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Extra! Extra! These People are Background Actors (w/ Kimia Behpoornia) · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to artists on artists on artists on artists. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: do we have a panel for you today.
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  Speaker 2: The streets, screenwriting experts, panels, new voices in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Costumes are character.
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  Speaker 4: Buck Mary kil wide shot, two shot, close.
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  Speaker 1: Up this artist on artists on artists on artists. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know why they call it show business? I always
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  Speaker 1: wondered that.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to artists on artists on artists on artists,
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  Speaker 2: and boy do we have a smamer for you.
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  Speaker 4: Background actors are the life of every project. If you
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  Speaker 4: take out the main actors, that's who you have.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever looked at a busy street and thought,
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  Speaker 1: who on earth are all those people walking by? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we hope this panel answers the question.
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  Speaker 5: Let's take on our notebooks and take some notes at
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  Speaker 5: the backbone of Hollywood background.
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  Speaker 4: Let's listen in.
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  Speaker 2: Hey guys, I'm Ken Kendall and I am an act
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  Speaker 2: der primarily in the background.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good name, Ken Kendle.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, Ken Kendall. It's not my legal name,
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  Speaker 2: but I like it. It's my it's my sag hopeful name.
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  Speaker 2: When I get into the union, that will be my name.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're in SAG, not in Sif we've done
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  Speaker 1: three of these, we're in SAG.
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  Speaker 2: Are you and new trying to get in to SAG.
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  Speaker 2: I work a lot of union jobs, but they never
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  Speaker 2: want to taptartly me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Hi everybody. My name is Clara Tuna and hi nice,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I am the only person on
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  Speaker 1: IMDb with the name Clara Tuna and I have been
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  Speaker 1: background acting for thirty five proud Rockin' years.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what's up.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Georgie Sauce. Guys, so happy to be here. I've
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  Speaker 5: been in the business, the biz as we call it,
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  Speaker 5: for forty plus years. Stoke to be here.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Philip C. More Hoffman.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, not so good a name, not a bad name.
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  Speaker 4: Turned out to be a rough name to have in
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  Speaker 4: this industry. I obviously if I go, I sometimes go
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  Speaker 4: without my middle name See. I take that out and
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  Speaker 4: so I can go as Philip more Hoffman.
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  Speaker 6: So you have its four names, and one is see
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  Speaker 6: is a letter, and then more Hoffman is is h
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  Speaker 6: o ff m an more Hoffman.
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  Speaker 2: I would have thought more space Hoffman.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's more Hoffman. Yeah, Philip C. More Hoffman. I
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  Speaker 4: have been a background actor for fifteen years. I got
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  Speaker 4: my start in two thousand. What two thousand and mineus fifteen,
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  Speaker 4: that's two thousand and six. What when did a beautiful Mind?
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  Speaker 4: I saw a beautiful mind? And then five years later
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  Speaker 4: I started my first movie.
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  Speaker 3: So did beautiful Mind inspired you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Fashion, and I slowly got out here in five
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  Speaker 4: years later. I did my first film in two thousand
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  Speaker 4: and six, and I believe that movie is called Down
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  Speaker 4: with Love with Ian McGregor, and I played a rowdy
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  Speaker 4: newspaper guy in the background.
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  Speaker 2: They gave you a name, They gave you a name.
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  Speaker 6: So did you have a line?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's actually the best role I've ever had. I
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  Speaker 4: had a line and it was, Hey, this just then
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  Speaker 4: women no more than men?
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  Speaker 2: WHOA, that's great. That's a good line.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah's this movie about Down with Love Gregor?
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  Speaker 4: You gotta check it out.
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  Speaker 6: That's great, really good. I'm Kitty the Chin.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. That's a great name.
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  Speaker 4: Great name, great name.
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  Speaker 6: Much Yeah. I actually love just being background here. It
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  Speaker 6: sounds like you guys, some of some of you might
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  Speaker 6: want to go beyond, but I've lived in the background,
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  Speaker 6: stand in even world.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't want to I didn't want to bust my cool.
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  Speaker 5: But I recognize you, Kitty.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm sorry, I can't believe I'm doing this.
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  Speaker 1: Were you in Season four, episode three of How I
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  Speaker 1: Met Your Mother? In the cafe scene?
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely wait.
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  Speaker 1: That.
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  Speaker 6: I was just about to say. They gave me a
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  Speaker 6: cup that was so huge. I had a huge latte cup.
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  Speaker 6: And do you know what, none of the other background
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  Speaker 6: people could hold that and drink it like it was believable.
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  Speaker 6: Like they won't see you feel it.
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  Speaker 5: That's the trick to being a background actor is being
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  Speaker 5: given something and doing it well.
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  Speaker 3: You never know, you never know.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta ask you as a question. I asked every
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  Speaker 4: background person this, what books are you guys reading?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I brought two, so I'm trying to make
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  Speaker 2: my way through Doune.
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  Speaker 4: Oh cool.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah that's a couple jobs worth of a book.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a couple of jobs. Has anyone in that
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  Speaker 4: here in Dune?
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  Speaker 2: Dude? I tried to, I really tried to, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not on the unions.
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  Speaker 1: Would be a dream, would have been a dream.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I don't read books when
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  Speaker 1: I'm on set. I don't go on my phone. I
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  Speaker 1: want to stay in the moment, because you never know,
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  Speaker 1: you never know when you're gonna be called upon. And
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  Speaker 1: so I sit there for eight hours and I just
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  Speaker 1: twiddle my thumbs because I am so gosh darn excited
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  Speaker 1: to be there.
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  Speaker 3: That's inspiring, that's really good, And that's just me.
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  Speaker 1: That's just me. That's just the focus that I like
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  Speaker 1: to bring to the table.
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  Speaker 4: Do you eat? Do you go to craft years?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, no no no no no no no no. No. Messes
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  Speaker 1: with the messes with the focus, messes with the acting.
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  Speaker 2: Clara, do we know each other? Were you on that
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  Speaker 2: Ford commercial in twenty seventeen?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, the one.
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  Speaker 2: Where they drove the Ford in the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, don't tell me you were in the stadium. In
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  Speaker 1: the stadium, I recognize you. Yes, you were in the
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  Speaker 1: loade deck.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you were in section.
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  Speaker 1: Yes I do.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we all must know each other from something.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like we all let's connect. Let's connect from
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  Speaker 4: start saying credits and we'll see what we run into.
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  Speaker 3: We work harder than other people. We're on different sets
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  Speaker 3: every fucking day. Think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I did I did a pet cost spot a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Ken problem.
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  Speaker 2: Should we just goody?
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  Speaker 4: And then we just asked anyone else?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, great, okay, which of you have done a not
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  Speaker 5: very farm spot for fall?
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  Speaker 4: Not me?
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  Speaker 1: Not me?
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  Speaker 4: I did scary farm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's fall.
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  Speaker 1: That's the fall now that I have done.
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  Speaker 5: No, they did two spots, one for the jam and
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  Speaker 5: the family ties and one for the teenagers doing the
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  Speaker 5: night stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I did teenagers doing night stuff.
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  Speaker 2: What were you in that?
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  Speaker 4: I was a kind of a scared boy. And that
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  Speaker 4: was two thousand and seventeen. I think they had me
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  Speaker 4: walk through a maze that looked like a sunken ship
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  Speaker 4: and there were all sorts of creepy octopus tentacles and such,
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  Speaker 4: and I had to I had to scream at them.
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  Speaker 2: So you got another line a scream.
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  Speaker 4: I got a line. The line was inaudible, but but
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  Speaker 4: you know it was. It was a it was more
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  Speaker 4: of an open mouth but I had my mouth open.
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  Speaker 4: And guess what I got. I got a feed for
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  Speaker 4: that at open mouthfee, which I don't know if you
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  Speaker 4: guys know about that. I am uh. I run a
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  Speaker 4: newsletter called Extras. Extras read all about it, and I
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  Speaker 4: make sure that all the tips and tricks that I know,
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  Speaker 4: I let everyone else know. And there's certain body parts
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  Speaker 4: that if you use them in shows and movies that
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  Speaker 4: they have to pay you for them.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you who doesn't give an open mouthfee, no
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  Speaker 5: matter how much you fucking try.
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  Speaker 3: MTV, those bitches don't do an open mouthfee.
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  Speaker 4: No, because a fucking Kurt Loader.
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  Speaker 3: Because a fucking Curt.
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  Speaker 4: Writer MTV News way back in the day. He used
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  Speaker 4: to talk with his big open mouth, and he made
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  Speaker 4: it standard on MTV to have a big open mouth.
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  Speaker 3: When somebody does that, it fucks the rest of em actually, so.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's used to it, so they don't think that open
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  Speaker 4: mouthfe is important.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough to and it's tough to litigate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when when you decide, oh, who just is a big
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  Speaker 1: old mouth breather and who is actually talking exactly, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to do well.
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  Speaker 2: I remember right when that was happening, what two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and thirteen, twenty fourteen, all the extras just kept on
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  Speaker 2: opening their mouth, just pretending to be mouth breathers. Right,
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  Speaker 2: I get set after set of thousands of people just mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Looking like guppies.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you see some directors caught wise, I only
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  Speaker 4: had a really Scott movie where it was a closed
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  Speaker 4: mouth set and you could tell that they knew that
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  Speaker 4: we knew, and they were going to take care of it.
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  Speaker 4: And and they said every single I think this was Prometheus,
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  Speaker 4: and every single person's mouth had just they completely closed.
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  Speaker 1: In the background, I heard they taped them shut.
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  Speaker 4: They taped some of them shut.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, how did they edit those out the tape?
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  Speaker 4: If you go back, they didn't at all. Watch for
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  Speaker 4: Medius again, you're gonna see a lot of people with
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  Speaker 4: just straight up duct table.
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  Speaker 2: Which is very funny because that movie inherently is just
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  Speaker 2: about you know, eight people on an undiscovered I basically
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  Speaker 2: plan it before you know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking about the creature scenes in the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so the creatures got their mouths taped, creatures
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  Speaker 3: with mouth incredible tap you know what? I feel like?
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  Speaker 5: This group right here has a lot of fucking secrets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: let's trade secrets.
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  Speaker 4: So they so, okay, okay, so let's go around, let's
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  Speaker 4: talk about books were reading, let's take credits we're in,
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  Speaker 4: and then let's trade some secrets.
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  Speaker 6: Kitty, we gotta hear great Da Vinci code zorrelto and uh,
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  Speaker 6: what's my big secret.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you've got to have a couple because you're a
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  Speaker 2: stand in, I mean, which is similar to background. It's
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  Speaker 2: in the same feeld the back. But I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's the exact same as a whole different type of art.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 6: So here's the thing, a stand in. Here's what I
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  Speaker 6: basically do. I mean, you guys might know, but if
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  Speaker 6: when the actress actors get too tired, you know what
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they do the scene and then they get
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  Speaker 6: too tired and they have to go away, but they
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  Speaker 6: still have to light the scene and put the cameras
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  Speaker 6: where the cameras go. So I stand there. I do
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  Speaker 6: the standing when the actors don't want to do that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 6: I was actually so as you guys can see, I'm
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  Speaker 6: five feet tall, yeah, exactly, but I got exactly I'm
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  Speaker 6: exactly five feet you guys can tell. I was Christine
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  Speaker 6: Baranski's stand in.
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  Speaker 3: Holy tits, my god, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: She's tall.
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  Speaker 6: She's very tall.
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  Speaker 3: It is like your first gig in the business.
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  Speaker 2: Like that.
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  Speaker 6: Look I slipped in here.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 6: Here's what I did. I got some platform shoes that
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  Speaker 6: were one and a half feet tallow to pop on.
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  Speaker 6: That made me five foot you can see it. That
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  Speaker 6: made me six five.
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  Speaker 2: What happened? Do you just like wear big pants? They
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  Speaker 2: didn't notice or something.
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  Speaker 6: No, I wasn't hiding it at all. I said, I
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  Speaker 6: bought these huge shoes. I will be exactly Christine Baranski's height.
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  Speaker 6: Will you have me? And they were like, no, one
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  Speaker 6: really is that excited to do? Stand and work? Of course,
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  Speaker 6: come on, come on down. And I said, well, you
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  Speaker 6: reimburse me for these shoes, and they went no way.
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  Speaker 6: So I am still in debt. That is a very
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  Speaker 6: custom punch. They were around fifteen thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: But it got you in the business. It got you
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  Speaker 3: through the back door.
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  Speaker 1: The door still pay off in the door. Good for
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  Speaker 1: fucking you, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 6: I guess that's my secret is if you know, if
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  Speaker 6: you see a job, make it happen, and if you
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  Speaker 6: go in debt, it's absolutely worth it.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we all might be lightly in debt
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  Speaker 2: from this career, right because in Hollywood it's about you
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  Speaker 2: can't You can't make money if you're not spending money.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm spending money all the time on things
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  Speaker 2: just to try to make it, you know, background acting classes,
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  Speaker 2: how to get in the union?
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  Speaker 4: Who teaches that background I teaches that.
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  Speaker 2: One Dev de Bell.
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  Speaker 1: Class.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's very good.
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  Speaker 1: It's expensive, don't get me wrong, but it is worth it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I mean Dev de Bell, Yeah, really understands
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  Speaker 2: the art and that and what what what you know
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  Speaker 2: he's trying to teach you is how to background act?
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  Speaker 1: And did you do the mailman exercise?
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  Speaker 2: I did the man.
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  Speaker 4: So the uninitiated run us through the mailman excises.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's a wonderful exercise. Basically, what he does is
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  Speaker 2: he gets everybody in the room and you each have
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  Speaker 2: a mailbox and somewhere in the room, and he says,
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  Speaker 2: go to that mailbox and put in your mail. Now
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  Speaker 2: your instinct is to, you know, go hello, I'm the mailman.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, mail, right to speak, right.
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  Speaker 2: To speak, Yeah, male, mail, mail mail, We've got mail,
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  Speaker 2: You've got mail. Yeah, And he just tears you apart
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  Speaker 2: right there. Incredible, he rips you apart.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, you know, And I was. I was in a
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  Speaker 4: lot of those classes. I did those classes in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twelve or thirteen. And it's so crazy when you're sitting
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  Speaker 4: in those classes and the first person goes up and goes,
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  Speaker 4: mail's your mails? He your male's here, and then he's
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  Speaker 4: like no, it rips you apart. And then the second
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  Speaker 4: person comes up does the exact same thing. You think
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  Speaker 4: that they're gonna learn from the last person, but they don't.
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  Speaker 4: Then everyone does it because when they realize.
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  Speaker 2: Instinct and that's what background acting is, it's fighting instinct.
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  Speaker 2: It is Oh, look, I'm a school teacher. How do
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  Speaker 2: I become a school teacher? By not talking about being
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  Speaker 2: a school teacher. You don't say school teacher, You just
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  Speaker 2: you know, you just you go watermelon care, watermelon care.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, that's so interesting.
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  Speaker 5: I don't do that. I ask people how they are
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  Speaker 5: on set. I talk to people. I say what time
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  Speaker 5: do you think we're getting out of here? And I'll
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  Speaker 5: do that while we're shooting.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I Oh, that's my favorite Ice Baker question. Yes, what
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  Speaker 1: time do you think we're getting out of here?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: And I'll say I do this, Uh, I don't. I
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  Speaker 5: don't want to be an actor and I'm not gonna act.
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  Speaker 5: I find acting uncomfortable, so when I do this, I'm never.
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  Speaker 2: I'm never.
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  Speaker 3: I took that class and I said no, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be an artist. I want to
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  Speaker 3: be I want to clock in and I want to
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  Speaker 3: clock out. So I think there's all different types of us.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'm never gonna make believe I asked the
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  Speaker 5: prop guy to fill my mug with coffee. If I'm
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  Speaker 5: in the fucking coffee shop. Uh, maybe I'm just.
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  Speaker 1: A weird No no no no no no no no
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  Speaker 1: no no no, that's not me.
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  Speaker 2: No no no.
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  Speaker 3: But how many of you here want to be actors.
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  Speaker 6: Beyond background background actors?
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  Speaker 2: Like this year?
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  Speaker 5: It just if you, if you were giving like you
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  Speaker 5: said you had, you got a line in that movie.
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  Speaker 5: If I got a line, I'd ship my fuck and
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  Speaker 5: tidy whities.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able in a bad way.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to act. I tell the guy next
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  Speaker 3: to me, go, I want to act.
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  Speaker 2: I want to act.
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  Speaker 4: I would really really really really really really like an opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: I would really really like that step up. It would
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  Speaker 4: be really exciting for me. It's the reason I came
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  Speaker 4: out here. You know, I was the funniest guy in
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  Speaker 4: my town. I was the funniest guy in my town.
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  Speaker 4: I lived in a town called gold Rush, California, and that.
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  Speaker 6: Where they found the gold.
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  Speaker 4: It was a town that was so the one they
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  Speaker 4: named it was so heavily involved in the gold rush
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  Speaker 4: that it was it was actually capitalizing on the people
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  Speaker 4: that were in the gold rush. So it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of one of those ghost towns. But the point of it,
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  Speaker 4: it was one of.
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  Speaker 2: Those they told people were that's.
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  Speaker 4: The gold.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly?
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  Speaker 4: I read yeah, yeah, yeah. So so there was nothing
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: there and they got a lot of people to move there.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: And then when I was there, population you know, seventy
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: five eighty, and it was really I was the funniest
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: guy there. It was awesome. It was awesome.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: What was the comedy scene like there?
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: We had an open mic night at the library and
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: it was so much fun. I would just go for
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: three four hours and then they turned the lights off.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: How many people would go?
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: How many people whole town? The eighty eighty people.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Wow, they all turned every single one of them and
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: they would all do the open mic.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we were on a unit that town. We did
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: everything together.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: So what did you do you travel together? Is there
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: like a big bus?
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: No?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: No, no, no no. Most people didn't want to leave, you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: they they'd gone through so much. Of course, they're gonna stay.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: They had every chance to leave, Their families had every
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: chance to leave. You know, gold Rus, California is dying.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: You know, there's a lead poisoning situation, and so, oh god,
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: I don't but I'm not here to talk about that.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: I left, I got out, you know. Now it's seventy nine,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: well eighty, Gracie had a baby, but it's I've been replaced.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: In a way you left it eighty.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: No, it's eighty again because Gracie had a baby. But
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: other than that, I'm not not currently so but I'm
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: here now, is what I'm saying. And I'm excited to
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: be here, and I wanna want to do it, you know, Yes.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: I respect that. I love talking to young actors.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you guys? Do you? I mean, what
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: about your your dreams? Kitty? What is your dream? I? Uh?
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: You know I have acted before in a way, you know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: because as a stand in I did this one season
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: of Lethal Weapons, Yes, yeah, where where one of the
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: actors was actually playing two characters. They were playing a
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: cop and a bad guy, and that was like the
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: theme for that season, right, And I happen to be
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: that actor stand in And so when they are playing
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: the cop. I have to be the bad guy, but
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: they only see my back.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Do you see what I'm saying?
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: And I have to do the lines of the bad
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: guy or the cop to the actual actors.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Oh God, that's so much pressure.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: That's how Yeah it was. It was a lot of pressure.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: And you know what, I.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Just copied what the cop bad guy did the first
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: time around. And I'm like a little bit of a parrot.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: So if you make a sound, I can copy it. Easy.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, let's try that for Let's.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: Try that, go for it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: How about this? Hello, It's Wednesday.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Hello, It's Wednesday.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Yo.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Literally the same thing.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: So I hear it once and I can recreate it.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: You guys, toss that at me anytime.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Can I ask you a question? How tall was that
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: actor in the CBS show?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It was Christine Baranski.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: It was she. She was playing the villain and the
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: cop in that in that season show.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Those shoes, those expensive fucking shoes.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: I did use the shoes. I couldn't be here standing
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: without them. They had to frame out the shoes because
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: once you hit a certain level on my body, it's
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: all bottom of platform boot. But we made it happen.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Here's my question. You know a lot of stand ins
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: are kind of right or dies for their talent. Does
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Christine bring you on?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: It's just Chris, does is question you book out directly?
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Christine knows about me?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Does bring me from show to show?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I'm the only one.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: She's like, Oh, no one's ever bought very tall shoes
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: to be my stand in.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: So okay. But but you said she knows about me,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: which kind of implies that maybe you don't have like
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: a close relationship. You don't know her very well. Have
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: you met her? I?
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I see her every day on set
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: and I tell her, like, you know, when they put
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: the cameras, sometimes they have to move the actor's marks
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: that's where the actors stand.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Sometimes they have to move those. And then when Christine
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: comes back on set, I have to say, like, hey,
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: so they moved this.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: What does she say back?
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Thank you?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: That sounds yes, that's incredible, dude.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: You know who's so good to thank you? Steve Carell?
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Really for Steve a couple times? Actually you work for me?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: No?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: No, I uh wait, I'm sorry. Are we talking Steve Crell?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: The actor is Steve Grell, the background casting director.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I worked for Steve Carell, the background acting casting director.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Got it, Steve Carroll, Steve Carroll, you know.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: What, I fucked that up all the time.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Steve Carell is the office, Steve Carroll, the CD.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Steve Carroll is really good at thank you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: He is very very thankful, very good.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: You know who's really good at thank you? Hulky Hogan.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, shut your mouth, Hoky Pulky.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Hulky Hogan is the famous background acting agent. Do you
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: guys have a specific background acting agent? Who is Hokey?
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Your agent? Clara? That's big? Yeah. Well, I mean I've
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: been doing this a long time. I've been doing this
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: a long time. I tell you what. I was born
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: on Hollywood Boulevard and I've been going ever since.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Really you're Boulevard.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yes? My mother was the Elmo and she just sort
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of spit me out.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: The Elmo like at the Chinese Growman Theater.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. And you know she was ride or die
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: for that intersection, and so I just slipped out, slipped out,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and then they got me into baby background acting when
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I was around eighteen months old. Set up uh, what's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: it called a Sally Coogan and uh, I.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: A cougan account. I know what you're talking about.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: A cougan account. Well, it's a background cougan account, right,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: What does that mean.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: It's when kids are working and they have to an account.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, uh yeah, but I got I got the background
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: acting cougan. So it's a k O O G E
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: N cougan. He has a cougan and the rule with
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: that is that any adult is allowed to withdraw from it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: No child is No child is ever allowed to withdraw
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: from it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Don't have to know, Melts, you don't know that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: You just have to flash your ID. You just have
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: to prove it over eighteen and you can take my money.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Oh god, Clara did what?
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: It was?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Everything?
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Okay?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Well I am dead broke, I will say, I am
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: still trying to because the debts sort of accumulated. Did
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you know you could overdraw the cougan account.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: No, so people could take money even if there wasn't
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: any in there.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they could just keep going and racking up a balance.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And so I am sitting there with my Cougan account
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and it says negative forty five thousand dollars and there
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I go off to college, off to background Juilliard, which
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: we all know is called jew Laird, and I have
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: to work that off. And I've just been accumulating this
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: number my whole life. It's been hanging over my head.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And that number right now is negative one million dollars.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: When I can not keep up, I cannot. I cannot
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: book enough work to keep up with that.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Clara, close the account, God, close it close.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I have to pay it off. I have to pay
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: my debts.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: You can't block it. You can't. You can't stop it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: You're adult.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: You're an adult now. You should be able to stop it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I should know. I can only withdraw from it, and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I do?
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Why drawdraw?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: God? You remind me of my fucking wife. You're crazy.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I'm living on borrow time and borrow money and I
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: know that. Do you think I don't know that? That's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: why I show up every single day at HBO's Euphoria
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and I play a naked kid.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, all those scenes with all those naked kids.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I remember, fifty five year old woman.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, full of naked kids.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, I signed an NDA. Though I signed an NDA,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have said anything. It's okay.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: They're not going to air this episode. Of background actors
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: talking about the trades.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I think we can.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Is this an episode? Are you sure we're not in holding?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Sorry? I was just going into character there, Okay.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: It was just now we all did slip into characters.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I immediately felt like, oh wow, we are telling five
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: separate stories.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I started picking up a cup and I would drink
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: it and I would put it down.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I would love that. It might be fun to just
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: do a scene exercise, just to see where we're all at.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: You know what if we chose a scene, we all
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: chose our characters, and then we did that scene, a
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: scene that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: We all know, like, uh maybe maybe like something from
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the theater, something from my Beth.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, that would be fun. What's my favorite crowd scene
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: in a Shakespeare I mean.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's gotta be it's for me, Merchant of Venice
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: when he does the speech and they're all saying, oh,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: you know, get this guy off. Yeah.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say that Mercutio scene in Romeo
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: and Juliet.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: That's also a good one.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Oh I know that one by heart. I did that
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: as my my final showcase scene at juliaired.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, let's do it, let's do it.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Uh wait, Kitty, Would you stand in for us?
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, I'll be standing for background. Excuse me, don't trick
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: me like that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, stand standing obviously obvious. Not maybe standing for Shakespeare.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: I'll yeah, you can stand in for Shakespeare.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: This is Shakespeare's smart Shakespeare. I'm going to sit here.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: This is probably where they would like to light Shakespeare.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: Room like this size, and the camera might be over there,
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: over the shoulder of Shakespeare.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Go ahead and three two, one scene on.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Hey, what time do you think we're going to get
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: out of here?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: It looks like a twelve hours.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: You can't stay that Wally.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I gotta feed him, well, god, I
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: gotta feed.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Him bees and garrets, watermelon, watermelon, water water, milk water.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: If we get out at six, want to hit rush
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: out watermelon, you will have to go against the dragon
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: water Dean.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I felt really good about that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what I do.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, when you get five pros in a room.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: So Christine, you need to move to six inches to
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: the left next time you come in.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, I would love to see Christina Shakespeare.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I would love to see Christine Brenski is Shakespeare and
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Romeo and Juliet you.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Know what, I think that's a hard role to play
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: as Shakespeare. I think that's a hard role in that
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: in that musical. I think it's hard.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Why Shakespeare Rome and Juliet is one of the hardest
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: roles in the musical.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: It's one of the hardest musicals. I'm don't talk about
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: one of the hardest roles in that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: One thousand percent. Okay, what's the crazy shit you guys
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: have ever seen on set?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: How many hours do you have? No go ahead?
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Never told us your favorite book by the way right now,
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: of course, but.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I've already read it. I read it on my first job,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and then I had nothing left to read. I thought, well,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: this is it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't read.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Also, to jump back, Kitty, you never told us your secret.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I did. The secret was get into debt to do
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: what you need to do.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: That was a deep, deep oh that was your secret.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Clara really took that to her.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: Clara has already We are secret sisters.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You know we are are secret sisters.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: One of the worst things I've ever seen on set
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: was actually at that Petco Commercially I brought up earlier.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: They brought in a large bull elephant and it got
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: aroused and it rushed. And when a bull elephant rushes,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: it chooses a person and it won't stop until that
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: person is dead. And it chose my friend Gabriel. That
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: bull elephant rushed my friend Gabriel, it chased he was
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: running die on set. I saw somebody get gorged by
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: an elephant on set. Gabriel lives. Gabriel lives. What do
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: people know about it? Petco buried that thing so quick?
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Oh is there an elephant to pet?
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I was gonna ask, Well, they were trying to do
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: of like what It'd be funny if dogs were elephants,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: that was the idea.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: It would be really funny, and it was.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: It was a very funny spot. It's so sad my
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: friend got gored because I really have good memories of
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: that spot.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: That's horrify.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: That's what they could do on those non union sets.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: They could bring on those big fucking animals and scare everybody.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, why we join the union. I'm trying. I'm trying.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I've taken a class I took Mark mccaniels, Uh joined
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the Union class how to Join the Union?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: I write about that in my newsletter.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: What did you say?
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: That class? How it's a scam. Oh no, yeah, you
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: gotta watch out for it because he's gonna say the
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: last class. And when I tell you what did he say?
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: How many classes are you?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: He said, this is a fifty week course. Yeah, last class.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I'll you will know.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: You know what's another scam? Those set medics they I
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: don't know, not certify.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you. I slipped the set Medica twenty
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: once and I say, can you say? I have a
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: fever and I gotta go home.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: And this fucking guy gave him a fucking twenty dollars bill.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: I was out the door four pm, HBO.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: So he did what you requested and he and you
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: think he's a fraud because what doctor gets bribe. That's
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: a good point, that's a good guess.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, what's the most horrific thing you've seen on set?
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Kitty me? Yeah?
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: Wow, horrific? Yikes, I mean truly, after that elephant story,
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I want to talk about anything else.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Nobody's seen anything that bad, not the elephant.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: The worst is I went over to grab crafty and
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: it was the wrong one. It was the one for
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: you know, talent and not stand in some backer.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Wait, you weren't in that extra spire, were you? Or
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: was that Kitty Jacobs?
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: God, Kitty Jacobs.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: I Kitty Jacobs so lucky. I'm so I was so
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: happy when I read the news that Kitty Jacob's was
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: a flame in that extra fire.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Kitty.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Yes, Look, there can only be one kitty in Hollywood.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Not when you only work for Christine Branski. I think
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: the other kitty probably had plenty of jobs.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: George, What did you have a fling with Kitty Jacobs?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Georgie, what's your deal? No?
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: But I think she's a beautiful brod Well, she's Anna Bride.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: I saw pictures of her on her wedding day, said,
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: that's a beautiful bride.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: Well she's burned to death. She's a Chrispy corpse now,
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: and that's I can't believe you all got me started
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: on Kiddy Jacobs.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: How dare you?
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: Clara? After I was sympathized with you in your debt,
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: you bring up Kitty Jacob's.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Toye aye aye aye. So sorry, believe me, Kitty, I
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: love your work. I'm such a fan of your scene
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: on How I Met your Mother. I replay it all
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the time. Thank you. I would never intentionally bring up
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: someone so so hurtful to you, but I should say
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: just for to save my own ass. Rest in peace,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Kitty Jacobs, You did not deserve to die in the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: extra spire of two thousand.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: And four and all of those extras that we lost
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: that day.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, seven hundred and fifty. The most horrific thing I've
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: ever seen on set. I saw Vince Vaughn completely rip
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: an extra a new asshole, like just really really really
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: rail into him.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Did the extra deserve it?
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: I did? I did deserve it. It was me.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: It was awful. It was half a feeling.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: So I was a waiter in a diner scene. We
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: were shooting this movie called Second Chances, and he was
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: playing a guy who came back to life, a dirtbag
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: who came back to life as a priest.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: And crux of a movie.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty big crux of the movie. And it's like,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: can he you know, if he doesn't commit any sinse,
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: he can stay alive. Otherwise they're going to bring him
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: back to heaven. And uh, he was in a diner
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: scene and as a waiter, I'd been on a couple
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: of rolls, you know, I'd been in a couple of
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: movies where I was getting rolls, people were asking me
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: to to say lines and stuff. So I think I
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: was feeling a little hot, and I was feeling a
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: little uh maybe a little too big for my breeches.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: And I was supposed to be giving meals to other
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: people in the scenes, and I decided to just PLoP
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: a meal right in front of him as he was talking.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: And I thought the directors might say, hey, that's a
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: good choice.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: You don't want to do that.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they did. He didn't like it. And it was
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: a buffalo chicken sandwich. And he picked it up and
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: he said, if you put this in front of my
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: face again, I'm going to slaughter you, like the poor
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: little animal who's on this bun.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: And it was hard to hear that graphic.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was brutal. And then and then he said, no, no, no, no,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: you want to be on the camera. Here here, here, here,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: here you yeah, yeah, you know what, Let's get him
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: on camera. And he got the cameraman and he pulled
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: the cameraman really in close to my face and he said, hey,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: get this space, get him on camera. He wants to
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: be on camera. Look at this really really smart guy.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Let him. Let's let him be on camera. Huh. And
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: then he took me and he said, let's let's make
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: you the star of the movie. And he walked me
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: into his star trailer and he said, hey, let's let's
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: let you sit in the trailer.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Nobody.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: He took me out, He took nobody, took me to wardrobe.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: He said, let's let you. Let's let's do it. He
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: put on all his costumes on me. He said, oh,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: you look good in this costume. He said, oh, let's
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: put you. Let's put you in this car. And he
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: put me in his own Ferrari and he sat me
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: down and forgave me the keys. He said, let's go
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: for a ride, and he drove around. He made me
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: drive him around in the pride. He said, let's go
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: to my house. Let's take a bath for this or
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: they were rolling. They were rolling. There was a lot
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: of be footage they needed, so they were just getting
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: kind of different plates and men.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: You didn't have to go in the car.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: I got in the car, into his house. I got
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: in the bath. He made me sit in the bath.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: He said, oh you like that being in the bath,
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: you know. He made me It was twenty four hours
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: of a beratement and it was really really brutal. And
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: then at the end I said I'm sorry. He said,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: never do that again, and I done.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I honestly say that that sounds wonderful. That sounds like
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: you got a bath in a nice house.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Looking back on, he gave me the time of my life.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: But it was the yelling and it was the it
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: was the patronizing that was kind of tough.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty tough. I got patronized the fuck out
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: of me by Margot Robbie.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: What did she do?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she looked at me and said, hey, little peanut man, and.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Were you dressed like a peanut?
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: It was an eminem spot.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: It sounds like she was just trying to direct you somewhere.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe yeah, yeah, what.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: You say after she said, hey, little peanut man, move
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: over the left.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds like sounds now.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: It felt like she was fucking ripping me apart.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: You seem pretty sensitive for someone who just wants to
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: get out all the time.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I want to get out of there. I don't
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: want anybody talk to me when I show up to work.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: I don't want to talk to one person I'm gonna
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: listen to where I go, and that's it. When I
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: get addressed directly, I get worried.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: But you're coming up to people asking, Hey, how are you?
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: When are we gonna get out of it here?
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I do next.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: I want to know what I'm getting at it here.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: But I don't want to be told what to do.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: I'd do something else. I'd go to school if I
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: wanted to be told what to do.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: What do you want to do? What's your? What's your?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: What's your?
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: I want to get I want to get out, okay,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: But but what do you want to get into the most?
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: And what do you want to get out of the most?
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: I want to get money, I want to feed my wife,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: and I want to get out.
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: Okay, what's your wife like?
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's why I don't like to be addressed directly.
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Do you mean what does that mean?
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: I like this set job because I'm gone for hours
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: because my wife's fucking.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Driving me nuts. I can't get away from the woman.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So so you took a job that famously has extremely
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: long hours so that you could get away from the
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: woman who loves you.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Well, But Georgie sounds like you get home and you
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: want to get back away from her, but you want
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: to get away from your job. Doesn't sound like you
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: want to be present for anything in your life. If
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: I'm being honest with you.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm a man in America.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Oh God, no, absolutely not.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Praise your way out of this one, Georgie.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Don't do that. We don't have sympathy for men right now.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: No, I'm a poor male, Georgie. I listen, you gotta
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: life is gonna drive right past you like a semi truck.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: You gotta hold on to something. You gotta find something
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: to hold on.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: To the truck at I mean, you gotta.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: The truck is moving faster than that extra truck crash
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: of two thousand and seven.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: Mark That one almost got Kiddy the first time, but
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: it didn't finish her off till the fire.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: It's so sad those two giant trucks, both carrying extras,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: ran into each other.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I thought it was really ironic that that was literally
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: on the set of Final Destination three. Yeah.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I don't trust those team stirs. I take my own car.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: Car, yeah right, you know, if they're set parking, I
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: take my own car to set or call a new
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Those teamsters are mad men.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: We lost a lot of good guys that day.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, maybe we moved to something, you know, lighter. What's
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: everybody's best day on set? Just to hear, you know,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: the positives of background and stand in work, you know.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Oh man, it was you know what it was. It
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: was two and a half men and they did a
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: rare because that's a multiicam, they did a rare crowd
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: scene in that they were at the mall and I
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: was one of those sunglasses vendors and then Charlie Sheen
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: came over and any hit on me and it was
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: so realistic, this was in real life that they just
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: started rolling and suddenly suddenly I was in it.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I remember seeing you in that one.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: You let me see if you hug you remember this?
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Do you remember the nod where I kind of go,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: oh okay.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I remember that and I was like, this background is
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: killing it.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: But closed mouth, of course, close mouth. I did not
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: get an open mouth.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Let's let's let's break down what makes us see a
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: background person and say they're killing it because we might
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: have a set of eyes. Did anyone listening to this
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: if this is something we're supposed to even be doing
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: and talking about Yeah, what is it? What is it
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: about Clara's performance that you really call?
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Well, for me, it's I want to see a background
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: actor that pulls you out of the movie, that makes
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: you go, there's a background actor doing their job, not
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: there's a glasses vendor doing their job. I want to
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: see a background actor trying to emulate what they're guessing
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: a glasses vendor would be doing that day. And for me,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: you know, Clara Tuna grabbed it that day. Oh she
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: grabbed my attention and I knew this girl's got it,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: and thank you.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: It's all about approximating human movement, you know, it's good.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I love a good nod, like a nod.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: You know what. What what makes me notice, what really stands
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: out to me is is when people put plates down
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: in front of people with focus and intention and it's
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: like they're staring the plate down as they put it down.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: That's just something that really really goes the extra mile
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: for me.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: You know what I love? And actually, Georgie, this is
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: work that I remember of yours. You were in Crazy
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Stupid Love, correct yea, you know there's that one with
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: the other with the other. Steph Corell, the actual one.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: There was that one scene where you know, Emma Stone
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: says something outrageous and leaves the restaurant. And one of
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: my favorite things I like to watch is the actors
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: that are sitting at different tables as someone leaves a restaurant.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: And remember, your face was so outrageous, over the top,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: kind of like this man is way too invested in
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: this woman saying this random thing that he clearly hadn't hurt,
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: you know, like this person is trying too hard. And
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: I said, that is a good background actor. Do you
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: remember that day?
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: I do that.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: I love Emma Stone and my wife won't let me
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: watch her movies because she knows I love her.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: And so that day on set was a delight. It
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: was a delight. I couldn't get my eyes offer.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: So you like that job because you got to ogle
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Emma Stone.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: It wasn't that, it wasn't an actual reaction of reaction
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: to the lines you were just that was your face.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: I do kind of regret bringing that out because that
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: does make me like that seat a little bit less.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Now, Well, thank you.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: On the last another, uh, another tough thing we do
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: here as background is you guys ever do a party scene.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, let's talk a party. See a lot of people
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: get to it. Yeah, there's no music on when we're dancing.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: When you believe, you play in your head when that happens.
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: Dancing Queen Ebba to the point where sometimes I go
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: to a party and they're playing music and I'm like,
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: I'm not gonna dance.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Get that's right.
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: I can't dance with music on anymore, not after all
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: the years of work we've done.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: I don't cups that don't have anything in it.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: I cannot be at a party with music on.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: But I feel the same way with you, guys. I cannot.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I say turn this off concerts, I say, quieter, you
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: going to a party?
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm about to call asleep?
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: You know you?
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Guys?
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: Ever hold a newspaper and not read it? I do
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: that on set all the time.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I forgot how to read because of because of holding
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: it so much.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Used to just holding it. That's the work, that's a job.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: That's why you haven't read a book since the Bible? Yes,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I don't remember.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: And I will say too, how hard is it for
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: all of us to sit down and eat a meal?
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: You know, we usually aren't supposed to eat that set food.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: When I said it a diner and I have a
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: real plate of food in front of me, it's hard
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: for me to remember to actually put it in my mouth.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, I move it around. I move it around. My
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: wife goes, you're working again, and I go, oh my.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: God, she does sound annoying.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you, nag bitch. I will say thank you, tuna.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: I do you guys ever catch yourself not speaking to
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: a waiter, but mouthing words to a waiter, all what
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: can I get you? And I go.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: And if you can't, if you can't see that, it's
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: he's mouthing y.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: I'm mouthing chicken, you know. And I go, I'm so sorry.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: It's working again.
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: You never catch yourself just looking in amazement at whoever
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: might be the most main character ish person on the street.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Who's ever in a jewel tone?
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Right, Yes, they're wearing jewel tones. We must stare at them.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: It's something about the glitter. It catches me. And I
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: got a look. I always have a moment and then
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: I look right back.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm colored on except for jewel tones.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Sometimes it is crazy, that's.
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: Right, you guys ever catch yourself. Maybe this is just
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: a stand in thing. You know, if you're at a
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: restaurant and someone gets up to go to the bathroom,
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: you move from your seat and take their seat while
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: they're gone.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: That must be just a stand in thing.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: That must be you must be a thing. That must
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: be just a thing. You must have a lot of
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: difficulties in your life.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: And then they come back from the bathroom and they're like,
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: what are you doing? And I go sit two inches
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: to the right and then I go back to my seat.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Really yeah, Oh you know, Kitty, I think I we
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: went to a wedding. We went to uh we had
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: a mutual friend who got married.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: And you stood up there in the at the altar.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I did.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: Was that I was there. I was that.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I was there too.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: It was Steve Cral, the cast and director's wedding.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Him to invite everyone, No, well almost everyone.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Shoot.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: I thought we did it.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I thought it's fine.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Thing.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: We were all at Oh, it's fine, it's fine.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: From something we worked on a job. All of us
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: together want something.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: It's gotta be something.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Were you guys involved in that Gaffers tape? Class action lawsuit.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: That was there was a specific type of Gaffers tape
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: that was toxic and they were using it to mark
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: where we were standing. And every every background actor that
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: had come into contact with this Gaffers was involved in
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: this class action lawsuit. I was in it. I got
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: a payout of about I think three jobs. They give
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: me three jobs out of it. They give me just jobs.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: They had to work though.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: I had to work for it.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Wait, so they paid you up, I gave you more jobs.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: The judge declared that the tape company had to find
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: three jobs for fifty thousand background actors.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: It was one hundred and.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Judge, talk about it, sence job judge. That judge was
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: a pro labor judge, a weird judge, and has since
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: been disbarred.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, wait, I have one more question. So the gaff
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: tape on the floor, Yeah, you stand on it and
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: what happens to you?
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: It was just gonna be like stand over there. It was.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: It was the type of set where they ran out
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: of kind of marker tape and then they were using
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: gaff tape.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: So does it melt your feet?
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Like what?
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: It's the fumes and and it is it smells and
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: it's bad. And then we used it on set of
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: this mad Max Fury road.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: It was a huge They were taping the sand out there.
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: They were taping the sand.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, loss of disaster. Sand moves in an instant.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: Well, there was this whole thing where George Miller was like,
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: I can't believe this tape is sticking so well to
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: the sand. And we're like, well, that should have been
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: a big morning.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: You should have thought our health is at risk if
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: we're taping down these small particles.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, right, And I'm gonna be honest, I wish there
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: was a class actually lost against this sand. That stuff
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: I had. I had a brown lung for weeks after
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: working in that desert.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, I won't working on beaches and sand, No, no, no,
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: I get too dirty.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: I track it into my ship when I come on
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: in my whole life.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: What is your wife there?
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: So you're tracking in shit and I gotta go outside
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: and pose myself off.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: She sounds awful.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: She sounds like a huge bitch.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: She truly I hate her.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: What about you, guys?
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: Do you keep up like a healthy family life with
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: our crazy job?
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: Do you guys have a partner or.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: What, well, I live in Christine's back house.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: You do?
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: She doesn't know. I'm mad. She's a squatter.
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: I beg to differ. She's You're in these big ass
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: fucking heels. She's got a seal. You must sound like
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: two packages, like just dumping through the yard.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: Two packages, dumping through the yard. That's exactly what I
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: was gonna say.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: Well, don't tell her that I'm there, but yes, I
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: have been squatting in Christine's back house for a while.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: Uh, you know, the shoes take up most of the house.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: I've got a question. Go ahead, when she's not there,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: do you go into her house and just kind of
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: stand around where she would be.
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: I pop those shoes on, I walk on in there.
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: I pour myself a glass of wine. WHOA, I sit
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: in her armchair?
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Does she have different lighting options? Like does she have
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: a dimmer switch or is it all the same.
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: She's got that thing, the the Alexa, you know, and yeah, yeah.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: I named my daughter Alexa.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: We'll circle back to your daughter, Georgie.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's related. I don't think we have
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: to anyway.
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: I just tell the Alexa, I go Alexa play movie
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: lighting and then.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: That's what happened.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: Can I ask you something, Kitty?
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: Please?
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: What do you like the most about yourself?
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: What?
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: What do you like about yourself?
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: That Kitty Thomas is dead.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: That's not about you dead.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: The only thing you talk about are you? The person
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: you hate who's dead, and the person you love who
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: you want to be?
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: Okay? And your point?
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: I am missing your point? Who is well?
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I read the Da Vinci Code.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I'm finished. That's part of a person.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I guess reading would be something you.
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: Still haven't finished. It still haven't finished it?
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, nobody spoil it for me?
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: What's your favorite? What's your favorite on the weekend? Weekend activity?
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Yet? When Christine's in town or out of town, out of.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: Town, let's say out of town, let's say out of town,
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: and she's locked her back door.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, she's locked the back door. Yikes? Is the locksmith open?
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Locksmith's open?
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: No?
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: No, no, you can't go into Christine's house.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, how about she's in town.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: She's in town. Yeah, are locksmith's open?
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: No? I think, Just to be honest, yes, I think
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: they're twenty four hours a lot.
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, all locksmiths don't close ever, okay, except for Christmas.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: Probably not.
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: Let's see what I'm probably go on a bike ride?
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: Wow? Do you like to bike?
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: It's really hard in those ones shoes?
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Don't tell me you do it the Christine shoes? Do
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: you shower in the Christine shoes?
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: No?
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Those things cost me fifteen thousand dollars. I can't get
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: them wet. Now have you paid that off? Not yet?
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Not yet?
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: God?
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I wish I could help you. Somebody needs to Hell
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: fucking me, we need help. I feel like we're in
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: an identity crisis. I don't know if any of us
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: know who we are. We've spent so long playing nameless,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: silent people.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Well, why don't we go around and empower ourselves or
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: each other? Say somebody's name and say what they are
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: to you? Huh? Does that sound like good or fun?
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Does that sound interesting to anybody? I would love to
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: do that, if anybody would like to do that. That
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: sounds interesting to me. If anybody wants to does that
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: sound good? Ken? Yeah? I would just love if somebody
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: looked I could do it for you, and in turn,
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: you could do it for me, and we could empower
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: each other and finally stand up.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: Oh this is some of the stupid shit I hear
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: on the weeknights from who my wife?
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds very positive of your wife.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: You need is for someone to make eye contact with
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: you and tell you you were at something m hm.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Or or just everybody does it. It's not just only me.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: We could we could rise up. We could start a
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: production company. I've got a bunch of shorts that I
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: really am looking to film if you guys want to
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: film them.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: What are your shorts about?
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, they're about everything. I've got this one, Space Odyssey.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: It's about a man trapped inside of space and he goes.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Basically what it is, it's an illusion and allegory for
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: the pandemic.
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: Yo.
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: Good, So instead of a pandemic, it's instead of trapped
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: inside of house, is trapped in space.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Trapped in side of space. And then I've got this
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Space Yeah, I've got this great one. It's about abortion,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: told from you know, a young girl's perspective. I wrote it.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: I'm really proud of it. And then there's another one
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: kind of about the founding of Americas that is an
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: allegory for Trump's America basically, so it's really interesting. Yeah, basically,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: these good people moved to America.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: And I can't be in these films. Yeah, you can't
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: be in any of these what?
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: No, I can be in all of these What but
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I was always going to be the background in all
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Roles for yourself? You know what?
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: Can you matter?
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: What?
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: Look me in the eye.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I'm trying.
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: Just look at me.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: I'm trying.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: She's so tall in those shoots.
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: Look up here?
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: You matter? No?
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: Can Kendle? Say it? Okay? Say your name?
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Can can? Who can kindle?
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: And what does he? I?
• 52:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: I am an actor?
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, great? And you and I.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Matter?
• 52:18
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: How do you feel?
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I feel like I feel That's awesome, man, I feel
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: really good. I feel like my eyes have been open
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: for the first time. And I just want to say
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: thank you because Kitty, Yeah you matter? No, No, Kitty,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: you do mad?
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Look at her?
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: What can you?
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Look down and cars say your name?
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: Looks is looking around for a bransky?
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Look she's looking around?
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: She where is she?
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: No? You're here because they're talking to you.
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: Not Christine, Christine.
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: Me, Kitty, Kitty, Christine say it, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, I.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Matter?
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: Wow?
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Oh that makes me mad?
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Why are you mad?
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know full of rage. Why I don't know.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Oh God, when you stop those shoes.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: It's so loud, like two damp packages.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Just swinging through a yard. Whoa, Clara, Oh no, no, no,
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: no no.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: I pretend to love the work. I don't love the work.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I'm a million dollars in debt, but you count, Clara,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I can't close it.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: We gotta figure out a way.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: You've got a body so tight that people can't discern
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: it from a teenagers. You are great.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Your body is so tight.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: I have a big tight tit and a big tight ass.
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: Yes, and all of that together is a person that matters.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: Yes they Clara say it Hi, Clara.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Tuna, yes, yes matter. Yes, I'm going to close the account. Yes,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I knew it was possible. I'm gonna call
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: the bank for the first time about this tomorrow. You've
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: ever complained about this? No, I didn't want to bother anybody.
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: Clara, call the bank.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness. Well now I said thank you, thank you,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: because now I have the self esteem to do that.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to write a note to myself. Call
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Bank of America tomorrow about one million dollar debt.
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: Great, Okay, Georgie, Georgie.
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: I gotta get the fuck out of Georgie.
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: George, for once in your life, you're going to be
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: here with us, and you're gonna focus with us.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: My God.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: Coming, Georgie. Grab his arms, kitty, kitty, stomp on his
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: feet with your shoes and keep him tight.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Clump.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: Oh god, I'm under do my wive's big stupid packages.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: Say it, Georgie, Georgie, say your name.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: He sounded like a gremlin, Georgie saw.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: How do you feel? What clarity do you feel?
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: I'm going to get a divorce.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: That sounds good. You guys sound very unhappy. You guys
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: sound very very unhappy.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: And what if it's your jobs?
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Georgie, I'm going to go to work, okay, close, okay, yeah, no,
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: let's go with it. But last and I'm good.
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: I get lines and stuff.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Phillips, No, Hoffman, guys, I'm good.
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: I'm good.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: No, you're not good.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: Vince Vaughan was wrong.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know why you.
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: I'm little, I'm little.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Little, Vince's little little man.
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: And you know what's big? Gold Rush California. And they
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: were right. Vince is little and wrong. Gold Rush is
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: big and right.
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: You are the same person you were in those library
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: open mics.
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: Gosh, guys, no all that. No, I'm not it doesn't
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: matter like it doesn't. It's stupid, it's silly. I'm nothing.
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: I'm nothing.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: I'm silly, Philip.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow, okay, you liked that too much. Let's no.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: I knew he would like it. I was helping him.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: I was helping say it, I matter.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: No, say your name I Philip Seymour Hoffman.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, matter?
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: Wow I Philip Hoffman matter Wow? Yes, I Philip Seymour
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: Hoffman matter.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: I matter, Philip Seymour Hoffman matters.
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: Philip Seymour Hoffman matters. Guys, I'm gonna go back and
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: be mayor of my town. I don't need to be here.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: I am spinning my wheels and I'm filling my time
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: with things that aren't actually getting anywhere closer to my goals.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: And what are your goals?
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: My goals to do four hour comedy sets and libraries.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: I had it.
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: I had exactly what I was already doing. I was
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: the King of gold Rush, California. My face is on
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: every every aisle of every drug store in that area.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 58:29
  Speaker 6: Oh that's excessive.
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they put my face on all the drug store aisles.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: Do they put it on the products or just no,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: just on the separate.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: Aisles like in the Dividers. I loved it.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you should go back, you should.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: I'm getting out of this town.
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm going to the real gold This is this
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: city isn't for me. I'm going to gold Rush, twenty
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: five minutes from Tijuana.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: And look, I just got my first speaking role audition ever.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: It's for ugly, Ugly little man. But I have two lines.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: What are they? What are they?
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Give us a read?
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Give us a read?
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: Okay. The first line is where's the doctor? I'm gonna
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: throw up.
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: That's a big choice you made right there on your
• 59:17
  Speaker 6: cold read.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: I make big choices because of all the classes.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: And the second line is I'm much better now.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: It's just the same guy.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I always try to do the second take
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: with an impression.
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: No no disrespect, no respect. But I've had lines before
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: and it sounds like the character is much better now.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: So what could have been wrong with him was whatever
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: was going on in his voice?
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: The first line was, first line, He's about to throw up.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: The second line, you reveal he's British.
• 59:46
  Speaker 6: That's good, that's yes, smart, Yes, guys, today it was
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: the best day of my fucking life.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Well, we really came out of this in a it's
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: a very positive way.
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: It turns out this was about us.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Wow, I gotta get the fuck out of here.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: This has been Artists on Artists on artists and artists
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: answering the question. Now, that's why they call it show business.
• 1:00:11
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• 1:00:14
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• 1:00:16
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• 1:00:16
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• 1:00:18
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• 1:00:21
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