Dec. 5, 2025

Michelle Pfeiffer & Felicity Jones Gets Festive; Seann William Scott Gets Real

Michelle Pfeiffer & Felicity Jones Gets Festive; Seann William Scott Gets Real
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Seann William Scott, Michelle Pfeiffer, Felicity Jones… and my dog Blue barging in for a potty break. Yeah, this episode is stacked.

In this festive-yet-chaotic episode of Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon, I kick things off with my buddy Seann William Scott, a.k.a. Stifler, who’s back to talk Season 2 of his Tim Allen sitcom Shifting Gears (now airing on ABC and streaming on Disney+ and Hulu). We get into everything from tortured Philadelphia Eagles fandom and awkward Thanksgiving family drama to what it’s really like shooting a multi-cam sitcom in front of a live studio audience. Seann talks about working with Tim Allen (yes, America’s TV dad), navigating punchlines around real-time audience laughter, the magic of shorter 13-episode seasons, and why this show feels like comfort-food TV that still lets him be home in time to pick up his daughter from school. He also teases his upcoming horror film Dolly, a brutal 16mm French-extremity-style shocker that horror fans are going to want on their radar.

Then we go full holiday mode with screen legends Michelle Pfeiffer and Felicity Jones, who join me to talk about their new Prime Video holiday dramedy Oh. What. Fun. Michelle opens up about why she signed on to the film, working with director Michael Showalter, and how the movie doubles as a love letter to overworked, underappreciated moms everywhere. Felicity shares how the mother - daughter dynamic in the film mirrors real life, why the story balances emotional truth with big, messy, laugh-out-loud moments, and what makes this holiday movie feel a little less “perfect snow globe” and a lot more “this is what my family actually looks like.” Watch Oh. What. Fun. on Prime Video here!

If you love celebrity interviews, holiday movies, sitcom deep dives, Shifting Gears, or just want to hear me quietly spiral about the fact that I just interviewed Michelle freakin’ Pfeiffer, this one’s for you.


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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, the Icon Michelle

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Pfeiffer joins and Felicity Jones to talk about their brand

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new film, Oh What Fun End. My Buddy. Sean William

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Scott is back to talk about his series Shifting Gears.

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Let's go. Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon

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from iHeartRadio, your pop culture news, views, reviews and celebrity

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interviews on all the movies, TV, music, and pop culture

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u Crabe Weekly.

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Here's Kyle McMahon.

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Nick Nana Na, Nick Nana, Hello, and welcome to pop

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Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I of course am Kyle McMahon,

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and welcome to the show where we dive deep into movies, TV, music,

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streaming and whatever else Hollywood throws at us this week

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and this episode, yeah, we've got a really good one.

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We've got a ret turning friend of the show. And

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then two absolute icons. First up, Sean William Scott is back. Yes, Stifler, himself,

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the man, the myth, the due to us somehow aged backwards.

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He's joining me to talk about season two of his

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series with Tim Allen called Shifting Gears. And let me

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tell you it is exactly the kind of warmhearted, funny,

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family chaos show that your algorithm has been begging you

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to watch. I'm telling you, it's like a hug. Then

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later on, I've got Felicity Jones and the icon Michelle Pfeiffer,

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and they are talking about their new holiday dramedy Oh

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What Fun, exclusively on Prime Video. Two legends, one movie,

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more talent than I know what to do with, and

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it's all coming up on this episode.

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Let's get it.

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I am thrilled to welcome back a friend of the

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show and honestly one of the nicest and coolest guys

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in Hollywood. He was on I don't Know a couple

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of months ago where he was discussing his film, and

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now he's back to discuss season two of his series

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with Tim Allen, Shifting Gears. Here he is Sean William

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Scotty's football team here.

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Yeah, who's Eagles or you're Eagles fan? Yeah, dude, what's

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going on?

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I don't know.

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The last game was so confusing. I was just like,

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I mean, and also to hear me, the fans they

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let him have it. It was it was pretty incredible.

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I mean, yeah, Eagle fans they're special. They don't hold back. No.

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I mean, these are the guys that that booed Santa

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and then threw snowballs at him because they were mad

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about the game.

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That's awesome. What do you think? I mean, what, what's

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the deal?

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I don't know. I think Philly, you know, I think

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we're just a different breed. It's like weird because.

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It's the city city of brotherly love, but it's also

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like not in and a lot when it comes to

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our sports.

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So I'm not really sure.

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But what do you think of it? But I mean,

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what's the what do you think the deal is with

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the team?

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Like, Oh, I don't I don't know. Uh, this year

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is just really off. I think I'm not exactly sure

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what what the problem.

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Is or what the solution is, but something needs to change.

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I think. Yeah, have you been following them?

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on the TV show of Shifting Gears and so, like,

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you know, I see them. We talk about, you know,

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the games, you know, every time every weekend. But man, yeah,

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like they get pissed. That's also like, but Tim Allen

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is a huge Detroit Lions fan. It's the same thing.

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I mean, I don't have like I, you know, love Brady,

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but like I did, I don't have like a team.

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And I enjoyed watching the Patriots, but like, but Tim

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Allen is like it's definitely a love hate thing. Like

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he fucking mad. Like like when I was like, sometimes

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I'm really careful. I only bring it up when they

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play well because I didn't see it. And then one

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time I made the mistake and like I was just

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it was a couple of weeks ago they lost, and

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I just I just looked at him, like and he

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was like, don't even don't even me about it.

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What did you think of the Thanksgiving games?

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You know what I didn't get to watch him is

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it was a bummer. I was like I had it

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all set up and I was like, okay, great, this

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is you know, I had a lot more. I thought

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it was gonna have a lot more time to watch.

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They didn't seem great.

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Wrong now, I didn't think so either.

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My highlight was post Malone perform at the halftime show

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in one of them.

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Okay, that's how.

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Unmemorable I think they were for me.

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Yeah. I was kind of tracking the scores and I

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was like, I'm not missing anything.

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it's Thanksgiving at least in my household, you know where

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they've got every game on, you know, in different boxes,

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they got multiple TV. I mean it's like, uh, and

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then when the games are kind of disappointing.

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this that sucks.

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Playing. At the same time, I'm not just saying that,

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but did you I remember that growing up in Minnesota

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we did the same thing. Did you did anybody get

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was there? I just also I remember Thanksgiving is like

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there's always a fucking arguments like it was. It was

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an opportunity for family members to air their grievances. It

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was I remember one of the one of the Thanksgivings,

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like two relatives didn't then they didn't talk for like

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fifteen years afterwards. Wow.

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Yeah, it wasn't sports related, I hope.

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No. Okay, good, No, No, I don't think so. Yeah.

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Yeah, now our family was my family was was good

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this year. I mean, you know, we always have our

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squabbles or whatever, but but no, you know, cross generational

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trauma created than anyway this Thanksgiving.

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Anyway, there's always Christmas.

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You know. Yeah, exactly.

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You still got can exactly. So speaking of the show,

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how's it going. You're in your second season now, yeah,

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you know, what is it like for you? You've done a

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lot of film. We talked about your last film a

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couple of months ago, and you know you're doing a series.

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How big of a difference is that for you as

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an actor?

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I mean everything is different. I mean it's like, yeah,

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you can't even Yeah, it's just like you think of

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I means just everything really, I mean the whole process

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of filming it. You know, we it's so much I

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mean not that, I mean making films. And I've done

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a couple of other TV shows and that was really

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fun too. I mean every opportunity has been a blessing.

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But like this is just so different. Like you know, Wednesday,

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you get you know, you meet for a table read

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new episode, new script. It's just like one big party,

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one big family. Everybody's laughing, having fun. And then you

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go and you know, you do a little rehearsing, but

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the script's always changing. So you know, as opposed to

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like a film or another type of show, like a

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non sitcom, like you gotta be ready, you know, every day,

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like you're in front of the camera every day, and

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here it's like people are walking around their's sweatpants and

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fucking hoodies and like, you know, and then because you

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don't we pre shoot stuff on Monday, we pre you

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shoot a little bit more stuff on Tuesday, and Tuesday

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night is in front of a live audience. So then

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it's it's like you're kind of doing a play and

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then everybody kind of lets it rip, and you know,

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because you get the feed off of the audience, and

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you know, people are adding like little things, a little

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improv and it's so fun and it's just like again

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it's comedically, I mean, it's so it's so different. You know,

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I love to improvise, and I think you can. You know,

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you have an opportunity outside of sitcoms where you can

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kind of drive the scene and like the timing and everything,

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and here it's you know, you could still kind of

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do that, but you also have to play off of

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the audience's like laughter and time it out. You know,

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you keep coming right in with another line so they'll

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be drowned out by the laughter. So it's it's a

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different type of game. It's it's a lot of fun.

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Now you know now that you say that, it really

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really is like live theater. I mean you're performing, you know,

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live in front of a studio audience. Do you ever

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get that excitement of like or do you feel that

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tangible excitement of all right, we're gonna you know, go

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out there and hammer it out enough and it is

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what it is.

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There's gonna be three hundred people there or whatever it is.

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You know, I thought that in the beginning, because you know,

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I was before it took on the gig. I was like,

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I didn't know what to expect. Is like, is this

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like a one shot deal? And they're like, no, man,

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you get to screw up, you get I mean, you

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can make mistakes. I'm like, oh, so it is different

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the theater, man, because I'm sure people make mistakes, but

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you don't get a second take or third takes. And

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and then really quickly it was like there isn't especially

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because there you know the people that they that are

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coming to watch the live performance, they're fans, so you know,

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they're love and the show loved him, Cat and everybody.

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So it is it's a little bit like a party,

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you know. It's it's really because then also we've already

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shot everything, so we already have everything in the cans,

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so this is just kind of like a little extra,

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you know. So it is really fun, the energy everybody,

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and it is like a small crew, and they've all

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been working with Tim on his other shows and he's

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just kept them, you know, employed, and so it's a

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tight knit, you know family, and yeah, I get it.

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I get it, Like why you see these sitcoms and

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then they go for a while and then everybody's crying

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when it ends because it's like, yeah, man, it's so

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much fun. You get to be with these people every day,

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you know, it's awesome.

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And then do you do is it like nine months on,

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three months off or something like that.

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Well, I think it would be if you know, if

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you're doing over twenty episodes, and so that's kind of changed.

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Some shows are still doing that, but thirteen, right, thirteen.

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So yeah, the sad thing is it's like, you know,

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I remember we started in the beginning or middle of August,

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and I was like it was immediately I was like,

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oh man, this is so fun. And then I was like,

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we only get to do this for like three months.

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So that's really like, you know, we finished in a

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couple of weeks, and if we're lucky to do a

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third season, we'll be free from mid December until probably

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August again. Okay, but yeah, it would be I think,

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you know, obviously we'd be shooting longer if we had

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more episodes.

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Yeah. So well, and you know, it's interesting because I

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now prefer the shorter seasons for things, uh, because I

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feel like a lot of times today and maybe it

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maybe my you know, mind has changed over time or whatever,

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but like when I was a kid, everything was like

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twenty two or twenty four episodes or whatever, and then

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you know, there was like a it was off for

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the summer for the most part, and then in the

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fall debut at a premiere and all. But now I

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feel like a lot of those shows had to buy

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necessity kind of ad filler to get to that number.

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I remember Lost, which is one of my favorite shows ever,

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huge online debate about well, that was just a filler

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episode because they had to get to twenty three or whatever,

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you know, And now it seems with this more concise model,

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it's like everyone is a hitter, you know what I'm saying.

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Yeah, I think that makes sense. I loved Lost, by

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the way loved it. Man, very few shows that are

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coming out right that like really explode like that. Yes, yeah,

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you're right. So if they're only doing thirteen, then it's like,

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you're right, we don't have to crank out twenty episodes.

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We just really focus on this thirteen and make them

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as solid as we can. And are the writers we

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have on this show just because they're making I mean,

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very few shows in Los Angeles, I mean, and so

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there's a lot of amazing writers that are available. So

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we have like these you know, these people that you know,

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they've been showrunners on huge shows that on our staff.

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So yeah, it's like they can just kind of focus

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on thirteen episodes. And yeah, I'm biased because I love

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the show, but I think it's really funny.

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And what one of the things that I've always wondered is,

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so it's renewed for season two, you're coming in at

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the beginning, do you kind of get a the gist

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of where Gabriel is going through the second season or

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is it episode by episode?

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Like how does that work?

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the second season, if you know, and shows are lucky

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enough to do it. You had the benefit of doing

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one season kind of starting to give sense of like

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what's working for each actor and each character, and so

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I think that in this season they've been able to

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kind of like find fun more fun things from me

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to do. And then but yeah, I was like, Michelle

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Nater is our showrunner, and so she kind of shared

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a little bit of you know, it's a kind of

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an arc for my character. I think he's probably best

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used to just kind of throw out some fun stuff,

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but like so a little bit of something, you know,

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but yeah, because it's not I mean, it's a sickcof.

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much of an arc, but like, ye, but a little

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bit they kind of tell you a.

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Little bit well, And I wondered how much for you

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as an actor, how much different that is from knowing like, okay,

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a script for a film like I know, from you know,

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take one where I'm starting, to the final take where

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I'm ending, and where my character is gonna go. Do

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you feel that difference or are you kind of like

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loose with like, all right, I'm cool with wherever he's going.

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I mean, yeah, you just accept this a completely different

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thing me. You just you know, and also you know

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that that was the thing at the beginning. It was like,

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how am I This is going to be really challenging

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because I always like to improvise and I like to

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kind of rewrite my stuff and and you know, it's like,

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you're not going to do that. I mean, although they're

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they're really open to you know, ideas and stuff like that,

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but it was like, no, this is different. You just

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you know, and it helps because the writing's great, but

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like you know, you just go, no, this is it.

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it's like you go in there and I've never been

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somebody that's like, you know, if it scenems great in

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a film, like it doesn't need to be tinkered with.

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But like a lot of times it's like, okay, this

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could be better and you're going in and you're thinking

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about how can I improve this and how can I

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improvise and what can I write here? And here it's

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like you just don't have that stress. You're like, you know,

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they've worked on us. There's like you know, you just

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go in, do the best you can, and then you

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don't have to worry too much, you know. And and

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again too, it's like, yeah, you know, you kind of

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you're relieved of that, Like I don't want to improvise

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because it's like it's not that kind of show or

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you know, projects, So you just go in, do the

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best you can, play with it and feel around and

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see that there are opportunities you know, still to kind

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of like play around a little bit. But but yeah,

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it's just just ease, go in and have fun.

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And and I'm sure it helps knowing that you have

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such a you know, a great team that because you're

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kind of, from what you're saying, kind of letting it

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go and you know what they come up with is

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you know for the most part what they come up with,

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but you're you're trusting them that it's great content.

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Yeah, and it really, I mean it is so funny.

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I mean there's so many times we do the table reads.

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I'm like, wow, like and it and it and it evolves.

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That's the other thing that's really fun for this process

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is like each day there's rewrites and they improve things

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and they tighten things up and and also it's like,

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you know, the whole cast are incredible and you know,

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but then you got Tim and you're like, this is

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Tim show Man. So you're just like you just come

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along for the ride, you know. It's like and that's

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another thing too, Like every day I'm like I'm pininger

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with Tim Allen, fucking football with Tim Allen, I'm talking

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movies with Tim, I'm asking him questions about Galaxy coust

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I mean, I mean, it's it's pretty crazy. I Mean,

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my only like, you know, worries like gosh, would be

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such a bummer if this is it, like we only

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do two seasons, you know. It really the other thing too,

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it's like the schedule is so crazy that I can

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take my daughter's school, go to work finishing time to

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be able to go pick her up at school. I mean,

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it just doesn't happen in Hollywood and these jobs, you know,

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And so yeah, it's a dream.

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Well and speaking of Tim, you know, I'm sure, like me,

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you kind of grew up with him.

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It was kind of America's dad. Were you were you

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nervous that first season?

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Like, you know, because for me, he's kind of an

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iconic person that I've grown up with on TV and

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from everything I've I've heard he's an amazing guy and all,

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But was there any nerves behind it?

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Like is he going to live up to Tim Allen?

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In my head, I was nervous, I eat, And also

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I was watching Santa Claus every night with my daughter,

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like the month before I did the show, so it

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was like, I mean, you know, so when I met him,

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I was definitely nervous, but he was so nice, like

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he immediately I was like, oh man, he's such a

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guys guy. He's such a like down to earth, super funny,

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great guy. And then yeah, so I mean still it

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took a few episodes, and it's also because I was

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trying to figure it out too. It was like I

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don't know what I'm doing. Man, this is so different,

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but like he yeah, if anything, you know, I still

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get a little bit nervous. I mean, yeah, you grew

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up watching him, and but as time's gone on a

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little bit, I'm like, what kind of buddies Like, I'm

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kind of buddies' time out. He's asked me questions about

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other football games, and like that's pretty awesome.

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Did did you have you learned? You know, picked up

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because he has been doing this forever. I mean you've

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been doing it for a while as well, but he's

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been doing it for like ever. Have you picked up

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any cool you know, tips from him, acting wise or otherwise?

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You know, he's just what I I think, there's a

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lot of things that like we have in common. I

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think one of the things too is and I tend

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to overdo this, but like, you know, he's always you know,

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even with the sitcom, he's trying to understand like the

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logic behind things. Like if there's something that doesn't make sense,

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he's going to ask questions, be like I don't want

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people watching this and be like that doesn't make sense,

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nobody would do that, or like he's like so, you

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you know, I think that I kind of have that

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instinct as well. But you know, it's fun to be

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able to watch something who's done it for a long time,

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who could just really just choose to come in and

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just do the job. But he's like he cares, Like

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so he's the kind of analyzing things and always trying to,

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you know, find ways to make it funnier and stuff.

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I really appreciate.

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That, have you.

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It's interesting because a lot of sitcoms today, I would

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say most sitcoms today no longer do live in front

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of a studio audience. Is is that something that you

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think adds to kind of the charm of the show,

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Like for me, I think it does.

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The show's funny, you know, hysterically funny.

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The characters are well written, all the actors are great,

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but there's this extra charm for me as a viewer

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that it's like, I don't want to say down home mee,

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but it's like that live studio track just gives is

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it that little extra warm, fuzzy feeling, you know what

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I'm saying?

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Yeah, no, I agree. And also because I don't know

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how many there are out there, but I think there's

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only just a handful, and I think it definitely feels

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like comfort.

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Food comfort there you go.

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Yeah, it's like, you know, not everybody's a fan of

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like sitcom stuff like that, but there are a lot

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of people that are. And then you know the fact

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that they weren't around for a long time and then

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they kind of came back and think with Night Court

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or some show and then they're like, oh, people love

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this and there is there's and especially when it's tim

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so all of a sudden, you're watching Tim in a

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sitcom with the live audience, and you get that feeling.

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It's like we've been watching sitcoms for a long time,

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so it is you know, you got I think twenty

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two minutes of story and laughs and then you hear

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the the other thing too, I think is always funny.

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It is like, man, I remember that when I first

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started to when we rehearse, there would be a section

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of people in the audience who are laughers, And like,

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the fuck is this a people laughing? Where are they?

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And then catch He's like, no, we we have professional laughers,

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like for the rehearsals, and like why and and and

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then I get it because you kind of have to, like,

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you know, you hope that they're laughing genuinely, like at

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the right time, but because if you don't have an

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idea of how to time it, then all of a sudden,

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when you're doing a live performance, you could be in

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the middle of the line deliver something and then all

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of a sudden people were laughing. You're like WHOA, Like

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I don't know the whole thing. And then I just thought, like,

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how do you how do you get that job?

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I was just gonna ask you.

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That, what's their resume, like like professional, you know, like

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I don't know, I don't know. I wonder kind of

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weird stuff goes on in that group, Like yeah, it's weird.

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It's you know, you literally they're they're there and it's

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a full job and and and they're laughing at stuff,

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and you think then it kind of messes with you

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because then you're like, well, what am I gonna do

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walking around town with that professional laughers laughing at everything?

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To say, I'm gonna be so sad and confused exactly.

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It's interesting they need to come to the family holiday

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party so they can laugh at all your jokes.

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Right now, it's so weird.

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I love that.

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I've literally never heard that there's I've never heard that

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that there's a professional laugher.

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I'm like genuinely intrigued.

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Now. It felt like The Truman Show. I felt like

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Jim Carrey and The Truman Show, like this is a

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trick at that in the beginning was that one of

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the things I think it really tripped me out because

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I'm like, and it's loud, so like you're doing it

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and you're rehearsing and so it's still like work in progress.

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But then yeah, the people are laughing behind You're like,

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I don't know, man, I didn't like it. Now now

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I don't even but I don't even notice it, right,

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that's weird.

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00:23:58.680 --> 00:24:03.240
So besides that, because you guys are the season finale

454
00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:05.839
would be coming up in in a few weeks, right,

455
00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:09.440
and then what else are you working on for?

456
00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:12.160
Like you know, what's your plan for the f or

457
00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:13.400
what are we in winter?

458
00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:16.240
I know it's hard. I didn't know what season it was,

459
00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:20.720
you know what I feel like I would I think

460
00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:23.799
I just maybe unless there's something awesome that comes around,

461
00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:26.319
I'm happy that just takes some time to be with

462
00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:29.440
my daughter. So I'm that's what I'm looking forward to

463
00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:32.240
the most. I mean, if something was amazing that you know,

464
00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:35.000
it didn't take much time away from her, then I

465
00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:37.759
think that. But like that's the thing is like you

466
00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:41.799
get really, I mean, the show is such a blessing.

467
00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:43.759
You know, they have the schedule and everything and to

468
00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:47.640
like switch to switch to like something or like on

469
00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:52.279
set for sixteen hours and I don't know, but but

470
00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:53.759
the I don't know. Did I tell you about this

471
00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:59.079
movie that it did called Dolly no, oh, wait to

472
00:24:59.079 --> 00:24:59.920
see this movie.

473
00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:01.640
Okay it is.

474
00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:05.880
It's a horror movie. Yeah, oh man, it's it's a

475
00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:08.240
I don't know if i'd say it's like a love letter.

476
00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:11.680
It's you know, like the original Texas Chansaw Massacre. But

477
00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:15.319
I mean it, it just hits some festivals and like

478
00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.599
I've seen it, it's going to shock people. So I

479
00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:22.920
think that that movie comes out. I think maybe next spring,

480
00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:25.680
but okay, take a look at that when it does.

481
00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:28.680
Absolutely, I'm a huge horror.

482
00:25:28.319 --> 00:25:32.359
Fans love this. This it's that part of the like

483
00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:36.960
the French extremity genre of films, and like it's it's

484
00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.039
like it's sexually. It's one of those movies where I've

485
00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:44.279
only had a couple like this, like the only other

486
00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:48.640
thing well, I was gonna say Goon and then Wrath

487
00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:53.799
of Becky and like Bloodline, but like where you know,

488
00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:57.039
great script, you go in and you have a great experience.

489
00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:00.839
It's so very few of them actually end up being good,

490
00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:03.880
and this is one where it's like everything came together

491
00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:06.599
and it's like, so if you love horror movies like

492
00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:13.240
this one is set a sixteen millimeter like looks beautiful, shocking.

493
00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:16.680
Yeah, now, I'm hyped for that because, like I said,

494
00:26:16.920 --> 00:26:20.279
I'm a huge horror fan and I'll watch bad stuff,

495
00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:23.440
i'll watch great stuff, I'll watch everything between.

496
00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:28.279
And uh yeah, so that'll be on my list for sure.

497
00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:32.039
Awesome is is you've spoken about your daughter a lot.

498
00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:36.279
Is that what is that your all of your hyphen

499
00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:38.440
its you know, as Sean?

500
00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:42.720
Is that your daddy? Is that like your your favorite?

501
00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:47.400
Sure? Oh man, yeah, it's everything I've wanted.

502
00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:49.680
That's awesome.

503
00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:50.000
Yeah.

504
00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:52.160
I just see whenever you talk about your daughter, I

505
00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.799
just see you like light up. So it just kind

506
00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:55.920
of oozes out of you.

507
00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:59.680
Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, and then that's that

508
00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:01.599
was the thing about the show, is like I was

509
00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:05.960
doing Righteous Gemstones and having the most incredible time, and

510
00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:10.359
then this thing came around and some of the actors

511
00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:12.319
I was working with the Gemstones were telling me about

512
00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:16.400
the schedule and I was like, oh my gosh, I

513
00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:18.680
get to be a parent, Like I get to go

514
00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:21.799
and work and have fun and create but then not

515
00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:24.359
lose time. And it literally has been the greatest gift.

516
00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:25.559
I mean, it's incredible.

517
00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:30.279
That's amazing. Yeah, thank you, Yeah, that's truly amazing.

518
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:33.160
Well, thank you. As always thank you for coming on.

519
00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:36.240
You are always welcome, but you definitely have to come

520
00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:37.160
on for Dolly.

521
00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:39.559
Yeah, that would be great. Thanks for having me on. Man,

522
00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:40.519
it's great to see you again.

523
00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:43.160
Of course you as well. Man, I really appreciate it.

524
00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:45.160
Thank you. You take care of having great holidays.

525
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:47.640
Thank you you too, Sean, Thanks Buden.

526
00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:55.000
Sean William Scott. It is always a pleasure to talk

527
00:27:55.079 --> 00:27:58.400
to him. He is, honestly just such a good guy,

528
00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:02.279
such a fun guy, and I just love hanging out

529
00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:06.799
with him. Check out season two of Shifting Gears right

530
00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:10.240
now on ABC and streaming of course on Disney Plus

531
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:11.039
and Hulu.

532
00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:14.759
It's such a great show. I highly recommend it. All right.

533
00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.799
Oh, I don't know if you're hear, but that's I

534
00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:25.599
brought Blue into the studio today and okay, I guess

535
00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:30.880
it's time to go potty. So now's a good time

536
00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:33.440
to take a break to pay the bills. And when

537
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.480
we come back, I have got Michelle Pfeiffer and Felicity

538
00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.960
Jones talking about their brand new holiday film, Oh What Fun,

539
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:51.920
Don't Move. Pop Culture Weekly will be back in sixty seconds.

540
00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.400
Welcome back to Pop Culture Weekly, and thank you for

541
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:58.720
supporting our sponsors who help me bring this show to you,

542
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:02.480
each and every and I am so excited for this

543
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:06.799
next conversation. Joining me now are two actresses who don't

544
00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:12.680
need an introduction, the legendary Michelle Pfeiffer or Howl and

545
00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:16.720
the always incredible Felicity Jones. And they're here to talk

546
00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:20.640
about their new holiday film, Oh What Fun, which is

547
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:26.200
exactly what the title promise is. It's a warm, funny, drama,

548
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:32.359
slightly chaotic movie that captures exactly what it's like when

549
00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:37.440
family and the holidays collide. To be honest, here they are,

550
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:40.319
Felicity Jones and Michelle Pfeiffer.

551
00:29:43.359 --> 00:29:45.400
Thank you both so much for joining me. I really

552
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:46.160
appreciate it.

553
00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:47.000
Hi.

554
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:50.079
Hi, nice meeting you so.

555
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:53.920
Michelle, If I may start with you, You've done some

556
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:56.720
of the greatest films of all time, played some of

557
00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:01.319
the greatest characters of all time. Why What Fun? Which

558
00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:04.160
I love, by the way, but what like in your career?

559
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:06.680
You know, why were you like, I want to do

560
00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:07.880
this film at.

561
00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:08.480
This time.

562
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:14.839
Because it presented itself at this time, you know. First,

563
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:19.119
before I had read anything I knew, I was asked

564
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:21.240
to have a meeting with Michael Showalter and he was

565
00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:24.240
attached to a direct and I'm a huge fan, and

566
00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:28.519
I I mean, I was just I just felt so

567
00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:32.319
blessed that he wanted to work with me. I probably

568
00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:33.880
would have done just about anything with him.

569
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:34.440
But then I.

570
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:39.240
Read this script and I was really, it wasn't at

571
00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:46.359
all what I expected. It's not your typical Christmas movie, really,

572
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:51.200
if there is such a thing, And I loved how

573
00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:55.039
passionate he was about Really, this is a love letter

574
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:58.480
to moms. This is a love letter to everything that

575
00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:00.680
they do, not just during the whole holidays, but it's

576
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:05.160
three hundred and sixty five days a year and they go,

577
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:10.720
it goes unseen and unappreciated. And it's not like you know,

578
00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:13.799
there's any menace involved or anything you know, or ill will.

579
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:17.279
It's just that, you know, it gets taken for granted.

580
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:22.039
And so it was really kind of shining a light

581
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:28.319
on that and giving mothers the credit the credit that

582
00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:28.960
they deserve.

583
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:34.759
I love that, and felicity for you, you.

584
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:36.240
Know, which I love your work of course as well.

585
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:39.680
But you how do you pull you know, in your

586
00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:42.880
role in the film, how do do you pull parts

587
00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:46.640
from you know, your own life, your own relationship with

588
00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:48.160
your mother and your family.

589
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.160
As you take on a role like this.

590
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:55.920
I think I think you do inevitably kind of little

591
00:31:56.039 --> 00:31:59.079
bits and pieces. And actually, when I read the script,

592
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:03.119
it really resonated. I think it's very true to a

593
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:05.599
lot of mother not all obviously, but a lot of

594
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:12.039
mother daughter relationships are often are often like this. And

595
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:15.119
I think that's what I that's what I really engaged

596
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:17.880
with about it is it was it's funny, it's kind

597
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:22.920
of true to Michael Schulter's comedy. It's it has moments

598
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:26.480
of kind of slapstick, and it's kind of ludicrous in moments,

599
00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:33.039
but it has this emotional truth propelling it underneath, and

600
00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:35.920
and that's yeah, that's a that's quite a rare thing

601
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:36.440
to find.

602
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.720
Actually, Yeah, and it is such a great film. I

603
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:41.200
can't wait for everybody to see.

604
00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:43.680
O what fun. Thank you both so much. It is

605
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:44.400
such a pleasure.

606
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:47.039
You're so welcome you as well.

607
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:56.519
Have a great day, Michelle Pfeifer and Felicity jos.

608
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:56.160
You know, it's crazy.

609
00:32:56.279 --> 00:33:00.200
Every episode I say to myself, like, I can't believe

610
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:02.960
that I get to talk to the people that I

611
00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:05.759
get to talk to, and it is all because of you.

612
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:10.799
I seriously cannot thank you enough. I'm getting a little upset,

613
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:15.319
Oh my god, a little emotional. Thank you so much

614
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:21.119
for supporting me in this crazy stuff that I do.

615
00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:23.920
It is only because of you that I am able

616
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:24.640
to do it.

617
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:25.200
You know.

618
00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:28.240
I get to live out my dreams that I've had

619
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:32.759
since I was a kid, and it's all due to

620
00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:36.799
your support. So I really can't thank you enough from

621
00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:37.759
the bottom of my heart.

622
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:39.480
I love you. All right.

623
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:41.759
That's going to do it for this episode of pop

624
00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:45.799
Culture a Weekly. Huge thanks to my guest Sean William Scott,

625
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Michelle Pfeiffer, Felicity Jones. If you like this episode, hit subscribe,

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