EP 318: The Invite

You're saying a few things I wanted to hit on before I kick it to Brittany.

And the first is you're sitting in the theater and three quarters of the way through, you feel like you're having a moment or you know that something special is happening.

And I think it's really interesting hearing you say that about this because it's a question I ask a lot when we have guests from the industry on.

So we've had the cinematographer from Wes Anderson's movies on.

We've had the editor of Star Wars, even somebody like Ellen Sandweiss, who was in The Evil Dead.

And I say, when you're making the thing, do you know it's going to be iconic, or do you know that it's going to be something that's going to move the needle a bunch when you're making it? And the reason why I ask that question, and I've always asked that question, is...

you and me we worked on a play in 2016 called at the table and it the actual production of the actual process and rehearsals of making that play felt like a lot of other plays that i had done in chicago in the past um and we we always went into it with the same level of zeal no matter what the production was and you put your heart into it and and a lot of times at least in my case is They were they were decently received, but not these big hits.

And then at the table was this massive thing.

And there was lines around the block and it was remounted.

And it was it became this thing.

And I was like, oh, you never know what's going to hit.

But it is something I check in on when I'm watching movies or when I'm watching a play, maybe.

And I'm like, oh, this is a thing.

This is going to be something where I revisit this movie deeply.

years from now, it's going to probably be something I think about and talk about.

And it's going to be a part of my life in a way.

And sometimes you realize that as an audience member, you don't always realize it as a performer.

But as an audience member, I clock those things.

And I had a very similar feeling.

I love also what you were talking about when it came to the four hander and the Chicago feeling of it.

And it's they really just don't Hollywood at least make a lot of adult comedies that talk about relationships, either physically or emotionally.

Like, it just doesn't happen.

But it used to happen all the time in the 70s, in the 80s, in the 90s.

We had these times.

And every now and again in the 2000s, you have a Garde Carnage or something like that, where you get kind of this dinner party.