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Hugh Jackman says he signed on for Deadpool & Wolverine after his agent told him to take a beat and he finally asked himself what he wanted "you've already said no, put it out of your head" "the question came up, what do you want?" "I want to play Wolverine and I want to do Deadpool Wolverine" "I stopped to pee somewhere and I got out of the car and I rang Ryan" Ryan Reynolds had a Deadpool 3 pitch for Kevin Feige in three hours that Jackman wasn't in. the comeback came out of a phone call from the side of the road, not a strategy meeting, which is how every comeback should start ft: @sternshow The Howard Stern Show on youtube

Paul Thomas Anderson says he chased Alan Parker out of a screening and threw a VHS of his short film into the back of his car "I entered it into a competition for young filmmakers, for high school filmmakers. And it was very exciting because in part of it was that Alan Parker was going to see and judge your film" "I got there and Alan Parker was on his way out and he had already he didn’t have enough time or anything and he wasn’t going to see my film. I was heartbroken. So, I chased after him with my VHS of the movie" "he had a white convertible rabbit, Volkswagen rabbit, and I said, ‘Mr. Parker, you haven’t seen my film. You’re leaving without seeing my film.’ chucked it in the back seat, hit the bullseye" "Years later, he had a son who I met, and then I met Alan Parker, and he said, 'I fucking loved that video. I watched it a thousand times. My son watched it. We would watch it all the time'"

The best drama on TV right now is basically ER again, and prestige TV should take the hint. The Pitt just won the drama Emmy for its first two seasons, the first show to do that since Mad Men. ER's Noah Wyle stars and ER's John Wells produces.

Martin Scorsese says the first shot he came up with for Taxi Driver was tracking the camera away during Travis’s painful phone call so the audience wouldn’t have to witness it "I felt that when he made that phone call, it was so painful where you shouldn’t witness it. So the camera should track away, but not pan away. It should move completely to a hallway" "And in the hallway you think somebody’s coming, but nobody’s gonna come. Nothing’s gonna happen, we’re all alone. But we don’t wanna experience the depth of his pain at that point" "That was the first shot I came up with, I said, ‘That’s the style.’" "Every shot, as much as possible, was designed to be slightly disconcerting, but ultimately, ultimately satisfying. That was the philosophy of the shooting"

Crash over Brokeback Mountain is the worst Best Picture call of this century, and Oscar voters have admitted it. When The Hollywood Reporter had hundreds of Academy members re-vote in 2015, Brokeback won. the safe pick looked worse every year after.

Meryl Streep says music is the slow gate from the soul and nothing an actor prepares can match how direct it is "everyone can sing and in the class we would have all these boys who would say I’m not going to I’m not going to I’m not going to do that I’m not going to get up I don’t have to do that and she said yes you will you will learn to sing and you will sing in front of us and you’ll make everybody cry" "by the end of the of the class she got that out of them because there’s something about music that’s just it’s just the slow gate you know from the soul and it’s just undiluted if you can access it" "music does a thing that um no preparation that an actor can imagine can do it’s just so so direct" "that’s a perfect setup for the first clip I want to play from into the woods"

Sigourney Weaver says she is an English major nerd who always has notes for the director and you can’t leave the room without hearing what she thinks "I am actually really an English major nerd. And when I meet a director and I’ve read the script, if I like it, I’m obviously I’m going to meet the director. I often have a lot to suggest to him to make it stronger. You can’t get out of the room without hearing what I think" "especially in terms of structure and character. You can’t get out of the room without hearing what I think" "I think actually I’ve been hired a little bit for that because they know that you’re going to take care of that area, that character. There aren’t going to be inconsistencies, that I’m going to fix all of I’m going to at least point it out. And I love that responsibility" "The more you can strengthen the structure of the script so that it’s almost just unbeatable, the better chance you have of making a good movie"