Chris Messina

Okay.

So Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci, Jane Lynch, all eligible for the award.

Okay.

Uh, number three, the La Vie en Rose Award for best needle drop or best song.

Shout out Sleepless in Seattle.

Uh, before we get 30 minutes on the clock, briefly on Julie and Julia.

Uh, the movie stars Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, AKA The Tucc, and Chris Messina.

It was written and directed by Nora Ephron and adapted from Julia Child's book, My Life in France, and Julie Powell's book, Julie and Julia, which itself was based on her blog, as we will discuss.

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Oh... pull up to Chris Messina's house, and they would have, like, co- like disgusting sex with each other that I, like, was, like, diddling myself at that whole thing.

Like-

Yeah

yeah

pressure directed by anthony marris known for hotel mumbai not seen that film based on david haig's stage play the film stars andrew scott as scottish meteorologist captain james stagg and brendan fraser as general dwight d eisenhower what an american name that is The supporting cast includes Kerry Condon, who I love, Chris Messina and Damien Lewis as Field Marshal Montgomery.

Love it.

Yeah.

It was like 2010 or something.

And got Chris Messina on board to play the lead role.

Who we love.

He's the best.

[laughs] Uh, this was before Amy Adams was popular.

This was before Chris Messina was popular because of The Mindy Project.

This was, you know, like, Stanley Tucci's been always there, but I don't think-

Oh, that's why.

Yeah.

They're both equally important there.

Um, well, looking on Letterboxd and certainly on our threads, a lot of people felt that, uh, Chris Messina's response to that chocolate cake, uh, was equally important as well.

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It's Andrew Scotland, James Tagg, as the aforementioned well-spoken Scotsman.

And Chris Messina plays Irving Crick, an American weatherman, who'd worked with Isaac Favre before in all different campaigns in Africa and so on.

The crux of it really is that Irving Crick was using sort of an analog style approach to weather forecasting.

He'd compare previous years.

Yeah.

And I love Chris Messina, like Sad Sack Man, like from the Mindy Project.

We were all in love with him from that.

I used to watch that with my old roommates all the time.

There's clouds rolling in.

yeah so I'm just all gonna roll it yeah but I mean the cast is amazing the cast is amazing there's something for this it's like you've got Andrew Scott Brendan Fraser Kerry Condon Damian Lewis Chris Messina and it's like it's like oh there's the cast is amazing and it's just it's all about whether and I figure it's gonna be the kind of film that's just going to be come down to those performances because that any dynamism you're gonna get is gonna be in the performances because it's not gonna be about people running up and down and yelling get out of the way and shoot it or anything like that it's gonna be people sit sat down there and you're gonna and and they're going to have to make you care about the fact that a cloud just appeared on the horizon that kind of thing do they do that Sean

wow okay so so this is it so Right from the start, I thought, yeah, I'm going to enjoy this film because there's a couple of scenes where he hasn't got his cap on and he gets saluted, but he doesn't salute back, which you don't salute.

So you never do a salute if you haven't got your cap on.