Quinta Brunson • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #214

roy T Bennett, I'd agree with that. Well done. Every week and 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 Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and even said Jambles. But this week it's the multi Emmy winning superstar, the one and only, Quinta Branson. Head over to the Patron at patron dot com for Slashbreck Golstein, where you get

an extra fifteen minutes of chat with Quinter. We talk about beginnings and ending. She tells me a secret. You also get the whole episode. I'm Carton ad free and as a video. Check it out over at patreon dot com. Forward Slashbreck Golstein. So Quinta Branson, Come on, she's amazing. She's a writer, she's a creator, she's an actor, she's a producer. She is now an Emmy winner. She's done the impossible. She has created a network sitcom that is

universally beloved across the world and also by critics. She came up with stars in Producers, writes everything Abbott elementary. If you're in the UK and you haven't seen it, you can't get it on Disney Plus. But I'm sure you've seen it by now. Everyone should watch it. It's brilliant. I'd known her a couple of years. I was delighted to record this over Zoom with her. We did it a few weeks before she became an Emmy winner, and we were recording in the middle of her work schedule,

so it was amazing. She gave me this time and it was lovely. I think you're really gonna like this one. So that is it for now. I very much hope you enjoy episode two hundred and fourteen of Films to Be Buried with Hello and Welcome to Films to be

buried with. It is me Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today by an Internet star, a cable star, a network star, a writer, a comedian, a sketch a showrunner, a actor, award winner, a award winner, a award winner, multi multi, multi award winner and multi award nominee, a hero and the future of humanity and the leader of the free world. She's also stand up. Please welcome to the show. Your hero, am mine. It's the one that

Ailie she is. It's Quinta Branson. Hi. What a crazy intro crazy crazy crazy dru Hi bred Hi, Quinta, How are you? I'm good? How are you? I'm good? Thank you, thank you for doing this with me. Now, I met you through Ashley Nicole Black. I believe we met at the Ted Lasser season two premier. Is that where we first met? Yes, And I said, what's you up to? And he said, I'm working on a little show, lovely little show called Abbott Elementary and I thought, well, good

luck with that. And then you turned out you made one of the best news shows there is and you have now been multi multi, multi, multi award winning and multi At this point of recording, nominated for many Emmys. You've had the most successful, biggest writing sitcomb of network TV ever so in recent time, but in recent time. But yes, and you're not doing you are made recording season two? Is that correct? Yes, we are in the middle. We just finished shooting our fifth episode and so our

fifth week of shooting. But we're in the writer's room. We've been in there since May. We're actually next door to a lot of your people, deser people. Yeah, we share our office wall. So wow, forgive me. Are you the showrunner as well on that SHOWE? I am? I am. I have two wonderful co showrunners and co producers, Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacher, who we're like a three headed beast. Because I do so much on the show. It is definitely hard to be I wouldn't even want to be

the Souls showrunner. But also because with Abbit, I'd never show run before, and Justin and Pet so great at it, so I'm happy to be in this three headed beast with them. Okay, I know you've been talking a lot about the show, but can I ask you like practical stuff because I'm so fascinated. For the record, I love your show. I think it's fucking brilliant, and I also think it's so hard and rare for a sitcom to nail it in the first episode, and that pilot is

a fucking banger. It's so funny, it sets up everything perfectly, and all the cast of characters are already funny and already they're part you know what I mean. Like it feels like, oh, this is the show. Whereas most shows take three or four to find it, you had it episode one, and so my first question I would like to ask is about like the casting of it, because it's also there's no big names in it, and I

disrespect to anyone. Yeah they're all incredible, but it's not like you were casting famous is So how how much was that something you fought for? How much was the network behind you? Because network, I believe I've never worked in it, but I understand networks very difficult. You get lights of nights of nights and there's lots of people you have to please, And how did that work for you in the early stages before it was a proven thing. So I was super intentional about getting a certain type

of cast. As a TV watcher, I'm always just in love with being introduced to new talent, it's so exciting, and not only because you know they're new, but it helps you to fall in love with the character a

little bit more. I think, using the show You're on as an example, Ted Lasso introduced me to a whole crop of new talent, and I think that that helped me to fall in love with those characters even more, knowing nothing about their lives or past roles like that, and I thought that I just thought that was really important for a sitcom, and with it being a mockumentary, I really wanted to have. I wanted people to feel

like it was real. Like we all watch TV. We know that television isn't real, but I do think there's beauty in maintaining the illusion for as long as you can so that audience members are able to get fully invested in this story. And so it was a little bit of a won't say fight. There were many discussions with the network about me really wanting to stay true to my roots, on having a mix of new faces and then faces the audience would be familiar with, but

who weren't mega famous. I felt like Cheryl Lee Rolph, who plays Barbara, was the cap for me because many people know her right, She's just fantastic, wonderful, beautiful part of many of my favorite films growing up in TV shows, but she still wasn't this mega famous household name, and I saw an opportunity that to present her with really good work that would kind of push her over that threshold.

And then Tyler James Williams is no stranger to TV for sure who plays Gregory, but he hadn't been Sometimes it's also about just giving someone a role that they haven't had yet. And for instance, on the one role that the network and I kind of had a big

push pull on was the role of Ava. And they had a lot of big names that they were interested in, but it was very important to me that Ava, the character got to be brand new and got to come with no baggage or preconceived notions, and I wanted, I knew the character would be very fresh and brand new to TV, kind of incomparable to anything else that I had seen in recent time, and I thought a fresh face was the best way to convey that to the audience,

and we got multiple reads from people, but when Janelle auditioned, it became super clear that she was the essence of what that character was. And for me, the discussion it was kind of over. Yeah, And like you said, like networks, they like to have the names because they think the names will bring the viewers. And yes, that's true sometimes, but I kind of believe that essence is what you know, makes people fall in love more than just a big name.

I've talked about this when we've done like press Ted Lasser, but I felt with Ted Lasser, I know that you know, most of us were fairly yeah it similarly un not unknown, but we've all done stuff but no one knew who were so let's say yeah. And I definitely remember that first read through. Everyone's very nervous and stuff like that, and there's there's pressure and all those things. But I do remember the episode four read through was the was

the time where I really felt like everyone clicked. Like I looked around the room and everyone was so in it and we all had chemistry with each other and we all got each other, we got the show, and it was a real moment. It was really like a fun read through that where it was like, this is it, this is the show, and I when did you have that failing with everyone or was it really early. I think it was very early. I think, you know, we asked,

we didn't do chemistry reads. I think the only one that would have been done realistically was me and m Tyler. But Tyler was the first cast it. I kind of

as soon as I started writing that role. I had Tyler and we had already worked together before, and everybody else just showed up on the day and I think we were shooting one of our first big scenes altogether, and it was clicking in a way that was a little bit strange for all the actors, like whoa, you know, there's a bunch of people who have done a bunch of TV and film before. It never really had that feeling that their timing was so well matched up with

each other. But you know, I think I did know that when casting the show, I once again there were certain things I was looking for. It wasn't just the person being a good actor or knowing the character well, but it's like, well, how will their version, how will Lisa Lisa and Walt version of Melissa play with Cheryl Lee Roll's version of Barbara. So I think that a good ensemble comedy is like harmony in a song where it's like, well, I want to lay this vocal track

over this vocal track to make a beautiful song. And I knew that these people would be able to do that. So it was really the when we were shooting the pilot, and then for me in editing, I was just like, oh my god, these people edit so well together. Yeah, that's such a good I still get that feeling while we're editing of just oh, we don't have to do too much, you know. And once again, especially with mocumentary, everything's being filmed all at once, and of course we

get different taps. But to sometimes have one scene where we don't have to cut to another angle the entire time if we didn't want to, I think it's really really really powerful. What about I just want to know one sort of practical thing. It's hard making a show and very very very very lucky. But you're in the position where so on you your your ki running, but you're writing, you're acting, And well I didn't understand about Network TV is you're writing the show, was making the show.

How far? How many episodes have you written when you started filming? So season one was eleven episodes? That right, Season one was thirteen episodes. Season two, you got the full of twenty two episodes. When I saw that announcement, I genuinely I thought, I felt like, oh, congratulations, what a night to think, Oh you're gonna did your heart sick? Hell? It was such a bittersweet feeling. I was both thank you, but also is this a threat? Like? What the fuck?

Is so much TV? And we were really fortunate because the first season was so here in America on network TV. I'm not sure if it works for you know, network or what is considered network over there, but like we were mixed episodes healthy, um, but network for network, you

have fall pickups in mid season pickups. Abben Elementary for the first season was a mid season pickup, but we shot the entire series, wrote and shot the entire series, and way before the show aired, we read filming in the Leader in the show filmed in January and this year not the case. So this show is airing in the fall. So right now we just finished filming episode five, will be starting six next week, and our writers room

we now just finished episode to ten. We're outlined, we're outlined to two twelve, and my coach, show runner Justin has done he did such a good job of making sure we were very far ahead so that by time I had to set to film, you know, the first half of the season was pretty much laid out, and I wanted to lay out the rest of the season so that my writers, everybody had a north star they were going to. And I'm still hyper involved. I am definitely a person that Don't get me wrong. I love

my actors. I love being on set, and I'll love acting, but I also love being in that writer's room. So I'm fortunate enough that you know, once again, because this is mockumentary, a little known fact that's really exciting is

your day is finished much faster than the typical. So we finished filming every day usually around three, and if we're fortunate, we'll wrap shooting before lunch because we just it's fast, and I'll just go back up to the writer's room and you know, really right if I can really go through all of the stories and the outlines help create the stories. But every episode as of now is laid out so that we know where we're going. And I think that's when did you last sleep? So

I chose to sleep yesterday. Yesterday was the first day in a very long time that I didn't do anything. I stayed in the house, I did laundry, I caught up on some TV shows I was really excited to watch, and I didn't do anything. And that was the first time probably in like three months. Part of that is my fault, though, because I like to go out and like some days when I could go home. I do like to go out with my writers. I like to go out and like drink and stuff and have fun.

But I chose to just take it easy yesterday, which was nice. Quinna, this is awful. I've forgotten to tell you something, and it's so bad after hearing all of this, because what I don't have to tell you. We could just carry on without. But I should have told you. I'll tell you. I'll just tell you. You died. You're dad, You're dad. Oh? The podcast, Oh god, oh, this is my favorite part of the podcast. I don't want to be dead. Well I'm afraid you are, and I forgot

about it. Becaust side that, but then I remember it. You're actually dead? How did you die? Oh? I hate this part um things. It's good. I like people that death show. I just wish it was like everyone at the same time like meteor, everyone goes, okay, you want a mass extinction event. I don't want that, But for the purposes of this, I would love if no one, you know, no one had to miss me and no one had to be sad, and y'all just go out with a nice, beautiful song and we know what's coming.

Everyone gets to prepare and hold on to their loved ones, including me. What's the song we're singing is the meteo. There's a beautiful song by Many Ripperton called Let's Floors and I love it. It's a beautiful song. I just love that song. That song. I think it's so pretty, ingorgious. Quite for everyone to sing that song, but I love it. You know, it'll be quite funny everyone. Okay, So everyone's like holding hands singing mini ripton and then the media

but they're not singing. It's playing. Okay. It's a lovely song to go out to, for sure, and then met your hits. Everyone's instantly dead. I like that to spare people being sad about you dying. You've decided to kill everyone. That's a very selfless act. You've done that. Thank you to spare them. I'll take you all with me. Selfless in shelf and selfishness. They're only you know close. Do you worry about death? No, I wouldn't say I worry. I know it comes for everyone. Been dealing with it

a lot lately. I worry about not living my life in a way that doesn't. You know. I don't want to call for it. I don't want to pull it towards my life. I want to try to take care of myself and my mind and body and spirits so that I'm not calling it upon me or dancing with it. I would love to stave it off as long as possible. I'm not a friend, you know, afraid of it? Do you think? What do you think happens when you die? Is there enough to life? I have two schools of

thought I think I don't. I don't think that like if there is one, I'm not sure you get to carry your consciousness with you. I think people will have this version where your consciousness, your current state of conscious follows you. But I don't think that's true. I think, oh, you think we just take our buddies, We just take our buddy. No, no, no, but just like a soul, that is the same soul that I have. But not my consciousness, not all the things I know or people

I know. But I do think a soul could travel somewhere else and you just don't get to take your what you know with you. And then I have one theory that that's it put your downe. So you're soul premise is that all the things that we think, the way our mind works, it's all just kind of baggage that's in the way of our soul. And our soul is actually a much purer thing. It's not. Yeah, our

consciousness is like just shit that we've picked up. Yeah, absolutely, because your consciousness based on you know, where you are, where you live, where you're from. And I think that everyone kind of has a pure soul to start with. Yeah, And I think that all the other stuff, like you know, it's stuff that even in America we always think everyone

thinks like us. But like, I'm pretty sure I don't think the same way as a kid who's born in a ward torn country who has and survival skills and tactics,

different outlooks on life, relationships, love. But I do think that a soul is a pretty pure thing and that can transfer to I know, not where, and I know not what But yeah, I do think that I love that has not been said on this podcast before you make Really I got really interested in just theology as a whole, like just religion, the concept of it and what's at the base of it. And for most religions, um even for people who who are agnostic, the base is still like good and evil. And I think that,

you know, like, yeah, dark forces are a thing. They're they're at play at any given time, and some people materialize those things as the devil or you know, if you go by comic book theory, you a villain, like you know, but it's all the same stuff. It's just good, good and good and evil, I think, And so I

think that that's why I look at it. So you think, because I never know if I think like people are born evil or things like that, like I tend to, maybe far too optimistically think that that isn't the case and people can change and whatnot. But you think there are some things that's just evil. Yeah, I think I've right enough about the psychology of some of the most nefarious people of all time, and it seems as though there was a component missing, you could say, in their brain.

But then there are other scholars who are like something actually missing in the makeup of their soul more than they're like a lack of empathy or humanity that most people are born with. So I think in some cases, there are some people who have done very very heinous things,

right like who I wouldn't necessarily consider soulless. But then there's some people who have also done very very bad things who I will read about and I'm like, I am wondering if a soul was ever yeah, ever there at all, because you think about some people who have killed in the name of their their lord and was told it was right. They're just going by the conditioning

of their upbringing or their surroundings. But then I think I'll read about some other people and I'm like, yo, what the fuck, Like, oh, nothing led to this except like you just came out of baby and just like decided to be awful. I read a story recently about someone who's so dark and I don't need to talk about to hear from someone who did a horrible, horrible man serial killer, and you know, they were like, we don't know if from birth he had the thing that

makes you care about another human being. That frightens me I know it's so scary. Well, so where does your pure self go? Because you're obviously not evil, and if you are, my god, you've been very clever hiding it. Wow, then your profit like a mast. No, I think life is probably easier for people who are just string of people to be honest, like the lack of empathy problem. Its things very simple for them. But no, I think I don't know. I hope into like either another good

person or a plant of our just love. I love plants and I think they're being and they give oxygen, and yeah, I think they're really cool. I have a plant I love now that just goes and finds its son and comes back, and I'm like, it's just fucking living, just doing what it needs to do. Mind in its business. As weeds. Okay, you guys, I don't know why weeds exist?

Why just the fuck? If I ever did make like an animated movie, I feel like I would try to make it about plants and weeds because but it's so boring, like I'm not I don't have the distematics for this yet, or you need to talk they will make it, make it, make you think. Wait, let's code eva weeds. I know and weeds. I don't really see the purpose other than to kill other plants. I'm kind of confused about that

place in nature. And if I got to ask, you know, God or whoever a couple of questions, I'd be like, so why though, like why? I love? Okay, you've got two questions with God. Your first one is why waits? What's your second one? My second one? This is your audience with God. I'd like to know about dinosaurs, like I have a few questions about yes, just yeah, like like what's up with rhinoceros? Are they are they the least? What's up? Like? Just tell me the deal? Are they

coming back? Or what do we just when I see a right aster, so I'm like, that's crazy. No one's going to address that that is still here. I don't know. Yes, I feel like I'm getting off topic. This is why podcast scare me, because now I'm sounding like a great, great question, Oh God, You're asking God why weeds? Why rhinos? And God's like you had two questions, fair play. They

were good ones, the weeds one, though. We don't cover a lot though, if you think about it, I would start with weeds, but then we get to where we need to go right. Fucking rhinos, Ryan as a fucking Morgan dinosaurs. Shit fucking hell, Quinta. Anyway, listen, good news. There is a heaven actually and your people, so yourself goes to it. And this is before you inhabit a plant. What is filled with your favorite thing? What's your favorite thing?

Krab legs. I don't know if you'll regret saying that, because when you get to heaven, the wolves are made of krab legs. The chairs are made of crabs. They it's okay, you made your choice. It's quite comfortable that you know they've been dshelled. You're on these crab legs. Giant crab leg chazz, can I change answer? No, it's crab legs serving krab legs, giant krab legs walking around with trays of krab legs. But they're all very excited to see you in crab leg heaven and they want

to talk. They're huge fans and they want to talk about your life, but they want to talk about it through film. And the first thing they ask you, what's the first film you remember seeing, Quincy Branson, The first film I remember seeing is Jurassic Park. We're back to dinosaurs. I know, what an amazing first film to say, how how old are you? Where were you? How did this happen? So that was five. My brother was obsessed with dinosaurs, obsessed, and I had to see this movie with him because

he wanted to see it. How old is he? How about was it? What's your page? My brother's eight years older than me. Was five, so he was thirteen and I do that, mathe? I think I did. Yes, No, there's five of us because of your name. Yeah, I'm the last, and then the rest are all much older than me. So this is my closest brother who was babysitting me at the time, but he needed to see this movie so and I think for that reason, it's the first one I remember seeing. I'm sure I saw

movies before that. But it was weird because I wasn't scared of it, even though it could be a really scary movie for kids. But I think it was a film that, even though my brain wasn't there to understand filmmaking, I did. I understood, like dinosaurs don't exist, but I'm seeing them in this movie? How did they do that? And the puppetry was so good. I think it was one of the first things that made me ever even think I cared a lot about film or television on

a deeper level. Yeah, yeah, it's still to this day, that movie The Puppet. It's just unreal. It's it's still so good and holds up so well. Um, And I think I knew that when I was a kid and my brother was obsessed with the dinosaurs. But I was obsessed with the movie, you know, like, yeah, yeah, we scared out your mind. I wasn't. I should have been, but I wasn't. Yeah, too busy loving the craftsmanship of it. So yeah, I think so. And I saw it and

I watched it over and over. Then I got I had on VHS, I will watch it before bed, which is crazy NonStop. But I remember being with him in that theater and watching that movie. Beati, what is the film that scared you the most? And do you like being scared? I don't like being scared. I hate scary movies. The film that scared me the most was The Ring,

the original, the American Oh okay, and uh. This was during the time that I think I was maybe like fourteen or fifteen, but scary movies were coming out left and right, like The Ring saw like it was just that time, and so I didn't not Yeah, it was such a time, And I think that's how I learned I didn't like scary movies. Like me and my friends would go to the movies, and you know, it was cool. It was appealing movies on TV. Everyone's talking about it,

you know, and it's one of commercials. So I would go with them to the movies, and I was like, I don't like this. I don't like being scared, Like I'm not a fan of this. And I watched the whole movie and I liked it and appreciated it, but I was like, I don't enjoy being scared. That's not what not for your girl. So The Ring really didn't for me. That might have been the last scary movie I had ever seen. I do not like them. Don't like it. Wow, I don't even like movies making fun

of scary movies like scary movie that. Yeah, I don't like that. I don't enjoy it. It's not a laughing matter. You should be what's the fam that made you cry the most? And now you are crying? And to be honest, I know you are because I saw you are. Jimmy Jimmy Kimo and you made me cry. I know anyone listening you hasn't seen it. Quincy went on Jimmy Kimo

and they surprised her with her elementary teacher. I'd like to take this moment to say, I'm not like, I don't cry a lot, but I'd also like, I feel all of my emotions very openly. So if I am gonna cry, I like, I can't stop it because that's just what's gonna happen. And it's just been happening to me a lot lately on TV. But I just want people to know. Yeah, I mean, I just I don't know.

And sometimes it's just a lot of them. Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm happy, and there's so much happening right now and going on, and sometimes you know, the tears just start falling. But the movie that made me cry, the mo was I'm actually about but I'm proud of and it was Avenger's Endgame right right, so much like a baby at Tony Start dying. Marvel was just very big for me. I mean, it's been a decade of my life.

It's from The Iron Man was a movie that I loved and adored and just thought was so well directed and well acted and was so well done. And then you know, Marvel turned into Marvel and I had to be there every step of the way. And because they have a toe hold on my life, apparently, Sony was just so big for me. It's funny because like people always talk about representation, and I know it's ridiculous, but like Iron Man was one of the first movies where I was like, that is me. I am that man. Wow,

And he was just really big for me. I love this unapologetic human who made a choice to do better, and I just I just love that character. Wow. I've only watched In Game three times because of how much it hurts to watch it. It's really moving in the end. It's really it's really impressive what they did. Good job.

People don't give it credit, and people may like try to start the ship train the way people do, but that was an incredible feat to have, you know, a decade worth of films come together like that, and you know, it's just something I'm not sure we'll ever see you again. What's the film that you love? Most people don't like it, it is not critically acclaimed, but you love it unconditionally. I love this question. It is a film called Daddy's Home that I love very very much. Well. Daddy's Home

stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlbert. Oh okay, and the sequel is with Mel Gibson sunfo okay, so sorry, Daddy's Type Yes, Mickey, miche will back and Will Farell and I fucking love that movie, the first one. The first time I saw it was on a plane, and you know, I had been drinking. I was laughing out loud on the plane, just crying, laughing, crying. I think it's so fucking funny and stupid. And I'll watch it. I'll make

other people watch it. Like actually told like my writers and I was like, everyone needs to go home and watch this film, right because I love it. Because it's not critically acclaimed. It's just good jokes. It's really sweet storyline honestly about these you know, the stepdad trying to get it together. It's classic Will Farrell but also not anyone's favorite Will Ferrell film except for mine. Um, it's so dumb. It's just it's just a perfect movie. Hannibal

Breast is perfect in it. The kids are hilarious. I love it. I love it. On the other hand, what's the film that you did love? You loved it, but you've watched it again raisent and you thought, I don't like this anymore. Whatever the answer, man, this one hurts. But Anchorman from Will to Will, I know. I yeah, you look at it. It's not holding up for me. But I'm not throwing it away. I'm not like, let's cancel it. It just was very important for me at

a very formative time in my life. Like those one liner, those catchphrases are part of the reason that I started loving and doing comedy so much. But I did watch it again recently with my niece and I was like, oh, it's it's starting to age for me in a way that a little rough. Yeah, but it's just knowing that the comedy was of a certain time, yes, and that's okay. Yeah, it's not as timeless as I thought it would be. I've talked about this before, but They is the thing

that I think dates the most of all things. And they and any comedies that that sort of floor tend to not date are comedies that are just silly, yeah, just physical or like, but comedies with dialogue to date. It's so interesting too, because some comedies remain really good, although I think that some comedies are representative of what we find funny at a certain time. Yeah, and that doesn't mean that they're not good when it's past that time.

I always think about the Three Stooges at a certain point, like hitting each other. You know, that was the height of comedy, Like everyone was like, oh my god, this is fucking art. And now we look back at that and it's like all right. But then there's another movie I love with Marilyn Monroe and um Jane Russell. It's the It's the movie that Diamonds Are Girls Best Friend Gentlemen. And I think that's like a perfect timeless movie, even

though it was of a certain time. It's something that I'm like, I can actually really be redone now and the story is so good that it could, you know, it's still last. So sometimes I think it's about story too, like what is the story of the film we're seeing? Does it last longer than the time period? But with comedies in particular, that's like so that whole era of like, you know, Ancerman was just a favorite of mine, but the rest of Jeddatles movies all and Adam McKay hold

up really well. But like the Rob Schneider movies of that time, like Hot Chick, so representative of a time. Yeah, and you know, probably a story that should never be told to get but yeah, what's the film that means the mice to you? Not necessarily the film itself is any good, but because the experience you had around saying it will always make it special to you. Quintin Prinson of course. So this one is trans Formers Too. Oh we Avenge of the Fallen. It's not that good, but

I liked it because I loved the first one. The first one came out and when I was graduating high school in two thousand and seven, and that was a movie with me and my friends and you know, my boyfriend at the time. We all went to see Transformers on graduation night and I just loved it. It was a movie that gave me a similar feeling to Jurassic Park, where I was like, how did they do this? Like I need to know how they did this? And it also still holds up. They did a good job with that,

like rendering in CGI. And then Transformer Too was coming out and I had this one summer with my boyfriend he had gone away to college to Chicago. I stayed in Philly. When he came back for the summer, we found out that Transformers Too was being filmed in Philly. We found out that like they were using University of Penn, the college that was very close to us. And so the truth of the matter is we were hanging onto this relationship by a thread, and that thread was tracking

down where they were shooting Transformers Too. And I mean we were running all over the city, like we hear we heard there at Upen. We're it's a million degrees outside, it's like a hundred degrees. So we're and then we get to Upen and they're like they're they're not here today. They were here like a few weeks ago. And then we talked to a security guard that's like, yeah, I actually think they're shooting like um up up in South Philly.

So we get in the car. We go to South Philly and my brother in law at the time happens to text me. He's like, hey, Quinta, I know you like Transformers. They're shooting at the Farmer's Market today. I'm like, oh my god, we have to go down to We're just getting anonymous tips and looking for Optimist Prime to be riding around in the streets, which you know, which was dumb. We wound up finding where they were filming two days in a row. One was at this market and I got to watch from afar and it was

so exciting. I actually got to meet Michael Bay and like, take a picture. Oh you really did? You got you got to them? I did. Now, looking back, I'm like, I can't believe. I have no idea. I look at that picture and just knowing how things work, now, yeah, I cannot believe I made it that far. I can't believe he took a picture with me. I just just excuse me. He was. He was. They were right on the street and he was, and I just I don't know. I was very bold. I definitely was like what did

you say to it that? I loved the movie the first one, and I was so excited about the second one, and at that point I was kind of a fan because he had also done Bad Boys. I was like, whoa, you're really good and he took up. I couldn't believe he took this picture, and he like unbuttoned his shirt one button before taking it too. That's one thing I remember, and then um, the next day he did he did,

which is hilarious to me. And then the next day they were filming um at this big cemetery and and my boyfriend and I tried to find that and then what was stupid, which we didn't think would be the case, we actually did wind up seeing Optimus Prime from this the highway. Now he was It's a big truck and where they happened to half him, we could just see him barely. It's this area called Kelly Drive, and I'm like,

I can't believe this. So we go up there and it was it's the cemetery scene in the movie where Optimis Prime is there and Bumblebee and we got to see like shy La buff and making. It was just like so unreal and able to see such a big, massive movie being made in this very urban area. And so it just meant a lot to me because it was like kind of my first time seeing a little bit behind the filmmaking process. And when I went to go see it, I was like, wow, I was there.

I saw that, and you know it was cool. Did you guys see it with the people that you've been chasing around time? With it now because we had broken up by time, so it's also important to me for that reason. It was like, yeah, you know, I had this thing that was ending, and yeah, so when the thing all you together was funny Transformers and when Michael bay under this top about and did you turn to your boyfriend and guy, we're finished? No? I was so god.

I was so young and shit, maybe in eighteen nineteen. Okay, I started college at seventeen. That was the first summer, so I was, yeah, I was probably eighteen too young. That's amazing. What is the filming most relate to? And is it art Man? I changed it? I was like, I'm not gonna say that. The one I most relate to is this movie called Loving Basketball, right, and yeah, right, Okay,

I'm happy you've seen it. I just loved it. I think it was the most relatable coming of age story, so to speak, for like a black girl that I'd ever seen, and one that was so good at a sport that she didn't have any doubts about how good she was at basketball. Her life was harder because she was so good at basketball and so iron man esque. You see what kind of characters I'm trying towards my question about oh, is it a lot of pressured everywhere?

But can you're like no, I know understand why because you're fucking iron man. You know you're the best at basketball. Give a shit your words and not mine. I love it. I love it, but that is why I've never I don't. I don't have I understand the emotion and acknowledge like the idea of imposter syndrome, but that is not something I've ever suffered. I feel very good at what I do, and if anything, like I said, my life is harder because I refuse to pretend that I'm not. And I

like that. The first person I've met who and I'm saying this is a this is amazing. I think you're the first person I've met doing what you do in this world who doesn't experience him post to say, and that's incredible. I mean, I want you a brain. You're very good at what you do. You know that I haven't busted syndre you never had just and okay, so then we're talking about seals and talking about all this stuff.

Do you think the fact that you're like that, which by the way, is an incredible trait, and you know a wonderful thing. Do you think you were born that way? Do you think it was instilled in you through your upbringing? Is it like Camua like that, because not many people that I feel like it was instilled in me and

my upbringing. For one, I grew up in dance within a very like I was a dancer, which was for me my world was a very positive environment made me very comfortable with like my body, talent, all of that. Really early on my parents were they did a very healthy thing where it wasn't like they cowdled me and told me I was like the best in the world or anything. They were actually very realistic with me at every turn of like what was possible, what would be hard,

what my strong points were. My mom especially, I think we had a relationship where her fears for me were based in what she knew I was capable of. And I think we had a very honest conversation about that at one point too, where it was like, all right, so your worries are because you're like worried about what you created and kind of and I said, I don't know, I just I don't know. I also trust that like wherever I wind up is where I'm supposed to be too,

and if not, I'm not supposed to be there. I think that gives me a lot of help with not feeling impostor syndrome. And I think like, if you had a dream and then you achieved it, then that's what you were working to her. You were working in accordance with it, and I feel like you you probably wanted to act right. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's just funny hearing you because because it's this thing I find so fascinating, where like, yeah, everything was saying makes perfect sense, like

the insecurity, I posted anxiety. All this stuff is a lot of wasted energy that gets in the way of the thing you're ultimately going to do. I know you're saying, is yeah, I just don't have that annoying bit in the middle. It's amazing. And I don't think that we need to. I think it's like, I don't think we need Yeah, I don't think that we have to. I don't think that you have that to take the place of humility. I think that I still don't feel like

I don't think I'm the best. I think I'm the best Quinta though, I think that like I am the best version of me. And I don't think I'm like the best things. I think I thought we were talking movies, Brett, we are, but we're really talking. It's how it is. Wow, you are iron Man? Oh you're right. Come and then let's um, let's get let's get real. What's the sexiest one we've ever say, Quinte. This one was a hard one. This one was really hard for me. No, I had

a hard time thinking about this. I even went through my movie library to be like, what is in here that I consider like super sexy? Um, but I landed on Hitch that movie. I think it's just a super classy sexy movie. Like I love the music and I love the so it's not like sexy like hot, but I find it to be really jazzy and classy and um, I love the look and feel of that movie and the why of the movie. You love Kevin James, And I can't blame you. What there's a subcategory. Yes, I

saw this one. Traveling Baton is worrying? Why Duns? What's the film you founder rousing? You weren't sure you should? Was it? Poe Cup? No, it's actually like Wolf of Wall Street like that I should not be attracted to Leonardo DiCaprio on that or like the Wall Street World, or like the Drugs or the you know, like horrible people doing a couple of things. But I find the movie. I find him really attractive in the movie, and I find you know, like the Wall Street Grind really attractive.

And I think Margot Robbie is just like super like either're not a good couple, but I find it to be a super hot couple. It sucks. I'm embarrassed to say that. I find it That movie is very like arousing to me. That is really a perfect answer, and that film is interesting for me because I love my sulcise. When I saw that film the first time, I hated that film. First time I saw I really didn't like it, and I was like, I don't think I got it.

I sort of was like, this is a horrible film and I don't understand its point of view, and I just really sort of took against it. I found it. I don't know, I didn't like it. And then I saw it again a year later, copies out, and I was like, this film's fucking brilliant. I didn't realize how funny it was. It's a really funny film, and I was like, oh, I get it now, I get what you're doing. And yeah, all the things that you're feeling is exactly what it wants you to it. It's basically

this similar thing that he does in Good Fellas. It's like, yes, oh yeah, you you you hate all these people, do you? Well, how come you're enjoying this so much? How come I'm like Jordan's heart though he has some points, you know, it's not yeah, it's it's a tough one. And I the first time I saw that movie, it's not even my kind of movie, Like I don't like movies like that,

but it just got me. I mean, if something is well directed, well enough, i'll you know, it's quite subtle that film in its way in that it's really unsattible. What it is subtle about is its point of view, because it's going it's from his point of view, so you're you're watching a dickheads dickhead story being told by

the dickhead. But then there's that one scene right near the end of will Street, after Coach has been chasing him and trying to get him, and then the dickhead character is like, fuck you, you wish you a meal or some version of that, and then having got him, you just see him on a subway train on his own and this is his life and it's like it's really good. It's really smart, really good and like, yeah, didn't get that. And it's a scene it's horrible, Like

the relationship between Jordan and his wife is horrible. Check Margot Robbie. But the scene where she like puts his heel her heel on his face. I was like, that is like one of the scenes in the world. Hands down. You're in the middle of this horrible relationship and it shouldn't be. I'm like, is this how people feel about euphoria? I don't know. I just wonder what that scene is how I feel? How do you feel about euphoria? Because you,

for it doesn't quite get me. I understand that the acting is fantastic and it's well, but you know, it's hard for me to watch, but it's some shit. I'm just like, what the fuck were you? What's going on? But I wonder if other people feel that way about euphoria that I feel about like that scene in Wolf of Watch. I don't know, Quincy are a really big respect for the answer people don't take that seriously. That's a that's a proper answer. What is the greatest film

of all time? Objectively? Might number your favorite, but it's the greatest. This was hard. Yeah, and I don't think my answer is good. But I said, catch me if you can, catch me, if you can. I went to see thinking it would be fun. It looked like a fun highest sort of paper. It depressed me for a whole week. I don't It's one of the films that's made me feel the most sad. It's catch so so when you say that's the greatest, I'm like, oh, yeah, that film is horrible. It's not horrible film. I love it.

I love it's such cool storytelling, the going back in time and coming back to the present story. I mean, I think it's so well done. I love Steven Spielberg. I think he put his foot into that one. There are certain scenes of it that are just so powerful to me. When when you know Frank Abergnail learns that his mom is cheating on his dad, his very foundation, you know, his family, what makes him start running in

the first place. You want to root for this kid to you know, you know what's going to catch up with him, but you want to root for him to get out of it by all means. Like I said, I just think it's so well directed. I just love it. I've always loved that movie. I think that everyone's brilliant and it Christopher Walking, um, like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, even like Amy Adams is in it for a little while.

Who I just think it's a fucking beast and she she's so good and even her small partner is so great. I don't know. I think it's a beautiful human story about running away. I think it's really well done, and I think everyone wishes they could run away and get away with it at a point. But it just maybe

it's the greatest film of time. God maybe right, It's just And it like leads to the version of accountability for him, which I like too, even though it's in the form of like working for the CIA, right, which is accountability for him. It's what he's been from an in having to atone for like his sins in a really interesting way. Um. But I think it speaks to the larger theme of like you you can't run away, Like your options at the end are death or you

gotta be accountable. And I think it does such a good job that, even with having the person who was chasing him the whole time, wind up being like a friend that's still like I get you, kid, I do, I like you, but everyone has to be accountable for their actions. And I just I don't know. I love it. I love it even prison wasn't accountable enough for him because he could get out of prison. Well, you can still hate it, right, you can, thought, I don't hate.

I don't hate. I actually think it's brilliant. It just made me so sad, so sad. I think what I hate about Behind is the marketing because the marketing made it like, here's a fun this very fun. It's not fun. It wasn't It might have come out on Christmas too, I'm not sure fun times right. He's got a devastating he's devastated by his dad, normally wants his too, for his dad to tell him he loves him. Oh wait, his dad dies before he ever gets the chance to end.

It was a Christmas movie too, it was yeah, I thought, yeah, I love it. It's I know it's not the best movie of all time too. And I thought a lot about this question. But a lot of the best Time. I don't really like that much, so I think that's a very good outset. What is the film you could or have? What's the most ever and Ever? Again? Okay, the film I can watch the most Over There is a very silly one. It's called Night at the Museum,

Battle at the Smithsonian number two, number two. It's not even the first one, which will be, but I love the second one. It is so funny and so cute. And um, I think it's so fucking funny, Like I love Ben Stiller so much, and um, Amy Adams there's a theme here. Amy Adams is in it. Um. I love the Smithsonian Museum. It's my favorite museum in the world. It's such a good time. So when this movie was taking place there, I was like, oh, like young, um did I try to get there? Yeah? Oh that's too much.

But um Bill Hayter is fucking hilarious in it, so funny. Who else Hank Azaria is so funny. Oh my god, It's like it's so good. That's my multiverse of madness. They've got so many great, great people with great characters in there. I watch it if it's on TV, I stop everything. I'm doing and just watch it. I own it on Blu Ray and DVD on Amazon, like Heaven with You wherever I go, just in case I need a little pick me up. It's so good. That's very sweet. I'd like to be negative. I don't think you do.

Let's do it quickly. What's the worst film you've ever seen? Okay, it's this movie called Blended by Adam Sandler and Umar is in it. I just think it's just awful, just got awful. I do. It's not his best and I think I think Adam Sandler actually does like bad movies really really well. I think he's so good at it, and I admire him for it. I think it really just how it fell about. Just go with it. I'm like,

this is yeah, bad movie done right. And he takes his friends to Hawaii and shoots a movie or Africa, and I love his whole thing. But that one is not good to me. It's not good. You're in commodate. You're a comedian, you're a very successful one. What's the film that made you laugh the most? Meet the Fuckers? That's a great film. That's good, right, It's great. It's so so funny. Every time I see it, and that's your third sequel in this list. I know, I don't

know what it is about. Yeah, that's so weird. Um, it is so funny, so well written, keeps holding up too. It goes back to what I was saying about, like it just keeps standing the test of time. I'm surprised how much it still makes me laugh out loud, even though it came out so long ago and I've seen in a million times once again, fantastic actors. Dustin Hoffman never he makes me laugh from this deep like place that it's like, oh, I know that man, I know, Oh that Just be nice to him, you know. And

Barbara Streisand is incredible in it. She's so lovely and hilarious. The scenarios every time they put, you know, I'm been still learn another situation. I'm always like, oh God, don't do this. I'm only put the baby. You guys know what's gonna It's like it's the first time every time I'm watching it, and I just I love it. So funny, pretty good. Quintet, you have been wonderful and I genuinely I'm very grateful knowing how insanely busy you are there.

You've given me this much of your time. Really appreciate it. However, However, when you were thinking, I don't want to die in for people to be sad, so instead I'm going to put an order for a mass extinction event. We could kill everyone to spare them the pain of being sad because you're and you whacked on Left Flaire by Minnie Ripton up loud, and you said, everyone, come outside, come outside,

I've got something to show you. Everyone held hands, trying to think with me, and then you said you did your dance that you learned when you were young, and really good dance, and everyone was like, oh, this is lovely, and you said look up, look up, and they all looked up, and a giant fucking meteor was hurtling towards them, and as the song reached its peak, the meteor hit you. Hit you was so hard that the only thing that

survived was me. I was underground with some rhinos, just eating twinkies and with some cockroaches and some rhinos, and I was sitting with the rhino playing pover and I was like, which signs all are you? Then he was like, I'm gonna try steratops. You'll know that, and I was like, yeah, I thought, I thought every exactly. Anyway, we wait for the debris to stop raining down. We pop up and I've got a coffin with me, you know what I'm like. And I'm walking around and go, what's that really flat?

That particularly flat? And I go, oh, that's Quinta. That is Quinna is dead. She's to everyone's dead, but quinter in particular is dead. And I get the rhino to dig into the ground with his horn because you are properly in the earth. It's very nice. She's buried herself, but I should put her in a box. Anyway, I get you up with there's lots of rocks and mud and dirt and anyway, there's more of you than I was expecting. I have to stuff you in this coffee.

There's no room in this coffin. There's only enough room for me to slip a DVD into the side for you to take across to the other side. And on the other side, it's movie night every night. What film are you taking to krab leg Heaven to show the giant crab legs? You sit on krab legs when it is your movie night, Quinta Brunson, I will be taking with me Nighted the Museum Battle. Everyone will be so happy. I'll have such a good time. I want to ask brought No one asked by. That's so happy no one

else brought it. They're gonna learn about history. It'll be good. They're gonna laugh, they're gonna cry. It's a good movie. And God's gonna give you your two questions. So I hope you have a wonderful time, Quinta, good luck with everything. I hope that season two guys as well, if not even better than season one. You're brilliant. You are right in man. Is there anything you'd like to tell people

to look out for other than that but elementary? Um? No, Well, speaking of movies, I will be in a movie soon and everyone can watch it. It'll be on the Roku channel. Um, We're the Weird Al Yankovic movie, which I think is really really fun, and I do want to tell people because I think they're gonna enjoy it so much, and in a time where it's fun to enjoy some good silly movies, I think or really enjoy this movie out. Okay,

thank you, Quinta, Thank you Bret. This was fine through a wonderful time, have a lovely death, and I'll see you soon. So that was episode two hundred and fourteen. Head over to patreon dot com, forward slash break Goldstein for the extra fifteen minutes of chat, secrets and video with quinter. Go to Apple Podcast. Give us a five star rating. But right about the film that means the most to you and why that's what we want to read. My neighbor Maureen loves it. It makes her cry. Thank

you all very much for listening. I hope you're all well. Thank you to Quinta for giving me her time. Thanks to Scrubis, Pip and Distraction Pieces of Network. Thanks to Buddy Peace for producing it. Thanks to Acas for hosting it. Thanks to Adding Richardson for the graphics. At least allow them for the photography. Come and join me next week for another amazing guest. So that is it for now. In the meantime, have a lovely week and please be excellent to each others. Backstetststrust back