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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from My
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Heart Radio, your pop culture news, views, reviews and celebrity
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interviews on all the movies, TV, music, and pomp culture
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you Crab Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.
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I am here with Fandango correspondent Nikki Novak, and I'm
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so excited to talk to you, Nikki about Valentine's Day,
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you know, the films that we can go out and
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see in theaters and as well as like kind of
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the evergreen stuff that we can watch, you know, at
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home in the comfort of our own home, especially with
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this cold weather if we're going to be staying in
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So welcome. Thank you so much for joining me.
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Thank you. I have to point out that you're wearing
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a sweatshirt that says what I love horror movies. So
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are you like the anti Valentines person?
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I am? This is so. I actually just launched some
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merch store and this is in the first collection, which
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is all about horror. Thank you. So yes. I you know,
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it's funny because I I'm not anti love or anything,
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but I just find so many romance movies like so cliche,
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like you you see, you know, Oh, I just met
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this guy yesterday and now I'm completely in love and
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oh he's going back to his small hometown and he's
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broken my heart. And oh but right before he goes,
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you know, on the plane, he's decided that, you know,
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he's going to stay and we're gonna get married. And
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it's like, bro, you you met last week, Like, can
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we relax a little?
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It sounds like my perfect relationship. What are you talking about?
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It's my dream.
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It's just you know, And and of course I'm kind
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of characterizing. You know, not every movie is like that,
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but I just feel like the genre tends to do that,
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and so I'm just not a big fan.
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But you know, it's interesting that you say that, because, like,
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for a while, I don't know if you remember, there
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was all the movies that were coming out, these rom
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coms that were like a rom com, but we're going
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to turn it upside down. It's not what you thought
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about rom com for that exact reason that people found
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them very cliche. Then there was this whole wave of
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like Hallmark movies got really popular again where people like
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really leaned right back into it. When the pendulum goes
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one way, the pendulum always goes the other way, and
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then anyone but You came out with Sidney Sweeney and
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Glen Powell, which was right back to sort of that
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traditional rom com. But I thought very well done. I've
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watched it multiple times. I don't know if you liked
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it or saw it, but that sort of like kick
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started this idea of, hey, maybe we should go back
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to doing more romantic films because it did so well
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at the box of office. But like, yeah, we're going
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to talk about a couple today that are, you know,
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coming out in theaters. One of them that I wouldn't
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call it a It's not a rom com by any
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stretch of the imagination, but yeah, it's I can't wait
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to dive in and talk to you about it.
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Well, well, now I need to know what it is.
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Well, Wuthering Heights. Yeah, so that's coming out day before
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Valentine's Day, And I know, have you heard about all,
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like all the buzz that is happening for this movie
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with Margot, Robbie and Jacob A little?
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I have, And I will say so, you know, obviously
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I've seen the trailers and stuff, and I haven't watched
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it yet, but I'm actually interested in seeing this.
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Yeah, well, if you like, I mean, they seemed like
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a cinepas. So like if you love, if you love
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Emerald Fanel movies, you know that she's going to take
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something and she's gonna twist it a little and make
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it dark. So it is. And I hate using these
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types of phrases because like sometimes they don't age, Like
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I go back and I go, oh, did I really
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feel that way? But I truly think it's one of
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the greatest romantic films I've seen. Wow, and it's it's
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I just think she just had I mean, she obviously
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loved the book. I actually interviewed the whole cast in
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December in London, and I asked her about the fact
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that the film was in quotation marks. And you know,
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this is the Emily Bronte novel from eighteen forty seven,
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and you know it's been done a couple of times
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in film and p people who are you know, book
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lovers are very precious about the book. But she is
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one of those book lovers. And she said to me, look,
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it's so dense the book. It's this is not even
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an adaptation. This is my interpretation. This is like me
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reading the book and what I glean from it, But
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I just feel like, not only is it excellent, but
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it's hit the zeitgeist in a way that like Barbie did,
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where people are already planning their dress. It like what
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they're gonna wear to the theater where it's going to
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be like an event. It's going to mean more than
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a movie. It's gonna be an event. Jacob A. Lordie's
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having a moment. You know, he was nominated for Frankenstein
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for an Oscar. People love him. He's delightful. But they
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just did a really good job with this film. It's
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so gut wrenching. It's one of the most stunning, like
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not even it's you know, sometimes people say, oh, the
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movie's pretty and it's gorgeous to look at, and that
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doesn't say a lot, but it's the way she sort
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of weaves to get the story into the shots that
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she chooses. I can't say enough good things about it.
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But Alison all of Her, who plays this sister, people,
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mark my words, this is a name that she's going
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to get cast in a million things off this. She
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is like a scene stealer. She plays this crazy character
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like and you talk to her and she's this English flower,
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like really sweet and her character's so over the top,
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but yeah, it's kind of got everything.
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Well, now you have me actually excited, because it was
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already abnormal for me to be like, here's a trailer
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for a romantic movie that I'm interested in. So I
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was already kind of like, you know what, maybe I'll
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see that. Yeah, But now with with you know how
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you're hyping it up, now I'm like, okay, like maybe
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I'm going to make a point to go see this
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in the theater early opening weekend sort of thing.
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I do. I do think it is a theatrical movie.
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It's one of those you really have to see it,
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Like even the way, like there's one shot in the
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film I'm like, I don't even know how she did it,
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but you know it takes place on the moors and that.
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But it's I think the reason too, Like it's it's romantic,
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but it's very dark. I mean, if you know the story,
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it's a very dark story. It's not necessarily a romance.
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It's more about obsession, class difference, that kind of thing.
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And I just I sort of love I mean, I
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like Sultburn, I liked her other films, but this is
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definitely my favorite of Emeralds movies.
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So okay, well now I'm super hyped. What else can
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we expect in theaters for people you know, kind of
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looking for that, for that type of theater experience, date
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night on you know, Valentine's weekend sort of thing.
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So this is a good one if you don't want
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to go and see a traditional romance. But there's romance
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in it, so it's crime one on one. It stars
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Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, who we know from Marvel very well,
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also stars Halle Berry and he plays this jewel thief.
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It's really like a nineties throwback to like the ninety
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these heat movies. It's kind of like I went into
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it being totally honest, and I'm like, it's probably not
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gonna be that good. Hadn't heard much about it. I
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walked down and went and one of my colleagues had
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seen it, and we text each other and we're like, wait,
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that was amazing. And so anyway, Chris plays this jewel thief.
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He's a peaceful one. He's not committing, like, not hurting anybody,
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but he you know, he has this boss that he
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works for he doesn't like, so he decides to go
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off on his own and do this one last heist
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to set himself up for life. He meets Monica Babara,
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the actress Monica Babarro's character, but his whole mantra has
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been like I am flawless at my job because I
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don't have personal relationships. And then he meets this girl.
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But really the story so there is a bit of
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a romance. So it's perfect for Valentines if you want
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to go out in a daylight night, like if you're
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going out as a couple and the guy's like, well,
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I don't I want to see an action movie and
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she's I don't want to see a mental movie. This
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is movie. Okay, that's kind of about both. But the
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thing I'll say most about it, it's one of those
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when you're you know, when you're watching a movie and
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you go, I really hope they stick the landing, Like
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I hope the ending is as good as this thing
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is because you're on the edge of your seat, and
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if the payoff isn't good, the whole movie falls apart.
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The payoff is phenomenal.
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Awesome, Yeah, awesome.
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Mark Ruffalo plays a cop, which he does a lot,
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but he says, you know, he's got all those mannerisms.
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Yes, great. Have you seen Dracula A love Story?
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I haven't seen the new I haven't seen that, Yeah,
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the one that came out earlier this month.
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Yes, so I love it. I'm a huge horror fan obviously,
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and and this take is extremely interesting, you know, I
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love I've watched all of the kind of Dracula interpretations
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over the years, and this is more romance focused. Actually, yeah,
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it's more you know of It's more of a Dracula.
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You know, his love, the love of his life has
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passed away and he is waiting, you know, four hundred
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years later we essentially meet him, and this whole time
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he's been trying to figure out how do I bring
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the love of my life back?
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And this sounds like Withering Heights by the.
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Way, Okay, oh I love that. Okay, yeah, yeah. And
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so this it was a super unique take that I
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had never seen before. I had always kind of seen
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Dracula as the villain obviously, or the anti hero. And
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you know, I was telling I had interviewed the cast
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and all, and I was telling calib Landrie Drones plays Dracula,
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and I love him. He always dives into you know,
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his character, and I was like, you know, I don't
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know that the lengths that you go through in this
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movie for a love like I mean, I really love tacos,
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maybe like I would do it for tacos or something,
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but like, I don't know that I could go to
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the lengths like you have to love somebody so much,
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and obviously I do, but but it's very it's way
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it's a way different take than you know, the traditional
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kind of Dracula story, is it, And so it's really
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fresh and interesting and I absolutely love it. And I
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was surprised going in. I mean, they kind of were
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putting on a love story subtitle and then taking it
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off in the promotion, and I think they ended up
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dropping it for the release. But it really is this
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take is really a love story and talks about, you know,
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how far will we go for the people that we love?
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You know, it's interesting you say that, And maybe that's
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sort of what is gripping people about that movie and withering,
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is that it sort of harkens back to people like
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who're just hopeless romantics and that's the focus of their
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life and they will go to those lengths because I
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feel like we live in this society where people are like, oh,
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I don't like the way you ate that, Chip, I'm out,
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you know, like dating, like all of like online dating.
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So maybe it's people are just craving that, like all
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encompassing love. I have to ask you, then, did you
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like Frankenstein the Germo?
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I love everything Gharama does. Uh, and and that was
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that was no different. I love the interpretation of that.
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I as soon as I heard that he was signed
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on for it, I was excited because I feel like that,
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you know, if there was a project I could choose
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for him, it would be that, it would be Frankenstein.
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And so I just think he absolutely nailed at Jacob
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was amazing. I mean everything. I love that movie so much.
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I thought she was amazing. She is that she was
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perfectly cast. Yeah, and she doesn't get as not as
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many people are talking to her. I think obviously Jacob
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was sort of like the breakout star of it. What's
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your favorite Del Toro movie?
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Ah, I would say either Frankenstein or war Pans Labyrinth.
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Yeah, that's the classic. Yeah, everybody chooses. I really loved
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the Shape of Water. I thought that was beautiful. You
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get some backlash, but I loved it.
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and I do you know, I love him, but I
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felt weird because I'm like, I know it's like metaphorical
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or whatever, but I'm like, it's a it's like a
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fish man, Like that's kind of weird. But then it's like,
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but then I have to think, like, okay, beauty and
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the beast and that sort of thing. But mate, it
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was one of Tom Hanks ohlas flash yes, yeah, oh,
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I never even thought about that. Geez. Yeah. So I
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had to kind of keep saying to myself, Kyle, it's
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not a real fish man, Like she's not, you know,
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making love to a fish man. I kind of had
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to but she is. Yeah, so I kind of had
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to be like, let's go a little bit more metaphorical, Kyle,
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Like it's all.
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loved I think the visuals on it, yeah, or stunning, stunning, yes,
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like some of his best, but Frankenstein really maybe maybe
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topped it. I saw I went to the premiere of
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that one, and it was like I saw it at
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the Academy Museum in LA and the Academy Museum is
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the most insane theater of course, as you would expect
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it to be. And it's brand new and it's called
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these red Velvet Chairs and it's very classic but new.
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The sound of the whole thing it was unbelievable.
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perfect place to see that. Yeah, what else? What else
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are you thinking? You know, people would be interested in
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for like the Valentine's Day holiday timeframe.
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So okay, So there's a couple more if you really
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want to lean into, like eighties nineties nostalgia. Pretty in Pink?
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Have you ever seen Pretty in Pink?
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I have not.
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I know it's I had a feeling, That's why I asked.
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Pretty and Pink is one of my favorite romantic films
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and it starred Molly Ringwall, Andrew McCarthy, John Cryer, And
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it's back in theaters. It's celebrating its fortieth anniversary. So
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it's back in theaters just February thirteenth to sixteen, oh,
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just for the Valentines. And that is what I am
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going to see in the theater, because you know, when
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you have the opportunity to see any of you love
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that much back on the big screen, you're so used
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to seeing it at home, and it really does make
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difference to see it that way. So yeah, so i'd
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recommend that one.
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Is that really quick? Is that John Hughes?
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and he wrote it. I there was like a twist. Yeah,
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so yeah, so that's it's such a classic. Do you
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like classic films? I am, yes, but probably not the
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wrong gaming But yeah, I would say, like people always
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talk about sixteen Candles being like the greatest sort of
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teen angst love movie of all time, but I think
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Pretty in Pink blows it away.
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should check out. Okay, I will, I will.
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I feel you will?
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No no no no. If I say well, I really will?
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah. And then and then the other
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thing you can watch at home would be Bridgerton, which
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just came out with its fourth season and they're breaking
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it up into two parts. So the first half of
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it dropped at the end of January and then they
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announced you know, I had like forty million households watched it.
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Of course, it's like the number one movie on Netflix.
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But I don't know if you've watched Bridgerton. But every
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season they have kind of like the same cast of characters,
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but they focus on a new couple, okay, and so
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what they've really managed to do like you know when
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you watch a show and you're really into the characters, yeah,
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you love and no, and you want to see what's
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happening with them. So they had a huge task because
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the first season, the couple that they had were so
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successful and became you know culturals, you know, pop culture
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z eitegeys kind of thing that people are like, Oh,
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I don't want to not see them in season two
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because it's gonna be a whole new couple, whole new storyline.
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They're going to be in the background. But then they
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did it again and like they had another couple that
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like popped and they've so this is the fourth season
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and I had to I think this might be my
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favorite one. Oh okay, yeah, because it's kind of a
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Cinderella story where this this guy, Benedict Bridgerton, who's part
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of this prominent family, goes to this ball and the
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queen every year picks a diamond, she picks a female
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where she's like, Okay, you're going to go off and
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meet all these men and then you're gonna be engaged
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by the end of the season. Well, for the first time,
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she picks a guy, and at the same ball, he
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meets this woman who's like wearing a mask because it's
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a masquerade ball, and they like he looked. He's like
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mesmerized and he's like a complete like party boy. Before that,
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he won't settle down. He sees his girl memory Mesmeriz
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turns out she's like crash the party. She's a maid
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and in those times, this is not happening, and so
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she takes off and so then they meet again and
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he doesn't realize it's her. That's the part of you
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have to like suspend your disbelief because you're like, there's
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no way he doesn't realize it's her, right, But they
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still get you because it's so good. I don't expect
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you to watch that one. But Bridgerton fans out there
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four more episodes to go at the but we have
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to wait till after Valentine's are not dropping on Netflix
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till like February twenty six, but you know they drop
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them like the first four just in time left us
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on a cliffhanger that you have to like, you know, yeah,
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you gatta, you gotta wait for it.
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What what are some of your favorites like at home?
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Like you're kind of classic, you know, you decide you're
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staying in it's a snowstorm in LA for some reason,
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or you're out in New York and and you're staying in.
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What are some of your kind of favorites that you
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know we could flip on fandom and go at home
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and fire up some some good stuff.
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So I'm going to start with one that's maybe maybe
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not well that well known past lives. Okay, I don't
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know if you've heard it. Is that Jolie Ah, it's Selene. Yeah,
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Selene's song was the director of it, and then she
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did Materialists after that.
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Yes, yes, m but it's this.
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It's based on her life story and she grew up
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I want to say South Korea. She grew up in
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South Korea and she had this childhood friend and they
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were like best friends. And then her family moves to
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the United States and she never doesn't see him, like
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you know, back then, no social media, none of that
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sort of stuff or connecting through iPhones or whatever. And
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then she ends up getting married to this guy. This
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is not a spoiler. She ends up married, getting married
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to this guy, and then her childhood friend finds her
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online like twenty years later. It's like, I'm coming to
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the States. I'd love to see you. And it's this
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crazy story of how she just sort of like is
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torn because she sees him and they fully have like
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you can tell they're fully like if they weren't torn apart,
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they would have married each other. They are soulmates. But
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she deeply loves her husband, and the sort of not
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a twist, but is that the husband fully embraces like, no,
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you need to go and hang out with him, and
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while he's here, and then they all go out to
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dinner one night and it's like the most awkward but
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it's I don't even know if I'm doing it justice.
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But you know those movies that you watch and you go,
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this is gonna be one of my favorite movies of
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all time.
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Yeah, yep, it's that movie.
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It's that good.
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Wow.
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It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
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So a romance, but it's just beautifully done. I liked Materialists,
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I didn't love it, but this one is just phenomenal.
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Okay, one of mine. Have you seen Blue Valentine? Yes,
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was you say it was the last part?
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I said, Oh, you mean my Rye Ry Yeah, yeah,
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I mean I.
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It is. So it's definitely I feel like kind of
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an anti Valentine's movie. But but I think it is
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so masterfully done.
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Uh and.
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I that's one that I would fire up on, like
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on Valentine's Day weekend. I just think it's beautiful from
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start to finish. And you know, Ryan is is I mean, really,
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everybody in it is amazing. It's so well directed. I
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mean it's you know, well directed, it's well written. It's
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just a I think it's a beautiful film. I really do.
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Yeah, I agree, it's it's I feel like that movie
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comes up when you talk about great romances, great romance films,
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because it's a little darker too, you know. It's like
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not like you said that traditional. But yeah, I I
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I'll add I'll add a couple to the Ryry lists.
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Okay, the notebook.
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I'm so cliche. Yes, yes, Lala Land, I'm so cleased
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Lalla Land.
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See I like La La Land, Like I feel like
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La La Land. I don't know. I for me, it's
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different than like the Notebook. And I don't don't mean
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to roll my eyes when I say the Notebook, but
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I have to every time I say it. It's like,
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I don't know, it's like a bodily reaction. But like
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I feel like the Notebook is one of those things
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that it is like your traditional when you think of
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a romance movie, like it's that, you know what I mean?
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And I feel like, yes, girls like teenagers love it
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and and like every age you know, and there's I'm
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sure tons of men that like it too, But I'm
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saying like it's one of those things that if you
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talk to a girl and you know you're discussed saying
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a romance movie, like they're going to bring up the Notebook,
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you know what I mean?
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Where, Yeah, there's certain ones. And it's funny because like
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sometimes when people ask me, like my favorite romance films,
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I feel like it is so cliche to say films
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like that, But every time you put it on, there's
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a reason, like I get engrossed all the same. I
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have to say, though, like I I have to turn
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that movie off at a certain point. Okay, I haven't
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when they get to the oh okay, never mind, you
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haven't seen it. No, Okay, there's a certain point where
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it gets so sad that I just have to turn
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it off because I've seen it a million times, Like
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I've probably seen it fifty times, if not more so.
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A certain point, I'm like, I know where this goes
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from here. I don't need to cry today. I'm not gonna.
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I'm not. I'm not doing it.
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That's that's Nicholas Sparks right wrote, wrote the book.
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Yeah, yeah, and then Cassavetti's directed it, okay, cases Nick, Yeah,
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that's his name. Clearly doing really well with director's names today. Yeah, No,
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he's He's It's just it's just this is gonna sound
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super visual. But I don't think there's ever been two
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more beautiful people on screen, never than those two. The
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way he shot it, the whole thing. I'll throw one
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out there. Yeah, because it's not it's platonic love. That's
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one of my favorite films of all time is Lost
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in Translation, directed by Sophia Coppola. You've seen it?
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Bill Murray, Yeah, Bill Murray at.
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His finest, Scarlett Johansson her breakout role, Scarlett Johansson with
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a mullet. But I I feel like, would you would
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could you classify that as a romantic film or like
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Friendship or how would you classic?
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I would say it's like a romantic film or at
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least romantic, like adjacent, you know, you know, I feel
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like kind of the catch All is a drama, you
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know that you could just throw it under, but it
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is one of those films that's kind of multifaceted in
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you know, you could have so many hyphenits with that
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where it's you know, but I feel like a lot
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of her work is like that.
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You know, Yeah, she's cool. She doesn't do that many movies,
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so every time she does something I get pretty excited.
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But that was, by hands down my favorite. I did
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work in Japan a long long time ago, and just
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the Bill Marie scene where he's doing the Century Times
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the drink so exactly my experience, and so I think
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I have a personal connection to it too. But the
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ending when he whispers in her ear. Every time I
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watch that movie, and I have this superstition that every
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time I fly over water, they usually have it on
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the plane. I watch it lot, but every time the
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same thing happens. Because no one really knows what he
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whispered in your ear at the end, and they've even tried,
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like turning up in posts like and they kind of
477
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can't figure it out. But every time I watch it again,
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I go back and I Google again to see if
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anybody's figured it out, because it breaks my heart, Like
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I want them. It's weird because there's obviously a huge
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age difference, but like I really wanted them to continue
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their relationship in some form. I just don't want to
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think that they never saw each other. I talk to
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each other again.
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Yeah, Yeah, that can happen.
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Where you have this moment with somebody and then you
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leave and then that was the moment was captured in
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that space and time and would never be the same.
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Yeah.
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And that kind of stuff makes like drives me crazy, breaks.
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My heart me too. See, I like interesting films like that,
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even no matter what genre they are, where it's like
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it's almost a twist on so in the you know,
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in the genre of romance, it's it's almost a twist.
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On the.
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Kind of more cliche version where they're happy and you know,
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and it's a nice repped bow at the end. I
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like that where really because to me, that's real life.
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You know, you could meet somebody and that could legitimately happen.
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I mean not that you can't, you know, do the
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rom com cliche life, but I mean, to me, that's
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like the real day to day life where you had
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this amazing time with somebody that you met at the
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beach or something when you were on vacation, and your
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lives go separate ways, and it's it's so amazing that
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you know, night or a few days or whatever that
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you shared with them, but it doesn't exist outside of that.
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And so those are the things that really that's more
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challenging things.
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That I think I and yeah, and I think that
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when you try to capture a moment or an essence
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on screen, it's hard to do. And I think that's
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why we do have cliche romances, because the cliche things
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are easier. But that film, and then I would say,
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Past Lives does this thing where a look a touch,
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like when he touches her hand in bed, Like that
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was so like such a charged moment, but it was
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just him touching her hand. And I'm thinking of like
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what that script must have looked like. Yeah, like the
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script was probably awesome, but like so much of it
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was captured between the performances in the moment it reminded me.
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I'll tell you a quick Bill Murray story if you
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want to hear it. So Bill Murray is like, you know,
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like I interview people for a living and probably interviewed
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like five thousand actors, but like had never interviewed Bill Murray.
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He was sort of like the goat, you know, I
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always wanted to and everybody was like, oh, well he
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can be a little cranky. I'm like, I'll charm him.
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Yeah.
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So I'm at this Golden Globes after party and he's standing.
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It was the year that Green Book Ye was on
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a run and I think it had won that night.
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He's friends with, you know, Peter Fairley, and so he was, oh,
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he Actually, here's the funny thing. So I was backstage
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doing interviews in that I didn't see the end of
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the show, so I didn't see who announced best Picture.
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Well he announced best Picture. I didn't know that. All
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I know is I go to this afterparty and he's there,
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and he's standing in the corner at this bar setup
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and he's like super cranky looking and he has all
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this security around him, and so I'm like, I'll just
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step past that security and I'll go over and he
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starts like instantly like I said to him, I said,
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I was like, so what brings you here? He goes
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he's like, oh, I just announced best Picture and I
546
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was like, oh, I said, I had no idea. So
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he instantly thought I was so dumb, like how are
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you at the Golden Glove if you don't know this?
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And I said I didn't know. I was backstage or whatever.
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So he starts making fun of me, and so I
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start making fun of him, and then he says to
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a security like, you know, give this girl some water
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because she's on fire. He was clearly like like not
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into it. I was just like, okay, you have a
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nice night, belt nice to meet you. And I like off,
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and all my friends were like on one side of
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the room and they're all like snapping pictures of the
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moment and they're like, oh my god, oh my god.
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They didn't realize. I was just like, I don't think
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you wanted to talk to me.
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Yeah, but that such a Bill Murray story.
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Then I did not charm him whatsoever, But that's.
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Such an awesome Bill Murray story. Like now you have
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your very own Bill Murray story.
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I have my very own lost and friend. We were
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definitely lost in translation. He didn't get like my deal,
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I didn't get his deal. I was yeah, but I
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still love the guy, love him.
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Speaking of those kinds of you know, kind of twists,
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the breakup with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, Like, to me,
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that's such a great anti Valentine's Day movie, Like it's
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so real life. And I think that's why I'm attracted
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to it, or you know, drawn to it, is because like, yeah,
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we have these ups, but we also have these downs.
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And I feel like a lot of movies don't ever
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go and focus on the downs, and so that's why
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I think it's so interesting. And and these are two
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I think, you know, beautiful people that at the surface
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should a very surface level like should work, you know,
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in the context of the film, but it doesn't because
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they have, you know, various life things and they're growing
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apart and all that. So I love that movie. And
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I feel like it's like slept On even though at
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the time, if I remember correctly, it was a hit,
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but I feel like nobody like brings it up anymore.
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And I think it's such a good film.
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No I think people, I actually think people do as
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the anti romancing, and I think, yeah, yeah, and I
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think it's one of those movies. I think I only
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watched like twice because it's hard to watch. It is
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because you relate to it so much of how painful
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it is to go through a breakup and you you
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don't work and you know it can't work, but you
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still want it to work, and you keep trying different
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angles and then it just doesn't and then it just
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deteriorates badly from there. I'm speaking of the anti romance
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Phantom Thread. Have you seen Phantom Thread?
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I have not, you know what. It was on my
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list for a long time and then I kind of
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forgot about it.
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So that is did you like One Battle? Are you
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like a PTA?
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I am yes, I did like One Battle, yes, but
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Phantom Thread, so you do like that?
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So actually one of my favorite PTA movies because Daniel
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da lewis number one. We don't see enough of him anymore.
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He retired and then he came out of retirement for
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his son's movie. But now he's who knows if he's
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00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:41.799
going to do anything else, But yeah, it's kind of
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a wild premise. He plays a fashion designer, so you
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00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.000
think you know, the trailers made it just look like
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he meets this woman and she's kind of like his muse,
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so to speak, and so you know, he's this revered
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fashion photographer and then the tables turn and it gets
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very dark. And if you like Paul Thomas Anderson movies,
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or you know Paul Thomas Anderson movies, and you remember,
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like even Magnolia when it's rain frogs and I hate
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Frogs and ruin the movie for me, but that's another story.
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But yeah, he loves to throw a wrench in at
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the end. And something happens at the end of this
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00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:28.759
movie that is like, yeah, craziest endings of a movie
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I've ever seen. It's bizarre. And I think when it
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came out, you either love that ending or you were
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00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:37.960
like what, so I hope I have you intrigued?
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Now, yeah, you do, And now I'm like, no, I mean,
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and it's it's actually the only film of his I
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think that I have not seen. So you've like bumped
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it back up on my watch list now because now
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I'm like, hmmm. And Magnolia, I mean, that's one of
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my favorite movies of all time. And that whole frog
631
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:58.279
scene was like a what and so now you've got me.
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I'm like, what did he come up with with this one?
633
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So?
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Yeah, where can we get more information about you? Where
635
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:06.960
can we follow all of your awesome stuff?
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00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:12.000
You're so sweet? All the channels I'm on mostly I'm
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on Instagram. I don't really tweet anymore. I lurk. I
638
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:19.599
don't really tweet. But at nikkiy Novak you can always
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00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.839
find me. At Fandango, I'm I'm you know, doing a
640
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.839
lot of you know, exciting interviews for them all the time.
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00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:29.079
We have this thing that people should definitely check out
642
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:31.519
that we have that's really unique, as I think everybody
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00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:33.880
kind of knows what a junket is these days, and
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that actors sit there and they talk to like many
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different outlets in a day. But we have this thing
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00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:40.240
called Big Ticket, our big ticket interviews where we sit
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down with the cast before anybody else. It's usually several
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00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:45.279
months before the movie comes out, and we sit down
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not just like one on ones, but it's like the
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whole cast together, and then we air them when the
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tickets go on sale. So we sort of have, you know,
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a little run like we put ours out for Withering Heights.
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I interviewed the cast in December in London, and it
654
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trended and went all over the place. But they're really
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fun sit downs because we get to sit down with
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the whole cast together for like thirty twenty thirty minutes.
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00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:11.119
So definitely check those out. But yeah, and I just
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started doing TikTok. I didn't do it for so long
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and then I had and this will put a bow
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on everything. But I had this moment at the Critics'
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Choice Awards because when I interviewed Jacob in December in
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London for Withering Heights, he had just been nominated for
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Critics Choice and I just have a real instinct about
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who's going to win. And I just said, I think
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you're winning. But everybody at the time thought it was
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Sean Pennerbiat sales Al Toro for one Battle. And so
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when he won, I went up to his table and
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I told you, and he's like, you're a sorceress. And
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then he came ran up and gave me like a
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big hug and a kiss as he was walking out
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the door. Well, if you know anything about Jacob Eulerdi's fandom,
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my friend who was big on TikTok, like put this
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TikTok together and she was literally recording the behind the scenes.
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I'd't even take a picture with him, and she like
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00:34:57.119 --> 00:34:58.719
she was like, no, No'll put it up on TikTok
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and just see what happens. It was like my first
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post ever and I got like a million and a
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half use So I'm like, I'm doing TikTok. This is amazing. Yeah,
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And now like I'm posting other stuff and I'm trying
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to get it going. I haven't added anything.
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Like that, but yeah, what do you My problem is,
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I've been so bad about my own socials. Uh, And
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so now I'm like you, I'm like, okay, you got
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to start posting some of this stuff to your own
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socials because mine goes out to iHeart and all these
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stations and all, and I'm like, what about your own
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So I've been trying to take a more active stance
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and like being like, okay, you did this interview, it's
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airing this week. Let's get some of those clips up
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to your own stuff, you know what I mean?
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But like, no, absolutely, but it's a funny thing because
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TikTok's a whole other animal, Like that's not really something
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I would put on Instagram because usually I'll put up
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an interview with voice and sound and she's like, no,
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it's literally like a five seconds of him and she
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put it in slowo and then she put his face
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up close and she like turned it into this. She
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turned it into a movie into a romantic com moviy
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00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:03.480
and listen, I'm not saying it is romantic in any way,
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but that's how she made it look. And so like, yeah,
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00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:08.880
it's every time I turn on I have new notifications
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of people like, oh my gosh.
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I love that, And where where is all of your
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Like is there a social we can go to or
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00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:18.719
a site that you can get all of your links?
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00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:23.800
Yeah, so at Nikki Novak is my own. Definitely check
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out Fandango's socials because they post me, they post my interviews,
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00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:31.159
and then I also do Rotten Tomatoes as well, so
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Rotten Tomatoes channels, and then definitely check out our YouTube
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channel and our homepage and Fandango at Home. Like we
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talked about before, there's like all those every basically all
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the old movies that we talked about are all on
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Fandango at Home. But yeah, if you want to find me,
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I'm at Nikki Novak and if you scroll way, way, way,
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way way back on Instagram, you'll see the photo of
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me and Bill Murray that somebody to find this.
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I'm going to do that because I want to see it.
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Now what, finally, what? And I'm sorry I've gone way
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over your time. What will you be doing or watching
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on Valentine's weekend?
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So I will. I'm definitely gonna see Pretty Opinion in
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theaters because I don't think I ever saw it in
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a theater.
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That's you know, oh yeah yeah.
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So I'm just really curious how it translates when you're
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so used to seeing a certain way. But I do
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have plans to see Wuthering Heights again, like a Gallantine's
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kind of thing, because I saw it. You know, you
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see it at a screening and you're trying to think
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of questions and you're doing all that kind of thing,
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but looking forward to seeing that and now you can
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horror movie? So tell me what I should go see?
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What horror movie are you recommending to me as the
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anti Valentine?
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Oh what? Now I got to look really quick.
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It doesn't have to be in theaters.
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Just any oh heart eyes, heart eyes. I don't know,
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did you see it. You did? Did you like it?
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I mean, this is gonna like we're lever talking it
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after I say this. But horror is my least favorite genre.
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It makes sense. I so horror is my favorite genre.
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I mean, obviously I'm like a cinophile, but but horror.
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I like bad horror, good horror. It doesn't matter, you know,
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made with a three dollar budget, made with a three
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hundred million dollar budget. I love horror, and which probably
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says a lot about a lot of things, but for me,
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but Heart Eyes I really loved because it was so
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kind of weird or quirky, I'll say, uh, and it
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kind of was satirical on like the slasher genre, but
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also had this like kind of fun satirical romance angle.
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Like I just loved it. I loved it. It's so
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weird and fun and kind of out of the box.
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Is that the word? Is that the term out of
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the box?
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Yeah?
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That that's That's what I would have recommended if you
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hadn't seen it. Dracula a Love Story, though, I'm gonna
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I should.
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See that because I had meant to see it, and
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I know it came out like today very right, Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, depending on when they watch or listen. But yeah,
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and it is not it's not a horror. I mean,
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it has horror elements, but it's more like a gothic
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romantic drama, you know, tragic drop gothic romantic drama, if
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that makes sense. But it really is. I really do.
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I really do love it. I love Caleb Caleb and
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and Zoe Blue plays his uh love and she's really great.
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I mean it really, I really really enjoyed it.
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So I'm going to go see that, and you're gonna
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go see.
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I'm going to watch Pretty in Pink oh and Wuthering Heights.
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Yes, yeah, mus see. You should do a double feature.
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That would actually be cool.
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And next time I see you, you're gonna be wearing
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a shirt that says I love romance.
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You never know, crazier things have happened, or I heart
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with like a bloody heart romance. Actually that's a good idea.
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Actually the h and.
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I'll be in black and I'll be like I mean
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the Plasure movies.
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Now that's so funny. Thank you so much. I really
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really appreciate it, and please come on again and we'll
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talk whatever sounds good.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for having
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me and look forward to chatting again and happy Valentine's.
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Yes you too, you too.
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Thank you for listening to pop Culture Weekly. You're all
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