08.360 did on Saturday Night. Great Sketch. But yeah, it's just 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:12.200 you know, everyone sits, everyone eats every you mill around 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.240 because you random, right, Yeah, there's like a little lottery 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.080 bol do they do it their live like they call 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.880 it Chris Tapley. It's a little more low key. You 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.520 go over to the corner of the press table and 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.360 you you spend the wheel and thank you, here's your table. 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.520 Because I think I saw Denzel in Viola were sitting 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:33.200 together and was that coincidence or people they placed the nominees, 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:40.480 but the press actually is the whole thing. Was that? Okay? Um, 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.560 so you know, and then everyone gets up yet for 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.320 the big class photo, which is I'm sitting there listening 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.120 to two or fifty names be called by Laura Dern 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:50.400 and she does it well. And then ever you have 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.800 to applaud for people, and some people getting such a 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:58.400 plod and yeah, you biggest applause and not this ever 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.120 means anything. The biggest applause I could tell was Viola 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.480 bridges naturally like you know, everybody loves him. Yeah. I 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.840 thought the Law all End team early on got some 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.600 some nice pops, but then by theminators were like, okay, 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.080 we get it. Oh, by the way, I dropped her 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.240 name to the Cubo um VFX team and Travis Knight 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.320 and was telling him, you know how much you loved 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.960 the movie and how you predicted the nominations after the 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.920 bake off, and um they were they instantly were like, oh, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:30.720 Chris has been so great they took it was funny. 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.880 They were one of those people who like, they're coming 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.280 down the hall, They're coming down the hall, and like 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.200 five minutes would go by and they're like, no, I 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.840 swear they're coming down the hall now. And I was like, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:39.960 is it because they have to come down the hall 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:45.120 one frame at a time? Yeah, well that is such 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.880 a nerdy, obscure joke. And if anybody out there got 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.880 it to marry me, they got it. If they're listening 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.600 to this, they got it. We have a smart audience. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:57.440 Well I agree, but a very intelligent Let me rephrase that. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.640 If anybody out there got it and found it amusing, okay, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.200 marry me. Uh yeah. I wrote this thing last week 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.439 that just you know, I'm not being overly passionate here. 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.600 I love Utopia too, but I think like has been 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.320 in the mix for a couple of years and it's 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.880 probably time at some point to give them an Oscar. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.840 And a lot of people weirdly threatened by that post. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.840 I don't know. I don't I wouldn't be so threatened 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.639 on behalf of a movie that made a billion dollars 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.760 and is guaranteed to win the Oscar for animated feature. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.399 That's all I'm saying, isn't that funny? Two fans and 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.520 to studio people. I find like the most innocuous things 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.560 I write sometimes cause the biggest blow ups. It's it's 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.920 it's it's like, just let it go people. Anyway, Well, 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.560 what do we have this week? Denive Llaneuva. Oh so 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.760 wonderful he was, you know, he is just so upset 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.879 about and stay upset because these are champagne problems, but 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.800 like really really bumps about Mami Adams was not known. 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.960 We talked about. Yeah, I'm sure we dive into uh 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.840 she is, I'm pretty sure, and uh we'll talk about 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.200 Dune a little bit and a little bit of Blade Runner, 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.040 you know, try to get him to talk about it. Yeah. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.480 I did the same, and he told me the most 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.760 I think I've ever heard him say, which is basically 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.359 like I was a big fan of the original and 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.480 Ryan's great to work with. And I was like, that's 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.320 a scoop because because he won't talk about oh you 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:13.960 know what he did tell me that I found fascinating. 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.359 You might already know this. He's never seen a rival 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.520 with an audience because he's been working and traveling he 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:24.200 couldn't go to any of the premiers or the festival showing. 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.679 They re expanded it, so he's got his opportunity if 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.480 he wants that. Just being stuck in post on runner 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.080 right now though, so he's in a room somewhere. Does 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.320 that just mean re expanded? Does that mean it's back 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.720 in theaters or they've added stuff. I think they've added 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.760 get out. Yeah, that was the plan. I think, like, 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:41.600 you know, try to get it closer to a hundred 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.040 million or over a hundred million domestic. It's close to 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.560 two hundred worldwide. So they've added like scenes, no, no, no, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.800 added screens, screens, I said, added stuff that would be weird. Well, 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.440 I didn't know what the hell that, man. I'm sorry anyway, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.719 it's better to just agree than yeah. Basically all right, 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.520 so that I'll be talking to me right after this 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:24.160 stick around for that. This is the day they arrived, 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.040 the object touchdown forty minutes ago. It's going to happen. 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.560 I don't know, Dr Banks. You're at the top of 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:37.760 everyone's list when it comes to translations. Do you hear 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:42.480 any words? Is that? Am I the only one having 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:47.400 trouble thing aliens? That's what it look, you'll see soon enough. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:52.399 You need to see me. Dr Brake. That's a proper introduction. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:59.000 Jets have landed around the world. It's fair language God 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.720 twenty one hours four based mark moment more. They're not 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.840 our enemy. We need to talk to them. It's more 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.040 complicated than how is it more complicated? Are you dreaming 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.720 in their language? What does this say? How do we 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.760 clarify their intentions? I go back in. What's he doing? 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:21.560 You are committing an active pretty talk me? Welcome back everyone, 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:25.520 I'm here with the director of Arrival, Dnievil Nuve. Did 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:30.520 I say that correctly? Awesome? Okay, because I I do 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:32.280 wonder if I'm saying it correctly all the time. But 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.560 thanks for coming on, man, I really appreciate it. They're 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.000 happy to be here. Congratulations on your Oscar nomination for 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.800 Best Director for the film. Had that feel that is uh, 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.840 I must say, I must stop to see that. I'm 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.480 digesting this news because it's been a while already. But 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.800 it's just that being very you know. It's it's strange 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.520