Speaker 1: Look it out. His only films to be buried with. Hello,
Speaker 1: and welcome to Films to be buried with. My name
Speaker 1: is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, a writer,
Speaker 1: a director, a catalyst, and I love film. As roy
Speaker 1: T Bennett once said, success is not how high you
Speaker 1: have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to
Speaker 1: the world. Muppet Christmas Carol may not be the highest
Speaker 1: grossing film of all time, but my god, it made
Speaker 1: a difference to the world, didn't it. Yeah, it did,
Speaker 1: roy T Bennett, I'd agree with that. Well done. Every
Speaker 1: week and a special guest over, I tell them they've died.
Speaker 1: Then I get them to discuss their life through the
Speaker 1: films that meant the most of them. Previous guests include
Speaker 1: Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and even said Jambles.
Speaker 1: But this week it's the multi Emmy winning superstar, the
Speaker 1: one and only, Quinta Branson. Head over to the Patron
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Speaker 1: Forward Slashbreck Golstein. So Quinta Branson, Come on, she's amazing.
Speaker 1: She's a writer, she's a creator, she's an actor, she's
Speaker 1: a producer. She is now an Emmy winner. She's done
Speaker 1: the impossible. She has created a network sitcom that is
Speaker 1: universally beloved across the world and also by critics. She
Speaker 1: came up with stars in Producers, writes everything Abbott elementary.
Speaker 1: If you're in the UK and you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: you can't get it on Disney Plus. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: you've seen it by now. Everyone should watch it. It's brilliant.
Speaker 1: I'd known her a couple of years. I was delighted
Speaker 1: to record this over Zoom with her. We did it
Speaker 1: a few weeks before she became an Emmy winner, and
Speaker 1: we were recording in the middle of her work schedule,
Speaker 1: so it was amazing. She gave me this time and
Speaker 1: it was lovely. I think you're really gonna like this one.
Speaker 1: So that is it for now. I very much hope
Speaker 1: you enjoy episode two hundred and fourteen of Films to
Speaker 1: Be Buried with Hello and Welcome to Films to be
Speaker 1: buried with. It is me Brett Goldstein, and I am
Speaker 1: joined today by an Internet star, a cable star, a
Speaker 1: network star, a writer, a comedian, a sketch a showrunner,
Speaker 1: a actor, award winner, a award winner, a award winner,
Speaker 1: multi multi, multi award winner and multi award nominee, a
Speaker 1: hero and the future of humanity and the leader of
Speaker 1: the free world. She's also stand up. Please welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Your hero, am mine. It's the one that
Speaker 1: Ailie she is. It's Quinta Branson. Hi. What a crazy
Speaker 1: intro crazy crazy crazy dru Hi bred Hi, Quinta, How
Speaker 1: are you? I'm good? How are you? I'm good? Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for doing this with me. Now, I met
Speaker 1: you through Ashley Nicole Black. I believe we met at
Speaker 1: the Ted Lasser season two premier. Is that where we
Speaker 1: first met? Yes, And I said, what's you up to?
Speaker 1: And he said, I'm working on a little show, lovely
Speaker 1: little show called Abbott Elementary and I thought, well, good
Speaker 1: luck with that. And then you turned out you made
Speaker 1: one of the best news shows there is and you
Speaker 1: have now been multi multi, multi, multi award winning and
Speaker 1: multi At this point of recording, nominated for many Emmys.
Speaker 1: You've had the most successful, biggest writing sitcomb of network
Speaker 1: TV ever so in recent time, but in recent time.
Speaker 1: But yes, and you're not doing you are made recording
Speaker 1: season two? Is that correct? Yes, we are in the middle.
Speaker 1: We just finished shooting our fifth episode and so our
Speaker 1: fifth week of shooting. But we're in the writer's room.
Speaker 1: We've been in there since May. We're actually next door
Speaker 1: to a lot of your people, deser people. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: share our office wall. So wow, forgive me. Are you
Speaker 1: the showrunner as well on that SHOWE? I am? I am.
Speaker 1: I have two wonderful co showrunners and co producers, Justin
Speaker 1: Halpern and Patrick Schumacher, who we're like a three headed beast.
Speaker 1: Because I do so much on the show. It is
Speaker 1: definitely hard to be I wouldn't even want to be
Speaker 1: the Souls showrunner. But also because with Abbit, I'd never
Speaker 1: show run before, and Justin and Pet so great at it,
Speaker 1: so I'm happy to be in this three headed beast
Speaker 1: with them. Okay, I know you've been talking a lot
Speaker 1: about the show, but can I ask you like practical
Speaker 1: stuff because I'm so fascinated. For the record, I love
Speaker 1: your show. I think it's fucking brilliant, and I also
Speaker 1: think it's so hard and rare for a sitcom to
Speaker 1: nail it in the first episode, and that pilot is
Speaker 1: a fucking banger. It's so funny, it sets up everything perfectly,
Speaker 1: and all the cast of characters are already funny and
Speaker 1: already they're part you know what I mean. Like it
Speaker 1: feels like, oh, this is the show. Whereas most shows
Speaker 1: take three or four to find it, you had it
Speaker 1: episode one, and so my first question I would like
Speaker 1: to ask is about like the casting of it, because
Speaker 1: it's also there's no big names in it, and I
Speaker 1: disrespect to anyone. Yeah they're all incredible, but it's not
Speaker 1: like you were casting famous is So how how much
Speaker 1: was that something you fought for? How much was the
Speaker 1: network behind you? Because network, I believe I've never worked
Speaker 1: in it, but I understand networks very difficult. You get
Speaker 1: lights of nights of nights and there's lots of people
Speaker 1: you have to please, And how did that work for
Speaker 1: you in the early stages before it was a proven thing.
Speaker 1: So I was super intentional about getting a certain type
Speaker 1: of cast. As a TV watcher, I'm always just in
Speaker 1: love with being introduced to new talent, it's so exciting,
Speaker 1: and not only because you know they're new, but it
Speaker 1: helps you to fall in love with the character a
Speaker 1: little bit more. I think, using the show You're on
Speaker 1: as an example, Ted Lasso introduced me to a whole
Speaker 1: crop of new talent, and I think that that helped
Speaker 1: me to fall in love with those characters even more,
Speaker 1: knowing nothing about their lives or past roles like that,
Speaker 1: and I thought that I just thought that was really
Speaker 1: important for a sitcom, and with it being a mockumentary,
Speaker 1: I really wanted to have. I wanted people to feel
Speaker 1: like it was real. Like we all watch TV. We
Speaker 1: know that television isn't real, but I do think there's
Speaker 1: beauty in maintaining the illusion for as long as you
Speaker 1: can so that audience members are able to get fully
Speaker 1: invested in this story. And so it was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a won't say fight. There were many discussions
Speaker 1: with the network about me really wanting to stay true
Speaker 1: to my roots, on having a mix of new faces
Speaker 1: and then faces the audience would be familiar with, but
Speaker 1: who weren't mega famous. I felt like Cheryl Lee Rolph,
Speaker 1: who plays Barbara, was the cap for me because many
Speaker 1: people know her right, She's just fantastic, wonderful, beautiful part
Speaker 1: of many of my favorite films growing up in TV shows,
Speaker 1: but she still wasn't this mega famous household name, and
Speaker 1: I saw an opportunity that to present her with really
Speaker 1: good work that would kind of push her over that threshold.
Speaker 1: And then Tyler James Williams is no stranger to TV
Speaker 1: for sure who plays Gregory, but he hadn't been Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's also about just giving someone a role that they
Speaker 1: haven't had yet. And for instance, on the one role
Speaker 1: that the network and I kind of had a big
Speaker 1: push pull on was the role of Ava. And they
Speaker 1: had a lot of big names that they were interested in,
Speaker 1: but it was very important to me that Ava, the
Speaker 1: character got to be brand new and got to come
Speaker 1: with no baggage or preconceived notions, and I wanted, I
Speaker 1: knew the character would be very fresh and brand new
Speaker 1: to TV, kind of incomparable to anything else that I
Speaker 1: had seen in recent time, and I thought a fresh
Speaker 1: face was the best way to convey that to the audience,
Speaker 1: and we got multiple reads from people, but when Janelle auditioned,
Speaker 1: it became super clear that she was the essence of
Speaker 1: what that character was. And for me, the discussion it
Speaker 1: was kind of over. Yeah, And like you said, like networks,
Speaker 1: they like to have the names because they think the
Speaker 1: names will bring the viewers. And yes, that's true sometimes,
Speaker 1: but I kind of believe that essence is what you know,
Speaker 1: makes people fall in love more than just a big name.
Speaker 1: I've talked about this when we've done like press Ted Lasser,
Speaker 1: but I felt with Ted Lasser, I know that you know,
Speaker 1: most of us were fairly yeah it similarly un not unknown,
Speaker 1: but we've all done stuff but no one knew who
Speaker 1: were so let's say yeah. And I definitely remember that
Speaker 1: first read through. Everyone's very nervous and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and there's there's pressure and all those things. But I
Speaker 1: do remember the episode four read through was the was
Speaker 1: the time where I really felt like everyone clicked. Like
Speaker 1: I looked around the room and everyone was so in
Speaker 1: it and we all had chemistry with each other and
Speaker 1: we all got each other, we got the show, and
Speaker 1: it was a real moment. It was really like a
Speaker 1: fun read through that where it was like, this is it,
Speaker 1: this is the show, and I when did you have
Speaker 1: that failing with everyone or was it really early. I
Speaker 1: think it was very early. I think, you know, we asked,
Speaker 1: we didn't do chemistry reads. I think the only one
Speaker 1: that would have been done realistically was me and m Tyler.
Speaker 1: But Tyler was the first cast it. I kind of
Speaker 1: as soon as I started writing that role. I had
Speaker 1: Tyler and we had already worked together before, and everybody
Speaker 1: else just showed up on the day and I think
Speaker 1: we were shooting one of our first big scenes altogether,
Speaker 1: and it was clicking in a way that was a
Speaker 1: little bit strange for all the actors, like whoa, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of people who have done a bunch
Speaker 1: of TV and film before. It never really had that
Speaker 1: feeling that their timing was so well matched up with
Speaker 1: each other. But you know, I think I did know
Speaker 1: that when casting the show, I once again there were
Speaker 1: certain things I was looking for. It wasn't just the
Speaker 1: person being a good actor or knowing the character well,
Speaker 1: but it's like, well, how will their version, how will
Speaker 1: Lisa Lisa and Walt version of Melissa play with Cheryl
Speaker 1: Lee Roll's version of Barbara. So I think that a
Speaker 1: good ensemble comedy is like harmony in a song where
Speaker 1: it's like, well, I want to lay this vocal track
Speaker 1: over this vocal track to make a beautiful song. And
Speaker 1: I knew that these people would be able to do that.
Speaker 1: So it was really the when we were shooting the pilot,
Speaker 1: and then for me in editing, I was just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, these people edit so well together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's such a good I still get that feeling while
Speaker 1: we're editing of just oh, we don't have to do
Speaker 1: too much, you know. And once again, especially with mocumentary,
Speaker 1: everything's being filmed all at once, and of course we
Speaker 1: get different taps. But to sometimes have one scene where
Speaker 1: we don't have to cut to another angle the entire
Speaker 1: time if we didn't want to, I think it's really
Speaker 1: really really powerful. What about I just want to know
Speaker 1: one sort of practical thing. It's hard making a show
Speaker 1: and very very very very lucky. But you're in the
Speaker 1: position where so on you your your ki running, but
Speaker 1: you're writing, you're acting, And well I didn't understand about
Speaker 1: Network TV is you're writing the show, was making the show.
Speaker 1: How far? How many episodes have you written when you
Speaker 1: started filming? So season one was eleven episodes? That right,
Speaker 1: Season one was thirteen episodes. Season two, you got the
Speaker 1: full of twenty two episodes. When I saw that announcement,
Speaker 1: I genuinely I thought, I felt like, oh, congratulations, what
Speaker 1: a night to think, Oh you're gonna did your heart sick? Hell?
Speaker 1: It was such a bittersweet feeling. I was both thank you,
Speaker 1: but also is this a threat? Like? What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Is so much TV? And we were really fortunate because
Speaker 1: the first season was so here in America on network TV.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it works for you know, network
Speaker 1: or what is considered network over there, but like we
Speaker 1: were mixed episodes healthy, um, but network for network, you
Speaker 1: have fall pickups in mid season pickups. Abben Elementary for
Speaker 1: the first season was a mid season pickup, but we
Speaker 1: shot the entire series, wrote and shot the entire series,
Speaker 1: and way before the show aired, we read filming in
Speaker 1: the Leader in the show filmed in January and this
Speaker 1: year not the case. So this show is airing in
Speaker 1: the fall. So right now we just finished filming episode five,
Speaker 1: will be starting six next week, and our writers room
Speaker 1: we now just finished episode to ten. We're outlined, we're
Speaker 1: outlined to two twelve, and my coach, show runner Justin
Speaker 1: has done he did such a good job of making
Speaker 1: sure we were very far ahead so that by time
Speaker 1: I had to set to film, you know, the first
Speaker 1: half of the season was pretty much laid out, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to lay out the rest of the season
Speaker 1: so that my writers, everybody had a north star they
Speaker 1: were going to. And I'm still hyper involved. I am
Speaker 1: definitely a person that Don't get me wrong. I love
Speaker 1: my actors. I love being on set, and I'll love acting,
Speaker 1: but I also love being in that writer's room. So
Speaker 1: I'm fortunate enough that you know, once again, because this
Speaker 1: is mockumentary, a little known fact that's really exciting is
Speaker 1: your day is finished much faster than the typical. So
Speaker 1: we finished filming every day usually around three, and if
Speaker 1: we're fortunate, we'll wrap shooting before lunch because we just
Speaker 1: it's fast, and I'll just go back up to the
Speaker 1: writer's room and you know, really right if I can
Speaker 1: really go through all of the stories and the outlines
Speaker 1: help create the stories. But every episode as of now
Speaker 1: is laid out so that we know where we're going.
Speaker 1: And I think that's when did you last sleep? So
Speaker 1: I chose to sleep yesterday. Yesterday was the first day
Speaker 1: in a very long time that I didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: I stayed in the house, I did laundry, I caught
Speaker 1: up on some TV shows I was really excited to watch,
Speaker 1: and I didn't do anything. And that was the first
Speaker 1: time probably in like three months. Part of that is
Speaker 1: my fault, though, because I like to go out and
Speaker 1: like some days when I could go home. I do
Speaker 1: like to go out with my writers. I like to
Speaker 1: go out and like drink and stuff and have fun.
Speaker 1: But I chose to just take it easy yesterday, which
Speaker 1: was nice. Quinna, this is awful. I've forgotten to tell
Speaker 1: you something, and it's so bad after hearing all of this,
Speaker 1: because what I don't have to tell you. We could
Speaker 1: just carry on without. But I should have told you.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I'll just tell you. You died. You're dad,
Speaker 1: You're dad. Oh? The podcast, Oh god, oh, this is
Speaker 1: my favorite part of the podcast. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be dead. Well I'm afraid you are, and I forgot
Speaker 1: about it. Becaust side that, but then I remember it.
Speaker 1: You're actually dead? How did you die? Oh? I hate
Speaker 1: this part um things. It's good. I like people that
Speaker 1: death show. I just wish it was like everyone at
Speaker 1: the same time like meteor, everyone goes, okay, you want
Speaker 1: a mass extinction event. I don't want that, But for
Speaker 1: the purposes of this, I would love if no one,
Speaker 1: you know, no one had to miss me and no
Speaker 1: one had to be sad, and y'all just go out
Speaker 1: with a nice, beautiful song and we know what's coming.
Speaker 1: Everyone gets to prepare and hold on to their loved ones,
Speaker 1: including me. What's the song we're singing is the meteo.
Speaker 1: There's a beautiful song by Many Ripperton called Let's Floors
Speaker 1: and I love it. It's a beautiful song. I just
Speaker 1: love that song. That song. I think it's so pretty, ingorgious.
Speaker 1: Quite for everyone to sing that song, but I love it.
Speaker 1: You know, it'll be quite funny everyone. Okay, So everyone's
Speaker 1: like holding hands singing mini ripton and then the media
Speaker 1: but they're not singing. It's playing. Okay. It's a lovely
Speaker 1: song to go out to, for sure, and then met
Speaker 1: your hits. Everyone's instantly dead. I like that to spare
Speaker 1: people being sad about you dying. You've decided to kill everyone.
Speaker 1: That's a very selfless act. You've done that. Thank you
Speaker 1: to spare them. I'll take you all with me. Selfless
Speaker 1: in shelf and selfishness. They're only you know close. Do
Speaker 1: you worry about death? No, I wouldn't say I worry.
Speaker 1: I know it comes for everyone. Been dealing with it
Speaker 1: a lot lately. I worry about not living my life
Speaker 1: in a way that doesn't. You know. I don't want
Speaker 1: to call for it. I don't want to pull it
Speaker 1: towards my life. I want to try to take care
Speaker 1: of myself and my mind and body and spirits so
Speaker 1: that I'm not calling it upon me or dancing with it.
Speaker 1: I would love to stave it off as long as possible.
Speaker 1: I'm not a friend, you know, afraid of it? Do
Speaker 1: you think? What do you think happens when you die?
Speaker 1: Is there enough to life? I have two schools of
Speaker 1: thought I think I don't. I don't think that like
Speaker 1: if there is one, I'm not sure you get to
Speaker 1: carry your consciousness with you. I think people will have
Speaker 1: this version where your consciousness, your current state of conscious
Speaker 1: follows you. But I don't think that's true. I think, oh,
Speaker 1: you think we just take our buddies, We just take
Speaker 1: our buddy. No, no, no, but just like a soul,
Speaker 1: that is the same soul that I have. But not
Speaker 1: my consciousness, not all the things I know or people
Speaker 1: I know. But I do think a soul could travel
Speaker 1: somewhere else and you just don't get to take your
Speaker 1: what you know with you. And then I have one
Speaker 1: theory that that's it put your downe. So you're soul
Speaker 1: premise is that all the things that we think, the
Speaker 1: way our mind works, it's all just kind of baggage
Speaker 1: that's in the way of our soul. And our soul
Speaker 1: is actually a much purer thing. It's not. Yeah, our
Speaker 1: consciousness is like just shit that we've picked up. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because your consciousness based on you know, where you are,
Speaker 1: where you live, where you're from. And I think that
Speaker 1: everyone kind of has a pure soul to start with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that all the other stuff, like you know,
Speaker 1: it's stuff that even in America we always think everyone
Speaker 1: thinks like us. But like, I'm pretty sure I don't
Speaker 1: think the same way as a kid who's born in
Speaker 1: a ward torn country who has and survival skills and tactics,
Speaker 1: different outlooks on life, relationships, love. But I do think
Speaker 1: that a soul is a pretty pure thing and that
Speaker 1: can transfer to I know, not where, and I know
Speaker 1: not what But yeah, I do think that I love
Speaker 1: that has not been said on this podcast before you
Speaker 1: make Really I got really interested in just theology as
Speaker 1: a whole, like just religion, the concept of it and
Speaker 1: what's at the base of it. And for most religions,
Speaker 1: um even for people who who are agnostic, the base
Speaker 1: is still like good and evil. And I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, like, yeah, dark forces are a thing. They're
Speaker 1: they're at play at any given time, and some people
Speaker 1: materialize those things as the devil or you know, if
Speaker 1: you go by comic book theory, you a villain, like
Speaker 1: you know, but it's all the same stuff. It's just good,
Speaker 1: good and good and evil, I think, And so I
Speaker 1: think that that's why I look at it. So you think,
Speaker 1: because I never know if I think like people are
Speaker 1: born evil or things like that, like I tend to,
Speaker 1: maybe far too optimistically think that that isn't the case
Speaker 1: and people can change and whatnot. But you think there
Speaker 1: are some things that's just evil. Yeah, I think I've
Speaker 1: right enough about the psychology of some of the most
Speaker 1: nefarious people of all time, and it seems as though
Speaker 1: there was a component missing, you could say, in their brain.
Speaker 1: But then there are other scholars who are like something
Speaker 1: actually missing in the makeup of their soul more than
Speaker 1: they're like a lack of empathy or humanity that most
Speaker 1: people are born with. So I think in some cases,
Speaker 1: there are some people who have done very very heinous things,
Speaker 1: right like who I wouldn't necessarily consider soulless. But then
Speaker 1: there's some people who have also done very very bad
Speaker 1: things who I will read about and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: am wondering if a soul was ever yeah, ever there
Speaker 1: at all, because you think about some people who have
Speaker 1: killed in the name of their their lord and was
Speaker 1: told it was right. They're just going by the conditioning
Speaker 1: of their upbringing or their surroundings. But then I think
Speaker 1: I'll read about some other people and I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: what the fuck, Like, oh, nothing led to this except
Speaker 1: like you just came out of baby and just like
Speaker 1: decided to be awful. I read a story recently about
Speaker 1: someone who's so dark and I don't need to talk
Speaker 1: about to hear from someone who did a horrible, horrible
Speaker 1: man serial killer, and you know, they were like, we
Speaker 1: don't know if from birth he had the thing that
Speaker 1: makes you care about another human being. That frightens me
Speaker 1: I know it's so scary. Well, so where does your
Speaker 1: pure self go? Because you're obviously not evil, and if
Speaker 1: you are, my god, you've been very clever hiding it. Wow,
Speaker 1: then your profit like a mast. No, I think life
Speaker 1: is probably easier for people who are just string of
Speaker 1: people to be honest, like the lack of empathy problem.
Speaker 1: Its things very simple for them. But no, I think
Speaker 1: I don't know. I hope into like either another good
Speaker 1: person or a plant of our just love. I love
Speaker 1: plants and I think they're being and they give oxygen,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I think they're really cool. I have a
Speaker 1: plant I love now that just goes and finds its
Speaker 1: son and comes back, and I'm like, it's just fucking living,
Speaker 1: just doing what it needs to do. Mind in its business.
Speaker 1: As weeds. Okay, you guys, I don't know why weeds exist?
Speaker 1: Why just the fuck? If I ever did make like
Speaker 1: an animated movie, I feel like I would try to
Speaker 1: make it about plants and weeds because but it's so boring,
Speaker 1: like I'm not I don't have the distematics for this yet,
Speaker 1: or you need to talk they will make it, make it,
Speaker 1: make you think. Wait, let's code eva weeds. I know
Speaker 1: and weeds. I don't really see the purpose other than
Speaker 1: to kill other plants. I'm kind of confused about that
Speaker 1: place in nature. And if I got to ask, you know,
Speaker 1: God or whoever a couple of questions, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: so why though, like why? I love? Okay, you've got
Speaker 1: two questions with God. Your first one is why waits?
Speaker 1: What's your second one? My second one? This is your
Speaker 1: audience with God. I'd like to know about dinosaurs, like
Speaker 1: I have a few questions about yes, just yeah, like
Speaker 1: like what's up with rhinoceros? Are they are they the least?
Speaker 1: What's up? Like? Just tell me the deal? Are they
Speaker 1: coming back? Or what do we just when I see
Speaker 1: a right aster, so I'm like, that's crazy. No one's
Speaker 1: going to address that that is still here. I don't know. Yes,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm getting off topic. This is why
Speaker 1: podcast scare me, because now I'm sounding like a great,
Speaker 1: great question, Oh God, You're asking God why weeds? Why rhinos?
Speaker 1: And God's like you had two questions, fair play. They
Speaker 1: were good ones, the weeds one, though. We don't cover
Speaker 1: a lot though, if you think about it, I would
Speaker 1: start with weeds, but then we get to where we
Speaker 1: need to go right. Fucking rhinos, Ryan as a fucking
Speaker 1: Morgan dinosaurs. Shit fucking hell, Quinta. Anyway, listen, good news.
Speaker 1: There is a heaven actually and your people, so yourself
Speaker 1: goes to it. And this is before you inhabit a plant.
Speaker 1: What is filled with your favorite thing? What's your favorite thing?
Speaker 1: Krab legs. I don't know if you'll regret saying that,
Speaker 1: because when you get to heaven, the wolves are made
Speaker 1: of krab legs. The chairs are made of crabs. They
Speaker 1: it's okay, you made your choice. It's quite comfortable that
Speaker 1: you know they've been dshelled. You're on these crab legs.
Speaker 1: Giant crab leg chazz, can I change answer? No, it's
Speaker 1: crab legs serving krab legs, giant krab legs walking around
Speaker 1: with trays of krab legs. But they're all very excited
Speaker 1: to see you in crab leg heaven and they want
Speaker 1: to talk. They're huge fans and they want to talk
Speaker 1: about your life, but they want to talk about it
Speaker 1: through film. And the first thing they ask you, what's
Speaker 1: the first film you remember seeing, Quincy Branson, The first
Speaker 1: film I remember seeing is Jurassic Park. We're back to dinosaurs.
Speaker 1: I know, what an amazing first film to say, how
Speaker 1: how old are you? Where were you? How did this happen?
Speaker 1: So that was five. My brother was obsessed with dinosaurs, obsessed,
Speaker 1: and I had to see this movie with him because
Speaker 1: he wanted to see it. How old is he? How
Speaker 1: about was it? What's your page? My brother's eight years
Speaker 1: older than me. Was five, so he was thirteen and
Speaker 1: I do that, mathe? I think I did. Yes, No,
Speaker 1: there's five of us because of your name. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: the last, and then the rest are all much older
Speaker 1: than me. So this is my closest brother who was
Speaker 1: babysitting me at the time, but he needed to see
Speaker 1: this movie so and I think for that reason, it's
Speaker 1: the first one I remember seeing. I'm sure I saw
Speaker 1: movies before that. But it was weird because I wasn't
Speaker 1: scared of it, even though it could be a really
Speaker 1: scary movie for kids. But I think it was a
Speaker 1: film that, even though my brain wasn't there to understand filmmaking,
Speaker 1: I did. I understood, like dinosaurs don't exist, but I'm
Speaker 1: seeing them in this movie? How did they do that?
Speaker 1: And the puppetry was so good. I think it was
Speaker 1: one of the first things that made me ever even
Speaker 1: think I cared a lot about film or television on
Speaker 1: a deeper level. Yeah, yeah, it's still to this day,
Speaker 1: that movie The Puppet. It's just unreal. It's it's still
Speaker 1: so good and holds up so well. Um, And I
Speaker 1: think I knew that when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: my brother was obsessed with the dinosaurs. But I was
Speaker 1: obsessed with the movie, you know, like, yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: scared out your mind. I wasn't. I should have been,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't. Yeah, too busy loving the craftsmanship of it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think so. And I saw it and
Speaker 1: I watched it over and over. Then I got I
Speaker 1: had on VHS, I will watch it before bed, which
Speaker 1: is crazy NonStop. But I remember being with him in
Speaker 1: that theater and watching that movie. Beati, what is the
Speaker 1: film that scared you the most? And do you like
Speaker 1: being scared? I don't like being scared. I hate scary movies.
Speaker 1: The film that scared me the most was The Ring,
Speaker 1: the original, the American Oh okay, and uh. This was
Speaker 1: during the time that I think I was maybe like
Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen, but scary movies were coming out left
Speaker 1: and right, like The Ring saw like it was just
Speaker 1: that time, and so I didn't not Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: such a time, And I think that's how I learned
Speaker 1: I didn't like scary movies. Like me and my friends
Speaker 1: would go to the movies, and you know, it was cool.
Speaker 1: It was appealing movies on TV. Everyone's talking about it,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's one of commercials. So I would
Speaker 1: go with them to the movies, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't like this. I don't like being scared, Like
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of this. And I watched the
Speaker 1: whole movie and I liked it and appreciated it, but
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't enjoy being scared. That's not
Speaker 1: what not for your girl. So The Ring really didn't
Speaker 1: for me. That might have been the last scary movie
Speaker 1: I had ever seen. I do not like them. Don't
Speaker 1: like it. Wow, I don't even like movies making fun
Speaker 1: of scary movies like scary movie that. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: like that. I don't enjoy it. It's not a laughing matter.
Speaker 1: You should be what's the fam that made you cry
Speaker 1: the most? And now you are crying? And to be honest,
Speaker 1: I know you are because I saw you are. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimo and you made me cry. I know anyone
Speaker 1: listening you hasn't seen it. Quincy went on Jimmy Kimo
Speaker 1: and they surprised her with her elementary teacher. I'd like
Speaker 1: to take this moment to say, I'm not like, I
Speaker 1: don't cry a lot, but I'd also like, I feel
Speaker 1: all of my emotions very openly. So if I am
Speaker 1: gonna cry, I like, I can't stop it because that's
Speaker 1: just what's gonna happen. And it's just been happening to
Speaker 1: me a lot lately on TV. But I just want
Speaker 1: people to know. Yeah, I mean, I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's just a lot of them. Sometimes I'm tired,
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm happy, and there's so much happening right now
Speaker 1: and going on, and sometimes you know, the tears just
Speaker 1: start falling. But the movie that made me cry, the
Speaker 1: mo was I'm actually about but I'm proud of and
Speaker 1: it was Avenger's Endgame right right, so much like a
Speaker 1: baby at Tony Start dying. Marvel was just very big
Speaker 1: for me. I mean, it's been a decade of my life.
Speaker 1: It's from The Iron Man was a movie that I
Speaker 1: loved and adored and just thought was so well directed
Speaker 1: and well acted and was so well done. And then
Speaker 1: you know, Marvel turned into Marvel and I had to
Speaker 1: be there every step of the way. And because they
Speaker 1: have a toe hold on my life, apparently, Sony was
Speaker 1: just so big for me. It's funny because like people
Speaker 1: always talk about representation, and I know it's ridiculous, but
Speaker 1: like Iron Man was one of the first movies where
Speaker 1: I was like, that is me. I am that man. Wow,
Speaker 1: And he was just really big for me. I love
Speaker 1: this unapologetic human who made a choice to do better,
Speaker 1: and I just I just love that character. Wow. I've
Speaker 1: only watched In Game three times because of how much
Speaker 1: it hurts to watch it. It's really moving in the end.
Speaker 1: It's really it's really impressive what they did. Good job.
Speaker 1: People don't give it credit, and people may like try
Speaker 1: to start the ship train the way people do, but
Speaker 1: that was an incredible feat to have, you know, a
Speaker 1: decade worth of films come together like that, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's just something I'm not sure we'll ever see you again.
Speaker 1: What's the film that you love? Most people don't like it,
Speaker 1: it is not critically acclaimed, but you love it unconditionally.
Speaker 1: I love this question. It is a film called Daddy's
Speaker 1: Home that I love very very much. Well. Daddy's Home
Speaker 1: stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlbert. Oh okay, and the
Speaker 1: sequel is with Mel Gibson sunfo okay, so sorry, Daddy's
Speaker 1: Type Yes, Mickey, miche will back and Will Farell and
Speaker 1: I fucking love that movie, the first one. The first
Speaker 1: time I saw it was on a plane, and you know,
Speaker 1: I had been drinking. I was laughing out loud on
Speaker 1: the plane, just crying, laughing, crying. I think it's so
Speaker 1: fucking funny and stupid. And I'll watch it. I'll make
Speaker 1: other people watch it. Like actually told like my writers
Speaker 1: and I was like, everyone needs to go home and
Speaker 1: watch this film, right because I love it. Because it's
Speaker 1: not critically acclaimed. It's just good jokes. It's really sweet
Speaker 1: storyline honestly about these you know, the stepdad trying to
Speaker 1: get it together. It's classic Will Farrell but also not
Speaker 1: anyone's favorite Will Ferrell film except for mine. Um, it's
Speaker 1: so dumb. It's just it's just a perfect movie. Hannibal
Speaker 1: Breast is perfect in it. The kids are hilarious. I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. On the other hand, what's
Speaker 1: the film that you did love? You loved it, but
Speaker 1: you've watched it again raisent and you thought, I don't
Speaker 1: like this anymore. Whatever the answer, man, this one hurts.
Speaker 1: But Anchorman from Will to Will, I know. I yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at it. It's not holding up for me.
Speaker 1: But I'm not throwing it away. I'm not like, let's
Speaker 1: cancel it. It just was very important for me at
Speaker 1: a very formative time in my life. Like those one liner,
Speaker 1: those catchphrases are part of the reason that I started
Speaker 1: loving and doing comedy so much. But I did watch
Speaker 1: it again recently with my niece and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's starting to age for me in a way
Speaker 1: that a little rough. Yeah, but it's just knowing that
Speaker 1: the comedy was of a certain time, yes, and that's okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not as timeless as I thought it would be.
Speaker 1: I've talked about this before, but They is the thing
Speaker 1: that I think dates the most of all things. And
Speaker 1: they and any comedies that that sort of floor tend
Speaker 1: to not date are comedies that are just silly, yeah,
Speaker 1: just physical or like, but comedies with dialogue to date.
Speaker 1: It's so interesting too, because some comedies remain really good,
Speaker 1: although I think that some comedies are representative of what
Speaker 1: we find funny at a certain time. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they're not good when it's past that time.
Speaker 1: I always think about the Three Stooges at a certain point,
Speaker 1: like hitting each other. You know, that was the height
Speaker 1: of comedy, Like everyone was like, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is fucking art. And now we look back at that
Speaker 1: and it's like all right. But then there's another movie
Speaker 1: I love with Marilyn Monroe and um Jane Russell. It's
Speaker 1: the It's the movie that Diamonds Are Girls Best Friend Gentlemen.
Speaker 1: And I think that's like a perfect timeless movie, even
Speaker 1: though it was of a certain time. It's something that
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can actually really be redone now and
Speaker 1: the story is so good that it could, you know,
Speaker 1: it's still last. So sometimes I think it's about story too,
Speaker 1: like what is the story of the film we're seeing?
Speaker 1: Does it last longer than the time period? But with
Speaker 1: comedies in particular, that's like so that whole era of like,
Speaker 1: you know, Ancerman was just a favorite of mine, but
Speaker 1: the rest of Jeddatles movies all and Adam McKay hold
Speaker 1: up really well. But like the Rob Schneider movies of
Speaker 1: that time, like Hot Chick, so representative of a time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, probably a story that should never be
Speaker 1: told to get but yeah, what's the film that means
Speaker 1: the mice to you? Not necessarily the film itself is
Speaker 1: any good, but because the experience you had around saying
Speaker 1: it will always make it special to you. Quintin Prinson
Speaker 1: of course. So this one is trans Formers Too. Oh
Speaker 1: we Avenge of the Fallen. It's not that good, but
Speaker 1: I liked it because I loved the first one. The
Speaker 1: first one came out and when I was graduating high
Speaker 1: school in two thousand and seven, and that was a
Speaker 1: movie with me and my friends and you know, my
Speaker 1: boyfriend at the time. We all went to see Transformers
Speaker 1: on graduation night and I just loved it. It was
Speaker 1: a movie that gave me a similar feeling to Jurassic Park,
Speaker 1: where I was like, how did they do this? Like
Speaker 1: I need to know how they did this? And it
Speaker 1: also still holds up. They did a good job with that,
Speaker 1: like rendering in CGI. And then Transformer Too was coming
Speaker 1: out and I had this one summer with my boyfriend
Speaker 1: he had gone away to college to Chicago. I stayed
Speaker 1: in Philly. When he came back for the summer, we
Speaker 1: found out that Transformers Too was being filmed in Philly.
Speaker 1: We found out that like they were using University of Penn,
Speaker 1: the college that was very close to us. And so
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is we were hanging onto
Speaker 1: this relationship by a thread, and that thread was tracking
Speaker 1: down where they were shooting Transformers Too. And I mean
Speaker 1: we were running all over the city, like we hear
Speaker 1: we heard there at Upen. We're it's a million degrees outside,
Speaker 1: it's like a hundred degrees. So we're and then we
Speaker 1: get to Upen and they're like they're they're not here today.
Speaker 1: They were here like a few weeks ago. And then
Speaker 1: we talked to a security guard that's like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually think they're shooting like um up up in South Philly.
Speaker 1: So we get in the car. We go to South
Speaker 1: Philly and my brother in law at the time happens
Speaker 1: to text me. He's like, hey, Quinta, I know you
Speaker 1: like Transformers. They're shooting at the Farmer's Market today. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we have to go down to We're
Speaker 1: just getting anonymous tips and looking for Optimist Prime to
Speaker 1: be riding around in the streets, which you know, which
Speaker 1: was dumb. We wound up finding where they were filming
Speaker 1: two days in a row. One was at this market
Speaker 1: and I got to watch from afar and it was
Speaker 1: so exciting. I actually got to meet Michael Bay and like,
Speaker 1: take a picture. Oh you really did? You got you
Speaker 1: got to them? I did. Now, looking back, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe. I have no idea. I look at
Speaker 1: that picture and just knowing how things work, now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I cannot believe I made it that far. I can't
Speaker 1: believe he took a picture with me. I just just
Speaker 1: excuse me. He was. He was. They were right on
Speaker 1: the street and he was, and I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was very bold. I definitely was like what did
Speaker 1: you say to it that? I loved the movie the
Speaker 1: first one, and I was so excited about the second one,
Speaker 1: and at that point I was kind of a fan
Speaker 1: because he had also done Bad Boys. I was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: you're really good and he took up. I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: he took this picture, and he like unbuttoned his shirt
Speaker 1: one button before taking it too. That's one thing I remember,
Speaker 1: and then um, the next day he did he did,
Speaker 1: which is hilarious to me. And then the next day
Speaker 1: they were filming um at this big cemetery and and
Speaker 1: my boyfriend and I tried to find that and then
Speaker 1: what was stupid, which we didn't think would be the case,
Speaker 1: we actually did wind up seeing Optimus Prime from this
Speaker 1: the highway. Now he was It's a big truck and
Speaker 1: where they happened to half him, we could just see
Speaker 1: him barely. It's this area called Kelly Drive, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe this. So we go up there and
Speaker 1: it was it's the cemetery scene in the movie where
Speaker 1: Optimis Prime is there and Bumblebee and we got to
Speaker 1: see like shy La buff and making. It was just
Speaker 1: like so unreal and able to see such a big,
Speaker 1: massive movie being made in this very urban area. And
Speaker 1: so it just meant a lot to me because it
Speaker 1: was like kind of my first time seeing a little
Speaker 1: bit behind the filmmaking process. And when I went to
Speaker 1: go see it, I was like, wow, I was there.
Speaker 1: I saw that, and you know it was cool. Did
Speaker 1: you guys see it with the people that you've been
Speaker 1: chasing around time? With it now because we had broken
Speaker 1: up by time, so it's also important to me for
Speaker 1: that reason. It was like, yeah, you know, I had
Speaker 1: this thing that was ending, and yeah, so when the
Speaker 1: thing all you together was funny Transformers and when Michael
Speaker 1: bay under this top about and did you turn to
Speaker 1: your boyfriend and guy, we're finished? No? I was so god.
Speaker 1: I was so young and shit, maybe in eighteen nineteen. Okay,
Speaker 1: I started college at seventeen. That was the first summer,
Speaker 1: so I was, yeah, I was probably eighteen too young.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. What is the filming most relate to? And
Speaker 1: is it art Man? I changed it? I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that. The one I most relate
Speaker 1: to is this movie called Loving Basketball, right, and yeah, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm happy you've seen it. I just loved it. I
Speaker 1: think it was the most relatable coming of age story,
Speaker 1: so to speak, for like a black girl that I'd
Speaker 1: ever seen, and one that was so good at a
Speaker 1: sport that she didn't have any doubts about how good
Speaker 1: she was at basketball. Her life was harder because she
Speaker 1: was so good at basketball and so iron man esque.
Speaker 1: You see what kind of characters I'm trying towards my
Speaker 1: question about oh, is it a lot of pressured everywhere?
Speaker 1: But can you're like no, I know understand why because
Speaker 1: you're fucking iron man. You know you're the best at basketball.
Speaker 1: Give a shit your words and not mine. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it, but that is why I've never I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have I understand the emotion and acknowledge like
Speaker 1: the idea of imposter syndrome, but that is not something
Speaker 1: I've ever suffered. I feel very good at what I do,
Speaker 1: and if anything, like I said, my life is harder
Speaker 1: because I refuse to pretend that I'm not. And I
Speaker 1: like that. The first person I've met who and I'm
Speaker 1: saying this is a this is amazing. I think you're
Speaker 1: the first person I've met doing what you do in
Speaker 1: this world who doesn't experience him post to say, and
Speaker 1: that's incredible. I mean, I want you a brain. You're
Speaker 1: very good at what you do. You know that I
Speaker 1: haven't busted syndre you never had just and okay, so
Speaker 1: then we're talking about seals and talking about all this stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you think the fact that you're like that, which
Speaker 1: by the way, is an incredible trait, and you know
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing. Do you think you were born that way?
Speaker 1: Do you think it was instilled in you through your upbringing?
Speaker 1: Is it like Camua like that, because not many people
Speaker 1: that I feel like it was instilled in me and
Speaker 1: my upbringing. For one, I grew up in dance within
Speaker 1: a very like I was a dancer, which was for
Speaker 1: me my world was a very positive environment made me
Speaker 1: very comfortable with like my body, talent, all of that.
Speaker 1: Really early on my parents were they did a very
Speaker 1: healthy thing where it wasn't like they cowdled me and
Speaker 1: told me I was like the best in the world
Speaker 1: or anything. They were actually very realistic with me at
Speaker 1: every turn of like what was possible, what would be hard,
Speaker 1: what my strong points were. My mom especially, I think
Speaker 1: we had a relationship where her fears for me were
Speaker 1: based in what she knew I was capable of. And
Speaker 1: I think we had a very honest conversation about that
Speaker 1: at one point too, where it was like, all right,
Speaker 1: so your worries are because you're like worried about what
Speaker 1: you created and kind of and I said, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I also trust that like
Speaker 1: wherever I wind up is where I'm supposed to be too,
Speaker 1: and if not, I'm not supposed to be there. I
Speaker 1: think that gives me a lot of help with not
Speaker 1: feeling impostor syndrome. And I think like, if you had
Speaker 1: a dream and then you achieved it, then that's what
Speaker 1: you were working to her. You were working in accordance
Speaker 1: with it, and I feel like you you probably wanted
Speaker 1: to act right. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's just funny
Speaker 1: hearing you because because it's this thing I find so fascinating,
Speaker 1: where like, yeah, everything was saying makes perfect sense, like
Speaker 1: the insecurity, I posted anxiety. All this stuff is a
Speaker 1: lot of wasted energy that gets in the way of
Speaker 1: the thing you're ultimately going to do. I know you're saying,
Speaker 1: is yeah, I just don't have that annoying bit in
Speaker 1: the middle. It's amazing. And I don't think that we
Speaker 1: need to. I think it's like, I don't think we
Speaker 1: need Yeah, I don't think that we have to. I
Speaker 1: don't think that you have that to take the place
Speaker 1: of humility. I think that I still don't feel like
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm the best. I think I'm the
Speaker 1: best Quinta though, I think that like I am the
Speaker 1: best version of me. And I don't think I'm like
Speaker 1: the best things. I think I thought we were talking movies, Brett,
Speaker 1: we are, but we're really talking. It's how it is. Wow,
Speaker 1: you are iron Man? Oh you're right. Come and then
Speaker 1: let's um, let's get let's get real. What's the sexiest
Speaker 1: one we've ever say, Quinte. This one was a hard one.
Speaker 1: This one was really hard for me. No, I had
Speaker 1: a hard time thinking about this. I even went through
Speaker 1: my movie library to be like, what is in here
Speaker 1: that I consider like super sexy? Um, but I landed
Speaker 1: on Hitch that movie. I think it's just a super
Speaker 1: classy sexy movie. Like I love the music and I
Speaker 1: love the so it's not like sexy like hot, but
Speaker 1: I find it to be really jazzy and classy and um,
Speaker 1: I love the look and feel of that movie and
Speaker 1: the why of the movie. You love Kevin James, And
Speaker 1: I can't blame you. What there's a subcategory. Yes, I
Speaker 1: saw this one. Traveling Baton is worrying? Why Duns? What's
Speaker 1: the film you founder rousing? You weren't sure you should?
Speaker 1: Was it? Poe Cup? No, it's actually like Wolf of
Speaker 1: Wall Street like that I should not be attracted to
Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio on that or like the Wall Street World,
Speaker 1: or like the Drugs or the you know, like horrible
Speaker 1: people doing a couple of things. But I find the movie.
Speaker 1: I find him really attractive in the movie, and I
Speaker 1: find you know, like the Wall Street Grind really attractive.
Speaker 1: And I think Margot Robbie is just like super like
Speaker 1: either're not a good couple, but I find it to
Speaker 1: be a super hot couple. It sucks. I'm embarrassed to
Speaker 1: say that. I find it That movie is very like
Speaker 1: arousing to me. That is really a perfect answer, and
Speaker 1: that film is interesting for me because I love my sulcise.
Speaker 1: When I saw that film the first time, I hated
Speaker 1: that film. First time I saw I really didn't like it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't think I got it.
Speaker 1: I sort of was like, this is a horrible film
Speaker 1: and I don't understand its point of view, and I
Speaker 1: just really sort of took against it. I found it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I didn't like it. And then I
Speaker 1: saw it again a year later, copies out, and I
Speaker 1: was like, this film's fucking brilliant. I didn't realize how
Speaker 1: funny it was. It's a really funny film, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I get it now, I get what
Speaker 1: you're doing. And yeah, all the things that you're feeling
Speaker 1: is exactly what it wants you to it. It's basically
Speaker 1: this similar thing that he does in Good Fellas. It's like, yes,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, you you you hate all these people, do you? Well,
Speaker 1: how come you're enjoying this so much? How come I'm
Speaker 1: like Jordan's heart though he has some points, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not yeah, it's it's a tough one. And I
Speaker 1: the first time I saw that movie, it's not even
Speaker 1: my kind of movie, Like I don't like movies like that,
Speaker 1: but it just got me. I mean, if something is
Speaker 1: well directed, well enough, i'll you know, it's quite subtle
Speaker 1: that film in its way in that it's really unsattible.
Speaker 1: What it is subtle about is its point of view,
Speaker 1: because it's going it's from his point of view, so
Speaker 1: you're you're watching a dickheads dickhead story being told by
Speaker 1: the dickhead. But then there's that one scene right near
Speaker 1: the end of will Street, after Coach has been chasing
Speaker 1: him and trying to get him, and then the dickhead
Speaker 1: character is like, fuck you, you wish you a meal
Speaker 1: or some version of that, and then having got him,
Speaker 1: you just see him on a subway train on his
Speaker 1: own and this is his life and it's like it's
Speaker 1: really good. It's really smart, really good and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: didn't get that. And it's a scene it's horrible, Like
Speaker 1: the relationship between Jordan and his wife is horrible. Check
Speaker 1: Margot Robbie. But the scene where she like puts his
Speaker 1: heel her heel on his face. I was like, that
Speaker 1: is like one of the scenes in the world. Hands down.
Speaker 1: You're in the middle of this horrible relationship and it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be. I'm like, is this how people feel about euphoria?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just wonder what that scene is
Speaker 1: how I feel? How do you feel about euphoria? Because you,
Speaker 1: for it doesn't quite get me. I understand that the
Speaker 1: acting is fantastic and it's well, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: hard for me to watch, but it's some shit. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, what the fuck were you? What's going on?
Speaker 1: But I wonder if other people feel that way about
Speaker 1: euphoria that I feel about like that scene in Wolf
Speaker 1: of Watch. I don't know, Quincy are a really big
Speaker 1: respect for the answer people don't take that seriously. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a proper answer. What is the greatest film
Speaker 1: of all time? Objectively? Might number your favorite, but it's
Speaker 1: the greatest. This was hard. Yeah, and I don't think
Speaker 1: my answer is good. But I said, catch me if
Speaker 1: you can, catch me, if you can. I went to
Speaker 1: see thinking it would be fun. It looked like a
Speaker 1: fun highest sort of paper. It depressed me for a
Speaker 1: whole week. I don't It's one of the films that's
Speaker 1: made me feel the most sad. It's catch so so
Speaker 1: when you say that's the greatest, I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that film is horrible. It's not horrible film. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it's such cool storytelling, the going back in
Speaker 1: time and coming back to the present story. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's so well done. I love Steven Spielberg.
Speaker 1: I think he put his foot into that one. There
Speaker 1: are certain scenes of it that are just so powerful
Speaker 1: to me. When when you know Frank Abergnail learns that
Speaker 1: his mom is cheating on his dad, his very foundation,
Speaker 1: you know, his family, what makes him start running in
Speaker 1: the first place. You want to root for this kid
Speaker 1: to you know, you know what's going to catch up
Speaker 1: with him, but you want to root for him to
Speaker 1: get out of it by all means. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I just think it's so well directed. I just love it.
Speaker 1: I've always loved that movie. I think that everyone's brilliant
Speaker 1: and it Christopher Walking, um, like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks,
Speaker 1: even like Amy Adams is in it for a little while.
Speaker 1: Who I just think it's a fucking beast and she
Speaker 1: she's so good and even her small partner is so great.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's a beautiful human story
Speaker 1: about running away. I think it's really well done, and
Speaker 1: I think everyone wishes they could run away and get
Speaker 1: away with it at a point. But it just maybe
Speaker 1: it's the greatest film of time. God maybe right, It's
Speaker 1: just And it like leads to the version of accountability
Speaker 1: for him, which I like too, even though it's in
Speaker 1: the form of like working for the CIA, right, which
Speaker 1: is accountability for him. It's what he's been from an
Speaker 1: in having to atone for like his sins in a
Speaker 1: really interesting way. Um. But I think it speaks to
Speaker 1: the larger theme of like you you can't run away,
Speaker 1: Like your options at the end are death or you
Speaker 1: gotta be accountable. And I think it does such a
Speaker 1: good job that, even with having the person who was
Speaker 1: chasing him the whole time, wind up being like a
Speaker 1: friend that's still like I get you, kid, I do,
Speaker 1: I like you, but everyone has to be accountable for
Speaker 1: their actions. And I just I don't know. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it even prison wasn't accountable enough for him
Speaker 1: because he could get out of prison. Well, you can
Speaker 1: still hate it, right, you can, thought, I don't hate.
Speaker 1: I don't hate. I actually think it's brilliant. It just
Speaker 1: made me so sad, so sad. I think what I
Speaker 1: hate about Behind is the marketing because the marketing made
Speaker 1: it like, here's a fun this very fun. It's not fun.
Speaker 1: It wasn't It might have come out on Christmas too,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure fun times right. He's got a devastating
Speaker 1: he's devastated by his dad, normally wants his too, for
Speaker 1: his dad to tell him he loves him. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: his dad dies before he ever gets the chance to end.
Speaker 1: It was a Christmas movie too, it was yeah, I thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. It's I know it's not the best
Speaker 1: movie of all time too. And I thought a lot
Speaker 1: about this question. But a lot of the best Time.
Speaker 1: I don't really like that much, so I think that's
Speaker 1: a very good outset. What is the film you could
Speaker 1: or have? What's the most ever and Ever? Again? Okay,
Speaker 1: the film I can watch the most Over There is
Speaker 1: a very silly one. It's called Night at the Museum,
Speaker 1: Battle at the Smithsonian number two, number two. It's not
Speaker 1: even the first one, which will be, but I love
Speaker 1: the second one. It is so funny and so cute.
Speaker 1: And um, I think it's so fucking funny, Like I
Speaker 1: love Ben Stiller so much, and um, Amy Adams there's
Speaker 1: a theme here. Amy Adams is in it. Um. I
Speaker 1: love the Smithsonian Museum. It's my favorite museum in the world.
Speaker 1: It's such a good time. So when this movie was
Speaker 1: taking place there, I was like, oh, like young, um
Speaker 1: did I try to get there? Yeah? Oh that's too much.
Speaker 1: But um Bill Hayter is fucking hilarious in it, so funny.
Speaker 1: Who else Hank Azaria is so funny. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: It's like it's so good. That's my multiverse of madness.
Speaker 1: They've got so many great, great people with great characters
Speaker 1: in there. I watch it if it's on TV, I
Speaker 1: stop everything. I'm doing and just watch it. I own
Speaker 1: it on Blu Ray and DVD on Amazon, like Heaven
Speaker 1: with You wherever I go, just in case I need
Speaker 1: a little pick me up. It's so good. That's very sweet.
Speaker 1: I'd like to be negative. I don't think you do.
Speaker 1: Let's do it quickly. What's the worst film you've ever seen? Okay,
Speaker 1: it's this movie called Blended by Adam Sandler and Umar
Speaker 1: is in it. I just think it's just awful, just
Speaker 1: got awful. I do. It's not his best and I
Speaker 1: think I think Adam Sandler actually does like bad movies
Speaker 1: really really well. I think he's so good at it,
Speaker 1: and I admire him for it. I think it really
Speaker 1: just how it fell about. Just go with it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is yeah, bad movie done right. And he takes
Speaker 1: his friends to Hawaii and shoots a movie or Africa,
Speaker 1: and I love his whole thing. But that one is
Speaker 1: not good to me. It's not good. You're in commodate.
Speaker 1: You're a comedian, you're a very successful one. What's the
Speaker 1: film that made you laugh the most? Meet the Fuckers?
Speaker 1: That's a great film. That's good, right, It's great. It's
Speaker 1: so so funny. Every time I see it, and that's
Speaker 1: your third sequel in this list. I know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is about. Yeah, that's so weird. Um,
Speaker 1: it is so funny, so well written, keeps holding up too.
Speaker 1: It goes back to what I was saying about, like
Speaker 1: it just keeps standing the test of time. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: how much it still makes me laugh out loud, even
Speaker 1: though it came out so long ago and I've seen
Speaker 1: in a million times once again, fantastic actors. Dustin Hoffman
Speaker 1: never he makes me laugh from this deep like place
Speaker 1: that it's like, oh, I know that man, I know,
Speaker 1: Oh that Just be nice to him, you know. And
Speaker 1: Barbara Streisand is incredible in it. She's so lovely and hilarious.
Speaker 1: The scenarios every time they put, you know, I'm been
Speaker 1: still learn another situation. I'm always like, oh God, don't
Speaker 1: do this. I'm only put the baby. You guys know
Speaker 1: what's gonna It's like it's the first time every time
Speaker 1: I'm watching it, and I just I love it. So funny,
Speaker 1: pretty good. Quintet, you have been wonderful and I genuinely
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful knowing how insanely busy you are there.
Speaker 1: You've given me this much of your time. Really appreciate it. However, However,
Speaker 1: when you were thinking, I don't want to die in
Speaker 1: for people to be sad, so instead I'm going to
Speaker 1: put an order for a mass extinction event. We could
Speaker 1: kill everyone to spare them the pain of being sad
Speaker 1: because you're and you whacked on Left Flaire by Minnie
Speaker 1: Ripton up loud, and you said, everyone, come outside, come outside,
Speaker 1: I've got something to show you. Everyone held hands, trying
Speaker 1: to think with me, and then you said you did
Speaker 1: your dance that you learned when you were young, and
Speaker 1: really good dance, and everyone was like, oh, this is lovely,
Speaker 1: and you said look up, look up, and they all
Speaker 1: looked up, and a giant fucking meteor was hurtling towards them,
Speaker 1: and as the song reached its peak, the meteor hit you.
Speaker 1: Hit you was so hard that the only thing that
Speaker 1: survived was me. I was underground with some rhinos, just
Speaker 1: eating twinkies and with some cockroaches and some rhinos, and
Speaker 1: I was sitting with the rhino playing pover and I
Speaker 1: was like, which signs all are you? Then he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try steratops. You'll know that, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought every exactly. Anyway, we wait for
Speaker 1: the debris to stop raining down. We pop up and
Speaker 1: I've got a coffin with me, you know what I'm like.
Speaker 1: And I'm walking around and go, what's that really flat?
Speaker 1: That particularly flat? And I go, oh, that's Quinta. That
Speaker 1: is Quinna is dead. She's to everyone's dead, but quinter
Speaker 1: in particular is dead. And I get the rhino to
Speaker 1: dig into the ground with his horn because you are
Speaker 1: properly in the earth. It's very nice. She's buried herself,
Speaker 1: but I should put her in a box. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: get you up with there's lots of rocks and mud
Speaker 1: and dirt and anyway, there's more of you than I
Speaker 1: was expecting. I have to stuff you in this coffee.
Speaker 1: There's no room in this coffin. There's only enough room
Speaker 1: for me to slip a DVD into the side for
Speaker 1: you to take across to the other side. And on
Speaker 1: the other side, it's movie night every night. What film
Speaker 1: are you taking to krab leg Heaven to show the
Speaker 1: giant crab legs? You sit on krab legs when it
Speaker 1: is your movie night, Quinta Brunson, I will be taking
Speaker 1: with me Nighted the Museum Battle. Everyone will be so happy.
Speaker 1: I'll have such a good time. I want to ask
Speaker 1: brought No one asked by. That's so happy no one
Speaker 1: else brought it. They're gonna learn about history. It'll be good.
Speaker 1: They're gonna laugh, they're gonna cry. It's a good movie.
Speaker 1: And God's gonna give you your two questions. So I
Speaker 1: hope you have a wonderful time, Quinta, good luck with everything.
Speaker 1: I hope that season two guys as well, if not
Speaker 1: even better than season one. You're brilliant. You are right
Speaker 1: in man. Is there anything you'd like to tell people
Speaker 1: to look out for other than that but elementary? Um? No, Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of movies, I will be in a movie soon
Speaker 1: and everyone can watch it. It'll be on the Roku channel. Um,
Speaker 1: We're the Weird Al Yankovic movie, which I think is
Speaker 1: really really fun, and I do want to tell people
Speaker 1: because I think they're gonna enjoy it so much, and
Speaker 1: in a time where it's fun to enjoy some good
Speaker 1: silly movies, I think or really enjoy this movie out. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Quinta, Thank you Bret. This was fine through
Speaker 1: a wonderful time, have a lovely death, and I'll see
Speaker 1: you soon. So that was episode two hundred and fourteen.
Speaker 1: Head over to patreon dot com, forward slash break Goldstein
Speaker 1: for the extra fifteen minutes of chat, secrets and video
Speaker 1: with quinter. Go to Apple Podcast. Give us a five
Speaker 1: star rating. But right about the film that means the
Speaker 1: most to you and why that's what we want to read.
Speaker 1: My neighbor Maureen loves it. It makes her cry. Thank
Speaker 1: you all very much for listening. I hope you're all well.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Quinta for giving me her time. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Scrubis, Pip and Distraction Pieces of Network. Thanks to
Speaker 1: Buddy Peace for producing it. Thanks to Acas for hosting it.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Adding Richardson for the graphics. At least allow
Speaker 1: them for the photography. Come and join me next week
Speaker 1: for another amazing guest. So that is it for now.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, have a lovely week and please be
Speaker 1: excellent to each others. Backstetststrust back