The Worst Idea Of All Time - Episode Nineteen - Dalai Lama
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It's the worst idea of all time.
It's the worst idea of all time.
It's the worst idea of all time.
Season 2.
Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the worst idea of all time, episode 19
We've just watched Sex and the City 2 for the 19th time
That is 100% accurate, Tim
My name is Tim Batt
My name is Guy Montgomery
I am so relieved it's over
You were so angry this watch, Guy
And worried about what lies in front of us.
If you've just, for the first time,
stumbled across this little pedcoast of ours,
this is a podcast where, for one reason or another,
myself and Guy watch the same movie every week for a year.
And we've already done it once.
We did it with Grown Ups 2, an Adam Sandler movie,
which was reasonably painful. we thought we knew pain
you said 15 minutes into this movie you said god i would love to get my dick wet in a bit of grown
ups too that wasn't for sharing on the mic but you're absolutely correct i'll own that i did say
that i was in a desperate place i want to get back there that is hilarious and insane but i completely
agree that's the big question i'm asking right now is what like why why what we've just bitten
off too much we've bitten off far too much way more than we could ever possibly hope for how
funny we thought it would be when we told everyone we were going to watch sex and city 2 that is
and like most of the reason that decision was made
was because of how hilariously long it is.
Yeah, and bad as well.
You can have a good long movie.
Yeah.
Just look at Interstellar.
I've mentioned it before, I'll mention it again.
Long movie, great movie.
To look at it as, you know, as a funny idea,
because it's really long and that will be hard,
is fine in theory.
But in practice, it is just unspeakably arduous.
We were kind of like,
we considered the fact that
the reason why everyone cracked up
and thought it was so funny and outrageous
when that Sex and the City 2 poster came up,
we were like, oh, great.
People are into the idea.
And now we're like, oh, now we know why.
This was an insane maneuver on
our behalf this was a crazy thing to choose for ourselves but the misery i feel in this movie on
is i i i can't necessarily remember uh how it felt during grown-ups too but this feels
deeper some more it's a more profound sadness yes you're right it's like a um
it's dragged out and it's like just dread.
It's just...
I can't watch this movie without the specter of 33 more viewings hanging over it.
You screamed in my house at a very...
Well, you know, an early part of the day.
You just screamed.
I let out a primal...
You screamed a couple times.
A primal scream Of frustration
Freaked out the cats
Is what you did
Yeah
Well the cats were freaking me out
That's why I screamed the second time
Man alive
The first time was the movie
But it's just
Yeah
It's hard
I think it's harder to get
I think it's harder to get anything good out of this
There's just
Not enough meat on those bones
Yeah Which is weird after two and a half hours of movie It's just not enough meat on those bones yeah which is weird after two and a
half hours of movie it's like this this movie could have easily have not existed but it also
easily could have existed and been an hour 25 i reckon you could get pretty much everything in
there in an hour 25 what have you got to get in there you got to get in you got to get yeah okay
unhappy but you got to get in main bits of the to get in, you got to get in. Yeah, okay. An unhappy, you got to get in.
Main bits of the movie,
we've got a gay wedding to start,
so we spend three minutes there probably
if we trim the fat.
Three and a half minutes,
I reckon.
Yeah.
Oh no,
we open on the jewelry store.
I like what they've done with the paste there
at the opening of the movie.
That's all good.
That is misleading.
Oh wait,
it's not a jewelry,
is it a jewelry store?
Yeah,
it's Bird Off Goodman
or something like that.
So we're at the jewelry store.
And it's a very efficient piece of storytelling.
Boom, we're at the wedding.
Boom.
We only need to be at the wedding for, yeah, let's say four minutes.
Then we've got a quick hilarious shot of Samantha having sex with Nikki, the concrete layer.
You're going to lose that.
Oh, it's a good visual gag.
We don't need to spend too long on it.
We'll have that.
And it's a good bit of flavor.
And it sets up Carrie's amazing line
because we've got Rose who's screaming and yelling,
which is Charlotte's child,
and we've got Samantha screaming in ecstasy,
and then Big says, I don't know what's worse,
Samantha or the baby,
and Carrie hilariously quips,
Samantha, the baby will tire eventually.
That's funny.
Which is pretty much when Michael Patrick King wrote that line down.
Yeah.
That's when he started getting drunk to celebrate
and wrote the rest of the script hammered as.
Pretty much.
He reverse engineered an entire movie from one decent gag.
Yeah.
Yeah, you do get that sense with this film a bit, eh?
He just hung the entire film on the gag.
It's one of those movies where you get the sense that maybe michael patrick king hanged what i think hanged is the
right word not hung sorry only if you're talking about people like capital punishment for people
no i think it's always hanged is it with everything we hanged out no that doesn't we hung out
it's yeah it's hanged if you're doing it to it like if it's the you know you're killing something uh michael patrick king is the writer director and producer of this film which i've said before
it's always a red flag when you see that coming up in the title credits it's one guy's name who's
done everything you're like oh this won't end well and it's like what he's done is he's had
little visions of stuff that he wants to see in a movie and then hasn't quite fleshed out how to
get there
properly and that's what this movie is it's like i want a shot of a really lavish hotel in abu dhabi
and then kind of glossed over a good reason to put them there yeah and there's just i feel like
and that if we follow that theory so you just and so he just picked up like he didn't quite know what
the movie was when they're shooting so he just picked up a bunch of establishing shots and like you know options and just
he'd just make the actors go on for a bit longer just so he could get extra bits that he might or
might not put into the movie because he didn't quite know what he was making what are the visions
that came into like what are the frames that stick out for you that go this is what he was going okay
you build a movie around the four girls uh walking over like
walking into frame over a sand dune but before like let's go see me chronological i want to see
liza minnelli and i want swans yeah boom gay wedding done okay i want to say i think i think
that this is that thought is that it would have occurred early because he's like oh yeah that
that sells our movie yeah that's the trick that's trailer fodder right there you know that gives you everything you want uh what else do you
want you want kim cattrall having sex of course a given preferably on a jeep with fireworks
exploding in the background i think that would be a nice bit of pizzazz someone really giving it to
her on the bonnet really giving her the business. And then so we make up this stupid storyline
about a Danish architect named Richard Spurt.
Yeah.
Reverse engineer up a storm there.
There's a lot of shows which have a lot of fun with their names.
And Sex and the City 2 isn't one that should have.
No.
Dick Spurt.
All those Mighty Boosh style shows are great.
Like Dixon Bainbridge and Toast of London,
like Richard Toast, whatever his name is.
Great names.
Clem Fandango.
That's a fun name to say.
That is a fun name, but you can't...
You can't insert that into a movie like...
You can.
Can you?
It's one of the few bits of fun in there.
Dick Sp...
It's also so great.
It's not a funny name.
Like, it's not funny, But they've gone for a funny name
And just ended up with something really childish and crass
Dick Spurt
It exists purely for that joke
Could you be any more American?
I don't think so
I think not
I had a good
I want to say this while I remember it
Because I really enjoyed it
I had a
Late bloomer shining light today please uh when
miranda's on the rooftop happily yeah while true colors plays um one of the so she's giving a
speech or something at a workplace which has obviously accepted her and i think we've speculated
before it's it's a workplace which looks like a sort of like um stock photo oh what a diverse workplace is meant to it is a paint by numbers
diverse workplace shot and uh one of the waiters is coming out uh and he drops off like an entire
fruit bowl in the middle of a lunch table and they've all got their settings there and stuff
yeah and it's just because like all of the fruit is it's just pears he pretty much just drops a big bowl of pear unwashed unsliced
pears in the middle it's like this is insane i love i love it i love the absurdity of it
you don't drop off a fruit bowl as you said earlier fruit bowls are supposed to be there
it's supposed to be there waiting for you you walk if you go you walk into a you know you walk
up to a table there's either a fruit bowl already on it or there's not going to be a fruit bowl on
the table during the meal. Totally.
And never the twigs, never the twain shall meet.
You should never see a fruit bowl in transit.
That's the rule.
Yeah, it's...
Fruit bowl needs to be there or fruit bowl needs to not be there.
But fruit bowl cannot get there.
I think in the state of New Hampshire, it is a federal, it's a federal law that you cannot have a full fruit bowl in motion.
Really?
Yeah.
Punishable by...
I'm not real confident New Hampshire's a state.
Town or a state?
It is...
I think New Hampshire's one of those places
that is what you want it to be.
Right.
It's a mood.
It's utopia.
It's a vibe.
Yeah.
It's a state of mind.
Like New Hampshire.
New Hamptons, as they call themselves.
Yes.
Of course, after their state bone, the shin,
they're known for this carefree sort of lifestyle
and this really sort of take-it-as-it-comes approach to life.
Very happy-go-lucky people.
Yeah.
I mean, and yeah, it is...
If you were to identify it as a sort of a normal town
before the vibe that it is
that would upset them
I wouldn't be surprised if you got some irate letters from New Hampshire
It's a state
in the same way that happiness is a state
To be a New Hampshire is just
to vibe it
A state of laissez-faire
positivity
New Hampshire
It's what you want New You wear open-toed shoes.
It's what you want.
New Hampshireans
wear open-toed shoes
10 months of the year.
What do they do for the other two?
No shoes.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Naked foot.
Yeah.
That's sexy, man.
You like that?
Yeah, I do.
It's very Kiwi.
It's very,
to walk around in northern...
We've got a lot in common with the New Hamptons. We've always known this around. We've got a lot in common with the New Hamptons.
We've always known this.
We've always had a very close connection with the New Hamptons.
New Hamptons, of course, the only other big rugby players in the world,
apart from us.
New Hamptons, huge rugby players.
Big old rugby players.
Truly?
Yeah.
They have an internationally ranked team.
Yeah.
And you're telling me they're second in the world.
The New Hampshire Pheasants.
The second ranked rugby team in the world.
Yeah, they trade places with England a little bit.
England's giving them a run for their money in years gone by.
Those New Hamptons are very proud of their rugby heritage though.
Tell me that for free.
I didn't know that about New Hamptons. Yeah, yeah well you see we're all learning today we're all learning
something new you also had a cracker of a um at the near the end of the film you kind of just
zoned back into what carrie is saying in her mindless diatribe of voiceover and the epilogue
of the film she pretty much just is like you to try and put a bow on this thing and like you know take
have a takeaway message from it she's like you know what i'm gonna treat marriage like that lady
in that foreign country treated her knee quab she put stuff on it and like those are your that's
your paraphrasing of what she took the tradition of a knee quab yeah and jazzed it up and i'm doing
that with marriage yeah so then that's led to um
what i hope will take off this well this was the working title of the movie sex in the city 2
decals on the knee quab decal your knee quab yeah putting decals on the knee quab that's what this
movie's all about that that should have like too fast too furious that should have been what this
was called hard out sex in the city to decals
on your knee quab on your what do you prefer do you prefer decals on your knee quab or decal your
knee quab because it's more of an active voice because there's the verb right in there i kind
of like the latter decal your knee quab it's got word economy decal your knee quab i like decal
your knee quab okay it's nonsensical but yeah you like
the rhythm of it you like the feels like a line from a spike milligan poem it's very new hamption
you know it's it's yeah they'll just feel it they're hard to understand because they swap the
back end syllables of words they just run with stuff that feels good to them no respect for
the laws of language god bless them too you know got
a lot of time for new hampshire yeah a lot of time none for this movie anymore i think i've expired
all of my patience and time that i i once had for sex in the city so i think it's gone it's gone away
it's really razzed me you know yeah it's difficult what happens now and i think it's appropriate to have total honesty with you kind listener
level with me guy as we watch the movie and you just like it's there's some sort of force field
which stops you from actually being able to penetrate it just being something happening
in a room like in the background like i i cannot physically i cannot get in the movie it's just and this is
with this is this is with guy and i both looking at the movie not talking to each other looking at
the movie i'm not going to say watching because watching implies that it's getting in there we're
like our eyes are directed at the screen our ears are in tune to what's happening coming out of the
speakers but we it you can't our brains have some automatic safety function
to them where they're going don't do it again boys don't do it it's true and you can't get
whose head was i pasting on oh bernie sanders i was just pasting bernie sanders head on all
the characters in my brain today for some reason i was seeing him everywhere speaking of new hampshire
but yeah it was everywhere, man.
There's weird stuff going on in my brain when this movie happens now.
It's like taking a really minimal acid trip.
A bad trip.
It's just there.
Ooh.
You sassy cat.
Yeah, I'm a sassy cat.
Sex and City 2's review by Guy Montgomery.
It's like a bad acid trip.
Well, I was amending it.
Your review of it was it's like an acid trip,
which would probably entice some people to at least experiment with it.
I'm saying this is a class A narcotic.
We need to get it off the market.
Yeah, this is a controlled film.
We need to stop selling this stuff to our children.
Shut it down.
I wouldn't be comfortable with my children watching this.
I wouldn't be comfortable with any human in my sphere of influence watching this.
I wouldn't wish this movie on my in my sphere of influence watching this if you
if you could make one person in the world watch this movie yep who would who would it be gandhi
oh do you mean alive well yeah preferably uh maybe the dalai lama because then i feel like
he would see this and then be forced to comment on it, such as the depravity of its consumerism.
And that there'd be something very satisfying and hilarious about the Dalai Lama having to comment on Sex and the City as a franchise.
It's just quite funny.
And to think that that was influenced by you would be tremendous.
Oh, I wouldn't need that.
I wouldn't need that component to it.
I know, but you'd know.
I would know for myself, and that's all I need.
And it's such a, you know, it's a very long-winded way of impacting social change yeah it's a long time to get the delhi llama to mention it one time it'd be worth it though
it's a roundabout course of action uh something i did i felt like impacted the delhi llama in some
way like i'd be pretty stoked, but then I guess,
you know,
butterfly effect,
man,
we're all affecting the Dalai Lama in some way.
Me going to subway and getting a six inch chicken fillet.
That's,
that's had an impact on him.
Yeah.
He might buy a new car because I bought a six inch chicken filet from subway.
I mean,
yeah,
it's picking up what I'm putting down.
It's probably a Prius because he's conscious about the globe you get a tesla oh now we're talking for sure what is the dalai lama drive do you reckon he doesn't drive
in my in my head he's on like a horse-drawn cart but that can't be right he's on a um
a scooter but one of those scooters with a big windshield oh yeah
like the pope mobile but just the the plastic open at the sides yeah so you can get the breeze in
yeah i gotcha imagine if the pope commented on sex in the city too wouldn't that be a true he's
bloody walking around commenting on everything it wouldn't surprise me i like this point get home
after one day of like denouncing
everything catholicism has stood for forever yeah he'd be tuck it out he wants to kick back
he turns on the television just by chance sex in the city two's on yeah he sort of was like okay
i've heard bad things but i'm tired i'll put it on i'll see i know my close friend and um
colleague the delhi llama has spoken out against this i should see what all the fuss is about yeah I'll put it on I'll see I know my close friend and colleague
the Dalai Lama
has spoken out against this
I should see what
all the fuss is about
yeah true
and so then we've got
what's this
I keep thinking it's Benny
but Benny was the last one
oh Pope Egg's Benny
this one's Francis
Pope Francis
he's got his slippers on
he's in bed
he's in his robe
he's wearing his slippers
in bed
yeah he's on top
no no he's on top of the bed he's flopped down he's on top of the bed and he's he's got it on what's going through
his head is the pope do you think he's like oh well you know what everything is probably a bit
fucked so i'll just keep i'm just gonna really throw all my things at this pope pope ship
and oh you think it would kind of draw out another
excitement, another burst of energy from him?
To be like, there's so much evil in the
world, I really need to get out there and combat it.
I need to up my game. Yeah. When there's stuff like
sex in the city rolling around, the pope's
got to be on his guard.
Sex in the city too. He enjoyed the TV
series. Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah. He's known for it.
You know, he was a chemist before he was Pope, obviously.
Much before he was Pope.
Yeah?
He trained as a chemist.
You're looking at me incredulously, like you're trying to determine whether I'm making up
a story.
He's legitimate.
Pope Francis was a chemist in his earlier days.
I don't know anything about being the Pope or or popes in general but it is insane to me to imagine that someone who's the pope who i guess in my mind
i've always imagined just doesn't work for 80 years and then gets hired like yeah someone's
just coasting for 80 years in the hopes that they'll get chosen to be pope for the hope for
pope yeah that's a lifestyle it's a you go but i think it's almost entirely backwards because you got to
work so hard to make something of yourself to be considered for the paper i just can't imagine
because it's called the paper c papal c all popes are just 80 year old white men right so i can't
and i can't imagine any of these 80 year old white men as chemists but yeah so he did it when he was
in his 20s they're they're they're ageless popes they're
born looking as they are when they become pope so they're born like yoda as a blank canvas but
in the body of an 80 year old like a blank mental canvas but in the body of an 80 year old white man
huh it's crazy huh i guess up until now we haven't been in like a technological age where photos, like a lot of photos could exist of them.
But, you know, half a generation forward, 30 years from now, there'll be these like Facebook photos of the current Pope growing up and like doing at their 21st, doing Yardies and stuff, drinking out of gumboots.
That'll be kind of cool.
That'll be very humanizing.
It'll be like the person who's at the center of
one of the world's largest religion or the head of one of the world's largest religions here's
him doing a yardie if you don't know what a yardie is by the way for our american compatriots
glass of beer yard glass like you drink a just a stupid amount of beer in one go and it's a
condescendancy you can do it the fastest crazy tradition because you're a grown-up now the new
hampshires know what we're
talking about it's huge in new hampshire it is insane yeah it's ludicrous it's kind of out of
vogue now i don't think it's as big as it was but maybe i'm just getting old you know i'm 27 now guy
i'm 27 years old this is what i'm doing with my life watching grown uh sex in the city two week
after would you rather be a 21 year old who's just drunk a yard glass of beer
and thrown up 6 times with the future ahead of you
or a 27 year old
who doesn't have to do that but knowingly
has to watch sex
would you take back some choices
at 21 to maybe not
enable this course of
action and lifestyle
do you regret this definitely think about it um do you regret
do you regret choosing sex in the city too i don't like having regrets i'm not a guy who enjoys
there's no point in regrets what has happened has happened you got to move forward
you're playing for the future not dwell on the past but this is still part of that being said um i think i might
i think i think all things known now everything on the table i think i would probably not want
to do this one i our eyes i mean our eyes were bigger than our stomachs on this definitely we
got ambitious the whole thing is is that this is funny because it's
so painful like it's an absurd course of action but this isn't but this is this is beyond that
well this is too too much the pain of this is is as i said at the start of this episode it's greater
than what grown-ups too was inflicting on us yeah see nick have a good day at work
on us yeah see you nick have a good day at work thanks nick take it easy sorry see you later yeah i think we shouldn't have um yeah like i want to say we shouldn't have done it
it's kind of what you're inferring that's kind of how i feel um well look let me dig us out of
this pit with my shining light please it's the teacher who awards brady the yeah first place
ribbon yeah she's great for his mouse maze i do like that delivery excellent articulation of her
line which is probably about six words in the entire film well you get paid by um split second in america as a unionized
actor and so she's obviously she's very cleverly because they actually i remember in the editing
suite i was there when i was cutting the scene and they had to um speed it up one and a half times
is that right so what we're saying is actually faster than how she delivered it yeah wow way
she's good though i buy her being a school. Well, she went to a very specific acting school.
I think the institution is in Baltimore in Maryland.
And it's a very small, very prestigious school.
And it's called the Academy of Arts of Teaching in Slow Motion.
And you learn that one role of a teacher who speaks in slow motion.
That's so specific.
Yeah.
Is that how drama schools are set up in the States
where it's like you go to the school for the role?
You plug the niche, yeah.
That you're going to play forever.
Yeah, yeah.
So what school did Sarah Jessica Parker attend?
She attended the school of being a drawer,
a movie star, movie star school.
A drawer?
She's a drawer. Like a drawer card. Yeah drawer like she's a draw card yeah she also does so
there's schools for like superstars yeah i mean it's crazy to me more people don't go to those
schools yeah it just seems to me like that would be the better option well i i agree but then again
we can't all be superstars not everyone's going to get a job this lady's been really intelligent
by hedging your bets and gone you know what maybe i'll be a superstar but it's unlikely but you know what's really likely i'll get a lot of work being a slow speaking school
teacher and that's what she did and god bless her she's wound up in this movie she's probably in
others i don't know i haven't seen her she is she'll show up in all movies all of them she's
in every movie yeah fuck isn't the industry strange? I'll never understand it.
Because what happens with that school is it's quite rare and progressive in that you get,
so you graduate and then you get meetings as part of your graduation package.
You get meetings with every director of every movie for 20 years and you get to pitch your character.
Wow.
Yeah.
The movies have to be over a $5 million budget.
But yeah, so pretty much.
And she's very good at pitching.
Right.
Because she went to...
It might be quick.
She might be teaching in the background of frame.
She went to the JFK Pitching School of Movie Auditions,
if I'm not mistaken as well, this woman.
That was her post-grad study.
She's got a diploma in it.
Her degree was in slow motion teacher acting.
And then she got the pitch post-grad stuff afterwards at the JFK school.
She's done a lot of study is what I'm trying to say.
She's a tremendous talent.
And that's why she's my shining light.
She's invested in herself.
And I respect that.
Because people who don't are dummies.
People who don't get out there and pursue bits of paper
that will cost a lot of your time and money and you'll be paying off for the rest of your life
people who don't do that dummies dummies you gotta put decals on your knee carb your knee
carb is your brain your decals equals chuck themhtag decal your knee quab.
Well, you, of course, made serious national waves and headlines
when you showed up at your graduation ceremony with not just your degree,
but all of your graduating classes degrees stapled to your head.
Correct.
I was decaling my knee quab.
Well, yeah, and you were bleeding a lot.
You were bleeding all over the certificates.
I was making a statement.
Yeah.
I bleed for my betterment. I bleed for my self-improvement i bleed for a better more superior educated youth
that's what i believe you really took the shine off a lot of people's day that day i know but
sacrifices have to be made sometimes for the greater good wow i mean i know that's your
version of events but i mean if you if you dig up the old newspaper articles,
they're painted in a very different picture.
There is one thing I do want to bring up with you.
Got a little issue.
Got a little issue to run by, yeah?
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What's he up to?
That is the question.
It's always the question.
The question never changes, folks.
You've heard the question.
You love the question.
You've got the question written down on a legal pad on your desk.
So you wake up every morning and you wonder to yourself.
You have.
What am I doing?
You have.
What are you doing?
You've wondered that.
You've decaled it on your knee club. That's what you've done. That question you've wondered that you've decaled it you've decaled it on
your knee club that's what you've done that question is tattooed on you you've you've
gone and got a tattoo of it on your leg coffee guy um he's a guy who's in the movie you know
you love him i certainly do he's a worshiper of the one true god the god java and what he does
is he slams a lot of coffee and then he gets the hell out of there
because he's opening an acting school,
an acting school for slow motion teaching.
Is he?
He is.
Well, because he tried to challenge the market previously.
I mean, he sunk a lot of money into another acting school
filling what he thought was the only remaining niche
in the acting market.
What did he go first?
He cast fast forward swimmers. Fast forward swimmers. thought was the only remaining niche in the acting market what did he what did he he he was
he cast fast forward swimmers fast forward swimmers so like fast swimmers yeah so i think
what he didn't understand is not only would he have to teach the act of swimming as to actors
but he also had a lot of swimmers coming into his school to learn how to swim faster so he didn't
he didn't clearly enough differentiate between the acting and the act of.
The curriculum was sort of, it was confusing.
Does he strike you as a guy who's decaling his kneecap a lot?
This guy?
I feel like he is.
I think if you're opening that school,
you're putting a lot of,
maybe too many decals on your kneecap.
Oh, you think?
Well, yeah.
I mean, just look at what happened.
The thing folded in on itself
Yeah but he gave it a go
He slowed a lot of swimmers down
He made a lot of actors
Faster swimmers
Yeah
But I mean no one got
What they came to learn from him
Out of
You know
None of the actors became
They didn't get cast
As faster swimmers
They just became
Sort of semi-competitive
Amateur swimmers
But he's getting out there
And he's starting schools
That's what America's built on
People getting out there
He's changing lives
He is.
Starting schools.
You've got to start schools and then you've got to burn the schools down when they don't work.
And he did.
Of course he did.
What he did is he took all of the chlorinated water out of the pool, filled it up with kerosene,
and he burned that motherfucker to the ground.
He did and he loved it.
He loved watching it burn.
Catharsis.
His failure went up in smoke and he was able to release his
inner demons of disappointment in himself and letting his father down as he watched that
structure burn to rubble he was able to release it he was able to get past the guilt and start
afresh as an actor to drink coffee in many movies his first mission sex in City 2, a script that had been floating around Hollywood for a long time
looking for funding that hadn't been made,
allegedly because the script was so poor.
He wasn't sure he hadn't read it.
That's just what he'd heard.
And look at him now.
He's a famous guy.
He's a famous actor in a big Hollywood movie.
He went from an unsuccessful school starter and arsonist
to a very successful
movie artist. The irony of course being that while he was shooting the part on Sex and the City 2,
which he trained so hard for, it occurred to him that he should open yet another acting school,
that of course being the second school as a branch of the Baltimore, Maryland branch of the Academy
of Acting and Slow Motion Teaching
you can actually see the lightbulb moment
where the idea occurs to him on camera
and he races out of the cafe
and that's why they had to use that take
it's because that actor
that very specifically trained actor that they'd hired
he didn't come back
that was it, that was his one take
God bless him, I'm so glad we've got him on celluloid
they probably shot this digitally
now that i think about it no they struck me as they shot one on shell out and they shot one
digitally and they also shot the entire movie on celluloid they had two cameras next to each other
oh fantastic um that about does it for this week guy fine by me tim we're done with the movie um
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