Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Bruce. Thanks for joining us for another
Speaker 1: episode of Table for Two. Today we're back at the
Speaker 1: Tower Bar in Hollywood for another amazing lunch.
Speaker 2: I always get turkey chilly. That's the only thing I
Speaker 2: ever got in. But I think I will do the
Speaker 2: classic club. But now I'm now I'm gonna be the
Speaker 2: guy that takes a bunch of stuff off.
Speaker 3: He always have exactly.
Speaker 1: We're sitting down today with an incredible director. He's made
Speaker 1: some of the funniest films I've ever seen, including Bride'smaids.
Speaker 1: His new movie Jackpot just came out on Prime video.
Speaker 3: This water is yours if you want. I'm having a
Speaker 3: new brew right now, lovely, which is just a whole
Speaker 3: other conversation.
Speaker 2: See the only thing I can't do I can't have caffeine.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: We're having lunch with Paul Figue. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about things that we both love. Cocktails, movies, and fashion.
Speaker 1: I mean every project that he directs, he wears a
Speaker 1: suit on set.
Speaker 3: How cool is that?
Speaker 1: So pull up a chair, grab a glass of rose,
Speaker 1: and I hope you enjoy. I'm Bruce Bosi and this
Speaker 1: is my podcast Table for two.
Speaker 3: Welcome to table for two.
Speaker 2: I love it. It's a thrilling to be here with you, Bruce.
Speaker 2: I think you're the greatest. Thank you, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's an honor to be here.
Speaker 3: What does your day look like like? What did today
Speaker 3: look like?
Speaker 2: I'm very much a creature of habit so much of
Speaker 2: My wife makes fun of me all the time because
Speaker 2: I'm a very much a three meal guy. So get
Speaker 2: up and do my walk, and do like a four
Speaker 2: mile walk most days, like a speed walk kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Starting your day with movement you have to do so
Speaker 3: very important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've owed my whole life kind of been plagued
Speaker 2: with bouts of depression. And read years and years ago
Speaker 2: an article about Charles Dickens then about how he fought
Speaker 2: depression too and he would just walk. He would just
Speaker 2: walk from one side of London to the other and
Speaker 2: so way back when it's like, I can do that too,
Speaker 2: and it is amazing how much it cures. You know.
Speaker 2: It's just I think if your brain just sits and
Speaker 2: your chemicals don't move around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think, you know. And I find one
Speaker 1: of the great things about New York is because I'm
Speaker 1: a walker. Yeah, is when you are really processing something
Speaker 1: in your head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you just walk and walk and walk.
Speaker 1: Down those cities that you know, you forget you're walking
Speaker 1: because you're so you're looking in store windows, you're seeing people,
Speaker 1: You're looking at fashion.
Speaker 2: You know, so true, so true. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 2: I live in London a lot too, so you know
Speaker 2: the same thing. You're just walking constantly.
Speaker 3: That's why you're so full of style too, very style.
Speaker 2: You know it is nice. I mean, you know, we know, La,
Speaker 2: we kind of battle the charity of the casual here, right,
Speaker 2: but I'll tell.
Speaker 1: You, Paul, very similar to you, And how don't I
Speaker 1: describe to the list and our support. You have a
Speaker 1: double brusted suit, that is it's how about the pattern
Speaker 1: would be considered?
Speaker 2: This is like almost like a a checkerboard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's beautiful, it's blue, it's gray, right, and you
Speaker 1: have a beautiful pocket square which I watched you on
Speaker 1: YouTube teach how to part.
Speaker 3: Your pocket square?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: They fair sort of and it's really the fig fold
Speaker 1: is hey, yes, well you should understand that well, being.
Speaker 2: A manifest you know, like men are so put off
Speaker 2: by pocket squares because there is this whole cult of
Speaker 2: like folding them and it's so finnicky that I hate
Speaker 2: anything that looks like so, you know, kind of just
Speaker 2: obsessed over.
Speaker 3: Do you when you dress? Are you dressing for you?
Speaker 1: Like, when let's say you're in New York, you're dressing
Speaker 1: for people on the street, Like, what's the motivation?
Speaker 3: I turned you on about it?
Speaker 2: I think I dressed for myself. Hilariously, when I used
Speaker 2: to be in New York a lot, there was the
Speaker 2: days when I kind of felt like I didn't want
Speaker 2: to dress up. It was the Bill Cunningham day and
Speaker 2: I was like, what did Bill hunting I happen to
Speaker 2: be walking past? I don't want to miss my one opportunity,
Speaker 2: I mean sweatpants. There's many reasons why I dress this way,
Speaker 2: but one of them is it's a calling card that
Speaker 2: tells the world who you are. You know, and not
Speaker 2: that people know me, but people know that I do
Speaker 2: this now. But you know, in general, if somebody's walking around,
Speaker 2: if you show up like a slob, you're saying I'm
Speaker 2: a slob. And I find it to be very egotistical
Speaker 2: in a way of you're saying that people you better
Speaker 2: get to know me before you can judge me. I agree,
Speaker 2: you know, what I mean, yes, and so, but I'm like,
Speaker 2: there's so much people you meet and stuff, why not
Speaker 2: help them out? This is who I am?
Speaker 1: Yeah, which I also love because you know, when you're
Speaker 1: directing a film.
Speaker 2: You dress, oh yeah, always super time and.
Speaker 1: So you why do you dress? Because those are long
Speaker 1: days and they're not you know, you're on a set.
Speaker 1: You're seeing me up and down.
Speaker 3: What what's the it's to me?
Speaker 2: I'm the captain of the ship. Yeah, And I always
Speaker 2: say if the captain. If I've gone into a ship
Speaker 2: and the captain is wearing sweatpants, I get off the ship.
Speaker 2: It just I just kind of started because I love
Speaker 2: old Hollywood and you know, coming up and I wanted
Speaker 2: to be a director, and all I would see these
Speaker 2: pictures of Hitchcock and john Ford and all these people
Speaker 2: on the set in these suits and ties, and the
Speaker 2: crew wearing ties and you know, kind of their sleeves
Speaker 2: arerolled up but like dress pants and all that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it looks So I was like that I want when
Speaker 2: I see a movie, I want to think that's who's right,
Speaker 2: that's what the people who made it look like. And
Speaker 2: it's also just a show of respect to the crews.
Speaker 2: And to my my cast. But I I do it
Speaker 2: across the board. I mean I do it anytime I
Speaker 2: have business. I mean when I'm in pre production, when
Speaker 2: I'm in the editing room. Every day, I'm always in
Speaker 2: a suit and tie. I mean everyonce in blue Moons,
Speaker 2: I won't wear a tie or whatever, just because I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to see anything today. But yeah, it's
Speaker 2: just kind of it feels professional of me. I feel
Speaker 2: like a grown up, and it just focuses me. Like
Speaker 2: you say, like during the pandemic, I was always saying
Speaker 2: my little Instagram cocktails are like just change because if
Speaker 2: you go through the day and the thing you slept
Speaker 2: in there's it's depressed. I mean it's there's no delineation
Speaker 2: between night and day, and you just lose track of everything,
Speaker 2: including yourself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now it's very true.
Speaker 1: Is there a period of time style wise that you
Speaker 1: really relate to that you say, Okay, this.
Speaker 2: Was Yeah, that's a great that's a great question. Actually
Speaker 2: the thirties and forties.
Speaker 3: I thought you'd say that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that, you know, I mean my mind
Speaker 2: was just blown when I was in college and the
Speaker 2: first time I saw his girl Friday, Okay, you know,
Speaker 2: bring a baby, those things just that you know, carry
Speaker 2: Grant and those those double breasted suits and the way
Speaker 2: he would like, especially in his Girl Friday, but he
Speaker 2: kind of uses it to make a point and he
Speaker 2: snaps it clothes and buttons it up, and I would
Speaker 2: just like, that's so fantastic. Things so much, you know.
Speaker 2: But then I also really love the men's suiting of
Speaker 2: the fifties into the early sixties, kind of the thin
Speaker 2: tie thing. Funny when I did when I directed an
Speaker 2: episode of mad Men in the first season. I came
Speaker 2: in and that was a period when I was wearing
Speaker 2: vintage suits from that era too, and I came into
Speaker 2: the office to you know, to meet with Matt Winer
Speaker 2: for the first time, and the receptionist is like, oh, oh,
Speaker 2: castings down the hall. It's like, no, I'm not here
Speaker 2: in costume. This is actually how I dress. And then
Speaker 2: in the intervening years when mad Men took off, I
Speaker 2: would wear that. People go like, oh, you're a Madman fan,
Speaker 2: and it's like, no, I'm not doing cosplay. And so
Speaker 2: finally I had a jettison that look because thanks Matt Winer,
Speaker 2: my whole my whole closet.
Speaker 3: I loved Mad Men for the style.
Speaker 1: It's so important to get all those like details correct
Speaker 1: and it's so fascinating. How does that play into when
Speaker 1: you're doing a movie, you're doing a piece and you're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: this is the time we're doing.
Speaker 3: How do you kind of go down the list of Well, it's.
Speaker 2: Really important to not cherry pick the most over the
Speaker 2: top versions of style at that period. Case in point,
Speaker 2: when I did my show Freaks and Geeks, which I created,
Speaker 2: you know, I I love, Oh, thank you, So.
Speaker 1: I mean really, but I do want to talk about that,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk cast about I mean, it
Speaker 1: just was also like what where that came from? Inside
Speaker 1: of each Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well no, but it was, you know, because it took
Speaker 2: place in nineteen eighty and that seventy show was on
Speaker 2: and stuff. There was this whole thing of like, well
Speaker 2: the seventies all that it's all leisure suits and bell
Speaker 2: bottoms and you know, in platform shoes. I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I so I made this point. I brought it all
Speaker 2: my old yearbooks from that were from seventy six to
Speaker 2: eighty and highlight all this stuff like this was how
Speaker 2: we dressed yes, there were some disco kids. There were
Speaker 2: some kids did that. I kind of did that. I
Speaker 2: went through a period in high school where I was
Speaker 2: wearing like angels flight pants, you know, and the collar
Speaker 2: out on your on your jacket and stuff. But we
Speaker 2: weren't cartoons.
Speaker 3: Right, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: So you're saying you don't get so like bogged down
Speaker 1: in the details, but sort of really understand the essence
Speaker 1: of Yeah, because the clothes, you were right on with
Speaker 1: the clothes. Like when I was, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the things in sort of preparation of having lunch with you,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, let me like rewatch this, let
Speaker 1: me see it.
Speaker 3: And it's really spot on.
Speaker 2: No thanks, I mean it's literally just pulled from those
Speaker 2: from those yearbooks, and like this is what we wore,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, you know the reason that Lindsay
Speaker 2: We're you know, Linda Carlini's character wears an army field
Speaker 2: jacket all the time is because my dad owned an
Speaker 2: army surplus store and uh, and so we've sold to
Speaker 2: all a lot of kids in our school who weren't
Speaker 2: the stylish one.
Speaker 1: We always this funny like why did like I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I can use and many people have. There's
Speaker 1: a number of them with bridesmaids. For example, you talked
Speaker 1: about I mean literally fall out of your seat at
Speaker 1: the moments that were created. And I've watched some of
Speaker 1: your interviews in regard to like a lot of sort
Speaker 1: of the improv piece of it, and also how you
Speaker 1: shot it.
Speaker 3: Were you always as funny and what do you look
Speaker 3: for with when you're making a movie or choosing to
Speaker 3: make a movie.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, first of all. But I've always loved comedy.
Speaker 2: Comedies is in my DNA. It's all I've ever wanted
Speaker 2: to do. I mean since I was little. I just
Speaker 2: love it. I love making people laugh, making them happy,
Speaker 2: trying to but in an honest way. Like I've always
Speaker 2: been very sensitive to and against over the top dishonest
Speaker 2: comedy because I can enjoy it really broadcast.
Speaker 3: Let's give me an example of dishonest comedy.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of comedies that have been made over
Speaker 2: the last you know, thirty years or whatever. I particularly
Speaker 2: felt like the nineties were kind of not my style
Speaker 2: of comedy because it was all performative. It was very like,
Speaker 2: look how crazy I am, and you know I'm not
Speaker 2: this crazy, and I know I'm not, so let's just
Speaker 2: kind of make fun of this character, have like a
Speaker 2: crazy character. And I was like, I don't buy. I'd
Speaker 2: rather watch I want to watch a person who if
Speaker 2: they're crazy, they don't know it, you know, And there's
Speaker 2: an honesty to that and it's hard to put down,
Speaker 2: but you know when you see it and you just
Speaker 2: go like, I don't know, it just doesn't there's no
Speaker 2: honesty to it. That's why I was always I was
Speaker 2: very happy when I was involved with the Office because
Speaker 2: that brought in this this docu style, right, so natural,
Speaker 2: so because then you can you can be broad, but
Speaker 2: it's in a context of like, oh that person just
Speaker 2: is just kind of weird, you know. And then that
Speaker 2: that I love. So it's a real high bar for that.
Speaker 2: And yeah, then just I think I just love trying
Speaker 2: to get the best out of funny people because I
Speaker 2: I think one of my good skills is seeing what's
Speaker 2: funny about somebody, whether they know it or not. And
Speaker 2: a lot of times they don't, you know, and that's
Speaker 2: what's really fun. That's why a lot of times I
Speaker 2: don't of an audition, like you know, it's kind of
Speaker 2: a name person you have them read the part. I
Speaker 2: just want to have drinks with them or have a
Speaker 2: meal to see. Yeah, I can go like, what's funny
Speaker 2: about this person? And then you oh, man, especially when
Speaker 2: you discover something about somebody that nobody else knows.
Speaker 1: I think I think some people, like people were surprised
Speaker 1: that John Ham was so funny, you know, because you
Speaker 1: kind of look at the package that John comes in.
Speaker 2: Well, a funny story about that. When I because that
Speaker 2: same day when I went into you know, to meet
Speaker 2: to direct an episode because it was it was it
Speaker 2: was just in the first season, so nobody had seen anything.
Speaker 2: I just seen the pilot, and I remember when I
Speaker 2: watched the pilot, I was kind of like, do I
Speaker 2: want to do the show because there's it seems like
Speaker 2: such a humorless show to me when I watched the pilot,
Speaker 2: and I especially went like that lead guy. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's really good, but he seems like he doesn't have
Speaker 2: a funny bone in his body like it was because
Speaker 2: he's such a stoic character. Yeah, and so I kind
Speaker 2: of go to the set and I'm like, oh boy,
Speaker 2: what am I gonna do with this guy? So I'm
Speaker 2: talking to Matt and he takes me down on the
Speaker 2: set talking and stuff, and all of a sudden, this
Speaker 2: like shaggy haired kind of surfer comes up, like joking around.
Speaker 2: He's making these voices and he's hilarious and he goes
Speaker 2: away and go like, who's that. He goes, that's John,
Speaker 2: the star of the show. That's John, And then I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god. Then I find out he's
Speaker 2: a huge comedy nerd and one of the funniest people.
Speaker 1: I know, completely so funny, and that's like you would
Speaker 1: never say like that's Don Draper and then be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh no, I mean completely they that's when you
Speaker 2: go out. He's a really good actor because he's nothing
Speaker 2: like that guy.
Speaker 1: Did you have because you know when John we have
Speaker 1: lunch and he had like a plan for himself. So
Speaker 1: like you went to sc you gave towards at Universal,
Speaker 1: which is fine. I gave towards at NBC. That was
Speaker 1: Abe in New York and those were some of the
Speaker 1: most fun experiences.
Speaker 3: What were you like as a tour guy?
Speaker 1: Were you and then you know you did stand up
Speaker 1: so you were you kind of yeah, well, developing all this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I started doing stand up when I
Speaker 2: was fifteen years old in Detroit. Yeah wow, yeah, and
Speaker 2: you know I'd have to take my parents at the
Speaker 2: comedy club to do it and all that stuff. So
Speaker 2: but when I was a tour guide, I i it
Speaker 2: was the greatest lesson ever of how to be yourself
Speaker 2: in front of people. And I don't like because when
Speaker 2: I first started, I just went in to total DJ mode. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 2: welcome to the tour olds. I was just talking like
Speaker 2: that the whole time. And like I remember one driver
Speaker 2: kind of after a few like a month, and he's
Speaker 2: just like, why do you talk like that? I said,
Speaker 2: I don't know, am I supposed to? He goes, just
Speaker 2: be yourselves, like okay, and then I get so I
Speaker 2: finally kind of figured out just how to talk to
Speaker 2: people and be natural in front of them. So it
Speaker 2: was a great learning curve. But yeah, I was insufferable
Speaker 2: at the beginning.
Speaker 1: I mean I would find that giving those tours of NBC,
Speaker 1: like you sort of you know, you'd go from floor
Speaker 1: three to sevens. You know, you were in the The
Speaker 1: Today Show studio or let them, and you were all
Speaker 1: these places, but you had, like you know, you had
Speaker 1: to hit your points and the more comfortable you became
Speaker 1: with any of your points, the more you sort of
Speaker 1: would then be able to joke or people are like staring,
Speaker 1: and in New York you would do it. The elevators
Speaker 1: at NBC's like, so you have fifteen people and yourself
Speaker 1: and your jam packed, like you're facing them, right, they're
Speaker 1: facing you.
Speaker 2: The elevator doesn't break, Okay, it doesn't.
Speaker 3: And I can remember one day and it was the nineties.
Speaker 3: I mean I just had hair that was bigger than curly, bigger.
Speaker 2: I want to say, pictures, Bruce.
Speaker 3: You have to see pictures.
Speaker 1: And I said, so, you know, as we're about to
Speaker 1: end the tour, does anyone have any final questions about
Speaker 1: the Torrents?
Speaker 3: When I was like, yeah, is that a wig? I
Speaker 3: was like, no, that's not yah.
Speaker 2: We're not here to roast me. That's all.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Table for two.
Speaker 1: Paul Fiek's first big project was nineteen ninety nine s
Speaker 1: beloved TV show Freaks and Geeks. Since then, he's found
Speaker 1: massive success as a director on both the small and
Speaker 1: big screen. Looking back, does he think it would be
Speaker 1: harder or easier to.
Speaker 3: Break through now.
Speaker 1: Those early years which are probably very different now? For
Speaker 1: people who are trying to, oh do write? You know
Speaker 1: it was was.
Speaker 3: It harder than and how how did you kind of
Speaker 3: drill your path?
Speaker 2: Well, there was more opportunity and less opportunity at the
Speaker 2: same time. And I only mean that by you know,
Speaker 2: I wanted to make movies, and back then to make
Speaker 2: anything you had to buy film and you had to
Speaker 2: rent cameras and you had it was expensive. You couldn't
Speaker 2: do you know. The first movie I made is a
Speaker 2: thing called Life Sohoul separately that has never been released
Speaker 2: in my house, a feature film that I wrote and
Speaker 2: directed and started and produced and all this stuff and
Speaker 2: paid for myself. And it literally said, what's the cheapest
Speaker 2: movie I can make? And it's like four people in
Speaker 2: a one day waiting for UFO. Okay, So that's what
Speaker 2: it was. I wrote this kind of piece, but I
Speaker 2: was really proud of it. But it cost me thirty
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars, you know, and that was all the
Speaker 2: savings I had at the time. I could today make
Speaker 2: that movie on my iPhone for free. Basically, I just
Speaker 2: did whatever costume that I bought for the people, get
Speaker 2: it edited on my laptop and be done, and then
Speaker 2: put it out of the internet.
Speaker 3: That's amazing, you know.
Speaker 2: But this thing I walked around with it, finished this movie,
Speaker 2: walked around with it for a year trying to get
Speaker 2: a festivals, couldn't get a festivals, couldn't it. And it's
Speaker 2: just like this disaster that I couldn't get anybody to see.
Speaker 2: So in that way, I say, anytime I lectured to
Speaker 2: film students or any any young young people, I like,
Speaker 2: you have no excuse not to If you want to
Speaker 2: make stuff, you have no excuse not to do it.
Speaker 1: If you go back to freaking geeks, you know, you
Speaker 1: had this incredible cast that all went on.
Speaker 3: So I have this these illustrious careers.
Speaker 2: Nobody got arrested.
Speaker 3: That's why I like, all right, nobody got arrested, and
Speaker 3: the chemistry was so good. How does that work? You're casting?
Speaker 1: I mean your chemistry with like I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: like looking at Christian Way with Melissa McCarthy, I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you know how to put people together?
Speaker 2: Well, it's I mean you see a lot of people
Speaker 2: and you see what their vibe is and then you
Speaker 2: kind of go, this would mix well with this just
Speaker 2: like not so much visually, although visually sometimes, but just
Speaker 2: kind of attitude wise, like these would be fun together.
Speaker 2: But then you'll usually, like for Bridesmaids, we took like
Speaker 2: our top twelve candidates and then mix and match them
Speaker 2: in these in a session. You okay, you four coming together. Okay,
Speaker 2: now you two go together. Okay, and you start to
Speaker 2: see like, oh this it's not even so much anybody
Speaker 2: good will find chemistry. I find, especially comedy people really
Speaker 2: because you can't you know, unless you're one of these people,
Speaker 2: just like I want all the jokes and you can't
Speaker 2: be funny around me, which that's instant death of your
Speaker 2: comedy person. They're used to being team players. You know,
Speaker 2: you're very much a team player because you're lying on
Speaker 2: the other person to set you up and all that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so it tends to kind of sort itself out,
Speaker 2: you kind of know going in and then it just
Speaker 2: becomes like, oh, whose energy is going to be a
Speaker 2: good counterpart to this person? So I'm almost doing more
Speaker 2: for the camera knowing I think they'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: I mean if once a while you go like, okay,
Speaker 2: those two people just don't have any it just doesn't
Speaker 2: seem right together.
Speaker 3: Does it ever gets to the place where you have.
Speaker 1: Actually cast it begun shooting and then go ooh, they're
Speaker 1: just not getting.
Speaker 2: I've been very lucky. I've only had a couple of times,
Speaker 2: one in particular, where we had to replace somebody. But
Speaker 2: it wasn't really it wasn't a chemistry thing. It was
Speaker 2: all the other thing they had to do with. I
Speaker 2: think I don't know what happened. It was in another country.
Speaker 2: It might have been jet lag. There might have been
Speaker 2: some ways to get past jet lag that didn't work.
Speaker 2: But no, I've been very very lucky because but I
Speaker 2: really vet who I work with too, Like I will
Speaker 2: call around, but not just a one person, you know,
Speaker 2: and just go like how But you know, if you
Speaker 2: call one person, they go the person's terrible. That person
Speaker 2: could the person who's telling you they were terrible could
Speaker 2: have been terrible, right, you know. So I don't do that,
Speaker 2: but I'll kind of if I hear somebody's like iffy,
Speaker 2: then I'll call other people who they work with and
Speaker 2: go like, what's the what's the story. And generally it's
Speaker 2: it's almost you know, there's very few that people go
Speaker 2: like forget it, forget it. And also I like working
Speaker 2: with people who people who are particular when I was
Speaker 2: a TV director, you know, I did it for ten
Speaker 2: years before I started got to do Bridesmaids and all
Speaker 2: that stuff. I was kind of good at coming into
Speaker 2: shows that had difficult situations, especially with lead actresses, and
Speaker 2: I was always just like, well, just take me on
Speaker 2: the set. Let me go meet them before I even start,
Speaker 2: and just go like, hey, I just want to find
Speaker 2: out how you work, what way do you like to work,
Speaker 2: you know, because I want to be I just want
Speaker 2: to be here for you. And they loved it, and
Speaker 2: we'd always have a experience. So you know, there's so
Speaker 2: many people just.
Speaker 3: Want to be seen. They want to know that they're
Speaker 3: being heard in.
Speaker 2: Respect, and if you're not giving them the respect on
Speaker 2: the set in collaborating with them, they're just like the
Speaker 2: trust is.
Speaker 1: Gone, right, It's completely gone. I pursued acting for a
Speaker 1: couple of years in the early nineties that came out here.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, yeah, it was so bad.
Speaker 1: And I got this part on one movie under Siege
Speaker 1: with Steven Savelle as a fighter pilot. The only thing
Speaker 1: you could see with my eyes and I was going
Speaker 1: to be blown up at beat thirteen. So I'm flying
Speaker 1: this like F eighteen. It's like fake F eighteen, you know,
Speaker 1: the second unit. It's like, okay, I'm beat twelve. You
Speaker 1: have to or eleven. You have to start to show
Speaker 1: panic because like, you know, so first I'm like flying
Speaker 1: on like this. He's like no, there's like, you know, force,
Speaker 1: so you can't just move like that. And so I'm
Speaker 1: like one, two, three's counting, and I actually start to like,
Speaker 1: you know, show it in my eyes. I go see
Speaker 1: the movie they they blow up the plane and Beat
Speaker 1: eight looks like I'm just like.
Speaker 3: Having occasionally fired. Like I always said to myself, Wow,
Speaker 3: like they really my one little performance.
Speaker 2: They fucked over.
Speaker 3: They fucked me over, like he didn't kill me, and
Speaker 3: BE thirteen killed me and B eight thirteen. But I
Speaker 3: think you're right, he's gonna fix worries.
Speaker 2: The editing room is that's that's where it all happens.
Speaker 3: It really does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I was kind of just I like
Speaker 2: actors who understand the filmmaking process. I could take something
Speaker 2: from a different part of the performance and put it
Speaker 2: over here, you know. And it's not like I'm trying
Speaker 2: to fool you or anything. It's just like I need
Speaker 2: something in this moment because I need you to look
Speaker 2: over here. I need to see something in your face.
Speaker 2: And the editing process, you know, it's like the Eisenstein
Speaker 2: thing where he just photographed the guy just staring at
Speaker 2: the camera and they intercut with different things in the audience, like, oh,
Speaker 2: he was moting so much on this on that. It's
Speaker 2: like we're building it right, you know. I mean, the
Speaker 2: actor has to give you great stuff, sure, but at
Speaker 2: the same time, then we're manipulating that beyond that. And
Speaker 2: i'd like when actors who understand that. But even just
Speaker 2: the way I wear, I don't rehearse or anything. I'm
Speaker 2: just kind of like cameras here, no, no, I want
Speaker 2: I want to know what they're going to do. I
Speaker 2: don't even like to do rehearsals, like in the in
Speaker 2: the run up to sometime we'll do them read throughs
Speaker 2: and that kind of stuff, just more for the writing
Speaker 2: to go like oh I need to change this or that.
Speaker 2: The way that I get a lot of takes that
Speaker 2: I like and a lot of variety is just don't rehearse,
Speaker 2: and so we have to ferry with the cameras are okay,
Speaker 2: just kind of you know, talk through it. But don't
Speaker 2: you know where would you go? Where'd you go? Set
Speaker 2: up the cameras, and then just start shooting. And what
Speaker 2: happens is when I get the first few takes are
Speaker 2: just coming out of that actor's brain what they think
Speaker 2: it should be, and I'm usually got, oh, I kind
Speaker 2: of wish it was this. So then I'll slowly and
Speaker 2: incrementally move them each take with just another, try this,
Speaker 2: try this, until I get them, you know, five ten
Speaker 2: takes in to do what I thought I wanted, and
Speaker 2: almost always what I thought I wanted isn't kind of
Speaker 2: what I liked, or or if I go like that
Speaker 2: last take, like that's the one I want, I never
Speaker 2: end up using it, really cause the editing room, away
Speaker 2: from what you are trying to control, suddenly you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is actually better. And I have an editor. I
Speaker 2: never I never circle takes my editor. I just say like,
Speaker 2: just do your assembly, pick whatever takes you want. And halftime,
Speaker 2: I watched the assembly, I'm like, why would you use
Speaker 2: those takes? And he's like, we'll just watch it again,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, you know, that's that's actually way
Speaker 2: better than what I wanted. Wow, I'd rather have a
Speaker 2: ten percent less. Yeah, great looking shop and have this
Speaker 2: lightning in a bottle moment that happened, because there's nothing
Speaker 2: worse when somebody's off camera when they say something, you're like, oh, yeah, god,
Speaker 2: that was great, trying to remember it. Could you do
Speaker 2: that again? It's never the same. They never repeat it
Speaker 2: the same way.
Speaker 1: You could never even if we were to do something
Speaker 1: to say and then they say something here and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: if oh, can you pick that up and say it again,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't.
Speaker 4: It doesn't resonate the same way.
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us on Table for two. Paul's movies are.
Speaker 1: Not only hilarious, but have a powerful emotional center. As
Speaker 1: someone with such great taste, I'm wondering what does he
Speaker 1: like to watch and gather inspiration from?
Speaker 3: What growing up movies? Where your your sort of influence
Speaker 3: your old movies? That really kind of okay.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean all the comedy. I was a Marx
Speaker 2: Brothers fanatic and oh yeah, and loved all Laurel Hardy,
Speaker 2: any silent comedies in the black and white, old black
Speaker 2: white comedies, all that stuff. I love. The first one
Speaker 2: that blew my mind, well, first of one was Animal
Speaker 2: Crack because they had the Marx Brothers movies because they
Speaker 2: had re released it in theaters, and my mom took
Speaker 2: me and I was probably like seven or eight, and
Speaker 2: and it was all these college place was filmed college
Speaker 2: and it destroyed and you're just like, how can an
Speaker 2: old movie like this just but it was such anarchy,
Speaker 2: you know, because Crouch, it was crazy and Harbo and
Speaker 2: all of them. So that was cool. But then the
Speaker 2: big one for me was What's Up? Doc? Ah, the
Speaker 2: Bogdanovic film.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that movie.
Speaker 2: That movie is so great. I did that like a
Speaker 2: few years ago at the Austin Film Festival. They had
Speaker 2: me like program a couple of movies, and I did
Speaker 2: What's Up Doc for this young audience and it killed,
Speaker 2: It just killed.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a movie a lot of people realize.
Speaker 1: Younger people know. I mean Madeline conn in that movie.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Kenneth Mars, Yeah, I mean I had
Speaker 2: such a crush on her cute and he was great,
Speaker 2: and you know, no, it's it's Austin Penalty and it
Speaker 2: just goes.
Speaker 3: Where I forgot about it. I mean it's I didn't.
Speaker 2: Even know about screwball comedies, right, so I just kid
Speaker 2: I was just like, oh my god, this is crazy.
Speaker 2: And then you know later you see bringing a baby
Speaker 2: and here's Friday, like, oh that's where this is all from. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's done so well. And then you know it's
Speaker 2: a kid that had a car, Chason, and so I
Speaker 2: love that. But that was a mind blower for me.
Speaker 2: And that was you know, back kids before you could
Speaker 2: go watch stuff on you know, over and over on
Speaker 2: whatever media you had. Right I had to go to
Speaker 2: the theater. I saw it I think nine or ten
Speaker 2: times in the theater. I would just go every few
Speaker 2: days and watch it and study it and study it
Speaker 2: and look.
Speaker 1: The most exciting, the most exciting thing to me is
Speaker 1: being in a darkened movie theater movie. The lights go down,
Speaker 1: the curtain opens up, and you know, for the next
Speaker 1: two hours you're just in this incredible space. And that's
Speaker 1: sort of like thankfully seemingly coming back, you know, the
Speaker 1: sort of rhythm got broke with COVID and streaming and
Speaker 1: all the crap that we all go through.
Speaker 3: Are you watching you? What do you watch? What is.
Speaker 2: Much of My wife is in dismay and sugrin. I
Speaker 2: watch a lot of horror and thrillers. I don't watch.
Speaker 2: I don't watch a lot of comedy for some reason. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just maybe it's a bust on was holiday. I
Speaker 2: don't know, I just don't. I don't enjoy it anymore.
Speaker 2: It's hilariously. The last night, I just I just finished
Speaker 2: a giantry ride on my next movie, and I was
Speaker 2: just like, I finally got time to sit here, and
Speaker 2: I just was flipping around Netflix, and Blues Brothers popped up,
Speaker 2: which I've seen a thousand times, and I was just like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just gonna treat myself. I was gonna
Speaker 2: watch right, and I just I was so happy. So
Speaker 2: that's always been my problem. I've never seen a ton
Speaker 2: of movies. But the movies i've seen, I've seen a
Speaker 2: thousand times, you know, so it becomes comfort food. But then,
Speaker 2: but then I really like what I like about horror.
Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about like you know, Saw and
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. I'm talking about Megan and those things,
Speaker 2: because those are the best comedies going right now. That
Speaker 2: that is the new comedy is horror movies.
Speaker 3: I mean, you are right.
Speaker 2: I think Megan was the funniest movie last year. I
Speaker 2: love that film and it made me laugh and I
Speaker 2: just but it's still the stakes are high, so it's real.
Speaker 2: So then it gets me out of silly comedy, you
Speaker 2: know again finding dishonest comedy, you know. So that's I
Speaker 2: think comedy needs a driver in the middle of it.
Speaker 2: I always say my movies are just dramas that are funny,
Speaker 2: you know, because you have to plot them out like
Speaker 2: dramas otherwise, you know, so many big com so many
Speaker 2: comedies go off the rails because you're kind of with
Speaker 2: it and then suddenly somebody will do something and you're like, well,
Speaker 2: why would they do that. It's like, well, because it
Speaker 2: was funny. It's like, oh, now you've broken the reality
Speaker 2: and I don't know why. Like, there's nothing worse than
Speaker 2: a funny bad guy. Yeah, unless it's Alan Rickman Diehard,
Speaker 2: who's terrifying, but he's still funny at.
Speaker 3: The same time you can deliver those lines.
Speaker 2: I was a Star Wars fanatic when I was okay,
Speaker 2: you know, the first Star Wars and second Star Wars.
Speaker 2: I remember, you know, so I'm both opening weekend and
Speaker 2: what I remember about those two screenings where they were
Speaker 2: getting a laugh every minute, every single minute there was
Speaker 2: a joke or a laugh or something light that happened,
Speaker 2: and they were so much fun. And then suddenly those
Speaker 2: Time Wars universe became really serious, and I'm like, and
Speaker 2: every time I watch they're really good movies and all that,
Speaker 2: but I'm just like, we've lost that thing of like
Speaker 2: this can all be fun. You know, It's like watching
Speaker 2: and I've seen this so many times comedy stars who
Speaker 2: want to be taken seriously, so they make a movie
Speaker 2: and they purposely drain every ounce of humor out of
Speaker 2: their body. So it's just like, you know, it's an
Speaker 2: audience that person's normally funny, Well what's happening? Like is
Speaker 2: this a setup? And then they're gonna do something crazy?
Speaker 2: And then you're and you're so frustrated by that. But
Speaker 2: my problem with it is like that's not life, Like
Speaker 2: would you hang out with people who are just so
Speaker 2: dour and never crack a joke and never laugh? Like, no,
Speaker 2: you want to flee from those people.
Speaker 3: Sure, I think you make a very good point with
Speaker 3: the Star Wars.
Speaker 1: I can remember too exactly, like the theater I was
Speaker 1: in in nineteen seventy seven when I saw the first
Speaker 1: Star Wars eighty fourth Street, and there was so much laughter,
Speaker 1: and yet you were like overwhelmed by this.
Speaker 2: Like laughter and cheer, darkness, light, yeah.
Speaker 3: Ale, this whole thing that you're also sitting on the
Speaker 3: edge of your seat.
Speaker 2: But yet Raiders the Lost Art, I mean, yeah, that
Speaker 2: was the Raiders of the movie that made me want
Speaker 2: to become a filmmaker because I saw that opening morning.
Speaker 2: I knew nothing about it. I'm a friend. When I
Speaker 2: was a tour guy. They were like, we're going to
Speaker 2: see this new Spielberg movie. Oh cool, and that theater
Speaker 2: in the Chinese Yeah, gigantic. People went crazy then that.
Speaker 2: You know, we've seen that boulder rolling down in a
Speaker 2: billion times now that it looks old and hacky to us,
Speaker 2: but the first time that happened literally entire I get
Speaker 2: goosebumps every time I talk about, like people, the whole
Speaker 2: everyone out of their seats and we're like screaming and
Speaker 2: yelling and stuff. And that was when I went like,
Speaker 2: that's what a movie directory is. Before that, I'd always
Speaker 2: watched movies as an actor, going like I want to
Speaker 2: play it that part or or is it like a
Speaker 2: you know, Close Encounters, Like I want an alien to
Speaker 2: come and take me away. Yeah, you know, but that
Speaker 2: was the moment I go like, that's what. With a
Speaker 2: camera and a good script and great actors, you know,
Speaker 2: you're doing that's what you can do.
Speaker 3: And in those.
Speaker 1: Movies and you had, you know, when Harrison Ford al sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, delivered the comedic line or took out the
Speaker 1: gun and shot the guy with the sword, and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's it alleviates this moment and it is real life
Speaker 1: in a way. You're like, okay, yeah, of course if
Speaker 1: I have a gun and you have a sort and
Speaker 1: you want to come on, guess what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, which, hilariously, I know, you know. The backstory
Speaker 2: on that gag is that they had a whole giant
Speaker 2: fight scene choreographed and Harrison Ford either had food poisoning
Speaker 2: or the flu or something and he was just sick
Speaker 2: as a dog that day and they're trying to rehearse it.
Speaker 2: He goes like, wouldn't I just pull out my gun
Speaker 2: and kill the guy? And they're like, okay, let's just
Speaker 2: do that. And that's one of those iconic movies.
Speaker 3: History story and it is. Yeah, and I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever thought about it, but you know,
Speaker 1: they're not they're serious stories that are funny, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, the real stories, real life stories, a
Speaker 1: LIFETI lemons that are funny.
Speaker 2: You have to have steaks, you know. It's the hackiest
Speaker 2: word that every executive will say in studio open had.
Speaker 2: It's why I and this is slightly different, but I've
Speaker 2: always had trouble with superhero movies. Okay, I think they're gray, right,
Speaker 2: but for me, I go like, God just got punched
Speaker 2: through a building, a skyscraper fall on top of him.
Speaker 2: You got crushed between two buses and he kind of
Speaker 2: comes out and shakes his head and he's fine, Like
Speaker 2: how do I don't know how to invest in this?
Speaker 2: You know, if you can't die, then I'm not really
Speaker 2: worried about you versus. This is why I did that movie,
Speaker 2: you know, did Ghostbusters, because I was like, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: real humans with all this stuff on them, but they
Speaker 2: could get killed. So at least I'm like, oh no,
Speaker 2: I hope, I hope they don't die.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Is it more difficult to remake a movie like when
Speaker 1: you you know, you look at Ghostbusters?
Speaker 5: Never again, I'm happy I did it, but it's just again,
Speaker 5: when you step into fan service, and I didn't realize
Speaker 5: I was stepping into fan service.
Speaker 2: It was just a movie that you know, had It
Speaker 2: was twenty years twenty five years old by the point,
Speaker 2: you know, it was brought to me and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is great. It was Amy Pascal's really won't talk
Speaker 2: me into it. She was like, why don't you and
Speaker 2: you comedy guys want to do this? This, this amazing
Speaker 2: franchise is just sitting there, and I was like, because
Speaker 2: it's it's this, you know, it's so such cannon now.
Speaker 2: But then that's why I was like, oh, wait, if
Speaker 2: I do it, you know, reboot it so I'm not
Speaker 2: in the original world and I cast all the funny
Speaker 2: women I know then who would be offended. So that
Speaker 2: kind of went into just like his lamb to the
Speaker 2: slaughter of like everybody's lots, you know, and then it
Speaker 2: just all blew up. But I'm happy I did it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just think if you can avoid doing
Speaker 2: those kinds of things, plus all, I just want to
Speaker 2: do original stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, it's fun understandable.
Speaker 2: I'm about to go in production on Simple Favor two,
Speaker 2: which is my first sequel I've done. But I mean
Speaker 2: we worked on this script so long or so hard
Speaker 2: on it, because I like, if I'm going to do
Speaker 2: a it's got to be great. It's got to pay
Speaker 2: off for the people getting on fan service because the movies,
Speaker 2: you know, found an audience, but it also needs to
Speaker 2: be different. I'm really happy or finally got to really
Speaker 2: happy with Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's like, you know, you really kind of roll the
Speaker 1: dice when you say, Okay, we're gonna and not many
Speaker 1: films that do the other succeed in that. They go, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, you go like okay, I mean, but some do,
Speaker 1: like you know, you have a lot actually a lot
Speaker 1: to I take that back. You know, there have been
Speaker 1: a lot of sort of number twos that I think
Speaker 1: have been great. When they go to number three or four, sometimes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you start to lose the mojo.
Speaker 2: It's just sequels are hard because the thing that made
Speaker 2: you love the first one was the originality of it.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean everybody wants Bridesmaids too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about like needing a sequel to that.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, Like, certain movies are so beautiful,
Speaker 1: they're just meant to live.
Speaker 2: And why do we always want more?
Speaker 6: So watch it again as we sort of kind of
Speaker 6: come to a close and a lunch, which is this
Speaker 6: has been so joyful for me.
Speaker 1: And it's really having lunch with Paul Vegas, and it
Speaker 1: is an amazing thing you are.
Speaker 3: Your movies do make us.
Speaker 1: Feel great and they make us laugh and they make
Speaker 1: us have an and that's so important right now.
Speaker 3: And you're a man of such debonair style and thank you.
Speaker 3: You always look thank you. So you love cocktails and
Speaker 3: you have a gin and I didn't really realize that.
Speaker 1: And I have a my partner and I we launched
Speaker 1: a liquor a couple of years ago called Mujen, which
Speaker 1: is a Japanese show choo.
Speaker 2: Oh oh my god, I love you.
Speaker 3: So this is for you, right.
Speaker 1: My partner Sandra, she designed the bottle. We have a
Speaker 1: this is our thirty five percent great in cocktails, and
Speaker 1: we have a ten year age and we have an
Speaker 1: ai which is a light and you're gonna get all
Speaker 1: the other two and there it's just we we didn't
Speaker 1: know about show shows. Is an amazing Japanese spirits and alcohol.
Speaker 1: So tell me about your love of cock So just
Speaker 1: it's part thank you love for coming today. What what
Speaker 1: do you love about cocktails and you know you're really
Speaker 1: good at you're you know, making cocktails and how did
Speaker 1: how did that?
Speaker 2: It's my love of adult life. To me, cocktails are
Speaker 2: the embodiment of being an adult. You know, that's as
Speaker 2: a kid, you know, the influence of Darren Stevens having
Speaker 2: Martini we him from work every day was so monumental. Yes,
Speaker 2: you don't know.
Speaker 3: The reference to Darren Stevens.
Speaker 1: He was the husband to Bewitched Samantha and a drinks cart.
Speaker 3: Did you have a favorite Darren Stevens Number one or
Speaker 3: number two?
Speaker 2: No, number one, number one? There no shade to dig sart.
Speaker 3: Yes, like they have the cocktail car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it either she'd have ate it and hands
Speaker 2: with him or he'd go over and mix it himself.
Speaker 2: I'm like, that looks fantastic, Like I just wanted that.
Speaker 2: And then also when I was a kid, my parents
Speaker 2: took me to Las Vegas when I was five or
Speaker 2: six or something because they were going to see the
Speaker 2: Muhammad Ali fight, and so I kind of thought I
Speaker 2: was gonna go see it too, because it's a kid thing,
Speaker 2: and they kind of parayed me through the outer edge
Speaker 2: of the casino. I think we were staying with the
Speaker 2: dunes or something, and then put me in this nursery
Speaker 2: which was hilariously attached to the casino the old days
Speaker 2: cigarettes for the kids. But it had this big sliding
Speaker 2: glass door that looked onto the casino floor. And I
Speaker 2: remember all these kids were being idiot kids behind me.
Speaker 2: I was just at that door, pressed against that door,
Speaker 2: looking out and onto that floor. And you saw. This
Speaker 2: was back when people dressed up in Vegas. People are
Speaker 2: glamoring touxedos and gowns, smoking and they're drinking. And I
Speaker 2: just saw people drinking martinis. And I was just like,
Speaker 2: God is my witness. I will have that when I
Speaker 2: am not a child anymore.
Speaker 3: I love the way your brain works. I mean it
Speaker 3: has worked that way since your human.
Speaker 2: I just didn't want to be a kid, you didn't.
Speaker 1: I love that you notice these things and they because
Speaker 1: you could see it in every aspect of your life.
Speaker 3: So you have a gin and your website's phenomenal, you know,
Speaker 3: having now.
Speaker 1: Been in the spirits world for just a couple of years,
Speaker 1: you know, three years and in UH stores, but six years.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a brutal.
Speaker 2: It is a brutal industry. Thank God, it's not our
Speaker 2: main business street. No, I mean just trying to get
Speaker 2: people to pick it up.
Speaker 3: All right, pick it up, just just distribution.
Speaker 2: I can't even get it in here. I've been trying
Speaker 2: for three years to get into the tower. I can't
Speaker 2: get it in.
Speaker 1: I mean, we do have much in here, so we
Speaker 1: need to speak to JK. But again, we have a
Speaker 1: category that is very unique. Most places you're competing with
Speaker 1: we have we have to kill as we have Vodkas.
Speaker 2: Well, the problem with Gin is that Americans don't think
Speaker 2: they like Gin. I mean, it's you know, cocktail culture
Speaker 2: is kind of you know, the mixology is kind of
Speaker 2: bringing it around the cool bartenders. But most people have
Speaker 2: had a bad experience with Gin when they were kids.
Speaker 2: They go down to the basements, open up the bottle
Speaker 2: of beef Feeder's terrible, and that's it. And that's only remembers.
Speaker 2: And I really formulated my Gin for people who don't
Speaker 2: like Gin, you know, so it's still Gin. So it's
Speaker 2: like people like Gin, really like it, but it's it's
Speaker 2: it's mellower on the Juniper front, and so so many
Speaker 2: people are like, oh, I don't like Jen. I we'll
Speaker 2: just try this. Oh, I like this again because I'm
Speaker 2: not going that hardcore pine pine, but yeah, exactly kind
Speaker 2: of thing. It's it's really there, it is so yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm really proud of it. We won a ton of
Speaker 2: awards and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I look, do you still do the cocktail Instagram?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Hour Like no, no, that was only it was really cold.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and my wife always we should do it again.
Speaker 2: There was just something I love doing it.
Speaker 3: Can we access it?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Does it still? It's still on my face so you
Speaker 2: can see almost all. Sometimes occasional they'll take one down
Speaker 2: for music rice, which is like, what's really somebody really,
Speaker 2: I'm not making money off this, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: think they mine. I love doing it. And then once
Speaker 2: the pandemic was not even panic, it was over just coming.
Speaker 2: Even after that hundred days, it was kind of like,
Speaker 2: I think we're moving forward now, so like to do
Speaker 2: it now just feels like I'm kind of self promote.
Speaker 2: It had a purpose back then.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I totally get what you're saying.
Speaker 1: And I also think, you know, because you actually do
Speaker 1: have a gin, it's like a fun thing. It's it's
Speaker 1: you always are thinking of new ideas to short of
Speaker 1: had to promote whatever you do, whether it's a movie
Speaker 1: or you're but I loved it and I will be.
Speaker 3: I will be.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to know what you think about this, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to send you the other ones.
Speaker 2: I'm going to create some cocktails. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 2: have a cocktail book out.
Speaker 3: I know you have a coctap book. You have memoirs?
Speaker 3: You do? Have you done two?
Speaker 2: Two memoirs?
Speaker 3: You've done two? So your last one was in two
Speaker 3: thousand and five?
Speaker 2: Yeah it was yeah, Yeah, there was like two thousand
Speaker 2: and three and then two thousand.
Speaker 3: Got some years under our bettle? Is there another one? Comment?
Speaker 2: I always say I wanted to get in the trilogy
Speaker 2: of shame. I call it so I need. I need
Speaker 2: to complete the trilogy. And I've got stories that I've
Speaker 2: written for but I haven't kind of put it together yet.
Speaker 2: But then I have two other books. I put out.
Speaker 2: These two like young adult sci fi comedy books called
Speaker 2: Ignations like Farland, Yes, which was fun.
Speaker 3: I don't understand you. I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm sitting here. I mean like I could
Speaker 1: barely like do one thing in my day.
Speaker 2: I don't sit around. Well, I get it's so funny.
Speaker 2: Whenever I'm working, all I want to do is be
Speaker 2: off right a minute I'm done, I'm like, i gotta
Speaker 2: do something. I can't stop.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just blown away.
Speaker 1: I look forward to all is there as I know
Speaker 1: you're working on a bunch of projects. We though the
Speaker 1: world will continue to have your voice in it.
Speaker 2: Have a movie that I finished that I shot last
Speaker 2: year that's coming out this summer called Jack Pop, John
Speaker 2: Cena and Aquafina and Lu And it's just a big
Speaker 2: action comedy in the vein of the heat and spy
Speaker 2: and it's it feels like a fun return to I
Speaker 2: want to say return to form, because it feels like
Speaker 2: like I've done terrible stuff. But I think it's just
Speaker 2: a returned to sort of my roots of just like
Speaker 2: lots of jokes. But you know, stakes are great and
Speaker 2: that it is a very high concept, but it's very
Speaker 2: emotional points and and I'm just excited about it. It
Speaker 2: was just so much fun to work with them, and
Speaker 2: it's a lot of action and stuff.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us, joining me today,
Speaker 1: please on the table. Thank you for pulling up a
Speaker 1: chair on the other side of the mic. And Paul,
Speaker 1: thank you for more dinners, and yes, Laurie and Brian
Speaker 1: and Vall.
Speaker 2: Please Bruce, it's it's a thrill because we've we've always
Speaker 2: known each other, but we've never got to spend any
Speaker 2: extended amount of time together. So this has just been
Speaker 2: an absolute joy.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Thank you everyone to have a
Speaker 1: great day.
Speaker 3: Thank you for pulling up a chair.
Speaker 1: I love our lunches and never forget the romance of
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Speaker 1: Bosi and Nathan King. Our supervising producer is Dylan Fagan.
Speaker 1: Our editors are Vincent to Johnny and Cas B Bias.
Speaker 1: Table for two is researched and written by Jack Sullivan.
Speaker 1: Our sound engineers are Meil B. Klein, Jess Krainich, Evan Taylor,
Speaker 1: and Jesse Funk. Our music supervisor is Randall Poster. Our
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