About My Father Chicago Premiere with De Niro & Maniscalco; The Starling Girl

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On this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, I am live in Chicago for the

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premiere of About My Father and I
talked to the cast on the red carpet,

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including Robert de Niro and Sebastian Manascalco. And then I'm in the studio

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talking to Eliza Scanlon, who stars
in The Starling Girl and writer director Laura

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Paramit talks all about The Starling Girl. Let's go Welcome to pop Culture Weekly

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with Kyle McMahon from my Heart Radio. You are pop culture news, views,

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UKRABE Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.
All right, I'm so excited. I

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am here live in Chicago for the
premiere of About My Father's starring Sebastian Manascalco

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and Robert de Niro and give Control
and at mean, it's just an amazing

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cast. Can't wait to see the
film again. I saw it already and

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it is hysterical and sweet and funny, obviously hysterically funny. It's just I

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can't say enough about this movie.
It is really really good and it's one

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you gotta see. So we're gonna
have some interviews with some of the film's

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stars coming up. But first let
me tell you about this film that I

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saw called The Starling Girl. It
is an amazing film. It's from writer

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director Laurel Palmit, and it's about
this girl, seventeen year old girl Jim,

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who kind of struggles to find her
place in this fundamentalist Christian community.

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It takes place in you know,
rural Kentucky, and she's a big dancer

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with the church group and then she
starts to struggle with what she you know,

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wonders maybe sin and and her own
sexuality and if she's devoted enough to

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religion, her religion. It's really, really, really an amazing film.

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It stars Eliza Scanlon as Jem Starling, who does an incredible, incredible job

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in this role as Jem. It
really is an amazing film that you've got

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to see. So let's start out
with the interviews from that. Let's talk

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to writer director Laul Parmett first.
Up here we go. So the film

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is incredibly powerful and I love I
think it's coming out an interesting time.

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In my opinion, there seems to
be in a lot of ways a kind

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of reckoning for um for so many
relationships that have uneven power dynamics, you

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know, kind of starting thankfully with
the me too movement, kind of bringing

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to light you know, a lot
of abusive power dynamics and uh and churches

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and on and on. What drew
you to this story? You know,

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why was it important for you to
tell? So? Um? Yeah,

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I have a personal connection to the
story. Um. When I was a

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teenager, I had a relationship or
whatever, I don't know what to call

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it, uh with an older man
and um, you know, didn't see

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myself as a victim at the time, and um, so then I was.

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I found myself a few years later
in a Christian fundamentalist church with a

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group of women from a patriarchal church
doing research for a different project, and

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I learned about their beliefs. You
know. I learned that they believed that

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it was a woman's responsibility to not
lead a man into temptation, and basically

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that you know, they had they
should be ashamed of their desires. And

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my first reaction was, all,
that's really backwards. But then the more

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that I thought about it, the
more that I saw how much we had

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in common just in terms of you
know, the attitudes of what we were

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raised in to believe about, you
know, our desires and to be ashamed

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of them. And it's it was
this sort of like critical turning point for

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me because it made me reflect back
on my relationship in ways that I hadn't

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before and recognized the s guilt that
I had and I started asking, well,

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where did this s guilt come from? This guy took advantage of me,

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and so I ultimately decided I wanted
to tell a story looking at my

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experiences and said it in this world
that is you know, specific, but

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really reflects our own world. I
love. I mean, let me choose

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my words carefully. I really appreciate
that this comes from, in a sense

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a personal place for you. I
think it always makes are better, you

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know, um or more authentic.
I should say, Uh, Jem,

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you know, is there a piece
of you in her? Well? Yeah,

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for sure. I think there's a
piece of me in all of the

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characters, um, you know from
I mean there's a piece of me and

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oh and there's a piece of me
and her dad. There's a piece of

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me and her mom. It's um, everything like pulls from personal in some

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way. Um. I think Jem
is very reactive and uh, impulsive and

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and like you know her, she
doesn't really think about her actions until and

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until they like kind of bite her
in the butt. And that's not too

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far off from who I sometimes.
Um, And so yeah, I mean

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it's that's just how it goes.
I think, how do you you know,

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as you're fleshing out the story,
in my opinion, you were very

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respectful. I'm a recovery. I'm
what I joke is recovering Catholic. I

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went to Catholic school for twelve years
and um, and that has you know,

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lovingly, I referred to it as
in recovery. Um, it's very

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easy, especially you know, like
in my situation, for instance, it's

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very easy for me to find things
to attack about what I didn't like about

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it. You in this film,
you're very respectful about the faith and um,

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and I found that very interesting because
it's very it's easy, I think,

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Um, I think in many ways
it's easier to kind of go for

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the jugular and in how this could
be perceived in black and white as wrong

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and you know, why are you
pushing people to do that or whatever?

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You really, in my opinion,
shows not to like show judgment. Um.

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Was that a conscious decision for you
or did that just kind of come

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naturally as the story was unfolding.
It was definitely a conscious decision. Um,

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you know, I think we Yeah, we wanted to come from a

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place of compassion, and I just
think it's more interesting storytelling quite honestly to

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you know, I wanted the audience
to be invested in these characters and in

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their stories and understand where they're coming
from, and not be watching judgmentally from

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afar. Um. You know,
they they're they're human beings who love their

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families, and Um, there's something
that I find also. I just I

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really admire faith, and I think
there's a lot that's really beautiful about tight

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knit communities, and we wanted you
know, you get the oppression we've seen

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that, we know that, Um, but I wanted to show another side

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as well. Um. And you
know, also, I would just say

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that the film it's not like doesn't
blaspheme God, it's it's it's really look

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it's offering like a more complex look
at religion and faith and suggesting maybe even

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that there are many ways to connect
with God, like maybe God lives in

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gems, desires and our actions.
Um. And yeah, I just I

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don't know, personally, I just
think that's more interesting to watch too.

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And um, yeah, I love
that. And you know it is reflective

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in my opinion of life. You
know. Um, I have worked very

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hard to I'm a very anxiety filled
person and um and over time I've learned

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that a lot of that is from
my black and white thinking, you know.

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Um and uh. And life is
not black and white, you know,

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would you say, everyone, we
live in it. We live in

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a world right now that's like there's
no nuance in anything, right yeah.

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Yeah, And you know, it's
taken me a lot of work to to

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live in the gray. Um.
And to know that if I get on

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that plane, you know, there's
it may drop out of the sky for

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some reason. Um. But but
which is that You'll be fine? Exactly

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exactly and um and you know,
but that anxious feeling in the back of

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your mind is like, oh my
god, we just hit turbulence. It's

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going to be the first plane in
the world to just fall out of the

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sky, you know. And uh
And but I had to learn that,

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you know what, maybe eight million
things went wrong with that plane and it

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falls out of the sky and becomes
the first plane in the world to just

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drop for no reason. Um,
but that is living in the gray,

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you know, to accept that,
you know what, there's a point zero

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zero zero zero zero zero one percent
chance that that might happen, but you're

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gonna get on that plane anyway and
go to your destination. And I say

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that as kind of a represented representation
of the film. I think lives in

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the gray. You know, it's
not black and white. It's not a

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here is what this is, and
this is wrong, and this is good

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and this is bad and you know, this is that and this is that.

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It is smartly allows the viewer to
live in that gray, you know.

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And I love that about the film, Thank you. Yeah. I

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mean that's really that was the crux
of every part of the filmmaking process.

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I think, Um, you know, I didn't want to just focus on

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the victimization because I think that's only
you know, obviously, there are many

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instances of the abuse where it is
very block and white, but there are

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many instances where it's more nuanced as
well and a little bit harder to see.

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And I think to really understand abuse, it's important to look at those

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cases too. And you know,
it was really important to me that jem

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had agency in this relationship, you
know, So it was finding the balance

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of like, you know, how
do you tell a story where you feel

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the main characters intoxication getting wrapped up
in this romance and it's dreamy and there's

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it's beautiful for her and there's it's
an opening up, but at the same

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time convey that, like this relationship
is problematic and inappropriate. And as a

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director, honestly, that's like my
favorite thing to do, I do really

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love exploring those moral ambiguities. And
it's just from a scene work standpoint,

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it's really fun of like, you
know, starting a scene where like the

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audience is sort of rooting for these
two characters maybe to get together, and

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then by the end of the scene
they're like, oh god, wait,

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why did I want that? It's
like such a type rope walk and really

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really fun. And yeah, it
was really just like grounding the story in

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her perspectives so that the audience wants
what she wants, and so sometimes they're

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going to root for the relationship,
and I think that really shows how anybody

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can fall into situations like this.
And that's also how I like to watch

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movies, like I like to constantly
be trying to figure out how I feel

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about something, and I think audiences
feel the same generally. Yeah, so

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I do too, And I love
when film filmmakers give credit to the audience

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that we're not always so dumb,
you know, and we can kind of

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get that nuance and you've you've executed
it masterfully. Thank you so much,

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Laurel for speaking with me. I
really appreciate it. I can't wait for

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everybody to see this film. Oh
you're so sweet. Thank you. As

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Fay speaking with him, you as
well. Have a great day. Laurel

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Parmit. She's amazing, isn't she. The film The Starling Girl is so

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good and she is the writer director
for the film. So all right.

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Next up, we are going to
talk with the star of the film,

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Eliza Scanlan, who plays Jem Starling
herself. So let's get right into that.

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Here it is my interview from the
studio with Eliza Scanlon. Thank you

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so much, Elizah for joining me. I really appreciated. The film is

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amazing. Oh thank you. It's
so nice to be here. I love

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having you here and I love you
know. So this film is so powerful

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and layered and lives in a gray
area, at least for me. What

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was it like? You know,
Jem is a very complex character. What

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was it like to play her?
I mean, it was incredible to play

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a character like Jem. She's you
know, she is a very complex character,

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and she's I think the world of
UM fundamentalism is really fascinating and I

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wanted to understand it better. And
I think having that as the backdrop of

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Jem's you know, journey of self
discovery made her a real challenge to to

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play. And also the relationship that
she gets into uh so nuanced and uh,

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I don't know. I think it's
a real power play that relationship.

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And I it was a challenge to
wrap my head around UM, but so

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fulfilling to do well. And you
do it beautifully. I you know,

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as I was watching, I was
thinking, like, geez, this is

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so tough in regards to what I
assume would be tough for you h to

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portray her. I mean just because
it's so UM like us, I guess,

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so complicated and complex and layered and
um not easily put into boxes,

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you know. And so I as
I was watching that, as think of

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how masterfully you you portrayed her.
Oh, thank you. I mean,

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I think it is it's difficult territory
and it was, you know, dangerous

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territory to explore for Laurel, but
she did all the research to do it

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in a way that wasn't mocking religion. It was complex and showed different ways

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people connect with God. And also
it's a it's about an inappropriate relationship between

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an older man and a younger woman. I think when people hear that,

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you know, they assume that it's
a story that's about abuse, and it

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is, but I think it's more
than that. I think it's I think

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what makes this story interesting is that
was exploring a gray area where Jem,

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the young woman in the relationship,
she wields power you know, at the

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same time is a victim of abuse, and both of those can be truths,

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and I think we wanted to get
that balance right in their relationship.

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And you know, we wanted it
at times for Jem to have power in

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the relationship and then other times for
Owen two. But at the end of

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the day, because they live in
a patriarchal system, it's uh the woman

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and the relationship who bears the brunt
of the blame and the punishment. Um

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so yeah, it's a lot um
and yeah, yeah, you know,

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I was talking to Laurel Um a
few minutes ago and I was saying,

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there, there have been you know, films that have tackled similar um,

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similar power dynamic relationships, but none
that have done it in this way with

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this backdrop, and um, none
that have done it so non judgmental.

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Um, there's a better word for
it. But you know what I'm saying,

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you know, it very It would
have been very easy to be like,

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you know, uh in in many
instances of the film, Oh these

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people are bad. Uh you know
that they're making it this way, they're

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you know, conducting conducing this environment. This guy is bad. You know

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he should know better. And um, and it doesn't do that. It

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doesn't do that, which I think
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authentic way to go about it,
because it's not life is not black and

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white, you know, we live
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it's so true. And I think
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a little less delicate, or if
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characters to fall into tropes or stereotypes
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It is a patriarchal system and it's
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because it's a patriarchal system. All
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they're evil, or they're corrupt.
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a patriarchal system, and they can
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from systems like these because they're expected
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it kind of deprives them of their
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in a way and you know,
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do they are affected by it.
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said that to be a much more
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I definitely think it's more powerful and
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know, I'm not an actor,
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curious. But when you take on
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when you read the script and you're
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like and it's so I don't want
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sound you know, but it's so
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closer, I think I get more
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one that scared me a lot.
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a set, you know, every
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on The Starling Girl. So yeah, and I'm you know, I think

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I learned a lot from the experience
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had fostered an environment where it was
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I think Laurel knew this story so
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I just really wanted to do it
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she imagined U and she really trusted
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allowed me to you know, run
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all there for the same reason,
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and we loved Laurel and you know, and I think that's the beauty of

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if indie films. You you have
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yeah, Laurel is a legend.
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in this film, it can take
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at the end of the day or
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to you know, to be Eliza
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know, Mum, it's kind of
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I was on set every day and
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think on other jobs, I find
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the door, but that one was
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actor that you know, can't get
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more so the emotional weight of the
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many hours in a day and you
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frequently, so I, you know, I usually get home and start working

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on the lines that I had for
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six weeks, I think my whole
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that. It sort of made me. I think it kept me open and

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available every day when I was,
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I think it's easier when you have
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to crack a joke. Thank you
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with me. I can't wait for
everybody to see The Starling Girl. It

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is incredible bul film. Eliza scandalin
such a great film. The Starling Girl

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is in theaters now go check it
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It's really thought provoking, powerful meditation
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and where we belong in them and
where they belong in society. So definitely

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one you want to check out,
all right, And the talent is coming

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down the Red carpet in Chicago here
at AMC Theaters and it is all for

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About My Father. The film is
so funny and its heartfelt and I literally

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laughed and I cried, and it's
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Keep it locked right here and we'll
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Father. Okay, First up,
Anders Home, who plays Lucky in the

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film. He has in a hysterical
part. He's really really a great part

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of this film. He plays Lucky
Collins. You may know Anders as Anders

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from Workaholics. He was a co
creator and h and writer and producer and

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of course star in Workaholics, one
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here he comes up city again.
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premiere in Chicago. It's so crazy
here I can barely hear you. So,

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you know, what's it feel like
after you've worked on this project and

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then now you're here showing it to
the public. You're here with Sebastian and

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Salvo and you know de Niro.
No, it's very cool, it's very

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rewarding. You know, you work
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hours. It's a fun job.
Sometimes it can be hard, sometimes it

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can be frustrating, But then to
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it's kind of like a reunion.
You get to go out for dinner and

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all that kind of stuff. And
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see the movie, which I haven't
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to see how great everybody is.
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do you know what did you base
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in college? Journeys like Lucky's.
He's somewhere deep down inside of me just

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waiting to get out, and I'm
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deal with that. I love it, man, Thank you so much.

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Congratulations as well. Alright, next
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the director of About My Father.
She you may know her. She's directed

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four feature films. She did an
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and she is hysterical and she's an
awesome person. She is up now next,

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let's talk to her. But seeing
you a good First of all,

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congratulations, this is so awesome.
Uh, you're here in Chicago for the

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premiere Sebastian's hometown with his father after
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work. What is that? What
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It's unbelievable. I mean, it's
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joyful, it's exciting. I mean, I can't wait to hug our entire

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cast. There's some people I haven't
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just such a huge celebratory moment.
That's awesome. I'm so excited for you.

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I'm so happy for everybody to see
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I love the film and I can't
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very nice to meeting you again.
All Right, Laura Tarusso, she's

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such an awesome person and I'm so
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know where she Here's this film that
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is now the premiere in Chicago,
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here and just an awesome moment.
Okay, it looks like coming up next

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on the carpet is David Rash love
him and he has a fan standing out

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here signaling for me to acknowledge them
when he gets here, So I'm gonna

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be doing that. Of course,
you may know him from as Carl on

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Secessions. Such a good show and
of course he u sledgehammer, I mean,

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veep ugly. Betty's just an awesome, awesome actor and he's hysterically funny.

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I talked with him in our sit
down interviews, which you'll hear next

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episode. But here he is David
rash, Hey, good seeing. How

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are you so? First of all, you have fans that are you're here.

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It's been a year and a half
or so since you, you know,

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work really now we're in Chicago,
Sebastian's you know, hometown with his

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father. But what does that mean
for you to be a part of something

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that that really is a familial uh
kind of event? Absolutely nothing, I

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have nope, I have nope.
I don't relate to it at all.

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Uh well, you know we we
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just really to tell you the truth, I mean that whole sort of side

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of it was Bob, you know, in Sebastian and Austin and uh,

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you know we heard things. I
mean, I know, I mean he

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you know, he he spent time
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tons and tons and tons of research. So yeah, it was it was,

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it was it was so much fun
to do. I can't tell you

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and what about for for your on
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and did you was that kind of
I just could. It was just hard

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to keep control of them because they're
so screwed up. Where is there anything

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any part of Bill in you?
Did you? Did you have to find?

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used to say a lot of this

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stuff that I say. She'd always
say, all right, thank you,

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thank you for that. All right, let's not thank you, you know,

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so some comes from my home.
Thank you so much. Congratulations,

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thank you, thank you you as
well. David rash live in Chicago at

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AMC Theaters in Chicago. That's where
Chicago is. I don't even know what

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I'm saying at this point. There's
so much going on. It's a great

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time here for the premiere of About
My Father. Next up on the Carpet

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or she's coming up, coming up
next, Kim Cattrall. She is,

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I mean what, She's won five
Emmy NA, gotten four Emmy Nam's four

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Golden Globe Awards for Sex in the
City, she won a Golden Globe for

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Best Supporting Actress, and geez,
I mean she started all the way back

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in seventy five for Rosebud. She
is awesome. She is hysterically funny as

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a tigger in this film. Um, and uh it's it's I can't I

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don't want to know spoilers, but
go see about my father. Let's talk

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with Kim Control. Thank you so
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So we're here. It's been a
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of work, and um, we're
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You know, Uh what does that
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you know, it's really like a
family. I feel like event you know

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what I mean, Yeah, it
is. I mean this we had a

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lot of obstacles with this time shot
during a pandemic in Mobile, Alabama and

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rainy season and thunderstorms, and there
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the fact that we're here tonight is
a minor miracle really, because during COVID

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the film was very expensive and if
somebody was out sickwise you could just shut

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down for a period of time.
Luckily that didn't happen with us, but

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I think it brought us closer together, and so I think that shows in

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the film. That's awesome. And
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film's premiering. Do you feel like
a sense of relief at that point or

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like, how does that work?
Or once it's wrapped, are you fine?

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if anything is not you can't hear
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and then you do press and then
the movie it's like wearing a child.

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It finds its way in the world
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some films that have done have not
done well immediately, but they become hits

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later on. So you just never
you never know what's gonna happen. Yeah,

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this is good. I love the
film. I can't wait for everybody

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to see About my Father. Thank
you so much. The One and Only

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Kim cuts froll love love love love
her. Uh she is, like I

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said, she's hysterical as Tigger.
And about my father. Just the whole

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cast in this film, I'm serious, the whole cast and about my father

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is just they work so well together. I feel like they're a real family.

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I feel like it's a real situation. Um, it's it's a great

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film. Next up, I see
the One and Only Robert de Niro that

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this man needs no introduction. He's
Robert freaking DeNiro. Let's talk to him

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for a second. We're you're here. It was a year and a half

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work worth of work, you know. Uh with Salvo, what is that?

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What is that moment like for you
to be here in Chicago playing him

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with him watching the premiere. Uh, it's great, you know, I'm

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very happy to be here. Um, I'm happy for them. Can you

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do such a great job with it, Sarah, thank you so much.

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Thank you. Robert de Niro.
Oh my god, I can't. This

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is the second time I've interviewed Robert
de Niro in the last twenty four hours.

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I did my sit down interviews with
him at the hotel, and just

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a legend. I can't, guys, I can't believe that I've just interviewed

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Robert de Niro twice. That's insane, all right. And now upcoming on

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the you're coming up on the red
carpet is the man of the hour,

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Sebastian Maniscalco. He is hysterically funny
anyway, and in this film, which

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is based you know, partly on
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and his relationship with his father.
Uh, sal Salvatore. Um, he

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is just, oh my God.
This it's such a good, feel good,

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hysterically funny film and I can't wait
to talk to you about it.

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But let's talk with the one and
only Sebastian Maniscalco. Good seeing you again.

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First of all, thank you for
this, and I kind of touched

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on it earlier. I was so
pleasantly surprised at how touching the film is.

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I lost my mom two years ago, and thank you. And so

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as I'm watching this, you know, I don't know what I was expecting,

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but it was so heartfelt. You
know, I think, I think

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so many people will be able to
relate to that special relationship with the parent,

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and it really comes through. How
does it feel for you to be

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here in Chicago, in your hometown
with your dad, with your family,

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your your wife, I mean,
Robert de Niro playing your dad, Like,

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is this a surreal moment for you? It's, uh, this is

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pretty damn special. You know.
Uh, it's so nice to you know,

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you talk about losing your mother.
So nice to share this with my

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parents. You know, I'm fifty
years old in July. I still got

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my parents. You know, a
lot of people don't have their parents.

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So I'm so glad and grateful that
they're here walking the red carpet. You

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know, my wife has been like
my rock throughout, you know, the

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last fifteen years of my career.
It's hard to be married to me.

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You know, I'm I've always in
and out of town and whatnot. So

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she's really really a special woman.
And just to bring this back home,

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man, I used to come down
to Chicago with my buddies. Some of

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them are here tonight, clubbing and
whatnot. And now we're here walking the

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red carpet and they're here tonight.
We're gonna reconnect and you know, they're

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gonna rip my outfit to shreds and
what are you wearing white for? But

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it's all in good fun. You
know. It's just how I grew up.

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And nobody takes offense to it,
you know, living in a day

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and age where you know, everybody's
all bent out of shape because someone said

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this, someone said that, you
come home and it's just refreshing to get

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your you know, just ripped to
shreds. It's not it feels good if

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there's no there's no you don't get
a big head in my group, you

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know, right right, So that's
awesome. Thank you, so much.

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You gotta if it just waived.
This is the Italian Uh. They've been

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like smothering me the entire time we've
been here. You look great picture,

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half picture hal blah blah blah.
So they're all thank you, sir,

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thank you, thank you, Sebster
Meniscalco. I guys, this is it's

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such a great time here. I'm
gonna go in and catch the Chicago premiere

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of About My Father. Let me
know what you think on socials, Let's

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chat and um and you'll be getting
very very soon my sit down interviews with

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the cast of About my Father.
I will see you next time. I

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love you, We out. Thank
you for listening to Culture Weekly. Here

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