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Alec Engerson

Film producer

May 12, 2026

8:05
Mm-hmm.
8:06
But when I was working on a show called, yeah, Unsolved, uh, about Tupac and Biggie, I met Anthony Hemingway, um, who is a writer-director.
8:14
Um, by that point I had become the production secretary, I think, uh, for the production office.
8:19
But I met Anthony, uh, and he is a dude who works really hard, and so he would be in the office very late when he was in prep for his episodes 'cause he, um, for people who don't know, like, when a director is an executive producer, supervising director on a show, they'll be in prep for one episode while a different director usually is filming it.
8:38
And so when Anthony was in prep in the production office, we would talk about movies and blah, blah, blah, and I s- I take movie-watching, especially at that time, I took it very seriously.
8:45
So I would talk to Anthony about movies, and I was watching a movie a day and, and really trying to be somebody who, like, knows his shit.
8:51
And I think, you know, when you reached out to me about this, we kind of briefly talked about the idea of, like, I think really open, like, [laughs] criticism of the industry at from time to time.

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41:08
[laughs] I will

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