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is a special showing of a movie called The Good Half. Now, we talked with Elizabeth schu on Monday about The Good Half. We talked with Matt Walsh yesterday about The Good Half, and today we're going to talk to the director and the producer, Robert Schwartzman. And if that name sounds familiar, he's been involved in a ton of stuff between directing and producing and acting. And he comes from like one of the most famous families ever, Uncle Francis Ford Coppola,
cousin Nicholas Cage, cousin Sophia Coppola, brother Jason Schwartzman. I mean, this guy's got a lot of great stuff going on. And again, there's a special showing of the film The Good Half tonight in theaters all around the country, but here in Sioux Falls as well, and you'll get a chance not only to see the movie, you could see an interview with Nick Jonas, who's in this movie, and an interview with Robert Schwartzman. And this looks like a darn good movie.
Thanks for having me. I just want to say you mentioned Elizabeth. Shoot, Matt Walsh. I feel honored to be the third guest. Okay, yeah, so no, it's great. It's great to be here talking about this home. Yeah, we we it's important to go to see movies in theaters. I mean, I we're all like, you know, like people that stay home and not and ordered food and watch movies online or on the streaming platforms. But I just
want to reiterate. I mean, I think there's a beauty to, you know, going out to see a sell on the big screen. It's very powerful to when the lights, you know, go off and you're in this room for this amount of time. But yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna We're lucky that we're playing all around the country all the screen, so I hope people come out see it. But you know that people get out and see it, and I
love to hear from people. So if anyone sees it and likes it or whatever you feel would love you know, these you know, messages online sharing your thoughts, because I think that's part of the power of in the movie. It's this communal experience of sharing. So that's that's why we go to the theater.
Well, and the thing that's fun when you go to the theater again, not only you have like way better popcorn than you make at home, but you get to watch this and experience this with a whole bunch of friends and a bunch of strangers too. But you get to be there and it's more of an experience than it is just sitting in the you know, the darkness of your own living room.
Well, we know what it is too. That's really interesting about The Good Halfes is you know, this is a movie that deals with I mean, it's it's a movie you can laugh in and it's a movie you can cry in, and it's a movie that kind of takes you on this emotional rollercoaster. But you know, grief, you know, is something we all experience. That that feeling like love,
you know, is a universal experience. Grief is universal, and you know, you can be in a room with strangers, but you have similar feelings, right, We're all built with these emotions. So there's a sort of this movie in a way deals with subject matter that I think is very sort of unifying or communal or relatable in emotion what it kind of brings out of you. So I
find when we watch it in rooms it's great. I mean, like I feel it's screened to trybeca originally, and uh, you know, just to see it in a room with a lot of people was so amazing, like getting the laughs and getting you know, seeing someone next to me, like you know, cheering up at that moment. It kind of shows you the power of filmmaking. Yeah, if you're doing it right, you're bringing out of somebody some kind
of response emotionally, you know. So I just think with all it's funny, I was talking about it recently, but with all these big spectacles that we live in today, of these like IP comic book movies, Oh yeah, I think a balance. It's like a diet. It's like you have to have a balanced diet. Those movies represent, you know, probably something that really like triggers a response, similar to like eating a giant cake. But I think that like
you have to balance yourself with something stimulating too. So as long as people are I think they're engaging with film in some level. I think as a filmmaker, that's all you can ask for, you know, to support your fellow filmmakers.
Absolutely. Now the new film The Good Half, you got to be the director and the producer on this. But in addition to being a director and a producer on many projects, you're also an actor on some projects as well. I remember the Princess Diaries, and there's a big long list of others on here is it when you're on the set and you're an actor compared to being the producer or the director? How different is that for you personally?
Is that that's got to be like wearing a completely different hat and like a whole different experience.
Yeah, it's totally different. I mean there are ways that it's really beneficial and then there are ways it can be very distracting. But I've produced films for other filmmakers. I do it really only if it's something I'm very much involved in on like a like a passionate creative level. I don't just casually produce stuff, you know, like as a job. So but I think what it is is, if you're directing a movie, you have to always make
You're always given decisions to make right. Everyone's looking to you for the answers, whether it's is she wearing the scarf? Do you want the hair up? Or your town? Is this shade too dark? As a shade too light? Is this chair right? But you know so as a producer, you're dealing with a whole set of like circumstances every day. You have to have other people you can work on set to be able to answer those bigger logistical questions when you're answering these in the weeds, the little tiny
questions of shaping the scene. So in that way, it can be distracting, right if you have to deal with like, hey, we can't find the driver of this truck. It's blocking the building, this is where you wanted to shoot. Sorry, no one coned off the street in the morning. Those are little things. Okay, let's change, let's shoot it over here.
But I think as a director, knowing production, you have there's a sensitivity to how we problem solved because you know what the problems are in real time, or you know what they were last week, so you know how to get in front of us. That's a great benefit. And I think directing is problem solving people, you know, whether it's just on the small level of an actor doesn't want to say the line, or a bigger level of we lost the location. So yeah, I don't know.
I'm just I really like. My dad was a movie producer. I I kind of I got to watch you know, him kind of work up until a point in my life where he passed away. And that's sort of what the good half for me was. I know what, you know, my father passed away so when I was young, so I kind of have my own experience with loss and grief and what it means to kind of go through this.
I found that in this movie in directing it. And then there's movies that I produce only where I just want to direct it because I'm like, you know, you not want to step in, but I just want to be able to inspire the director to think a little bit outside the box when it comes to how to get through this problem. So it's a balance. Oh sorry, my kids are waking up. You may hear screaming, but anyway, Yeah, it's a balance of how you get through it and find you know, make sure you can always keep your
eye on the ball creatively. And then I think for as a producer, it's always supporting the needs of the director and make making sure you know this isn't your film the director, You're just here to help make it happen.
Absolutely well, Robert, thank you so much for your time. I appreciated a bunch, sir, Yeah, no, thank.
You thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. I hope people get to see it on the twenty fifth again.
Our guest today has been Robert Schwartzman. He is the producer and the director of a movie called The Good Half. It's in theaters again tonight with a special showing where you get to see an interview with him, also an interview with Nick Jonas. And it's way more fun to see it on the big screen with all your friends than to just click the button later and watch it at home. You can do that as well, but go
check it out tonight. It's in theaters. All of the details at Facebook dot com, slash Sunny Radio and Something you Should Know. Something you Should Know is brought to you by Genesisgoldra dot com. Put your retirement plan on the gold Standard. Get a free gold and silver guide now at genesisgoldra dot com