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Amanda Seyfried says she turned down Guardians of the Galaxy because she thought a talking tree and raccoon in space would ruin her career
"I think turning down Guardians of the Galaxy was just I mean, it’s it was so obvious to me at the time. I’m like, this is not going to be a hit. Like they’re talking, the tree and the raccoon are talking to each other. They’re in space. And also they’re all in space. Yeah. And I was just like I I this will ruin my career if this is bad. And there’s a high chance that this could be bad"
"I mean, obviously I was wrong. But I still don’t take back that decision. I made it for myself. I made it for my my family that I knew I wanted to have. And I and I just don’t want to spend all the time in the makeup trailer"
"I just I I I I don’t I can’t sit still anyway. Um and I really don’t like stunts and I don’t like heights and I don’t like pretending the entire world. I need something to hold on to"
"Not saying it’s not. It’s just not for me"
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Keanu Reeves says his manager told him to change his name the day he drove into LA at 20, so for a while he was Casey Reeves
"My manager said, we want to change your name."
"So then I became Casey Reeves."
"Casey Reeves and I would be like I wouldn't even answer."
"I was like, I'm not doing this."
He drove down from Toronto with an agent and a TV movie behind him, and the first note Hollywood gave him was his own name. He tried the new one and couldn't even turn around when a casting room called it. Keanu sounded odd to them, and now it's the one name nobody forgets. Picture a poster for John Wick starring Casey Reeves.
ft: @newheightshow New Heights on youtube
Keanu Reeves says his manager told him to change his name the day he drove into LA at 20, so for a while he was Casey Reeves
"My manager said, we want to change your name."
"So then I became Casey Reeves."
"Casey Reeves and I would be like I wouldn't even answer."
"I was like, I'm not doing this."
He drove down from Toronto with an agent and a TV movie behind him, and the first note Hollywood gave him was his own name. He tried the new one and couldn't even turn around when a casting room called it. Keanu sounded odd to them, and now it's the one name nobody forgets. Picture a poster for John Wick starring Casey Reeves.
ft: @newheightshow New Heights on youtube
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Elizabeth Holmes let a camera crew into her house 34 days before she reported to prison.
She and her partner Billy Evans invited Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim to film everything. Three years later, A24 is putting it in theaters as You Can See Everything.
That's the wild part to me. Most people facing prison would want privacy. She wanted an audience. And Amanda Seyfried already played her in The Dropout, so now we get to put the performance next to the real thing.
Amanda Seyfried says she turned down Guardians of the Galaxy because she thought a talking tree and raccoon in space would ruin her career
"I think turning down Guardians of the Galaxy was just I mean, it’s it was so obvious to me at the time. I’m like, this is not going to be a hit. Like they’re talking, the tree and the raccoon are talking to each other. They’re in space. And also they’re all in space. Yeah. And I was just like I I this will ruin my career if this is bad. And there’s a high chance that this could be bad"
"I mean, obviously I was wrong. But I still don’t take back that decision. I made it for myself. I made it for my my family that I knew I wanted to have. And I and I just don’t want to spend all the time in the makeup trailer"
"I just I I I I don’t I can’t sit still anyway. Um and I really don’t like stunts and I don’t like heights and I don’t like pretending the entire world. I need something to hold on to"
"Not saying it’s not. It’s just not for me"
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John Goodman says he wishes he could go back and redo parts of Barton Fink because he thinks he’s a better actor now
"I’ve often said I I would like to go back and do parts of it again. I think I’m a better actor now, but and I told that to Sandra Hooler last week who who almost hit me"
"So, if if I got her okay on it, I’m okay with it. But I I just love that film"
"Once again with Joel and Ethan, it was all on the page. Uh, don’t fool with it. If it works, give it air or leave it alone"
"Yeah, I did that right after I did King Ralph on the on my summer break. Uh and went right into Bartonfink"
John Goodman says he wishes he could go back and redo parts of Barton Fink because he thinks he’s a better actor now
"I’ve often said I I would like to go back and do parts of it again. I think I’m a better actor now, but and I told that to Sandra Hooler last week who who almost hit me"
"So, if if I got her okay on it, I’m okay with it. But I I just love that film"
"Once again with Joel and Ethan, it was all on the page. Uh, don’t fool with it. If it works, give it air or leave it alone"
"Yeah, I did that right after I did King Ralph on the on my summer break. Uh and went right into Bartonfink"
Elizabeth Holmes let a camera crew into her house 34 days before she reported to prison.
She and her partner Billy Evans invited Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim to film everything. Three years later, A24 is putting it in theaters as You Can See Everything.
That's the wild part to me. Most people facing prison would want privacy. She wanted an audience. And Amanda Seyfried already played her in The Dropout, so now we get to put the performance next to the real thing.
Amanda Seyfried says she turned down Guardians of the Galaxy because she thought a talking tree and raccoon in space would ruin her career
"I think turning down Guardians of the Galaxy was just I mean, it’s it was so obvious to me at the time. I’m like, this is not going to be a hit. Like they’re talking, the tree and the raccoon are talking to each other. They’re in space. And also they’re all in space. Yeah. And I was just like I I this will ruin my career if this is bad. And there’s a high chance that this could be bad"
"I mean, obviously I was wrong. But I still don’t take back that decision. I made it for myself. I made it for my my family that I knew I wanted to have. And I and I just don’t want to spend all the time in the makeup trailer"
"I just I I I I don’t I can’t sit still anyway. Um and I really don’t like stunts and I don’t like heights and I don’t like pretending the entire world. I need something to hold on to"
"Not saying it’s not. It’s just not for me"
John Goodman says Roseanne stood out because the hot shows at the time were wealth porn and they were sober reality
"at the time, uh, the hot shows in television were all like, uh, wealth porn, like Dynasty, Dallas, stuff like that. And we, we were sober reality"
"Andy Rose said something early on that just because we’re poor doesn’t make us stupid. And the reason that family stayed together was because of laughter and obvious love. And I think that showed on the screen um in a real way"
"I did it to put living out of a suitcase, but but the uh yeah, the pilot was had a lot of potential. Uh I hit it off with Rose immediately. It to the point where and not in an arrogant way. I just knew when I left I had the job"
"Just week after week, you know, you got a steady gig and so goddamn lucky to have it"
John Goodman says he didn’t get a single commercial audition for his first two and a half years in New York and had to go out of town for dinner theater
"I didn’t get any commercial auditions for the first two and a half years that I was here. I had to I couldn’t get arrested in New York. So, I had to go out of town to do dinner theater"
"Um, a lot of By the way, today is the 50th anniversary of me getting my Equity card"
"just going around there was a a news two newspapers, Backstage and Show business. Uh you would clip out where the auditions were. Mine was all non-equity. Um show up if they had a call list, show up like hours before it and write your name down for a time. And you know, just a lot of shoe leather"
"I can’t remember how Oh, I I when I was really down, uh I sent out a bunch of mailers. one one man from Gray Advertisement Advertising picked it up and took my picture to a commercial director and I got a a commercial"
The director ran the door test himself, and Jack might have lived. in a 2023 National Geographic special, Cameron's team found one scenario where he could survive, with caveats. i don't care.
Titanic is about Rose getting her life back, and that only works if he's gone.
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Amanda Seyfried says she turned down Guardians of the Galaxy because she thought a talking tree and raccoon in space would ruin her career
"I think turning down Guardians of the Galaxy was just I mean, it’s it was so obvious to me at the time. I’m like, this is not going to be a hit. Like they’re talking, the tree and the raccoon are talking to each other. They’re in space. And also they’re all in space. Yeah. And I was just like I I this will ruin my career if this is bad. And there’s a high chance that this could be bad"
"I mean, obviously I was wrong. But I still don’t take back that decision. I made it for myself. I made it for my my family that I knew I wanted to have. And I and I just don’t want to spend all the time in the makeup trailer"
"I just I I I I don’t I can’t sit still anyway. Um and I really don’t like stunts and I don’t like heights and I don’t like pretending the entire world. I need something to hold on to"
"Not saying it’s not. It’s just not for me"
Nathan Fielder says he and Lance Oppenheim kept disagreeing on what was happening with Elizabeth Holmes so they decided the confusion itself was the story
"when I met her, um I remember having this weird experience that I sort of like talk about in there where I’m like she seems so like genuine at times, but then I’m like, ‘No, I’m clocking like tracking my thoughts and being like, “Okay, I know she’s a liar.”’ So, I I couldn’t really It was a weird like mental thing"
"it wasn’t until we started shooting that moments would happen, some of them that are in the film, and then after Lance and I would talk about what we thought happened there, and we’d be completely disagree on what something meant to us or what we thought was happening. And then we were like, ‘Oh, this is a really interesting if we can’t agree on what’s happening, there’s something here’"
"every person that worked on this movie was going through a similar like feeling of cognitive dissonance where we would we would unpack the day’s events, and no one could agree on like the seemingly mundane moments that have that were that would transpire. Everyone had a different point of view"
"we said to A24, like, ‘We cannot promise we’ll deliver anything on this. We don’t know what the story is, but we wanted to just see what will happen if we go with cameras.’ And they were like, ‘Okay, that’s fine. And if you want to pull the plug anytime, you can do it’"
Jesse Eisenberg says community theater was the best part of the experience and the actual show always felt like a letdown after that
"I think I was just like writing about my own experiences, which was that like I found like the community part of community theater to be like the best thing about it. I had my best friends there. Um I felt really welcomed into this wonderful world and then the fact that we then had to go do the show was kind of a letdown"
"because, you know, cuz then there was pressure. Suddenly all this a great family thing, now we had to go do this thing and when you’re on stage suddenly there’s like a hierarchy and you don’t want to screw up this person’s thing and it just kind of like muddied what was an otherwise great camp"
"I never thought about it that way. I I think what probably though as you’re asking it I was thinking I think I was just like writing about my own experiences"
"It was just what New York was to me when I was younger. I was so scared, so I’m born in Queens. We left when I was like four or five and then I just became I I got like increasingly just anxious and paranoid as a kid"
TV rarely lets the 50-year-old woman be the reckless one.
In HBO's Youth, Sharon Horgan plays a divorced literary agent with a son leaving for uni, parents who need her and a love life she's determined to restart. after Pulling and Catastrophe, she's who i trust with this.
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Ben Affleck says promoting a movie by doing interviews actually makes it harder for people to believe you in the role
"My take is that promoting a movie by doing interviews actually makes it harder for people to like your movie"
"It is. It’s the It’s the paradox. Like you have to go out and tell people to do it, like then it’s kind of like, well, now I know, for example, you’re like, oh, Ben Affleck, he’s just this guy and, you know, it’s It becomes harder to believe that I’m like running for mayor of LA or having some other marriage"
"That’s why I always feel like I don’t really want to know like what Daniel Day-Lewis kind of had for lunch because, you know, I I like really believing him in the performances, but you kind of you kind of stuck"
"I don’t I don’t think I’m all I’m aversive. Like I said, that’s different than elusive. I’m aversive to this process, but mostly just because I feel self-conscious and a little bit shy"
Ben Affleck says promoting a movie by doing interviews actually makes it harder for people to believe you in the role
"My take is that promoting a movie by doing interviews actually makes it harder for people to like your movie"
"It is. It’s the It’s the paradox. Like you have to go out and tell people to do it, like then it’s kind of like, well, now I know, for example, you’re like, oh, Ben Affleck, he’s just this guy and, you know, it’s It becomes harder to believe that I’m like running for mayor of LA or having some other marriage"
"That’s why I always feel like I don’t really want to know like what Daniel Day-Lewis kind of had for lunch because, you know, I I like really believing him in the performances, but you kind of you kind of stuck"
"I don’t I don’t think I’m all I’m aversive. Like I said, that’s different than elusive. I’m aversive to this process, but mostly just because I feel self-conscious and a little bit shy"
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Christian Bale says he kept prepping for American Psycho even after the studio kicked him and Mary Harron off because he refused to let the part go
"I went a little bit psycho myself in that and I just said, ‘no, I’m still making the film.’ And even though other people were cast, other directors were on board, I just kept on prepping and I would call Mary up and she would say, ‘Christian, they’ve given it to other people.’ And I was like, yeah yeah yeah, no, it doesn’t matter. We’re still gonna make it"
"And she was like, oh, he is lost the plot. And all my friends were saying that to me like, what are you doing? And I was turning down. This wasn’t like I was getting offered much, but you know, couple of projects, not very good ones, I turned them down. And kept on going"
"And lo and behold, look at that it did eventually come back. So that felt like a great victory"
"Don’t doubt. You got instincts. You know, always listen, always be aware of the style that the director’s looking for, but understand you always gonna bring something unique from anybody else"