Hollywood Handbook - Jeremy Levick and Rajat Suresh, Our Close Friends Again

Episode Date: October 11, 2022

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this is a head gum podcast so i look out my window and first thing i notice is it's autumn it's autumn you know it's it's it's it's psl season right i i got those big psls so i go i go hey look you know let me surprise kevin does so much for us and i think we don't always appreciate it can i can we just say what like when you when you have the big PSLs you're talking about? Penis, suck, and whips. Got it. So I'm like, yo, let me do something nice for Kevin. Because it's autumn.

It's fall. And he's got this fucked up house. Shit's been a wreck. So I go, I'm going to drive over there before he wakes up and rake all his leaves. I'm so excited to do this. And I get in there and I push and pull the rake and I make a big pile. I mean, this thing is built for jumping but i won't i won't do it because it's gonna make a mess again the whole point is that he's gonna get up and i'm peeking in his windows and stuff and i don't see anybody moving around you know

so i'm like i i see i see clippy trying to end himself how is he from like jumping from a big height or or maybe he seems to be weaving he's weaving alfalfa fronds together wow oh it did a noose to create a noose but his neck is so he doesn't even really have a neck well yeah and so he's it actually looks cool like he's got kind of like a sick like alfalfa chain on uh and he kind of fastened it to the top of his wheel um his little wonder wheel he calls it a wonder wheel uh in honor of his favorite movie movie yeah but but anyway he's got it like he's got it hooked up there and then he like spins it i guess hoping that it'll like choke him but it just keeps coming apart yeah but that's the only movement i see in there

and i'm going oh good kevin must still be sleeping and so i finish it i'm driving away and who do i see pulling the opposite way up his street? Kevin. It was Kevin? With all of his raking gear. He drove to my house to rake my leaves. He raked all your leaves? And I thought, wow. This bitch stole my fucking idea

and now I'm pissed and also you're paying him I'm paying him to be available for like this is time he could have spent making a podcast clip video that gets no traction this or response time he could have spent texting you and not hearing back like this is all these are all moments in the day where it's like i don't need you to rake my fucking leaves i got a wife for that wow so anyway i you know i pulled over right away i screamed at him

then i went kicked his leaves all over his yard it just said like never mind man you try to do something nice and you find out what who your real producers are so that was my morning happy autumn happy psl season all the leaves piled up on top of each other all the red and yellow and orange leaves it it looks in many ways it looks like the fire it looks like flames yeah the fire has returned to get to get revenge i almost wonder if that's actually just what happened the first time because he just saw a big pile of leaves yeah freaked out called the fire department and then moved into a hotel for like a year yeah i mean it makes more sense than what he told me which is like his his back batteries his his batteries got mad at his backpack or something while he was asleep it's like that doesn't really

happen dog it's my my show is hollywood handbook insider's guide to kicking button dropping names in the red carpet linebacker always this industry we call showbiz exciting to have for drop back excited to have jeremy back we have two of the tunes who did tune out the news it was fake news for a cartoon world and that that is where we live and and two of the main tunes are here and go ahead and say what up what up to everybody and give us a little bit of the cartoony stuff yeah we're gonna do it in character. Yeah, we're going to just slip in. Describe your character. This is me, but we're going to slip in.

Let's do our characters. For sure. Yeah. Hey, good to be here. Hi, nice to be here. And can you describe a little bit of those characters? Yeah, talk about what for anyone that doesn't want to pay freaking $16 of freaking every week it is kind of just like a lot of showtime cartoon it's on

first of all it's on comedy central yeah it's obviously comedy central costs 16 a week now insane well it should it should because for tuning out the news quality to to achieve that kind of quality animation oh you need to be generating a lot of money um i don't know if you guys have seen like the stuff in the show have you guys seen the stuff that they're like just visually the kind of grounds they're breaking i'm realizing that what I saw was our cartoon president. And there's your problem. And that's why I'm looking under the hood on this. I see your problem right here,

pal. They're completely different. They're completely different. Visually. I confuse them because they're, you know, I don't watch them on comedy central or showtime. I don't have anything.

I watch all of it on Paramount Puss. Yeah. Oozing with comedy content, right? Yeah. Puss Mountain. That's what that is. I squeeze my remote and the fucking comedy busts out. No, that's a big-ass pimple.

It's like Osis Jones super close on a guy's zit yeah it's a fucking white head and and and the shit bursts with content so so yeah i watch it all on paramount puss and and the way my algorithm is set up is they just you know they play the episodes at the same time basically because what i like is the world's crazy they play the episodes at the same time i i play all the episodes at the same it's like red zone or whatever where it's like the different boxes with like two like exciting football games going on but it's just two funny political cartoons tuning out the news and my car and it gives you it gives you an alert like where you can check in on like yellowstone's

about to fucking bust somebody's ass wide open yep yeah that's yeah there's a little that's cool uh david nevins is like sort of uh in a suit and he'll go like we're gonna bring you live now over to 1883 where this just happened and then sam elliott goes like get the fuck off my property and then they just like drop you back into cartoon present he goes like um uh mummy uh can i please have another uh orange juice all right now you're not gonna believe this big uh piece of news just happened on the real world reunion and david is playing the piano again and so it's it's actually really fun it's a better way to watch tv they've cracked it but you guys you've stayed busy it's been a little while since we've had you on the show i know that you have other projects that um are not tuning out the news.

And we discussed one on this program. That's so great to hear. Thank you guys. We played the teaser. It was for... I don't remember what it was called. Kevin, can you share

with me the name of the show? White Horse Tavern. White Horse Tavern. Oh, wow. You guys saw WHT. That's so cool. We looked at the trailer for White Horse Tavern.

We had a great time chopping it up about it. And I know for watching it, you had a good time working on the show you can say that you can tell when the cast is enjoying themselves on a production it's really always exciting for me because sometimes somebody goes to make a comedy

show and the way they run it is so sort of you know uh uh uh regimented and rigid and strict that we've been on those yeah guys like you can't express your own personalities right and uh and it doesn't feel fun to watch it and maybe the jokes are written well and maybe some of the physical comedy is done well but it doesn't feel fun and it doesn't crack doesn't feel alive and no this is like well this is the cool combination of where it has all three things the writing is fucking it's amazing incredible it's so good and like just like i mean me and

like the whole cast was just vibing like we were like really like the group chat still pops off let's talk let's pull up a frame let's pull up a frame uh and i think in the trailer rajad is in as many as four frames. And I think it's, first of all, I just want to say, how cool is it, just this technology of, like, the first show that's released on a screen that's being recorded. At Comic-Con. At Comic-Con in a video.

At Comic-Con Stadium. A video of a screen in a stadium i mean this is cool oh yeah there he is and so this is a show but look at how much fun he's having where we should mention what i'm talking about this is i remember this seth green's show where rajad and some other humans are partying with the NFTs. The NFTs are at the bar. They work at the bar. They also go to the bar. One of them is horny.

Sorry, that is what we were looking at is a doodle that is not an NFT. That's not an NFT. That's a doodle. I believe so. Say more. Well, there are NFTs and there are doodles. It's kind of a hybrid.

That's kind of one of the ways it breaks. Is the Doodle inspired by an NFT? You know, that's a good question. I don't think so. Are Doodles friends with the NFT? In what sense is it a hybrid? And I guess my question is a hybrid of an NFT and what? Doodle.

The Doodle is a hybrid of an NFT and what? Doodle. The doodle is a hybrid of an NFT and a doodle. The show has both NFTs and doodles. Doodles are in the show with the NFTs and they're friends. Is there any friction between them? I could see that generating a lot of story. I would say there is, but at the end of the day, it is a family. I would say there is, but at the end of the day, it is a family. Like, we all work for the White Horse Tavern, and it's a watering hole.

It's all kinds of people. You got your Norm, you got your Cliff. Well, you know, Jim and Dwight didn't always get along. But they loved each other. But they did love each other. And I think if really dwight ever needed him jim would be there and this is sort of like this is you know it's and that was just like the most fun part of the show is those final two seasons where it's just mainly the love they have for each other where they're friends it doesn't need to be necessarily jokes and friction and

conflict it's just like so white horse tavern starts in the place that they finally got to with those final exactly it's kind of a spiritual sequel in some senses the office yeah yeah so we talked about it a little on the show some some of the snags that production hit. Many of the NFTs were stolen and renditioned because of their extreme value. And we also understand that you were being so funny on set that you were confused for an NFT and you were kidnapped. That you were taken to a blackft and you were kidnapped that you were not you were taken to a to a black site to a cia black site and and i know and let me just say uh when when rajat's hand is on his hip like it is this frame brave then yes that i know he's being very funny basically like an nft he's a or a doodle i guess

yeah i'm i'm i'm new to all this like this is what's cool is i'm learning a lot about um this world through do you remember what you were saying here or do you have this script well actually i'm happy you brought up my hand on my hip because i actually could tell that i was being really funny and that was a that was kind of like a call for help a little bit in a sense but oh anyway or something like it was a signal it was a signal that i was trying to maybe an nft one of my one of my brothers in arms, one of my NFT friends could have done something or helped me, but stop. You're so funny.

Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe, but unfortunately, unfortunately, if you watch the show, I,

it sucks that I got cut out of the trailer. It seemed like it was such a fun time for Rajat, obviously, when the trailer came out. But I actually voiced the robot that is Doodle that we're looking at. That is featured there. So that's you. That is me.

So you're on the screen right now. You know, and I'm really happy you guys brought up the script because I actually do have it. I'm going to go get it real quick. Please grab that. We can read a little bit of it. We are looking at Sudsy and Alonzo right now.

Sudsy is the robot who's a doodle and he's watching the dish. Well, he's just because he's doing dishes. Now, I know. There it is. White Horse Tavern. The name of the first episode is Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day.

You can see all the valentines around in the frame. That's right. Set deck went off. Yep. Yep. These are the actual pages. Set deck snapped on us. These are the pages.

Okay. Whoa. Are you a highlighter? These are highlighted for not my character. Now, we all know the way this works, right, is there's a big room. Wow. Okay, so there's the actual. So here's a picture of Jeremy.

This is pre-Doodle. That's us. There's BTS where Jeremy is sitting down in Sudsy's position. He is pretending to wash a dish. Yeah. And this is our scene. Sudsy and Alonzo, you see it. Okay.

Jeremy, do you have the script? Do you want to read the scene? Yeah, I'd love to have you guys. Oh, that's a live photo, huh? I saw some movement. Yeah. i think it's just the angle but you're i'm always going back to the monitor when i get an opportunity like that and i like i'm always walking over to video village and i'm like sorry can i just snap a just a just a quick why they like of course yeah can i see playback do we have playback on that can i just see what

i was doing just position hand position can i look at playback uh-huh okay so my right hand's on the continuity okay continuity yeah it's like i'll tell you where it was and i'm like can you hang on a second i'm watching playback but then i am filming it too and then i'll keep my phone and frame it i'll check it and i refuse to put it in airplane mode okay i have the sides here does one of you guys want to read fred i don't have the script i wasn't involved in the project yeah i want to read fred i don't have a script either but i'll send it to you how does fred sound can i know a little bit about fred and what's fred's story fuck it up well fred is a ape he is yes uh a board ape um okay i would say i'm gonna have a tough time playing board with in this show because there's so much funny

it's hard happening right right the sound design by the way was fucking amazing like when i watch it there's this cool like i actually it's immersive like i feel like i'm in the show and there are multiple conversations going on and i can't like hear what I'm supposed to be paying attention to. That's intentional. That's intentional. No, of course. It's like Altman or something, right? Did they talk about Robert Altman a lot?

We were talking about Altman a lot on Saturday. We were talking about the long goodbye. Nashville was a big influence. Well, Nashville's really where he unleashed that, those sort of separate threads bleeding. I mean, he experimented with it on California Split, but you guys must have talked about this. We were, yeah.

This brings me back. Yeah. Yeah, we still talk about just like Altman and the group text just firing. Well, it's Altcoins, right? It's like part of the NFT world. It's a combination of all comedy and alt coins i'm robert alt coins that's right yeah tell seth if he wants i'll play robert alt coins

you know when this goes to series or whatever when this goes to series yeah you could draw me as like a stack coins i'm a doodle and I'm like spilling on the counter or whatever, but I'm also directing it. I mean, he'll figure it out. He knows this thing. Is he sole credit on the script or is the room going? You know, he is not credited on the script. Who wrote it?

Who wrote this bad bird? is not credited on the script who wrote it who wrote this bad bird do you want to know you know i'm almost just out of respect for the person that yeah i tried to keep it out of frame when i held up that i did you know he's just a he's a nice guy um and i just know that he would want the script to speak for itself if that totally that's the thing it's just like it should just come on it's not age sort of yeah it's like no but it's also important to know like these words don't fall out of the sky like somebody sits down you know at like an old-timey typewriter and click box out this bad bird that's right look it looks typewritten to me which makes me suspect it may have been at rejected jokes

because i know he's got i know he's got a typewriter and i know that yeah and i know that he's right from the perspective of cartoons a lot he's right as and he's scooby-doo to whoever right he actually like faxed in a ton of sudsy alonzo jokes to letterman still has the fax machine yeah yeah and letterman didn't bite on him for whatever reason and he went to update i've updated invite on it so it ended up yeah becoming just this awesome thing yeah sort of Sean, do you have the sides? I just emailed you the sides, Sean. Okay, let me open up my email. I have it on Do Not Disturb while we do this,

just out of respect for the podcast. But I'm looking at my email, and it's checking for mail now, so the system's kind of trying to find, like, did I get an email? For sure. And here it is. And I've got an email and it's from you.

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hey i'm f. That's better. I mean, Hayes, do you have any notes for him? Because I know you've worked with Seth before. I did work with Seth. In the form of Chris. In the form of Chris. I only know Chris. If you work with Seth on that show, all you know is Chris.

I'll tell you a true story from the studio days once you're finished, Hayes, but I just want to flag it to remember about Seth Green. Tell the Chris story and then as a bit of a teaser. He's the voice of Chris on Family Guy. No, tell your Chris story and then John will go. There is no story. You do your Chris story and then I'll tell the Seth story. The character that he plays is Chris.

Chris Griffin. He's the son. He doesn't really have that many distinguishing tell your story about chris you know working with chris and what was that i know what happened like what you know do the story gotta be some funny stuff that was the one uh voice i wasn't really very good at pitching in and so I was more of a Peter pitching guy and so Chris and I didn't have much contact over the course of the show. There is no story and

I don't know Seth. I've never interacted. Tell them a story about me Hayes. That's my Chris. There he is. Holy shit. That was awesome. Aw jeez Hayes. Tell them about me Chris. There he is. Yeah. Holy shit. That was awesome. Aw, geez, Hayes. Tell him about me, Chris. All our crazy times together. That's pretty good.

That's him, and he's asking you to tell the story about work. I don't have any story about Chris. So, while Hayes kind of irons out some of the kinks in the chris story that he's going to tell i'll talk about a time that i came to the studio and you may remember this too but when we were back when we were at earwolf we're still on good terms with them there was a studio and they they tended to feature uh memorabilia from a lot of their shows and outside outside the studio, there was a photo, and it had a collage of all the different guest photos Hayes and I had taken in the early days of Hollywood Handbook.

And one day I came in, and Kevin said, Seth Green was here to record Hollywood Handbook earlier. And he took like a hundred pictures of this collage of you guys. Do you remember this, Kevin? But he wasn't there to record Hollywood Handbook. He was there to record it. Oh, he was there.

Yeah, sorry. He was here to record comedy Bang Bang. But he took like a hundred pictures of this poster of the hollywood handbook thing and he kept taking pictures of it and and i and he was like do you mind if i take pictures this and he took a lot he was like wow this is really cool and it's always disturbed me on a few levels one why did he take any pictures of it two why did he take any pictures of it two why didn't he take multiple pictures of it three why was kevin so excited about it and also it didn't as far as i know it didn't translate

into any four why didn't anything come from that was no conversion have a good day sir and is that the story as you remember it kevin yes i also remember lavar burton coming up to seth green and saying um what are you doing uh and he said i'm recording comedy bang bang and lavar went you will be perfect for that show and then he left. Okay, that's a good story. Okay. Are we ready to hear the scene? You want to do the Chris story? Just tell your Chris story.

I don't have a story. I really don't want to tell any story about it. Hey, A's. That's really good. Oh, wow. That's a lot better. And now even Chris is asking me here. There's a monkey in my door.

In his door? Yeah. There's a monkey in my door. There's a monkey in my door there's a monkey in your door meg meg meg yeah i really wasn't good at it stewie hey stewie stewie and my dad he didn't really talk to stewie that much hey stewie and brian can i come on one of your crazy stories that's brian right brian's here i never really saw him in the office one time uh i was uh introduced to joe Buck when he came in to

record something and he was interested at the time in adapting a sitcom about his own life and I believe something related to his divorce

and we talked a little bit where he was sort of soft pitching me on like maybe i was gonna be able to get involved with writing the show about joe buck's divorce so that's can that weird flex but okay can that be oh shit can that just be i would really love for that to just kind of survive suffice as the Chris story. We could hear the seed from White Horse Tavern. I didn't even want to tell that story at all, but it's just one of the only ones that I have. No, for sure.

We'll wait on the Chris story, probably. We'll get the Chris story in a sec. Yeah, and I guess I can talk a little bit about... You told your Joe Buck story, obviously, and I can I mean I can talk a little bit about you told your Joe Buck story obviously and I can talk about um Seth Green and a development opportunity similar to your Joe Buck one that I was presented with at one point um it was a show he was really passionate about uh for him to star in actually that i seth green or joe buck seth green okay uh you know i i didn't end up landing i wasn't as fortunate as you guys to actually be involved like you know you made it all the way to uh to to the set for white horse tavern and i and you you know i can see one of

you in the in the show. This is, I guess, somewhat related because horses would be a part of the world. But there was a show called Shorties about jockeys that he really wanted to make. And I kind of said, you know, could this be something else? You said that? Wow. Yeah. And the answer was no yeah that's that is not that to me is not surprising did you want them to be taller looking back i guess i didn't really have a super specific change. I think I wanted to start over all together.

Just go, hey, we're all smart guys. You know, like, let's just blue sky this bad bird. See if we can beat the area. I think you fucked up.

I know I did. Yeah. because ultimately that became they they did kind of move on from jockeys to horses that the horse became a tavern then it became white horse tavern then it became nfts um so you know you figured it out uh but uh you know I'm ready to play Fred do you want to read this scene I'm so glad I'm really ready to hear the scene and we'll do Chris after and we'll do the Chris story right after kind of what it was like

hanging with Chris Chris ever jack off on any of the episodes oh you're going to have to wait to find out yeah did he jack off on any of the episodes? Oh, you're going to have to wait to find out. Yeah. Did he jack off on the episode? Yeah.

Okay, so I forget. Fine. I'll tell the one story. Chris did jack off on one episode. Thank you. Right when it was ready to go on TV. We go into Chris's room

and he's got the episode there. He just jacked off all over it. What did you guys do? No, it was the evil monkey that lives in my door. And they're like,

okay, Chris. Yeah, right. And then he looks over at the evil monkey. He was the evil... He did the thing that the monkey does. He did the point,

the crazy point at Chris. He's clearly just jacked off. Damn. That makes me... I mean, I feel bad forris at the end of the day because no one believes him about it was a really sad story yeah shit i'm sorry i made you tell that man yeah i guess you kind of insisted really sad story i mean yeah we'll hear the real chris story. Yeah, you got something else. But I'm ready to be Fred.

Hang on, let me get back into it. I'm Seth Green. I'm Seth Green. No, no, you're not. You're Fred. Yeah, there you go. And I'm Fred. There you go. All right.

Fred is sort of an everyman, even though he is a Bored Ape. We never acknowledge that he's a Bored Ape. Kind of disambling. They never talk about being NFTs. He's looking new. even though he is a board ape we never acknowledge that he's a board ape kind of the sample they never talk about being nfts he's looking no no in fact no not that sort of also extended to the pre-production um and to the casting process and kind of just like uh that was never mentioned it's kind of method why would you know that did you know you were gonna get animated at all i knew i was gonna get animated i did not know that i would be digital currency because the way you're sitting and everything like you're not camera ready

in the frame that you showed like okay right no no. I knew they were going to animate over me. We shot every scene twice. Rajat's been through HMU. Oh. Yes. Hit me up. Yes, that is correct. That's right.

I didn't do HMU. But your beer's too long in it. I think you also got HMU'd, didn't you? They said, they were like, do you want to get it? This is boring. But yeah, they asked it. They said, do you want it? And I said, no.

They were just being nice. I'm one of the animated characters. And they said, oh, okay, no worries. You don't have to do hair and makeup. You don't have to do it. I also want to say. You don't have to trim this big, long beard. You guys can't see it so well. He's got like a Scott Ian from Anthrax beard.

It comes straight down from his chin. Just when you were filming, I've never seen you wear it like that in real life. But I assume that HMU would say, hey, don't do this, man. Right. life but i assume that hmu would say hey don't do this man right yeah like i said uh i didn't need hair and makeup because yeah i also you were saying that this is boring it's not because no not at all is like the project is so this is showbiz this is yeah behind the scenes can i just ask like you say that you weren't told that your character was an nft was digital currency would that have affected your performance in some way like why do you think that's something right well that was the

issue that was the issue is like we had known it would have we still would have been so excited to do the project we would have probably been like more starstruck yeah it just would have it probably would have gotten in the way of our performances a little bit i would say yeah that's what i'm thinking it would have been so it allowed me to relax yeah i know yeah yeah and i think that you were just gonna be a cartoon is like well whatever but knowing that you're going to be an NFT I think you would have been a little tense yeah yeah and also like clearly the issue was that somebody found out at some

point word got out and look what happened that's what I'm saying so all these characters were renditioned and some of them died yeah some of them got their asses kicked and they definitely they've never been the same again yes which i was a pow i didn't want to yeah i didn't want to break yeah but it was rough in there i mean in the digital wallet in the digital wallet where they digitally water

they do all this shit you know that picture of Abu Ghraib which one right the one like that imagine that with an ape

not so funny anymore is it wait okay you thought it was funny before I thought it was not so funny anymore is it it was an ape wait okay a boy thought it was funny before but i thought it was funny before not so funny anymore now with the bored ape yeah right not so funny ape ape what's up i was trying to he's got an abu you know he's got it oh no yeah no no no Abu is the monkey from Aladdin oh

so we don't have to do anything to it no it's all good as is yeah still works Abu grape ape there we go okay if you want you want grape ape. There we go.

I told you. I told you he had it. This motherfucker had it all the way. I have sort of lost track of my Fred voice, so if I could get back into character while he tells his Chris story, that's going to help me. I told the Chris story. He jacked off

all over the episode. We had just finished it. Do you feel like you're good with Fred? You got it? Yeah, it's only one line. So I'm just going to give you three in a row. When it's my turn. Okay, great.

Great. That's perfect for just like audio. Just so you can pick from it. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. that's perfect for just like audio just so you can pick from it yeah yep does someone want to do stage directions does anyone have

do you need to email me the size as well hang on okay that'd be great how you doing Jeremy you ready for this you ready to slip back into sudsy yeah I think

sudsy's a dishwashing robot yes Alonzo talk about Alonzo a little bit I've always been curious what ethnicity Alonzo is I was I've always been curious what. Ethnicity.

Alonzo is. Well, let Alonzo fill. I mean, obviously, you know, a little bit about your family. Yeah, I well, he's kind of a mix. You know, I would say he's mixed race. He's kind of a mixed race. And I think I think he's gay okay i think he's gay too okay i've been when i played him i didn't i mean obviously i talked to

seth a lot like just a lot of conversations just us two just kind of shooting the shit and just like uh who is this guy like uh what's the backstory and i think we came we came to the conclusion that he's a gay mixed race man yeah yeah so what's sudsy what's what's going on for sudsy sexually as long as we're getting into all this stuff. I think he is asexual. He's a robot. He's ace? Okay. Yeah.

But there's got to be, in this world, especially with doodles and NFTs interacting with people normally, I would assume there is some romantic component to some of their lives. I know Fred is trying to smash with the bartender. to some of their lives i know fred is trying to smash with the bartender so like what you know i he could be asexual just as anyone could but i i don't know why you would limit yourself just because you are a robot doodle right dishwasher maybe there's a specific kind of robotic pornography that sudsy enjoys this is just a way that you build because rajat's done the work like he's built a real character around alonzo the mixed race gay man uh and it feels like

and this is maybe why you got edited out that you haven't found it yet right and that might be why my line was cut from the trailer um oh can i say this on camera when they're filming is not a place to learn that's not where no this is a teaching you want to already know it's good jeremy you'll use it i i know you will yeah yeah and even if we're getting animated maybe let's hit hair hair and makeup they were coming to you if they offer it to you it's for a reason yeah they know that you're going to be digitally concealed by a dishwashing robot like they know that they understand that they're trying to help you got it it's the beard is also very

that shape of beard is very dangerous on set you should be you should be yelling points you should be saying points the same way that the crew members the grips who are like holding a big ladder have to say

or a light stand you have to say points i'm getting ready cool i don't have much battery it's just this one page just this one that's our scene we have another scene but oh we do it's very that's not really our scene this is kind of like our yeah it's got one line fred and fred's got hey okay it's not just one line though i mean there's like action as well i would just say yeah okay so i'm gonna read that all right yeah yeah but i would like i think sean could should do some of it i think so too interior tavern kitchen rear entrance moments later fred enters through the kitchen door and crosses by alonzo

line cook and sudsy dishwashing robot fred soup sunday sorry sorry can we start over absolutely sure from the top or you just want your you want the directions or you just want your line the your lead in can you read me in yeah yeah do you want the stage directions or you do you just want the the the line that reads just the dialogue can we go over my line for a little bit just so i'm ready go over your line yeah so because i don't have the whole script i just

have this moment totally so i know your name do you know my name yes in this yeah i would say in the world basically you know who we because the first yeah you say our names that's like half the line and it is sudsy yeah yeah okay because i was saying sunday and no one corrected me no you're right. That's our bad. Yeah, we'll correct you next time. Corrected you. Sorry.

But yeah, it is Sudsy. And you're good on Alonzo, right? Yeah, you got that one down? Uh-huh. Cool. Cool. It doesn't say. Okay, so do you want the...

You just want the dialogue. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right, go ahead. i'm ready fred sudsy alan so yeah yeah yeah uh just gonna stop yeah we'll jump in yeah yeah it's uh you got that was the first part was amazing the first first. Yeah. Yeah. Really close. And all the pieces of it are there. Yeah. You know, the part where it says Alan.

Yeah. That's I think we're going to go for Alan. So different. We're going to go for it. No, we're going to go for a lawn. A lawn. There was a rewrite. But yeah.

So we're going for a lawn. So yeah. Not your fault. Oh, cool. Oh, cool. Your fault. OK. Doing kind of a yeah it's like a european thing exactly

okay all right i'm gonna read me in again i'll lead you in yeah fred bussy Alonzo. That was great. It was. Yeah. It's. Yeah. Not Bussy. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Cool. You feel like you got it this time. You think. Oh. Oh. We wanted to have our lawyer present. Yeah.

Hey. Can you come here can we just yeah can we talk about the deal-making process for yeah well we had a hard teaser we had a hard line we said we must be paid at least 346 dollars we have to like it started at 300 we're like no 346 and grace was like i'll try to work my magic and yeah of course grace got a cut of that yeah probably about three dollars and four cents yeah um wow no and that i mean sean's living in the house that sudsy built that's right all right so i feel like i have it now and so this second half of this line can i hear one of you say it i we don't want to give you a line read i think yeah just okay whatever feels natural what's the attitude on it though can you give me like the general like normal normal i would say just like normal

it's like saying hello it's more of a hello like okay i got it cool yeah fred sudsy Alonzo smells goo guys we can we'll take it he did say he did say smells goo yeah definitely so you did notice that

and the wine smells good smells good that's what I was asking for we'll get the D and ADR. We'll get that. That's what I was asking. Well, I did say I was going to give you three. Well, yeah, you can...

That's fine. So that was three. We will need to get him smelling something at some point so we can get that clean or... We'll just get the D. We'll just get him... Hayes, are you proposing we get the audio of Sean smelling? Yes. Okay. Hayes are you proposing we get the audio of Sean smelling yes okay

okay sub Z alone so smells good guys sub Z bub Z sub Z I have it

sub Z yeah I don't think you alonzo smells good guys i think that was pretty good just as far as like yeah just i think we can assemble it from what we have definitely we have to keep moving yeah okay all right uh thanks you too what is that thank you thank for your help no one no no you don't know we're not i think oh no yeah no yeah yeah thank you for helping me with some of that so the lot but all right go ahead i don't know if he was trying to thank you or say the line either i was trying to do the line i was trying to do the line okay okay thanks

all right yeah we'll just keep moving all right thanks you too what is that is that weed fred gives a sly it might be shrug as he exits past them it might be it might be right sean right you're basically done you're basically you're so that you exit you're about to exit yeah okay it might i would say fred's motivation i would say yeah what no sorry i'm just trying to give you notes right now yeah no i'm workshopping it with you okay so i would say during that during alonzo's line your motivation is like very quiet like yes quiet like reserved like sort of just intro he's like maybe in his own head a little bit oh yeah this scene's not about fred it Fred. It's a Sudsy and Alonzo scene. Totally.

Exactly. Okay. You got it. All right, read me in again. Fred. Sudsy. You said sensei? Sudsy.

Alonzo. Smells good, guys. Smelling. sazi also smells good guys smelling thanks you too what is that weed it might be weed no it's more yeah anyway oh it's it's oh that's so cool that's so cool oh fred is awesome he's the best hey you need a plate yeah fuck me up g huh were you talking to fred no okay talking to no that's fine i got it sounded like it sounded like fred thought you might have been talking to him yeah that's fine keep going i got it i got it because he got it. Fred's trying to leave. Fred's gone by this point. He's trying to be out of this point. I exit.

But confusing for him. The kitchen's right near the bar. It sounds like someone might be talking to him. Yeah, I see the confusion. Yeah, definitely confusing. I didn't know who G was. I didn't know if we needed another... No, G is like Rajat's culture.

They use slang. It's like gay. It stands for gay again. Oh, man. Sudsy whips a clean plate out of his pile of dishwashing, and Alonzo throws some cheese fries onto it. Sorry, I thought you guys might have been saying something to me.

No, that's all good, Fred. Thanks. The bar's right near the kitchen so I could just hear everything. Hey, Fred, I think someone's calling you. I thought you were calling me. Wait, so will Fred answer it? Someone's calling you.

I think, no, in the other room in the other room it's not in this room it's not in this room no it's not getting a phone call no no yeah we didn't do that much what's up g i'm with alonzo uh uh-huh yeah is she okay uh yeah we've been over she's not yeah uh identify how oh just like say if it's her or not okay okay yeah sure yeah okay uh and do i get paid or anything for it no just tell yeah for like the police or

okay all right uh let me see hang on i like i said i'm with alonzo you don't oh oh you don't know who that is sudsy's here okay so i'm so you nailed our names that yeah that was you kind of knocked that out of the park but yeah yeah i'd say he's still on the phone sorry no i'm just telling you guys so can you guys cover for me he's talking to you now um you we're already working our we have been i'm a dishwasher and i'm i'm not really a bartender i'm more that's oh shit so so this might be what happened to this character this might be how he got he got nft'd No, I mean, like someone maybe called him and told him that his mom was in war. Yeah, Suns and Alonzo say they can't

cover for me. Okay, bye. They were mad. We've been over this. Plates exist to hold the food. They're supposed to get dirty but then they're not clean what a bad system and scene damn i'd love to know who wrote this bad bird bye

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