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Are we supposed to introduce 
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camera this one? 
Hi, I'm Ali Wong. 

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Hi, I'm Oscar Isaac. 
And this is the 824 podcasts. 

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I'm using my podcast. 
For you, you sure are very NPR. 

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Of you. 
Very non threatening, very cozy 

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cardigan. 
Very cloud. 

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Yeah, so Oscar, I don't even 
know. 

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Like, I just assume that people 
who are movie stars don't watch 

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TV 'cause it's beneath you. 
So I was surprised that you were

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a fan of Beef and that you 
watched Beef. 

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So how did you even come on to 
Season 1? 

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Well, everybody was talking 
about it. 

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I remember watching the 1st 2 
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it. 
And then I have children that 

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don't let me watch anything. 
So then I didn't get to finish. 

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It was one of those was like, I 
got to finish that. 

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And then I'd gotten a call from 
Sonny about a new season. 

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And so I was like, well, now I 
got to got to finish it and, and

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I loved it and it was so funny 
because like I already liked it 

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from those first two. 
But then in that third episode, 

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it takes such a turn 
emotionally, you know, and 

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Stevens at the the church and, 
and the song is playing and he 

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starts crying and yeah. 
You know what's funny about that

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is that so in that scene where 
he starts crying, we were all at

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dinner together and I was like, 
Oh my God, Steven. 

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I just watched that scene. 
And I was like, he was like, oh,

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yeah. 
And I was like, it's so funny. 

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And he was like, no, it's not. 
And I was like, yeah, it is, 

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man. 
That was like, it's hilarious 

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how you just start how like 
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start crying. 
And he was like, I don't. 

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And can't stop. 
And yeah. 

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And then he was like, I didn't 
think it was I, I really don't 

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see it or whatever. 
And then I was so uncomfortable 

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and I went to go to the bathroom
at this like green BBQ because I

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was like, Oh my God, did I have 
Steven? 

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And but then they're after a lot
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And then he sort of like 
embraced it. 

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But he because he was so 
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because he can't judge it and 
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You know what? 
It reminds me of everyone I was 

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doing Inside Llewyn Davis and 
whenever. 

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I, which I just saw recently, 
yeah. 

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Well, when I when I would. 
Do so good. 

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So, so cute. 
When I would do a scene and if I

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thought of it, I was like, oh, 
this scene's pretty funny. 

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I would do it and there, you 
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reaction. 
But whenever I was in my most in

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pain. 
Yeah. 

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The cones would just be cracking
up. 

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Yeah, I think that commitment, 
you know where it is, so you do 

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take it seriously. 
The part of you that can connect

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to taking it seriously is like, 
that's what makes it work. 

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For sure. 
I mean, I think it's also like 

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Sonny's tone, right? 
The fact that that is happening,

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which is very real, but 
surrounded by all this like 

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hyper Christian praise music 
that's happening at the same 

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time. 
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evangelical, like Christian 
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And so it also I found it very 
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well. 
And like the youth groups and 

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like the rock, Christian rock 
and all that. 

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But it is what I loved so much 
about talking to Sonny about 

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this one too. 
This this beef too, is his 

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incredible observations of 
things that are both really 

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painful and really funny and 
like the absurdity and like, 

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like in a way that compassion 
with how small people can be. 

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Yeah, it was. 
So, I mean, it's Season 2 is so 

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great. 
You're so great in that. 

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You're so funny. 
I mean it. 

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Means a lot, so. 
Funny. 

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I mean, you everyone knows that 
you're funny from I think. 

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What do you think? 
I think like it's when I watched

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Ex Machina, that's kind of when 
I got put on to like, I was 

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like, oh, this dude's like so, 
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In addition to being a great 
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Like when you're wearing that 
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like having the time of your 
life and then it all the joy 

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just like drains quickly. 
Like you go up and you go down 

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and then you're like down about 
being down. 

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It was like there was just, 
yeah, like a lot of really. 

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And you have like a real menace 
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is such a fun part of Beef too, 
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not really like a gangster, but 
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to be a bad person and it's so 
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But so how much did you ideate 
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Well, that's I'm curious about 
you too, because I mean this for

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for you like the transition too 
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something like this, you know, 
like what that was like for you.

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And I was very curious, you 
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this role and beef that you had 
was like so massive and asked so

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much of you how that transition 
worked for you and what your 

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conversations with Sonny were 
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So I want to hear about that, 
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is it was I mean, it was like a 
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Remember, I was I was doing 
Frankenstein at the same time 

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and we would have these he. 
Gets so excited when he calls. 

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hour conversations that like I 
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We would go really deep. 
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self help book recently, I'd 
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we would just go down that path 
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Incredibly open about his own 
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open about mine, which was 
strange with somebody I'd never 

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met other than just on Zoom. 
And so his sensibility is really

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what won me over because at the 
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maybe 1 episode and even that 
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yet. 
There was some ideas, but it was

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out of those conversations where
I thought this, he's got his 

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bead on something and he's 
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much on just like the spiritual 
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age. 
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I mean, you've seen those tie 
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quotes that he wears like he's a
very spiritual person. 

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And so it's sort of like begs of
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open up with him personally in 
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And then it's really interesting
what he extracts and 

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extrapolates from there to your 
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And then it's like it's kind of 
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with somebody. 
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for some of the scenes I I'm 
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that amount of dialogue, but. 
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Do you memorize your standard 
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I do, but I write all of it, 
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remember there was one day we 
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we were had a lot of time 
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And I, I said to him, I was 
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take. 
I know you want to do it in one 

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take, but I just can't do it. 
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do it. 
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go. 
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about it too much. 
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person to like go back and forth
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it exhausts me. 
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To. 
Try to fight it and I and I see,

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you know, like I think that's a 
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it's like in that they 
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I don't really know. 
I don't really relate to that. 

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I just am like, go, I'll go 
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whatever you say and then I just
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But so. 
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time because it we hadn't. 
One. 

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Yeah, exactly. 
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a blessing because I just didn't
have time to. 

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Think about it, was it like that
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The overthinking. 
When like on your first big 

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project. 
Where you like, didn't I mean, I

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was so hungry to get an 
opportunity coming out of drama 

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school. 
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That I think when I got it, I 
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everything. 
This is going to be my dog day 

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afternoon. 
You know, and what was. 

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That this was a movie that Scott
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says he's a great writer and it 
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directed. 
It was this. 

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It was called PU 239, which is 
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But it was like playing these 
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sell plutonium on the black 
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Oh, yeah, and you're like, this 
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
This is. 

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Going to change the world 
change. 

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The world. 
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So, yeah, yeah. 
And I, and I am a can be 

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overthinker and like, like to 
talk about things and like to 

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try things and question 
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Like it says I go and I come in 
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I come in through the window? 
Why I don't come in through the 

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thing? 
Why doesn't it so that it all 

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like all the possibilities 
collapse to the only thing it 

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can be? 
I see. 

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That's kind of fun for me, you 
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And in fact, figuring out what 
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bummer, because then it means 
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That is gone. 
You know you. 

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Know I like when it might be 
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It could be this, it could be 
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Did you collaborate a lot on 
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Because I found your wardrobe so
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But that's another thing about 
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It's very subtly funny. 
The wardrobe, like Carrie's 

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wardrobe, cracked me up too. 
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Was she was wearing like those, 
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suits that had embroidered like 
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And then your wardrobe was like,
it was just so coated and still.

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Oh, OK. 
What did it say to you? 

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Well, Olga's incredible. 
Yeah, she's amazing. 

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She's like, she's astounding. 
And she's so funny and subtle as

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well. 
But before that, the first place

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I started with was the hair. 
And I worked with somebody named

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Tim Nolan. 
It was incredible. 

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And the first thing I do is 
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What's this head going to look 
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You know, you're going to see a 
lot of this head. 

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What are we doing? 
And we we landed on this like 

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little mullet. 
Yeah, it's like. 

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It's the tiniest, it's the 
tiniest rebellion you know of 

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trying to hold on to. 
Something. 

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Yeah, exactly to. 
Use until like, hey man, I know 

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I'm a I'm I'm a, you know, 
Country Club. 

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Manager guy, you know. 
Man, I'm a cool guy and that's 

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was like that. 
Was like really riding that 

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line, like with that, like it 
followed through with the whole.

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Wardrobe. 
Yeah, exactly. 

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So that was really important. 
And sometimes we would take our 

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cues off of Sunny, of like what 
he was wearing and the Crocs. 

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And Oh yeah, yeah, the. 
Oversized sweaters and, you 

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know, playing with that idea 
and, and also what the suits 

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looked like. 
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like it's something that he 
wants to look good in, but he 

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doesn't want to look like an 
agent or something, you know, So

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he's, and he wears his, the, the
aura ring. 

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Well. 
And all these little things that

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kind of he's. 
Really like trying to still have

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it. 
All. 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
And that's a great thing I heard

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recently, which I feel like kind
of encompasses Josh. 

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I heard someone say you can have
anything you want, but you can't

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have everything you want. 
And I think the show is a lot 

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above people trying to have 
everything they want, you know? 

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And you, you know, it's just 
endless grasping, Endless 

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grasping. 
Yeah, just even when he's 

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talking to like the who's the 
guy who's super rich at the 

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club, who has the private? 
Troy yeah, talking. 

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To Troy and like, you're still 
trying to have everything and 

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you're like, not even like it's 
so. 

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I mean, Troy plays it really 
well, but you're like not 

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reading in the room. 
Whereas before you're so like, 

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your character's so sensitive, 
you're so desperate that it's 

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like you're not, you're you 
can't read his this clear sign 

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that he's like that something's 
off you. 

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Know. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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The desperation overtakes all of
that, the fear and all that. 

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What was it like working with 
Carrie again after all these 

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years? 
Because I just Bill showed me 

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inside. 
Lolan Davis. 

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Because I'd never seen it 
before. 

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And I was like, this is amazing.
And you hadn't worked with her 

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since then, right? 
I hadn't worked with, so we 

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worked together in a movie 
called Drive. 

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Oh, right. 
Way way. 

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That was the first time I had 
met her. 

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We were both still in our our 
20s and. 

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You guys are a couple. 
In Drive. 

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Yeah. 
Oh no, you're not. 

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In drive we, we. 
Are. 

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But then you die. 
Yes, so fast. 

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Yeah, like I'm in prison. 
And then her and Ryan Gosling 

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kind of get together, right. 
And so we were like young and 

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Hollywood and just things were 
starting to open up. 

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And it was like amazing to meet 
her at that moment. 

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And, you know, and then years 
later, Lou and Davis and I had 

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met my significant other. 
She had met her significant 

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other, Marcus, and we were just 
like newly in love and like this

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big, you know, role and about 
music and and so that was 

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amazing to meet at that point 
and then now to come together 

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again. 
Is it true that you also 

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auditioned for that at the very 
last minute? 

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For Lou Davis. 
It like like they had already 

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decide like a decision. 
They hadn't decided yet, but 

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they they were. 
I had heard that a decision had 

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been made. 
Well, they were getting close. 

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I. 
Think, And then you came in and 

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they they weren't really 
familiar with you. 

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And then after you sang and you 
had auditioned, they were like, 

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Oh no, they don't have a choice.
They. 

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Didn't tell me that. 
Part. 

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That's what I've. 
Heard that's funny. 

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Yeah. 
No, I mean, it was definitely, 

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it was the the character was 
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was like a six foot five, £200 
Swede, you know. 

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But anyway, yeah. 
So then we met on that after we 

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have kids and we've lived a lot 
of life. 

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It was just, I've never worked 
with anybody better. 

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She's just, I talk about, you 
know, you know, with kids where 

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they talk about parallel play, 
right? 

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It's like kids play next to each
other, you know, and, and then a

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developmental thing is when they
actually start playing with each

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other. 
And it's like acting with her 

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feels like, oh, usually I'm just
doing parallel play. 

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You know, usually I'm just kind 
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somebody doing their thing. 
Often it can feel that way. 

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But with her it's, I don't know,
it's just something else 

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happens. 
And I just think I'm mesmerized 

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by her. 
Yeah, it really feels that way, 

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like when you when you guys are 
together. 

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And I think it's because, I 
don't know if it's because also 

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we have this as an audience, 
have a relationship with you 

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guys as a couple in these 
different forms, but it kind of 

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already feels like you have 
reincarnated many times. 

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Like. 
Together as as, I don't know, it

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was really interesting and that 
I mean, that's the other thing 

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that's interesting with, you 
know, Sunny when he does 

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casting, it's all very, very 
intentional. 

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So I think he takes that into 
account too. 

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But. 
Yeah, I think that was a big 

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part of it. 
And then when we started 

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working, especially on that 
first fight scene. 

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You have to be really 
comfortable with someone to go 

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there. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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And also just to write it 
together, like the three of us 

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wrote that thing together. 
You know, I mean, he wrote it, 

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but the way that we workshopped 
it, the way that we would come, 

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we would do very long 
improvisations and some of that,

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you know, and that kind of 
Sidney Lumet style would come 

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into the, you know, he would 
incorporate that and write 

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around it. 
And yeah, it was that was really

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exciting to kind of have 
authorship over it that way. 

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I mean, you know, we're a couple
of EPS sitting here, a couple of

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beefy PS you know, that was a 
really cool feeling to really 

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feel like. 
Yeah, that's the best part about

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working with him, you know? 
And then you're like, did I? 

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And then you watch it and you're
like, oh, like he put that in. 

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We put that in there. 
Oh my God. 

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Yeah, for sure. 
OK. 

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When I would get some of the 
scripts, I'd be like oh. 

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Yeah. 
That's a direct quote right 

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there. 
I'm not sure I can, no. 

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OK, there's two things I know 
Sonny loves. 

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He loves it when people get at 
somebody with their bodily 

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fluids. 
He loves that. 

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He also, and he had it twice 
this season, but you were a, you

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were a unknowing receiver of 
that. 

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Of the body fluids. 
Yeah, but he also, there's also.

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I give some bodily fluids. 
Too. 

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Oh, you do. 
There's also the your 

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masturbation scene. 
Is that your first masturbation 

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scene? 
No, it can't. 

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It wouldn't have. 
Been I surely have had many more

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masturbation scenes that I can't
think of at the moment, but I 

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mean it, it might. 
I mean, it's OK, so you did 

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great. 
But but I believe it. 

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But that's, that's the thing. 
Like, again, you have to not 

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think that you're doing a 
masturbation scene. 

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Like you have to really commit 
because it's an embarrassing 

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thing to do in front of people. 
So you really have to like, but 

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I don't know, I mean, for you 
was it? 

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You're like, oh, what? 
I've done it 100 times. 

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Have I done it once? 
Clearly it was like not. 

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I've just been around for a long
I'm like, I'm sure, I'm sure I 

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did did it somewhere. 
It, I mean, of course, it's so 

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goofy like the the but. 
You have to make it not look 

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goofy. 
You can't be like, you can't be 

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like cartoonish about it. 
You have to like. 

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Yeah, and the truth. 
Is when most people masturbate. 

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It probably doesn't look good. 
No, no, we thought. 

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That was a big talk, like, yeah,
yeah, yeah. 

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Sony and I on set talking about 
like, well, how and then how 

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should we do this? 
And so he's like, well, if I was

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going to do it like this, I was 
like, oh, that's interesting. 

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Legs splayed out all right. 
Laptop. 

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Laptop. 
Yeah. 

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OK. 
What if I'm more of like, I 

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guess the side kind of on the 
side and we would try to set 

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that up and like, what, what, 
what, what story does that tell?

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You know? 
Yeah. 

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How much self love is it? 
You know, you know, there's a 

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lot of elements of that 
expression. 

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But you know, for us being like,
OK, well, I guess this is kind 

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of his safe space and it means a
lot to him to be able to. 

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He's in his man case, man case. 
He's actually a A. 

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No one's watching. 
He's mindful. 

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Yeah. 
It's not just like, let me just 

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like, yeah, rub one out while no
one's. 

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Around, yeah, this isn't, this 
is like this is the wind down. 

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Exactly. 
It's the wind down. 

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Right, that's what it felt like.
Yeah. 

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Yeah, you know where it's like 
some. 

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It felt very real. 
Yeah, in that way. 

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Yeah, exactly. 
And and also, I mean, that was 

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something that that through our 
conversations got added in that 

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wasn't there originally. 
Not not only the masturbation, 

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but the only fans, you know, 
there was it, it felt like, you 

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know what, I think he's got to 
have something of his own that 

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he's holding that he's that's a 
place where he allows himself 

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like some freedom. 
I mean, that was ultimately the 

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big thing with Josh is like I 
found even playing him, even 

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talking about him, I start to go
back into my throat. 

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Like this because. 
He was like such a strangled 

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character. 
I actually had to do work with 

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somebody to be like, I don't, 
I'm this thing is strangling me 

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too much. 
I don't know why, you know, that

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happens. 
And it's it's, I think it's just

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a real testament to his writing,
which is that it's just as a 

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response that it creates in me 
when I start thinking about him 

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and his life and how things go. 
It's just everything gets tight.

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Yeah, I think that's like a 
common thing with all I That's 

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very relatable. 
But all the characters in Beef 

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have a way of feeling really 
trapped, you know, by, by a life

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that they built for themselves, 
you know, or by. 

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Yeah, these, these 
constructions, right, these 

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constructs of identity and of 
life and of surroundings and of 

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goals and, and inevitably like 
everything that is constructed 

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falls apart at some point. 
What was it like working with 

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Kaylee and Charles? 
They were so great. 

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I mean, I've been a huge fan of 
Kaylee's actually for a while. 

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Remember seeing her in Devs, 
which is Alex Garland. 

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He did this show and she played 
like a little boy, or not that 

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little, but like a teenage boy. 
Oh wow. 

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Who who is he? 
And it's like, actually, it's 

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Kaylee's Fanny. 
And I was like, this is an 

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incredible, incredible 
performance. 

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And she was she's great. 
She, I mean, that scene that we 

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get to do at the beverage cart, 
like when on the golf course, 

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you know, it was like one of the
first scenes. 

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It's so fun, yeah. 
Because she's not saying 

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anything. 
No, no, it's just. 

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Yeah, just. 
Twitchy and like trying to you 

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know, yeah, say the right thing 
you. 

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Know and then she just really 
goes on the journey yeah of 

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being just like corrupted. 
Yeah, yeah, you see that. 

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So, you know, she was fantastic.
And then Charles is such a 

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Mensch, is like such a beautiful
soul, like so funny as well. 

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And and he's great. 
I think I just, I find that the 

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character that he made just 
indelible. 

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And so he's just, he's so great.
He's pitch perfect in this 

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thing. 
I I really, yeah. 

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I love working with him. 
The speech you give to Charles 

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after you do Bufo and like, I 
love that. 

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I love the Bufo scene so much. 
And when you're, they do the 

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like what you're seeing and then
they cut to you just on the 

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ground like like when and your 
hand, it's like, and you're on 

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the ground and the way you're 
like again, I mean, when you do 

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psychedelics, it's not fucking 
cute. 

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Like like with masturbating like
people and like a lot of times 

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again, when they, when on TV, 
when they masturbate, they like 

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are feeling their hair and 
they're like going like this. 

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I'm like, no one is doing that. 
Like your fists are clenched. 

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It's like a tense experience and
like a lot of times with 

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psychedelics, like when you're 
position, when you're positioned

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like that and doing that, I'm 
like, that's exactly you look 

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like a squid on the floor. 
That's like out of water. 

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That's, that's exactly what I, I
know I look like that in Joshua 

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Tree at that Airbnb, you know, 
so it's I was like, who made 

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that decision? 
Well, that was thankfully, I 

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mean, this, you know, YouTube is
an amazing place. 

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So I was like, there's gotta be 
people on Bufo on YouTube. 

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Uh huh. 
And so I went down a rabbit hole

440
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and I found somebody making that
exact sound, going like bubbling

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saliva, you know, and then and 
then read more about it. 

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And like, it can give seizures 
and it can give different kinds 

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of, you know, the reactions. 
There's lots of different 

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reactions, especially if people 
start having a freak out. 

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Yeah. 
And so there's some videos. 

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But there's a way and that feels
like that when you're doing that

447
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was like, there's a way that 
feels good. 

448
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,080
Yeah, yeah, you're just very. 
Free and channelling. 

449
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,640
Yeah, like that guy. 
Like a baby, like whatever, 

450
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,360
whatever you're like 
experiencing where it's like, it

451
00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:51,480
can be exhilarating, it can be 
like a big release or whatever. 

452
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,960
But I was like that. 
Is it's an animal release? 

453
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,400
Yeah. 
It's like an animal. 

454
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,640
That's why it was like, it was 
like a true, like a sea 

455
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,040
creature. 
I was like, this is really like 

456
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,720
that fluttering. 
I was like, oh, this is very, 

457
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:05,400
very real. 
Well, the way that you guys did 

458
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,040
that whole psychedelic scene was
so also very beautiful, you 

459
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,640
know, and, and. 
So deep and. 

460
00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,800
I mean, it's, it lifts in such 
an amazing way, that part. 

461
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,520
So that I don't know if Sonny 
told you, we didn't know we were

462
00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:25,160
what we were doing, I think 
until a week before. 

463
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,800
OK, see I'm seeing a pattern 
here. 

464
00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:29,760
Seeing a pattern. 
Here, Sunny Lee. 

465
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,960
And then and then and then and 
then all of a sudden we were 

466
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,160
just in that that National Park 
or forest. 

467
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,880
And I was like, OK, I guess, no,
no time to fight, no time. 

468
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,760
That's his trick. 
I mean, we were in Korea like. 

469
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,520
Shooting. 
Where you going to go? 

470
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,040
Yeah. 
You going to complain too? 

471
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,160
Yeah, nobody. 
Get those. 

472
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,840
Get those pages. 
Here. 

473
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,280
But it's kind of good, yeah, you
know. 

474
00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:59,880
Yeah. 
And especially at the, at what 

475
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:01,200
point in the shoot did you guys 
shoot that? 

476
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:02,720
Was that towards the end? 
That was at the. 

477
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:03,920
End. 
That was at the end, yeah. 

478
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,200
So there's some trust at that 
point too, that you know what's 

479
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,400
what. 
Yeah, well, at that point too, 

480
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,920
it was. 
I had worked with Sonny before. 

481
00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:16,040
What did you do? 
He was a writer on this 

482
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,720
animation show I did with Ohio. 
You're former You're a former Co

483
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:24,000
star for at the card counter 
Tiffany Haddish and I used to 

484
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,400
play these best friends who were
birds Tiffany. 

485
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:32,080
I have to say it was very funny 
that OK, so that I love Tiffany 

486
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,440
and she's one of my dear 
friends. 

487
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,240
That trailer. 
OK. 

488
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,360
I laughed so hard. 
When there's the glass between 

489
00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:42,120
you and there's the shot. 
Really good. 

490
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:43,360
Do you know I'm talking about 
Yeah. 

491
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:50,720
And then her long. 
The credits start to go over the

492
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,600
what? 
What is this movie? 

493
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,400
What is this? 
What is? 

494
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,480
This alternate. 
Paul Schrader, man, he's a wacky

495
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:09,680
dude, yeah. 
Well, and dance and her long 

496
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,960
fingernails shaking This, this 
is like hilarious combination. 

497
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,960
So Sonny wrote on that. 
We've told this story a million 

498
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:23,760
times, but he he had wanted to 
do this, you know, show about a 

499
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,640
road rage incident he had with 
this guy and he wanted Steven in

500
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,000
it. 
And he always pictured the 

501
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,920
opposite character, Stanley 
Tucci. 

502
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,640
Did he tell you that? 
I think I'd heard that. 

503
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,280
Yeah, Oh yeah. 
And then and then I randomly had

504
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,120
a conversation with Sunny during
COVID. 

505
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,280
I'm sure it's been your issue. 
The whole career is always. 

506
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,600
Stanley Tucci or me. 
I know it's like some women are 

507
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,160
like that. 
Jessie Buckley, always. 

508
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,480
And I'm like Stanley. 
I wanted, I wanted that. 

509
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:56,920
I wanted that pasta show, but I 
wanted to play the killer in The

510
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,760
Lovely Bones. 
Is he the killer in The Lovely 

511
00:24:58,760 --> 00:24:59,160
Bones? 
He was. 

512
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:00,080
The killer in. 
Love. 

513
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,840
So then I talked to Sunny one 
day during COVID and he was 

514
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,800
like, you know, this whole time 
I wanted Stanley Tucci. 

515
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,120
But now I think it would be a 
lot more interesting if it was 

516
00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:09,920
you. 
And I was like, Oh my gosh, yes.

517
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:11,600
I would like. 
It's been my dream to work with 

518
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,880
Steven, and you're such a 
fantastic writer. 

519
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,040
That would be amazing to 
collaborate with you guys. 

520
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,520
Yeah, I've never done anything 
like that before. 

521
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,320
And then once we started 
actually getting into it, I was 

522
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,840
like, what have I done? 
But it was great and I I mean, 

523
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,760
it was one of the best 
experiences of my life just 

524
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,920
because of how collaborative it 
was. 

525
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,080
And then like, I don't want to 
get like too woo woo, but like I

526
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,440
do feel very I mean, those guys 
and I still remain very close. 

527
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,960
You know, it really is, I 
imagine and I hope to have the 

528
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,080
kind of working relationship 
that you have with Carrie for 

529
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,840
like years to come with Steven, 
you know, just because you, you 

530
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,880
really don't find that every 
day. 

531
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,160
You know, I used to think when 
people would talk about 

532
00:25:55,160 --> 00:26:00,480
chemistry, I always thought it 
was like, I always thought it 

533
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,080
was like a romantic sexual 
thing. 

534
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,400
But it's really not that at all.
No, I think it's more about 

535
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,600
ease, You know, it's like I, I 
remember sometimes doing 

536
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,760
auditions, I remember I was 
doing like whatever, it was a 

537
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,960
play and I'd already been cast. 
I had to read with a lot of 

538
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,320
people coming in and, and 
sometimes like I couldn't tell 

539
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,120
who was better, just sometimes 
it was way easier to do the 

540
00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,080
scenes and sometimes it was a 
lot harder. 

541
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,600
And not because they were 
necessarily worse hackers, not 

542
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,760
there was just something that 
made it like easy. 

543
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:36,800
You know, that's a It's rare. 
OK. 

544
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,520
Is that it? 
Yeah. 

545
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,680
Do we want a more nice 
conclusion? 

546
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,760
OK, great. 
It'll just fade out on us 

547
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:46,240
talking.
