The Rehearsal

Right? This film is a new kind of cinematic language, I promise you.

If you've seen Nathan Fielder's shows before, Nathan For You, The Rehearsal, The Curse, then you already know the Fielder shtick, the style, his deadpan monotone, the unbroken glance from the side of the frame.

That's all in here, and Fielder is in this movie.

But Nathan Fielder has never made anything that feels the way this film feels.

But it also benefits from not knowing what's going to happen.

And so I actually, you know, I think there's been a lot written about, like, you can't really enjoy this unless you watch the rehearsal or unless you know, like, that at the same time he was trying to fly a plane or, you know, all the stuff that people are talking about in terms of, like, the contemporary details of his life at the time.

But I think it actually benefits greatly from not knowing anything about him and not really knowing what you're going into personally.

People laugh at the first sight of him because he's a weirdo.

Yeah.

And so I literally put in all caps for the sake of the listener, Trisha Paytas, and that's all we'll say, I promise.

And so moving swiftly along, Nathan's most recent show, you mentioned this too, is The Rehearsal.

And he also starred alongside Emma Stone in an HBO series called The Curse.

We definitely won't talk about the Jews, and we definitely won't talk about race war, and...

this is okay so so i go back and i watch his show the rehearsal so now everybody everybody's talking about this documentary where he goes and he stays with elizabeth holmes and it's basically the 30 days before she goes to prison she she reaches out to a24 studios and says hey we're looking for a documentary crew to come in and film us

when did she go to prison

This was back in 2019 or 20.

And I saw the trailers for it coming up and everybody's saying this thing is, this thing is like a, it's a, it's a mind twist.

You have to see it.

So before I go see it, I watch his show, the rehearsal.

Okay.

shut the fuck up? i think it's a movie that benefits from simultaneously full context and a lack of context and so to be able to really enjoy it you have to really know what happened to elizabeth holmes and what happened to the company and you have to have a baseline knowledge the movie is not playing like a lot of we're a little like poisoned by true crime where like they lay out basically like the indictment in front of you at the beginning of the movie this isn't going to do that so you already have to know But it also benefits from not knowing what's going to happen.

And so I actually, you know, I think there's been a lot written about, like, you can't really enjoy this unless you watch the rehearsal or unless you know, like, that at the same time he was trying to fly a plane or, you know, all the stuff that people are talking about in terms of, like, the contemporary details of his life at the time.

But I think it actually benefits greatly from not knowing anything about him and not really knowing what you're going into personally.

People laugh at the first sight of him because he's a weirdo.

Yeah.

And so I literally put in all caps for the sake of the listener, Trisha Paytas, and that's all we'll say, I promise.

And so moving swiftly along, Nathan's most recent show, you mentioned this too, is The Rehearsal.

And he also starred alongside Emma Stone in an HBO series called The Curse.

I just made that up.

So basically, Nathan Fielder, the comedian who does like Nathan for you in the rehearsal kind of like- kind of like surreal playing with reality kind of like cringe humor and just

autism i think is the way that people will put it every once in a while

i don't know if he would say that but sure um And then Lance Oppenheim, who I don't really know much about him.

That was huge for me.

That's also a question I have for you is what level of knowledge do you have of the Nathan Fielder canon?

I've watched some of the rehearsal and I've watched some of Nathan for you, but not a ton of it because like, I mean, between that and like how to was John Wilson.

I like how to was John Wilson better just because Nathan Fielder does such a weaponized awkwardness thing in all of his media and does like, I like his project.

She still doesn't want to watch Nathan for you because that's too cringy for her.

But I got her into the rehearsal both seasons of that.

And she got to get on it.

I have

you still haven't seen.

I thought, oh, damn, man.

thought you had seen the rehearsal no it's

just me going i got to get on that for the last i don't know two years or whatever since you've been

But it will say if you have seen it and you want to better understand Nathan and think kind of connect some of the dots.

Obviously go Nathan for you on Comedy Central and the rehearsal a million percent on HBO or must watch.

But if there's one thing that kind of and I rewatched this the other night so I could kind of have it fresh in my brain.

Nathan, for you, was like a very silly, funny, silly Comedy Central show where he basically came up with weird business schemes to help people and sort of help people.

It takes a lot of twists and turns.

Um, There's an escort involved, not in the way you're thinking at all because it's Nathan Fielder and nothing ever makes sense.

But it truly gives you a little bit of insight of what would become with the rehearsal now, this movie.

And I think it's an absolute must watch.

Have you ever seen any of Nathan Fielder's stuff, Rudy? Give me an example.

He had a show called Nathan For You, and then he had a show on HBO called The Rehearsal.

Never.

Yeah, I don't know if you'd be into it.

And seeing how people react to him and will they go along with him? Will they not go along with him? He's totally deadpan the entire time.

Then he had a show called The Rehearsal in which he helps people kind of prepare for difficult moments.

But it's hard to explain without seeing any of it.

But he basically goes down this rabbit hole.