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Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live is an institution on American TV and

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Speaker 1: its influence, of course, is felt worldwide. And it is

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Speaker 1: about to turn fifty, so it's definitely time for this.

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Speaker 1: The movie Saturday Night is in Cinema's October thirty first

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Speaker 1: and the star of the movie in the role of

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Speaker 1: Lorne Michaels, the man behind Saturday Night Live, Gabriel LaBelle,

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Speaker 1: is whether it's.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, mate, good morning.

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Speaker 3: First of all, congratulations, the movie is just a hoop.

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Speaker 4: It's a triumph.

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Speaker 1: I love the premise of it. It is the hour

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Speaker 1: and a half in the NBC studios before the very

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Speaker 1: first show, Gabriel.

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Speaker 3: It's practically in real time, isn't.

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Speaker 2: It it is.

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Speaker 5: The film starts at ten pm on October eleventh, nineteen

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Speaker 5: seventy five, and ends at eleven thirty pm of the

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Speaker 5: same night.

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Speaker 4: So incredible. Man, after all of the adrenaline, I needed

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Speaker 4: to lie down after this. But it is just a

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Speaker 4: rollicking ride, at times dangerous, and you're on You're in

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Speaker 4: almost every frame. Man, that's a lot of hard work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: We were fortunate to have only ten hour days, so

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Speaker 5: at like six six thirty pm every day, I could

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Speaker 5: go home and get like a full night's sleep.

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Speaker 2: That isn't the case. Almost do at.

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Speaker 1: All was making the movie as frenetic as those nineteen

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Speaker 5: Not at all, because there is a lot of chaos

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Speaker 5: and a lot of movie parts. But Jason choreographed everything

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Speaker 5: before we got there, so we had it all figured out.

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Speaker 5: It was very calm, and everyone there was awesome. Everyone,

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Speaker 5: the cast, the crew was just so grateful to be

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Speaker 5: a part of a project so cool, and everyone's just

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Speaker 5: so funny and laughing all the time and having the

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Speaker 5: just best creative experience someone could hope for going into

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Speaker 5: a film that's yeah.

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Speaker 4: Who's gonna ask about Jason Robban? What kind of director

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Speaker 4: is he?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 4: Is he everything he wants? You know? Micro manager? Does

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Speaker 4: he let you fly or a bit of bout it?

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Speaker 5: He's very big on less research, which he wants. He

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Speaker 5: really wants the most natural, calm, relaxed performance. He doesn't

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Speaker 5: like watching people act, and so you could go a

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Speaker 5: whole three days without giving you any notes and then

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Speaker 5: if you really need it, he will be on you

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Speaker 5: and which is really brilliant where he lets you invent

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Speaker 5: and do what you want, but then he won't let

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Speaker 5: anything too.

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Speaker 1: While yeah, I was interested in Jason Rightman too, because

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Speaker 1: you certainly can't pigeonhole his work. I mean, he's done

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Speaker 1: such a broad range of movies, from Juno to Up

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Speaker 1: in the Air to the Ghostbusters films to Tully. You

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Speaker 1: were as an actor starting with a director on day

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Speaker 1: one that you don't know quite where they might go?

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Speaker 3: Is that nerve wrecking?

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Speaker 2: You know, not at all.

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Speaker 5: Because we had an actors strike in our writers strike

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Speaker 5: right after I even cast for this film, and so

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Speaker 5: I had about a year to get to know Jason

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Speaker 2: He invited me to watch movies at his house, and

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Speaker 2: I got to know his family and his friends, and

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Speaker 5: And we had a lot of conversations, so we really

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Speaker 2: But what's so great about Jason is he is so.

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Speaker 5: Funny in person and his writing and it's so sharp

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Speaker 5: and so good, and yet he's also such a sensitive

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Speaker 5: guy that his films are really brilliant character driven dramas

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Speaker 5: and they are fun and they are funny and they

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Speaker 5: are entertaining. But he has that balance in all of

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Speaker 5: his films, whether the tone is different, that's a consistency

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Speaker 5: throughout his work and it just helps sett He's a

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Speaker 5: really nice and sweet guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's very cool. And this is probably coming up

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Speaker 4: with many interviews that you're doing. But I mean, you

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Speaker 4: played Spielberg in the fact moment. Yeah, look Lee Vice.

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Speaker 4: Now of course Loren Michaels. Who's next? Is it? But

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Speaker 4: be correct, Jimmy Ivine, you're going to move to another

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Speaker 4: part of another joint of the video to type of

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Speaker 4: the industry. You could do, Jimmy, Well.

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Speaker 2: It's insane.

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Speaker 5: I did not expect that I would ever be a

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Speaker 5: part of a Steven Spielber production. And I didn't know

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Speaker 5: that someone was ever going to make a movie about

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Speaker 5: Saturday Night Live.

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Speaker 2: And it's even weirder to know that Lauren and.

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Speaker 5: Steven have been like best friends for twenty five years,

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Speaker 5: and that Steven.

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Speaker 2: Is always at SNL, and that Stephen.

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Speaker 5: Was there the first day, the first showing fifty years ago,

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Speaker 5: and he flew from la to New York every Friday

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Speaker 5: watched Saturday Night Live, and then blew back on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: For the entire first season that year. So it's it's

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Speaker 2: too small of a world.

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Speaker 5: It's so weird, and I don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what's next. I'm just happy to you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, enjoy Right, It's so much fun watching these incredibly

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Speaker 1: huge stars, you know, being depicted on that.

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Speaker 3: Precipice of their careers.

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Speaker 1: You know, your Chevy Chase and I mean John Belushi, hello,

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Speaker 1: but dan Ekroyd, my favorite Billy Crystal, who I just

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Speaker 5: Nicholas dani plays Billy Crystal, and he is so brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Everyone else was advised.

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Speaker 5: When we were all doing voice work, and we were

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Speaker 5: advised not to be an exact replica of the character.

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Speaker 5: Jason didn't want us to get locked into things, right,

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Speaker 5: I want us to lose you know, the present invention

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Speaker 5: And so when we're doing the first table read, and

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Speaker 5: and everyone's done months of their own research, and finally

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Speaker 5: we're hearing everybody else's thing, and finally we get to

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Speaker 5: Nicholas Bedoni, who is doing an exact really Crystal, but

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Speaker 5: he is so good at it that he doesn't lose

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Speaker 5: that invention, he doesn't lose that spark, he doesn't lose

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Speaker 2: And everyone's like, what the hell you thought?

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Speaker 5: We were weirdly jealous, but just so floored because he's

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Speaker 1: That's it's interesting you say that, because I think that's

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Speaker 1: one of the things that I'm only realizing it is

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Speaker 3: These were not actors doing impersonations.

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Speaker 1: These were actors telling the story of the night, and

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Speaker 5: What Jason talks about often is how every you know,

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Speaker 5: an artist looking for identity, and Guilda is this very

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Speaker 2: And Lorne is just someone.

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Speaker 5: Who wants to make something and has been told no

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Speaker 5: his entire life. And that's everyone's rule, and that you

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Speaker 5: just kind of wanted to feel like them, but you

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Speaker 5: didn't want to be them. You just you had that

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Speaker 5: I think it all came together. It wasn't a group

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Speaker 1: Same the likes of gilder Rad and I want to

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Speaker 1: get to see this movie Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Not but Dan Akroyd has given it his seal love.

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Speaker 3: He loved it.

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Speaker 5: It's really special because I feel like so many of

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Speaker 5: Saturday night Live, because so many of them have inspired

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Speaker 2: Just kind of it's like, Okay, we we did our job,

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Speaker 4: I know I don't want to give too much of why,

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Speaker 5: What was so great about that was we had two shirts.

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Speaker 2: Going forward.

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Speaker 1: It feels like the set was probably spot on, meticulously designed,

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Speaker 1: recreated of the original set.

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Speaker 5: Jason had two writer friends who used to work on

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Speaker 2: we know how to get there. It was so exact.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And they really got into the original blueprints of

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Speaker 2: Were there every day on the same set. It was

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Speaker 5: It reminded me of I remember going over to like friends'

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Speaker 5: felt like because every room went to a real place

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Speaker 5: like nineteen seventies doritos in pepsis, and there's cigarettes everywhere. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Well, I think on that Hamster wheel analogy, that is

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Speaker 1: a good spot for us to wrap things up. Gabrielle, congratulations.

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Speaker 1: We I mean, we couldn't have loved the movie more

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Speaker 1: think everybody is gonna love Saturday Night. It's in Cinema's

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Speaker 1: October thirty one. Gabrielle, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. You guys have a very one

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