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Boo Boo Shemmy, Steve Boo Shemmy, friend of the show.
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A friend of the show, what a treat.
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We got to know him, we meaning me and myself and I and David, got to hang out with him a lot at the...
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in Washington, D.C.
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for the Sandler Mark Twain Award.
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And so we sang songs together, we hung out.
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Couldn t be a nicer guy.
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One of our great... I don t know, he s just been around a long time.
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When Steve Buscemi is in a movie, you re always happy.
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David?
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Yeah.
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First of all, he s very
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Interesting dude, he s very earnest.
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He jokes around, but he s got a very quiet coolness to him.
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He goes back to, from right when he hit the scene, that he s always had such a attention scene-stealing look, and he backs it up with great acting.
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He s just, he s a great guy to have around.
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He s in a lot of Sandler stuff, and I sort of met him through the Sandlerverse, and then I just see him at different events, that old Happy Madison party, and so,
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We ve gotten to where we can shoot the shit, and it was a great time with him.
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Glad he did it.
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Yeah, he s done movies with the Coen brothers.
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Fargo was the one that I think got him incredibly noticed.
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We talk about that movie.
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Yeah.
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And then he s directing a new movie.
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It s the second directing effort in 10 years.
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And he goes into that very interesting.
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He ll tell you all about that, which is fun.
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And he s just a nice, humble guy.
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He just has a great sense of humor.
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Yeah.
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We try to get him out of his shell and crack up.
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And we always have fun.
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Guys like that who are just
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innately cool dudes, and he s got a very good funny bone, so he liked it.
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We cracked up.
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I cracked up.
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Yeah.
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Without further ado, click play and then hear a commercial.
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When I did grown up stuff.
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Oh, my God.
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A few people remember I heard.
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Well, you weren t grown, but the one I was in that I don t know if this is the one.
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You were in the cast at, which one is that?
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Is that both of them or is that?
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I was in both of them, yeah.
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Okay, yeah.
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So the one where, Dana, this is boring as fucking shit, but he and Steve will crack up.
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I m mesmerized.
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You re already mesmerized?
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That s good.
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Okay, so we re doing a scene where we re all around and it s nighttime and we re all drinking and the couples start to pair off and slow dance and this Joe Walsh song comes on or something.
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or not Josh, but Sentimental Lady, and I go, oh no, oh, this is a good song, and I m drunk, and I get up, and I sort of stumble around, and I interrupt Adam and Selma, and then I wind up falling down drunk.
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But it s a seven-page scene, and we re all in it, so it s hard to shoot.
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So we shoot it all night one night, and we get to my coverage, and they go, it s getting late, we ll pick that up another time, and I m like, another time?
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Because I just had it all memorized, because I m doing it all night, and I m like, I m kind of glad I m last, because I have a lot of lines.
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So three weeks later, McCartney is playing in Boston.
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We re pretty close.
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We might be in swamp squat.
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I just do this.
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Yeah.
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McCartney sounds.
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Yes.
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I thought he was here.
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I was looking around, when did he jump on?
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So I go, Chris Rock is in the movie.
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And I say, Chris McCartney is in Boston tonight.
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And he goes, his ticket lady was my third grade teacher.
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And i said oh my god he goes let s call the right now and he goes we re all dialed in i said we re done around six seven we haul ass we found exactly when he goes on.
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And then he goes any wants to say hi right for you or like oh my god wow so.
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about right before the end of the day, it was maybe Jack or someone came into my trailer and goes, we re going to pick yours up tonight.
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I got my what?
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And they go, remember that?
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I remember that scene.
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You didn t finish.
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I m like, like, it s my fault.
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I go, yeah, I didn t finish it right.
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And he goes, I think tonight s going to go.
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No, it s not.
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It s fucking Paul McCartney.
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It s just not a worker.
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You know, you re not a real worker.
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Paul McCartney waited till midnight to go on.
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He s like, are they coming?
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He s 81 and he s up half the night.
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Yeah.
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So I go, I go in and then they go, I said, do not bring that fucking cast in.
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to do all their shit again.
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I go, I ll do it.
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I said, I can t do that to them.
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So they gladly all scrammed.
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And then it was Sandler, you know, he s overseeing it.
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And then, um, I m doing it to, you know, a bunch of like tennis balls or whatever, the eyelines.
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And I do my whole seven pages.
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I m drunk.
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And so I come to video village.
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This is sort of the point of the story.
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Yeah.
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And, uh, and I m like, like Adam, like we got it.
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And, uh,
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Yes, I haven t taken any classes, but yes, I m really good.
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And I sit there and he s just looking at it going, ah.
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And I go, we watched the playback.
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And I m behind him kind of chuckling like, this is working.
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And then he goes, were you drunker last time?
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Was it a little, it was a little different.
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I don t know if it s matching.
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And I m like, so I go, play me back something from the last time, you know?
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And so we were trying to go,
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Okay.
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And it was really hard to match the exact tone of the drunkenness.
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Sounds crazy, but I go, I m going to go under on this one.
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And then I come back and then I go, okay, I m going to go a little bigger.
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And we did it until it made sense.
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Now, when you see the movie, you don t even notice, but it kind of fits it.
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You, you notice, I noticed when I saw it.
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You go, he s medium plus strong.
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David is a little drunker in this line.
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30 seconds later, he s slightly less drunk.
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Just play it six and a half Tito s and Diet Cokes.
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And I m like, ooh, that s a big one.
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Okay, I can play that.
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So that just shows you, first of all, Adam s eye is always on the ball.
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And little things like that matter.
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And it s, you can t tell yourself when you re acting and you need someone else s eyes to go.
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It was good.
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I just don t think it s exactly what we had.
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And so it took a little bit of a collabing right there.
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And then that s kind of fun when you finish and you feel like you ve got it right now, everyone goes, got it.
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And then you all go home and you go, got it, got it.
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And you just knock it out.
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I have two questions for you.
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Did you make it to the concert?
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Not a fucking chance.
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It was until 2 a.m.
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we did that.
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All right.
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Well, I guess my second question is not a question.
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It s a comment about Adam because he s always so involved in like, you know, all the all the films.
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And I said to him, why don t why don t you ever direct?
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Yeah, I said.
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And he said he didn t doesn t want a location scout.
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Like that was the extra extra work.
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Yeah.
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He works morning, noon and night anyway.
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I mean, there s block he s reblocking.
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He s doing things that directors all do.
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So I think he s listened to so much anyway, and it s sort of just, uh, you know, uh, given that he s going to have a lot of say, but.
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I guess you re right, it s that extra going around.
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Well, it s a little bit like Saturday Night Live.
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If you write a sketch, you re sort of the de facto director.
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We had Davey Wilson, he s setting up shots.
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It s live, but you re still kind of the boss of your sketch.
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You re the producer and the director if you wrote it.
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You re casting it with other cast members.
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And Sandler is like that.
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He s like a co-co-director.
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Everyone knows he s the overarching
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creative force, he s got his eye on every ball.
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So I think the way he did it was brilliant.
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I don t think anybody else in history has done that many movies where they are, in a sense, an auteur.
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It is Adam.
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He puts his stamp, I mean, definitely.
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The fact that he actually cares, and even when we re doing movies where you think, this will probably not get good reviews just because they have a sort of bias,
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He still puts everything into it and really cares.
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I mean, another grown-up story is, do you have a half hour?
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We ll get to you in a minute, Steve.
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No, Steve.
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The Listener is out March 29th.
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That s my real question.
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That s all I wanted.
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Everyone just jump off now.
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March 29th, if you want a great ride in a movie theater, a sophisticated adult drama beautifully done by Steve Buscemi, boom.
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Your publicist right now is actually having a glass of champagne, even if they re in AA.
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They go, Steve, you can check out for the rest of this.
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And now David Spade.
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Now we re going to have David for half an hour.
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I want to ask Steven, when did he get fitted for the full body cast?
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And what was his reaction to going, wait, what do I do here?
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Or do you see the script and go, uh oh.
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Yeah, I could tell I was right in that one.
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Even on the day, like, cause I remember, and the whole cast was there, you know, cause it s like one of the big scenes and it started to rain and they got the scene and then everybody just scatters.
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I thought these are like, I thought we were friends.
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Like nobody s checking on me.
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Like everybody just like scattered.
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And then the AD, then I thought I was done.
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And the AD said, well, I think they want to get a shot where the dog comes up and sniffs your balls.
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And I actually got mad.
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I went, are you fucking kidding me?
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Are your, are your real hands in the real sticking straight up my goalpost or do they put fake hands in there so you don t have to put fake hands.
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Thank you God.
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Couldn t move.
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Thank you Jesus.
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I thought it was real until right now.
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I just went, wait a second.
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Could you hold your hands up all day?
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Because also the thing about it, when you re like that, like if I was in like that, I go, well, obviously they re going to shoot me out first.
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And no one even gives a fat buck.
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They re like, no.
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Oh, but we never picked up.
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We ll get him at the end of the rain.
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We ll come to you while you re rotting and getting rusty.
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Yeah, it is tough.
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Movies are so complex and especially grownups.
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You got 55 leads.
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Oh my God, there s so many people, yeah, that are on set.
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And I don t know how the producers and the ADs do it, but they somehow.
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And just for the people, young people listening that are in the groundlings or whatever and aspiring to have a career in television or movies, we understand these are first world problems.
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Sure, stupid.
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But the thing is, you re on a movie set.
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I would say the most tired I ve ever been, I was, because it was one of those 21 hour days, and they said, okay, Garth s gonna go in the diner, I m gonna do this thing I worked on for weeks, this dance.
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And I m going and I was young and fit.
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I go, I am as tired as I ve ever been in my life.
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I ve been up like 40 hours.
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And here s your shot for eternity.
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Go for it.
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Oh, at the very end of the night, they get you.
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Yeah, well, that s with Steve s film.
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I m assuming like Woody Allen would do like night shoots would end at eight o clock.
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Let s say, you know, I think we should get some Chinese, you know.
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Did you were you able to have civilized hours in a sense for the listener?
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March twenty ninth.
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Pretty, pretty much.
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But we know we wanted to we we knew we had nighttime shots so that by the end of the week, we were going to be shooting outside.
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So you know, we started the beginning of the week, normal hours, and then each day, we would just start a little bit later.
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By the end of the week, it was it was night shoots.
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going to splits lingo lingo you know what is that you know i was going to say is that i have been let s just let go and i want the people want to hear it first of all we re watching your uh... movie this morning uh... this is the listener right there
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The Listener is a heavy film.
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It s very, very interesting, the conceit of it, this volunteer helpline woman.
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I mean, we ll talk in a minute.
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It is your movie that Steve directed.
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It s compelling, and it just kind of captures
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the angst, post-pandemic angst, or just human angst and sadness.
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It s extremely well done and well acted by Tessa Thompson, who is the only actor in the film.
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You go ahead, Steve.
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Well, she s the only actor that we see in the film.
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Thank you.
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There s an amazing cast of callers.
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Yeah, she plays a home helpline worker.
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She works the night shift.
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She works from home.
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And she gets all these calls during the night that she navigates.
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And we have a wonderful cast of the callers, but you only hear their voices and you only see Tessa on screen for the duration of the film.
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And she s amazing.
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Because they are characters also.
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And I was watching with someone and the first
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guy that called in, she was more into the guy.
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She was like, I like his voice.
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I like his tone.
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I like what he s saying.
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I like this guy.
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And so it s actually a big challenge to be a voice and to have any sort of resonance or impact.
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And Tessa is obviously great on her end.
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she s got a very calm, soothing voice and she s, you know, she could get very riled and it seems she s got a very, you have to to have that sort of job.
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That s what her whole job is and very interesting.
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I think what she worked with was
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know, because we did everything we could to make it cinematic.
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You know, if this was pre-pandemic, and she was at a call center where she was, you know, kind of tethered to a desk, I don t know how I would have made that film.
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But because she is able to work at home, we purposefully
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found a location that had a nice flow to it, that she could walk around, be in different rooms, go outside.
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And yeah, what s amazing about Tessa is that, yeah, her voice was, you know, she always tried to keep, you know, like a calm level tone, but then, but you could see on her face, if she was upset about something that somebody said or worried.
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Yeah, she had a lot of these
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micro expressions that sort of gave you an inkling of what she was going through herself.
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And you know what you really captured, which you do a lot when you re young, anyway, where you re like a girl or something, and then you ll talk on the phone at night.
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It s very intimate.
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And these two people, Tess s character and the strangers calling in, they don t know each other.
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It s very dim.
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It s the middle of the night, and they re having this intimate conversation, and the voice actors
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immediately the first one just sounded very, just extremely real, like you re eavesdropping, you know, you captured that, so.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much.
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I appreciate you guys watching it.
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Yeah.
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Uh, you know, the voices, uh, first of all, I kind of want to ask you one other question, but about this, but when I was on the phone as a kid or dating or doing anything in life, the voice was kind of a fingerprint.
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So when I think of women I ve dated in the past or present, a voice is one thing I really appreciate in people because they are fingerprints.
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It s so unique.
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And you, I think I was brainwashed.
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growing up, like trying to talk to girls on their phone and talking for hours with somebody you liked.
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And you always remember that.
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And sometimes people get older and everything, but you know their voice right away.
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And so when I go into 7-Eleven and if I ask for something, they go, oh, I was waiting to hear you talk.
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That is you.
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It s kind of interesting.
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So when you have people call in, it s very powerful to have the right person with the right, because you have to make them all a little different.
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And that s a trick.
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And then you have to make
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For people that don t know, that sort of indie budget is like, if you have one location, what you were saying is you have to use some trickery and some movements and some things to keep it alive.
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And you did that.
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And that s the hard part with one subject and one location.
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It s less expensive, but it s very, it s hard to keep it going.
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So to make a good movie is tough.
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We also shot the movie in six days because
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So it was still working on Westworld, the HBO show that Oh, and that was her hiatus.
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She had seven days off.
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And she chose to work with us.
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You know, we were trying to find a window and she s so busy with other films and other things, but
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She had that one week off, so we shot the entire film in that one week, which was doable because it is a confined space and one actor, but still, it was a bit of a challenge.
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A lot of work for her.
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Another interesting layer of frequency, I don t know, I went to state school, is this idea when you take on a role, like when you see a teacher outside of school, you go, they re just normal, what are they doing?
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So in this case, her character has their own issues and yet she s in the helper mode.
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It s like when you have a therapist and you kind of wonder what s going on with them, you know?
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So that was a whole nother layer to the film that the people don t, you know, she s just in the helper mode and then she s in that mode, but she had so many other issues herself, so.
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Yeah, I mean, I think most of the people who do that work have been through it themselves.
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And part of the conceit of the film is that Tessa s character, she breaks protocol, because you re not really supposed to tell your personal story to callers, but she does so for this one call where this woman is in crisis.
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And she reveals a lot about herself in order to help or save the person that she s talking with.
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But I know what you mean about seeing people out of context, like seeing your therapist on the street door.
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I remember when I was a kid, I went to Catholic school and I remember one time during lunch seeing my teacher who was a nun eat a sandwich and I was blown away.
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What?
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You eat?
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It s true.
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You never see him eat.
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They never eat.
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I saw Pastor Jerry.
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I was raised Lutheran.
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Pastor Jerry at the mall, and he s wearing desert boots.
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I go, Pastor Jerry wears desert boots?
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Because those were very cool back in the days.
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I saw a rabbi on a pogo stick, and I was like, what are you?
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You re never on that.
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Right.
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I know.
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You know, Steve, I m looking at this, there s so much Dana about Steve that we love because he s, oh, actually one more question about the movie before I get into your illustrious.
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I have a question about the movie too.
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Okay, my last one is being a well-known actor and a name and I don t wanna hype you up too bad, but you know, you direct and you re a well-liked guy out there.
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Is it still hard to get a small movie off the ground?
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Yes, this is the first film I ve directed in 15 years.
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And there were others along the way that I tried to do.
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This one was, you know, hard to get off the ground as well.
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But yeah, I think the climate out there is tough for any filmmaker.
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But
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you know, but where there s a will, there s a way and we did it.
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You got through it.
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Yeah.
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Single location helps with the budget.
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And were you like, I was just saying, as you re making your film, first film in a long time, and now it s, it s, it s digital, digital playback and you re going, you get six days.
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And so you re with your DP or your producer or whatever, and you re looking at stuff.
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And are you going at some point, holy shit, this is awesome.
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Or you re being self-critical or I just wonder what you want us
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uh who will enjoy the movie what do you what did you want us to feel what were you trying to reach for and do you feel that you got it yeah i just i wanted to create this really intimate atmosphere and have tessa s uh the location be totally her her world where you re getting clues about her um and
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and for the audience to want to lean in and be involved.
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And it is exciting to see that on set.
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It s also overwhelming because there s so much dialogue in it.
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And so I m constantly thinking, I try not to think of the editing process while I m doing it,
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Yeah, I mean, that s things that you have to think about.
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And is there enough movement?
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When should it be still?
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When or if the camera should move?
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When should Tessa get up and move around?
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And so we spent a lot of time actually working that stuff out before we shot it.
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Did you ever once on the set after a take just go, what are you doing?
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Like Sandler?
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You sound like Sandler.
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I want to ask a question because Steve s been famous for a long time.
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So it s hard.
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You re kind of, you re okay.
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I get to talk to Steve.
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It was so much fun hanging out with you and at Sandler s thing in DC, you know, because you re one of the people I d say, uh, Steve Buscemi is here.
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I m, you know, I m doing this thing with Steve Buscemi and it s like, what?
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You know, but I just, here s something maybe you ve never been asked.
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Who s more talented, Joel or Ethan Cohen?
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You have three seconds.
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Go.
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They re both hacks.
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Who likes feet more, Quentin Tarantino or anyone else in the planet?
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Is he like feet or is that like a fake thing or is that like a joke?
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I don t know.
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I don t.
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If he did know, he wouldn t tell you.
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Well, no, he can like feed.
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It s fine.
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I like things.
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I just don t know if that s how much.
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OK, we ve got to we ve got to.
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What s it called when the witness is being very troublesome?
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I m a hostile witness.
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Hostile witness.
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We were trying to trend, Steve.
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No one knows we exist.
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We have a sweetheart deal with the Feet Finder.
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Okay, I m reading this.
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This is what I read about Steve Buscemi because there s so much to know about him.
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I know.
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This guy goes, frequently plays fast talkers.
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Frequently plays cowardly characters, it s funny, and often characters mixed up in crime.
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Yes.
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All true.
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A little generic, but all true.
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Steve s in so many good movies and he s someone that everyone thinks is cool.
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Which is really what I m going for.
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Not there yet.
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But I think like Con Air, cool fucking movie, just a random movie.
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Con Air, fun, big movies.
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I miss those kind of.
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You get to work with Nicolas Cage and his whole Nicolas Cage thing.
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It s great.
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You remember that movie?
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I ve had a great cast, John Malkovich.
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And oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Danny Trejo.
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Mm hmm.
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Can t you tell that he s lying?
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I m working on a Malkovich, Nicholas Cage.
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Why, God, why?
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Oh, you know, Dana, to bore the shit out of Steve again, not to bring it back to me.
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And it s not about me.
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I do not care.
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I m timing you this time.
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I read three times for his part in Con Air.
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For whose part?
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Yours.
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And you probably was an offer.
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I m sure you got offered it while you were milling it out and swishing it around.
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They were dragging me to the valley back and forth going, do it like this, you monkey.
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And then they go, no, we got our guy.
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Thanks, bye.
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I never knew that.
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Wow.
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You would have been great.
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Steve, when s the last time you auditioned for a movie?
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Yeah, good one.
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Oh, wow.
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It s been a while.
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I, yeah, I remember auditioning for a movie, and then reading, you know, reading one of the parts, and then asking the casting director, can I read for the lead?
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I was like, well, you know, and
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And she looked at me and she said, oh no, we re gonna get a name for that.
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And that s the first time I ever heard that expression.
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We re gonna get a name for that.
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Like, well, I have a name.
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And then I thought, oh, I see.
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I have to get my name known.
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I didn t know it worked that way.
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I just thought if you were.
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Oh, it s so many things I auditioned for were offers out to people and I was jumping around to kill time to scare them.
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Like we re having auditions right now.
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I mean, no one, no one s good yet.
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Don t worry.
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No one s good yet.
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I hated when he walked into an audition room and I saw all these, this is in the 80s, baby face men with no chins.
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Like I go, okay, I get it.
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Oh, I get them now.
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Oh, that s your look?
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Yeah.
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They re all lookalikes of me.
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No chin, baby face.
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Okay.
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Cherubic.
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I get it.
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But I was over 150 at one point, 150 auditions.
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One time the agent called me, you didn t get it and you frightened them.
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Oh, I remember auditioning for Barry Levinson once and reading, you know, reading his part, and he liked it.
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He went, that was good.
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It was good.
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Now can you do it?
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And he gave me a very specific direction.
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Did it again, exactly the same.
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And we both looked at each other.
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I was mortified, he was embarrassed.
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And I said, that wasn t that different, was it?
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She went, no, no, okay.
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Okay, can t take direction.
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My fucking acting coach shocked, yes, I had one.
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They said, they might give you direction just to see if you can take direction.
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A lot of people can t.
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I m like, why not?
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They re like, it s shocking, they can t.
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They go, Steve Buscemi, they just start listing people.
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But honestly, it s like you just say that and you go, oh, I would just change it.
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And some people are coached so hard or they re with their teacher or whatever, and they go, this is the right way to do it.
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Even to the director, they re like, I ve got the right way.
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You don t.
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Right.
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And they re just testing you.
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But I ve done that.
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I bomb every every commercial audition, even more embarrassing.
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Do the Coen brothers give you a line-by-line reading?
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Their writing is so specific that they really want you to say what s written.
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So there s very little, I think I improvised something once on Fargo and I was nervous about it, but they liked it.
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But I remember in the beginning when I first started working with them, I think in Miller s Crossing,
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They just wanted my character to be even, you know, he was a fast, he was the fastest talker that I think I ever.
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It s hard with lines to do.
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Yeah.
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And they just wanted it even more like they just wanted it more intense or more shrill.
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And I remember doing the same.
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Where I, you know, all I do is talk, talk, talk, talk.
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Gabriel Byrne had like two words that I talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
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He would just wait until I stopped talking and then he would say two words.
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And there was a whole casino of people behind me on my.
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coverage.
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And I remember on one of the takes, my late wife, Joe, she came to visit me on set, but I didn t know she was there yet.
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And as I m doing the dialogue with the whole casino, you know, extras behind me, I see her head poke out, you know, behind somebody to watch.
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And I just stopped talking.
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Oh, I threw you.
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Yeah.
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And all right.
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Back to one, you know, and it would be a lot of rumbling.
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And she felt horrible.
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I could see the look on her face.
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She knew what happened and she just ducked back out.
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Yeah.
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As your brain just switches, you go.
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Oh, yeah.
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Turns you off.
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You know, Dana, I don t know if you remember this one.
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Of course you do.
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I don t know who you played in this.
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Maybe Travolta.
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One of my favorite sketches was Welcome Back, Otter.
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Quentin Tarantino s Welcome Back, Cotter.
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When John hosted.
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Oh, John was playing John, okay.
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Both hosted and it was Welcome Back, Cotter, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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And at the end of it, yeah, because Michael McKeon was on the show and they had Lenny and Squiggy pop out, remember?
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And then I came out at the very end
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as Mr. Pink and said something like, up your hole with a jelly roll, something like that.
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I remember in the rehearsal where the dress rehearsal show, I was late getting out there and I didn t think it was my fault.
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I thought I was cued late, but you probably don t remember this, David, but afterwards you did give me a little shit about that.
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Shut the fuck up, did I get a little bit?
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You did.
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You did.
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You were like, hey, you know, Johnny on the spot there.
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What happened?
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Something like that.
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They didn t kill me.
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You know, how dare I?
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I was sure I was nervous, nervous.
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I was horseshack and I was in character.
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Yeah, they re caught out.
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I got to play Horseshack.
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I loved it.
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I thought that was such a funny idea.
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Funny sketch.
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It was great.
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One of my all time memorable ones.
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That s fun.
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You got to be in that.
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And I just watched your monologue of character actors.
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That was a good idea.
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You were people in the audience.
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Cast members were character actors asking you how to be a lead.
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Yeah, they said like, hey, you re a lead, but you play a lot of character actors, but now you re a leading man.
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I play the girl with all the bags at a store that s the best friend and then she fat falls out of frame.
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And then Kristen Wiig is like, I m the girl running from the killer with a knife, but I don t know where anyone is.
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Steve, are you here?
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So everyone was playing a character and they were asking for your advice to get past being a character actor.
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I thought it was pretty clever.
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I thought that was good.
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That was good, I should watch that again because I totally blanked that out.
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I ll send you a link.
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Thanks.
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All right, let me ask you a question.
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But now that you say it, now that you describe it, I do remember it, yeah.
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I mean, it is a blur because you ve got 13 sketches, you ve hosted I think twice.
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Twice, yeah.
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Yeah, so it s hard to remember every nook and cranny, but it was a good job, I thought that was interesting.
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Like what I remembered about the first time hosting,
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During the dress rehearsal, I came out to do the monologue and I spotted a friend of mine from high school sitting in the front row.
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And again, it was just like seeing my wife on set.
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I looked at him and I was like, hey, it s Eddie.
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And I was like, ah.
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What s my, like, I don t know what to do now.
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On top of your nerves, you see that, it throws you off.
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Oh, scary.
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One take.
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That s the hard part.
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I know.
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You re like, let me start over.
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Nope.
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But thank God it was a dress rehearsal.
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And then at the, for the show, I just went, just told myself, just don t look at anybody.
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Just avoid eye contact.
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Yeah.
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So what a run you had in the 90s.
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I mean, and then the SNL calls, you d been in at least five giant movies, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction.
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When did Fargo come out?
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Yeah, that came out like in 96.
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I was surprised that I got the call for it because I didn t think I had really done enough
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to warrant me being that people would even know me.
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But John Turturro was also on that year.
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And I thought, oh, is this the year that they re going after independent film actors or something?
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And I was like, I m so thrilled to get it.
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But I was nervous that I think I suggested
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Cause in the opening monologue, it was some monologue about my name, Steve and something, you know, it was, and it just wasn t me.
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And I was nervous about that.
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So I sort of addressed that.
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And then I suggested something.
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I can t remember who came up with the idea that we were going to, like, I was going to take suggestions from the audience and do like an improv with the rest of the cast.
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And then I would just insert scenes from movies that I was in.
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But the ulterior motive was to remind people I was in Fargo or Reservoir Dogs.
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Remember as if people wouldn t know, like, who is this guy?
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But I was glad that they changed that.
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I was very sort of shy to say, do I have to do this opening monologue?
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Can we change it?
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And Lauren was really,
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open to it and receptive.
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But that first time you host is just, it s just so mind boggling.
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I was so anxious.
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And I didn t know if I was allowed to say anything or contribute and even though they were asking me like, is there anything that you d like to do or
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Do you have any special talents?
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Can you sing?
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Whatever you want.
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Right.
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Do you feel like you re being a problem if you say too much on the set?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then also, what do I know?
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You re the experts.
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Yeah, you put yourself in their hands.
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I think they just test you to say, we have a sketch we ve been sitting on, but we need someone that can speak Russian, or we need someone that can sing.
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And you need just dialects and weird shit and you go, I can juggle.
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They go, okay, we can put that in something.
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And then that helps.
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Did Lorne calm you down or is he sort of imposing in his own way?
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But normally he would really take a host.
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You go to dinner with him.
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You ll be nervous on the dress rehearsal and then on air, it ll all just come together.
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That s yeah, he s kind of both.
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He s very intimidating and comforting at the same, you know, kind of at the same time, because he s so calm, you know, that it like and it s no, this is what we do and you ll be fine.
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And it s like, OK, I ll believe you.
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Do you?
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You know, we had an old movie you did was called Airheads.
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I saw it again on the flight because we had lovely Brent and Frazier, who was a super sweetheart.
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Uh, he s great.
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And then, uh, first Sandler for seeing airheads against, I went and saw it on a Broadway and like 69th, wherever there s that little theater in New York during, I think it was at SNL.
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And I saw the whole thing again, pretty fun to see the whole thing again.
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Um, and Billy Madison, of course is such a big one.
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that people remember you from.
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I did one day on that movie.
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And everyone remembers it.
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Is that you when you cross the list of who to kill, that thing?
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Yeah, yeah.
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So memorable.
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He calls me up and he apologizes for his bullying behavior in high school.
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And then I cross his name off.
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Those people to kill?
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For no reason at all, I just put on lipstick.
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Which, that was my favorite part.
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You know, we went- Do you think, I mean, being the character actor is great.
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We saw Sandler tape his thing, I thought I might see it, that he s doing his Sandler special.
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I know, I know.
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And Bridget was there.
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Yeah?
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Veronica Vaughan, the teacher in Billy Madison.
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And I said, you get to be, for history,
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And one of Farley s funniest things saying that Veronica is one fine piece of ACE.
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And then Billy goes, you weren t with her.
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And he goes, I had a couple fun nights with any night.
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And he goes, ah, no, I didn t.
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or whatever he says, it s so funny.
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It s very, very, very Chris.
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Yeah, it s like, yeah, he plays the bus driver in Billy Mays, so funny.
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Yeah, that s fun.
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It s fun to be a part of even like that one scene you did just from everyone remembers.
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I loved and, you know, yeah.
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And Chris was in Airheads.
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And I remember we did the read through.
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And afterwards, Chris said to me,
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There s a part in their heads where, you know, like my character gets angry and I m like yelling at Adam and Chris says to me, wow, Steve, when you were yelling that one time, you sounded just like you did in Reservoir Dogs.
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And I kind of looked at him like, what are you saying?
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And I realized Chris really was that way.
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Like when he had that sketch on SNL, he was like, oh God, what?
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You know, remember when you were in the Beatles?
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He really was that way kind of.
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But he was excited, I m sure, to see you.
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I know, I know.
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Yeah, it s fun.
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And I just, you know, and I kind of looked at him, and he looked at me, and then we just laughed, but it was a really funny thing from the start.
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Yeah, he is a sweetheart.
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Was Fargo the one you get asked about the most, only because it won Best Picture, right?
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No, it s The Big Lebowski.
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Oh, okay, and that was another.
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And it took a few years for that to happen.
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because that was the one that followed Fargo.
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And I think critics like didn t know what to make of it at the time.
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And it kind of fell through the cracks.
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But then like five years later, I would start to get these like college kids come up to me and mention it because they watched it on VHS like over and over.
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And then in 10 years time, then it was yeah.
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And then it got to be where I knew
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the Lebowski fans, like somebody would come up to me on the street and they d be about to say something and I d say, shut the fuck up, Donnie.
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And they d like, look at me like, oh yeah, oh wow, it is you.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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God, I m telling you, I hear about that.
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Like people, I m not in it, but people go, God, have you seen the big Lebowski?
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Oh, like the one on my, when they re listing movies they like and comedies and it just really did resonate.
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Yeah.
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Hey, I m the dude, man.
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Jeff Bridges is such a stud, such a stud.
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Jeff Bridges, I always say that when he became a cowboy actor, he always sounded like he just had a hoagie.
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I m going to do a take here in a minute, but I just had a big deep fry.
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He, you know, he a his Jeff now, if he listens to our podcast, he just once he did true to grit and then he just stayed.
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His voice got gravelier.
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Well, it s just sort of he went post acting.
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I think some people, if you see hell or high water.
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He s being so playful in that.
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It s almost like Anthony Hopkins in the one he got the Oscar for a couple of years ago.
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So beyond acting, they re just playing.
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I don t know what to describe.
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He s like, let s get a giddy up on this car.
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I don t know, in the hell or high water, I went, oh, he jumped the shark.
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He s not acting anymore.
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Do you know what I mean, Steve, in a way?
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Yes, he s just become whatever, you know, you just... Yes.
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Rules are out the window.
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When s the most in the pocket you feel you ve ever been?
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Like in a role, like, okay, this is the most I m not thinking that I m acting in a way, or I m just feeling so, so great in each take, if it ever happens.
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Well, no.
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I mean, the first feature that I directed, Tree s Lounge, was a character that I wrote for myself that kind of was like an exaggerated version of me, but it was me.
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But it was weird because I was also directing it and I always get very anxious when I direct.
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So it was hard to really
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enjoy it, you know, fully in the moment.
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If somebody else was directing, I think maybe I would have felt like, oh, yeah, I m nailing this.
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Otherwise, I m just like, I m just thinking about the rest of the day and just wanting to get through a scene, make sure I got it right.
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But yeah, but my anxiety, I think, just gets in the way.
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Wait a minute, an actor with anxiety?
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I mean, you re telling me a brilliant actor has self-doubt and anxiety, except for Brando, maybe, I don t know, but everybody else was a little shaky, I don t know.
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Hard to place Brando.
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I ll bet he was insecure, Brando.
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Well, he got the earpiece at some point, so I think he was like, I m sick of memorizing lines, it s too stressful.
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Not giving a fuck is another way to do this.
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Now, I m saying the word anxiety.
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I didn t know growing up I would have said it every day.
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But I think now that you give people this word like kids, they re like, I m anxious at school.
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I m like, well, no fuck.
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I ve been anxious since the day I was born till right now.
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Like, it s a very rough life out there.
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And they re like, I don t want to do my homework.
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It gives me anxiety.
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No shit.
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Like everything does.
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Oh, I had panic attacks before I do stand-up, but I didn t know I was having a panic attack.
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Yeah, you don t know what it s called.
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I d give it a name, and then I d have to go talk to a therapist for $2.25 an hour, maybe a talker down to $200.
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That s enough personal information.
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Before tip.
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Uh, yeah, everybody is anxious now and depressed.
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Steve, we can now we know what we are.
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We know we re screwed up.
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We have vocabulary before I let you go, Steve, because you re a wonderful guy.
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And you re doing 12 other podcasts after this for the listener.
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The good thing about Steve is he s not totally out there on everything.
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That s the interesting mystery of Buscemi.
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He s just kind of cool, lays back a little bit, doesn t smother us.
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I think it s unintentional, but yeah, he s effortlessly cool.
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And the fact that you, I mean, I ll just throw this out here because it s not common knowledge to everybody that you were a firefighter who dreamed of becoming an actor, who became an actor.
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9-11 happens and then you apparently volunteer and you re going into the rubble with the firefighters, not to bring up such a dark subject, but that s an extraordinary
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thing for a human being to have done, you know.
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Well, thank you.
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Yeah, because I mean, I was a firefighter for a few years in the early 80s.
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And then, you know, as the years went by, I got further and further away from it and lost touch.
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But then 9-11, yeah, it just put me back in touch.
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And I felt really honored that they would even let me come back and work with them with my
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my company Engine 55.
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And I had access, but I know so many people who would have done the same thing that wanted to be there, but couldn t get in there.
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And I had the opportunity and the access because I used to be on the job.
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And I felt very honored that I was able to do that.
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It s hard for any of us to imagine that scene and what you went through.
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And you were invisible, in a sense, with the gear and everything.
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No one knew, hey, that s the Fargo guy.
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You know, what s weird is that, you know, I still had my my turnout coat and my helmet and boots.
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So I went there thinking that I could blend in.
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But I had been off the job like since the mid 80s and all the equipment changed and the punk would be here.
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You look like Curious George or something.
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So I kind of stood out anyway.
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And then people were like kind of looking at me like, who is this guy?
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Why doesn t he have like, why is he a relic from the past?
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Oh, wait a minute.
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It s that guy.
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It s that actor.
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Yeah.
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You know, Dana, he did that anonymously, and he helped for weeks.
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In a related story, I brought cookies down and had tipped off TMZ to follow me, and then later, and I was in full makeup, and then- Hey, man, you both are heroes.
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You re different kinds of heroes.
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I wanna ask Steve a question, because I don t know if this is true either, because I was a pipsqueak.
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David and I were pipsqueaks in high school.
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I graduated, I was probably 125.
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Me too.
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But I heard you wrestled at 105 on the varsity.
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Oh, really?
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But you got bigger than that, right?
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Were you that a freshman, 105?
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I know I did that up until my senior year.
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Maybe I went up another way.
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105?
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I don t think so.
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Yeah, it s crazy.
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I know.
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Were you your height?
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I, but because I,
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I was pretty wiry and I was pretty strong from my weight.
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I did pretty good during the year, you know, like in the team matches, but then in the tournaments, I always choked.
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When you started wrestling guys, was it harder?
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He says, the girl s a little easier.
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And then they started putting me up against guys when I got to 110.
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And then it was two girls versus Steve and he d take them down three girls and it was getting hard.
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And then they had a 87 pound guy.
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No, but you were good.
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I mean, you were actually, you would seem like the kind of guy who would be good at wrestling.
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I don t know why I think that.
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But yet your intellect and kind of I think wiry people are secretly strong.
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I was I was OK.
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I did.
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I you know, I had I had a great coach, Mr. Earl, and and and his son, Richiero, was my wrestling partner.
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So and like he was like the best on the team.
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So it kind of rubbed off on on me.
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I had one secret move called the reverse cradle.
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And if I got you in it, if I got you in the reverse cradle, it was like a surprise.
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And I actually beat some like guys who were probably better than me.
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But then, you know, that s why I would choke in the tournaments.
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Cause then you wrestle these same people again.
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And they know you re a one trick pony.
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It always seemed a little close quarter in a way.
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Did you ever, you remember wrestling a guy and all of a sudden your face was right up against his junk and you re going, why am I doing this?
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It s very homoerotic wrestling.
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It is.
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Okay.
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Let s look at a clip.
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It s part of the appeal.
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It s part of the appeal.
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It does get a diverse audience.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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That s good.
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Yeah.
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All right, Dana, what do we do with Steve?
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We let him go?
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Well, we could do ours because he doesn t need our help.
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But yeah, he s Steve Buscemi.
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He s a national treasure.
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I m going to use that because you ve just been around so long.
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And if I see you in a movie, I m just happy.
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You re like this guy.
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It s this guy, and I think when you are in your lane, I don t know who your peers are.
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I don t know if it s Christopher Walken.
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These are older people, but there s the cool factor.
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You re not a pretty boy in front of a movie doing all the press.
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You re just the guy who goes in and you can t take your eyes off that guy.
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I mean, it s like you weren t, in Fargo, it was like, it didn t feel like you were acting.
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You weren t an actor in that movie.
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They re like, they got a real guy to do this.
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Where d they get this?
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I had that once with Rip Torn.
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I saw a movie, where d they get this guy off the street?
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He was so good in this movie.
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And I think you have that vibe about you.
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Thank you.
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So I m not a pretty boy.
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That s what you re saying.
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Well, I m saying you re ruggedly handsome.
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Thank you.
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Do you think David s a pretty boy?
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Yes, absolutely.
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Thank you.
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I ve gotten away with, every time I date someone, it s Beauty and the Beast in every article.
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I m like, enough for this.
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Just why not just say, I don t like a B. They say they go.
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Yeah, that s like exclamation is the headline.
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I m like, all right.
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You can t do that.
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You can t do that with the girls.
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You can t say, look at this great looking guy with his dog.
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It s like you can t.
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You can do with me.
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All right, Steve, that s really what I wanted to get off my chest.
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OK, thank you for talking to us.
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You re a stud and we ll talk soon, hopefully.
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Enjoyed it.
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I love you both.
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And we hope to see you.
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Thank you.
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I see above.
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This has been a presentation of Odyssey.
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