Rod Lurie

I want to say Tony Gilroy, but it's not Tony Gilroy.

It's, uh, Rod Lurie, Rod Lurie.

Um, uh, yes, he's, it's a prison movie.

He's the prison warden and he's sadistic and all this sort of stuff.

The movie is, I'm number one on the call sheet, which of course is why you may remember you and I never had lunch.

But that's Rod Lurie, whose next film was thrice Academy Award nominated for the actor's performances.

Um, Joan Allen and Jeff Bridges and Gary.

Oh, um, Gary.

Gary Oldman for 300, please.

Um, yeah.

So Rod Lurie, this was his first film.

You and I finally got a chance to be co-stars and, um, I think I spoke to you on the screen at some point, no? When your character was reporting the news live from the

I'm newly engaged, I auditioned for this show.

I had worked with Rod Lurie maybe a year or so before, who was the-

Yeah, I, I, I got to work with him on that, that-

He's awesome.

This is my third chat with Rennie this year.

Um, And then I got Rod Lurie thrown in there as well for two sessions on Lucky Strike.

So some of my favorite people, they really balanced out some of the horrible stuff of 2026.

But let me tell you, there's nothing horrible about talking with Rennie, especially about this film.

Right.

And I think it was Rod Lurie or one other.

But historically, a percentage wise, very few of them.

sort of some do grow into filmmaking or.