Jason Sudeikis (Part 2) • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #262

thanks for bringing up. Every week I invite 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 Himesh Patel, Barry Jenkins, Sharon Stone and even But this week it is part two with the one and only the man himself, Jason Cudakiss. Remember you can watch all of Ted last seasons one

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special treat. I've included the Patreon section for everyone because it is filled with so much good stuff and I'm a nice boy, but I have kept Jason's secret only for the Patreons because rules are rules, and I think you understand that. So this is part two with Jason Cudakis. We picked this up right where we left off with everyone's favorite question. So that's it for now. I very much hope you enjoy episode two hundred and sixty two

of Films to be Buried With. Here's probably why everyone's listening. What's the film you found the sexiest? Jason Seudakis. It's funny because I mean, I think it's Leaving Las Vegas or eyes white shirt. Okay, I'm those are fucking nuts, right, I put them both. But I think I put them

both because on the question is like, no, what troubling bonus? Yeah, right, which I would have the same two answers, So For those who never listened to it, there's a sub category traveling boner is worrying why I don't filmy fand arising, Yeah, I'm sure you should. So you're putting both these and flipping them around now. Firstly, Leaving Las Vegas, I'm a huge fan of I listened to that soundtrack on repeat for years.

and it's kind of destructive to everyone around her. But Larry Flynn loves her, and no one else does. Everyone in the film kind of hates her, and at the very end of the film, after she's died, and it ends with him watching a video of her sort of doing his strip tease for him, and it's similar similar vibe of like, from the outside, you could judge these people.

I view Leaving Las Vegas as romantic. I mean, the sexiness of quote unquote eyes wide shut is pretty you know, obvious, and I don't know even though if that's really I mean, I wrote them here because I was kind of like, oh,

these feel I think it is weird. I can judge myself for finding Leaving Las Vegas sexy because I'm not talking about like obviously like the awful scenes with the like the frat guys or even that final scene, but like their relationship where they both are in their lives and they're willingness to go to like fall into each other,

I find incredibly sexy and romantic, you know. And there's tons of less I don't say controversial, but titillating versions of that story you know, out there, like you know, like before sunrises, before sunset, Like aren't those like versions of that were strange? You know, Strangers, you know, strangers meet and then they just have that that moment they fall.

I haven't seen either, I apologize, but but that's I know, I know, I know, but I I just I just love that that part of the in Las Vegas, and that was another movie that was around that time was was when I would if there was a book, I

would also read the book. And I remember reading the book by John O'Brien, and there's passages from that book that I think about all the time, Like there's a line where where he writes about the unspoken anticipation of conversations yet to be had, you know, and I think, what what what? What is a better summation of like

chemistry like young early love, right, you know? And then there's the other, like the other I don't have memorized, but you know, there's there's quotes that I literally have in my wallet right now from that book from your our showed that to you. Yeah, yeah, that was fun. But I remember, like we've talked about this because it

comes up all the time, especially with our show. So much of it is is is rooted in these things, and these things are like yeah, I mean three sheets of paper, but this is yeah, this is my handwriting from nineteen ninety five. Probably I want to go see Leaving Las Vegas by myself on New Year's Eve from ninety five and in ninety six. Well, it's probably like the second or third time i'd seen the theories. I

don't know, because I wasn't I wasn't a girlfriend. I didn't want to sit at home with my parents, didn't want to be in the basement. They were going to be out sisters and maybe were gonna have friends over. So I want to go see Leaving Las Vegas at the Art theater. But this is the This is the This is from the book A slight elusive chemistry which occurs only occasionally when two people meet, always a welcome surprise.

It is a sort of quick familiarity, implied permission to conduct relations at a level which is a bit deeper than the superficiality of introduction. And like last time I pulled this out of my wallet and showed it to people was when Hannah was shooting her scenes yea on the boat. Because I believe in that it happens all the time between men and women, between men, between women and women, and I think that's sexy. I guess I

have it. I really did have it, yeah, because because I mean, we're all built to be scared of each other at this point, you know, like it's like more than ever and when when that ship gets dropped, and may you keep it dropped as long as possible? Because I think at some point when you know, the first person that puts a brick down and it's a little concrete on top of them, puts another brick and go,

whoa putting bricks? No? No, no, this is just I know, I'm just building making Okay, Okay, I need to sit I'm tired. I just want to sit down, all right. Yeah. And An eyes Waite show we've talked about now, so I watched I've seen it once, Yeah, did not like it.

he just has to and he just what's he gonna do? What's he gonna do. What's he gonna do? I I just think I haven't watched it in a while, but it's yeah, but I you know, I I I felt that that pain, that that that like that questioning of my worth, my self worth, my value at the hands of another person at a at a at a young enough age that it that it rocked me in a way that when I saw it, I was like, oh, now that's sexy. No, but it's but I mean the

imagery is obviously, you know, sexy. I mean, I guess if you to a certain degree, like you know, I like people's faces, but I guess the mask there's lots of that's a very nice boddies. Yeah, yeah, And I'm sure all the guys, all the guys in mass probably of great bodies. They probably do.

it's kind of the whole to night event. He guys and he goes to a mask bowl and gets found out he's not going to be that even though he's runing a mask Like, No.

We didn't know that then, I mean people in New York would have known in the theater world, but like I didn't know was Alan coming. All I knew was that that fucking dude is like it feels it feels like so real and knows so much more about what's going on than what's going on. And I loved it. He said that players Curbity Family, He's probably there for five exactly nice work if you can get it prettym alone, you know.

like that's exactly what it would what it can feel like.

and I think they overlapped. And part of the reason I had to I wanted a beard for Colossal and I did Mother's Day first and they wanted me to be clean shave, and I was like, I can't because I have to have a beard for this and this is you know, and they it all got worked out. But like that's like one of those weird It's certainly something I know when choosing things to sketch, like sketch comedy, like actor in me that doesn't want to play the same characters, you know, in the scene right after I

just played that character. That's that's a part of me that probably made you know, mixtapes. You know, you don't you don't want to have you know, two public Enemy songs right after each other, want to have you know, want to open you up and want to close you out or something like that, you know. But but yeah, that's that's great. I don't know, I don't in the same year, and.

much smarter than myself, you know, would concur. So I feel pretty good about my answer.

pulp fiction and Color of Money. I knew I like the Color of Money growing up because one of those movies I saw with my dad, and I love going to play pool with my dad, which really was usually me playing pool next to him and sort of what the dart speech is based on, although it was billiards and my dad would play with friends and I'd play on the table next to him and just get plowed on cherry cokes and potato skins, and he'd let me

have money for the jukebox. So it was great, you know, and I just get to watch my dad play and see him, see him in his Then they played doubles and it'd be like, you know, Sunday afternoon, you know, Saturday afternoon. It was great, We're going up to buddies. You want to come? Yeah, you know, we get taco bell afterwards.

then Who's Still Alive and all that. That's I'm just saying that darts replacement billions. But the impetus for that monologue is in that time and space. And then as I got older, remember going to see it. Ezra and I went to go see it at the Metrograph. They did they at all the Scorsese and like it feels really really weird when people are talking about Scorsese and they're going around, which fair Scorsese movie And I'm the one that says color of Money. You know, he says

color of Money. We say it on the show, you know, like,

but that's that's it. I was recently, I was saw Ed Norton, who's brilliant, like you know, like like legitimately like like knows movies but also just flat out like brilliant, right, And we were talking about something oddly enough, we were talking about like Tom Cruise and and Magnolia and that character, and he was saying how much, how much he loved it, and that's got a thousand stories about and they're all like, you know, fair you know fairly, you know recent too,

So It's like it's not like he's dipping back into his bag of tricks of like you know, when I met Walter Mathow, even though he probably knows Walter Mathow, you know, or worked with him in some way. Anyway, He's talking about Tom Cruise and and he goes, he was that part that part by him was so incredible and it's just like that, and I was, and I was about to say, yeah, but my favorite he goes, he goes, I mean between that, I mean not like

Color of Money. He says that. I go, Now, here's a guy who's worked with the Niro you know, many times over, like you know, it's like directed films, just absolutely a cinophile. And I go, wait really he goes, he goes, yeah, hees, Oh, Color Money's incredible. And I felt like so seen and like like two kids that you know, almost like that scene in Step Brothers where they're like, oh, no way, no way. And then got to geek out with him and just talk about that movie.

But yeah, that movie. When that, when that shows up,

I just love it to pieces. I can pick it up anywhere I find so much, so much again similar to searching Bobby Fisher of our show is rooted in my love and lack of understanding, but like growing and grown understanding of color, of money, that it's all about just male mentoring, about you know, father and son relationship, you know, and who he chooses and and and the way we you know, treat and hurt people, whether accidentally or you know, just by being ourselves or not realizing

that you're hurting people, both male and female, all the on the way up or on the way over wherever you're headed. And yeah, that that one knocks me out. Great music, great performances to the all time greatest, like great parts, roles of character actors as well to Turro is incredible in it. And it's just I love it to pieces. And then pulp fiction is similar thing. Pul fiction, as I said earlier, was the first one I want

to go see by myself. But yeah, that's another one that I've definitely ripped off, you know, accidentally and intentionally, like dozens and dozens of times, whether it be taking a couple of a phrase, a style choice and music choice, like I find that to be just. But even I'm just gonna call him boat guys. You never say his name in the show, but boat guy you know on the you know, talking about his foot massages. His technique

is sound. I don't be ticular or nothing. I saw pulp fiction, you know, but yeah, put in at the end in a lot of sketches too, and stuff we do bits. I just think I just think it's it's a uh yeah, I think it's a perfect complicated, you know,

fascinating movie. And it was one of those ones that again that I watched that at that time it would have been, you know, ninety ninety five that it was like that obnoxious thing that they kids feel where it's like, oh, if I would have written something, I would have written that, like of course you would have yeah, yeah, sure you would have. Perfiction is fucking incredible, and I did it. I think I was the same. And sorry a million times of cinema.

of my head. I feel like I know five movies really well, and that's definitely one of them. Yeah, you know, and and even the way I remember it now, which might not be exactly as it is if I already go back, now, yeah, what is that? How does that go? You know? And then I'd say, go, oh, you know, you might want to hold on to the the teenage cut in my head. That's funny. Yeah, it's be negative. You love it? What's the West film? I don't. Yeah, this was hard because I'm kind of like they all

had like they've got something. But but I remember being outraged at Titanic because it also came out the same year as like Magnoia, around around the same time as Goodwill Hunting, not that Magnoia was I think Magnoia was actually maybe ninety nine, excuse me. So it was definitely definitely in the in the same time that I was going to see movies in the theater by myself as Good One Hunting and give me that movie a hundred times, and then I'll watch Titanic, and then I'll watch that

one hundred more. I'll watch you know, Good One Hunting. And it's just just the style of movie that I prefer. Now. It doesn't mean visually, it's not you know, debating and that the performance start aren't iconic. The song's badass there you know you could you could you do that pose and everybody knows what you're doing. I love the iconography of it. But but for me, I I I just was so much more engaged in the storm the Iceberg that you know that Robin Williams made Matt Damon hit

in his heart. I want to see I want to see someone drowning their own self esteem or or you know. I just love that. And and it's silly to put them, you know, neck and neck side by side, make them competitive. But unfortunately that's what fucking award shows make you do with art. That's like, okay, if I had to pick, and so I remember being upset at that, but I don't. I haven't watched in ages and I can sider here and I know it's I know it's incredible filmmaking. I mean,

for God's sake, the guy knows what he's doing. He doesn't need me to say otherwise. And so I feel again, not even from like being a bad show businessman, you know, talking shit about.

But that's just me, just a prick. You know. At some point once, especially once you have the opportunity to do it and you've gone through it and it's good, it's hard to like, you know, talk about anything I unless there's a level of like hubers that involved, or or some type of like behind the scenes shenanigans that you're aware of that you're kind of like, oh, that sucks. But even then, if the work of art like turns out, it doesn't excuse any bullshit, but it does, you know,

temper it a little bit. You know. Again, I still don't want Linda Blair, you know, getting strapped to it and getting strapped to it a bed that really actually moves like that, and her yelling, screaming, saying stop stop, and she's not talking about the devil she's talking about you know, if that's real, if that's a true story in her back, I didn't know that. I love her. Yeah, yeah, what.

Van Damn. I think mcgroober is so so great and it really like I remember seeing The Jerk, you know, and if you're going to see anything at the Hollywood Cemetery yet, yes, okay, great, yeah, so yeah I would. I would have hoped so. But I remember going to see The Jerk there a few summers ago, and as I'm watching it, I was just like, and I didn't love the Jerk the first time I saw it, you know, but in that same weird way that I think we've talked about, like with me and money Python guys pressed

up like gals. And then I see it when I'm like twenty five and I'm like this is everything I fucking love, you know, and the movie is the same I changed, but the Jerk I love Steve Martin and like you know, three amigos I grew up with that. I was just a little bit too young to know him as like the comedy like you know, Eddie Murphy

was was more of my generation. And when I saw The Jerk, I watched that I and I literally felt like I had like nine year old Will Forte sitting next to me and like and like I could see it like I feel emotional about because it's like I and it made me love the Jerk so much more. But then I also realized that, you know, and I don't know if Will or John Solomon or Yorma, who directed the film, like would would own this or but it feels to me like so much like what if

the Jerk was an action hero. There's there's so many similar like kind of like and I don't mean he's

ripping them off, I just mean influenced by it. It's just so it's so funny to me and so relentless and everything that I love about Will's style of comedy, it's just it's just one hundred percent original one hundred percent confident, no holds barred, and for him to have that sort of connection with his writing partner's good friend John Solomon, who I worked with the snel and then also our buddy Yrma Tacone who was one of the on the island guys to the three of them, and

then also be able to harmonize, you know, with wigs and then all the you know, Ryan Phillippie, and I'm blanking on the fella's name who just passed away, who plays like the General like the way that everybody no, no, no, He passed away a couple years ago at this point, I'm blanking on his name, but incredible character actor, but he plays like the you know, the general, like he's the heavy and it's one of those things that I just it tickles me to no end, like it's just

I love it. I think it's hilarious. Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do to Do, to Do, To Do to Do. Welcome to the Patriots section. That's incredible and now do you have real music there? And that was that was great. Keep pocket that money for you. I mean it's gonna be how much.

like the humanity of race. You know, only one person says the N word, even though it's all about you know, class and race, you know, and Seddie Murphy, you know, Like, but I just loved how much how funny and how smart he was and how kind he was to everybody, even even the bad guy, you know, even the Victor Maitland for a good and Jonathan Banks character for a

fair amount. And I think that movie is all about friendship, you know, And like I didn't know that at the time why I loved it, But looking back at it now, it's like, oh, I just I just love the way he's so it's very much very you know, last so very much rooted in the way he looks towards you know, Tagger and Rosewood, being like, you know, guys are super cops, you know, like, and he doesn't get mad when they caught when they rat him out. He's like it was working.

I don't know, I don't get you guys, but I'm gonna figure it out. Like that's all there. But it was like there was just a level of humanity to that, and I love that it was in a black fellow, you know, like growing in the suburbs, you know, like we had a few people of color, like, you know, but like not not many at all, you know, And so it was lovely to just sort of be able to view that as this, you know, white kid from the suburbs and just he was just such a kick

ass character doing doing right by people. I love the second one I brought up just a second ago, his boys in the hood, and that was lovely to see the music that I was listening to at that time. I was listening to a lot of gangster rapt like Iced T and NWA, and it was really really but I was a poser, you know, as a tourist, you know, I was just listened to it because you know, we all were and weren't supposed to do and all that stuff.

I didn't really understand the stories behind these stories. It just all was you know, cops and robbers, you know, or you know, cowways and Indians back then, as we would say, And so bloods and crips were like, you know,

different than sharks and jets from West Side Story. And then you see this movie and now that it's a documentary by any means, but the fact that it showed these very human sides of the of this, of these conflicts going on, and and and even a deeper understanding of why maybe those conflicts are going on and and why people gravitate towards those kinds of conflicts, and and the importance of having mentors or figures in your life or aspirations beyond those conflicts to help you like navigate

the world, but also maybe even like circumvent those those conflicts. And so yeah, that that movie was a big one for me because it helped me feel a little bit more the again, like the humanity, the real side of this, of this art that I was ingesting unknowingly and whatnot. And then the other one that came to mind that really got me was Dead Man Walking, Oh great with you know, with with students rand And I remember watching that.

I think it might have been when I was working a Blockbuster video and I remember watching it in my home because I would get five free rentals a week. My favorite thing was the five free rentals, and then the employees picks a number of which I've already I've mentioned and h but I remember watching Dead Man Walking and feeling that way about the death penalty. Just when

she goes into her thing. It's just like so calculated, so control, you know, Like I was just like I was like, yeah, I was like, as bad as it can be. I don't know if it's I don't know if it's that bad. And I and I respect anybody who's gone through a situation where they've had but I am I am a believer in restorative justice. It's it's it's again an underlying theme of our TV show, whether we've ever spoken about or not. But I think some of that is deeply rooted in that film in the

way I just you know sister, you know, preaging. I forget I say her last name, But I just found that to be very, very moving in a way that I wasn't anticipating. Yeah, I just wanted to watch you know, COOLi be a badass, Right, that's a great thing. Yeah, Yeah, I haven't watched it in probably since it was pure came out on video.

Extracist rope rope was in there. Yeah. Did you enjoy it? Yeah? Yeah? Had you ever seen it?

a common goal, even if they're on the bench. You know, they're not, they're not on camera quote unquote on the on the but the way they play, the way they practice, the way they need cheer and encourage from the from the sides, you know, I like, I found that fascinating love you know, Jimmy Stewart obviously, and then and then the fact that it was based on a real thing,

you know, like the Leopold and Lobe murders. Who are you know, a couple you know, smarty pants that went to University of Chicago in like the forties and then you know, killed a guy for sport, you know, type thing getting a little bit wrong. But I loved that idea that you could take real life and then do something else with it, like kind of like almost get to replay it, you know, to a certain degree, you know.

I mean we've talked about that. The elements of of our shows, like things that that through either my character or other people's characters, got to replay things that I that I you know, fucked up in my opinion, you know, and so instead of having regrets or guilt, you know, it's turning into our Color of Money would have been in there. But yeah, I mean there's anything. Oh Sleepless in Seattle would have definitely been there, I under saying,

Willie Wonka nice. What's the greatest? I think the first one came to mind was The Hustler for me, oddly enough, the prequel, if you will, Color of Money, which is

the way I love, I love sharing those movies with people. Now, is that because Color of Money is such a as you were saying, a banger, a hit, like the music everything boom, we gets you into these characters whereas you know a little more meditative, you know, a little more deliberate and slow and again black and white and all those, you know, things that some people estemily have issues with to watch The Hustler, But if they love the Color

of Money, then you're okay. Now let's go back in time and watch how the son of a Gun became who he was, See where the fast that he came from. But I just I just think it's a great I love that scene because it's it sets it sets a tone. It's I mean, same thing with these ones that you say not to use, you know, Glorious Baster's raiders, you know, like where it sets a tone. It's not that you're taking care of of But then he's fucking great at what he does, and he's like and you're like, boom,

you I know who the hustler is. I know what he's, what his deal is. Let's let's let's let's see what happens. But I think it was it Hitchcock or somebody that said that, like, you know, if you make a person good at their job, they're more likable, like that that's

inherently likable or something some version of that. It may not be Hitchcock, that's interesting, but I think I like Stephen King doesn't, or like, you know, some King has the thing about how people in stories they love people at what they love people's jobs, but with they're good at it. I guess I feel like that there's someone there's there's something in my head that I've put in

there a long time ago. I've attributed it to Hitchcock, but but maybe that's just all actors are cattle, and I'll just try to find the rosier side of it, you know. But it's something about if you know someone's good at their job, you know they're they're they're inherently interesting, maybe more than likable, but interesting, and so like I love that Martin Riggs and lethal Weapon is a fucking like badass shot. Yeah, you know, like right, like like the fact that he could take a dude out from

from that far away. It was great. It's like he's not just crazy, he's also very good good yeah right, but yeah, the Hustler is one that that that that comes to mind. We use the end in episode we do. Yeah, that was a fun day on set to like to show all those those young fellas like me holding on my iPad like Lloyd Dobbler in his boombox and saying anything, I'm like holding up the November like this is what we're doing. This is what we're doing.

I mean that the Fear character most specifically, and the song is perfect. But just watching everybody take their little moment and knowing what we're doing. It's quickly specific handshake for everyone yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, or tap hero tap there and then and then you tap on the sign and off we go onto the finale. What's the greatest ending? Do you know? My answer? I've talked about a lot. We watched it in the writer's room, not a bunch of beliefs. I remember it being the thing even this

last season. I think third Man. Oh yeah, like yeah, I mean we specifically was the ending? Yeah, we never used that day right now? I forget. I remember why we watched it. There's there's something, there's something in the show that's that's rooted, isn't it visually?

I just think it's badass. And it's so you got the Anton kars score, you got the you know, like the leading man leaning against his car and here she comes walking down this beautiful tree line street and you

know what's gonna happen. You know what's gonna happen. And then she did what happened, and it's it takes it takes a while, and it's not but it's one of those times that one of those things that we talked about like in the in the writs room here and there's like, yes, scene can take its time when it has a good you know I would say punchline, like even if it's not for a laugh, it's like, oh but if you know what it is, like we could take we could have James Tart like keep needling his

son from and make that slow walk across the room because we know that Roy's gonna make that quick rock across after after he gets escorted out, so it's gonna be like this, and then you're then you don't even know. We didn't have the George Harrison's on at that point, but you knew. It's like it's one of those things that you I know, it'll it'll present itself when it's supposed to be. You know, It's just we didn't need

it there. It already had music to it. I had you know, lifts and drops and falls, and you know like it felt orchestrated in a way that was just like working. I mean, we pretty much worked backwards from that Hug if I remember correctly, like not or to a degree, like I remember seeing the Hug very clearly, and just feel like, Okay, what's your favorite film? I

don't know if I've seen it yet. You know, having a dad who didn't necessarily or still having a dad who doesn't necessarily know his role or or or didn't have it to pull from whether what to do or what not to do, just not there. And then being an older brother. I feel like movies and certainly television provided me with a bunch of examples of older brothers,

you know, uncles. It was always kind of funny to have like a famous uncle when I also had all these other people that almost maybe subconsciously considered uncles, whether it be Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton and people that I've actually like got to hang out with at this point through we started out live or just you know, one reason or another. Music was always that felt that way too. That it's hard for me to say what

the favorite is because it changes. It changes all the time, changes all all the time to day to day, the day that you were assassinated. Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to shake it, but it keeps like post society, which I wouldn't haven't mentioned at all, but it's like it's like human and Christmas.

the woman he yearns for. But no, there were in times going past, like like when I when I would do like I didn't do plays in high school, I would do like a speech and debate class, and we would do scenes. We would do like scenes from like plays, but sometimes from movies and like you know, a few good men with the court room scene, you know you can't handle it, tru I'd play the Tom Cruise part.

My buddy Ryan would play the Jack Nicholson parsity of to like you know, seventeen year olds trying to do you know, like heavy duty scene like I want the truth, you know, did you order the code red? And we would do it for like, you know, on Saturday mornings at like competing high school, you know, for like whatever for class credit and grades and whatnot. But I would always try to do an impression straight up of like trying to do Tom Cruise, like his cadence how when

he got mad? At how he and how he got mad, And it was kind of interesting, and I sort of took that same idea like the Second City when I when I worked there, because when you first worked there, if you get the chance, like in the touring companies, you do archives scenes, you do scenes that you know people had done before. And I would pick scenes based on, you know, a couple of people that I really really aspired, you know, to be, like a guy named Scott ad Said,

guy named Kevin Dorf. They were both like, you know, heroes of mine, and Kevin even at that point, even being like an older brother mentor to me when I first got there, and I'd watch their scene and I

would just basically do impressions of them. But people didn't know you're doing impressions of them because they weren't qute unquote famous, like as if you were doing Humphrey Bogart or something like that, Chris Farley, you know, And for me, it was just all about trying to serve the peace, trying to get the same laughs that the person who created the role got right. So now I'm not trying to like keep up with that tally board in my

head trying to get those lasts. So then it was like when doing when saying yes, the Dead Post Society, I'd already worked second city that had heroes or you know standing above me started out live like heroes legends like you know that just as ghosts standing and then in some real life, you know, in the living legends like you know, Wig and Bill and Andy and you know friend et cetera, you know, like right next to

me at the same read through table. So I was like used to like taking on something Robin had just passed Robin and Robin Williams had just passed, you know, with you know, just a little it prior. And I just loved that role. I loved that role growing up. I loved watching it. I would always answer the question if you weren't doing what you're doing now, what would you do? Is like, oh, I'd like to coach basketball and teach you know, teach English or teach like you know,

theater or something like that. So I here I get to pretend to be a teacher for a little bit as a you know, as a new a new father. I mean, I remember us performing that piece, that story the night of the election in twenty sixteen, you know, and it was very surreal to like and then and then even more surreal to do it in the in the nights following, you know, when they are like protests in Union Square Park, like, you know, just two blocks away from where we were, and yet when I go there.

I went by there in between after a rehearsal and before our show, and I would I run into Josh Charles, who played Knoxcover Street. I was like, hey, and I'd known him because he'd come to see improv shows all the time. I say, hey, I'm doing this thing. He goes, oh, it's so great. He was, you know that in the movie John Keating was dying and then and then uh, Peter Weird told Tom to take that out. It's like, don't don't have him die, And I haven't die because

that kind of takes away from the whole story. I mean, I'm telling you this is probably like gonna be sixty five percent correct based on the retaelling retelling, So you know, someone might know the story better and I would defer, but yeah, but just for him to share that, that was like, he's just very human with it, and he's you know, he's supportive of it, and like, you know,

but then I go back and there, hey, I'm met. Yeah, you know, you know, I met, I saw and he said, you know, good luck and break a leg and he's excited, excited for us, and so asking the way those things change, and just even even during production and process and and yeah, Tom Shuman won the Oscar for that screenplayer. Would he have if if if he'd been dying, I don't know,

or would people have been like that's too much. Just have him, get him, have the have the romantic get booted from the school because of bureaucracy, and we'll vote for that.

pulled the trigger bank back of the head dead. I remember when a sway can you replicate it with your web? They had a silence around. I was walking along the court, walking around to Brooklyn, right with my coffin, you know what I'm like, and I see lot of people standing around the court not playing. I'm like, play boat, what are we doing? And everyone goes I think the former president's been shot. I go, what former president?

take across to the other side. And on the other side is maybe night every night, what film are you taking to show? The tacos in Heaven? Is your maybe Jason c Day case place.

just call it a cloud. Yeah, okay, you can have that, and then take Sleepless in Seattle.

well we got it. And is that anything you would like to tell people to look out for listen to in the coming Yeah, those angels that we spoke about earlier, Yeah, look out for those guys. Yeah, keep an eye out for him or if you can't see one, it must mean you are supposed to be that for someone else. Like really like, if you.

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