Steven Soderbergh

And even though it took old Kev a minute to realize that Anna was talking about Ocean's Eleven in the cold open, all of these questions mean one thing.

We are returning to the oeuvre of Mr. Steven Soderbergh with his... 2024 slash 5...

Festival season 24, theatrical release 25.

It's one of these fucking things.

Amazing.

Speaking of gimmicks involving the use of camera and frame and the way that the viewer relates to such things, it is time to talk about presence.

Steven Soderbergh.

He made a movie during COVID where you just needed one camera and one person on the other end of a large room.

And, and so, so, um, I...

But it, the Rush Hour 2 script comes in, and I said, "Can you just hold Ocean's until I finish Rush Hour?" They said, "No, we just wanna make it now." And they went and they hired, uh, Steven Soderbergh to do it.

And I was like, "Oh, can you believe George Clooney's doing the..." Oh, I'm sorry.

Steven Soderbergh.

George Clooney agreed when Soderbergh, when Soderbergh came on the movie that George Clooney agreed to do the movie.

But what happened was, I go to Vegas, and I cannot find a casino that they would let me shoot in.

sweat.

Oceans 11, one of my all-time favorite heist movies from master of the heist himself, filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.

Speaking of Steven...

While you were making Oceans, did you know about this actual real-life burglary that took place on a fight night? No, I didn't.

And kind of showed us how it was done.

Oh, no, I love all those old correspondents like Jules Asner, speaking of a rich husband who is still with Steven Soderbergh.

100%.

But, you know, for me on those carpets, by the time you get to the Emmys or by the time you get to me, you've talked about your goddamn show a thousand and one times.

somebody find what he needs? I think it's David Fincher.

you sounded like Steven Soderbergh was always great about taking people who were not known as good actors and

turning them into good actors that's good because you need a director like

that before he worked like Channing Tatum before he worked with Soderbergh yeah was just known as being a bad actor who could dance.

Well, he's in 21 Jump Street.

No, but think, that's post-Soda Bird.

kept on thinking an alternate title for this movie was like Sex, Lies, and Brain or something like that.

Yeah.

It's almost like... know not 500 is number but inception like just the fact that he's in that and he he's an important character i mean he's he's actually the character i'm sure there's a word for this in in literature but he's the character who actually is like the chorus he's like giving the audience the actionable information that allows them to understand the plot and like the world like he's the one who is explaining throughout the movie like how the dreaming works and like how the technology works all the little mechanics the little caveats it's like it's a super important role so I think like Christopher Nolan for whatever reason keeps casting him in stuff or I guess capped I mean he hasn't I don't think he's been in a Nolan movie since Rise Dark Knight Rises I mean I hope not but it's like that just lent him enough credence to get Rogue to give him money for Donjon and then they were in the editing room going, what the fuck are we gonna do with this? This sucks.

Like all the executives just being like, can we get like, they call Soderbergh.

Hey, can you come recut? Soderbergh's like, fuck no.

He's like, you want me to come work, try to help you pull a movie out of the sludge? And it's directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

He's

been...

You know, you've asked me at times, you know, we watched a Steven Soderbergh film.

I don't remember the name of it now.

The Black Bag.

You sound like you want to-

You know what? Steven Soderbergh was always great about taking people who were n- not known as good actors and turning them-

Oh

... into good actors.