Chelsey Crisp • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #157

outright by Michael Bay. Yeah, that is actually quite a surprising Carl Gusta of Young. Every week I'm by a special guest over. I tell them they've died, then I get them to discuss their life through the films that meant the most of them. Previous guests include Sharon Stone, Kevin Smith, James A. Custer, and even Ked Mambles. But this week it's the brilliant and hilarious actor Chelsea Crisp.

Head over to the patron at patreon dot com forward s Brett Goldstein, where you'll get an extra fifteen minutes of chat with Chelsea. We talk in depth about beginnings and endings. You get at a credible secret from her. You also get the whole episode, uncut and ad free as a video. Check it out over at patreon dot com. Forward to Last Brett Goldstein Ted Lasso Season two has started, so get caught up on all the episodes on Apple tv Plus and also check out Soulmates on Amazon Prime.

Mom will make you happy, The other will make you thinky So. Chelsea Crisp. Chelsea Crisp is a brilliant actor and improviser who is most famous for her role on long running sitcom Fresh off the Boat, and she is now about to start in the British remake of Call My Agent. We recorded this on Zoom last week. We've never met before. She was an absolute delight. I think you're gonna love this one. So that is it for now. I very much hope you enjoy episode one hundred and

fifty seven of Films to be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With. It is I Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today by an actor, an officer, a happy ender, a Fresh off the boater, a cool My Agent er, and most of all, a legend and a human being. Please welcome to the show. The wonderful. It's Jesse graz Yeah. I love when somebody clarifies that I'm a human being in my intro. It's

so often left out. It's important. I actually did a nele research on you, and very rarely was it brought up in interviews, and I thought, this isn't fair. People need to know. Thank you having asked to get that out there. So thank you for doing it. Hey, and for the record, your public didn't tell me. I did that myself. No, no, listen, I'm sure your publics are doing their job, but to me, it's very It's clear. But I also know that you need that sort of

narrative out in the world. Anyway, I'm very grateful you're doing this now. Hilariously, You're an American doing this in London and I'm English and I'm doing this in America. Oh we like, aren't you specifically in La? Aren't we in each other's city? Yeah, I'm in your house, I'm eating your food. Every one's very familiar. Yes, So why are you in London, Chelsea? Chris? I am in London doing the UK remakeup call my agents, and you are

in LA doing your press tour for ted Lass. So Yeah, I'm in La Yes, here for the launch of season two of ted Lasso. So exciting, very exciting. Now, Chelsea, you are in a very small I don't know what the word is, kadra of guests on the show I've had, I think you're the second person who is almost a right to reply. I had your husband Race on the show. He was fantastic, and we talked a little bit about you. And now you're here yourself. This is your episode and

you're allowed to say whatever you would like about rhet Race. Frett. You were right to ask him to come on the show first. He is a brilliant writer and such a fun person. And yeah, he loves doing the show. He was really glad to do it. He obviously he loves to sit and talk about movies. It's his favorite talk. Yeah. So he's a writer, you're an actor, and you have a successful marriage. What's your secret? Burtst into tears. This was the time I wanted to tell everyone. I'm terribly

you know. That's where listen, we started with the human being. Now let's get into it, a very flawed, sad, scared, alone human being. What's our secret? I have no idea. He's just a very he's just a very good person. It's a it's not a secret at all. It's just just marry, marry a good one, Marry a nice person. It's nice to have a partner through it, you know. It's wonderful to have a person who gets it, who knows all about it and understands the crazy thing we're doing.

But where our relationship in our home life is so not crazy, just balanced and real and fun. You know what. It sounds simple, but that is really good advice to marry a nice one, because I don't think many people look for that. I think it's sort of frowned upon. It used to be for a long time. Yeah, a lot of crazy ones. Yeah, the crazy ones. And then

I had to write the Ship. Yeah. So when you're when you know, when Rhet is doing a big film or you're doing a big film or a show, do you travel together, do you could try and be together? Because I know you're together now in London. How often do you like for a long time apart. This is the first time we've ever done this where we've both gone somewhere together because for the last six years and some change, I was doing Fresh off the Boat, which filmed in LA and so that that kept us in

that city nine months out of the year. But he does mostly features, so they almost never shoot in LA, so he often would travel for work. And our role was that we would never go more than three weeks without seeing each other, one of us back and forth, and so we had good people helping us, good line

producers helping us make that happen. And this is the first time I've ever shot outside of LA for longer than a month, So this was the one, Yeah, that might beature, were certainly since we've been together, and so this one we had to make a bigger decision. We also have a son now, we have a two and a half year old, so it was we like we all we all have to go. We have to make

this move happen together. So he is being a good sport and he's still kind of working La hours from here because he's a much bigger deal than I am. He has he has a much fancier career, so he's the one with all the meetings and us. So he's been great about it. And he's got a great writing partner who has been wonderful too and helping us out with all the scheduling stuff that is very very cool. And how are you finding your working in London? Actually

I've got a serious question. I mean the one before was serious. I went't fucking around. But in terms of like size and scale and sort of production. You did a huge TV show that ran for years in America. Now you're on a TV show in England. What do you notice about the difference in sort of scale and production? Do you know what? I haven't filmed yet. I've only done tests and fittings and rehearsals, so I have no idea. But I have done mostly network comedy, so I think

I'm pretty spoiled. I think, you know, especially for shows going well, they they're so they're so fancy and you always have amazing accommodations and food and um so I had I have been warned not to expect that, but I don't know if that was an accurate warning or not. I haven't I haven't see nothing nothing. I did walk through the set yesterday and the set was gorgeous, so great. Certainly they're certainly not you know, penny pinching when it

comes to production value. So yeah, well I'll let you know. I mean, you should probably tell me, what should I be expecting. I guess it pends because Ted Lasso we did film in London, but it but it had huge scale and we had the best of the best of the best, And I think that's because there was a

lot of money. That I've done, I've done British shows on British budgets where it's like hard to get a bottle of milk, where you're just like, can we get we just need a bottle of milk for this scene, and that takes four to five days, and then eventually someone brings you a small cart and of orange juice and you go, I know, sorry, it was actually just milk.

We just needed a just a bottle of milk. And in the end you you end up having to leave the set to get a bottle of milk because no one's fully understood it was just a bottle of milk. I don't worry about it, and then you're seeing it has cocon I did. I did not. At my fitting, it's you know, in the USA, the fittings are always

like water and coffee and snacks and everything. Yeah, you know, And at the fitting the other day, it was it was it was a long one because we had a whole season to fit close for and I at one point I kind of looked around. I didn't see anything, and I was like, I hadn't been around the studio yet, so I didn't even know where craft services was or if if there was a craft services? Is anybody there

anything I could eat? And the student designer, the department head, pulled nuts out of her purse and shared them with me. That's a British show. That's a British show right there. I kind of love that. Yeah, I've got I've got a packet of buttons at the bottom of my car. Let me look, oh, dad, Yeah, he's a packet of buttons I got at Christmas. You can have that. It felt very maternal, it was that's great family already. So that's lovely, Chelsea. Fuck, I've forgotten to tell you something. Nuts.

I'm going to tell you this. Maybe it's good that we're not in the same country. When I tell you this, well, say you've died, you're dead. Great, you should have told me that. Yeah, I should have a dickening about nuts and you just dropped that box. How did you die? I died at the ripe old age of one, hundred. So Rhet and I are from Phoenix, Arizona, which is the desert, and we have scorpions there, and there's always

this fear of baby scorpions. You grow up being told that a baby scorpion can kill you because they have so much poison. This makes sense a minute. So I'd like you spend your whole life in Phoenix being terrified that you'll step on a scorpion at night, or you'll sit down on a couch and a baby SCRUBI and will sting you and you'll just die, or at least

I do. So I'd like, at the age of one hundred, to celebrated my hundredth birthday, be with the kids, the grandkids, the family, and then go for a hike up Camelback Mountain, which is this beautiful mountain in the middle of Phoenix, and sit down to watch the sunset and get stuff. Finally by a baby scorpion. Just I love it. Let go, Just let go. Feel like that's a full circle moment

for a person from Phoenix. It feels like the right time everything I wanted to do would be done and I'll just watch a gorgeous Arizona sunset as my time ends, so you're with your children and grandchildren. No, I think I'm alone because it'd be too traumatic for them, which is also something you're not supposed to do, ever, is hike Countback Mountain a loan. So I think on my hundred birthday, I just say, fuck it, fuck the rules. I'm going up the mountain by my son, and that's

where it all ends. So you were, well, at one hundred, you just thought I've added enough, I'm going up the mountain. Well, I wasn't planning on dying. I was just planning on going for a hike. But I just think that's that's where and how it should end. I think that's quite nice. I mean, on the other hand, you tried to spend your family the trauma, but in a way by not having them with you, they're going to spend a few

days looking for you. They didn't know where you are, and then when they find you, you've been ravaged by KOEI, which is much sort of worse. So just bear that in mind. It's true, you don't really have to be told with shape I'm in when I'm found, you know, I don't think someone can side truthfully, we've only been out of quarantine for about three days in London. I think the way I'm actually going to die is probably crossing a street. If I don't die now, just trying

to get to the other side of our neighborhood. This is to happen. Okay, that's good. Do you do you worry about death? I didn't used to, but I think I bet you get this answer a lot. I having a kid changed that. I was such a almost even a bit of a thrill seeker, not in an extreme way, but loved to do all kinds of things. Did you guys have the show Fear Factor? Did Fear Factor ever air? Here?

I know what it is? Yeah, when people do crazy shit like I did that show when I was like twenty and won it with Yeah, it was like, loved to do stuff like crazy things like that. What did you do on Fear Factor? Wait? Listen, this is going

to earned this whole interview. Um, we did cool stuff, like we crashed cars and the first time it's really hard to describe, but it was a big height challenge in downtown LA and then and then the second day was the eating day and I ate leeches, which is just such an awful that's an awful thing to think about, but it is what happened. You had to bite them. We just swallowed them like oysters. No, you had to. I had to kill them in my mouth or they

would just bite me. So it was it was a great, wonderful family memory for my parents and everyone who knew me. It's a horrible thing, but we won, and we wanted. He got to pay off our student loans and I think I produced a couple of plays, and so it was very It was a great It was a great experience. But I used to do crazy shit like that, and then having a kid just completely changes your concept of mortality,

or at least it did for me. And my father also died about three months before my son was born, so it was like my whole idea of mortality was just completely upended in a really short span of time. So now I do think about it a lot more and have, you know, worry about it sometimes in a way that I didn't used to. And there, what do you think it happens when you die? I don't know. I'd love to believe, especially since I've lost my dad, I'd love to believe that that you end up somewhere.

I still feel I don't know. I still feel like my dad can see what's going on and can can see my son and our lives evolving. And I completely understand that there's no logical foundation for that, and it's there's no evidence of that, but it's it's very comforting to think and to hope for when you've lost those family members. Yeah, well I got good news. There is an afterlife. It's really nice. It's called Heaven, and yeah, I came out with it, thank you. And it's filled

with all your favorite things. What's your favorite thing? Oh, just my family. Let's be really cheesy. Okay, Well, it's got all your family in, including the second cousin you found annoying, all of the they're all They're every single but that's fine, and everyone's very excited to see you and they want to talk about your life, but they want to talk about your life through film. And the first thing they ask is, what is the first film

you remember seeing? Chelsea Crisp. This cannot be the first movie I actually saw, but the first one I remember watching was Flashdance. How why were you watching Flashdance very young? I mean five or six? Because I definitely saw a little Mermaid before because it was there's this story in my family where that was my favorite movie for a long time. I sang all the songs HI like got in trouble the times I got in trouble in schools. Because I told everybody at Show and Tell that I

did the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid. I think I'm trying to work out the difference between acting in line with that. So that was definitely my favorite movie. At at a family reunion once I asked my mom if I could do a scene from my favorite movie, which was The Little Mermaid. So she said, of course. Gathered in my grandmother's backyard, but I had recently seen Flashdance, which was now my favorite movie, and I pulled out

a folding chair and a glass of water. I did, I'm not kidding, and I did, like, probably not all of it. I'm sure I was stopped like some silly dance on a chair where I poured a glass of water on myself. You are a real life little Sunshine. Yeah, yes, yeah, I was a very awkward kid with incredible I would love to know how how far into it you got before they realized what you were doing, and they were

like this the best one. I'll ask my sister. Because she's a few years older, she probably remembered more of it than I do. I mostly know of it through the story. Now I don't really remember it happening. But it's great, right, proud moment for my parents, I'm sure. But so you so from from Little Mermaid Amos? I want to I want to act. I just want to be part of this. No, I don't think I really. I mean I always loved singing and acting, but I didn't really start to want to do it until high school.

I think in high school I started doing theater and taking it very seriously, too seriously, and then from then on and say, have you got one sister? You just is just the two of you? Yeah, how much old? Three years? Okay, that's nice. Yeah, riddle me this. What is the film that made you cry the most? Jelsea Crisp, Are you a cry? Yes? I'm a crier? And twenty one Grahams just sprooyed me. I've never seen it again.

I don't wish to. I was absolute emotional torture, beautifully written, performed, directed, but just just too painful. It was just too painful of a film, and I didn't have when I saw it, I would have been I don't know, somewhere in my early twenties and didn't have a family, didn't have a husband or kids or anything. But I just thought the loss that she went through was too much to watch, too much to think about, too much to even go anywhere near. So yeah, I remember that movie destroying me.

I don't know if I've ever told this story on the podcast right, but in a reto, I saw Amorris Plaios, which he produced, I saw twenty one Grahams, and then I saw Babel or Babel. I don't know how you pronounced that. All three I would describe as incredibly depressing. And then I went to the London Film Festival to see his new film called Beautiful, and he came out to introduce the film and he said before I didn't know what the film was about, and he said, I

wanted to try something different with this film. I wanted to make a tragedy. And I genuinely wanted to put my hand up and go, what a funk would a last three comedies? What are you talking about? It wasn't it? He wasn't joking. No, he wasn't joking. It was very sincere. And then I watched Beautiful and I was like, yeah, that was more depressive than the other three. And they were fucking depressing. It was so mad. Have you not

seen your other films? What do you mean, oh man, I mean there is a there is a time and a place for those films. Are all beautiful films, but just they are their torture. I mean they are emotional torture. What is the film that scared you the most? Do you like being scared as a thrill seeker? Yeah, I don't know. I guess I must have a bit when I was younger, but I'm very jump scares. I'm so susceptible to they definitely get me like crazy. Um So,

I don't really seek out horror films. But in fact, before I knew, before I met my husband, when Zombieland came out, I remember almost leaving the theater during the opening credit sequence because it was so intense and I just thought, I think I could be a full movie. That's very sweet. I like that, which bankness. I stuck with it, so at least I've seen it by the time I met him. Uh yeah, I as a child or as an adult? What do you think is a

better answer, because they're two different answers. I know what scared me the most as a kid and what stuck with me, but also a different movie scared the crap out of me. I'd like to I'd like to hear bife and then I'll pick your official. Well. Okay, so as a child, I saw Gremlins way too young. Um, which I want to be clear, I don't think I saw Flash Dance or Gremlins in my own home. I don't want to make my parents sound like they're really this sounds even worse what you were. You were left

at the cinema your eyes. Yeah, I was free to roam, go into whoever sause I wanted to do watch whatever was on the TV. Yeah, so none of this is their fault. Um. Okay, Yeah, I saw Gremlins way too young, and all I remember of it was that I think was it water made them multiply? There there was something about them eating chicken. I was fucking terrified of Gremlins. And I I'm sure, like you, like most and writers,

had a very overactive imagination. And I would lie awake in bed at night certain that gremlins were going to come out from underneath my bed and kill me. And I yes, yeah, for years. I mean this one on for like way longer than it should have. I was so scared of them, and I put all my stuffed animals on the bed with me as a barrier around me, and I had a rule. I had a rule where like, as long as they were touching each other, the gremlins couldn't get through. I was messed up. I was really

messed up by that movie. You knows me. I mean the only I like your Sacred Circle, but Mugwai Gizmo is like a Teddy Bear, so I'd be shooting myself in your Sacred Circle. I'd be like, what if I get Yeah, these guys were I don't even think I saw the full movie, so I don't know. I didn't. I didn't like associate them with stuffed animals. They didn't seem the same to me, even though of course they're actually like they clearly heard stuffed animals. But to me,

they were a totally different thing. They were demonic. It hurt me and my you know, rog puppet or what have you was going to save my life, that was assisting we came up with it. I'm still here read so it worked. I don't if Kermit was You'll protector, you would have been fine, would have been great. What's the scary one from when you were older? Recently? Free Solo? I thought was just two hours of clenching every muscle

in my body, and I was pinioned. I was pregnant, and I remember I feel like I was probably decently far along in the see. I remember at one point saying to write like, I don't know if this should I leave. I don't know if this is healthy. I'm literally clenching so much of my body the base probably and they're like, what's happening out there? I thought that was the scariest and most amazing movie that came out that year. That is true. I won't see that the cinema.

It does make you it's probably the best action film ever made, because you are just like fucking hell yeah the whole time, and the filmmakers are on the mount. I mean they're they're doing it too. He's wild to think about. If you know anything about how things are filmed. There's also that higher other layer of the film that's just you're like, how how did they do this, these this whole team amazing. You're right, You're right, it's a great answer. I'm going to pick Free Sile because it

was a good answer. What's the film that people don't like? It's not critically acclaimed, but you love it unconditionally. Okay, So the real one, I'm just gonna say, and we'll have to move on because of the episodes. I've heard it's well worn territory. But my honest answer is Greece too. But correct, you've you've covered it, and I think you've probably increased downloads of Grease to tenfold in the last year. And if when I die, people go, what did he achieve?

If it was will he got more people towards Grease too? That was enough? Yeah? I did. I did a service. They won't mention the Emmy nomination, it won't even come up. But he did get me to what's too he did? Yeah, he killed a lot people and he was he was a terrible man. But he did get me to watch Chaz say, yeah, so it's even we now cool? It was Saint Brett and even so, what's your what's your attentive? I appreciate that. Well, we'll say my second place as

water World. I think water World, I just I liked it when I saw it. I liked it, un ironically. And then I worked at Universal Studios for a long time and there's a live version of the show there, and everybody who works on that show, they're all these stunt actors who work in the industry who you cross paths with all the time, and that's just like a great day job for them there, And it's such a fun group of people and a great live show. And it still makes me hold a special place in my

heart for that movie. What did you do at University? Two guys? I hosted a live version of Fear Factor. After I was on the show, they hired me to host like a like a live in the park where six people would compete episode like show to show six from the audience. Yeah, amazing. And what did they have to do? What was the challenge in ours they did? There was one eating round they did, Oh my gosh, it's been so long now. There was one with electricity they had to like peddle this thing where they were

getting shocks. They had to keep going through it. And I honestly can't remember what the first oh, the first one. They were like way up at the top of the stage and they had to hold onto these bars and the last person that was left holding them one that stunt, they were like worries up. So it was it was It was good for for a live show where you're pulling six new people and every time I actually did a great job with the stunts. That's great, that's a

cool job. Yeah. I loved it. I loved I did that for maybe three years and it was not far out of college, and it was such a great job. I mean, I worked with the coolest people. It's how I first met improvisers and started doing improv, and I had health insurance. It was wonderful. I left, Do you have any prov? Great? Did you not anymore? I did? I did for a long time. I don't. I don't know. Well, there were there were many, but the longest one was an all female group called Duchess Riot that we did

about seven years Riot. Yeah right, yeah, about seven years together and and most of that group is still some of my best friends. We had and we had an awesome run. We had a great time together. At some point we'll do improv again, but we just we just kind of did it, you know, you do. You do it for so long and then you start to I don't know, you get married and you have kids and you get old. No, no, you're like, don't tell me.

That's how it ends. Just genuinely sent into a spiral. No, you, it's truly like it just evolved into our friendship and now it's just our day to day lives and we still have just as much fun together. That just don't have to, you know, drive all over the city and go to all the comedy festivals all that stuff anymore. What's the film that you used to love? He loved it, but you've watched it recently and you've gone on, Now, I don't like this anymore. This also might be well

worn territory. I'm not sure, but well, I was gonna stay in Grease. But it's not that I don't like it anymore. It's just that it doesn't It doesn't hold up as what it used to mean to me as

a teenager. I mean, it seems like this wonderful love story, and then upon you know, you view it through adult eyes and you be by today's standards, and there's like nothing about the messaging of that movie that's healthy are good, so allbvious stuff that you could see even then some of the awful lyrics and then but that are just

so date rapium. Then there's but then then there's just the way the whole movie ends, that the whole moral of oh, I'll change for her, and she's like, oh, and I'll change for him, And they both come to this place where they're like, I'll just completely alter my entire personality and everything about me will change and that'll be good for you. And then for whatever the reason, they're like, oh no, the girl, you'll stay it, you'll keep it. You keeping look back to the way a

must before. Yeah, never discus us. They don't discussion. It's just understood. And then all right, you you changed for me, then we'll stick with that, and then we'll get in my car that flies. By the way, I didn't mention what we'll fly on off. We didn't mention the car flies the end. Yeah, and by today's standards, the flying car is the least problematic part of the ending. Yeah, that's the only part that you go, well, I guess

they did flag this up a bit. They did. There was a whole scene where they were like doing things to the car. We didn't know what they were doing, but it turns out they were adding wings and yeah, a roocket. They were just adding that whole flight kid. Yeah, so I guess, yeah, that's fine. No probs with the flying car. You got to get over that bread. It's just the prog Yeah, that doesn't hold up. Well, I mean it's still it's like a you know, it's just a movie that I love so much as a kid.

It's one of the first musicals I ever did. Sandy, my first first league. So fun. Yeah, you're a Sandy Sandy. It was great, great, So it's kind of a special place in my heart. But yeah, it doesn't it doesn't work. That's a story. Did you fall in love with your Danny when you did it? No? No, he was a good friend of mine. M Okay, we did not, but we had a really good time. What is the film that means the most to you? Not necessarily the film itself is any good, but because the experience you had

around seeing the film, that will always make it special. Chelsea, I feel confident that this hasn't been an answer to this question. It's g I Joe retaliation. It's never come up, and it's about time. It did. Yeah, it did. It's here, Thank you. It was. It was the first movie that my husband wrote that came out after I met him and we were dating, and it was the first time I went to It was the first time sort of seeing behind seeing everything that goes on behind the scenes

to get a movie made. I didn't know him when they were making it, when they were shooting it, but I met him when it was in post production, and I saw just how much work went into you know, I was mostly working in TV and I grew up doing theater and I hadn't done a lot of film, So I got to see that behind the scenes of how that was working, how hard they worked on it,

and and then go to the premiere. I think it was the first time I went to a Hollywood premiere like with somebody that was a part of the movie, and watched him walk the red carpet with his partner Paul, and on the red carpet it's like, you know, Pruce

Willis is coming up to introduce himself. But the whole thing was just so cool, and at the center of it was for me anyway, in my experience, at the center of it was Rhett who is this wildly unpretentious, down to earth sweetheart of a guy and still experiences those things in such an unjaded way, and it is

still just like a kid living out his dream. And also his whole family was there, his parents, his brother, and some of his family friends, and it was my first time going to a big event with them, so also seeing it through their eyes while they were watching their son, their brother or the person that they loved. And now they're all my family, and and you know, Rhett doesn't like to sit still, so we've gotten to

do more of those things together. Had a good run, but it was the first one and it was so special for that. And now also I usually see the cuts as they go along, but that one I just saw for the first time in the theater and I got to hear it along with the audience. So yeah, that one's that one's really special for me. That is in my top five answers to that question of Auto. It's really really, really lovely. I like that a lot. Oh,

that's great, congratulations. Twenty points. What's the film that you might relate to? Flash Dances It Flash? Yes, it's my life story just laid up. I think I did go through that welding phase. I think it has. This was really hard for me, but I'm going to go I don't think twice. Mike Robiglia's movie about improv Killer and sort of live comedy in general, I think he did about the best job I've ever seen anyone do of

capturing live comedy. And he just wrote, cast, and edited and directed the crap out of that movie, and I just I loved it. It was he finally did it. It's something everybody I think tried on film, and he just he really did it in such a beautiful Well I've talked about this one was before a very long time ago. What do you think his secret? The secret too? It is because I agree it's almost impossible to capture live comedy on film, but he did seem to do it.

And like, what do you think was the difference between what he did and what everyone else has tried. I don't know. I mean, I don't know how much of what they did there were the shows within the show. I don't know how much that actually was improvised. I don't know how much they worked together as a team. I mean, obviously some of them knew each other, but I don't think all of them had done comedy together before. No, I don't think Gillian Jacobs has said she'd never done

improv before the film. That floors me. I mean that really me. I mean that's such a testament to the performance that she gave. She was so great in it, and they depicted her as one of the best improvisers in the group, so well done that you just believed it so then that that might go. I thought that probably a lot of the improv was life, but maybe that's not it was. I believe it was. I believe it was real. But still even capturing real comedy, this sort of jeopardy of it is hard to catch it,

but it felt like it had it. Especially improv, I think it is so hard. I mean, I thought one of the things they did beautifully, he did beautifully was making sure that all their personalities on and off stage. I don't do you do improv or do do mostly stand up? I've done a bit. I've done a bit, so you know, you know how it is with your group.

The better you get to know each other, the better, the better everything is on stage, and you start to really know what your team members are good at and what they struggle at and figure out where you compliment

each other and how you set each other up. And I thought he just did such a good job of showing what was going on off stage and how that fed into what was happening on stage, not you know, not even in the obvious phase where they were going through turmoil and then they'd have a bad show, but seeing even some of the subtle things. My favorite moment in the movie, and I remember, I remember Rhet just totally didn't get this moment at all, um because he's

a writer and not not a live performer. There's a moment in the car where one of the characters fathers has died and they're like driving away, I don't think, you know, I think, and they make a joke about the dad dying and Rhett was like shattered by that, and he was like, I didn't. I just didn't get that at all. And I don't that just didn't feel. I had a hard time coming back from that, like were they bad people? And I was like, oh, do

you do you know who you're married to? M And then you know he I think he my whole family, My family's like that. My friends are like that, not just my friends were actors, but even my childhood friends who are not performers at all, there's everyone has that style of humor, that sense of humor, and um so, I just thought he got that so beautifully in this and on stage. And I don't know what. I'd love

to hear him talk about it. I've never heard him, yeah, speak about it, because obviously he put so much thought and effort into it, and it really worked. It's a brutal film, that brutal, heartbreaking. It's brilliant. You should watch it. Great answer what is objectively the greatest filmable time? Also such a hard question. I think I'm gonna land at Wizard of Oz. Okay, That's where I'm gonna go. I'm glad to hear it. I love the moral of that

there's no place like Home story. I love the idea of leaving where you grew up and sort of taking it for granted. It's and you know, I think we all kind of do that, and going out into the world and finding your way through it, and finding your people and the people who aren't your people, and realizing that everything you're looking for was sort of back in Kansas. I just think it's such a beautiful moral and the Wizard is a little man behind the curtain is incredibly profound.

Why not? Yeah, but it is true, it's true of all the big scary things is actually it's just a little man inside. Yeah, exactly. Everything that we've built up in our heads just being some huge and intimidating is actually just somebody else, somebody else with our own insecurities and fears. And yeah, I just I think I haven't seen it in a long time, so I couldn't put together a you know, brilliant dissection of why I think it's the movie. But I love that it appeals to

all ages too. I sort of feel like for it to be the greatest movie of all time, it shouldn't just be something like Godfather that only works if you're of a certain age. And also, I don't know, to me, it's like, the greatest movie of all time should leave you feeling good. You should feel good when it's over, You should walk out back into your life feeling some appreciation.

And that film does that for me. Fucking great answer, great reasons five points party five great, Yeah, great, better than that the ads you got twenty points where that was phenomenal answer here we got Chelsea Chris, here we go. I'll get through this bit. I suppose what's the sexiest

film you've ever seen? Okay, so I think it has to be bos Learman's Romeo and Juliet with Claire Danes, right, because I was trying to think, like, it's got to be your first really sexy film that you see, right, because that's introducing you to you know, you're seeing for the first time, like visuals of what it's like for people to have sex and be attracted to each other. And your little, you know, teen or preteen brain is like putting all those pieces together. And that would have

been that movie for me. And that was like Leo in his nineties prime Janes, who was just like pitch perfect in everything, and I remember them looking at each other through the fish tank, great song, and yeah, I just remember all the build up to it being so sexy, and I don't. I don't. It's not like I remember there being these really hot and heavy sex scenes, but

just there. I feel like there was a scene where they're under the sheets and there's like light outside of the beets, and it was just very like, you know, hot but romantic, and yeah, that's that's the one that comes to mind. The fish tank scene. Boy, that's clever. That is a clever way to shoot that feeling. It's you're right, that is a very sexy, but it's also kind of it is like a teenage dream of what it's like. It's very, very pretty and kind of bright

and fear. It's great. Yeah, I don't know why. That's that's the one that came to me. And I I love Bosler and I think he's Yeah, it's a great writer. There's a subcategory to this question, got to do it? Traveling bone is worrying? Why dones? I think this must the film fans arousing. You weren't sure you should? I hope. I mean it wasn't that. I wasn't sure. I definitely knew it was. It didn't have this purpose, and I

hope this is net so nobody who's given. But for me it was Jurassic Park also still like teen preteen. And I just thought Jeff Goldbloom. Nothing I'm about to say it's going to make sense. I just thought Jack Goldlin was so sexy in those movies. Yes, yes he is. Just thought he was great. I love a smart ass and I loved those movies, like I loved I loved him in those movies. Yeah, I just thought, yeah, like if that was on, I was gonna watch it with

wrapt attention. Your family like, Oh, it's scary, isn't it? And you were like, eh, oh yeah, no, it's really scary. What dinosaurs? Ye? Can we rewind this bit? What the tookie bits? I love the talkie bits? You fast forward all the dinosaurt bits? Are you scared? Yeah, I'm really scared of the dinosaurs good enough to want to watch this alone in my room. Yeah, I'd have to watch it again to know what what specifically it was, but I know that I just thought it was the sexiest

thing on earth. I mean, he is sexy. It's the glasses, it's the it's the lever, it's the hairy chest, got he's got the lot. I also think, like Jeff Goldblum now is very and maybe he always was. I didn't. I didn't know him outside of you know him as an actor, Like he's so cool, he's such a cool Like that doesn't sound crazy. I don't feel like, by today's standards, you could totally see somebody being attracted to Jeff Goldblum, like, he's great taste. I didn't know that.

I thought I thought he was like nerdy and intellectual with playing the smart ass and like that's why it was funny at the time. I'm sure it was always super cool. It's gonna be offended by this. He's like, why the fun wouldn't you be attracted to me? It's kind of Hollywood. Yeah, a great answer. What is the film that you could or have? What's the most Iver and Diver Again, I think it's any Christopher Guest movie. And if I had to say that I seen the most,

it would it's probably Waiting for Government. It's not that it's it's the best of them. I don't, I couldn't. I would not be able to differentiate between best and show, Spinal Tap and Waiting for Government in terms of best. But I think I've seen the most and that's probably the one you relate to the most, is it? Yeah, definitely, I would have seen it first. I'm sure it's the one I would have that would have been my introduction to him as a filmmaker, rather than Spinal Tap. I

think I saw a spinal Tap second. But I just think you know when you see somebody doing what he does and who's like just taken a genre and perfected it. I mean, there's there's something You're going to see something different every time. Every time you watch these movies, you'll see something new, or I do. Can we have a little data quickly and tell me about these plays that you produced? Did you write? Did you like just put on plays yourself when you were at university? Yes, one

was a one I bought the rights to. It was There's a Shanley play Psychopath of Sexualism? And then when I wrote ended with a few friends. I'm sure it was really bad. No, but everybody told us it was good. But it probably was. I was like nineteen or twenty, so it was probably really rough stuff that all of our friends and family sat through that too, That was rough. That was rough stuff. Oh boy, I hope she gets in therapy. Do you still write? Do you write now? Um?

I don't write right now. I was working on something recently with one of the writers from Fresh off the Boat. Um. We had a pilot idea that we were working on. But crazily enough, it covers a lot of the territory that call my Agent covers really, so at the moment. We're just gonna sit that out for a little while. It was it was industry specific, not set in an agency, but just too too much overlap, right, yeah, a little bit. Not not the way you do and not the way

HTT does. Um, but I I used to Yeah, And do you sh do you shy rhet? Do you work? Does he look IV stuff? Do you look I his stuff? Yeah? I do. I I'll look over his stuff. It certainly more that direction, because he just writes so so much more than I do. Yeah, and they he and his partner always like someone to read through the drafts before they're turning them in and just catch logic issues or maybe character notes as an actor like kind of looking

at things through that lens. So yeah, that's great, Thank you for answering that question. Yeah, what is I don't like to be negative? You don't know like to be negative? What's the blest film you've ever seen? So this has to have come up before, I guess, I would guess.

And it makes me feel bad because it's like, yeah, we get it, we know, but the room really is a special kind of strange for the filming process, you know, it's it's so it just went into this place where it's like so bad it's good and it has this whole other life. There was a whole other life through the like the screenings at Westwood, which I went to one of those. Rhete took me to one of those, and it's the guy Tommy was noways there. Yeah, yeah,

he's always there. And that whole experience was surreal because then you're in. Then it's like a live experience where there are all these visual cues and things. Have you been to that? Have you gone to that? No, I've seen the film, but I've not been to one of the events, but I know what happens, like, yeah, the audience has all these cues and these things that they

do during the movie that they respond to. And weirdly, when we saw it, we looked up the row from us and James Franco was at our screening right, and then it turned out that he was starting the Disaster Artist. So now it's had that whole life where a movie made about the making of the movie. I guess the reason it feels okay to name that one is because

everybody's aware. And then it also went on to become this cult classic in its own way, and find its audience because it's so it's so hard to make a movie. It's so hard to make a movie. It's it's just as hard to make a bad one as it is to make a good one. Yeah. Yeah, you put it's just as much work into it and saw and there's something special about the room and that you couldn't You couldn't fake it. You couldn't like, go go make a bad movie as a joke. You couldn't make the room.

It's too It's really special. It's very unique. There's some earnestness to everybody who's there. You know, they really they're really trying to make a good movie. They're they're all excited to be there. And I mean I wish I wish there was a documentary at the time about because it would have been just to see see them talking about it and talk about their scenes on set, and I mean that would have been amazinging. But I think

probably most of the cast has done that by now. Yeah, probably, Yeah, they at least they've all done well out of it in a way. Yeah, you're in comedy, you're very funny. What's the film that made you laugh the most? I think line for line it's going to be Anchor Man. Right individual scene, it would have to be Team America because the sex scene in Teen America is fucking genius on a level that I don't think I've ever laughed that hard continuously ever in my life. But I think

line for line, i'd have to go Anchor Man. I think that's one of the most quotable, delightful, hilarious, silly, just just unashamedly silly movies. I love it. You can have it. You can have it. Chelsea Chris. I've realized now that you are CC your husbands are You're like a comic book superhero couple. Also, having only met you today, may I say this. When rhet Reese was on the show, he was one of the loveliest people I've ever met. Now you've been on the show, You're one of the

loveliest people I've ever met. I'm so delighted that you two are together and that you're both very, very nice, because if you'd been like a horror, I've been like, oh, but he's so nice. Why that, poor man? Why do you make such a bad joint? Why is it with such a horror? It's really really nice to see that you're both brilliant and you're both lovely. I really appreciate you doing this. Now here's the thing. When you got to one hundred years old, you were back in Phoenix, Arizona.

You're at home with Rhett, your kids, your grandkids, your great grandkids. You're actually having a lovely time. You're in perfect health. There's a hundredth birthday. Everyone had sung happy birthday to you. You got a letter from the Queen of England, which was nice. Yeah, she's she's fucking old as well. It's amazing. She's actually loves Americans. So that's great that she went to the time and effort. Yeah, she used like one hundred and ninety as she said

to it as well. It's very impressive. The drugs they've got now are great. Anyway, you go for a walk and you're like, you know what, They say, what do you want to do? And you say, I'm a hundred now I'm gonna finally start doing what I want to do. And you go for a walk and they go, do you want us to come with? You go no, no,

I'm just doing something on my own. You got up a hill or a mountain and you sit and watch the sunset, and you say, finally, I've taken control of my own life at a hundred and then a baby scorpion jabs you in the wrist, and then another baby scorpion jabs you in the wrist, and then loads of baby scorpion and crawled all over you. A sea of baby scorpions come and they eat you, and they baby scorpions fill you with poison, fill you until your veins burst.

They burst on the inside with poison, and you die, but you die really slowly, and where coyotes start to eat you. Anyway, I'm walking along thinking it's Chelsea's hundredth birthday. I know the queen asked me to deliver her card. I said I couldn't because she career it. She did, but I must make sure she got it. I pop in, I'm like, where's Chelsea? Everyone, and they go, I don't know. She said she went for a walk. I say, come on, everyone,

let's go looking for her. So me and your entire family head up a mountain and find you in an absolute state at the top of a hill. It was pretty bad. Anyway, me and your family have found you at the top of the mountain, ravaged by coyotes, absolute mess, dust, stones, rocks, moss, grass and scorpion eggs everywhere. So I've got a coffin on me, you know what I'm like. So I get all of you that I can. I get the family to help me. I get your grandkids lift up and

lift up one of her legs. Would you anyway? Stuff you all in the coffin. It's absolutely round in there. It's full to the brim. There's only enough room in the side for me to slip in one DVD for you to take to the other side. And on the other side. It's movie night every night, and one night it's your movie night. What film are you showing everyone in heaven when it's your movie night? Chelsea Crisp, go

it's Mulan Rouge. That's definitely Mulan Rouge. It's Mulan Rouge. Baby. Well, no one else has taken Mulan Rouge, so they're gonna be very happy to see you. Chelsea Crisp, You've been wonderful. Is there anything you'd like to tell people to look out for or listen to or watch just I think they'll make an announcement soon. I think call my agents. It'll be on Amazon in the UK, but it's gonna be on something else in America. I think they're announcing it today, So okay, keep an eye out, keep an

eye out for the UK remake of that. That is very, very exciting, Chelsea. I'd love meeting you. Thank you for your time and thank you for your wine. I have a lovely death and I hope to see you in the same country one day seen someday. Good day to you. So that was episode one hundred and fifty seven. Head over to patreon dot com forward Suspect gold Seen for the extra fifteen minutes of chat, secrets and video with Chelsea. Head to Apple Podcast. Give us a five star rating,

but don't talk about the show. No one cares about that. What they want to though, is what is the film that means the most to you and why it's a very nice thing to read and it helps numbers and blah blah blah. You get it, you know what I mean. Come on, let's or move on with our lives. Thank you so much to Chelsea for doing the show. Thanks to Scrubinous Pip and the Destruction Pieces Network. Thanks to

Buddy Peace for producing it. Thanks to ACAS for hosting it thanks to Adam richardson the graphics and leaslightm for the photography. Thank you all for listening. Come and join me next week for another incredible guest. So that is it for now, and in the meantime, have a lovely week and please, now more than ever, be excellent to each other