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May 26, 2023

Robert De Niro, Sebastian Maniscalco, Kim Cattrall & the cast of About My Father

Robert De Niro, Sebastian Maniscalco, Kim Cattrall & the cast of About My Father

In this heartfelt and hilarious episode of Pop Culture Weekly, Kyle McMahon chats with the incredible cast of the film About My Father, including Sebastian Maniscalco, Robert De Niro, Leslie Bibb, Kim Cattrall, David Rasche, Anders Holm, Brett Dier...

In this heartfelt and hilarious episode of Pop Culture Weekly, Kyle McMahon chats with the incredible cast of the film About My Father, including Sebastian Maniscalco, Robert De Niro, Leslie Bibb, Kim Cattrall, David Rasche, Anders Holm, Brett Dier and director Laura Terruso. Listen in as they discuss the amazing chemistry of the cast, the film's touching themes of family and culture clash, and how the story draws upon Sebastian's real-life experiences. Don't miss the conversations with the talented actors who bring this funny and heartwarming film to life.

In this episode, you'll also hear about how Robert De Niro and Sebastian Maniscalco came together for this passion project, and the responsibility they felt in portraying characters based on real people. We'll explore the film's universal appeal, the importance of authenticity and empathy in storytelling, and how making About My Father allowed both Sebastian and director Laura Terruso to live their own American dream. Don't miss this fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a movie that is sure to make you laugh, cry, and cherish the relationships in your life.



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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,480 In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, I talk with Sebastian Manus Calco, Robert Teniro, and the cast of "About My Father" let's go! 2 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:13,220 Welcome to Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from I Heart Radio! 3 00:00:13,220 --> 00:00:24,800 Your Pop Culture News! Views, Reviews, and Celebrity Interviews on all the movies, TV, music, and pop culture you crave, Weekly! Here's Kyle McMahon! 4 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,040 (hums) 5 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:28,760 (upbeat music) 6 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:29,940 ♪ Na na na ♪ 7 00:00:29,940 --> 00:00:31,940 ♪ Hello, and welcome to Pop Culture Weekly ♪ 8 00:00:31,940 --> 00:00:33,220 ♪ With Kyle McMahon ♪ 9 00:00:33,220 --> 00:00:36,620 ♪ I, of course, am Kyle McMahon ♪ 10 00:00:36,620 --> 00:00:41,620 ♪ And this episode is all about about my father. 11 00:00:41,620 --> 00:00:46,500 The film is out today, depending on when you listen to this. 12 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:48,780 It's out now in theaters, 13 00:00:48,780 --> 00:00:53,780 and it is a really, really hysterically funny movie. 14 00:00:53,780 --> 00:00:57,780 It is heartwarming, it's touching, it's got soul, 15 00:00:57,780 --> 00:00:59,380 it's got heart. 16 00:00:59,380 --> 00:01:01,380 I was laughing in the theater. 17 00:01:01,380 --> 00:01:03,780 I was crying in the theater. 18 00:01:03,780 --> 00:01:07,780 I was laughing hysterically in the theater. 19 00:01:07,780 --> 00:01:12,780 It is just one of those movies that I absolutely love. 20 00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:13,780 The cast. 21 00:01:13,780 --> 00:01:18,780 Every single cast member in this is so, so good. 22 00:01:21,780 --> 00:01:26,780 Like there's not a cast member who doesn't hold their weight. 23 00:01:26,780 --> 00:01:30,780 And it's a good guess. 24 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:34,780 You got Sebastian Manescalco in his first leading role, 25 00:01:34,780 --> 00:01:36,780 you know, in about my father. 26 00:01:36,780 --> 00:01:40,780 You've got Robert De Niro playing his dad, Salvo. 27 00:01:40,780 --> 00:01:44,780 Leslie Bibb playing his fiance, Ellie. 28 00:01:44,780 --> 00:01:48,780 Kim Katral as Ellie's mom, Tigger. 29 00:01:48,780 --> 00:01:53,780 David Rash as Ellie's mom, Bill, Ellie's mom's bill. 30 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:58,780 Ellie's, David Rash as Ellie's dad, Bill. 31 00:01:58,780 --> 00:02:05,780 Andrews home as her brother Lucky Brett Dyer as her brother Doug. 32 00:02:05,780 --> 00:02:09,780 It is just a really, really great film. 33 00:02:09,780 --> 00:02:13,780 So the film centers around Sebastian, 34 00:02:13,780 --> 00:02:17,780 and it's loosely based on his life and his relationship with his father. 35 00:02:17,780 --> 00:02:24,780 So, you know, he is encouraged by his fiance, Leslie Bibb, 36 00:02:24,780 --> 00:02:29,780 to bring his father to spend the weekend with her family, 37 00:02:29,780 --> 00:02:33,780 who happens to be very wealthy and a little bit eccentric. 38 00:02:33,780 --> 00:02:39,780 And, you know, Sebastian and Salvo are not wealthy. 39 00:02:39,780 --> 00:02:43,780 They may be eccentric a little bit, but so it's about that culture clash 40 00:02:43,780 --> 00:02:48,780 and relationships, you know, obviously parental relationships. 41 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:55,780 The relationship between Sebastian and Robert, Sebastian and his dad is beautiful. 42 00:02:55,780 --> 00:03:01,780 And we, you know, as a viewer, at least I could see so much of my own family 43 00:03:01,780 --> 00:03:07,780 and so many of these dynamics, it really just hits home for me and I love it. 44 00:03:07,780 --> 00:03:10,780 It's out from Lionsgate right now. 45 00:03:10,780 --> 00:03:17,780 And you're going to laugh hysterically believe me. 46 00:03:17,780 --> 00:03:24,780 So I am talking with the cast and with the director, Laura Tarruso. 47 00:03:24,780 --> 00:03:27,780 So I am talking with everybody. 48 00:03:27,780 --> 00:03:31,780 I'm talking with Robert De Niro and Sebastian Manescalco. 49 00:03:31,780 --> 00:03:34,780 I'm talking with Leslie Bibb and Kim Katrol. 50 00:03:34,780 --> 00:03:41,780 I'm talking with Anders Holm and Brett Dyer and David Rash. 51 00:03:41,780 --> 00:03:42,780 Everybody. 52 00:03:42,780 --> 00:03:47,780 And I love, love, love these interviews. 53 00:03:47,780 --> 00:03:48,780 I love the film. 54 00:03:48,780 --> 00:03:53,780 It's just you gotta, gotta, gotta go see it. 55 00:03:53,780 --> 00:03:57,780 So you probably listened to the last episode, 56 00:03:57,780 --> 00:04:00,780 which was a special episode from yesterday, 57 00:04:00,780 --> 00:04:07,780 where I was live in Chicago talking to the cast and Laura on the red carpet. 58 00:04:07,780 --> 00:04:13,780 These are sit down interviews as, you know, you're probably more used to from me. 59 00:04:13,780 --> 00:04:16,780 And I just, let's just get right into it. 60 00:04:16,780 --> 00:04:21,780 Let's start with director Laura Tarruso. 61 00:04:21,780 --> 00:04:26,780 So Laura is immensely funny, immensely talented. 62 00:04:26,780 --> 00:04:30,780 She is a director, screenwriter, producer. 63 00:04:30,780 --> 00:04:33,780 She's done, good girls get high. 64 00:04:33,780 --> 00:04:36,780 Foxy Merkins, hello, my name is Doris. 65 00:04:36,780 --> 00:04:44,780 Let's get in to my conversation with about my father, director, Laura Tarruso. 66 00:04:44,780 --> 00:04:46,780 Thank you so much for speaking with me. 67 00:04:46,780 --> 00:04:47,780 I appreciate it. 68 00:04:47,780 --> 00:04:48,780 Of course. 69 00:04:48,780 --> 00:04:51,780 So the film is absolutely incredible. 70 00:04:51,780 --> 00:04:53,780 I laughed hysterically. 71 00:04:53,780 --> 00:04:58,780 I cried. It is such a, for me, amalgamation. 72 00:04:58,780 --> 00:04:59,780 I don't even know if that's where. 73 00:04:59,780 --> 00:05:04,780 But of what a good film should be. 74 00:05:04,780 --> 00:05:07,780 And it's so well done. 75 00:05:07,780 --> 00:05:11,780 And I wanted to know, you know, it's very obviously family oriented. 76 00:05:11,780 --> 00:05:18,780 And was there anything that you drew from in your own life in, you know, 77 00:05:18,780 --> 00:05:21,780 tackling as you're directing this film? 78 00:05:21,780 --> 00:05:23,780 Big time. 79 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:24,780 Yeah. 80 00:05:24,780 --> 00:05:28,780 So Sebastian's, you know, this film is about Sebastian's relationship with his father, 81 00:05:28,780 --> 00:05:30,780 who is a Sicilian immigrant. 82 00:05:30,780 --> 00:05:32,780 My mother is a Sicilian immigrant. 83 00:05:32,780 --> 00:05:37,780 She immigrated from Sicily in the 1960s, around the same time as Sebastian's father. 84 00:05:37,780 --> 00:05:43,780 So when I read the script, I just felt an immediate personal connection to the characters, 85 00:05:43,780 --> 00:05:44,780 to the story. 86 00:05:44,780 --> 00:05:49,780 And so I just pursued it doggedly because I, I was like, I have to tell this story. 87 00:05:49,780 --> 00:05:53,780 It's very rare that you read a script that is so personal, 88 00:05:53,780 --> 00:05:55,780 while also being so universal. 89 00:05:55,780 --> 00:05:59,780 Right. And well, that love, I think, comes through. 90 00:05:59,780 --> 00:06:00,780 De Niro. 91 00:06:00,780 --> 00:06:03,780 I mean, you know, what? 92 00:06:03,780 --> 00:06:08,780 That's all I have to say. Could you answer that? 93 00:06:08,780 --> 00:06:12,780 I mean, the rumors are true. 94 00:06:12,780 --> 00:06:13,780 He's incredible. 95 00:06:13,780 --> 00:06:18,780 He's probably one of the greatest actors of living actors of all time. 96 00:06:18,780 --> 00:06:20,780 He's everything. 97 00:06:20,780 --> 00:06:23,780 And working with him was such a gift. 98 00:06:23,780 --> 00:06:27,780 And yeah, just a lesson in collaboration and trust. 99 00:06:27,780 --> 00:06:30,780 And I feel so fortunate. 100 00:06:30,780 --> 00:06:33,780 Well, you know, you did an incredible job. 101 00:06:33,780 --> 00:06:39,780 And another thing that I find interesting is, since it is partly, you know, Sebastian's story, 102 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:43,780 do you feel any kind of, as you're doing the film? 103 00:06:43,780 --> 00:06:47,780 Do you feel any kind of like responsibility when it's 104 00:06:47,780 --> 00:06:48,780 somebody's life? 105 00:06:48,780 --> 00:06:53,780 I feel like it only enriches it because it makes it, it just makes it more authentic and more truthful. 106 00:06:53,780 --> 00:06:55,780 And that's what we do, right? 107 00:06:55,780 --> 00:06:59,780 Like art is the pursuit of authenticity and truth and empathy. 108 00:06:59,780 --> 00:07:05,780 And having, knowing that this is Sebastian's actual story, you know, on the set on the day, 109 00:07:05,780 --> 00:07:09,780 I remember we were shooting this helicopter scene where Sebastian was shooting. 110 00:07:09,780 --> 00:07:11,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 111 00:07:11,780 --> 00:07:13,780 I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 112 00:07:13,780 --> 00:07:18,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 113 00:07:18,780 --> 00:07:21,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 114 00:07:21,780 --> 00:07:23,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 115 00:07:23,780 --> 00:07:25,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 116 00:07:25,780 --> 00:07:27,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 117 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:29,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 118 00:07:29,780 --> 00:07:31,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 119 00:07:31,780 --> 00:07:33,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 120 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:35,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 121 00:07:35,780 --> 00:07:37,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 122 00:07:37,780 --> 00:07:39,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 123 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:41,780 And I was like, "Oh, I'm so happy." 124 00:07:41,780 --> 00:07:44,780 You know, this is our love letter to our parents. 125 00:07:44,780 --> 00:07:47,780 And it's also a film about the American Dream 126 00:07:47,780 --> 00:07:52,780 and even in making it, Sebastian and I have been able to live our American Dream. 127 00:07:52,780 --> 00:07:56,780 So it's kind of like everything comes full circle with this film. 128 00:07:56,780 --> 00:07:58,780 I love it. Thank you so much. 129 00:07:58,780 --> 00:08:00,780 I can't wait for everybody to see it. 130 00:08:00,780 --> 00:08:01,780 Thank you so much. Of course. 131 00:08:01,780 --> 00:08:03,780 Laura Tarruso. 132 00:08:03,780 --> 00:08:06,780 Love, love, love. Her. She's so funny. 133 00:08:06,780 --> 00:08:08,780 All right. Let's move right along. 134 00:08:08,780 --> 00:08:13,780 We got a lot of interview coverage for you from about my father. 135 00:08:13,780 --> 00:08:18,780 Let's talk to the brothers and father in the film. 136 00:08:18,780 --> 00:08:22,780 Brett Dyer is hysterical as Doug. 137 00:08:22,780 --> 00:08:27,780 I see I'm afraid to like give too much away because it is so funny. 138 00:08:27,780 --> 00:08:29,780 I don't want to spoil anything. 139 00:08:29,780 --> 00:08:33,780 You may know Brett from Jane the Virgin. 140 00:08:33,780 --> 00:08:38,780 And he starred as CB in school, the sitcom on ABC. 141 00:08:38,780 --> 00:08:40,780 Really great guy. 142 00:08:40,780 --> 00:08:45,780 And his role is as Doug is hysterical. 143 00:08:45,780 --> 00:08:47,780 I could relate to him in a lot of ways. 144 00:08:47,780 --> 00:08:51,780 Anders home as Lucky Collins, Ellie's brother. 145 00:08:51,780 --> 00:08:56,780 He, you, I'm sure, know as Anders from "Work a Hullex." 146 00:08:56,780 --> 00:09:02,780 He was a creator and writer and producer in the film. 147 00:09:02,780 --> 00:09:09,780 He also became the hip or played, the hip pastor who played Mindy's 148 00:09:09,780 --> 00:09:14,780 fiance in the Mindy project and works a lot with Seth Rogan. 149 00:09:14,780 --> 00:09:18,780 So really great guy, talented actor. 150 00:09:18,780 --> 00:09:24,780 And finally in this group is David Rash who, 151 00:09:24,780 --> 00:09:26,780 when I was doing that, you probably heard it. 152 00:09:26,780 --> 00:09:29,780 When I was doing the red carpet for about my father in Chicago, 153 00:09:29,780 --> 00:09:34,780 David, and a group of fans that were flagging me over. 154 00:09:34,780 --> 00:09:37,780 And I'm like, ooh, they listened to my show. 155 00:09:37,780 --> 00:09:41,780 And then I realized they're like, can you get David to look over here? 156 00:09:41,780 --> 00:09:44,780 And I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, sure, of course. 157 00:09:44,780 --> 00:09:49,780 So thanks to you boys, deflated me. 158 00:09:49,780 --> 00:09:51,780 And then thanks to David for being awesome. 159 00:09:51,780 --> 00:09:55,780 He is incredible as Carl Muller in "Succession." 160 00:09:55,780 --> 00:09:58,780 He was also a sledgehammer, freaking sledgehammer. 161 00:09:58,780 --> 00:10:02,780 And he's been in a million other things, the United 93, 162 00:10:02,780 --> 00:10:06,780 flags of our fathers, men in black, three. 163 00:10:06,780 --> 00:10:10,780 And that's just, you know, some highlights on his film career. 164 00:10:10,780 --> 00:10:13,780 On the television side, he played Jack Trenton on nurses. 165 00:10:13,780 --> 00:10:15,780 He was in empty nest. 166 00:10:15,780 --> 00:10:17,780 Of course, spin off from Golden Girls. 167 00:10:17,780 --> 00:10:19,780 Veepe, he played Hunter Black. 168 00:10:19,780 --> 00:10:24,780 Let's get into my interview with David Rash, 169 00:10:24,780 --> 00:10:27,780 Anders Home, and Brett Dyer. 170 00:10:27,780 --> 00:10:28,780 Hi, radio. 171 00:10:28,780 --> 00:10:29,780 Yes, sir. 172 00:10:29,780 --> 00:10:30,780 We're here. 173 00:10:30,780 --> 00:10:32,780 Thank you all for speaking with me. 174 00:10:32,780 --> 00:10:33,780 I absolutely love the film. 175 00:10:33,780 --> 00:10:34,780 Good. 176 00:10:34,780 --> 00:10:35,780 What'd you like about it? 177 00:10:35,780 --> 00:10:37,780 It is hysterically funny. 178 00:10:37,780 --> 00:10:39,780 It made me cry as well. 179 00:10:39,780 --> 00:10:40,780 Oh, yeah. 180 00:10:40,780 --> 00:10:41,780 At the end there. 181 00:10:41,780 --> 00:10:42,780 It's really, yeah. 182 00:10:42,780 --> 00:10:44,780 It's actually a few parts during it made me, 183 00:10:44,780 --> 00:10:49,780 it's just, it's very touching in ways that I didn't expect. 184 00:10:49,780 --> 00:10:50,780 Good. 185 00:10:50,780 --> 00:10:51,780 And so good to hear. 186 00:10:51,780 --> 00:10:53,780 Yeah, it really, it was great to watch. 187 00:10:53,780 --> 00:10:56,780 Yeah. 188 00:10:56,780 --> 00:10:59,780 And so I, for you, you know, it felt like there was a family atmosphere. 189 00:10:59,780 --> 00:11:01,780 You all just kind of like clicked together. 190 00:11:01,780 --> 00:11:03,780 I mean, I felt like I was watching a family, 191 00:11:03,780 --> 00:11:05,780 which of course is what good actors do. 192 00:11:05,780 --> 00:11:06,780 Right. 193 00:11:06,780 --> 00:11:10,780 But, uh, but did that, was that true for you as you're filming? 194 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:11,780 Yeah. 195 00:11:11,780 --> 00:11:12,780 Who made you cry the most? 196 00:11:12,780 --> 00:11:13,780 Was it me? 197 00:11:13,780 --> 00:11:14,780 Uh, yes. 198 00:11:14,780 --> 00:11:15,780 Yeah. 199 00:11:15,780 --> 00:11:16,780 Yeah. 200 00:11:16,780 --> 00:11:19,780 Yeah, we felt pretty good together. 201 00:11:19,780 --> 00:11:21,780 We were getting, the three of us were getting dinners all the time. 202 00:11:21,780 --> 00:11:22,780 Yeah, we really clicked. 203 00:11:22,780 --> 00:11:23,780 Yeah. 204 00:11:23,780 --> 00:11:24,780 Uh, that was great. 205 00:11:24,780 --> 00:11:25,780 Yeah. 206 00:11:25,780 --> 00:11:26,780 It was fun. 207 00:11:26,780 --> 00:11:27,780 Yeah. 208 00:11:27,780 --> 00:11:28,780 Yeah. 209 00:11:28,780 --> 00:11:29,780 Yeah. 210 00:11:29,780 --> 00:11:30,780 Really great. 211 00:11:30,780 --> 00:11:31,780 A very talented cast. 212 00:11:31,780 --> 00:11:32,780 Everybody, Kim was great. 213 00:11:32,780 --> 00:11:33,780 I mean, he was awesome. 214 00:11:33,780 --> 00:11:34,780 Leslie and everybody. 215 00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:35,780 Yeah. 216 00:11:35,780 --> 00:11:36,780 Who's the other, what was the name, but Robert? 217 00:11:36,780 --> 00:11:37,780 Robert, Robert? 218 00:11:37,780 --> 00:11:38,780 Was it Robert? 219 00:11:38,780 --> 00:11:39,780 Robert and Denyar. 220 00:11:39,780 --> 00:11:40,780 Robert, he was good. 221 00:11:40,780 --> 00:11:41,780 He was good. 222 00:11:41,780 --> 00:11:42,780 He was good. 223 00:11:42,780 --> 00:11:43,780 Yeah. 224 00:11:43,780 --> 00:11:44,780 Robert, Robert. 225 00:11:44,780 --> 00:11:46,780 He's gonna go places and go. 226 00:11:46,780 --> 00:11:47,780 Right. 227 00:11:47,780 --> 00:11:48,780 Yeah. 228 00:11:48,780 --> 00:11:51,780 What was your favorite part as you're filming? 229 00:11:51,780 --> 00:11:56,780 You know, what I think is really interesting about this is, you know, obviously it's based, 230 00:11:56,780 --> 00:11:59,780 uh, on, uh, on Sebastian's life. 231 00:11:59,780 --> 00:12:08,780 How was that for you when you, you know, I almost feel like, is there more, do you feel more responsibility as an actor when you're doing a not totally fictional film? 232 00:12:08,780 --> 00:12:10,780 Or is it, does it not matter? 233 00:12:10,780 --> 00:12:12,780 I didn't care about Sebastian's life at all. 234 00:12:12,780 --> 00:12:14,780 So I think it's still just my part. 235 00:12:14,780 --> 00:12:26,780 But, uh, it was really fun to be, uh, at the father of, uh, such a terrible father who had let these children become so completely out of the question. 236 00:12:26,780 --> 00:12:35,780 And it was always entertaining to see just how far out of the question they were and they went in their own ways very far. 237 00:12:35,780 --> 00:12:37,780 How about for you? 238 00:12:37,780 --> 00:12:39,780 Well, um, Sebastian's life. 239 00:12:39,780 --> 00:12:40,780 Sebastian's life. 240 00:12:40,780 --> 00:12:41,780 Sebastian's that year. 241 00:12:41,780 --> 00:12:49,780 Well, I didn't find out, I didn't find out until like the third day of shooting when I already like, and so I told, well, clicked in. 242 00:12:49,780 --> 00:12:51,780 I was like, wait a minute, am I playing a real dude? 243 00:12:51,780 --> 00:12:52,780 And he's like, yeah. 244 00:12:52,780 --> 00:12:53,780 And I'm like, what? 245 00:12:53,780 --> 00:12:54,780 I don't know. 246 00:12:54,780 --> 00:12:55,780 I don't know. 247 00:12:55,780 --> 00:12:56,780 I don't know. 248 00:12:56,780 --> 00:12:57,780 Like, oh shit. 249 00:12:57,780 --> 00:12:58,780 You were two. 250 00:12:58,780 --> 00:12:59,780 Yeah, I was two. 251 00:12:59,780 --> 00:13:00,780 Oh, yeah. 252 00:13:00,780 --> 00:13:01,780 I was, I found out last night at dinner. 253 00:13:01,780 --> 00:13:02,780 Yeah. 254 00:13:02,780 --> 00:13:05,780 I was like, well, I just played this perfume. 255 00:13:05,780 --> 00:13:06,780 That's all that's good. 256 00:13:06,780 --> 00:13:08,780 Um, yeah. 257 00:13:08,780 --> 00:13:11,780 So it's loosely based on this. 258 00:13:11,780 --> 00:13:12,780 Right. 259 00:13:12,780 --> 00:13:13,780 And so it's not, I'm sorry. 260 00:13:13,780 --> 00:13:15,780 I don't think I would have been any different. 261 00:13:15,780 --> 00:13:16,780 I don't think I would have been either. 262 00:13:16,780 --> 00:13:17,780 I wouldn't have played a different one. 263 00:13:17,780 --> 00:13:21,780 Unless he's like a famous guy that everybody knows that you're kind of, uh, acting line. 264 00:13:21,780 --> 00:13:22,780 Yeah. 265 00:13:22,780 --> 00:13:23,780 Yeah. 266 00:13:23,780 --> 00:13:24,780 You know, yeah. 267 00:13:24,780 --> 00:13:26,780 And finally, what was your favorite part? 268 00:13:26,780 --> 00:13:31,780 Because there's all kinds of fun, at least for my opinion, fun things that you guys got to do. 269 00:13:31,780 --> 00:13:35,780 Sound bowls and, and you know, horrifying. 270 00:13:35,780 --> 00:13:38,780 Uh, golf swing. 271 00:13:38,780 --> 00:13:39,780 Yes. 272 00:13:39,780 --> 00:13:47,780 Well, one of the funniest things for me was when we, uh, remember when, uh, when Bob won the prize. 273 00:13:47,780 --> 00:13:48,780 Were you there for that? 274 00:13:48,780 --> 00:13:49,780 Yes. 275 00:13:49,780 --> 00:13:50,780 He won the prize. 276 00:13:50,780 --> 00:13:51,780 Oh, yeah. 277 00:13:51,780 --> 00:13:52,780 That's whatever it is. 278 00:13:52,780 --> 00:13:56,780 And he's hot, and his whole thing about you, not the wolf at. 279 00:13:56,780 --> 00:13:57,780 Yeah. 280 00:13:57,780 --> 00:13:58,780 So funny. 281 00:13:58,780 --> 00:13:59,780 He's so inventive. 282 00:13:59,780 --> 00:14:00,780 He's so funny. 283 00:14:00,780 --> 00:14:02,780 He's so curious and, uh, goofy. 284 00:14:02,780 --> 00:14:05,780 And, uh, it was just delightful to watch him. 285 00:14:05,780 --> 00:14:06,780 Yeah. 286 00:14:06,780 --> 00:14:07,780 I love it. 287 00:14:07,780 --> 00:14:09,780 Thank you, uh, both, not both. 288 00:14:09,780 --> 00:14:10,780 Thank all three of you. 289 00:14:10,780 --> 00:14:11,780 They're really just two of us. 290 00:14:11,780 --> 00:14:12,780 Yeah. 291 00:14:12,780 --> 00:14:13,780 You're not wrong. 292 00:14:13,780 --> 00:14:14,780 Thank you. 293 00:14:14,780 --> 00:14:15,780 Thank you for speaking with me. 294 00:14:15,780 --> 00:14:17,780 I can't wait for everybody to see about my father. 295 00:14:17,780 --> 00:14:18,780 Good. 296 00:14:18,780 --> 00:14:19,780 Thanks. 297 00:14:19,780 --> 00:14:20,780 Thank you. 298 00:14:20,780 --> 00:14:21,780 Thanks. 299 00:14:21,780 --> 00:14:25,780 David Rash, Anders Hohman, Brett Dyer. 300 00:14:25,780 --> 00:14:26,780 Their hysterical. 301 00:14:26,780 --> 00:14:31,460 David is like, I couldn't stop laughing funny. 302 00:14:31,460 --> 00:14:37,220 He's a great guy, but I ended up seeing him at the cast party of book club the next chapter 303 00:14:37,220 --> 00:14:39,220 in New York two days later. 304 00:14:39,220 --> 00:14:40,220 And he's like, Hey, Kyle. 305 00:14:40,220 --> 00:14:42,220 I'm like, Hey, David. 306 00:14:42,220 --> 00:14:44,060 You know, you follow me around here or what? 307 00:14:44,060 --> 00:14:47,460 He started laughing and, uh, just a really fun guy. 308 00:14:47,460 --> 00:14:48,860 All right. 309 00:14:48,860 --> 00:14:51,460 We have the ladies up next. 310 00:14:51,460 --> 00:14:54,900 I mean, how do you even, Kim Ketral? 311 00:14:54,900 --> 00:14:58,860 I mean, Kim Ketral and Leslie Bibb are up next. 312 00:14:58,860 --> 00:15:03,700 Kim Ketral, of course, you know, starred in Sex and the City of Samantha, Samantha Jones. 313 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:11,260 She got five Emmy Noms for it, four Golden Globe Noms, Bill Noms, and, uh, and one for best 314 00:15:11,260 --> 00:15:14,020 supporting actress, both Sex and the City movies. 315 00:15:14,020 --> 00:15:19,900 She was in a mannequin, a classic, big trouble and little China police academy, Star Trek 316 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:22,580 six, the undiscovered country. 317 00:15:22,580 --> 00:15:25,780 And she kills it as ticker in this film. 318 00:15:25,780 --> 00:15:29,060 She really, really hysterical. 319 00:15:29,060 --> 00:15:33,900 And that's again, just on the movie side, on the TV side, I mean, again, Sex and the City, 320 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:35,380 Starsky and Hutch. 321 00:15:35,380 --> 00:15:42,980 She's the narrator and how I met your father and just a wonderful, wonderful woman. 322 00:15:42,980 --> 00:15:48,700 And then Leslie Bibb, who is hysterical, I just fell in love with her as Leslie and I fell 323 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:50,580 in love with her in person too. 324 00:15:50,580 --> 00:15:52,820 She's so awesome. 325 00:15:52,820 --> 00:15:57,180 You may know her rock in popular on the WB network. 326 00:15:57,180 --> 00:16:00,900 She is in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Christine Everhart. 327 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:03,980 She was in, uh, what if Iron Man, Iron Man 2? 328 00:16:03,980 --> 00:16:09,980 She played Grace Samson and Jupiter's legacy on Netflix and is just a genuinely awesome, 329 00:16:09,980 --> 00:16:11,900 awesome person and talent. 330 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:12,900 She's really funny. 331 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:16,020 She's got so much energy and I love her. 332 00:16:16,020 --> 00:16:17,660 I love Kim as well. 333 00:16:17,660 --> 00:16:24,060 So let's get into my interview with Kim Kattra and Leslie Bibb. 334 00:16:24,060 --> 00:16:25,620 Thank you both so much for speaking with me. 335 00:16:25,620 --> 00:16:27,100 I love the film. 336 00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:28,100 I was laughing. 337 00:16:28,100 --> 00:16:29,100 I was crying. 338 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:30,100 It was really crying. 339 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:31,100 It really did. 340 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:32,100 Yeah. 341 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:34,340 Last night I saw it in the theater and I literally cried. 342 00:16:34,340 --> 00:16:36,140 It's really got a lot of experience. 343 00:16:36,140 --> 00:16:37,140 It really is. 344 00:16:37,140 --> 00:16:39,140 I lost my mama two years ago. 345 00:16:39,140 --> 00:16:40,140 I'm so sorry. 346 00:16:40,140 --> 00:16:41,140 Thank you very much. 347 00:16:41,140 --> 00:16:50,020 And so it really, really had a special, for me, a special little, you know, angle that 348 00:16:50,020 --> 00:16:51,020 it's just awesome. 349 00:16:51,020 --> 00:16:53,020 I feel like that's interesting. 350 00:16:53,020 --> 00:16:56,940 If you have parents, it resonates. 351 00:16:56,940 --> 00:17:01,140 And if you've lost your parents, it really, like I just lost my mom a few years ago. 352 00:17:01,140 --> 00:17:03,140 I lost her mother last year. 353 00:17:03,140 --> 00:17:05,140 I lost my dad when I was three. 354 00:17:05,140 --> 00:17:07,460 And he said last year, it was November. 355 00:17:07,460 --> 00:17:09,460 Yeah, it was last year. 356 00:17:09,460 --> 00:17:11,380 And I lost my dad when I was three. 357 00:17:11,380 --> 00:17:13,700 I love I whispered that, like I'm saying something. 358 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:16,740 But I feel like it's just family. 359 00:17:16,740 --> 00:17:23,660 And it's a beautiful look at how weird every family is and they have their idiosyncrasies. 360 00:17:23,660 --> 00:17:28,220 And they do things that seem insane, but they're with love. 361 00:17:28,220 --> 00:17:29,940 And I don't know. 362 00:17:29,940 --> 00:17:33,460 I just feel like this movie really resonates. 363 00:17:33,460 --> 00:17:35,780 And I feel like it's kind of what we need right now. 364 00:17:35,780 --> 00:17:38,420 Everybody needs to go sit in the movie theater and have a good laugh. 365 00:17:38,420 --> 00:17:39,420 I so agree. 366 00:17:39,420 --> 00:17:40,420 I have my mom. 367 00:17:40,420 --> 00:17:41,420 This is her. 368 00:17:41,420 --> 00:17:43,260 I got this after she passed. 369 00:17:43,260 --> 00:17:45,020 It's her signature from a card. 370 00:17:45,020 --> 00:17:46,020 So sweet. 371 00:17:46,020 --> 00:17:47,260 And I also wear her. 372 00:17:47,260 --> 00:17:51,340 This was not what I planned, but here I wear her ring. 373 00:17:51,340 --> 00:17:52,340 Oh my god. 374 00:17:52,340 --> 00:17:53,340 So nice. 375 00:17:53,340 --> 00:17:59,900 But, but yes, I totally agree that this is something I think no matter where you are in 376 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:05,940 that status of life with your parents that you can really resonate with it. 377 00:18:05,940 --> 00:18:08,180 And the cast does such a great job. 378 00:18:08,180 --> 00:18:10,780 I mean, you guys are amazing. 379 00:18:10,780 --> 00:18:12,420 I felt like I was watching a family. 380 00:18:12,420 --> 00:18:21,620 I could really relate to certain things with different actors and their roles. 381 00:18:21,620 --> 00:18:24,700 And it just really comes together so well. 382 00:18:24,700 --> 00:18:28,740 Did you find that familial bond as you were? 383 00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:32,020 It just sort of choke off. 384 00:18:32,020 --> 00:18:35,060 I think we got chemistry is this elusive thing. 385 00:18:35,060 --> 00:18:37,100 Oh my god, my stomach's growling. 386 00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:39,700 She's like, I'll feed you later. 387 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:40,700 Okay. 388 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:46,900 And so I think you don't know when it's going to happen, if it's going to happen, is it 389 00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:47,900 going to? 390 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:55,340 And it really like, it just like everybody, the bread and onters and David and you and 391 00:18:55,340 --> 00:19:02,220 then within that, you and David, like I remember the first that we were at the club. 392 00:19:02,220 --> 00:19:03,220 And shooting. 393 00:19:03,220 --> 00:19:05,220 It was a huge scene. 394 00:19:05,220 --> 00:19:06,220 It was a long day. 395 00:19:06,220 --> 00:19:13,420 It was like, well, I think the first day with Bob and I just remember watching you and David 396 00:19:13,420 --> 00:19:18,380 and I looked at that Sebastian and I'd already been working with Sebastian for the week before. 397 00:19:18,380 --> 00:19:20,340 So it was like our second week of shooting. 398 00:19:20,340 --> 00:19:22,660 And I was like, they are freaking crazy. 399 00:19:22,660 --> 00:19:24,060 And I'm so into it. 400 00:19:24,060 --> 00:19:25,380 They're so nuts. 401 00:19:25,380 --> 00:19:27,020 I'm so into it. 402 00:19:27,020 --> 00:19:28,820 And then Brett is doing that great. 403 00:19:28,820 --> 00:19:31,900 I mean, he's so cuckoo. 404 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:32,900 Everybody's great. 405 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:37,660 And the Bob had that crazy ring that came on the phone and I said, what is that ring? 406 00:19:37,660 --> 00:19:40,100 And he said, oh, that's actually my dad's ring. 407 00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:44,140 Bob has taken that when he was with my dad. 408 00:19:44,140 --> 00:19:47,180 And when he spent like three days with the actual salvo. 409 00:19:47,180 --> 00:19:50,060 And I was like, oh, this is going to be a funny movie. 410 00:19:50,060 --> 00:19:52,980 This is going to be, this is where we're in good hands. 411 00:19:52,980 --> 00:19:54,140 We had a good script. 412 00:19:54,140 --> 00:19:55,420 We had a wonderful director. 413 00:19:55,420 --> 00:19:57,380 We had wonderful leading man. 414 00:19:57,380 --> 00:19:58,980 We had a great company. 415 00:19:58,980 --> 00:20:04,980 All at a time when it was the rainy season in Mobile, Alabama, the rainy season of City 416 00:20:04,980 --> 00:20:05,980 and America. 417 00:20:05,980 --> 00:20:06,980 The rainy season. 418 00:20:06,980 --> 00:20:07,980 The rainy season. 419 00:20:07,980 --> 00:20:08,980 City and America. 420 00:20:08,980 --> 00:20:09,980 The rainy season. 421 00:20:09,980 --> 00:20:10,980 The rainy season. 422 00:20:10,980 --> 00:20:11,980 City and America. 423 00:20:11,980 --> 00:20:12,980 The rainy season. 424 00:20:12,980 --> 00:20:13,980 The rainy season. 425 00:20:13,980 --> 00:20:14,980 City and America. 426 00:20:14,980 --> 00:20:15,980 City and America. 427 00:20:15,980 --> 00:20:16,980 The rainy season. 428 00:20:16,980 --> 00:20:17,980 City and America. 429 00:20:17,980 --> 00:20:18,980 The rainy season. 430 00:20:18,980 --> 00:20:19,980 The rainy season. 431 00:20:19,980 --> 00:20:20,980 City and America. 432 00:20:20,980 --> 00:20:21,980 City and America. 433 00:20:21,980 --> 00:20:22,980 The rainy season. 434 00:20:22,980 --> 00:20:23,980 City and America. 435 00:20:23,980 --> 00:20:24,980 City and America. 436 00:20:24,980 --> 00:20:25,980 The rainy season. 437 00:20:25,980 --> 00:20:26,980 City and America. 438 00:20:26,980 --> 00:20:27,980 City and America. 439 00:20:27,980 --> 00:20:28,980 So perfect. 440 00:20:28,980 --> 00:20:33,000 There was nothing bad that happened and then they go, and this one there was like, the 441 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,580 dog wouldn't pick up the thing. 442 00:20:34,580 --> 00:20:35,980 The peacocks wouldn't do the thing. 443 00:20:35,980 --> 00:20:36,980 We're losing light. 444 00:20:36,980 --> 00:20:37,980 It was just always something. 445 00:20:37,980 --> 00:20:38,980 Something. 446 00:20:38,980 --> 00:20:39,980 Yeah, it was a long story. 447 00:20:39,980 --> 00:20:42,980 Yeah, and so we had a lot of stuff in it. 448 00:20:42,980 --> 00:20:45,460 And it all came together really well. 449 00:20:45,460 --> 00:20:50,980 I mean, I feel really grateful because all the everyone was really wonderful to be in 450 00:20:50,980 --> 00:20:57,860 it and to show and to be around and and also sometimes you do a comedy. 451 00:20:57,860 --> 00:20:59,860 People are just like waiting for them. 452 00:20:59,860 --> 00:21:00,860 They're like, "Well, you're so talking. 453 00:21:00,860 --> 00:21:03,860 So I can do my bit and I'll be funny." 454 00:21:03,860 --> 00:21:04,860 Here it was. 455 00:21:04,860 --> 00:21:05,860 I'm like that. 456 00:21:05,860 --> 00:21:11,860 Here it just felt very like everybody was throwing a ball around and bouncing and I'm not 457 00:21:11,860 --> 00:21:12,860 lying. 458 00:21:12,860 --> 00:21:13,860 It really was great. 459 00:21:13,860 --> 00:21:18,060 It was an improvisational element to it, which was really fun. 460 00:21:18,060 --> 00:21:21,180 And it was changing as we developed the characters. 461 00:21:21,180 --> 00:21:23,100 You know, you start playing her after a couple of weeks. 462 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:26,780 It feels easier and more familiar and feeding off of each other. 463 00:21:26,780 --> 00:21:28,780 It was a really fun job. 464 00:21:28,780 --> 00:21:29,780 It was. 465 00:21:29,780 --> 00:21:33,780 I love that scene when I'm sitting between she and David and we're all matching pajamas. 466 00:21:33,780 --> 00:21:34,780 We're like such journalists. 467 00:21:34,780 --> 00:21:38,780 Like psychopaths, the matching pajamas. 468 00:21:38,780 --> 00:21:44,780 And it was like it's so loving and like also cost your photobook. 469 00:21:44,780 --> 00:21:47,780 But I remember like in my heart I was like, "I wish Kim was my mom." 470 00:21:47,780 --> 00:21:49,780 That was happening. 471 00:21:49,780 --> 00:21:51,780 Like they're so funny. 472 00:21:51,780 --> 00:21:53,780 No, you don't. 473 00:21:53,780 --> 00:21:56,780 Can I just go to your closet? 474 00:21:56,780 --> 00:21:57,780 Absolutely. 475 00:21:57,780 --> 00:21:58,780 What I wanted to do was in closet. 476 00:21:58,780 --> 00:22:01,780 I feel like it's just a really good fashion in there. 477 00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:02,780 Thank you both so much. 478 00:22:02,780 --> 00:22:03,780 I really appreciate it. 479 00:22:03,780 --> 00:22:06,780 I cannot wait for everybody to see about my father. 480 00:22:06,780 --> 00:22:07,780 Make them go see it. 481 00:22:07,780 --> 00:22:08,780 Absolutely. 482 00:22:08,780 --> 00:22:09,780 I'm bringing people with me. 483 00:22:09,780 --> 00:22:10,780 Great. 484 00:22:10,780 --> 00:22:11,780 Do it. 485 00:22:11,780 --> 00:22:12,780 Thank you. 486 00:22:12,780 --> 00:22:13,780 I really appreciate it. 487 00:22:13,780 --> 00:22:14,780 Okay. 488 00:22:14,780 --> 00:22:15,780 Take care. 489 00:22:15,780 --> 00:22:16,780 Leslie Babenkin Kitschra. 490 00:22:16,780 --> 00:22:17,780 I mean, wow. 491 00:22:17,780 --> 00:22:18,780 Awesome, awesome, awesome. 492 00:22:18,780 --> 00:22:20,780 Guess they are so cool. 493 00:22:20,780 --> 00:22:21,780 I love them. 494 00:22:21,780 --> 00:22:22,780 I had the time of my life with them. 495 00:22:22,780 --> 00:22:24,780 They are hysterical. 496 00:22:24,780 --> 00:22:26,780 Historical hysterical hysterical hysterical. 497 00:22:26,780 --> 00:22:28,780 And they're amazing in the film. 498 00:22:28,780 --> 00:22:29,780 Okay. 499 00:22:29,780 --> 00:22:31,780 Next up, 500 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:34,780 Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert 501 00:22:34,780 --> 00:22:36,780 Mother Dineiro. 502 00:22:36,780 --> 00:22:40,780 Sebastian, he's done six comedy specials. 503 00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:47,780 He's huge on TikTok and Instagram and Facebook for, you know, viral clips of his comedy work. 504 00:22:47,780 --> 00:22:50,780 He has had supporting roles in the Irishman, 505 00:22:50,780 --> 00:22:56,780 Green Book, and this is his first big starring role in a feature film. 506 00:22:56,780 --> 00:23:01,780 And does Robert Dineiro need an introduction? 507 00:23:01,780 --> 00:23:03,780 It's Robert Mother Dineiro. 508 00:23:03,780 --> 00:23:05,780 One of the best to ever do it. 509 00:23:05,780 --> 00:23:08,780 One of the best to ever do it. 510 00:23:08,780 --> 00:23:11,780 How do you even, you know, 511 00:23:11,780 --> 00:23:13,780 encapsulate Robert Dineiro? 512 00:23:13,780 --> 00:23:18,780 He works a ton as a collaborator with Martin Scorsese, one of the, of course, you know, most 513 00:23:18,780 --> 00:23:22,780 incredible directors of all time. 514 00:23:22,780 --> 00:23:27,780 He's won every award known to man, two Academy Awards, you know, two Oscars, 515 00:23:27,780 --> 00:23:32,780 Golden Globe, Cecil B. Demiel Award, Screen Actors, Gold Lifetime Achievement Award, 516 00:23:32,780 --> 00:23:37,780 Kennedy Center Honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom. 517 00:23:37,780 --> 00:23:44,780 You know, started try back a film fest was in the Godfather Part II, 518 00:23:44,780 --> 00:23:55,780 as Vito Corleone, he has received numerous Emmy Awards and won as a standing lead actor 519 00:23:55,780 --> 00:23:58,780 in a limited series or movie for the Wizard of Lies where he played Bernie made up. 520 00:23:58,780 --> 00:24:05,780 Has been in raging bull taxi driver, the deer hunter, Awakening's Cape Fear Silver, Silver, Silver Linings playbook, 521 00:24:05,780 --> 00:24:11,780 Casino Jackie Brown, Heat, the Irishman, upcoming in Killers of the Flower Moon 522 00:24:11,780 --> 00:24:16,780 as a director, he's directed at Bronx Tale and he's done funny too, war with Grandpa, 523 00:24:16,780 --> 00:24:20,780 meet the parents, analyze this and analyze that. 524 00:24:20,780 --> 00:24:25,780 Wag the dog, the intern, just an icon, just an icon. 525 00:24:25,780 --> 00:24:30,780 So in any event, I said, you know, he needs no introduction and then gave him a long-ass introduction. 526 00:24:30,780 --> 00:24:32,780 But, you know, let's just me. 527 00:24:32,780 --> 00:24:35,780 So in any event, let's get into it. 528 00:24:35,780 --> 00:24:41,780 My sit-down interview with Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert Danira. 529 00:24:41,780 --> 00:24:43,780 Thank you both for speaking with me. 530 00:24:43,780 --> 00:24:45,780 The film is so incredible. 531 00:24:45,780 --> 00:24:54,780 I was laughing hysterically, crying, it is unbelievably, and unexpectedly heartfelt. 532 00:24:54,780 --> 00:24:59,780 For you, you know, you could have done any film in the world. 533 00:24:59,780 --> 00:25:02,780 Why was it important to tell this story? 534 00:25:02,780 --> 00:25:08,780 Yeah, so I talk about my dad and my stand-up routine and I thought other stories I had about my father 535 00:25:08,780 --> 00:25:16,780 would definitely work better in a movie format rather than on the stage because there were more relationship based. 536 00:25:16,780 --> 00:25:23,780 They needed more of a runway to kind of take off and kind of show the relationship that I do have with my dad. 537 00:25:23,780 --> 00:25:27,780 So, and I did this out of sheer passion and fun. 538 00:25:27,780 --> 00:25:29,780 It's not like I did this movie at all. 539 00:25:29,780 --> 00:25:33,780 And we're going to get the narrow and we're going to take this thing and take over the world. 540 00:25:33,780 --> 00:25:34,780 It wasn't like that. 541 00:25:34,780 --> 00:25:36,780 It was, let's write a movie for fun. 542 00:25:36,780 --> 00:25:38,780 If it gets made, it gets made. 543 00:25:38,780 --> 00:25:41,780 If it doesn't, hey, you know, we had a great experience doing it. 544 00:25:41,780 --> 00:25:43,780 And we really just had, it was a passion project. 545 00:25:43,780 --> 00:25:48,780 And the next thing, you know, I'm in my hometown promoting it with Bob. 546 00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:52,780 And my father's doing this press outlets with me. 547 00:25:52,780 --> 00:25:54,780 So, I mean, I'm really, really taking it all in. 548 00:25:54,780 --> 00:26:03,780 And for you, Mr. D'Nero, you know, it is, again, your Robert D'Nero, you could do any film that you wanted. 549 00:26:03,780 --> 00:26:06,780 What spoke to you for this role? 550 00:26:06,780 --> 00:26:12,780 Well, I liked Paul White too, as I worked with as a director a few times. 551 00:26:12,780 --> 00:26:14,780 Paul sent me the script. 552 00:26:14,780 --> 00:26:17,780 He was one of the producers on it and I read it and I said, 553 00:26:17,780 --> 00:26:23,780 "Let's have a reading of this so we can kind of see a little more, lift it off the page a little." 554 00:26:23,780 --> 00:26:25,780 And so we did. 555 00:26:25,780 --> 00:26:28,780 And with Laura Tarruso, the director. 556 00:26:28,780 --> 00:26:32,780 And I liked everybody. 557 00:26:32,780 --> 00:26:38,780 Of course, Sebastian and the whole world was something that these guys know. 558 00:26:38,780 --> 00:26:42,780 Laura from Brooklyn, a certain area of Tang-American neighborhood in Brooklyn. 559 00:26:42,780 --> 00:26:44,780 He's from Chicago. 560 00:26:44,780 --> 00:26:52,780 And they, I know that I'm in a good environment, a good milieu, a good, 561 00:26:52,780 --> 00:26:57,780 there's a foundation there of this world that is not going to, you know, 562 00:26:57,780 --> 00:27:03,780 there's nothing going to be wrong about it, basically. 563 00:27:03,780 --> 00:27:06,780 So that appealed to me. 564 00:27:06,780 --> 00:27:13,780 And it really, you know, I feel like you can tell that it is a passion project because it is just so heartfelt. 565 00:27:13,780 --> 00:27:15,780 So, you know, everybody just felt like a family. 566 00:27:15,780 --> 00:27:21,780 I felt like I was, you know, watching a family doing this, which is what great art does, you know. 567 00:27:21,780 --> 00:27:23,780 And so Kudos to you for that. 568 00:27:23,780 --> 00:27:29,780 Finally, you know, having Robert J'Niro playing your father, 569 00:27:29,780 --> 00:27:35,780 was anybody given anybody else tips on, you know, on actually playing your father? 570 00:27:35,780 --> 00:27:39,780 Was your father like, "Oh yeah, he's good. Let him do what he wants." 571 00:27:39,780 --> 00:27:46,780 You little nervous? No, no, I mean, he spent some time with Bob in Oklahoma, 572 00:27:46,780 --> 00:27:52,780 and then he came to the set and he was given, you know, like he wanted to know how to do a die job on set. 573 00:27:52,780 --> 00:27:54,780 He wanted to make sure it was right. 574 00:27:54,780 --> 00:27:59,780 He had some sayings that he wanted to make sure that the Italian was, was how my dad would say it. 575 00:27:59,780 --> 00:28:03,780 So, no, it's not like anybody was telling him, you know, how to do this. 576 00:28:03,780 --> 00:28:04,780 He knows how to do this. 577 00:28:04,780 --> 00:28:09,780 He was just getting more information on how to make it very unique, specific. 578 00:28:09,780 --> 00:28:12,780 Thank you both so much. I really appreciate it, brother. 579 00:28:12,780 --> 00:28:16,780 Sebastian Manescalco and Robert J'Niro. 580 00:28:16,780 --> 00:28:21,780 I cannot believe that I just interviewed Robert J'Niro, 581 00:28:21,780 --> 00:28:26,780 and that's the second time, the second time I've interviewed Robert J'Niro. 582 00:28:26,780 --> 00:28:33,780 Like, what? It's crazy. In any event, go see about my father. 583 00:28:33,780 --> 00:28:38,780 It is hysterical. It's the kind of movie, like, you know, it's Memorial Day. 584 00:28:38,780 --> 00:28:43,780 So, a lot of people will be with their families or whatever. 585 00:28:43,780 --> 00:28:48,780 Go take your family, I mean, your adult family. Don't take little kids to see it. 586 00:28:48,780 --> 00:28:53,780 Take your, you know, your mom or your dad or your sister and brother, your cousins, whatever aunt, 587 00:28:53,780 --> 00:29:03,780 uncles and go see about my father. You will relate somehow to all of these incredibly funny and authentic family dynamics. 588 00:29:03,780 --> 00:29:08,780 It's a great film. You're going to love it. I can't wait till you see it so we can talk about it. 589 00:29:08,780 --> 00:29:13,780 Hit me up on the socials and we'll chat. I will see you next week. I love you. 590 00:29:13,780 --> 00:29:14,780 We out. 591 00:29:14,780 --> 00:29:17,780 Thank you for listening to Pop Culture Weekly. 592 00:29:17,780 --> 00:29:21,780 You're all the latest at PopCultureWeakly.com. 593 00:29:21,780 --> 00:29:35,780 I just interviewed Robert De Niro. Robert De Niro, yes, I did. 594 00:29:35,780 --> 00:29:44,780 I just interviewed Robert De Niro or as a call and buy.