The Comment Section with Drew Afualo

00:00:00.240 Conservatives are obsessed with like actors that play military men. I'm like, these are theater kids and they're wearing

00:00:06.080 makeup. I'm like, no, they are not Marines.

00:00:09.480 No, not at all.

00:00:16.080 Hey everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me, your fave. Everybody knows me who cares about me.

00:00:22.580 On to the guests. Today, we have the iconic, the legendary, the cinephile himself, guy with a movie camera, aka Reese Feldman.

00:00:33.920 Welcome to the show, Reese.

00:00:35.800 Hey, how's it going?

00:00:37.240 Good. How are you?

00:00:38.580 I'm all right.

00:00:39.260 I was really debating up until this point whether or not to keep staring in the camera.

00:00:44.500 Right. We did talk about that.

00:00:45.760 Yeah, for like an hour straight.

00:00:47.800 It's a real Kubrick kind of thing.

00:00:49.660 Yeah, yeah. Straight down the barrel.

00:00:51.000 Oh, yeah. I know all about your tea.

00:00:53.480 Yeah, that's great. Oh my gosh.

00:00:55.460 Yeah, we could end it here.

00:00:57.480 That's all I wanted to talk about was the Kubrick stare.

00:01:00.200 Yeah, that's great.

00:01:01.840 Overall, eh.

00:01:02.900 Yeah, not bad.

00:01:04.660 Surviving.

00:01:05.440 I can always be better.

00:01:07.380 True, right. The world's burning around us.

00:01:08.860 I was going to say, it feels weird when people ask, like, how are you?

00:01:11.760 I'm like, eh.

00:01:13.080 All things considered, okay.

00:01:15.180 I'm okay, but like, that doesn't really, yeah.

00:01:18.420 Yeah, it feels like a very double-edged question to answer nowadays, especially.

00:01:22.060 Yeah, it's been like that now for like a decade.

00:01:25.520 Right, for real.

00:01:26.960 Yeah.

00:01:27.340 It's fucking terrible.

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00:02:04.280 But I'm glad to have you on the show.

00:02:06.020 Thanks.

00:02:06.580 Yeah, how are you?

00:02:07.040 Me and Reese, we see each other all the time at work stuff.

00:02:09.180 I know.

00:02:09.580 We're always passing ships in the night.

00:02:11.460 Yeah, we are.

00:02:11.980 So it's really nice to actually sit down and chat.

00:02:14.820 That is nice.

00:02:15.660 Yeah.

00:02:16.120 We have so, like, we've crossed paths many times,

00:02:19.360 always on the biggest carpets in the world.

00:02:22.240 Yeah, never without, like, many sets of eyes around.

00:02:27.960 Yeah.

00:02:28.500 And you know what's funny?

00:02:29.600 I would love to know, like, how has your experience on carpets been?

00:02:32.500 Has it gotten better over the years?

00:02:34.400 I always think I'm fine.

00:02:36.000 And then what will happen is, like, someone will, like, tag me in a video, and they're

00:02:41.460 like, ha, ha, ha, and then it's at me.

00:02:43.460 And then I, like, see myself, like, twitching or something or, like, talking to myself.

00:02:48.220 Right.

00:02:48.460 And I'm like, no one was supposed to see that.

00:02:51.420 So, like, overall, fine.

00:02:53.060 Right.

00:02:53.340 Because I'm like, that's usually, like, that's what you get.

00:02:56.520 But, like, no, I'm like, I'm kind of okay with it.

00:02:59.900 Yeah.

00:03:00.740 We're getting used to it.

00:03:01.700 Yeah, but it's also, it's nice.

00:03:03.140 Everyone's just there to, like, support and uplift whatever work of art you're there for.

00:03:08.620 So, I'm like, eh, it's also not about me.

00:03:10.740 Yeah.

00:03:11.100 So, I'm like.

00:03:11.840 So, that kind of takes pressure off a little bit.

00:03:13.740 Yeah.

00:03:14.140 Yeah.

00:03:14.520 No one's.

00:03:15.020 Yeah.

00:03:15.600 I'm okay.

00:03:16.400 How about yourself?

00:03:17.020 They're not checking for you, Reese?

00:03:17.500 No, no one's really, like, where is he?

00:03:20.160 I'm like.

00:03:20.640 I disagree, Reese.

00:03:21.780 You know so many people now, especially on those carpets, I feel like a lot of times they're

00:03:25.200 asking for you.

00:03:26.200 Checking for you.

00:03:26.860 They're like, well, where's Reese at?

00:03:28.100 I do.

00:03:28.540 I like to wander.

00:03:30.060 You do.

00:03:30.460 Yeah, so that tends to be, like, an actual question.

00:03:34.500 That must be nice.

00:03:35.160 They would shoot me dead if I started wandering.

00:03:36.860 Oh, no.

00:03:37.180 I just, I'm like, I need to go to the bathroom.

00:03:39.360 Right.

00:03:39.900 And then I'm gone.

00:03:40.640 Yeah.

00:03:40.720 That's smart.

00:03:41.240 That is smart.

00:03:41.900 I've used that, too.

00:03:42.700 When I'm like, I need to use the restroom.

00:03:44.320 And I just start wandering a little bit.

00:03:45.360 No, exactly.

00:03:45.920 There's, yeah, there's doors that say do not open.

00:03:47.920 I'm like, I need to see what's in there.

00:03:50.260 That's probably fun.

00:03:51.420 Obviously, got a peek in there.

00:03:52.460 Well, obviously, I'm very familiar with your lore.

00:03:54.600 But I know, obviously, how you started growing on TikTok.

00:03:57.520 But, like, what was your plan initially when you were going to school?

00:04:00.640 I know, obviously, you're a huge film buff.

00:04:02.480 Yeah.

00:04:02.820 But what was your original plan?

00:04:03.520 I was going to say, you're, are you 28 or 29?

00:04:07.140 29.

00:04:07.740 29.

00:04:08.180 Okay.

00:04:09.320 What about you?

00:04:09.880 Smart.

00:04:10.340 Smart.

00:04:11.160 I turned 27, like, two weeks ago.

00:04:14.000 Oh, nice.

00:04:14.720 Yeah, yeah.

00:04:15.000 Happy belated.

00:04:15.780 Thank you.

00:04:16.260 Are you a Gemini?

00:04:17.080 I'm a Gemini.

00:04:17.820 I'm a Gemini.

00:04:18.600 T.

00:04:19.420 Yeah, which I hear is better than June Gemini.

00:04:21.760 That is true.

00:04:22.400 You're very right.

00:04:23.000 That's very true.

00:04:23.500 Yeah, so I'm like, I'll take that.

00:04:25.400 Yeah.

00:04:25.800 May Gemini is apparently not as bad.

00:04:27.480 That's true.

00:04:28.020 You're very right.

00:04:28.880 That is true.

00:04:29.240 Not as bad.

00:04:30.040 But, yeah, I graduated college in May of 2020.

00:04:32.560 Okay.

00:04:33.120 Oh, damn.

00:04:33.420 Famously great time to graduate college.

00:04:34.700 Right, for real?

00:04:36.180 Yeah.

00:04:36.440 So I started, after college, I started working in reality TV in the summer of 2020.

00:04:42.540 You in reality TV?

00:04:43.920 That's hilarious.

00:04:44.480 Yeah, I was working on, yeah, do you watch reality TV?

00:04:47.740 It depends on what it is.

00:04:49.500 I'm not, like, a real housewives kind of girl, but I-

00:04:52.160 I worked on real housewives.

00:04:53.320 You did?

00:04:54.540 I'm not really a housewives girl, but I do love-

00:04:56.700 Me neither.

00:04:57.260 Great British Baking Show.

00:04:58.440 That's fun.

00:04:58.960 Love that one.

00:05:00.200 I love a good Chopped.

00:05:01.560 Yeah, the cooking ones.

00:05:02.780 Those are fun.

00:05:03.300 Those are fun.

00:05:03.880 But I worked in reality TV for a bit, and then I worked on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

00:05:08.380 Right.

00:05:08.940 And then made a video there, which, in retrospect, should have got me fired, but didn't.

00:05:15.300 Thankfully.

00:05:15.700 For me, yeah, thankfully, but yeah, should have got me fired, didn't.

00:05:21.100 And then from there, yeah, just started working in film, doing social in the film world.

00:05:28.360 And then, yeah, that's it.

00:05:29.300 Was that, like, the strangest pivot ever for you, or were you-

00:05:32.120 Yeah, I bet.

00:05:33.000 Odd.

00:05:33.520 I bet, huh?

00:05:34.840 Yeah, just, I mean, like, I don't know.

00:05:37.340 Social was not the goal.

00:05:39.060 Right.

00:05:39.300 So, when it became my job and my life, then it was like, oh, I guess that's, like, a thing.

00:05:45.300 Right.

00:05:45.740 But, like, I'm sure it's the same with you, where it's, like-

00:05:47.700 Yeah, hard left.

00:05:49.160 Yeah, it was just, like, a true 90-degree pivot.

00:05:53.660 Literally.

00:05:54.360 Yeah.

00:05:55.020 And now, now look at you.

00:05:56.840 Well, actually, I know a lot of the shit you've done, but I'd love to know what's been the coolest thing you've gotten to do.

00:06:02.400 Coolest thing?

00:06:02.780 Because you've done some pretty sick shit over the past, like, what, three years, three, four years?

00:06:06.820 Yeah.

00:06:07.220 You too.

00:06:08.020 Yeah.

00:06:08.360 But, like, personally, I think the coolest stuff I've done is the sets I get to work on.

00:06:13.300 Like, I worked on the last Hunger Games set that was really fun.

00:06:16.800 Oh, that's so cool.

00:06:17.900 Yeah, there's been, like, a bunch of, like, I worked on the set of Scream 6, and I'm a big horror fan as The Exorcist.

00:06:24.720 I wore this in honor of Rhys, because I knew he would dig it.

00:06:27.240 The ugliest person ever.

00:06:29.080 Like, truly.

00:06:30.700 But first cinephiles.

00:06:32.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:06:32.920 No, no, no.

00:06:33.440 But, um, it's such a good shirt.

00:06:35.380 But, yeah, I think, like, working on sets like that have been really fun, just because I get to watch people that I grew up watching their movies work, which is kind of crazy.

00:06:46.080 I'm sure.

00:06:46.460 And, like, getting to see filmmakers and actors that I admire work and, like, see their process in, like, not, in, like, as, not as equals, but, like, in the same plateau.

00:06:59.060 In the same space.

00:06:59.080 So, yeah, it's just odd.

00:07:00.840 But, like, then there's other things that, like, when people find out I worked on Housewives, they're like, are you serious?

00:07:05.440 Or, like, the Met gal, or they're like, what?

00:07:08.540 Yeah, the Met's crazy, too.

00:07:10.300 It was hot in that tent.

00:07:11.340 And you were fitted down.

00:07:12.980 Fitted, yeah.

00:07:13.600 Yeah.

00:07:13.960 I, I, I, that was a, that was a good outfit.

00:07:16.260 Yeah, Tom Brown.

00:07:17.340 Okay.

00:07:17.860 Yeah, it was good.

00:07:18.820 But also, like, I don't know.

00:07:22.760 No one expects men to, like.

00:07:25.940 Dress nicely.

00:07:26.960 Yeah.

00:07:27.300 I was going to talk about your fits, because you are fitted all the time.

00:07:30.220 Which I love.

00:07:30.600 As are you.

00:07:31.280 Thank you.

00:07:31.560 You have good dress.

00:07:32.300 Yeah.

00:07:32.480 Yeah, but, like, I don't know.

00:07:34.160 Like, if I'm not wearing a black suit, people think I'm, like, really doing something.

00:07:39.240 You're changing lives with your fashion.

00:07:41.220 No, I'm, like, it is literally just whatever designer being, like, no one's worn this.

00:07:45.540 Can you just wear it?

00:07:46.380 I'm, like, yeah.

00:07:48.200 Yeah.

00:07:48.700 Kilt, wonderful.

00:07:50.020 Like, I'm happy to wear whatever.

00:07:51.680 Why, why, yeah, why not?

00:07:53.200 I think that's what's so cool about it, though, is that you don't really, you're not sticking

00:07:57.000 to any sort of gender norms when it comes to carpets, and I think that's fun.

00:08:00.060 No.

00:08:00.640 Yeah.

00:08:00.960 And also, like.

00:08:03.020 They're clothes.

00:08:03.780 Who cares?

00:08:04.300 Yeah, I truly don't understand it.

00:08:06.320 There's a lot of things I don't get, or I'm, like, why does it matter?

00:08:09.080 And I'm, like, this fits better than this, and this, like, looks nicer.

00:08:13.520 So, yeah.

00:08:14.000 Mm-hmm.

00:08:14.680 Yeah.

00:08:15.280 Insane.

00:08:15.640 Well, when it comes to working on the sets and everything, like, what would you say is,

00:08:20.660 like, your favorite genre to work in, if you could pick horror?

00:08:23.800 It has to be horror, right?

00:08:24.980 I love working in horror.

00:08:25.140 Because you're a short film.

00:08:26.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:26.660 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:27.700 Which we will talk about, too.

00:08:29.220 Oh, cool.

00:08:29.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:30.680 Horror, just because I like special effects.

00:08:33.320 So, it's really fun watching how they shoot death scenes and stuff like that.

00:08:37.020 Yeah.

00:08:37.380 Because although it seems really cool in movies, it's just a very methodical process.

00:08:41.960 Right.

00:08:42.240 Where it's, like, if someone gets stabbed and blood comes out, you have to reset.

00:08:47.500 And the blood, like, pattern, the splatter on the shirt, then has to be matched for continuity

00:08:52.020 in the next scene.

00:08:53.000 So, it's, like, it is a very technical process and not very, like, scary or horrific.

00:09:00.160 It is actually, like, you have to be very anal about every single thing.

00:09:03.940 Totally.

00:09:04.100 And I really, and, yeah, that's, I choose the most boring part of horror films.

00:09:08.440 That's what's the most fascinating.

00:09:10.140 The most fascinating thing is, like, how lame it is.

00:09:13.320 Where I'm, like, it truly, there's nothing is left, like, things are left to chance.

00:09:17.180 But, like, it is an exact science.

00:09:19.500 Yeah, totally.

00:09:19.760 And it is, like, the stunt performers are, like, doing it, like, dance choreography.

00:09:23.440 And it has, they have to hit their marks.

00:09:25.000 That's so cool.

00:09:26.060 That's what I like.

00:09:26.640 That's sick.

00:09:27.240 What's your favorite horror film?

00:09:28.000 Is it The Exorcist?

00:09:29.280 No.

00:09:29.880 The Thing.

00:09:30.340 No, it's The Exorcist.

00:09:31.540 Ooh.

00:09:31.940 Which asks the question, what if there was a thing?

00:09:34.080 Which, I'm like, oh, man, that's freaking brilliant.

00:09:37.280 No, it's just about, it's about a bunch of guys that are paranoid.

00:09:40.760 And I'm like, brilliant.

00:09:41.800 That's, that's great.

00:09:42.680 All these guys.

00:09:43.960 Yeah, all these guys are like, wait a minute, you could be The Thing.

00:09:47.640 And he's like, I'm not The Thing.

00:09:48.960 It's probably you.

00:09:49.940 And I'm like, oh, man, like, that's just cinema.

00:09:52.320 Now we're really cooking.

00:09:53.080 But it's great, because it literally, I genuinely think, and, like, people are like, it is a movie

00:09:59.440 that doesn't have any women in it.

00:10:00.860 And I'm like, it actually makes perfect sense that a movie with, like, 15 guys, spoiler

00:10:06.580 alert, ends with everyone dying.

00:10:08.280 Yeah.

00:10:08.560 Or I'm like, yeah, that checks out.

00:10:10.020 Right.

00:10:10.740 That, like, there's not a single person there that is able to, like, calm everyone down

00:10:14.460 or, like, just talk sensibly.

00:10:17.000 Yeah.

00:10:17.600 And it's like, it really is a great, like, I, like, yes, it was, like, people hated it

00:10:22.940 at the time it came out.

00:10:23.720 But I'm like, it is a very smart text.

00:10:26.080 And I absolutely love it.

00:10:27.440 It's like Witches.

00:10:28.440 The movie Witches.

00:10:29.160 Yes.

00:10:29.560 Yeah.

00:10:29.960 Yeah.

00:10:30.160 One that was, like, hated when it first came out.

00:10:32.260 Yeah.

00:10:32.560 The classic.

00:10:33.440 Now.

00:10:33.720 Most of my favorite movies tend to have not been liked when they were released.

00:10:37.480 Yeah.

00:10:38.480 What are some of your favorites?

00:10:39.680 Because I'm like, I'm a horror guy, but.

00:10:41.820 Ooh.

00:10:42.140 Yeah, I know.

00:10:42.700 I don't love.

00:10:43.460 I actually, I think when I got older, I was, like, I was more appreciative of horror.

00:10:47.620 Yeah.

00:10:48.160 Because I was just, I'm just a huge scaredy cat.

00:10:50.120 So I'm just afraid of everything.

00:10:51.540 My girlfriend can't watch horror.

00:10:52.800 Exactly.

00:10:53.360 That's like, I'm.

00:10:53.960 She Wikipedia's the ends.

00:10:55.200 Me too.

00:10:56.320 Are you serious?

00:10:56.920 I swear to God.

00:10:57.920 I thought there was.

00:10:59.020 I swear to God.

00:10:59.520 She was, like, pause it.

00:11:00.740 And then, like, has to, like, pull up the Wikipedia.

00:11:02.360 I'm like, no, no.

00:11:03.240 Please tell her she has community in me.

00:11:05.320 No.

00:11:05.520 Because I, I do that.

00:11:06.900 And my fiance goes, why are you doing that?

00:11:08.700 Because he sees me going like this.

00:11:09.940 And he's like, don't look up the ending.

00:11:11.540 I.

00:11:11.840 And I'm like, I'm getting scared.

00:11:13.160 Yeah.

00:11:13.500 And she's like, okay, well, this person dies.

00:11:15.280 I'm like, I didn't know that.

00:11:16.520 Like, why did you tell me?

00:11:18.120 Oh, my God.

00:11:18.580 I'm feeling so seen by her right now.

00:11:19.880 I'm feeling so seen.

00:11:20.440 No.

00:11:20.460 She, no.

00:11:21.080 Like, we, I was like, we should start with, like, a fun one.

00:11:23.540 Let's watch Scream.

00:11:24.760 Right.

00:11:25.180 And, like, which is, like, a comedy more than it is a horror film.

00:11:27.780 Right.

00:11:28.000 She starts, like, it's funny.

00:11:29.200 When she gets scared.

00:11:30.800 Oh, she's going to be so mad.

00:11:31.820 I'm sharing this.

00:11:32.420 Sorry.

00:11:33.540 When she gets scared, she's not, like, cowering.

00:11:36.200 She, like, almost starts to vomit.

00:11:38.240 So, like, someone, like, pops down and she goes, ugh.

00:11:42.480 I find really funny.

00:11:43.940 That's so real.

00:11:44.460 She's so real for that.

00:11:45.620 I watched Scream for the first time, I think, when I started doing this.

00:11:49.160 I got invited to something with Captain Morgan in, like, the Hollywood Cemetery.

00:11:53.500 And so we watched it on, like, a wall and everything there.

00:11:56.180 That's cool.

00:11:56.660 So that experience itself was really fun.

00:11:58.960 Seeing, yeah.

00:11:59.460 And I had a lot of fun watching it.

00:12:00.980 Was the captain there?

00:12:02.420 The captain was not present.

00:12:03.760 Oh.

00:12:04.120 Yeah.

00:12:04.620 But I was.

00:12:05.760 But I was.

00:12:06.460 And I had a blast watching it.

00:12:08.680 I would say my favorite movie, one of my favorite movies of all time is Stand By Me.

00:12:14.480 I love Stand By Me.

00:12:15.480 Yeah.

00:12:15.640 I love Stephen King.

00:12:16.520 Yeah.

00:12:16.800 I'm currently reading It, which I've never read.

00:12:18.860 Oh, you never read the book?

00:12:19.980 No.

00:12:20.560 Because it's, like, 1,200 pages or something.

00:12:23.100 So I was like, I'll read this one summer.

00:12:25.500 Yeah.

00:12:25.640 And this is the summer I read it.

00:12:26.820 I've watched.

00:12:27.340 Stand By Me rocks.

00:12:28.280 Yeah.

00:12:28.420 It's such a great film.

00:12:29.580 That's probably one of my favorite movies of all time.

00:12:31.840 In horror, even though it scared the fuck out of me for real, for real, I really loved

00:12:35.980 it's hereditary.

00:12:37.500 Hereditary.

00:12:38.020 It scared me to my core.

00:12:39.940 I haven't felt like that in a movie, oh my god, ever.

00:12:42.400 That's a movie that genuinely, like, upset me.

00:12:44.460 Me too.

00:12:44.720 Because normally I have a lot of fun with horror.

00:12:46.500 But, like, after watching that, I turned it off and I was like, man, I don't feel good.

00:12:50.500 No, same.

00:12:51.300 And it's also just such a credit to that movie that, like, triggers something in me.

00:12:58.060 Where I'm like, that should not be scary.

00:13:00.160 No, for real.

00:13:00.940 Or, like, make a chill go down my spine when I hear it.

00:13:03.580 No, it's legitimately great.

00:13:04.920 And also just Toni Collette yelling at her son.

00:13:08.340 Fantastic.

00:13:09.000 Unbelievable.

00:13:09.860 Honestly, and I think we've kind of talked about this, because I truly believe you'll be

00:13:13.440 nominated for an Oscar one day.

00:13:15.140 But I think it would be wonderful for horror to make its way into the Academy too.

00:13:20.600 I would love that.

00:13:21.120 And I think that would be great for you.

00:13:22.440 That would be great for me.

00:13:24.100 I don't know.

00:13:25.100 I'm curious.

00:13:25.940 I would love, like, the goal in life is a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award.

00:13:32.740 So that I don't have to go on stage or do anything.

00:13:35.780 That's so real.

00:13:36.680 Yeah.

00:13:37.040 You just kind of sit there.

00:13:38.080 My life goal is to die and then be honored.

00:13:42.080 In memoriam.

00:13:43.320 Yeah, like, a black and white photo of me.

00:13:44.720 And, like, people in the crowd are like, oh, that's, oh, yeah.

00:13:46.660 Oh, they're like, oh, that was a few months ago.

00:13:48.140 I forgot he died.

00:13:49.700 You have that gentle applause.

00:13:51.640 Yeah.

00:13:52.440 They cut to, like, one person's single tear.

00:13:54.740 And I'm like, I come off.

00:13:56.480 From beyond your life.

00:13:57.340 Exactly.

00:13:58.000 Exactly.

00:13:58.520 Go.

00:13:59.500 I'm looking up.

00:14:00.400 I'm like, yeah.

00:14:01.700 When I was in college, I took a film class, because I had to for one of my communications,

00:14:06.280 like, requirements.

00:14:07.340 And I think my teacher had a, like, a favorite in horror, because all we watched was horror.

00:14:13.520 And I was like, I felt like I was, like, almost practicing, like, getting over my fear of scary movies.

00:14:18.880 Horror is great.

00:14:20.600 And, like, it is, I think, the best genre to talk about what is going on in the world.

00:14:26.920 Like, it is the best genre to comment on whatever.

00:14:31.320 That's true.

00:14:31.660 Yeah.

00:14:32.160 And it could be enjoyed through that lens, or it doesn't have to be.

00:14:35.240 Like, you can watch whatever horror, like, hereditary.

00:14:38.580 You could watch hereditary and be like, this is scary.

00:14:40.120 Or you could be like, oh, like, familial trauma is real.

00:14:43.100 And, like, watch it through that.

00:14:44.620 That's so true.

00:14:44.760 Yeah.

00:14:45.260 Yeah.

00:14:45.700 And, like, for the thing, my favorite, it's, like, paranoia.

00:14:48.920 Like, that is a very real thing.

00:14:50.800 And, like, I view it in terms of, like, watching the thing after COVID and seeing, like, people being, like, where were you?

00:14:58.520 I didn't have my eyes on you.

00:15:00.100 Right.

00:15:00.360 What have you been doing?

00:15:01.300 I'm like, yeah, that checks out.

00:15:03.180 But you could also just enjoy it as, like, oh, these guys suck.

00:15:06.820 Yeah.

00:15:07.200 Something campy and weird.

00:15:08.560 Yeah, exactly.

00:15:09.280 Which I love.

00:15:10.740 Yeah.

00:15:10.800 That's real.

00:15:11.500 Well, and speaking of, we'll pivot back to your short film, which I'm super excited and honored that you sent it to me.

00:15:18.260 Did you watch it?

00:15:18.940 Yes.

00:15:19.260 Well, yes.

00:15:19.800 And my whole, my team, my friends, well, Amanda and Carrie and my sister also partook.

00:15:24.840 Did they watch it?

00:15:25.680 Yes.

00:15:26.360 Yeah.

00:15:26.720 We had a viewing party.

00:15:27.860 No way.

00:15:28.380 Yeah.

00:15:28.740 We had a big old viewing party.

00:15:29.960 How was it?

00:15:30.380 It was cool.

00:15:31.060 We were, like, yelling at the screen.

00:15:33.380 Do you enjoy it?

00:15:34.260 Yeah.

00:15:34.580 Okay.

00:15:35.020 Sweet.

00:15:35.440 Also, we have to say collectively as a group, visually stunning.

00:15:38.940 Thank you.

00:15:39.360 Coloring, beautiful.

00:15:40.340 Thank you.

00:15:40.920 Yeah.

00:15:41.280 Shout out to Caitlin Bastelli.

00:15:43.620 She is a colorist.

00:15:45.000 And shout out to my DP, Shane Bagwell.

00:15:47.180 Okay.

00:15:47.460 Who shot it.

00:15:48.120 But, yeah.

00:15:49.500 I'm glad you guys liked it.

00:15:50.460 That would have been so awkward if you were like, it was cool.

00:15:53.020 It was all right.

00:15:53.520 It was all right.

00:15:54.120 It was a movie, for sure.

00:15:57.440 It was definitely a short film.

00:15:59.460 Yeah.

00:15:59.640 No.

00:16:00.900 I've never seen anything like that.

00:16:04.300 But tell me about the short film.

00:16:05.720 Tell me about, wait, your car.

00:16:06.960 Yeah.

00:16:07.500 It's a story about four girls, and one of them thinks that her car is trying to kill her.

00:16:13.200 But that's it.

00:16:15.260 It goes from my love and hatred of cars.

00:16:19.460 Okay.

00:16:19.780 I like the way cars look, but I don't like them.

00:16:22.920 I don't like that we have to rely on them.

00:16:25.740 I mean, that's true.

00:16:26.680 Yeah.

00:16:26.820 But for me, it was just the thinking of, like, what's the craziest thing someone could tell

00:16:31.060 me that I probably wouldn't believe, which is, like, if someone told me their car was

00:16:35.580 alive, I'd be like, no.

00:16:36.940 Right.

00:16:37.620 Wrong.

00:16:38.300 Right.

00:16:38.940 You're all, okay, Sam Witwicky.

00:16:40.280 Yeah.

00:16:40.680 Sure.

00:16:41.220 Yeah.

00:16:41.540 Yeah.

00:16:42.960 Nice fucking pull.

00:16:44.360 Sam Witwicky.

00:16:46.780 What?

00:16:47.360 Thank you.

00:16:47.860 Where'd you pull that out of?

00:16:49.600 That's crazy.

00:16:49.780 I'm just a huge Transformers fan.

00:16:50.960 No, no.

00:16:51.400 I love that.

00:16:52.600 Yeah, no.

00:16:53.240 Shout out to the Sam Witwicky heads.

00:16:55.180 Yeah.

00:16:55.620 All seven of them.

00:16:56.860 Yeah.

00:16:58.260 But no, it was that.

00:17:00.400 I wanted to make a story about someone that has trouble believing her friend.

00:17:09.900 So I just wanted it to be about that.

00:17:11.880 Yeah.

00:17:12.120 Not so much about, because to be honest, I don't really care if the car is alive.

00:17:16.700 I don't know.

00:17:17.900 Like, people are like, what is the motivation of this car?

00:17:20.100 And I'm like, I don't know.

00:17:20.840 It's a fucking living car.

00:17:22.280 Like, it's, why are we asking the perpetrator what, like, why?

00:17:27.460 And it's like, no, it makes no difference why the car is a killer car or not.

00:17:31.680 Right.

00:17:32.160 But like, yeah, that was the goal.

00:17:34.020 And also just to make something that's kind of fun.

00:17:35.900 Yeah.

00:17:36.300 Well, that was.

00:17:36.840 I just like stuff that's fun.

00:17:37.840 We were also theorizing, too, on allegories, weren't we, Amanda?

00:17:41.600 We were like, maybe it's an allegory on whether or not you believe victims.

00:17:46.560 Thank you.

00:17:47.000 Okay.

00:17:47.280 Yeah.

00:17:47.700 We picked up what you were putting down.

00:17:49.140 It was perfect, because, yeah, there were people who were like, is this a commentary

00:17:51.400 on AI and, like, smart cars?

00:17:53.520 I was like, no, it's a 2002 Honda Accord.

00:17:56.020 It's not about the car.

00:17:57.100 It is not about the car.

00:17:58.120 But no, it is exactly that, where it's just like.

00:18:00.020 Yeah.

00:18:00.440 Yeah.

00:18:00.640 Sometimes, like, if your friend who is a pretty sane person comes to you with a story that

00:18:08.060 maybe you should listen.

00:18:10.520 Yeah.

00:18:11.120 Yeah.

00:18:11.480 Like, you should empathize and listen.

00:18:13.620 Yeah.

00:18:14.060 And that's the thing that I was talking about, like, with horror.

00:18:16.060 I don't think it's a scary short by any means.

00:18:18.080 But, like, no, it's a genre short.

00:18:20.640 So I'm like, no, I just wanted it to be, like, yeah, you could enjoy it as, like, oh,

00:18:23.900 this is silly, this is campy, and it's fun, and the cast is, like, cool and stuff.

00:18:27.280 Or you could enjoy it as, like, an allegory.

00:18:29.980 Yeah.

00:18:30.540 Well, that's what we were all theorizing.

00:18:32.500 That way you guys are right.

00:18:33.440 Yeah.

00:18:33.800 Okay, perfect.

00:18:34.700 I'm so glad.

00:18:35.320 I love being right.

00:18:35.980 I'm a Virgo, so I love being right.

00:18:37.820 But when we were.

00:18:38.220 Are you into astrology?

00:18:39.480 Yeah.

00:18:39.920 Like, very.

00:18:40.400 Okay.

00:18:40.820 Yeah.

00:18:41.120 I wouldn't say I'm an expert, but I do know quite a bit.

00:18:43.880 Okay.

00:18:44.280 Yeah.

00:18:44.860 What is your girlfriend's sign?

00:18:47.600 She's July 3rd.

00:18:49.140 She's cancer.

00:18:50.160 Okay.

00:18:51.680 Are you serious?

00:18:52.920 Do you know who else is July 3rd?

00:18:54.920 Tom Cruise.

00:18:57.280 Two film buffs.

00:18:58.520 The triumvirate.

00:18:59.720 Only one will survive.

00:19:00.960 You, my girlfriend, and TC.

00:19:03.320 Yeah.

00:19:03.940 But the annoying thing about the cancer sign is you can't.

00:19:08.200 I got Aaliyah a patch, which just said cancer on it.

00:19:13.000 And I was, like, I literally bought it.

00:19:15.820 I was, like, they were, like, do you need a receipt?

00:19:17.220 I was, like, nah.

00:19:17.940 I walked out of the store.

00:19:18.900 I was, like, I should have got a receipt.

00:19:20.880 Actually, I should get a gift receipt, probably.

00:19:23.480 I shouldn't have bought a patch.

00:19:24.840 That's it.

00:19:25.320 Yeah.

00:19:25.500 That, but, like, yeah.

00:19:27.320 That was on me.

00:19:29.240 Well, you're, back to our theories about your film.

00:19:32.500 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:19:32.980 We were also, another theory we were floating was that the car could have represented an

00:19:39.180 abusive partner, right, or something, which I think is us maybe going in too far in the

00:19:45.320 weeds.

00:19:45.560 No, I gave, like, when I was, like, talking to the cast about this, I was, like, there's

00:19:51.040 a full backstory to the car.

00:19:52.940 Yeah.

00:19:53.060 And, like, Minnie, who plays Lucy in the short, who is the quote-unquote victim in it, we discussed

00:19:59.120 more of that history and backstory of her.

00:20:01.800 But, like, I won't confirm nor deny, but I'm, like, the car can represent many of things.

00:20:07.440 See, yeah, that's true.

00:20:08.860 Yeah.

00:20:09.380 We love that.

00:20:10.220 This is a car that she knows, and they all know.

00:20:13.960 Exactly.

00:20:14.480 That's what they were saying, too.

00:20:15.940 We were saying, Carrie and Amanda were both saying the same thing, like, this is a car

00:20:19.060 she's known, she trusts, has used for years, like, that kind of thing.

00:20:23.200 Yeah.

00:20:23.540 So, see.

00:20:25.060 Everyone knows it.

00:20:25.940 It's comfortable.

00:20:26.400 Right.

00:20:26.860 Like, it's comfortable.

00:20:27.760 Yeah.

00:20:28.180 We were picking it up.

00:20:29.880 We got it, Reese.

00:20:30.860 I'm glad.

00:20:31.480 Yeah.

00:20:31.840 I need to talk to your sister about it.

00:20:33.500 Yes, please do.

00:20:34.580 Yeah.

00:20:35.380 I'll see what she logged in on Letterboxd.

00:20:38.300 It'll be, like, one and a half stars.

00:20:40.060 Man.

00:20:40.560 I'm inspired.

00:20:41.000 I'll be, like, why would you write that?

00:20:43.660 Is your Letterboxd public?

00:20:45.480 Do you have your letters?

00:20:45.640 My Letterboxd is public.

00:20:46.560 Okay, that's good.

00:20:47.400 I don't have one at all, but.

00:20:49.420 That's probably smart.

00:20:51.400 I heard it's the new thing, though.

00:20:52.880 More and more that I'm, like, I need to be careful.

00:20:56.500 What I be doing on here.

00:20:57.820 Yeah.

00:20:58.080 But I also rarely give anything a bad review.

00:21:00.940 Too much work goes into things for me to.

00:21:03.360 Yeah.

00:21:03.760 I don't know.

00:21:04.160 You're too empathetic for your own good.

00:21:05.340 The other I get, I'm just, like, everyone's trying their best.

00:21:07.420 Like, who am I?

00:21:08.320 Like, even if it's not made for me.

00:21:10.040 I think that, too, about a lot of things that are in the art genre.

00:21:14.880 It's very, like, I talk to my friends about it a lot.

00:21:16.840 I'm, like, art is made.

00:21:18.160 The point of making art is to make art.

00:21:19.920 It's not for it to be, like, to give you anything.

00:21:22.640 It's not supposed to give you accolades.

00:21:24.360 It's not supposed to give you money.

00:21:25.520 It's supposed to, the joy is in the making of it and putting art out in the world.

00:21:29.720 So I totally get that vibe where you're kind of, like, well, people are trying their best.

00:21:33.480 Someone, something for everyone.

00:21:34.940 Like, imagine with, like, your podcast.

00:21:36.340 Like, yes, it's probably great to win awards.

00:21:38.220 But also, like, if one person were to come up to you and be, like, I love this and it brings me a lot of joy when I'm done with work.

00:21:44.080 Right.

00:21:44.880 Like, what a, that's all that matters.

00:21:46.960 It's worth its weight of gold.

00:21:47.920 If it doesn't have to change the world, it could change one person's world.

00:21:50.040 Oh, that's so tea.

00:21:51.260 I love that.

00:21:52.060 I think that's so, how was it making the short film?

00:21:54.000 That's tea.

00:21:55.620 Exactly.

00:21:56.240 Yeah.

00:21:56.740 And how was it making the short film?

00:21:58.100 Like, how was that for you?

00:21:58.960 It was fun.

00:21:59.120 It was the first time I was in charge, which was wonderful.

00:22:03.300 Yeah.

00:22:03.980 What a concept.

00:22:04.960 Normally, I have to answer to people.

00:22:08.560 Right.

00:22:09.220 So, it was really cool to not.

00:22:11.060 That's cool.

00:22:12.420 No, it was really nice.

00:22:13.480 I, like, I've always wanted to write and direct.

00:22:18.220 Mm-hmm.

00:22:18.740 And I finally got to do it.

00:22:21.200 So, that's cool.

00:22:21.880 And we had a screening in Cannes, which was fun.

00:22:24.220 And now I'm submitting it.

00:22:25.560 How fun.

00:22:25.700 How exciting.

00:22:26.060 Yeah, it was awesome.

00:22:26.740 It was great.

00:22:27.280 And now I'm submitting it to, like, the festival circuit.

00:22:29.680 So, that's the, that's the goal.

00:22:31.520 That's so cool.

00:22:31.660 Like, because my whole thing is, like, I mean, I actually wanted to talk about this with you.

00:22:35.960 Okay.

00:22:36.060 Because I am, like, I think social is, it's so interesting because it's so ever-changing.

00:22:41.840 But, like, I'm, like, in a perfect world, like, if I won half a billion dollars, I would just start making movies and that would be it.

00:22:49.400 Right.

00:22:49.600 But I would never stop doing social because I enjoy it too much.

00:22:52.320 Same.

00:22:52.900 And, like, it wouldn't, I wouldn't be reliant on it as income or business, but I would never want to stop.

00:22:58.640 Right.

00:22:59.040 I was curious with that with you where it's, like.

00:23:02.140 I feel the exact same way, to be honest with you.

00:23:04.600 Yeah.

00:23:04.700 Yeah.

00:23:04.820 And I think the longer we do this and the more we kind of move into other, like, facets of entertainment that aren't solely reliant on social.

00:23:12.800 And to be quite honest with you, that's kind of my goal is to not be 100% reliant on social.

00:23:18.860 Like, be able to do other things.

00:23:21.260 And then, but I've always said I'll never turn my back on the internet because it gave me everything I have today.

00:23:26.160 Yeah.

00:23:26.440 So, I feel very grateful for it.

00:23:27.780 It's nice to share.

00:23:28.000 That's what I mean.

00:23:28.780 It's fun to me in a way that's, like, when it does become, like, full-time other things for me, I'll be able to do it even more just for fun.

00:23:37.340 What would be the perfect other things?

00:23:39.240 I'm moving into acting this year.

00:23:41.640 How is that?

00:23:42.860 It's, so far, it's pretty fun.

00:23:45.220 It is kind of silly.

00:23:46.060 I feel like the casting process is so different for so many different people.

00:23:50.680 Like, it's the way that they cast.

00:23:52.560 Like, some people will cast purely off looks.

00:23:54.440 Some people will cast based off skill.

00:23:56.240 Some will do kind of split the difference.

00:23:57.780 It's very, like, it's hard to predict.

00:24:00.060 It's almost like algorithms.

00:24:01.160 Like, you can't really predict.

00:24:02.500 You can only survive.

00:24:04.260 I feel like there's a thing where it's, like, some people have a very set idea of who they want.

00:24:09.860 Exactly.

00:24:10.480 Like, which could be a shortcoming if it's, like, if it's not this exact type of person.

00:24:14.520 Right.

00:24:14.880 They're just not going to think of anyone else.

00:24:17.060 Yeah, no matter what you do, it's not going to shake the image they had, which I was, in a way, maybe it's weird in a way, but it makes me feel better about it.

00:24:26.160 Because I'm like, okay, so then it's all kind of made up.

00:24:28.060 It's not on you.

00:24:28.180 Yeah, it's all kind of made up.

00:24:29.060 It's fully on them.

00:24:30.220 Yeah, it's like, okay, well, then I'll just say catch someone on a good day.

00:24:33.440 Yeah.

00:24:33.740 And I'll just do it that way.

00:24:34.900 Have you been auditioning?

00:24:35.780 Yes, I have been.

00:24:36.660 Has it been fun?

00:24:37.360 It's been really cool.

00:24:38.520 It's been such a new environment for me.

00:24:40.520 I'm getting an acting coach and everything, too, because I really want to, like, develop and hone skill and all of that.

00:24:46.640 Yeah.

00:24:47.100 But it's fun.

00:24:47.960 Yeah, I feel like that's something that a lot of people don't.

00:24:50.860 Like, when there's, like, stories about, like, oh, they had to hire an acting coach for the actor.

00:24:54.660 It's like, no, a lot of actors use acting coaches.

00:24:56.480 Right.

00:24:56.780 Because it's just like having, like, a tutor.

00:24:59.940 Exactly.

00:25:00.620 Yeah, exactly.

00:25:01.800 Work over things with.

00:25:02.960 Yeah.

00:25:03.140 Which I'm like, that's really nice that people try to, like, try.

00:25:06.660 Right, exactly.

00:25:07.440 If I was doing, like, SAT prep, like, that's the kind of shit I'm doing.

00:25:10.980 Yeah.

00:25:11.040 Like, it's I'm hiring someone to help me prepare better.

00:25:13.780 Yeah.

00:25:14.120 But it's also, like, I'm not too arrogant to admit that maybe I don't know everything and maybe they can teach me things I don't know and maybe we can work on it together.

00:25:21.400 Yeah, and it's also, like, once, like, you're casting something and get to set, there'll probably be hurdles that you haven't even.

00:25:26.800 Right.

00:25:27.640 Considered.

00:25:28.140 Right, exactly.

00:25:29.300 Yeah, that will just pop up and you're like, how do I say a line that I don't believe I should be saying?

00:25:34.020 Right.

00:25:34.280 Like, which I imagine is the, like, probably going to happen.

00:25:37.480 Oh, I guarantee it.

00:25:38.940 I'm curious to know, too, since you wrote and directed your short film, like, is there any one – well, first, which one do you like better?

00:25:46.540 Writing or directing?

00:25:47.380 Yes, between the two.

00:25:48.740 I – that's tough.

00:25:50.560 I think I'm – to my credit, I'm trying to get better about confidence.

00:25:54.780 I'm like, I think I'm a pretty good writer.

00:25:56.540 Yeah.

00:25:56.860 I could say that, like, I think I'm pretty good.

00:25:59.020 I think as a director, it was nice because I was relying on people who were very good at their jobs.

00:26:04.240 Okay.

00:26:04.640 Which was, like, a very nice thing to have as a first-time director.

00:26:08.020 For real.

00:26:08.320 Was to, like, have an AD.

00:26:10.280 My AD was – her name's Natasha.

00:26:12.380 She worked on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

00:26:14.040 Oh, beautiful.

00:26:14.420 And, like, I used to get her lunch and, like, she is – there was no reason she needed to be doing a short film.

00:26:20.200 But she ran that thing, like, the goddamn army.

00:26:23.820 Period.

00:26:24.440 I love that.

00:26:25.160 Yeah.

00:26:25.480 I think that's sick.

00:26:26.440 Yeah, and, like, the producers, like, did not need to become – like, so it was really nice that I was able to, like, focus on the creative.

00:26:32.740 But, like, I think as a director, I have room to improve.

00:26:36.680 But, like, I'd say I like both.

00:26:38.840 Okay, cool.

00:26:39.720 Yeah.

00:26:40.140 Would you ever write or direct?

00:26:41.460 Yeah, I would love to.

00:26:42.620 Writing, I would love to write.

00:26:44.060 Directing, I'm not too sure, to be honest.

00:26:46.000 Like, I think so, in theory.

00:26:48.600 But writing, I would love to.

00:26:50.320 I would love to write scripts.

00:26:52.200 You can do your own fleabag.

00:26:53.080 Write, direct.

00:26:53.940 Right.

00:26:54.900 Produce.

00:26:55.420 Oh, I call that my Lin-Manuel Miranda plan.

00:26:58.580 Sylvester Stallone did the same thing with Rocky.

00:27:00.400 There you go.

00:27:00.640 He was like, here's the screenplay.

00:27:02.360 You have to cast me or you don't get it.

00:27:04.800 Yeah.

00:27:05.360 Brilliant.

00:27:05.860 Exactly.

00:27:06.400 Hold them hostage.

00:27:07.340 That's my goal.

00:27:08.360 Yeah.

00:27:09.100 That's awesome.

00:27:09.800 That's why I said Lin-Manuel is in all of his own projects, and he is so real for that.

00:27:14.420 I don't blame him.

00:27:15.160 Yeah.

00:27:15.680 Me either.

00:27:16.440 Yeah.

00:27:16.580 I don't blame him one bit.

00:27:17.680 I was like, can he sing?

00:27:19.400 No.

00:27:19.800 Can he rap?

00:27:20.460 Kind of.

00:27:20.860 I will say, can I attest to his singing voice?

00:27:25.060 No.

00:27:25.680 Does he have a very singular voice?

00:27:28.760 Yes.

00:27:29.040 That's true.

00:27:29.640 There is not a single human on this planet that sounds like him.

00:27:32.660 That's so true.

00:27:33.140 For better or for worse.

00:27:34.000 I'm like.

00:27:34.300 That is so true.

00:27:35.200 It's a unique capability.

00:27:36.320 I love that.

00:27:37.700 It's genuinely, I respect it wholeheartedly.

00:27:41.600 Is there a role, either past or present, that you think you would have been perfect for?

00:27:47.200 I mean, perfect for.

00:27:48.980 Or like.

00:27:49.760 I would have loved to do.

00:27:50.820 This is who I would have.

00:27:51.520 Yeah.

00:27:52.440 Honestly, I made this, like, I answered this question recently, but I said, I would love

00:27:58.360 to be in something like an Abbott Elementary.

00:28:00.760 I would love to be in something.

00:28:01.520 Oh, that'd be fun.

00:28:01.660 I think I would.

00:28:02.200 Sitcom.

00:28:02.420 Yeah.

00:28:02.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:03.180 Comedy, I think I would thrive in that.

00:28:05.060 Or something like House of the Dragon.

00:28:07.280 Just hard left to the other side.

00:28:09.160 Oh, that'd be cool.

00:28:09.780 I would love to.

00:28:10.340 But I would also love to do horror.

00:28:11.600 I think horror's fun.

00:28:12.640 Horror's fun?

00:28:13.420 I think it's so fun.

00:28:14.460 And I think it's so campy now.

00:28:15.780 And people are growing to really love horror.

00:28:18.580 Yeah.

00:28:18.840 It used to be like a.

00:28:20.340 Yeah, it used to be kind of like, oh, only weird people like horror movies.

00:28:22.880 But now, everybody likes horror.

00:28:24.840 And I think that would be really fun.

00:28:26.460 Honestly, I'm not picky.

00:28:27.500 I'll go wherever anyone wants to cast me, I'm in.

00:28:30.420 You want to cast me?

00:28:31.140 I was going to say, you look straight at the camera.

00:28:32.820 Yeah, send that out.

00:28:33.780 I'm like, I'll do anything.

00:28:34.980 But I've also done, like, auditions for cartoons and stuff, like voiceovers.

00:28:39.000 Voice acting.

00:28:39.480 Voice acting is very cool.

00:28:42.620 And I think I have a very distinct voice.

00:28:45.080 So that's why they're like, I think it would be great for voice acting.

00:28:48.060 I'm like, sure.

00:28:49.200 I'm Lin-Manuel Miranda, too.

00:28:50.900 Yeah.

00:28:51.080 By that measure.

00:28:51.960 Yeah.

00:28:53.140 I'm like, holding back.

00:28:55.140 I'm like, I really want to try a Lin impression.

00:28:57.940 This is, I've never done one.

00:28:59.520 You said I should quit while I'm ahead.

00:29:00.220 Yeah.

00:29:00.600 I'm like, I've gone through as you were responding.

00:29:03.180 I was listening, but I was like, what would I do for my Lin?

00:29:07.320 Should I?

00:29:08.260 Yeah.

00:29:09.420 No.

00:29:10.200 Well, I'll turn the same question back on you.

00:29:12.220 Is there anyone you would love to work with?

00:29:14.760 No.

00:29:15.280 When it comes to actors?

00:29:16.700 Anyone?

00:29:17.480 Or a dream person?

00:29:18.980 Not really.

00:29:19.700 No?

00:29:19.960 Because I'm like, I don't, it depends on the project.

00:29:24.020 I guess that's true.

00:29:24.560 I'm like, there's so many talented people that like.

00:29:26.500 You're so analytical, Reese.

00:29:28.320 You know what I mean?

00:29:28.840 Like, it's like, I, because I genuinely, I think people get stuck in their heads and

00:29:32.840 are like, I need to work with this person.

00:29:34.380 I need to, I need to make this.

00:29:35.800 I need to have this award.

00:29:36.920 And I'm like, I genuinely just want to make fun stuff that people watch and like,

00:29:43.320 can be like, oh, that was a good time.

00:29:44.420 I had a good time.

00:29:45.240 I, that's it.

00:29:46.040 So there's not like, I, do you know what I, I, I will.

00:29:49.940 I will say, I would love to work with an actor who is extremely seasoned.

00:29:56.160 And I would also love to work with a first time actor.

00:29:59.120 Oh, cool.

00:29:59.940 That's a good answer.

00:30:00.800 I think that's a wonderful answer.

00:30:01.900 Yeah.

00:30:02.240 Because for the short that I did, like all the actresses in it had been in stuff and

00:30:07.560 it was like really nice.

00:30:08.700 Then like all to like varying, like some had been in feature films, some have been in episodic

00:30:13.420 TV.

00:30:13.740 And so it was like, it was really nice to have that, but I think it'd be cool for like someone

00:30:17.560 who is like, like someone who has been on like 80 sets.

00:30:22.700 Yeah.

00:30:23.220 Yeah.

00:30:23.500 Like they don't even audition anymore.

00:30:25.440 No, no, no.

00:30:25.760 They just accept roles.

00:30:26.900 They just get offered.

00:30:27.320 Yeah.

00:30:27.680 They just get scripts and they're like, sure, why not?

00:30:29.960 Yeah.

00:30:30.420 And then someone who's just like, maybe like a singer who's like, yeah, I'll try acting.

00:30:35.080 That'd be fun.

00:30:36.160 That'd be really cool.

00:30:37.620 I think you would lock in with someone like that.

00:30:39.460 I think you guys would make something great.

00:30:40.700 If it was someone brand new to the world and they were interested in it, that's so, that's

00:30:45.060 so T because I saw a clip of Denzel Washington when he was doing Presser Gladiator, I think.

00:30:49.920 And he was like, oh, how do you prepare for auditions?

00:30:52.960 He goes, auditions?

00:30:54.480 I don't audition anymore.

00:30:55.540 I haven't in over 20 years.

00:30:57.380 I'm like, Batman probably hasn't auditioned since like 89.

00:31:01.200 Yeah.

00:31:01.460 And he was laughing.

00:31:02.080 I said, I'm trying to be like you, big guy.

00:31:03.940 Yeah.

00:31:04.280 No, like legitimately.

00:31:05.820 Right.

00:31:06.340 For real.

00:31:06.900 That's so cool.

00:31:07.640 That's such a flex.

00:31:08.380 You know, I spoke to him.

00:31:12.460 I called him a, Jesus, what did I call him?

00:31:15.220 I called him a thespian.

00:31:16.560 He's like, a thespian.

00:31:17.680 And I was like, God, fucking thank you.

00:31:19.640 You're like, oh God, Denzel Washington thinks I'm so weird.

00:31:22.440 Oh man, this guy thinks I'm so weird.

00:31:26.180 What's been like a really like surprising, like fun encounter with a celebrity?

00:31:30.760 You've worked with so many.

00:31:32.000 I'm trying to think.

00:31:32.500 Oh, every now and then it's fun when someone who I'm like, they are not online.

00:31:38.100 And they should not know who I am.

00:31:40.380 Knows.

00:31:40.920 I love that too.

00:31:41.940 It's always cool.

00:31:43.280 Yeah.

00:31:43.500 Where it's like, where I'm like, why does like, you should not be watching me.

00:31:47.320 I'm like, you should know me.

00:31:49.560 I'm like, that's weird.

00:31:50.880 I'm like, Killian Murphy.

00:31:53.040 No way.

00:31:53.920 Yeah.

00:31:54.180 Like his kids are like of the TikTok age.

00:31:56.840 That's right.

00:31:57.700 Oh yeah.

00:31:58.620 They, they showed me a video with, uh, with the, I can't do his accent with, uh, Chris

00:32:02.960 Nolan.

00:32:03.280 And I was like, yeah, that's, uh, and I'm being super normal and not weird about it.

00:32:09.080 No, but I rarely, I don't get starstruck every now and then.

00:32:12.420 Do you?

00:32:12.760 Yeah.

00:32:13.400 Never.

00:32:13.760 It happens very randomly with like people that I, not that I shouldn't be starstruck

00:32:20.340 over, but like people that it's like, like, it's like surprising to others.

00:32:24.500 Like I, I saw Hoyt Van Hoytema, uh, the cinematographer and right.

00:32:30.320 Yeah.

00:32:30.720 Me and like 10 other people would have freaked out.

00:32:34.280 I was like, uh, Mr.

00:32:35.520 You're like, Oh my God.

00:32:36.760 Oh my God.

00:32:38.260 He was like, why?

00:32:40.000 Like I'm a plague on him.

00:32:42.640 I'm like, God damn it.

00:32:44.040 That's such a Reese answer.

00:32:45.560 Oh my God.

00:32:46.060 You're so real for that though.

00:32:47.060 Not being, um, starstruck at all.

00:32:49.320 Neither am I.

00:32:50.100 No.

00:32:50.400 And I don't think you can be honestly to do what we do.

00:32:52.720 No.

00:32:53.080 You can't be.

00:32:53.840 No, but it's also like, it's, it'll usually be people like that who also aren't used to

00:32:58.840 it.

00:32:59.280 It's, it's not actors.

00:33:00.560 Cause I don't want to act.

00:33:01.480 Right.

00:33:01.820 So I'm like, whatever.

00:33:03.380 Their approval is not the same.

00:33:05.520 Yeah.

00:33:05.860 I get what you mean.

00:33:06.440 I get what you mean.

00:33:06.900 But like, I, I respect their craft and what they do.

00:33:09.500 Yeah.

00:33:09.960 But I'm like, at the end of the day, if they don't like me, it's, that's okay.

00:33:12.500 It's all right.

00:33:13.100 Yeah.

00:33:13.320 Yeah.

00:33:13.500 We're all normal people.

00:33:14.600 We're all human.

00:33:15.480 I've said that to so many, cause people ask me all the time, especially about carpets.

00:33:18.980 They're like, are you, yeah.

00:33:20.280 Are they, are you so nervous?

00:33:22.060 No.

00:33:22.340 They honestly, they're so normal when you're around them.

00:33:25.060 And honestly, kind of weird.

00:33:26.000 A lot of them are weird.

00:33:27.420 It's the one thing where I'm like, like, it's like, like conservatives are obsessed with

00:33:34.180 like actors that play military men.

00:33:36.380 I'm like, these are theater kids and they're wearing.

00:33:39.540 Yeah.

00:33:39.940 You have no idea.

00:33:40.820 They're not Marines.

00:33:42.060 No, not at all.

00:33:43.600 I'm like, like you.

00:33:46.260 So, so dumb.

00:33:47.740 They're all theater kids.

00:33:48.760 No.

00:33:48.840 And they're like all sweet.

00:33:49.960 And also it's a job.

00:33:51.140 Like, exactly.

00:33:52.640 They don't see it the same way.

00:33:54.180 No.

00:33:54.700 And it's like, I, I, yeah, I, I need to finish this something.

00:33:58.520 Sorry.

00:33:58.920 No, you're fine.

00:33:59.740 No, it just doesn't make sense to me.

00:34:02.060 Cause I'm like, when you talk, like when people in office settings, like talk to their coworkers,

00:34:06.340 it's the same thing.

00:34:07.220 Like you cannot just like pick fights with people.

00:34:10.680 Like, that is not, yeah, it is, it's a, it's on different, like different settings, but

00:34:16.140 like, no, it's their job.

00:34:17.480 They like, they're going to be like courteous.

00:34:20.940 And for the most part, everyone's nice.

00:34:22.900 Everyone's just trying to like do their job.

00:34:24.780 I agree.

00:34:25.180 Everyone wants to like take pride in their work.

00:34:26.460 And everyone just wants to like uplift one another.

00:34:28.920 I agree.

00:34:29.940 And there's, I I've told people before to like, especially when you talk about interactions

00:34:34.520 with fans and like celebrities, cause they would consider them real celebrities, which

00:34:38.000 I do too, like actors and all of that.

00:34:40.120 I'm always like a 99% of the time.

00:34:42.260 If you're normal, they'll be normal.

00:34:43.600 If you're not weird, they won't be weird.

00:34:45.400 If you ever cross paths with a famous person.

00:34:47.560 Yeah.

00:34:48.040 And when you're in these work settings, like we're all being normal.

00:34:52.260 So nothing weird's happening.

00:34:53.880 Like no one's being weird.

00:34:55.100 No one's it's not uncomfortable to me.

00:34:56.760 No.

00:34:57.220 And I feel like most oftentimes too, like they really want to like have a good time.

00:35:01.940 Like they, when you're normal and cool with them, they're like, all right.

00:35:06.080 Yeah.

00:35:06.620 Exactly.

00:35:07.220 And it's like, I feel like with actors, they don't want to talk about acting or anything.

00:35:11.820 It's always other things.

00:35:13.120 But then filmmakers, it's always fun to talk to because I'm asking them like stupid nerdy

00:35:17.640 shit.

00:35:18.380 I'm like, how are you laying down tracks?

00:35:20.700 And they're like, that's what you want to know.

00:35:22.780 So I met, um, uh, director James Cameron, like, you know, Oscar winning director, heavy

00:35:29.060 hitter, heavy hitter, uh, called Jim by some, not me.

00:35:34.880 Yeah.

00:35:35.360 You could quote me on that.

00:35:36.520 Right.

00:35:36.820 Um, and the first thing I said, I was like, Oh, nice to meet you.

00:35:39.580 And I was like, what was it like working on as like a matte painter on escape from New

00:35:44.520 York, 1981, John Carpenter.

00:35:47.020 And he's like, the fuck are you talking about, he was like, I was working like, as

00:35:52.360 like an, like a matte, like, that's what you want to talk about.

00:35:55.940 And I was like, yeah.

00:35:57.360 And he's like, I would love to know the answer to that.

00:35:58.700 And then he like went in for like a five minute response was like, well, it's actually

00:36:01.100 fantastic.

00:36:02.740 Yeah.

00:36:03.100 But like, they're all just like film loving nerds.

00:36:06.400 They are.

00:36:06.940 It's so, it's so lovely.

00:36:08.220 That is very true.

00:36:09.320 And they're all, and everyone, like you said, for the most part is very nice.

00:36:13.020 And even like when I went to the SAG awards too, I remember I did, I did a lot of carpet

00:36:17.880 interviews at SAG, but, and everyone was so lovely.

00:36:20.620 And I was, I was telling everyone, I think the vibe here is awesome because they get to

00:36:25.580 decide who wins these.

00:36:26.960 Like they vote for each other.

00:36:27.980 It's almost like homecoming queen.

00:36:29.500 And then they're all like relaxed when they're here.

00:36:32.000 Yeah.

00:36:32.180 Every other award show I was at, like there's a little bit of tension in the air because

00:36:35.920 everyone's a little nervous and they're all competing against each other to some extent,

00:36:39.320 even though they don't really care to see it that way.

00:36:41.260 I don't think, but everyone's vibe was so chill.

00:36:44.220 I can never tell if it feels like a competition or not.

00:36:46.700 I'm saying, that's what I'm saying.

00:36:47.880 Like, I can't tell, but the tension that I felt at the Oscars, at the Globes, like was

00:36:52.400 completely lacking at SAG.

00:36:54.680 I was like, Oh, everyone's here to vibe.

00:36:56.400 Everyone's here to have a good time.

00:36:57.600 And you know, you see on carpets, like when like huge A-list talent walk, a lot of times

00:37:02.880 if they do stop for interviews, they'll do like maybe two.

00:37:05.800 And then they rush them inside.

00:37:07.080 Like they're like, no, no, no, not stopping for anyone.

00:37:08.980 Yeah.

00:37:09.220 They were just hanging out on the carpet.

00:37:10.980 People were just standing there chatting, keying with each other.

00:37:14.380 And I was like, okay, the vibe here is chill.

00:37:16.600 Everyone is chill, which was nice.

00:37:18.320 I thought that was fun.

00:37:19.160 Cause I was like, everybody's letting their hair down at SAG.

00:37:21.600 That's cool.

00:37:22.740 I need to go to SAG so I could ask them really.

00:37:26.080 I genuinely use like the opportunities I get to ask what I wanted to know as a kid.

00:37:34.680 I think that's a beautiful thing.

00:37:36.020 So it's like, like at a SAG, I'd be like, so when you made like this movie, which no one

00:37:40.480 likes and flopped, like I wouldn't say that to them.

00:37:43.080 I'd be like, but it's a very important text to me.

00:37:47.000 I was like, did they apply the hair before you had a ball?

00:37:50.080 Like, I need to know the, the hyper specifics that they're like, I don't know.

00:37:55.000 Oh, and I bet directors eat that up because they love that shit.

00:37:59.640 Yeah.

00:37:59.920 I can't wait to one day.

00:38:01.860 I mean, like that's the goal is to.

00:38:04.000 Is there a director you haven't gotten to key with that you would like to?

00:38:07.420 Steven Spielberg.

00:38:08.520 Oh, that's obvious.

00:38:10.000 He's, he's who I want to grow up to be.

00:38:11.680 Yeah.

00:38:11.840 Oh, that's so sick.

00:38:13.060 Yeah.

00:38:13.400 He's so fucking awesome.

00:38:14.480 He's cool.

00:38:15.060 He wears a hat on set.

00:38:16.560 That's awesome.

00:38:17.940 Like what?

00:38:18.980 This guy's so laid back.

00:38:20.460 Guy's so laid, so approachable.

00:38:22.120 Guy's wearing a hat.

00:38:22.980 Yeah.

00:38:23.380 Yeah.

00:38:23.800 Oh man.

00:38:24.560 What a, what a cool dude.

00:38:25.840 No, he would be, he'd be one.

00:38:28.220 Um, a lot of the ones that like, I would want to meet her dead.

00:38:32.040 Oh, unfortunately.

00:38:33.940 Unfortunately.

00:38:35.200 Yeah.

00:38:35.720 Damn.

00:38:36.380 Yeah.

00:38:36.620 You got to go in the, in memoriam and then you'll meet them.

00:38:38.860 I was going to say, once you get there, play me in the in memoriam.

00:38:41.880 I'm like bothering.

00:38:43.600 You're haunting them.

00:38:44.820 Yeah.

00:38:45.080 It's like, I'm not even on the screen.

00:38:47.340 Like Harry Potter.

00:38:48.500 I've gone to someone else's painting.

00:38:50.620 Bothering them.

00:38:51.360 They're asking them.

00:38:52.540 So when you put on the mask, so when you, when does it start?

00:38:56.600 Yeah.

00:38:57.460 Jesus.

00:38:58.200 I think that's so funny.

00:38:59.340 I, and I think your point about how like actors don't want to really talk about acting.

00:39:04.000 A lot of times they want to talk about other stuff or other things they're into or whatever.

00:39:07.600 Yeah.

00:39:07.880 I think that's so real.

00:39:08.960 And I think, I think that's why they like us to be honest.

00:39:11.320 Cause I think the two of us talking to them.

00:39:13.040 Speak for yourself.

00:39:13.740 I know they love you.

00:39:15.480 Reese.

00:39:15.940 I know they love you.

00:39:16.940 I fucking see them all the time.

00:39:18.280 They're like, Oh my God, Reese.

00:39:20.200 Every time they see you on carpet.

00:39:22.060 They're like, I love that guy.

00:39:24.480 Cause they know that I'm not going to ask anything gossipy.

00:39:27.640 Right.

00:39:28.120 Someone could go through a divorce.

00:39:29.340 But it's not a, I'm like, what?

00:39:31.080 No, I don't.

00:39:31.760 No.

00:39:32.180 No, no.

00:39:32.840 And you just need to know about the 2003.

00:39:34.880 Like I need to know, I need to know about something else.

00:39:39.240 Actually.

00:39:39.760 I actually do not care.

00:39:42.320 When I did the materialist carpet this weekend, I talked to Chris Evans for a bit.

00:39:46.720 And when I asked him, I don't even remember the question I asked him.

00:39:50.800 I just said like, Oh, I think I said something like, what do you hope people take away from

00:39:54.020 this movie?

00:39:54.520 Yeah.

00:39:54.940 And he gave me this really long, like poignant, eloquent answer.

00:39:59.080 It was like such a great answer.

00:40:00.680 And I was listening to him and I was like, I think you fucking nailed that.

00:40:05.620 And then he was like, right.

00:40:07.120 Yeah.

00:40:07.480 And then he's like up top.

00:40:08.680 And he high-fived me.

00:40:09.820 Also like.

00:40:10.920 Yeah.

00:40:11.340 Leave it to an actor to have like a perfect response.

00:40:14.420 Right.

00:40:14.740 That's like so eloquent.

00:40:16.000 Right.

00:40:16.240 And I'm like, yeah, it's almost like they get paid to do that.

00:40:18.780 Yeah, exactly.

00:40:19.780 I was like, that PR is working overtime.

00:40:21.300 Hell yeah.

00:40:22.840 Oh man.

00:40:23.720 That'd be so.

00:40:24.240 Oh man.

00:40:24.560 I can't wait for you to be in something.

00:40:26.280 And then for you to give your very eloquent.

00:40:28.920 And then some dickhead online is going to do that to me.

00:40:31.580 And that's karma.

00:40:34.280 Precisely.

00:40:34.960 Yeah.

00:40:35.780 Okay.

00:40:36.200 So I do have some fun facts about you.

00:40:39.940 Oh, there's not going to be.

00:40:41.240 We were discussing.

00:40:42.120 Oh, wait.

00:40:42.680 I do have some though.

00:40:43.860 There's not going to be anything fun.

00:40:47.280 Well, yeah.

00:40:48.020 Let Amanda cook.

00:40:48.880 Hold on.

00:40:49.480 Is my middle name on there?

00:40:50.780 I don't know if that's publicly available.

00:40:53.820 Well, this one says you were a summer camp counselor at Camp Pointelle in Pennsylvania.

00:40:58.300 Oh my God.

00:40:58.740 Yeah.

00:40:59.660 Yeah.

00:41:00.020 I taught fishing like as like a thing.

00:41:03.520 I ran the talent show.

00:41:05.780 That was fun.

00:41:06.980 Never lost a talent show.

00:41:09.920 Personally or?

00:41:11.120 No, no, no.

00:41:11.680 We would.

00:41:12.340 I would.

00:41:12.820 I would like choreograph like the campers.

00:41:16.020 Yeah.

00:41:16.460 I was like you competing against the kids.

00:41:18.280 No, no, no.

00:41:18.700 I was like Bob Fosse.

00:41:20.020 I was like.

00:41:22.340 Yeah.

00:41:23.060 Right.

00:41:23.400 Damn.

00:41:23.980 All right.

00:41:24.500 No, I needed to direct even on the campsite.

00:41:28.720 Everyone's like playing baseball and I'm like, no, like hit your mark.

00:41:32.340 No, you need to go over your moves.

00:41:34.140 Exactly.

00:41:34.340 You need to go over your eight count.

00:41:35.560 Yeah.

00:41:35.940 I worked as a camp counselor.

00:41:37.660 Wonderful.

00:41:38.380 Great time.

00:41:39.020 I feel like in another life you would just absolutely run a summer camp like no other.

00:41:43.780 I mean, so I'm writing something and hoping to pitch it, which is a show that takes place at a summer camp.

00:41:49.660 Okay.

00:41:49.900 So then I could like work at a summer camp, but then make some.

00:41:53.760 Yeah.

00:41:53.940 So it's like.

00:41:54.460 You're blending the worlds.

00:41:55.440 My excuse or it's like, we haven't shot a damn thing.

00:41:58.640 He's just fishing.

00:42:00.300 I don't even like to fish.

00:42:01.320 Reese, I think we need to.

00:42:01.780 I just like to sit by the lake.

00:42:03.180 I would never catch anything.

00:42:04.560 But you taught people how to fish?

00:42:06.340 I mean, children.

00:42:07.780 Yeah.

00:42:07.920 Put a hook in the water.

00:42:09.860 What is teaching?

00:42:11.200 Yeah.

00:42:11.480 Throw it in there.

00:42:12.260 No.

00:42:12.780 Then it eventually evolved into rock skipping because I was like, this is just a better excuse to sit at the lake.

00:42:18.360 Yeah.

00:42:19.840 Were you a big hit with the kids?

00:42:22.160 Yeah.

00:42:22.440 They loved you.

00:42:23.380 Yeah.

00:42:23.680 I still.

00:42:24.180 I was going to say the I feel like the groups of I guess they're not people.

00:42:29.740 The groups of organisms that I appeal to most, I think, are animals and babies.

00:42:34.940 Well, I guess babies are people, but they are almost people.

00:42:38.660 Almost.

00:42:39.060 Yeah.

00:42:39.180 Almost people.

00:42:39.640 But like, I feel like there's something that just.

00:42:44.420 Something about your spirit that surprises.

00:42:45.960 They're like, like babies will see me and they're like, like, like perplexed, which I think is partially like the hair.

00:42:54.580 Hair, yeah.

00:42:55.020 It's just a lot.

00:42:55.880 Just the, just the vibe.

00:42:57.160 Yeah.

00:42:57.580 Oh, that's good though.

00:42:58.520 What's your, do you love animals?

00:42:59.640 Do you like animals?

00:43:00.160 I love animals.

00:43:00.940 What's your favorite animal?

00:43:02.200 My cat, Cooper.

00:43:03.520 Oh, what a great answer.

00:43:04.540 What kind of cat?

00:43:05.680 He's just a little guy.

00:43:06.940 He's a fucking guy.

00:43:09.280 I don't know.

00:43:09.620 He's a Siberian.

00:43:10.960 So he's a big, fluffy guy.

00:43:12.640 But yeah, it's like, yeah, I, I'm getting better with people, but like babies and babies

00:43:19.200 and animals.

00:43:19.660 I'm like, that's what you're vibing with.

00:43:21.580 I'm in the pocket.

00:43:23.540 They love me.

00:43:25.080 Yeah.

00:43:25.500 Okay.

00:43:25.960 This next fun fact says that you originally started college at Tulane pre-med.

00:43:31.700 Is that wrong?

00:43:32.920 Wrong?

00:43:33.340 JK.

00:43:33.880 Don't kidding.

00:43:34.780 No, we're keeping that in there.

00:43:35.880 Communication pre-med.

00:43:37.560 That's wrong.

00:43:39.620 Research on this show needs to be fired.

00:43:41.420 Right.

00:43:41.840 Needs to be fact checked.

00:43:43.380 Fact checked.

00:43:44.320 Communications major.

00:43:45.140 I was a communications major.

00:43:46.260 Yes.

00:43:46.800 Okay.

00:43:47.080 There we go.

00:43:47.600 Sorry.

00:43:47.860 She corrected herself.

00:43:48.900 That's on me.

00:43:49.760 It's all right.

00:43:51.180 No, I could not have done pre-med.

00:43:53.100 I have like my hands are constantly, I don't, I mean like, oh, geez.

00:43:58.140 I'll try to keep them as steady as possible.

00:44:00.460 Oh, you're just naturally jittery a little bit.

00:44:03.720 Yeah.

00:44:04.040 I drink, I consume a lot of coffee, which I'm sure doesn't help.

00:44:06.280 That is true.

00:44:06.760 Every time I see Reese, he has a coffee cup in his hand.

00:44:09.600 Every single time.

00:44:10.680 It'll be 1130 at night.

00:44:11.320 That's true.

00:44:12.180 Every single time.

00:44:13.120 When I saw you at the Wicked premiere, you had a coffee cup in your hand and it was like

00:44:16.440 7 p.m.

00:44:17.260 Makes no, those things go so late.

00:44:21.000 They do go so late.

00:44:22.940 They're like, oh, you're going to come to the after party.

00:44:24.640 Are you insane?

00:44:25.800 I know.

00:44:26.580 I say the same thing.

00:44:27.640 It's 11 o'clock on a school night.

00:44:29.700 You say, girl, you're lucky I'm at the movie.

00:44:31.420 I'm 27 years old.

00:44:33.180 I have class in the morning.

00:44:34.660 I'm like, no, I'm not.

00:44:35.620 No.

00:44:37.600 It's the same thing where it's like a lot of times like I feel so privileged to get to

00:44:41.960 go to premieres.

00:44:43.020 Like what I grew up wanting to just like see something like and just be there in a suit

00:44:48.700 and like.

00:44:49.240 Right.

00:44:49.340 And I get to do that, which is not lost on me.

00:44:52.100 And while never complain about it.

00:44:54.880 Same.

00:44:55.100 I'm like, what?

00:44:56.440 Like there's so many people that would love to be here.

00:44:58.800 So I will not be upset.

00:45:00.020 Right.

00:45:00.460 That being said, I'm not going to a party.

00:45:03.400 I'm not going after anywhere.

00:45:05.600 That's true.

00:45:06.120 One thing I receive will not be at the after party.

00:45:07.940 No.

00:45:08.560 They're like, oh, come on.

00:45:09.600 I'm like, no.

00:45:10.640 Yeah.

00:45:10.860 Sometimes you're like, oh, no, I'm leaving after the.

00:45:12.900 No, no, no.

00:45:13.320 Yeah.

00:45:14.140 I start saying goodbye the second evening starts.

00:45:16.840 That's true.

00:45:17.200 I'm like, I'm not.

00:45:18.320 And like they're like, oh, free drinks.

00:45:19.840 I'm like, that's great.

00:45:21.160 Yeah.

00:45:21.620 Congrats.

00:45:21.980 Like, is there coffee?

00:45:24.560 No, I agree with you on that because it's not complaining because it's hard.

00:45:28.600 It's just I don't think people realize just how like long those can be like the premiere.

00:45:34.400 Sometimes I went to the Barbie premiere.

00:45:36.660 I felt like I was there for 72 days.

00:45:39.140 It was probably a great time.

00:45:40.240 It was so fun.

00:45:41.000 But I was there for 12 hours and it was insane.

00:45:43.000 Yeah.

00:45:43.680 But it's like, see the movie.

00:45:45.340 Fantastic.

00:45:46.060 Right.

00:45:46.220 Like, go see the movie.

00:45:47.760 Yeah.

00:45:48.140 Get some food after.

00:45:49.120 The best part about a movie is talking about it afterwards.

00:45:51.980 And you can't do that at the party.

00:45:54.100 Because someone's playing loud music.

00:45:56.440 Yeah.

00:45:56.980 Hot take of mine.

00:45:58.260 I don't want music to be loud.

00:46:00.740 Hey, music.

00:46:01.540 Turn it down.

00:46:02.060 Yeah.

00:46:02.340 In Prague, they have decibel readers on the streets.

00:46:05.240 Really?

00:46:05.780 After certain hours, it can't get that loud.

00:46:08.180 You're such an old man.

00:46:09.500 No, I know.

00:46:11.680 Me too, though.

00:46:12.540 Yeah.

00:46:12.980 Like, my neighbor is like, if they're just like playing music and it's like 6 p.m. on a Wednesday, I'm like, Jesus Christ.

00:46:18.680 I'm like, wow.

00:46:19.880 Okay.

00:46:20.180 Winding down time is now.

00:46:21.560 So, I'm living next to a bunch of party animals.

00:46:24.880 They're listening to, like, smooth jazz.

00:46:27.000 I'm so fucking upset.

00:46:28.100 Not even disturbing you.

00:46:29.540 Both me and my cat are just, like, side-eyeing.

00:46:33.320 I know.

00:46:33.920 Speaking of old man shit, I was, like, telling you I'm drinking, like, electrolytes.

00:46:37.900 The other, I think it was, like, a couple weeks ago, I was filming with someone and they were like, what's in there?

00:46:42.280 And I was like, oh, it's, like, Pedialyte.

00:46:44.040 And they were like, are you hungover?

00:46:45.500 And I go, no old.

00:46:47.180 I'm just old.

00:46:47.940 That's it.

00:46:48.240 Drinking prune juice.

00:46:49.980 But we're, I feel like we're at a weird age because I no longer relate to the youth in the same way.

00:46:58.420 Oh, my God.

00:46:58.840 Not at all.

00:46:59.540 Because I.

00:47:00.200 They might as well be speaking a different language to me.

00:47:02.200 It's not even that.

00:47:02.800 I'm just, like, oh, I'm no longer, like, I don't think I was ever hip.

00:47:06.400 But I'm, like, I definitely am not now.

00:47:09.200 Especially not now.

00:47:10.040 But I'm also not in my 30s.

00:47:11.740 So I don't have, like, the same sort of, like, I'm not viewed as mature in, like, a certain weird liminal space where I feel like the fly.

00:47:21.920 Like, half man, half man.

00:47:23.820 I'm, like, neither side wants me.

00:47:27.040 I'm genuinely.

00:47:28.060 Not good enough for either.

00:47:29.200 Gen Z, they're, like, disgusting.

00:47:31.240 They don't want me.

00:47:31.740 Right, for real.

00:47:32.800 They're, like, old.

00:47:34.140 Us to Gen Z, we're, like, 100 to Gen Z.

00:47:37.460 Because you're, so if you're 29, that means you were born in 96?

00:47:40.880 95.

00:47:41.420 95.

00:47:41.980 Okay.

00:47:42.780 So, yeah.

00:47:44.140 I was born in 98.

00:47:45.500 So I don't really know which, like, side to, yeah.

00:47:49.960 I know.

00:47:50.360 That's why I'm excited to turn 30 because I'm turning 30 this year.

00:47:53.460 I'm so excited because now I'm, like, I'm sprinting out of my 20s, thank God.

00:47:57.660 But I also feel like I wish I skipped from 28 to 30 because 29 felt like I was just hanging

00:48:03.280 on to my 20s.

00:48:04.320 Yeah.

00:48:04.640 Like, I was, like, 29 and they're, like, yeah, exactly.

00:48:07.100 Nobody talks about how embarrassing it is to be 29.

00:48:08.620 No, we were talking about it before you walked in.

00:48:11.220 Exactly.

00:48:11.620 Exactly.

00:48:12.300 See, I knew it.

00:48:13.040 Don't bring it up.

00:48:14.840 And I, now when I'm in my 30s, I can be, like, oh, my God, I'm only 30.

00:48:18.040 Like, I'm young to 30-year-olds.

00:48:19.700 That's the thing.

00:48:20.400 There you go.

00:48:21.040 30 is a new plateau.

00:48:22.780 Exactly.

00:48:23.220 Exactly.

00:48:23.620 40-year-olds are going to be, like, oh, my God, you have so much time.

00:48:25.780 Exactly.

00:48:25.940 It's, like, yeah, it's, like, now when I go on sets, there are people, I used to be

00:48:30.740 the baby on set.

00:48:31.700 Right.

00:48:31.840 And now I'm 27.

00:48:33.100 People ask me for, like, what should I do?

00:48:35.560 I'm, like, I don't fucking know.

00:48:37.580 Don't ask me.

00:48:38.280 Ask someone older than me.

00:48:39.220 Yeah.

00:48:39.780 But I don't know.

00:48:40.800 I'm excited.

00:48:41.400 I think once I start growing facial hair, I'll, that's going to be a big thing for me.

00:48:46.480 A new thing for you.

00:48:47.740 Yeah.

00:48:48.160 I think that's awesome.

00:48:49.540 Yeah.

00:48:49.740 I support you on that journey.

00:48:51.760 It's not looking great.

00:48:53.780 No, but you've got such strong hair.

00:48:56.980 Yeah.

00:48:57.380 You've got a great head of hair.

00:48:58.460 That's it.

00:48:59.180 And that's your thing.

00:49:00.380 I love the hair.

00:49:01.660 Thank you.

00:49:02.140 Yeah, it's awesome.

00:49:03.160 It truly came out of the, famously, during 2020, there was a virus going around.

00:49:08.860 Right.

00:49:09.160 And most barbershops.

00:49:09.800 Oh, right.

00:49:10.320 Yeah, yeah.

00:49:10.660 Most barbershops were closed.

00:49:12.240 So I was, like, I guess this is it.

00:49:14.580 Looks like we're going it out.

00:49:15.680 It's been five years.

00:49:17.020 I was, like, guess this is, uh, what?

00:49:19.500 No, you got a strong head of hair.

00:49:21.540 Love that.

00:49:22.220 Thanks.

00:49:22.400 That's because you're a good person.

00:49:23.140 That pattern beauty.

00:49:24.920 Yeah.

00:49:25.420 The universe isn't punishing you.

00:49:27.220 Trace Yellow Cross, if you're watching.

00:49:28.980 Oh.

00:49:29.720 Huge fan.

00:49:30.920 I, pattern beauty rocks.

00:49:32.320 I love that.

00:49:33.060 Because you got curls.

00:49:34.020 Uh-huh.

00:49:34.460 Period.

00:49:35.500 Yeah.

00:49:35.800 This next fun fact says that you worked in casting on a show called Worst Cooks in America.

00:49:40.500 Was I listed as casting on that?

00:49:42.820 I worked on that show.

00:49:44.380 I was a day player on that.

00:49:46.160 Was not in casting.

00:49:48.120 I have never, I'm telling you, there's, it's on my, I am.

00:49:53.140 Tell them to check their facts.

00:49:56.060 Also, I was telling you, there's not a, you will not find a fun fact about me.

00:49:59.660 There's really, there's not many.

00:50:01.460 What you see is what you get, which is not that exciting.

00:50:05.000 That's the one thing I always do love for people who are like, I think what I do is cool, but like, that's the extent of it.

00:50:11.800 You're so annoying.

00:50:14.160 You are a very cool person.

00:50:15.700 Thank you.

00:50:16.540 I had, but I worked on Worst Cooks.

00:50:20.400 When you brought up cooking shows, I worked on that.

00:50:22.360 Okay.

00:50:22.820 Like, as a day player.

00:50:24.140 Okay.

00:50:24.400 So that was like mostly just like taking out the trash.

00:50:27.100 Nice.

00:50:27.800 Love.

00:50:28.000 I learned a lot because that was the first time I had worked in a studio setting.

00:50:32.220 Okay.

00:50:32.960 Yeah.

00:50:33.200 Someone has to take out the trash.

00:50:35.360 And guess what?

00:50:36.260 It was you.

00:50:36.800 Yeah.

00:50:37.040 It's an important job.

00:50:38.280 It's the, I, being a PA was, I don't want to ever do it again.

00:50:43.640 Right.

00:50:44.760 But it is such a great experience.

00:50:46.900 And I think anyone that works in film should at some point just PA for a couple days just to understand.

00:50:53.420 Just to get the experience of a PA.

00:50:55.880 Legitimately, just to be like, this is what it feels like to, to like, have to deal with that.

00:51:03.820 Yeah.

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00:52:08.880 Where you're like, this is crazy.

00:52:12.740 For housewives, I would have to do a transcription.

00:52:16.660 So it's like when all the housewives are yelling, it's writing down what they're saying so that when we feed it to the editors, they can look through dialogue and be like, oh, this line was said.

00:52:27.480 But I was writing words that I haven't verbalized.

00:52:30.540 I was like, I don't even know if I should be writing that.

00:52:33.360 You're wincing.

00:52:33.860 Yeah, so that was crazy.

00:52:37.160 There is a charcuterie board that was thrown.

00:52:39.540 So I was the one that had purchased it.

00:52:43.220 And I was like, well, great.

00:52:45.960 Shucks that charcuterie.

00:52:47.340 Right, okay.

00:52:48.280 That was crazy.

00:52:49.260 I'm trying to think.

00:52:50.820 Dry cleaning, that's a thing.

00:52:53.520 Getting people's dry cleaning.

00:52:56.320 It's fun.

00:52:57.200 Aaron running whore.

00:52:58.460 Yeah, where it's just like I throw on the Devil Wears Prada soundtrack.

00:53:02.160 No, oh my gosh.

00:53:03.340 It's like I'm so misunderstood.

00:53:04.560 All the Hermes scarves.

00:53:05.800 Yeah, exactly.

00:53:06.320 I get hit by a cab.

00:53:07.840 I'm like, yeah.

00:53:09.000 Like, it should have been me.

00:53:10.560 Yeah.

00:53:12.240 Yeah.

00:53:12.820 No, there is some crazy stuff.

00:53:14.760 But I imagine it must have been crazier in the 80s.

00:53:17.720 Oh, I can only imagine.

00:53:19.040 Yeah.

00:53:19.300 Oh, with no laws.

00:53:20.420 With no laws.

00:53:20.980 No human rights laws.

00:53:22.040 No human rights.

00:53:23.000 Yeah.

00:53:24.360 So at least it was fine for me.

00:53:27.160 Yeah, that's true.

00:53:28.180 In the grand scheme of things.

00:53:29.220 But I'm also like, when people are like, oh, I had it much worse.

00:53:32.840 I'm like, I'm so sorry.

00:53:35.580 That's a bummer.

00:53:36.520 Don't put anyone else through that.

00:53:38.000 Yeah.

00:53:38.440 For real.

00:53:39.220 Yeah.

00:53:39.420 I don't want PAs to suffer.

00:53:41.240 That's insane.

00:53:41.900 No, it is truly insane.

00:53:43.480 And I can only imagine.

00:53:44.500 And I've obviously never, I've never been a PA, but I did work like internships for like

00:53:49.220 publicists and stuff when I was in college.

00:53:51.240 And I worked for a publicist that worked for athletes exclusively.

00:53:54.140 Like she, she managed only professional NFL players.

00:53:58.780 So I remember some of the weirdest shit I had to do.

00:54:01.580 Like one time I had to watch a dog that was his girlfriend at the time's dog, but she

00:54:07.520 wanted the dog, but never wanted to take care of it.

00:54:09.780 So they dropped it off at the office and told me it was my job to watch it.

00:54:12.940 And so I just watched, I felt so bad for that little thing, but like, it was like a little

00:54:16.980 terrier.

00:54:17.460 And so it was just me and him just hanging out in the office.

00:54:20.040 Just the two of us just looking at each other.

00:54:23.280 And then when I had to give him back, I was like, I'm so sorry.

00:54:25.700 I got to give you back to your mom.

00:54:26.680 That doesn't want you.

00:54:27.400 That doesn't want you using you like an accessory.

00:54:31.340 One time I had to make a, at that same job, I had to make a PowerPoint of this guy and

00:54:37.060 his family.

00:54:38.320 And it was like, it was basically something like he was trying to pitch his wife.

00:54:42.220 That he wanted to go on like this specific vacation or something like that.

00:54:46.800 You had to make the PowerPoint.

00:54:48.340 Yeah.

00:54:48.640 He patient pitch.

00:54:49.420 Yeah.

00:54:49.600 He wanted me like, she wanted me to make the pitch for him to give to his wife for reasons

00:54:55.200 I don't understand.

00:54:56.760 Where were they going?

00:54:57.820 They were like going to like Bermuda or something.

00:54:59.980 So I had to like look up places in Bermuda and be like, this place has.

00:55:04.340 Did they end up going on the trip?

00:55:05.300 I have no clue.

00:55:06.060 Oh, I just like spent six hours doing that.

00:55:09.460 That was my only job that day.

00:55:10.480 I was like, well, yeah.

00:55:11.780 Done by 1130.

00:55:12.980 There'd be days where I'd be tasked with like going to a different state to pick up a single

00:55:16.600 thing.

00:55:17.000 And then like getting called like on my way there and like four hour drive done.

00:55:20.900 They're like, we don't need anymore.

00:55:21.740 I'm like, great.

00:55:22.340 Turning back.

00:55:23.440 Oh, perfect.

00:55:24.020 Perfect.

00:55:24.260 Perfect.

00:55:24.480 No, perfect.

00:55:26.000 Oh, perfect.

00:55:26.640 I didn't want to get it anyways.

00:55:27.460 Okay, I have another one for you.

00:55:31.400 It says that.

00:55:32.680 Well, we'll see.

00:55:33.700 We'll see if it's true or fun.

00:55:36.700 It says famous Yankee player Yogi Berra signed a baseball for you in 2010.

00:55:42.380 How the fuck do you know?

00:55:44.120 That's weird.

00:55:45.120 Oh, that's definitely like, oh, that's definitely like on like my Facebook.

00:55:48.900 Got him.

00:55:49.640 Yeah.

00:55:50.340 I was like, we have to get everyone at least once.

00:55:54.120 Yeah.

00:55:54.440 So, yes, famous Yankee athlete Yogi Berra did sign a baseball that I have.

00:56:02.580 Fact checked, verified.

00:56:03.900 Yeah.

00:56:04.460 R.I.P.

00:56:05.640 Yogi Berra.

00:56:06.840 You a big Yankees fan?

00:56:07.920 No, I don't even like that.

00:56:10.120 I actually, it's so funny.

00:56:11.640 I used to be a Yankees fan and then I grew up and I was like, I was like, they have too

00:56:16.700 much money.

00:56:17.700 And I made a hard hit.

00:56:18.800 The establishment wants me to support them.

00:56:20.020 No, no, no.

00:56:20.380 Legitimately.

00:56:20.740 I was like, one day I was like, it's too much money for one corporate.

00:56:25.440 And I made a hard pivot to the Mets.

00:56:27.940 Okay.

00:56:28.720 Because I was like, that's a working man.

00:56:29.760 I was like, it's so stupid.

00:56:33.540 Smart.

00:56:34.060 That was legitimately my thinking where I was like, the Yankees, like, they haven't worked

00:56:38.920 a day in their goddamn lives.

00:56:39.660 Yeah, they don't know what it feels like.

00:56:41.380 They know suffering.

00:56:44.020 So stupid.

00:56:45.100 And now I'm a Mets fan.

00:56:46.480 Okay.

00:56:46.820 I have not known happiness in years.

00:56:49.620 So?

00:56:50.320 So that's fucking great.

00:56:51.040 Yeah, it was all, yeah.

00:56:54.140 There's a lot of things where I'm like, nope, no longer like this because too much money

00:56:58.800 behind it.

00:56:59.260 I'm like, can't do it.

00:57:00.220 Yeah.

00:57:00.400 That's your frontal lobe developing.

00:57:01.920 Yeah.

00:57:02.220 Right.

00:57:03.040 No.

00:57:04.500 They, their stadium was built too quickly.

00:57:06.740 I'm like, I don't trust.

00:57:07.640 Something stinks.

00:57:08.240 Something stinks.

00:57:08.980 Yeah.

00:57:10.080 Yeah.

00:57:10.480 There's a lot of things like that.

00:57:11.680 I'm like, I don't know.

00:57:12.820 Okay, your last one says that two of your top four movies on Letterboxd are The Princess

00:57:18.900 Bride and Indiana Jones.

00:57:20.840 That's true.

00:57:21.560 That is true.

00:57:22.180 That's public information.

00:57:23.240 Yeah.

00:57:23.580 That is public information.

00:57:25.160 Yeah.

00:57:25.380 What are the other two?

00:57:27.420 So right now, yeah, I switched them out.

00:57:29.860 It's The Thing, which we discussed.

00:57:32.800 Yes.

00:57:33.140 Raiders of the Lost Ark.

00:57:34.320 Okay.

00:57:34.860 Because I just.

00:57:37.100 The best one.

00:57:37.900 It's good.

00:57:38.560 Yeah.

00:57:38.760 I enjoy that movie.

00:57:40.300 He, I made my dad get me a fedora as a kid because I saw Indiana Jones had one.

00:57:45.540 Yeah.

00:57:45.680 He really rebranded fedoras for a while.

00:57:47.780 Yeah.

00:57:48.160 Now it's been.

00:57:48.920 They fell back.

00:57:49.380 Yeah.

00:57:49.480 Now it's been tarnished.

00:57:50.360 Yeah.

00:57:50.580 They fell back to the wayside.

00:57:52.200 Uh-oh, princess.

00:57:52.760 For a minute.

00:57:53.500 Yeah.

00:57:53.800 Now they're a real princess.

00:57:55.040 Yeah.

00:57:55.380 Now it's.

00:57:55.800 Now.

00:57:56.120 Yeah.

00:57:56.420 I need to bring that back.

00:57:58.020 Yeah.

00:57:59.300 You should.

00:58:00.180 I'm gonna.

00:58:00.860 Start working it into some content.

00:58:02.380 Yeah.

00:58:02.580 Get some A-list celebrities to say, princess.

00:58:04.740 Oh, princess.

00:58:06.420 That's actually a great idea.

00:58:07.760 You should bring a fedora with you.

00:58:08.960 Yeah.

00:58:09.240 I'll be like, do you want to try it on?

00:58:12.600 They're like, you should never invite it back.

00:58:15.720 This is actually your last day working here.

00:58:17.120 Why do you approach Brad Pitt with a fedora?

00:58:19.480 I'll be like, I'm so sorry.

00:58:22.420 Yeah.

00:58:23.060 Indiana Jones.

00:58:23.960 Love that movie.

00:58:25.260 I've really, I just.

00:58:27.580 I have never related to someone more.

00:58:30.720 Just like, he's like, it belongs in a museum.

00:58:33.020 And I'm like.

00:58:34.160 He's so right.

00:58:35.000 He's so right.

00:58:36.300 I'm like, it does.

00:58:37.840 Why are you?

00:58:38.740 Yeah.

00:58:39.560 So that, the thing.

00:58:41.240 Because I like simple movies.

00:58:43.040 Right.

00:58:43.460 That is just like, what if there was a thing?

00:58:44.920 Mm-hmm.

00:58:45.460 Princess Bride.

00:58:46.300 Mm-hmm.

00:58:46.600 Because that movie is really sweet.

00:58:47.860 It's a great movie.

00:58:48.460 It's so sweet.

00:58:49.260 Yeah.

00:58:49.540 It's a really sweet movie.

00:58:51.040 It is.

00:58:51.380 And it just makes me laugh.

00:58:52.660 And then the last one is Eyes Wide Shut.

00:58:55.240 Ooh.

00:58:55.840 Have you seen it?

00:58:56.800 No, I haven't.

00:58:57.740 I do know it, but I've never seen it.

00:58:59.340 It's so good.

00:59:00.320 Because it's another, it's, I, my favorite type of movie is Guy Has Bad Day, which is

00:59:06.860 quite simply a guy having a bad day.

00:59:08.940 Right.

00:59:09.320 And Eyes Wide Shut is about a guy who, like, you know, has a great life.

00:59:13.660 And then one day his wife is like, you know, I had a thought about another guy once.

00:59:18.080 And he's like, it throws him.

00:59:21.460 Whole day off.

00:59:21.980 Whole day.

00:59:22.320 Whole day.

00:59:22.340 He's like, what?

00:59:24.400 And, like, then, like, he just spirals.

00:59:27.280 Right.

00:59:27.420 And a lot of bad things ensue because he's just like, what do you mean?

00:59:32.640 Like, that his wife has interiority.

00:59:35.260 That he was, like, not privy to.

00:59:37.100 Right.

00:59:37.340 It's a really, it's a really interesting movie.

00:59:39.680 Okay, T.

00:59:40.600 I'll have to check it out.

00:59:41.660 I highly recommend it.

00:59:42.260 Yeah.

00:59:42.600 And to watch it during, it's one of my favorite Christmas movies.

00:59:45.480 It just takes place around Christmas.

00:59:48.580 There's, like, a few Christmas movies in the background.

00:59:50.120 I was going to say, I'm pretty sure that's not a Christmas movie.

00:59:52.180 Santa does not make an opinion.

00:59:54.880 Yeah.

00:59:55.400 It's kind of like the movie, you know, the movie Just Friends with Ryan Reynolds?

00:59:58.700 Yes.

00:59:59.100 Yeah.

00:59:59.600 That's not a Christmas movie.

01:00:00.460 Wait, wait, that's, that's Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, or is that?

01:00:03.500 No.

01:00:03.740 No, that's the proposal.

01:00:04.460 That's the proposal.

01:00:04.980 This is Ryan Reynolds, and I forget her name.

01:00:07.640 Because there's a few of those movies that, like, get jumbled in my head.

01:00:12.540 Right, because they're all kind of the same movie.

01:00:15.360 Anna Faris is in the movie, yes.

01:00:17.340 But she's not the other, she's not the main girl.

01:00:19.240 She's not the romantic lead.

01:00:19.840 Yeah, she's not the main, Amy Smart, is that her name?

01:00:22.200 Is Amy Smart the romantic lead in that?

01:00:23.820 Yes, I think so.

01:00:24.940 Okay.

01:00:25.360 Because there's, like, there was a lot of those where it's, like, white poster, guy and girl.

01:00:31.320 Like, guy being choked by girl.

01:00:33.880 Yeah.

01:00:34.360 Where they're, like, back to back, and they're, like, this guy.

01:00:39.080 Yeah.

01:00:40.200 Get a load of this guy.

01:00:41.300 Yeah, get a load of this one.

01:00:42.440 This summer.

01:00:43.380 Yeah.

01:00:45.160 That movie is not a Christmas movie by any means.

01:00:47.880 It just takes place around Christmas time.

01:00:50.020 That counts as a Christmas movie.

01:00:50.580 But in my head, I'm like, Christmas movie, obviously.

01:00:52.240 If there is Christmas lights, if it is kind of chilly.

01:00:56.560 Yeah.

01:00:56.840 Even if it's snowing, I'm like, Christmas.

01:00:59.240 The thing is snowing it.

01:01:01.020 Okay, look at that.

01:01:02.120 I watched the movie Everest.

01:01:03.680 Christmas.

01:01:04.000 That's a Christmas movie.

01:01:05.520 I don't care how many people freeze to death.

01:01:07.820 It's a Christmas movie.

01:01:08.460 It's still Christmas.

01:01:09.040 Sorry.

01:01:09.540 Do you think any of your listeners believe in Santa?

01:01:12.100 I mean, probably.

01:01:17.120 Honestly, I don't know.

01:01:18.280 If they are, you're too young.

01:01:19.340 Don't listen to me.

01:01:20.540 If they do believe in Santa still, I think they're too young to be listening to me.

01:01:24.320 Who's the youngest person, you think, that, like, has anyone, like,

01:01:26.660 who's, like, 12 and, like.

01:01:28.600 I'm trying to think.

01:01:29.760 I have had really young children with, like, their parents, like, come up and be like.

01:01:34.700 Okay.

01:01:35.060 Like, I went to VidCon two years in a row.

01:01:36.860 Yeah.

01:01:37.160 Which is, like, the max age is, like, maybe 19.

01:01:40.680 Okay.

01:01:41.120 And so that was kind of interesting.

01:01:42.740 I've had kids.

01:01:43.720 I think girls, like, as young as, like, 13.

01:01:46.440 Okay.

01:01:46.600 But that's just because they're on TikTok and they just think I'm funny.

01:01:48.940 Yeah.

01:01:49.340 So they, too, I'm Santa to them, to be honest.

01:01:52.460 They're like, oh, my God.

01:01:54.000 That's power.

01:01:54.920 Yeah.

01:01:55.280 To be Santa?

01:01:56.640 Right.

01:01:57.300 Oh, man.

01:01:58.000 And then I start talking about sucking my wiener and then all of a sudden nobody wants to hang out with me anymore.

01:02:01.420 Nobody comes to my meet and greets anymore.

01:02:03.840 All of a sudden.

01:02:04.660 Where do they go?

01:02:06.320 I guess I'm not kid friendly, whatever that means.

01:02:11.100 You show there's authorities.

01:02:12.580 Oh, jeez.

01:02:14.560 Here we go.

01:02:15.120 Take the fucking shot.

01:02:15.880 Well, you know what, Reese?

01:02:20.620 Thank you so much for coming and hanging out with me.

01:02:22.180 What do you think this episode is going to be called?

01:02:23.660 That's what I was trying to figure out.

01:02:24.740 They honestly, honestly, I don't know.

01:02:26.880 Who decides?

01:02:27.440 Maybe it'll be Yogi Berra.

01:02:30.980 Oh, God.

01:02:31.900 Oh.

01:02:32.980 You can watch the clip.

01:02:34.520 In real time, you see in my eyes I panic.

01:02:38.220 And then he repeats it a few times jokingly, and I'm like, ah, fuck.

01:02:41.500 And you're like, my eyes are dilating.

01:02:43.140 Yeah.

01:02:43.400 Every time he says it, I'm like.

01:02:44.360 It's like, he's not going to remember the interaction.

01:02:46.580 Like, if I meet him again, I'll reintroduce myself.

01:02:50.360 He'll be like, oh, nice to meet you.

01:02:51.360 Right.

01:02:52.380 I'll know.

01:02:53.160 That's all that matters.

01:02:54.160 That's all that matters.

01:02:54.600 A thespian's good.

01:02:55.340 My fun facts.

01:02:56.580 I need to do more stuff.

01:02:59.320 That's the best part, though.

01:03:00.580 I met a dead Yankee, and I went to camp.

01:03:05.400 I'm like, what a life I've led.

01:03:08.340 That's the best part about you, Reese.

01:03:09.820 Like you said, what you see is what you get.

01:03:11.300 What you see is what you get.

01:03:12.060 It's a beautiful thing.

01:03:12.940 Yeah.

01:03:13.100 There's like, what is, like, the inside out, what is going on inside that head?

01:03:16.140 Right.

01:03:17.020 It's like, it's just vacuous.

01:03:19.500 It's just Yogi Berra out there.

01:03:20.920 IMDb pro trivia.

01:03:23.220 Dead Yankees.

01:03:25.000 That's all that's floating around up there.

01:03:26.740 It's genuinely photos of my cat, Cooper.

01:03:29.300 Right.

01:03:29.880 Exactly.

01:03:30.340 That's all that needs to be up there.

01:03:31.700 I envy it, honestly.

01:03:33.240 Well, thank you so much for coming and hanging with me today.

01:03:35.040 Yeah.

01:03:35.400 No problem.

01:03:36.020 Now I'm like, really?

01:03:37.180 Yeah.

01:03:37.940 I hope this was good.

01:03:39.000 I listened to, like, other episodes.

01:03:40.900 Yeah.

01:03:41.100 I had, like, listened in the past, and, like, I feel like I'll usually listen based on who's,

01:03:45.900 like, on.

01:03:46.400 The guest, yeah.

01:03:47.040 Yeah, or, like, it depends.

01:03:48.280 Yeah.

01:03:49.080 Yeah.

01:03:49.580 And I was like, I just, I didn't want this to be one of the worst episodes.

01:03:53.260 Oh, trust me when I say it's nowhere near.

01:03:56.140 Okay.

01:03:56.380 I do have episodes that, in my head, where I'm like, that's the worst thing I've ever done,

01:04:00.020 but it wasn't me.

01:04:01.340 Okay.

01:04:01.580 It was the guest.

01:04:02.540 Yeah.

01:04:03.180 But, like...

01:04:03.740 I'll tell you what, it wasn't me.

01:04:05.000 So, if I...

01:04:06.180 Would you say I'm on, like...

01:04:08.280 I don't know.

01:04:09.440 I'm, like...

01:04:10.980 I'll validate your race.

01:04:11.980 Top 50?

01:04:12.620 Yeah, of course.

01:04:14.240 Okay.

01:04:14.700 Yeah, absolutely.

01:04:16.140 We haven't had...

01:04:16.400 Turns out this is episode 48.

01:04:19.480 50, yeah.

01:04:20.220 At 50, yeah.

01:04:21.380 Yeah, yeah.

01:04:23.200 Top 50 and you're 50.

01:04:24.480 Sure.

01:04:24.500 Yeah.

01:04:25.740 No, I think this was really fun and sweet, and I think you're awesome.

01:04:29.600 Okay.

01:04:29.940 And we haven't had...

01:04:30.840 We haven't really had anyone that's, like, filmmaker.

01:04:33.700 Yeah.

01:04:34.000 Like, we haven't had anyone like that.

01:04:35.280 Yeah, that's what tends to happen.

01:04:36.720 Whenever I show up somewhere, it's just an excuse for people to talk about movies.

01:04:39.780 Which is, like, what a lovely thing.

01:04:43.020 Where it's, like, don't have to get into anything super dark.

01:04:47.020 Right.

01:04:47.780 I just love talking...

01:04:48.620 I like picking your brain, because you have a different brain from mine.

01:04:51.400 It's a very artist brain.

01:04:53.100 I love that.

01:04:54.000 Thank you.

01:04:54.520 That's a beautiful thing.

01:04:54.900 What would you say your brain is?

01:04:56.960 Something horrifying.

01:05:00.080 I would say...

01:05:01.000 I think you have artist brain.

01:05:01.940 Yeah, I think to an extent, yeah.

01:05:03.900 I think you just have a completely different artist brain from me, which I love.

01:05:06.660 That's why I love talking to singers, too, like, people who are, like, singing for a living.

01:05:11.320 Like, even when I talk to Cynthia Erivo for a while, like, I love picking apart that little brain.

01:05:15.660 I just want to, like, hear what...

01:05:16.840 She's a talent.

01:05:17.700 Dude, she's crazy.

01:05:18.760 And she's short.

01:05:19.940 She's the tiniest woman who's ever lived.

01:05:21.840 Sorry.

01:05:23.220 And short.

01:05:23.880 No, it caught me off guard.

01:05:26.200 How small she is.

01:05:27.860 Yeah.

01:05:28.160 Yeah, her and Ariana, exactly the same size.

01:05:30.240 Exactly the same size.

01:05:30.940 Just two little Barbie dolls.

01:05:33.120 Caught me off guard.

01:05:33.680 I could pick them both up by their ankles and be, like...

01:05:36.680 Don't do that.

01:05:39.620 Wait a minute.

01:05:40.600 Don't do that.

01:05:41.820 That's crazy of you.

01:05:43.960 I won't.

01:05:44.980 I won't.

01:05:46.780 But thank you for coming and hanging with me.

01:05:48.560 Thanks for having me.

01:05:49.400 Yeah, of course.

01:05:50.200 Anytime.

01:05:50.600 You're welcome.

01:05:51.120 Anytime, Reese.

01:05:51.740 I can come back weekly as the co-host.

01:05:54.720 I was like, you'll stand in for me.

01:05:56.860 Yeah.

01:05:57.200 Yeah, I'll just give you the shirt.

01:05:58.180 They won't know the difference.

01:05:59.160 No, I'll work on my impressions.

01:06:00.300 There you go.

01:06:01.500 You just do the Lin-Manuel one.

01:06:02.640 That sounds exactly like me.

01:06:03.900 If I could prove.

01:06:05.720 There you go.

01:06:06.540 Yeah, that was pretty good.

01:06:07.320 Saved it for the end.

01:06:08.180 Yeah, saved it for the end.

01:06:09.300 Really quick before we go, do you have any advice for any aspiring, like, filmmakers or

01:06:14.700 people who want to dive into film?

01:06:17.420 Yes.

01:06:19.520 There is, like, this is not, like, something I came up with, but there are three movies

01:06:24.940 that you make.

01:06:25.900 It's the one that you write, the one that you shoot, and the one that you edit.

01:06:28.760 They're all going to be very different.

01:06:31.360 So, when you make something, it's important to understand that what you set out to make

01:06:37.180 might not be what ends up being made.

01:06:39.380 And I would also say, if you're going to make something, actually take the time to plan it.

01:06:44.600 Uh, because it's one thing to gather a large group of people to make something.

01:06:51.560 Right.

01:06:52.400 But it's on you as, like, the filmmaker to be the one to make sure that you have the answers.

01:06:59.160 Yeah.

01:06:59.400 So, if, like, my shoot was two and a half days, and we planned for a month, because

01:07:04.080 you need to do that, and you really can't leave anything up to chance.

01:07:09.000 Right.

01:07:09.380 Because Murphy's Law exists, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

01:07:12.440 Yeah.

01:07:12.660 It doesn't matter, like, I've worked on sets that are, like, $200 million budgets.

01:07:16.300 Yeah.

01:07:17.400 It makes no difference.

01:07:18.400 Yeah.

01:07:18.560 Shit happens.

01:07:19.380 Right.

01:07:19.680 And you have to be...

01:07:21.780 I mean, like, be able to pivot.

01:07:23.020 You have to be able to pivot.

01:07:24.020 And I would say that for people who want to get into filmmaking, the visual look is important,

01:07:30.600 but sound is super important.

01:07:32.220 So, don't cut corners on things that you might just think are, like, oh, it's okay.

01:07:37.680 Like, feel less important in the grand scheme.

01:07:39.800 Where I think, like, it's the same...

01:07:41.460 It's very...

01:07:42.260 Like, people could watch this, but if we didn't have mics and it was just in-room audio,

01:07:46.560 no one would want to stay.

01:07:48.100 Yeah, it'd be horrifying.

01:07:49.000 Yeah, it'd be terrible.

01:07:49.860 And it's, like, lighting is important.

01:07:51.720 Like, all the things that are not actually shown on camera are usually the most important

01:07:57.760 things.

01:07:58.240 Like, yes, actors are the ones that, like, you see, but, like, you'd rather have someone

01:08:04.000 that is a good actor that hasn't been in anything and be able to have a crew that is capable

01:08:09.980 than have one person that you think is, like, amazing and then chintz out on every other

01:08:15.560 aspect because then it's not even worth telling that story.

01:08:17.600 Yeah, the whole thing just suffers.

01:08:19.000 I like that I got really serious.

01:08:20.300 No, I love that, though.

01:08:21.240 It's important.

01:08:21.800 I think, yeah, if you're going to make something and people are going to commit time to whatever

01:08:25.860 your vision is, make it worth it.

01:08:27.720 It doesn't have to change the world, but, like, you should take your work seriously

01:08:32.380 and it's cool to care and it's nice to be sincere and it's not cool to waste people's

01:08:37.120 time.

01:08:37.580 I think that's kick-ass advice, to be honest.

01:08:40.300 I think it's very useful, especially now.

01:08:41.720 I feel like with access to things like social media where they get to see people like you,

01:08:46.120 a lot of people are like, oh, my God, I want to make movies, too, or I want to get

01:08:49.040 into filmmaking, too.

01:08:51.600 It's really easy to fall prey to, like, well, I'll just do it this way because that's what

01:08:57.280 I like to watch in movies, but instead of setting the whole, like, how important the

01:09:01.100 entire thing is.

01:09:01.760 No, it's like, and it's also, it's important to trust people and to delegate and also, like,

01:09:05.800 you don't have to shoot on an $80,000 camera to make something.

01:09:09.020 The iPhone camera is brilliant.

01:09:11.240 Like, it's genuinely, like, I know people are like, oh, it's an iPhone.

01:09:14.740 If you get ambiance in the room, like fog in the room, haze, you have a good lighting

01:09:20.900 setup and you use your iPhone in a smart way and then are able to edit color and everything

01:09:26.700 in post, you could have something that looks incredible.

01:09:29.900 That's very true.

01:09:31.200 Like, there has never been a time where it used to be, I'm almost done, sorry.

01:09:36.120 No, no, no, don't worry.

01:09:37.220 It used to be that there were only so many people who were capable of shooting film.

01:09:42.900 Right.

01:09:43.220 Where there was only so many cameras, there was only so many people that could process

01:09:46.780 film.

01:09:47.280 Right.

01:09:47.700 And genuinely knew how to use cameras.

01:09:50.940 Now cameras are so accessible.

01:09:52.780 Yeah.

01:09:53.160 And digital cameras are so accessible that, like, anyone can.

01:09:56.640 That's true, yeah.

01:09:57.260 And just because anyone can doesn't mean that you should just rush into things.

01:10:00.840 Right.

01:10:01.040 And it's like, it's smart to plan and it is cool to make things, but if you want to make

01:10:06.800 something that you're proud of and that matters, do the forethought to plan and not to waste

01:10:13.380 people's time.

01:10:14.060 Yeah.

01:10:14.260 Because if people are showing up to help you and want to see you succeed, don't disappoint them.

01:10:19.980 Yeah, I thought what you said about, like, it's really, it's cool to care.

01:10:23.680 It's very cool to care.

01:10:24.540 I think that's such a great way of putting it, too.

01:10:26.720 I don't, yeah, I don't think it's cool to show up late or to, like, it's really nice to take things

01:10:32.520 seriously.

01:10:33.860 Seriously, yeah.

01:10:34.820 Not serious as in, like, you have to be, like, you can't joke around, but, like, no,

01:10:38.900 it's important to, like, take care of others and to, like, actually try with the things

01:10:44.340 that you care about and show up for others and it's, sincerity is wonderful and, like,

01:10:50.000 irony has a place in film and, like, it's fun to be ironic, but, like, when it comes to,

01:10:56.140 like, work-life balance and people's time, that's not something to cut corners or to

01:11:00.660 be frivolous with.

01:11:03.200 Yeah, totally.

01:11:03.900 Especially when you say, like, it costs a lot of time and money, like, to make things,

01:11:07.820 to create art, like, it costs a lot of people's time, it costs money sometimes, like, so it's

01:11:12.980 okay to care a lot about the end product.

01:11:14.940 Yeah, and it doesn't have to win Oscars.

01:11:16.760 Exactly, yeah.

01:11:17.160 Like, you could be working on a talking baby film and, like, that'll bring someone joy,

01:11:21.800 but that's not an excuse to be, like, ah, fuck this, it doesn't matter.

01:11:24.900 Like, no, everything should have thought put into it.

01:11:27.840 I agree.

01:11:28.300 Just because it's not, even if you're just working on it, like, it doesn't have to be

01:11:31.800 your passion project, but I think it's nice to be proud of your work.

01:11:36.200 Of the work you put out.

01:11:37.380 Yeah.

01:11:37.700 I agree.

01:11:38.980 Yeah.

01:11:39.400 That was me getting serious.

01:11:40.840 I, yeah, as much as, like, to joke around, I do, like, film is very important to me.

01:11:45.840 Yeah.

01:11:46.480 It's important to everyone and, like, even, like, Real Housewives, like, there are people

01:11:50.840 I've met who are, like, doctors who watch that and I'm, like,

01:11:54.900 just because Real Housewives doesn't win Emmys doesn't mean it doesn't have value to people

01:12:00.080 who actually need an escape.

01:12:02.040 I think that's beautiful, to be honest.

01:12:03.900 I think it's a beautiful way of looking at TV and film.

01:12:05.860 It's, like, it's an art form in many different, in very literal ways, but it's also so subjective.

01:12:12.800 Like, what art speaks to some people may not speak to others, but it doesn't lessen its value at all.

01:12:18.060 It doesn't have to change the world.

01:12:19.180 It just has to change one person's.

01:12:20.880 That is it.

01:12:21.520 And it could be yours and no one has to even see it as long as you've made something you're

01:12:26.520 proud of.

01:12:26.840 I think that's important.

01:12:28.180 Beautiful.

01:12:28.680 And you made something you're very proud of.

01:12:30.320 You're a short film.

01:12:31.020 I am.

01:12:31.040 I am actually proud of it.

01:12:31.880 Which is a beautiful thing.

01:12:33.020 Yeah.

01:12:33.360 I feel good.

01:12:33.980 The crew, I was paid, which is not, you know what I mean?

01:12:37.760 Like, I'm, like, what a-

01:12:38.400 Which is rare for short films.

01:12:39.660 What a blessing to be able to say that.

01:12:41.200 Yeah.

01:12:41.400 Like, what a- Yeah, I- It's really nice, because I've seen sets where I'm, like, I don't want

01:12:47.720 to run a set like this.

01:12:48.680 Yeah.

01:12:48.940 And I was able to run a set that I'm proud of.

01:12:51.300 And the story, I'm like, is this going to win an Oscar?

01:12:54.340 Maybe not, but will people watch it and hopefully take something away and be like, wait, that

01:12:58.820 was actually kind of fun.

01:12:59.520 Maybe I can make something like this.

01:13:00.980 Maybe I can make something better.

01:13:02.400 Absolutely.

01:13:02.520 I'm like, good.

01:13:03.440 Try to make something better.

01:13:04.360 I'd love to, like, watch that.

01:13:06.020 So, yeah.

01:13:06.720 I can't wait to watch you win an Oscar, then.

01:13:08.860 That'd be amazing.

01:13:09.940 Yeah.

01:13:10.460 I'm manifesting it for you.

01:13:11.880 Just wait till I die.

01:13:13.800 That's it.

01:13:14.300 And then you're going to kill in that in-memoriam.

01:13:16.300 Oh, man.

01:13:16.940 You're going to kill.

01:13:17.660 No pun intended.

01:13:18.440 But if they share my in-memoriam slide with another person, I'm going to be pissed.

01:13:22.740 I want a singular one.

01:13:24.000 I want a singular-

01:13:24.620 Just my big head.

01:13:25.360 Yeah.

01:13:25.860 Just mine.

01:13:26.480 If I'm sharing it with someone else, I don't want to share applause.

01:13:28.680 That's why you've got to keep growing the hair out.

01:13:30.000 I know.

01:13:30.300 Then they have no choice.

01:13:31.020 Where they literally can't fit in.

01:13:32.000 Yeah.

01:13:33.080 Exactly.

01:13:34.140 Perfect.

01:13:34.700 Well, thank you so much for coming and hanging with us.

01:13:36.300 Thanks for having me.

01:13:36.860 Yeah.

01:13:37.000 I messed up the ending.

01:13:38.960 Do I have to do the end again?

01:13:39.880 No.

01:13:40.120 It was a wonderful ending.

01:13:41.000 That's perfect.

01:13:41.240 This is now the end.

01:13:43.600 Great.

01:13:43.880 No, it was wonderful.

01:13:44.760 For the maybe two people that don't know you, where can they find you?

01:13:48.560 My username is at guywiththemoviecamera.

01:13:51.260 Right.

01:13:51.900 Period.

01:13:52.280 Which is a play on man with a movie camera.

01:13:55.180 It's a 1920s silent film.

01:13:57.500 You don't need to watch it.

01:13:59.220 It's not that great.

01:14:01.300 Film nerd.

01:14:02.400 Film nerd.

01:14:04.000 Legitimately.

01:14:04.980 Yeah.

01:14:05.240 After this, you swirly me in the toilet.

01:14:07.260 I'll give you a wedgie.

01:14:08.340 Yeah.

01:14:08.580 Yeah.

01:14:12.300 Well, and also, where can they watch your short film?

01:14:15.140 Nowhere yet.

01:14:16.040 Nowhere yet.

01:14:16.880 But you can go look at it.

01:14:18.260 Yeah.

01:14:18.500 I was going to say, it's making a festival run.

01:14:20.980 So fingers crossed.

01:14:22.220 I've been to some festivals.

01:14:23.900 But then whenever it finishes that run, which will be sometime early next year, so in a few

01:14:31.840 months.

01:14:32.300 Yeah.

01:14:32.900 I'll just post it on YouTube.

01:14:34.200 Okay.

01:14:34.420 Because I'm like, I don't know.

01:14:35.660 Or what am I going to do?

01:14:36.240 I'm not going to sell it.

01:14:37.060 No, it'll go on YouTube.

01:14:38.560 Watch it.

01:14:38.920 Have fun.

01:14:39.580 Love.

01:14:40.060 And you can also, obviously, if you go follow Reese, you'll know where to find it.

01:14:43.480 Yeah.

01:14:43.820 Once it's there.

01:14:45.160 No, I'm not going to post it there.

01:14:47.060 No, I have to submit to festivals.

01:14:49.740 But you'll know when I post it.

01:14:51.540 And you can see art for it.

01:14:53.460 You can see art for it.

01:14:54.260 Yes, you can.

01:14:54.920 Pretty cool poster.

01:14:55.840 Yes, it is a very cool poster.

01:14:57.480 Thanks.

01:14:58.900 Thank you so much to my amazing guest, Reese, for joining us today.

01:15:02.620 Thank you so much for watching.

01:15:03.540 Don't forget, the comment section comes out every Wednesday.

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01:15:12.020 Thank you so much for watching.

01:15:13.100 Thank you so much to my amazing guest, Reese Feldman.

01:15:15.180 And I'll see you next week.

01:15:16.140 Bye.

01:15:18.740 Bye.

A THESPIAN Ft. Reece Feldman ｜ Episode 178

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