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Speaker 1: You're listening to Salmon Lola in La La Land.

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Speaker 2: A podcast that gives you an inside look into the

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Speaker 2: entertainment industry from two homegrown Aussies.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Sam, I'm a producer, and.

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Speaker 3: I'm Lola, an actor and TV host.

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Speaker 1: Each week, we're going to share with you our honest

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Speaker 1: and real experiences of working in Hollywood, from the bafters

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Speaker 1: to casting rooms, talk shows, red carpet events, and all

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Speaker 1: the little bits are crazy in between.

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Speaker 2: Our hope is that through sharing these stories, the good

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Speaker 2: and the ugly, you'll be encouraged to get outside your

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Speaker 2: comfort zone and chase your dreams.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Salmon Lola in La La Land.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Hi, Lola, I was a very nervous Hello.

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Speaker 1: Why are you nervous? This is that first I know,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. I've been on a high all morning.

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Speaker 3: I don't know where to start. I don't know where

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Speaker 3: to start.

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Speaker 1: This is so much, so much going on.

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Speaker 3: Can you can you tell us what this podcast is

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Speaker 3: even about?

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Speaker 1: Sure? So, basically, there were two Aussis. We're here in

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Speaker 1: La working in the film and television industry, and we're

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Speaker 1: also mates. So we've been going on hikes and having

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Speaker 1: lunches and sharing like some ridiculous stories, some amazing stories

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Speaker 1: of all the things that we've been doing, and we're like,

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Speaker 1: we have to share this, like people have to hear

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Speaker 1: what we're going through.

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Speaker 3: Some of it.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't feel real, and I don't mean necessarily that in

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Speaker 2: the best way ever. It's like some of the things

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Speaker 2: I'll be like, oh, Sam, guess what happened today?

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Speaker 1: You mean the vaginal deodorant that you did? An audition

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Speaker 1: that you did yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Do you know that that was my first official audition?

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Speaker 2: Like my sides got said, I didn't even tell you this.

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Speaker 2: I went to print them off because I print all

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Speaker 2: my notes off, my sides off so that I can

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Speaker 2: learn them. And I went to pick them up at

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Speaker 2: the printer, and when I was paying, the guard on

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Speaker 2: the side was laughing at me, and I go, what

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Speaker 2: are you laughing? Are you laughing at my accent?

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Speaker 3: And he was like no, And I didn't figure out.

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Speaker 2: And then I sat down and looked at the script

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Speaker 2: in the car and I was like, oh, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Can you give us a line from the audition?

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Speaker 3: I'm your fanny godmother, no joke.

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Speaker 2: First audition in La was a vagina deodoran Ad.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, and I can't wait because we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about auditions and we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: being on set and working on TV shows and like.

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Speaker 3: Everything feature filmeder film.

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Speaker 1: Today. I'm so so pumped. This is our first episode too.

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Speaker 2: And okay, So for you listening in your car at home,

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Speaker 2: wherever you're listening, you might notice there is a second

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Speaker 2: voice on this podcast, and it's my wonderful friend Sam.

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Speaker 2: And you're not just a wonderful friend, you have a

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Speaker 2: plethora of experience in this incredible industry. And so can

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Speaker 2: you give us a little taste of Sam Kennedy.

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Speaker 1: God, Dawn, I I hate talking about myself. Cut to

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Speaker 1: me giving you like a twenty minute rundown of my life.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look, I've been in the industry for over twenty years.

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Speaker 1: This shit shows my age and spring chicken. I started

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Speaker 1: off at film school. I went to film school. I

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Speaker 1: studied producing and directing. This is in Sydney, Australia. I

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Speaker 3: That's got to be a.

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Speaker 2: Little testament to your skill or talent or potential for sure.

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Speaker 1: I guess, so I don't know. She was just like, hey,

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Speaker 1: So she got pregnant really quickly, not by MEPs.

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Speaker 3: He read my next question, I could.

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Speaker 1: you when you've got a production on I cast mainly

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Speaker 1: worked as a coordinator and a production manager and then

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Speaker 3: Which we all we talk about all of this in

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Speaker 3: the POTO all of.

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Speaker 1: The yeah, good yea. But I also at the same

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Speaker 2: So you've done like behind the camera, but also in

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Speaker 1: Ren Y, Yeah, so I did. I did voiceovers. I

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Speaker 1: this is the business. And yeah, did some on screen

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Speaker 3: And on the other side of the world, no less.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, and on the other side of the world.

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Speaker 1: production company called Partisan, and through that process they were

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Speaker 2: You got poached out of school, out of film school,

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I guess to be a testament to you.

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Speaker 1: But it was great and working for Partisan was amazing

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Speaker 1: moved back to Australia, back home. Back home, started a

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Speaker 3: Number one in Australia at the time.

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Speaker 1: Number one food podcast in the country. It's still out

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Speaker 1: I moved from Sydney to Melbourne and COVID.

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Speaker 2: of the worst places to be for COVID.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was in prison. Yeah, basically do you

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Speaker 1: It was like, we're in like a crazy film anyway

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Speaker 1: And then the rest is kind of history. And it's

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate that, And for people listening, if you

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Speaker 3: I also want that job. I want the job of

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Speaker 1: two of them, and that was completely rewritten on the day,

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00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,040
Speaker 1: and it becomes an emotional turning point for the whole

442
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 1: film because it's all about Rebel's character Stephanie and her

443
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,440
Speaker 1: journey really as a character and how the death of

444
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,879
Speaker 1: her mum affected her and why she's so driven to

445
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 1: want to come back and finish school now at thirty seven.

446
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 1: And it wasn't written like that.

447
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 3: How cool?

448
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god.

449
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,160
Speaker 2: So many more questions like how much is like some

450
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 2: of my favorite scenes are Mister T.

451
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,200
Speaker 3: Like it, I just think.

452
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,920
Speaker 2: But my question is because it feels like these scenes

453
00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,320
Speaker 2: are improv How much is improv A lot?

454
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Speaker 3: Really?

455
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:49,439
Speaker 4: Yeah?

456
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, so what we always would do is you

457
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 1: kind of do the scene scripted and then we do

458
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: what's called a fun run, and so it's like you

459
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,640
Speaker 1: just let the actors go for it was really good

460
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 1: at that. Brandon's got Jones, who plays mister T is

461
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 1: fantastic wrote it right, and he's so it was written

462
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,920
Speaker 1: by two other people. But then so basically Brandon worked

463
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,400
Speaker 1: on a film called Isn't It Romantic? With Rebel and

464
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 1: Todd Garner, who also produced Liam hems Andiam Hemsworth. So

465
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 1: Todd Ganna produced Isn't It Romantic with Gena Matthews and

466
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 1: he's also produced Senior Year. Yes, and so this script

467
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: came about, but it was kind of the concept was there,

468
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 1: but there was like ice hockey in it and all

469
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 1: this other stuff, and Rebel got to touch the project

470
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: and bought Brandon on because Brandon's just so funny and

471
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,959
Speaker 1: amazing to kind of do a rewrite which often happens,

472
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: and they changed it so instead of ice hockey, there

473
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: was cheery and a whole lot of funny stuff that

474
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Speaker 1: Brando added. And I actually have a little gift for

475
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: everyone today, Joe.

476
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,920
Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to like brush over this. He's

477
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 3: my favorite.

478
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Speaker 2: He's my Do you remember, oh, you know how you

479
00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:58,640
Speaker 2: were kind enough to take me to the.

480
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,959
Speaker 1: Yes, we went to the When the film's finished, they

481
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,719
Speaker 1: always have a cast and cruise screening and they had

482
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 1: it on the Paramount lot because Paramount and one of

483
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,919
Speaker 1: the producers in the production company he attached to the studio,

484
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 1: attached to the film, and I took Lola with the

485
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,360
Speaker 1: cast and crew before the premiere.

486
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 3: I was beside myself, Guys, this.

487
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: Was the first time on the Paramount lot.

488
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 2: First time I've never been to a Carston Cruz screening

489
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 2: in my life.

490
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 3: But I don't know if you know this, because we

491
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 3: went to.

492
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 2: Dinner with Brandon and the cast and crew after, I like,

493
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,639
Speaker 2: was that goober that sidled up to him, and I

494
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 2: was like, you're my favorite.

495
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: He's so funny in this film, and he wrote it.

496
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: And if you don't know who Brandon Scott Jones is,

497
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,680
Speaker 1: he's on a show at the moment which is literally

498
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: going gang buses. It's called Ghosts.

499
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,719
Speaker 3: I've been watching it. He's very funny.

500
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: He's also been on The Good Place. He's on another

501
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 1: show called The Other Two, which is also doing fantastically well,

502
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: and he's going to have a much bigger role in

503
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: the next seasons of The Other Two going forward.

504
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 3: And he's on Billboards Down Sunset right now.

505
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,439
Speaker 1: He's a lover the plays and he's the nicest human

506
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: in the world, as is everyone on this film. But

507
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: I just wanted to do something special for everyone today.

508
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: So I spoke to Brandon about what it was like

509
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 1: to write Senior Year or adapt it from the script

510
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 1: that it was, and also to star in it. Well,

511
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say star in it. He's a supporting role,

512
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: but how do you write for a film knowing that

513
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: you're all so in And also I thought why not

514
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: ask him, like he's such a successful, well known comedy actor,

515
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: what about comedy actors out there that want to get

516
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: into doing this, you know, that want to write or

517
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: want to act. How do you do it?

518
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 2: I had no idea that so many actors write screenplays

519
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 2: or write stuff for themselves, like Fleabag is famously that,

520
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 2: and I'm sure a lot like I'm pretty sure.

521
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 3: Matt Damon and.

522
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 2: Who Ben Affleck they wrote is it good Will Hunting Together?

523
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 2: You know, like that's how a lot of people make it.

524
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 2: They actually write themselves in.

525
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Todd and Rebel got Brown and involved in

526
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: this because they just knew what he was like and anyway,

527
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: look he he's a bit of what he had to say.

528
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 6: I'm writing. Senior Year was really really interesting because the

529
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 6: project came to me as a rewripe, and that means

530
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 6: two wonderful screenwriters named Arthur Peley and Andrew Nauer had

531
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 6: written this script a few years ago, and by the

532
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 6: time Rebel had attached herself to it, the world had

533
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 6: changed so much. So they felt like the script needed

534
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 6: an update and felt like it also needed to do

535
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 6: what I coined as rebel Phi. So we needed a

536
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 6: rebel by the script. And so, because Reb and I

537
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,239
Speaker 6: had done a movie together a few years ago as

538
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 6: Isn't It called Isn't It Romantic? And that was produced

539
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 6: by Todd Garner and they were teaming up on this film.

540
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Speaker 6: They thought of me to to maybe come in and

541
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Speaker 6: do a rewrite. And it was really, really, really fun

542
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 6: because the second I got the script, it was just

543
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 6: really almost like as silly and fun and funny as

544
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Speaker 6: I think the idea is, I found it to be

545
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 6: very personal right away, just because this is about a

546
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 6: character who went to high school in the same time

547
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 6: period when I went to high school, and then what

548
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 6: would happen to that person if they woke up twenty

549
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 6: years later in today's climate and had to return And

550
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,199
Speaker 6: how problematic and how jarring and how wild and ridiculous

551
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 6: that would be. And it just really made me laugh.

552
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,479
Speaker 6: And so when I sat down to write it, the

553
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 6: first thing that I had imagined was what if you

554
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 6: went to high school and she's all that, and then

555
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 6: you woke up and had to return to high school?

556
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 6: And it was euphoria and like that to me, I

557
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 6: really wanted to highlight the like what has changed for

558
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 6: the teenage genre in the zeitgeist more than anything else.

559
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Speaker 6: But as I started researching it, and as I started

560
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 6: just trying to think about different moments. I was so

561
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 6: struck by how wonderfully the world had changed. I think

562
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 6: my instinct was initially to be a little cynical, but

563
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 6: I kept finding myself really, really pleasantly surprised with how

564
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 6: accepting it feels like teenagers are and how progressive things

565
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 6: have become. And I wanted to highlight that while also

566
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 6: sort of holding on to the very real truths that

567
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 6: you know, high school is difficult and difficult for every

568
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 6: single person, and no matter how the world changes, you're

569
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 6: still a group of teenagers locked in a building, locked

570
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 6: in a building to get there, so things aren't going

571
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 6: to go smoothly. And it was really fun to sort

572
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 6: of play with that dichotomy. And then the other thing

573
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 6: too was to also, in the modern world, really highlight

574
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 6: the good and the bad, nostalgia, the stuff where okay,

575
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 6: you know, we used to have used terrible terms back then,

576
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 6: but we also had really great music. And so I

577
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 6: did write myself into the film, I will say, and

578
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 6: I hopefully Rebel will back me up on that. She

579
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 6: was like, Brandon, you should write yourself a pot and

580
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 6: I was like, okay, And so I ended up putting

581
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 6: mister t in there. When you're writing and you know

582
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 6: you're going to be performing, you always want to make

583
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 6: sure that you're not just like self serving and you're like,

584
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 6: you know who should be in this scene is me.

585
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 6: That's the death of everything. I've done that before on

586
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 6: a TV show that I'm on as well, and so

587
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 6: you just want to make sure that that you're staying true,

588
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 6: is staying true to the story. And so there's a

589
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,479
Speaker 6: couple of scenes that come to mind that I really

590
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,239
Speaker 6: really loved writing. The first scene that I really love

591
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 6: is between Anna and and Gowery, between Tiffany and Stephanie

592
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 6: in the bathroom in two thousand and two. That's really

593
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 6: really that was when I think one of the first

594
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 6: things I wrote. And the other first thing that I

595
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 6: wrote was in the twenty twenty two World where she

596
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 6: teaches her friends to dance and they go into the

597
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 6: Britney Spears music the Britney Spears Crazy video, and those

598
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 6: are two moments that I just had like the most fun.

599
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 6: And I guess, like, and if you're an actor as

600
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 6: well and you want to get into writing, one thing

601
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 6: that I would say is maybe don't write for yourself

602
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 6: at first. I know, a lot of people say, like, oh,

603
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 6: write keep writing for yourself, and I think that is

604
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 6: a great, great idea, that is a great like in

605
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 6: and maybe that might be your voice. But a challenge

606
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 6: could also be try writing something for a friend, or

607
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 6: try writing something for somebody who you admire as a

608
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 6: performer and see how that changes. And I think it's

609
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 6: a really cool thing that happens where hopefully you start

610
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 6: to break away from what you normally feel like you

611
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 6: would do when you're trying to think of somebody else

612
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 6: in the part. So those are That's my little advice,

613
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 6: if that makes any sense. Again, I always say with

614
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 6: any advice, is take only the advice that makes sense

615
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 6: to you.

616
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Speaker 1: So but yeah, Senior.

617
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Speaker 6: Year was, without a doubt one of the best experiences

618
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 6: I have ever had in my life. And I'm really

619
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 6: excited for people to see it.

620
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: So good Brando, and we're going to sound like broken records,

621
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: but every single person that worked on this film has

622
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: just said it is one of the greatest experiences of

623
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: their life. And Chris Parnell, who plays Rebel's dad in

624
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: the film.

625
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 3: Oh oh, I have been fangirling almost.

626
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: Bertie Rock like he's one of the comedic greats and

627
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: he has been doing this forever. Not to age you, Chris, but.

628
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 3: I've watched all his sn L clips this morning.

629
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Speaker 1: Pro and even he said, this is one of the

630
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: greatest sets I've ever been on.

631
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Speaker 3: Oh wow.

632
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: And do you know what. I have to give credit

633
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: to Todd and Rebel, who produced it, and also Alex Hardcastle,

634
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: who directed it, because they created you know, I always

635
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: think the fish rots from the top, but it also

636
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: works in reverse in the sense that whatever is coming

637
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: from the top bleeds into everyone else. And they created

638
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: the most incredible, warm, generous love set and we were

639
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: all just getting up and going to work and having

640
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: the best time every day, and we've all remained such

641
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: good friends. I went to the Magic Castle with half

642
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: the cast on Sunday.

643
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 3: What the because I drive past it all the time.

644
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,719
Speaker 1: It's like really full on, like members club. That's a

645
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: castle in Hollywood on a hill, and you go in

646
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: and you can't take phones or anything. You've got to

647
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: wear a suit. The girls have to wear like almost

648
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: ball gowns. And you go in and there's hidden passenger

649
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: passages and all these weird stuff, and there's magicians in

650
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: every room. So you eat dinner and then you just

651
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: go from room to room and like I had to

652
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: be esquorted out because I couldn't find the door. Like

653
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: it's like that crazy. And you just watch magicians do

654
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: these insane tricks.

655
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Speaker 3: Is their boos involved or is it?

656
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 4: Oh?

657
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Whatever you want, you can

658
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: drink or not drink or yeah wow, but anyway, very cool, Brando,

659
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that.

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Speaker 3: How long was the shoot? Like, how long did you

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Speaker 3: shoot for? Oh?

662
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Speaker 1: Do you know what? I think it was twelve weeks

663
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Speaker 1: or maybe eleven weeks?

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Speaker 2: Is that kind of sure standard?

665
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Speaker 1: No, it's kind of standard for a rom com like that. Yeah.

666
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Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings or Black Panther was in Atlanta

667
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Speaker 1: shooting at the same time. I think they shot for

668
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: a year. Black Panthers shot for a year, I think so. Yeah. Yeah,

669
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Speaker 1: I love that soundtrack so much.

670
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Speaker 3: I also love the same year soundtrack.

671
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Speaker 2: Speaking of there is an amazing nod to Britney in

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Speaker 2: this movie.

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Speaker 1: Well, she's so iconic from two thousand and two, you

674
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: know that era? Do you know?

675
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Speaker 3: I didn't even realize that.

676
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Speaker 2: The crazy scene, which you can even you can see

677
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 2: this on YouTube as well, is a full blown nod

678
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Speaker 2: to the actual video click.

679
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. So Aj the choreographer, who's amazing. He's done

680
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: all the pitch perfect perfect films. He works with Usher,

681
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: he literally works with everyone in the business. I'm not

682
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Speaker 1: even doing him justice. So he choreographed all the dance

683
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Speaker 1: sequences with his assistant Brook, who's just heaven and Yeah,

684
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Speaker 1: they made very sure that it was as close to

685
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Speaker 1: the Britney video as possible.

686
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Speaker 2: And I geeked out and watched an interview Rebel did

687
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Speaker 2: about this scene and for only five rehearsals before that's

688
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Speaker 2: I think I've got a fear of dancing. Though I

689
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: was like, oh my goodness, my a type personality would want.

690
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Speaker 1: But the reason that is is because, if you think

691
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Speaker 1: about it, we only had four days prep, which, as

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Speaker 1: I've said, is unusual. And in those four days, you've

693
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: got to get all the costumes right, you've got to

694
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Speaker 1: get all her looks right. And because the film set

695
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: across multiple days, you look different every day. So I

696
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: can't remember how many looks like insane we had like

697
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: thirty two looks like we're a hair's up downside whatever,

698
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Speaker 1: different outfits and didn't.

699
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Speaker 3: One character have a wig.

700
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: And then it wasn't quite right, and then the wig

701
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 2: had to get changed and eventually there was no wig.

702
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Speaker 1: Yes, so and Garie Rice, who plays the younger version

703
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Speaker 1: of Rebel Australian. I love her if you don't know

704
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: who she is, Mary East she plays Kate Winslet's daughter

705
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: in may of Eastown. She's shooting a limited series now

706
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: for Apple with Jennifer Gannah Like, she is unstoppable on

707
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: the up and she's the nicest human being ever. So

708
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Speaker 1: she came in for her fittings and to get a

709
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: books right, but she still had her short hair from

710
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: Mayor of East Town and so we had this we'd

711
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: creator for us so at match Rebel's hair, but the

712
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: wig just didn't look right. So we're a day from

713
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Speaker 1: principal photography, which is the day you start filming, because

714
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Speaker 1: the first day was we were shooting the two thousand

715
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Speaker 1: and two cast. So Angari's like one of the first

716
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: people that we shoot and we don't have a hair

717
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Speaker 1: eye and it was this huge drama two days before

718
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: what do we do? And we ended up not using

719
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Speaker 1: a wig and just having her with short hair and

720
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Speaker 1: butterfly clips. And then we replicated that when we see Rebel.

721
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Speaker 1: So Rebel's got longer hair, which is fine as twenty

722
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Speaker 1: years later, but she has the same butterfly clips. So

723
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Speaker 1: that's how we kind of.

724
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Speaker 2: I had no idea until you talk like that, you

725
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 2: cannot how as an audience member, I don't think how interesting.

726
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: And the other thing that Angouri did, which is really fascinating,

727
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: because she had to play Rebel and she'd never met

728
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Speaker 1: Rebel before. Coincidentally, she was on our flight sitting behind

729
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: us in the way over. It was the first time

730
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: Rebel and Angerie met.

731
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Speaker 3: Oh wow.

732
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Speaker 1: And then we didn't see her again because we're off

733
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Speaker 1: in prep and she's off in prep, and then you know,

734
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: and she's got to appear on day one and act

735
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Speaker 1: like Rebel.

736
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.

737
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Speaker 1: So what she did is she came and she watched

738
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Speaker 1: the dailies, and she would watch Rebel on set, and

739
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: then she would go home and incorporate movements and things

740
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Speaker 1: that Rebel did so that it replicated the physic Can I.

741
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Speaker 2: Totally feel that, You can totally feel that from the

742
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 2: get go of the movie. I felt that definitely. What

743
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: was like a day like is it nine to five days?

744
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 2: Is that what's set days alike? I know they sound

745
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 2: like really basic questions, but I just want to know.

746
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Speaker 1: I wish it was nine to five days. Oh my god,

747
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: I would have had even more of a holiday. Then no.

748
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Speaker 4: God.

749
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Speaker 1: So we're doing what's called French hours, which is a

750
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Speaker 1: ten hour day but a twelve hour day for cast,

751
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: and what that means is that we should continuously all day,

752
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: so we don't stop for an hour for lunch, but

753
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: there is food and lunch provided, you know, at all times,

754
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: so you kind of eat on the go. Some crew

755
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: love working like this for obvious reasons. Others hate working

756
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: like this. Me personally, I love it because your days

757
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: are shorter and you're still getting up, you know, especially

758
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: if we're shooting morning scenes or whatever. You're still getting

759
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: up sometimes at four in the morning. But you just

760
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: know that you're going to finish early. As an actor,

761
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: you've got two hour another two hours built in, or

762
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: mainly for the females because it takes them about two

763
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: hours to get ready in hair and makeup. But yeah,

764
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Speaker 1: you know you're not going to be there all night,

765
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Speaker 1: or if you do go into overtime, you know that

766
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Speaker 1: at least it's not going to blow out to an

767
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Speaker 1: eighteen twenty hour day got.

768
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Speaker 3: It so interesting? And what about is it like five

769
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Speaker 3: days a week?

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Speaker 1: So we did five day weeks. Some productions to six

771
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Speaker 1: day weeks, but luckily we did five day weeks, so

772
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: we had the weekends off, which was great. But the

773
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Speaker 1: thing is, and back to this whole dancing thing, is

774
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Speaker 1: that we because we don't have much prep, or Rebel

775
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: didn't have much prep, there wasn't time to dance. So

776
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 1: we're trying to fit dancing in around the filming schedule.

777
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: But Rebel's the lead role in the film, she's pretty

778
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: much in ninety five percent of it, so you can't

779
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: do dance rehearsals at three in the morning or at

780
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: ten at night when we've wrapped. And of course the

781
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: thing is if then we had night shoots that would

782
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: usually be scheduled on a Friday night, because you'd have

783
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: the weekend to recover, which means you're shooting into Saturday morning,

784
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: so your saturdays are taken are gone pretty much, so

785
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: then you only have Sunday left if you need to

786
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: do another dance rehessle or you got to learn your

787
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,720
Speaker 1: lines for the week too, and sometimes there's extra fittings

788
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: and it's not like you're just mucking around by the

789
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Speaker 1: pool on a Sunday.

790
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Speaker 2: And one thing that she mentioned in the interview that

791
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: I hadn't even put my brain had never even gone there.

792
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Speaker 2: It's like the rehearsals are done in like your sweats

793
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 2: or your yog skia, but then when you're recording, you're

794
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 2: full blown costume, and so your body moves different. It

795
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 2: feels different. It's restricted in different ways, like do you

796
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 2: just have to know as an actor? Okay, well it's

797
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 2: going to feel different on the day because to me,

798
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Speaker 2: I think I'm a bit a type, but I would

799
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 2: want to know.

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00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 3: I'd be like I need a dress rehearsal. But there

801
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 3: was you know, it sounds.

802
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: Well, I think they did do like I think they

803
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: would try and wear the shoes they were wearing.

804
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, how interesting though, like all these little beet things

805
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 2: that you don't really think of. That's why I'm sorry

806
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 2: clad about this pod. I have to say thank you

807
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 2: so much for taking me. I know we touched on

808
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 2: that you took me to the Paramount a lot to

809
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 2: see the cast and crew screen, but I got to

810
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,919
Speaker 2: meet so many and like the two thousand and two

811
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 2: cast for a lot of them this was like their

812
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 2: first ever feature.

813
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 3: And like they're like, Anna was like shaking beforehand and crying.

814
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Speaker 2: And I think my favorite thing was like when a

815
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: cast member was on the screen, you'd hear like cheering,

816
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 2: and how did that feel for you because you were

817
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 2: part of that. For me as an audience member, I

818
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: was like, oh my good. I felt like I was

819
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: getting like a sneaky peek and what really goes on.

820
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Speaker 2: But for you it would have been like the family

821
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Speaker 2: coming back together after like ten months or something.

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Speaker 1: And I was lucky because I got to see different

823
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: versions of the cut of it throughout the editing process,

824
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: so that was not the first time I'd seen it,

825
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: but for the cast, it was the first time a

826
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Speaker 1: lot of them had seen it, and some of the

827
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Speaker 1: younger kids for one of a better word, you know,

828
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Speaker 1: I mean, these people are these humans are nineteen twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Three, ridiculously talented.

830
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Speaker 1: So talented, and this is what I love about this

831
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Speaker 1: film is that everyone is amazing in their own right

832
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: and everyone shines, and I just think, watch these faces,

833
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: because they're all going to blow up and be huge.

834
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Speaker 1: But for them, it's the first time they've seen themselves

835
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 1: on screen in the feature film, but even for Alex Hardcastle, Alex,

836
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Speaker 1: I won't divulge your age, but he's slightly older than

837
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenty year olds and he's directed TV his

838
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: whole life, amazing TV shows that you've all heard of,

839
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: worked with Jane Fond, a huge actors, and he's directing

840
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: his first feature film too. So we're all in this

841
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: like you know, thing together. And it was just the

842
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: support and the encouragement and everything in the room was

843
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: so fantastic. And Anna, like I will try and share

844
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 1: a link or will put it in the show notes

845
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: of when she found out that she got the role

846
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: because busy herself, but I also.

847
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 3: Spoke to her, Oh she's such a cute.

848
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: She is such a cutie, and she's a Broadway baby.

849
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: So she singings, dance, acts, does it all.

850
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 2: And for context, her character plays like the correct I

851
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 2: always say this word wrong antagonists.

852
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: Or the arch nemesis. Yes. So in the film, Rebel's

853
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: character Stephanie Conway has an arch nemesis called Tiffany, and

854
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: they were arch nemesis when they were at school when

855
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: they were little, And Brando talks about that that one

856
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: of his favorite scenes is actually between Angowie who's the

857
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: young Stephanie, and Anna who is the young Tiffany, And

858
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: it's they kind of have like this show off in

859
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: the bathroom Showdown, I should say, but yeah, I just

860
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: I thought it'd be really interesting to talk to Anna

861
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Speaker 1: and just you know, as her first feature film experience,

862
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: what she thought about it all.

863
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 3: I'm so excited about this. Thank you for doing this.

864
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Speaker 7: Hi, Sam, Hi Lola, thank you so much for having

865
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 7: me h senior year. What a journey. This movie has

866
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:10,760
Speaker 7: absolutely changed my life. And I remember the first day

867
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Speaker 7: I read the Breakdown. I really never would have guessed

868
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 7: that this would have happened. It was a true shot

869
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 7: in the dark. And I remember making my tape and

870
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 7: just going balls to the wall and making Tiffany the meanest, bitchiest,

871
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 7: craziest girl in high.

872
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 1: School that we all knew.

873
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Speaker 7: And when I got it, I started weeping and pissing

874
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 7: my pants. Basically, it was after a super super long

875
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,760
Speaker 7: day doing a barista shift, and I remember my hands

876
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Speaker 7: and my back hurts so badly and I was so tired,

877
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 7: and getting that call was one of the most special

878
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 7: moments of my entire life. Working with Rebel, working with

879
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 7: Alex Hardcastle. They are some of my favorite people and

880
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 7: their warmth and generosity could never be repaid, and I

881
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 7: just feel so grateful to have collaborated with such an

882
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 7: unbelievably warm group of people as my cast members, who

883
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 7: I can now call my family.

884
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 3: We truly are the best of friends. So yeah, I.

885
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,479
Speaker 7: Mean it feels crazy, but it's been a long time

886
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 7: coming and the world is going to finally get to

887
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 7: see her very soon. So everyone check out Senior Year.

888
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 3: What a little Swedie.

889
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: I know, that's the gorgeous Anna Poo. She's amazing and

890
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: she's going to go places. So what's really interesting where

891
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: Anna's involved is because she's playing the young Tiffany, just

892
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: like Angowie played the young Stephany and Zoe Chao again

893
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,919
Speaker 1: absolute legend who plays the older version of Tiffany, who's

894
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: super successful, right, oh amazing. She's in everything, like she

895
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: just doesn't stop working. She's in a show called The

896
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: After Party. And now I've like had a mental blank

897
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: if everything else that she's in.

898
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 3: But like phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal though.

899
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: Yeah look her up like she's and she's so funny

900
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: in this film. One of my favorite scenes in this film. Yeah,

901
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna say. Is in the movie Theater,

902
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: and I won't spoil it, but she has an altercation

903
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,959
Speaker 1: with an older lady while she's in the movie theater,

904
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: and it has the stitches. Every single time I.

905
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 2: Was sitting next to you the first time I saw this,

906
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: and you were be side yourself, and.

907
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: They did it like thirty two or not thirty probably

908
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: fifteen times on set on the day, and every time

909
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: I was in hysterics and I would walk up to

910
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: her and be like, so I am like crying, can

911
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: I That's one.

912
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 2: Other thing that I didn't realize until I saw the

913
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 2: screening with you. Your handle is used in one of

914
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 2: the set your social media handle.

915
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you blink you'll miss it. I know.

916
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: How cute. I know. Alex Hardcastle, the director, he did

917
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: that as a kind of a bit of a laugh

918
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: because you have to get that approved, like, you can't

919
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: just put it on people. So they asked me. But

920
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: he texted me when I was back in Australia and

921
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 1: I didn't know what he was asking because he didn't

922
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: say it was for the film. He just said could

923
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 1: he use my handle or something? I said, sure, and

924
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: then suddenly it pops up in the film commenting on

925
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: something that Stephanie on an install Lie, Yeah, I'm like

926
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: that was a hot night last night or something like

927
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: last night was fire or something. Anyway, what I was

928
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: going to say is Ana and Zoe got together and

929
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: in pre production and spent hours working out what their

930
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: objectives were, what drove them why they were they were

931
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: the way they are because because they play a bitch

932
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: in this in this film, and their thought process was

933
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: that no one's sister bitch. Was there a bitch, there's

934
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: a bitch. They're a bitch because they've been led to

935
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: that for whatever reason. So they worked out the same

936
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: backstory and what the same triggers were so that they

937
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 1: could both play those direct objectives in their characters.

938
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,720
Speaker 2: So smart, and it just feels like what an amazing

939
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 2: superpower as an actor. Yes, you know, like to have

940
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 2: that kind of character work before you even stepped foot

941
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:47,760
Speaker 2: on set person.

942
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: And also I think for Anna, I mean, she's so

943
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: talented in her own right, but to be working with

944
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: someone like Zoe who has just been doing this fair

945
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say forever because she's still young too, but

946
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: like she's just like a pro Oh.

947
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 2: I love, Oh my goodness, I've got so many questions.

948
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 2: Can I say one really nerdy thing about the Paramount Lot? Yeah,

949
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 2: movie cinema way, it sits five hundred and twenty people.

950
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: It is ginormous. It is like ten times enormous. And

951
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: I think I can't remember. But for some reason, I

952
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: think because of COVID, we were only allowed like fifty

953
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: or sixty people at the screening, so there's like a

954
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: small bunch of us I see in this China.

955
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt kind of but it felt very like

956
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 2: exclusive as a result, like, oh my goodness.

957
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: So good to see the film on the big screen too.

958
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 2: Ah And yeah, I'll never that was such a gift

959
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 2: for you to give that experience to me, so I'll

960
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 2: never get over that.

961
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

962
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 2: One of the other things that I loved was meeting

963
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 2: sal who was in charge of all the costumes, and

964
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 2: we got like chit chatting straight away.

965
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: I am in love with Sao and as I said,

966
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: I say this about everyone and attached the film. But

967
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: oh my god, he's such a character and he is

968
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: such a talented costume designer. He's done the pitch perfect films.

969
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: He's just done the Hocus Pocus reboot with that midlar

970
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: Ziahjsica Parker and Kathina Jemmy and probably saying your name

971
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: wrong love Pocus and he knocks it out of the park.

972
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: And he's the wardrobe for this film is like a

973
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 1: character of its own. And I particularly love the work

974
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: that he does with Josh Colly's character Yaz, who's this

975
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: like fluid gay, very confident.

976
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 2: My favorite moment of the trailer that he is my

977
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 2: favorite moment of the trailer.

978
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 3: You know what the bit I'm talking about?

979
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 4: I know the bit.

980
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen the trailer going set, it's

981
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: a really funny one.

982
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 3: Can we play I feel like we need to play it?

983
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 3: Can we play it?

984
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: Yeah? Why not? Okay, let's play it now? Where does

985
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: the popular kids sit?

986
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 8: No, there's only like three ways to become popular a cheerleader,

987
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 8: to wait it out a Crombie, or to let guys

988
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 8: go in the back door.

989
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: I must be really buckling it. And this boy is

990
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 1: us s start like he is going to be one

991
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: of the huge, huge breakouts of this film. Without doubt.

992
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 2: I just have yeah and zero ego, Like I was

993
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 2: sitting at that dinner I'm a no one to all

994
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 2: these people. And he was like so sweet and as

995
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 2: was everyone. But I was like so blown away because

996
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 2: I think the next day you sent me a video

997
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 2: of him like singing as a kid.

998
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: So, okay, I'm just going to reveal a little secret

999
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: which Josh now knows. But I'm a big Hamilton fan, okay.

1000
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: And Josh is a big Hamilton fan, and he is

1001
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: famous for in my mind, he is famous for a

1002
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: role in Hamilton that he did not part of the

1003
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: stage show. But there's this thing called Hamilton Gets Miscast

1004
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: and they cast unusual characters to play different roles and

1005
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: they did like this show and Josh was about fifteen

1006
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: at the time. He looks about eight. And it was

1007
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: him and two other boys and they do a performance

1008
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: of the Skyless Sisters, which is one of my favorite

1009
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: songs on Hamilton, and they work this stage like you

1010
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: have never seen it. I have been enamored with this kid,

1011
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: like from the get go, like who is that? Like

1012
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 1: he's just like he's a superstar just watching him in

1013
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,359
Speaker 1: this and he'll put it in the show.

1014
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1015
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: And it wasn't until halfway through filming that someone was like,

1016
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: you know, that's the kid from that video.

1017
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 3: I'm like, what, Like, so you only realize through filming?

1018
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,399
Speaker 1: Yes, I didn't know because he looks so different, he's

1019
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: so growing up. Now.

1020
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 2: You had the full Jason Bateman moment where he said

1021
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 2: that sometimes you'll be doing a movie with someone and

1022
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 2: then halfway through you start googling and youtubeing your scene

1023
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 2: partner and he's like and then you come to work

1024
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 2: the next day and you're like, get really embarrassed because

1025
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 2: you've got like a like talent crush on them.

1026
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: I've literally watched that video. I couldn't even tell you,

1027
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 1: Like I send it to everyone, like before I even

1028
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: knew Josh. Oh, look, I got to play some of

1029
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 1: it for you. Now, is that okay? Lots of audiographs today,

1030
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: but his voice is insane, and just before you hear it,

1031
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 1: I want everyone to know he's fifteen.

1032
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,879
Speaker 3: I was gonna say super young, right, yeah, super young.

1033
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: And this role is usually played by three women, and

1034
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: so Josh in this little Lexa plays Angelica and he's

1035
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: the one with like the amazing voice.

1036
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 3: I can't wait.

1037
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 8: Look around, look around the Rev Lucien's haap funding in

1038
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 8: New York.

1039
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: He's just such a legend, and he's so talented and

1040
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: he's a triple threat like a lot of them. He

1041
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: can sing, he can dance, he can act. As I

1042
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: think I said earlier, he's also a Broadway baby, like

1043
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: he grew up on Broadway. And I also had a little.

1044
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 3: Chat to him, I love your Easter eggs.

1045
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 1: Well this is the last one, but I just asked

1046
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: him about his experience, you know, working on senior year.

1047
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 4: Working on Senior Year was truly the best time of

1048
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 4: my life. Like literally, I had, you know, always dreamed

1049
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 4: of doing a big movie like this ever since I

1050
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 4: was little, Like even going to bed, I would pretend

1051
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 4: that I was in a dressing room trailer and that

1052
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 4: would like help me fall asleep. So it's something that

1053
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 4: I'd always wanted to do, and so when I finally

1054
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 4: got the opportunity to do it, it was beyond exciting

1055
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 4: to me. And it was, you know, even more exciting

1056
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 4: than I was getting to do it with Rebel Wilson,

1057
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 4: who I was in The Little Mermaid with at the

1058
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 4: Hollywood Bowl. The friends that I've made on this movie

1059
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 4: are truly the biggest takeaway, specifically of Vontica and Michael

1060
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 4: are literally I love them more than life itself. They

1061
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 4: are my best friends and I would have never expected

1062
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 4: these kind of relationships to come from this. You know,

1063
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 4: I love acting and that's my passion. But the family

1064
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 4: that we made on this movie was like nothing I've

1065
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 4: ever experienced before, and well nothing I've ever experienced before

1066
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 4: to the extent that it is like if you guys

1067
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,479
Speaker 4: could really see how close we all are, you would

1068
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 4: be shocked. We really are like one big family, and

1069
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 4: you know, this movie just means so much to all

1070
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 4: of us. We had the best time filming it, and

1071
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 4: that's really what the movie's about at the end of

1072
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 4: the day is friendship. And the relationships that I built

1073
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 4: on this movie are once in a lifetime, from Rebel

1074
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 4: to Brandon to Sam and I truly would give anything

1075
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 4: to go and do it all over again. So you know,

1076
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 4: actually maybe we might get a senior year too.

1077
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: That would be amazing. Let's manifest that.

1078
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 4: But yeah, anybody trying to get in the business, you know,

1079
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 4: I waited for this role to come along, and it

1080
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 4: finally did, so my advice would be definitely wait for it.

1081
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 4: That's if I can put anything in big bold letters

1082
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 4: to keep in your head is wait for it. Your

1083
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 4: time will come, and when it does, it will be

1084
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:02,879
Speaker 4: just as amazing as senior year.

1085
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: Isn't he the best? I got goosebumps then, And I

1086
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: know we keep saying it, but honestly, like the experience

1087
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: of making this film with everyone and the community that

1088
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: was built and the family that was built. Even at

1089
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: the premiere the other night, like everyone was like, I've

1090
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,439
Speaker 1: never been to a premier like this, Like you could

1091
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: just feel the energy in the room and it really

1092
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Speaker 1: comes across in the film.

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Speaker 3: And I can't tell me what was the premier. We've

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Speaker 3: held off recording this to weight for the.

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Speaker 1: Listen. It was just so great again we're all back

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00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 1: together again because some people couldn't come to the cast

1097
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: and crew screening and just have everyone there and everyone

1098
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: dressed up and feeling good about themselves, and everyone cheered

1099
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: for each other during the film, and Alex made a

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00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: speech at the beginning, Rebel made a speech the beginning, thanked.

1101
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 3: Everyone was and emotional.

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00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: It was like everyone was crying, and it was just

1103
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: really really special and just to hang out with everyone

1104
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: again after the film. It's the most beautiful cast. And

1105
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: I really have to take my hat off to Rich

1106
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: Delia too, who cast it. I got to beat him

1107
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,479
Speaker 1: as Wellow you got to meet Rich and his partner Ross,

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00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 1: and Rich is the most beautiful human. He is such

1109
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,240
Speaker 1: a talented casting director. He used to be an actor himself.

1110
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know, he was just

1111
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: nominated for a baftor for King Richards. So he cast

1112
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 1: King Richard Smith and.

1113
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 3: The William.

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00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: Thank you and everyone that I talked to, Every actor

1115
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: that I talked to that has been into Rich's casting

1116
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: room says that he is the most generous, giving, caring

1117
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: casting director. And he really makes you feel safe and

1118
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: comfortable and wants you to succeed. And it shows, you know,

1119
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: and he's found a lot of these people are unknowns.

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00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: A lot of them aren't. But the ensemble that he

1121
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: was able to put together, and that Alex and Todd

1122
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: and Rebel, you know they all had to say, and

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00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 1: who was cast as well, they just knocked it out

1124
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,280
Speaker 1: of the park. And you've got people like Mary Holland,

1125
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: who is in happiest season, who is so funny and

1126
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: what's the bestie right plays Martha plays Rebel's bestie and

1127
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: watching her and Chris and Rebel just improv scenes we

1128
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: were in hysterics for days. And there's one particular scene

1129
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: we're in the they're in a car and they've just

1130
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: picked up Rebel's character Stephanie from hospital after twenty years

1131
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,760
Speaker 1: in a coma, and the alternate versions of that scene

1132
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: are hysterical.

1133
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 2: I hope a real comes out or a bloopers or

1134
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 2: something where you get to see people.

1135
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: Well, we've got a few at the end of the scene.

1136
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 1: But then there's so much.

1137
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 3: Mystery improv and this is the thing.

1138
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 1: And someone like Brando, who is so talented, and I

1139
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: think it's really good for people to listen to this

1140
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: and hear this is he's so talented, He wrote it,

1141
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: he's in it. His scenes were hilarious. Over half of

1142
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: them got cut. And that's not because he's not talented.

1143
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: He was at points, you know, him and Rebel were

1144
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: the funniest moments in the film. But if it doesn't

1145
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: serve the narrative, and we've got a film that's running

1146
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: at three hours, and when trying to get it down

1147
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: to an hour and forty five, we've got to work

1148
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: out what is important, What is the important themes and

1149
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: the key narrative for this film, which is what you know,

1150
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: Alex and Todd and Rebel worked on really hard in

1151
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: the edit room, and Sarah who edited it, who just

1152
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: did a brilliant job.

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00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 2: Do you know what I found really interesting about this

1154
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 2: film that I didn't go in expecting but I loved

1155
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 2: and it kind of blew me away, was that, yes,

1156
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 2: this film is all hard, but you do get to

1157
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 2: see Rebel be very dramatic and then really funny as well.

1158
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 2: And it's like often when you see a comedy, you

1159
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 2: get that comedic tone for most of the movie because

1160
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 2: it's a comedy or a rom com, whereas there were

1161
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:44,760
Speaker 2: real like light and shadow, and it was so beautiful

1162
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 2: to watch that as an audience member.

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00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean you spot on. And she was

1164
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: really able to play this at all levels, which is,

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00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: you know, what a gift to be able to have

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00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: a character to be able to do this with. But

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00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 1: I think, as I mentioned earlier, she come off the

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00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: back of The Armen and the Seahorse, which is a

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00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 1: very dramatic film that she's shot in the UK, and

1170
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 1: so she had that bit of drama still in her

1171
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:07,880
Speaker 1: I guess, and she was able to access that for

1172
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: the emotional scenes, but then also bring her comedic timing.

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00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: So look, it's so great that she's able to, you know,

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00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 1: like showcase her chops in this and stand alongside everyone else.

1175
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: And it's just like, I just like Avantica. She's like

1176
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: she was sixteen when we were filming. She's part of

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00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: like the Disney family in a way, and she's so talented,

1178
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: you like how And she's like a glamazon. She's tall

1179
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: and gorgeous and Indian and you're like, oh my god,

1180
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 1: like how has this person got so much talent at sixteen?

1181
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 4: You know?

1182
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 1: Molly Brown, who plays the young Martha again, like, she's

1183
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: just so funny in her own rights.

1184
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 3: So driven in real life, so driven, and she's.

1185
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:51,280
Speaker 1: Actually got a reoccurring role in not succession Billions.

1186
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 3: I love Billions, and if you see her.

1187
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: Face you'll start to recognize her in things. Jade Bender,

1188
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: who's who plays Bree Loves, who's like a Tiffany's daughter

1189
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: in the film, is like the cool girl, so gorgeous,

1190
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 1: so gorgeous, so beautiful, but is in real life too,

1191
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: and she's so talented. Michael Semino, if you know, love Victor,

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00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: which I hadn't actually seen before this film, but he's

1193
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: very famous from that, and he's brilliant in this and again,

1194
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's a very accomplished actor at such a

1195
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: young age. And like one of his funniest scenes, him

1196
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: and Rebel had the funniest scene that where he's trying

1197
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: to crack onto Rebel and he's, you know, sixteen in

1198
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: the movie in Rebel's thirty seven, and we were in hysterics,

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00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: but it just didn't suit the narrat So look, I

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00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 1: hope that a kind of a blooper real comes out too.

1201
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: And the big thing that we haven't really talked about

1202
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 1: is the cameo.

1203
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I know. Well, so do you want

1204
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 2: to know why? Because the cameo is in my quiz notes? Okay, no, no, no,

1205
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 2: but let's go there.

1206
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 3: No, let's go there. Who is Who's tell me who

1207
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 3: this cameo is?

1208
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: So you may know her as Alicia Silverstone from Clueless.

1209
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: She actually pronounces her name as Alicia. Yes, I was

1210
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: that one of your facts.

1211
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 3: No, no, you haven't stolen it.

1212
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: So she came. She was there for a day. She

1213
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 1: does a scene in a car with Rebel and she

1214
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: was just really awesome. Took her in a stride and

1215
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: even she loves the film, Like after the Premierre she

1216
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: was like, I just love this film and even she said, God,

1217
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: the atmosphere in the room, like car ensemble, the crew,

1218
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 1: like and I really, you know, I mean, it's not

1219
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: really my job to thank anyone, but just anyone that's

1220
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 1: listening to it, that's in it or worked on this film, like,

1221
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: thank you collectively for giving me and everyone else in

1222
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: this film the most incredible experience.

1223
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 3: Thanks for creating it. As an audience member, I freaking

1224
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 3: loved it.

1225
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 1: It's really fun. I really think it's going to do

1226
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,479
Speaker 1: really well. There's nothing out there like it at the moment.

1227
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: It's got dancing, cheering, it's funny, it's hits home the

1228
00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: emotional cord. The acting's brilliant, and the directing's brilliant.

1229
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 3: It's just it's just such a cute and it's all hot.

1230
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 3: Like it's all hard to me.

1231
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 2: That's what's If you were like, what's the underlying like tone,

1232
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 2: I would be like, it's a heart felt film.

1233
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: And you'll leave feeling so good about yourself and you

1234
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: will guarantee laugh so good.

1235
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 3: That's what you want.

1236
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, Lola, I do have one more little Easter eggs.

1237
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 5: I feel like you've given us a whole bag of

1238
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 5: Easter eggs, practically the Easter money at this point, a

1239
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 5: totally totally Look, we couldn't do an episode on Senior

1240
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 5: Year without hearing from the star herself.

1241
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 3: I've got goosebum.

1242
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 1: So I spoke to Rebel. She needs no introduction. Let

1243
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: me just let's play the tape.

1244
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 8: Hey, what's up everybody, It's Rebel Wilson here.

1245
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 1: Sam. Wow.

1246
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 8: Thanks thanks for doing this whole podcast episode on a

1247
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 8: Senior Year. And I will say to everybody listening, is

1248
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 8: the best on set and is my awesome Boddy for

1249
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 8: many years now? How many years, like twenty years now. Yeah,

1250
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 8: it's been awesome to come up the ranks together from

1251
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 8: acting school to now big Hollywood movie sets. And to

1252
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 8: everybody who's watched Senior Year, thank you so much. We

1253
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 8: were number one all around the world for weeks, the

1254
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 8: number one streaming movie, and that was just awesome. I

1255
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 8: know that like eighty four million people watched it in

1256
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 8: the first ten days, which is just insane. To have

1257
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 8: this amazing time in Atlanta shooting it with just the

1258
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 8: best bunch of people, and then knowing that millions of

1259
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 8: people all around the.

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01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: World watched it. It was really really special.

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01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 8: So thank you to everyone who's watched it. Thank you

1262
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 8: to everyone who's listening right now. And he's the supporter

1263
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 8: of the film. I really appreciate it. And then congrats

1264
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 8: Samon Lola. I'm having his podcasts and if you haven't

1265
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 8: watched Seen a year, just go check it out on Netflix.

1266
01:00:58,000 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: And then you can.

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01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 8: See all of our on screen shenanigans. Yeah, all right,

1268
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 8: that's it for me. Cheers everyone.

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01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: Bye. What a ledge.

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01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 2: I'm speechless, what a champion, because we never knew this

1271
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 2: would happen. When we recorded this episode. I was like,

1272
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 2: let's just celebrate the show. And you've come, like you said,

1273
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 2: Easter Bunny, extra Easter eggs.

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01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: Oh thanks to that. Rev. And I'm just so excited

1275
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: for everyone to see what she's got coming up. She's

1276
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: got so many things planned, so many great movies she's

1277
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: working on, and obviously lots of stuff I can't talk about.

1278
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: But I'm just super excited for her and super excited

1279
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: for everyone to see what she's got coming out in

1280
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: the next few years.

1281
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 2: And I'm so excited that in this movie we've got

1282
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 2: to see a taste of her do like drama and comedy,

1283
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 2: and I know there's a little bit more drama in

1284
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 2: the Pipeliners.

1285
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 3: I'll be biggest fan. I'll be watching Thank you.

1286
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 2: So with the premise this pod, we're kind of having

1287
01:01:55,240 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 2: a little like potentially like a little quizy gamey bye.

1288
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: Let's play a game.

1289
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 3: So fun facts about senior year?

1290
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: Yes, you do?

1291
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 3: You have one or two you want to share?

1292
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: I do?

1293
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 3: Do you want to kick it off? My friends?

1294
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: So my first fun fact is that we actually shot

1295
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: this in sweltering heat. I cannot tell you how hot

1296
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:29,919
Speaker 1: Atlanta is in the middle of summer. I have never

1297
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been a barley, I've been in Singapore.

1298
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: I've never experienced anything like this heat.

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01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 3: How hot are we talking like forty degrees?

1300
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah? Humid? Like the humidity was insane and

1301
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: of course.

1302
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 3: You know, makeup, hair, costumes.

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01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 1: Todd Gana, the producer, was fantastic at making sure there

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Speaker 1: was a conditioning literally in every location. But when you're

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Speaker 1: shooting outside, you're shooting outside, So what do you do?

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01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: You can't do anything about it. We had to make

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Speaker 1: sure we had rooms, a little ten set up that

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01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 1: we could put the cast in to cool them down.

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01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: But the cast, I mean, I got I handed to them.

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01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 1: They're doing these huge dance numbers in forty degree Atlanta

1311
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 1: heat for days on end. And I have to give

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01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: it to Ryl Marx, who's head of how Emel, Hugh's weaver,

1313
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 1: who ran the makeup department. You cannot tell on any

1314
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: single person in his film that not.

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Speaker 3: At all that I wouldn't have known. If he didn't

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Speaker 3: tell me, I'd have no idea.

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01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 1: And even again when I was watching it on the

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01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 1: other night at the premiere, there's a scene where Mary

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01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: chats to Rebel's character Stephanie, and she's getting ready to

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01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 1: leave in the morning, and she's walking out of her

1321
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 1: house with a coat like it's kind of like a

1322
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: cardigan on and I'm like, oh my god, how did

1323
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 1: she wear that? Like that was all outside that scene,

1324
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 1: and I remember that day and again it was like

1325
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 1: so hot. So that's a little like fun fact that

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01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 1: you might not know from just watching the film.

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Speaker 3: Well, I had no idea. Oh my goodness, John, do

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Speaker 3: your next fact.

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Speaker 1: No, you go, let's okay, shake it up.

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Speaker 2: I loved the nod to the cameo Lyssia Silverstone. Yes,

1331
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:12,840
Speaker 2: that in Stephanie's room was a clueless poster, and so

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01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 2: it was like a nod to the ogten flick of

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01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 2: the era that we grew up watching. I think that

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01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 2: that and it was really interesting how Alex's like, no, no,

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01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 2: that was a very active choice.

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Speaker 1: Well, when we started to shoot the bedroom scene on set,

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01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:30,320
Speaker 1: someone came out to him and was like, oh my god,

1338
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: you realize that there's a clueless poster in the bedroom

1339
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: and Alia's Silverstone's on her and she's in the film.

1340
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 1: And he was like, yeah, but also I approve every

1341
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 1: single poster prop, every location, like that's the director's job.

1342
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,240
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, that's like a little cheeky wink wink

1343
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: moment and if you pick up on it, you pick.

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01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 4: Up on it.

1345
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: So I love that he did that me too.

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01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:50,840
Speaker 4: So good.

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01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 1: So my next little fact, which kept us in stitches.

1348
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: I don't know why, because it's such a silly thing.

1349
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: The films kind of not working title was always called

1350
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: Senior Year, but what we referred to it while we're

1351
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:09,920
Speaker 1: shooting was coma girl. Oh my goodness, And so all

1352
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 1: the location signs have been made up to say coma girl.

1353
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 1: So you're driving along going to location and there's this

1354
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 1: big coma girl with an arrow this way coma Girl

1355
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: based out Yeah, and all the cast would go and

1356
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,960
Speaker 1: take photos next to like their sign saying coma Girl

1357
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 1: because we just thought it was the funniest thing.

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01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 2: But it was already titled Senior Yearah yeah yeah. So

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01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 2: was it coma Girl just for fun? Or was it

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01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 2: to stop people knowing that that's what you were shooting?

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, you're not giving away like the name

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01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 1: of the film, and you know, and also I've got

1363
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 1: to make me laugh every morning driving a set at

1364
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:43,800
Speaker 1: five six am, I'm like that, do you know what's funny? Though?

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01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 3: Whenever I tell people about Senior Year, people.

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01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 2: Go, oh, yeah, the movie about the coma. Yeah, it's

1367
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 2: so funny that.

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Speaker 3: I love it. I hope you've got a fight all

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01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 3: of that. I want to see.

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01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: I do, actually, And I know Molly has a really

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01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 1: funny one, so I'll try and get it off.

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Speaker 3: I've got to put it, You've got to put it up.

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01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 2: This is more of an so my fact is a

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01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,120
Speaker 2: bit of a nerdy thing, a little one for you

1375
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 2: boss actually who edits this potto and helps produce this potto.

1376
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:14,560
Speaker 2: But as I was deep diving Chris Parnell and he's

1377
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 2: obviously snl alarm and you introduced me to him, and

1378
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that I've got I cannot wait for

1379
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 2: Boss to wake up this morning and be like, I

1380
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,600
Speaker 2: actually met the voice of Jerry off Rick and Morty,

1381
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 2: which is a massive adult swim I got runs on

1382
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 2: the Adult Swim Network here, but Rick and Morty is

1383
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:36,680
Speaker 2: a humongous like what's the word I'm looking for animated

1384
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 2: comedy for adults.

1385
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 3: I could be the biggest in the world. He's the

1386
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 3: one of the league character's voices.

1387
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 2: I had no idea, and I remember I said to you, like,

1388
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 2: you know, he's like massive snl alarm, And I was like,

1389
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 2: because I couldn't pin it when you introduced me to him.

1390
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 3: And the sweetest human.

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01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 1: He is the nicest man ever. I just again, I'm

1392
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 1: like gushing love for everyone in this cast. But Chris

1393
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 1: is such a pro. He was so lovely to work with.

1394
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 1: He's so funny. He has this dry, subtle sense of humor,

1395
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 1: which again, like I could have watched him and Mary

1396
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: and Rebel do their scenes for days, like you get excited.

1397
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 1: You'd be like, oh my god, we're shooting with them

1398
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 1: again today. I can't wait to see what they're just

1399
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 1: going to come up with.

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01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 2: Oh I love but yeah, I was. When I was research,

1401
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 2: I was like, how on earth do we have we

1402
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 2: not spoken about?

1403
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 4: It?

1404
01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 2: Is like Jerry African Marty, I had no idea, But yeah,

1405
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 2: what amazing, what an amazing Epp, thank you so much

1406
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 2: for sharing.

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01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 3: Have you got another? Oh my goodness, give it?

1408
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: Like, if you don't want the movie magic to be

1409
01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: ruined to turn off, give it to me. So everyone

1410
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:47,480
Speaker 1: knows about stunt doubles. Yes, right, So there's a few

1411
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 1: stunts in this film that rebel stunt double. Meredith again

1412
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: legend legendary stunt woman. She does most of rebel stunts

1413
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: in her films because they look alike. She just does

1414
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:01,919
Speaker 1: the stunt. So the cart wheels, the back flips, falling

1415
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: out of the car, all that Meredith does. But we

1416
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: also had a dance double in this film. So AJ's

1417
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,920
Speaker 1: assistant Brook also doubled as rebel dance double. And the

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01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:16,760
Speaker 1: reason that we did that is because if Rebel hurtself

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01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:18,720
Speaker 1: or something happens and we've got to keep filming, and

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01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: also if Rebel's filming all day and she's exhausted. We

1421
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: always try and do dance scenes up front, but it

1422
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 1: can take it out of you. So if we're not

1423
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 1: doing close ups of Rebel or whatever, we're just doing

1424
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 1: wide shots where you can't really tell. We'll subbrook in

1425
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: to give Rebel a breakak but she actually Rebel hurt

1426
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:39,639
Speaker 1: her back when we were doing the Pta dance sequence,

1427
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,920
Speaker 1: which I just love that scene. Yeah, and so we

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01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 1: had to sub Meredith in and she was just there

1429
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:45,600
Speaker 1: ready to go.

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01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:47,080
Speaker 3: Oh how interesting.

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01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 2: The other thing I didn't know until I came to

1432
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 2: LA last year that stand ins are a massive thing here.

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01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 1: Yes, are huge, But a standing is different to a

1434
01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 1: stunt double or a dance double.

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01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 3: Can you explain what they are?

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01:08:58,760 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 1: So basically, ps, it takes a long time to set

1438
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 1: up lights and set the shot right, you know, literally

1439
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: can take hours. And if you've got like your cast

1440
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 1: who are there and they need to be ready and

1441
01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: on and be learning their lines and like focus before

1442
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:18,519
Speaker 1: they come on to set, you can't have them standing

1443
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:20,519
Speaker 1: there for two hours while you get the lighting right.

1444
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:22,679
Speaker 1: Especially if you're shooting outside, I'm going to lose energy.

1445
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 1: So we always have stand ins, and so what they

1446
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: are is they're not dressed in the wardrobe of the cast,

1447
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,320
Speaker 1: but they're wearing something similar. So if Mary's in like

1448
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: I said before, like a little cardigan and jeans, the

1449
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 1: standing will be in kind of a similar color, similar hair,

1450
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,880
Speaker 1: similar high, similar hair, similar high, and they will have

1451
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 1: a cross written across them. You know, they'll have for

1452
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:47,040
Speaker 1: Mary's example, Martha's stand in, and she will stand there

1453
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: this girl while they're setting all the lighting and the

1454
01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: camera up, and then once the scene is set, then

1455
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 1: we can get Mary in to replace her, and Mary

1456
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 1: can do her scene. And sometimes the scenes because we're

1457
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: shooting from multiple angles, we're doing different coverage. They can

1458
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,679
Speaker 1: be there for an hour of filming a very short scene,

1459
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 1: and that means that they then haven't had to stand

1460
01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: there for another two hours prior to that, while the

1461
01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 1: lighting and everything gets right, they can be makeup and

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01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 1: it's really useful. It's a really good use of time.

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01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:16,719
Speaker 3: And you just mentioned the word coverage.

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01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:19,799
Speaker 2: That is often when one actor is saying their lines

1465
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 2: but to a stand in, not necessarily the other actor.

1466
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 1: Is that true?

1467
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 4: It is?

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01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a giving actor and you know

1469
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:30,200
Speaker 1: you're in the moment and all the rest of it

1470
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: when you should have seen and let's say, you would

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01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 1: usually do a coverage of it in a wide shot

1472
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: so that you've got a full idea of what's going on,

1473
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:41,679
Speaker 1: and then and then you have close ups or midshots

1474
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Now it's very common to do

1475
01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 1: coverage of one person in the scene and then coverage

1476
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:53,599
Speaker 1: of the other person in the scene. And for an actor,

1477
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:56,679
Speaker 1: you want to be acting against each other. So let's

1478
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: say that Josh and of Anticure in a scene together

1479
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:03,439
Speaker 1: and they shoot Joss's coverage, and then Josh is acting

1480
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: against Avuntica, and they turn the camera around and they

1481
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 1: shoot Avntika's coverage. They're both in the scene working with

1482
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 1: each other. Now, there are some actors that I've heard

1483
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:16,560
Speaker 1: of that refuse to shoot the opposite person's coverage. So

1484
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: when the cameras turned on you Lolo, for example, I'm like,

1485
01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 1: I'm not going to act with her. We'll just get

1486
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:24,679
Speaker 1: someone else in to read lines. Which is so difficult

1487
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 1: because the standings aren't necessarily.

1488
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:28,679
Speaker 3: Actors, but it can happen.

1489
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 1: There's one actor I can think of, and I know

1490
01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:34,200
Speaker 1: that their family travels with them because they look very similar,

1491
01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:36,160
Speaker 1: and they'll just sub in a family member and that

1492
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:38,880
Speaker 1: person will go back and sit in their trailer and whatever.

1493
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:41,160
Speaker 1: And it's very hard for an actor if you're not

1494
01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 1: acting against the person in the scene. And often what

1495
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:46,720
Speaker 1: we'll do, which is a bit of a film trick too,

1496
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: is you will shoot the close upper midshot coverage first

1497
01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:53,400
Speaker 1: because the actor's fresh, they haven't done the lines one

1498
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: hundred times. And then we will pull back and shoot

1499
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: a wide because we don't need the performance as much

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01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 1: in a wide because we've already got it in the

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01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: closer midshot coverage.

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01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 3: So interesting.

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01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 1: Thank you for that.

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01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 3: Ps.

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01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:06,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, pleasure.

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01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,640
Speaker 2: In the show notes, I'm going to put everything so

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01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:14,240
Speaker 2: the link, the link to watch it on Netflix. You're

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01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 2: insta which I now know off by heart. Sam r Ken, Yes,

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01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:21,200
Speaker 2: I'll put my instwer in there too. I'm going to

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01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 2: put the link to Josh's video when he's fifteen as well,

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01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 2: So and please like, subscribe and comment. We are so

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01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:32,639
Speaker 2: excited about this pod. We hope you are as well.

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01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also I just if you haven't watched a year,

1514
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:38,760
Speaker 1: go to Netflix watch it. It is such a fun film,

1515
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 1: book film. As I said, a beautiful cast, amazing people.

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Speaker 1: I haven't mentioned Tyler Barnheart, who I love, who was

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Speaker 1: in also Thirteen Reasons Why, and oh yeah, he plays

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Speaker 1: the young love interest in the film. And it's just

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Speaker 1: and Jeremy Ray Taylor's in there. I've spoken about Sam Richardson,

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Speaker 1: he's from a VIEP alumni, but he's just It is

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Speaker 1: such a fun film and I'm so proud to have

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Speaker 1: worked on it, and I know the cast and the

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Speaker 1: crew are so proud to have worked on it. And

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Speaker 1: we just hope that everyone loves it as much as

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Speaker 1: we did. And we've got so many fun episodes to

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Speaker 1: come where what we're going behind the scenes are talk shows.

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Speaker 3: Cast baftis you host, producers.

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Speaker 1: And next week's episode.

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Speaker 4: I love.

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Speaker 1: It's all about pitching and getting ideas up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and not just for TV shows but commercials books

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 3: It's a it's a goodie. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So we can't we can't wait to share it all

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Speaker 1: with you, and thank.

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Speaker 2: You so much for listening and joining along. Please tune

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Speaker 2: in for the rest of.

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Speaker 1: Sam Alolo La La La, See you guys. Bye.