Doug Loves Movies - Dean Edwards, Bret Raybould and Samantha Ruddy guest

Episode Date: May 1, 2023

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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming baby, sticky seeds with 50 azepam or kernels in his teeth. There's still not one that he won't see. Because Doug loves movies. Hey, hey, hey, everybody. My name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies. It's Sunday, April 30th, 2023. May Day is upon us. My guests today are, I don't know why I decided to bring that up, but yeah, it's May.

My guests today are Dean Edwards, Brett Raybould, and Samantha Ruddy. Hello, everybody. Hello. Hello. Let's meet everyone individually and alphabetically by first name, starting with co-star and co-writer of the play Race, the movie, the play, now at Soho Playhouse. That's why I mentioned that it's May, because it's there for the whole month of May. It's Brett Raybould. Hey, Brett. Hey, great to be here. Happy May Day.

You know, I decided to work. I don't usually work when it's a May Day, but I'm here, so I'm glad to be here. Well, I'm glad we're taping on April 30th, when you you know and then you have all of may day off right day of observance day of observance it's very sacred in our family hey so uh uh more than one guest is involved with this project but we'll let you we'll let you go first brett and just tell us a little bit about race the movie the play hell yeah let's get that plug in uh no it's a it's a great play i co-wrote it i co-starred it with the other man on this podcast the one and only the great dean edwards um the play is a slapstick comedy spoofing all of the recent cheesy race movies so picture a scary movie but for white savior films like green book the help hidden

figures django unchained etc i co-wrote it with a great comedian named christian duran it stars i play a character named wyatt savior who is tasked with driving around a brilliant black musician named gene yes played by dean edwards through his concert tour in the deep south. Won best script and best actor at the New York Theater Festival. And it starts its month-long run at the Soho Playhouse, a great off-Broadway venue, this May 3rd through May 27th. We have 14 shows in that span. So if you're in the New York area, please get them tickets. And if you DM me, I will send you a juicy

promo code. Plug over. Go to racethemovietheplay.com to get tickets or so. All right. Plug over. All right. Well, let's introduce How'd I do? He's co-producer and co-star and there's nothing much to

say about Race the Movie the Play. It's Dean Edwards. Hi, Dean. Yo, what up, Doug? Yeah. Yeah. co-star and there's nothing much to say about race the movie the play it's dean edwards hi dean yo what up doug yeah yeah uh brett pretty much just that yo brett just turned into a rapper at every award show and everything i'm like that's ball game i'll be that's it i'm in this i'm in the show with him and uh and you know shout out to both brett and christian they they did such an amazing job on uh on this script and i'm and i'm happy to uh you know to be part of it man and uh it's funny because the the show the show got nominated for multiple awards um brett and i both were up for best actor in the New York Theater Festival.

And I was initially nominated for best supporting actor. And we were like, y'all missed the whole point of the show was that, you know, because looking back at films, Doug, obviously, you're a big film head. And so something like Pulp Fiction, where Sam Jackson got nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Travolta was nominated for Best Actor. And our show goofs on that, how you'll have this Black character with all this meat on the bones.

And so then when they nominated us and i got best supporting actor we were like y'all totally missed the point they missed it they missed it dean's character has more scenes more lines more time on stage more drama more jokes than my character and yet the the fine folks at new york theater festival perhaps it went over their head um but our but our show is glad glad to have earned that 84 cent uh trophy so nice plastic trophy and it's it's also it's you know sadly strategic sometimes as well because like uh you know obviously in the case of green book itself uh his part is equal to the other guy but they just they knew he would win for sure he would clean up in the supporting category because it's maher shah ali and he's amazing right right

uh well this is a a great thing to uh parody uh odd stage and i i'm excited to uh to check it out and also joining us today is someone who enjoys a good stage play it's true all the rumors are true yeah welcome back to the show samantha ruddy. Hey, Samantha. Thanks, Doug. Oh, it's great to be back. You know, when I'm not at the theater, I love talking to Doug about the movies. Right? This has got everything today. I feel like I don't have anything going on now.

I was like, what do I have to plug? Nothing. I can do that very robotic pitch again if you need me to go back into doing that for five more minutes do your elevator pitch what's your play about again if I do it one more time there won't be any more time in this podcast

so yeah we gotta talk movies we gotta play some games but yeah I just wanted to check in with you Sam and see uh you know what you've been up to uh but uh sounds like just living life no i've been living life i'm taking a i'm taking a small breather i recorded my first special earlier this month and uh yeah so i'm kind of starting from zero and i've been working on some stuff.

But yeah, I'm in like a nice little transitional period now. But I'm excited to see what the special looks like when it actually comes out later this year. And where is it going to show up? It'll be with Comedy Dynamics. I'm not sure where it'll be yet.

Oh. Oh, congratulations. That's awesome, Sam. Congrats. Thanks. That's so cool. Yeah, I'm not sure where it'll be yet. Oh, congratulations. That's awesome, Sam. Congrats. Thanks. Yeah, I'm excited. I don't know what I'm going to call it yet, but we'll see. Oh, they don't make you name it ahead of time? They do not. Wow.

Do you have titles? Do you have titles like in the mix? Do you have like your top five titles narrowed down or no? No, I'm not really that much of a planner. What will probably happen is they'll give me the final cut. I'll watch it and whatever line or phrase stuck out to me the most is probably just what I'll call it. Right, right.

Okay, okay. I like that. You know what? Let me ask you this because I saw a bunch of people were doing Comedy.famous. They had like a sort of festival where a couple of people stopped, right? Yeah, yeah. They taped like 16 specials back to back over the course of four days. Right.

No, that's awesome. Did you attend any other ones, and did anyone catch an L? I'm a comic. I'm legally not allowed to answer that question. Yeah, we don't want to hear about the specials that went good. That's not how it works. Well, in the middle of mine i spilled all the water down my shirt and then i had to go back down to hair and makeup in the

middle of the special and have them blow dry me and then i came back up like seven minutes later like nothing happened so if i had been someone who watched my show that's something i would tell people about no but you know that that also could work to your advantage because under under uh such turmoil you returned and and you came out with an even better special that's how i would have flipped it you know fingers crossed yeah when you came back out people like that's amazing she spilled the water but she's back i could overcome any adversity exactly yeah it's like when the movie breaks you know or when that used to happen i don't know if it even happens anymore but you

know when the film would break in the movie theater uh when they get it back on again even if it was a movie you weren't that into there's something exciting about hey it's back you know right you know that's uh i bet you had a nice little uh you know, right. You know, that's a, I bet you a bit, had a nice little, you know, uptick in the audience energy from that, from that happening. Yeah. Maybe you're right.

You know, I've always said, I really, Sam, it's really important to me that your special has great continuity. That's what I'm looking for. The empty water bottle might give it away at the end yeah all right well thank you all to all three of you for being here today

each episode of this show has a segment before we play the games that i call recommendation nation and that's where i ask each of my guests to recommend a movie that's within a specific category and for today since now i'm assuming i didn't ask everybody where they were but i assume all three of you are currently uh in new york yeah so what i thought would be fun is i've never asked this before of a panel is to just recommend a new york movie like you know your idea of like what you think of when you think of a movie that's about or in new york we'll start with that good one dean you want to go first since i feel like you're the most new york amongst us oh you know what that's that's interesting i you know what so the first movie that popped

to mind doug that's a great that's a great category too the first movie that popped to mind was uh goodfellas because i think i just i just saw it recently but then last night i was watching uh i think i turned past msnbc and since uh harry belafonte just passed beach street also came to mind almost concurrently because that beach i'm gonna go with beach street not only because because of harry belafonte that that people don't remember he actually produced, but because that movie is so that era of what was it, 83, 84, 1980s New York City breakdancing. Hip hop culture was just really starting to blow up and catch the attention of mainstream America. up and catch the attention of mainstream America.

The songs are stuck in my head. I don't know why I know the lyrics to I should know that song. I'm not Latino or Latinx but I was in the BX and that song was big on the soundtrack so I'm going to go with Beat Street. That's my

New York movie. That's a great answer. that is a great one you know it beats the i don't know why and this is borderline embarrassing that the reason i had dean go first is i was like i'm not as dean you know dean you're an almanac for movies you have such a a well of knowledge about them the first movie that came to my head when i when i when you said new york movie for some reason it was how to lose a guy in 10 days i don't know i don't know and then i'm like i'm pretty sure it takes place in new york i don't i'm pretty sure that's far down the list of iconic New York movies, but I'm pretty sure it did happen in New York. So I, it technically qualifies.

That's, that's what I'm going with. How to lose. Was it? That was in New York. Well, this is embarrassing. As we were talking,

I literally Googled how to lose a guy in 10 days, 10 days takes place in New York. And it did. It said film shoot locations 4th and Christopher and I was like yes I can say this and not embarrass myself on Doug Loves Movies no this is just proof that the internet

just tells you exactly what you want to hear Avatar I'm guessing it was mostly shot in Toronto right because that was a big substitute for New York back around those days to save money. You know what? I was afraid, Brett, I was afraid you were going to go with Stuart Little. Something about you read Stuart Little.

And so when you said something with adults I said okay at least it's a mature movie. Probably because half my closet is the same as Stuart Little's. I got that little red cardigan in five different shades of red. Alright Sam these are

some tough movies to beat one of them i know now i can't stop thinking about that genre of like early 2000s rom-com that was like always set in new york and the woman was always a magazine editor right right she's love or abusive magazine we don't know um i think like for me probably the most new york movie is midnight cowboy when you see him enter new york i feel like that's the new York people talk about. They talk about old New York and how insane it was. Right. Yeah, how dangerous the Times Square

area was. Yeah. Allegedly. I'm pretty sure people think of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days more than that one, Sam. See, now I'm confusing that one with failure to launch because i just

keep picturing like ships and stuff but i'm thinking about long came holly duet or duplex the drew barrymore one yeah sleepless in seattle of course great new york movie it really is it really is because uh it's a it's a classic switcheroo that new york doesn't get billing in the title but it is the you know it is the climate sorry to spoil uh sleep with in seattle for anybody out there but uh spoiler alert any lonely hearts out there listening right now. Sorry to spoil the most romantic movie, according to some people. Oh, wait, that really, New York's in that movie, huh? They meet eventually for the first time, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks and that stupid kid.

They all meet at the top of the Empire State Building. I didn't know. Thanks, Doug. God, I didn't know. Thanks, Doug. God, I appreciate it. Yeah, no, it's really, it's really, I'd say it's more of a New York movie than How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Which was probably shot in Toronto.

Yeah. And you know, speaking of How to Lose a Guy, I actually, I remember that movie well because that was the movie that got me sick of all of those romantic comedies. Because Matthew McConaughey's character went out of his way to do do good. And she still found reasons to to be mad at him. And as as a man, I remember watching this movie and I was like, wait, so

even when he's right, he's wrong? And I said, oh, that's exactly how it works. Spoken like a true married man, Dean. Yeah, man. So great job, everybody, with these recommendations. Midnight Cowboy. I think anybody that spends any time in New York can relate to the part where Dustin Hoffman yells at the guy in the car.

You know, I'm walking here. I'm walking here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, every day. Oh, I think Brett just learned where that line is from. Yeah. No, yeah. Yeah. Oh. Every day. Oh, I think Brett just learned where that line is from. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.

I just learned where that was from. I didn't know. I thought it was from a movie like Taxi or some shit. Good guess. You mean the movie Taxi Driver because Taxi was a sitcom, right? Yes, Dean. Yes, thank you yes i do those iconic line right i can't believe i can't believe brett knowing what you how much more dean knows than you

about movies that you would come on this competition show on purpose about to get smoked so movies are the ones, those are the ones with moving pictures, right? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just checking to make sure. Yeah, I know. I know the concept. Those are the things that we're spoofing in the play you plug so well and since then it's been

going down. Well, we're going to start playing those games right after this break. We'll be right back. We are back, and the first game we're going to play today is something I came up with called Worst Best Pick. Here's how this game works. I name three Best Picture Oscar winners, here's how this game works i named three best picture oscar winners and then you tell me which

one of those three got the worst score from critics on rotten tomatoes i love it the lowest percentage on tomatoes they all do fairly well the worst rated uh best picture winner ever got like 42 percent on rotten tomatoes so uh you, the scores aren't that terrible. The trick is to figure out which movie, you know, they liked the best or I should say the least. So I'll name three movies. Rhett goes first. I'll name three movies. If he first. I'll name three movies. If he guesses wrong, which one has the worst score,

then Dean gets a crack at the remaining two answers. And if Dean misses, then Sam gets the gimme point, and the game proceeds from there. Are you ready, Brett? I'm ready. Let's rock. All right. It's for Brett and Brett alone to answer.

From these three films, which one do you think got the worst Rotten Tomatoes score? Out of Africa, Forrest Gump, or A Beautiful Mind? A Beautiful Mind. A Beautiful Mind. No hesitation there. Why so quick to answer? I could immediately eliminate Forrest Gump. I'm like, there's no way that got the lowest one. And then Out of Africa, honestly, I don't know that movie.

And so A Beautiful Mind, I do know that my mom thinks that movie sucks. So I was just picturing my mom telling me she saw that in theaters and she said it wasn't good. And I think it has Russell Crowe in it. That's unrelated to me saying it probably is the lowest score. But off Willa Rabbould's uh vote of no confidence many years ago i know a beautiful mind has to have the lowest score come on will incorrect that is oh come on come on man willa damn it mom dean tell him what's tell him what's what dean which one Which one, Out of Africa or Forrest Gump,

which one got the worst rating from Rotten Tomatoes? You know what? I'm going to go with Out of Africa. If only, if for no other reason, right, than the fact that it beat out the Color Purple. The Color Purple got nominated for a bunch of awards that year and won nothing. And most people can't even remember what Out of Africa was about. But at least in black households, The Color Purple is a classic.

So I'm going to go with Out of Africa, although I will add this. will add this right i will add this could be a trick question um because forrest gump was a commercial success and wound up uh i think hanks won the oscar but sometimes uh sometimes people are mad you know like people are mad and so they're like people are mad. And so they're going to go the opposite way. But I'm going to go with Adam. I'm glad we got we didn't get too far away from that initial answer, because that is correct. Out of Africa. Lowest rated of those three with 61 percent. And Forrest Gump got 71 percent and a beautiful mind of those three

was the highest at 74 percent wow wow but see even still forrest gump you would think did better than like i would think because it's such a classic, I would think that people gave it a higher score, but I know a lot of people still had issues with it. Yeah, it's a weird movie. I think all three of those movies are

under the current scrutiny, especially compared to the things that they beat. They are not standing the test of time. Out of Africa is one of the most boring Oscar winners ever, I think. Color Purple is way better. But Color Purple, the musical is about to come out,

the movie musical. So its story is far from over. All right, Samantha, are you ready for your first uh crack at this thing can't wait then i will not make you wait any longer uh this is a tough one braveheart crash or green book Crash or Green Book? Which one got the worst score? Between Braveheart and Green Book. I feel like when Crash came out, people thought it was pretty brilliant.

I'm going to go with Green Book. Because I feel like people immediately were like, huh, about it. No. It was. You're right about it being a big huh, but for some reason that formula of Green Book really I hope it worked for the last time

with those old white voters really ate it up they really thought that that guy learned to stop being a racist right yeah it's it's an interesting movie because it's actually really technically proficient it's just where the where the frustration from people lied in was how much adulation it got and i think it showed such a disconnect between i guess the academy and like actual culture or like pop culture just like how big of a gap there is between what they perceive as high art which is just a movie about

a guy you know learning to not be racist and how is that like oh the highest piece of art like that really explored the issue so well right well it also plays into like if you go through all the past oscar winners you just see a lot of movies that for for that year that it came out it wasn't the most remembered or the you know it would tend to be the one that everyone agreed upon was fine you know like it's kind of like uh you know just the movie that's least objectionable to everybody or or i should say also heartwarming and uplifting tends to be a big uh a big part of it you know and uh vigo mortensen act the hell out of that role I just thought it was just Do you think so? Because I think Viggo Mortensen's

Italian guy is like an SNL character I don't know man I watched Viggo Mortensen is I know he acted the hell out of it But he's literally just like And then Sebastian Maniscalco I'm watching and I'm going the hell out of it but he's literally just like gabba the cool and then and then sebastian

maniscalco i'm watching and i'm going is sebastian really in this it was like the most they couldn't have made him more not actually italian but like a wasp's perception of what an italian guy is yeah i'm pretty sure the fairlyrelly brothers aren't Italians. He was always holding a giant sandwich, I feel like. Yeah, 100%. That's like a joke we have in our thing. Yeah, that was funny.

That's funny. They actually wrote that in to race the movie to play. He always has his chicken cutlet. That's funny. Our movies, our play starts as a parody of green book and then just offshoots to become a parody of all of those type of movies but that's that's where it starts and green book you know it is you know there's a lot of uh implicitly offensive stuff to black people on that movie i mean for fuck's sake that pianist is one of the most accomplished people

in his generation and he did it while being a black man in like the 60s and yet they focus the story on just the driver who's learning to not be an asshole like how is that how do you have a someone who's lived that life and you're like yeah but the guy who learned that casual racism is actually kind of fucked up too well how is he the focus but the thing i wanted to say is so it's implicitly offensive to black people but i think it's even more offensive to italians because this fucking guy is so like cartoonishly italian it's so cartoonishly Italian. Yeah, I mean, he's even like mobbed up, right? There's references to the mafia too, right?

Of course, yeah. He's all of the things. He's all of the things. All right. Well, where are we? What's happening? I think I know that. Samantha missed.

It's your turn. Oh, and Brett, did you guess already? No, I think I'm ready to answer. I'm ready to lock it in, Doug, if I can lock it in. Crash. Crash. Your answer is Crash. Yes. That's what you're going with.

Don't even remember the other one, but I remember Crash being an overrated movie. The other one was Braveheart. Braveheart. Oh, I couldn't pick that just out of too much affection for that movie. Okay. Really? No, you were right.

I'm just joking around. Oh, okay. Man. I was like, oh, okay. At least I had the second one. I didn't. Yeah, Green Book got 77%, again, because of all that great acting and precision filmmaking.

And then Braveheart got 75%, and Crash got 74%, which I think is a mix of what you were saying, Sam, of how I think it was well-received when it first came out, but then mixed in sam of how i think it was well received when it first came out but then mixed in with now how people think it's garbage uh i think that brought its rating down to 74 currently fair enough yeah all right so brett's on the board too yes sir do you guys think of looking at that movie now do you think it's crap uh crash i haven't been compelled to like to watch it like i've seen like okay if i see like a sequence like if i'm flipping around i'll stop for a minute so i'll be like right oh yeah sandra bullock and and brendan fraser were in this and um and so i'll watch for a few minutes and it's

it just feels like, you know, especially by today's standards, it just seems very TV drama. It's kind of shocking. That's funny. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah.

The Oscars should really do like a, a take back once every five years, like, like, you know, like we do a take back, like once every five years, they go,

here was our biggest mistake in the last five years because clearly this movie is standing the test of time. And that one no one's talking about or feels the need to watch. So I feel like Crash would lose that year because I'm pretty sure it didn't have like wasn't it going against like heavy hitters like Crash. Even if it wasn't, there's got to be something better okay so uh dean you're up first on this next one this one okay this one's very uh enjoyable to me because it's shocking that that these three titles have all won best picture but here we are uh which one do you think has the worst score between gladiator chariots of fire or ben her oh wow wow i see i sense a theme gladiator chariots of fire and her and these and these are

are scored ah geez yeah and chariots of fire those three, has the least amount of chariots. Right. False advertising. Right, right. I'm going to go with... I'm going to go with Chariots of Fire. I'm sorry, that is incorrect. Darn at all.

Sam, between Gladiator or Ben-Hur, which one do you think got a worse run to Anglesburg? You're going Gladiator? Going Gladiator. You did it. Congratulations. That is correct. Thank you. That is correct.

Gladiator got a got a mere 80%, whereas Chariots of Fire got 83%, and Ben-Hur got an 85%. You could know it's... Sorry. No, go ahead. No, I feel like you could guess Ben-Hur because that's considered

a filmic classic in the Library of congress right isn't that like the first epic movie like that tackled like a that era and it was so panoramically huge i think it was a pretty big movie yeah i don't know like uh in terms of uh you know being it being the first of anything in particular because for some reason that's why it's funny to me that there's you know at least two maybe more best picture winning gladiator movies because gladiator movie has really been like it's a genre people don't really do much of anymore but right it's stuck around for years and years. It's interesting that such a weird, specific thing as being a gladiator.

I guess it just comes down to the competition, win or lose, good guy, bad guy kind of dynamic of any gladiator match. But we have quite a matchup going here because we've got a three-way tie everyone got one so that means we have to settle this thing before we can move on oh no it's true uh brett you get to go first and uh first person to get this one right is our winner. So if you get it right, you win this game and I'll tell you what you win. Oh man. Between these three, these three movies,

Argo that don't really have much in common other than, uh, I find it interesting that, uh, that they don't all just have a hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes, uh, Argo silence of the lam, or Lawrence of Arabia. Which one of those three? Wow.

Wow. Those are three great movies. Okay, so I'm cutting. I'm going to go with Argo as the lowest among those three. That is incorrect. Rats. What were the other two choices? Silence of the Lambs and what was the third one?

Lawrence of Arabia. I'll go with Poor Little Clarice and Silence of the Lambs. Samantha takes it. No, she has to say the right answer Sam sorry what was the question

yes DQ'd yeah they all are in the 90s you know it's just one percentage point separating each Argo's got 96 Sonslam's got 95 the Lawrence of Arabia those three is the lowest with 94%.

And Samantha wins that game. But as a previous guest on the show, she knows it doesn't mean much. We'll tell you what Sam won right after the break. We'll be right back. We are back. Congratulations, Sam. How are you feeling? Honestly, I've never felt better.

I needed a win. Even if it was by default. Yeah, the classic way to win is just sit there politely waiting your turn. Things come to those who wait. Great way to win. So that just means that Samantha gets to go first

in our big deciding game today. Something that I call Weird Algorithm. Here's how. You might have played this before, Samantha. I don't think so, but let's see. Awesome. It's even better if you have it but

it's cool if you have uh the algorithm on the uh internet movie database imdb uh is set up in such a way that you know they keep track of the popularity of all the celebrities that are on there and when you are looking at the cast list of any project any movie or tv show on imdb you can now hit refine the order of the list of cast members in order of their popularity according to imdb yeah you don't want to do it to yourself if you can help it. It's the new Googling yourself. I don't recommend it. But what I like to do is I like to take well-known motion pictures and find out by the standards of today, like this very day,

according to IMDb, who is most popular. So I will name a movie. And we're going to start with Samantha and then go to Brett and then to Dean. And everybody's going to get a chance to go first in this game

because we have three rounds. I'll name a movie. Start with Samantha. Samantha will tell me who in that movie. I'll even name a bunch of actors from the movie. I'm not trying to hide anything. And then Samantha will name who she thinks is number one on the list of popularity of the cast of that movie if you get number one you

get three points if you get number two you get two points number three you get one point and anything beyond that is not worth any points and you can listen to the other people and share answers strategically i want a winner at the end. But in the meantime, if you want to say the same answer as somebody else, go for it. You ready, Samantha? Yeah, let's do it. Okay.

Now, I don't know if you've seen this motion picture, but I'll tell you who's in it. It's a rather grim Viking motion picture called The Northman. Oh, yes. motion picture called The Northman. Oh, yes. All right. The Northman.

I don't know if I'm saying it right. Okay. Sorry. Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke is in it, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe. It's even got a dash of bjork wow who of all those folks do you think would be the most popular today nicole kidman yeah okay just because of the amc commercials right just mesmerizing you can't go to the movies without thinking of nicole kidman right that's that's her credit she represents the movie she is the movie she is mr movie

all right so uh brett what do you think of that do you agree or do you would you pick somebody else i mean i i you know, I'm inclined to agree. It's got to be Nicole. I'm sorry to Skarsgård and Dafoe and Bjork and Anya, but it's Nicole Kidman. She's got to be the most legendary amongst those five. I'm glad you apologized to everybody on the list because I don't want to lose them as listeners.

Yeah, I don't want them to unfollow me either so i just had to do it you know okay fair enough what about you dean do you agree with uh brett and samantha on this i lean more towards willem dafoe man um i i think he's been out i mean that's platoon you know um legendary but she's i'm gonna go with the foe just just to be a contrarian okay he's got a new movie out uh it was in limited release called paint no that's not No, it was called some other one-word title, though. But he was... Or maybe it was called Stuck? Anyway, he plays like a burglar who tries to steal some art and gets the security system traps him

and traps him in overnight. Sounds to me like he's not that popular, though. I mean, from you not even knowing what it is. What was the last Kidman movie you went to see? And don't say Bewitched. Exactly. I mean. Dude, Air.

She was great in Air. Oh, she is? No, I mean, she's not in air, but you know. I was buying it. Yeah, I bought it. She's got quite a cast. Yeah, she can show up there.

Alright, so is everyone sticking with their answers? We got two Nicole Kidmans and one Willem Dafoe. Yeah. Okay, sticking with their answers we got uh two nicole kidman's and one willem defoe yeah okay well you'll be happy to know that nicole did did crack the top three but she's just at number three so that's one point for samantha and one point for brett number two is Alexander Skarsgård. I don't know what he's been making

his star rise currently. He's on secession. There you go. Okay. And then number numero uno is Anya Taylor-Joy. She's the voice of that

princess in the Super Mario Brothers. Oh, she's Peach? That movie's huge, yeah. Princess Peach. Oh, so it's like, who's hottest at this exact moment? I got you.

Yeah, as of like today. Okay, okay. Because I was doing a week ago yeah fuck my bad all right well brett you get to go first on this next one so you can get everybody's minds uh you know samantha got everybody so excited about nicole kidman it was great i know um all right heartbreak feels pretty good In a place like this Brett Who do you think from the movie Are you a fan of those Middle Earth

Tolkien motion pictures Oh love them Those are fantastic Alright well we're going to talk about The first of the Hobbit trilogy The Hobbit Unexpected Journey. The best ones by far. Starring Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, David Armitage, Ian Holm,

Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Andy Serkis, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch. I mean, it's just chock full of famous people. Yeah. I know my answer. What do you got? I'm going with Benedict Cumberbatch.

That's my number one. Benny comes. You just went for Benny comes, I think. I came on the show. It's actually pre-written in my notes to make sure I say that. Dean, who do you think are all those people? Would you give me the list of actors again? Sure.

It's Ian McKellen. He's got the long beard. And Martin Freeman is the main one. That's Bilbo. Then there's that guy Thorin. He has a fun beard. He's played by Richard Armitage. Oh, okay.

Ian Holm plays old Bilbo. Right. Elijah Wood as... Frodo. His guy. Elijah Wood as his guy Hugo Weaving's got the long white hair Cate Blanchett's got the long white hair Christopher Lee's

got the long white hair Andy Serkis is as Gollum and Lee Pace must play some gigantic character. And then he comes. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. Now that I understand the game more and who's the most popular right now, Andy Serkis was in the uh was in black panther um but uh martin what's his name uh uh that play freeman was too yeah freeman freeman has more marvel cred because because he plays the agent and he's in more more of the movies but atlantic was in Tar and that's most current. But Benny Comes, I'm gonna go with, I'm gonna go with Cumberbatch. I'm gonna go with Cumberbatch as well

because of Doctor Strange. The Marvels, yeah, that's where my head was at too. Yeah. Alright, Sam. What do you think about this, Sam? I think that the Marvel point is a good one. I do think that Tar is probably more recent than Doctor Strange,

so I'm going to go with none other than Carol herself, Cate Blanchett. Carol. That's such a weird name for a movie it's a good movie but you know just some ladies you know like it's like hey you going to the movies yeah I'm gonna go see Denise that's not like the date that's your

date yeah alright so we got two Benny comes and one Kate B. And everybody's locked in. Locked in. All right. Here comes the bad news. Kate Blanchett made the cut at number three.

That's worth one point to Samantha. But then number two is Andy Serkis, who, as far as I can tell, I guess he's got a juicy part in this new Luther series with Idris Elba. Oh, damn. You're right. Yeah, he does. He does. Yeah, so he's big on Netflix right now.

And then also big on Netflix. Number one is that guy, Richard Armitage, who plays Thorin. He's in this thing on Netflix called Obsession. Come on. Yeah, I'm not familiar. Yeah. Come on. Exactly.

That was a tricky one. That was a tricky one. That was a tricky one. And it's about to get even trickier for our third and final round. Dean gets to start off this time and the motion picture of the movie

is Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. Ooh, that's a good one. Based on Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. And starring Pam Greer, Sam Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker. Who do you like out of that gang? Because Chris Tucker is in air

Right But You said two What was the name not before his But right before Two before Chris Tucker Michael Keaton He's been in those new Batman trailers

Man Yeah he's in The Flash I guess Yeah Oh What is a good one trailers, man. Yeah, he's in The Flash, I guess. Yeah. Oh. Oh. What is a good one? I'm torn between Chris Tuck and I'm Batman. I'm going to go with I'm going to go I'll say, because air is in theaters now

and Keaton is so dope, man. And people are excited about Keaton being, you know. I'm going to go. Look, I'm going to do what they did for me when they nominated me for best supporting. When they put the white guy over the black guy, I'm going to go with Keaton. I'm going to go with Keaton over Tucker. Okay.

Sorry, Al Sharpton. Samantha? Well, you know what? I'm going to go with De Niro. Going with classic vintage. Well, yes, but he also, well, you know what? I don't need to give Brett my reasoning because he hasn't picked yet. Oh, wow.

Sam is getting excited. Wow, yeah. Body blow, body blow. Yeah, what's your theory, Brett? Who do you think it is? I mean, you know, I'm going to say Al Sharpton, I got your back, my friend, and I'm going to go with Chris Tucker. I think because I just saw him last night.

I went and saw air with my buddy. And so he's just fresh in my head. Saw Chris Tucker act about 20 hours ago. He did a great job going with Tucker. And I just want to say, Sam, you're going down. That disrespect will never be forgiven. Brett, I just want to say understood. Okay, beef squashed.

understood. Okay, beach squashed. Okay, so Dean, are you still good with your choice there? You know what? Part of me wants to switch to Chris Tucker, but I'll stay with Keaton. Alright, you're going to stick with Keaton

and Samantha's got De Niro. And who do you have, Brett? I got Chris Tucker. He had a great sex scene with Nicole Kidman in Air. It was really, really compelling. Did she play the part of Air? Yeah, yeah.

She was actually the sneaker. Okay. He was actually the sneaker. Okay, so third place of all of those great actors that are in Jackie Brown, that did go to Mr. Robert De Niro. Oh, devastating. That's worth one more point to Samantha, who now has a total of three points. Coming in at number two, this is a curveball. Nobody could have seen this coming, but if you did, you would have scored two points.

Quentin Tarantino himself. Wow. Oh, interesting. has he's a voice on a uh like on a uh you know a home uh you know a message machine that we use those things we used to have um uh answering machine he's a he's a voice on on an answering machine i guess uh yeah i like that movie a lot, but I don't remember hearing his voice. Number one, and for very lame reasons, is the great Bridget Fonda. Oh, what in the – Because the world is mad that Bridget Fonda – she's retired. She doesn't act anymore.

But the world saw pictures of her and they got all upset that she's like an older, overweight lady now. Really? Yeah. That's wild. Yeah, it's really wild. And, you know, like TMZ caught up to her somewhere and they're like, you're going to act again?

She's like, no, I'm good. And that was good for her. Yeah. She's married to Danny Elfman. So they have all the money. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And she was raised kids and she's not, you know, an actress in movies.

So why does anybody need to be concerned about her appearance? So I brought it up today just to put a squash on it. I'm looking at the picture and it does catch you off guard. Wow. Settle down. Drastically different. Congratulations,

Samantha. You won our game today. Thank you. You pulled it off. You get to do your plugs first, even though you're just out there living it up and uh have no nothing to plug well you know i'll have a special drop-in later this year and i've been doing yeah and i've been doing a little radio show on uh amp there's the new uh amazon app

uh every monday night at 6pm I've been doing a show called What Are They Up To? where I play music from a band that was in the public pop culture lexicon around the 90s, 2000s and then I basically tell people what they're doing, play some of their music.

Nice. Can I just say, there are no small radio shows, Samantha. Only little DJs. I mean, that's the fun thing about radios. If you don't read the numbers, your imagination decides how big the audience is. Oh, no. It tells me exactly how many people are listening.

And if everyone leaves, it no longer gives me the license to the music. Oh, no. Okay. That's terrible. Hang in there, kid. It's a living. Dean Edwards, thanks so much for doing the show, man.

Of course, man. Thank you. What would you like to say before before Brett starts talking what would you like to add in terms of your own personal promotion personal promotion make sure

y'all go he's gonna say it but I'm gonna say it too because I'm a producer as well as a co-star check out race the movie the play playing all month the the month of may um at soho playhouse if you're in new york city tri-state areas amazing show super funny um talented cast and some brilliant writers and it's a great show because it's it's been a collaborative effort where you've had some amazingly funny talented uh creators behind the scenes and

everyone has made this the show that we did last year during the new york theater festival has only gotten better in the last year and it's gotten a lot tighter so make sure y'all check this out there and i'm also going to plug i'm at yonkers comedy Club, May 11th through 13th. You can check out my website, deanedwards.net, to get your tickets. Yonkers Comedy Club, and then Race the Movie to Play at Soho Playhouse. And thanks again, Doug. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks, man. Brett?

Yeah, just doubling down on that plug. I mean, I came out of the gate hot with the plug. Maybe I jumped the gun on plugs, so I apologize. If you need to just copy and paste me opening the show with that 90-second plug and just put it here, totally get that. No, but we're really proud of this show. There's so many amazing comics in Race the Movie to Play.

I can't wait for everyone to see it. So just go to racethemovietop play.com to get tickets and get them fast. If this sounds interesting, get them now because we're starting to sell out and we're only going to sell out more. The more the show goes. So don't hesitate. And if you need a promo code,

that's juicy and delicious. DM me on Instagram at Brett Raybould, Brett with one T and yeah, thank you so much for the support and for having me on the show doug thank you brett uh here's my plugs this friday may 5th i'm doing a happy hour stand-up show at zany's in rosemont illinois and then the next day i'm doing douglas movies at 420 and the same venue mother's day i'm doing my annual douglas movies at the denver comedy works at 420 and i'm doing stand-up at mcgoobies in timonium maryland on tuesday may 16th other

dates also coming up all at douglasmovies.com thank you once again to my guests, Brett Rabel, Dean Edwards, and Samantha Ruddy. Samantha will have you back as a champion as soon as possible. I can't wait. I'm going to go take a long nap until it's time for

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