Hollywood Handbook - Paul Feig, Our Close Friend

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

The Boys welcome director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Spy, A Simple Favor) on the show in order to ask him some very important questions about his new film, The Housemaid.Get a Hat Pack Hat here!Watch the video of today’s episode at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook This is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Hollywood Handbook via Gumball.fm See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a headgum podcast. Creator, freaks and geeks, director, bridesmaids, the heat, spy, a simple favor, another simple favor. Author of another spy. A memoir. Another The Heat. That I believe I devoured one rainy afternoon, not unlike today.

Is it called kickmeepal? I was. That was the first memoir, if you will. Another Ghostbusters. There's just so many. And now at long last.

The house made. Yes. We've all been waiting for. First, let me, sorry. Welcome to Hollywood Handbook. The only show where we collect the exclusive fitness secrets of the stars. Obviously, health and wellness, an increasingly important conversation.

Paul Fieg is our guest. He was telling us just before the show how heavy the cameras have gotten. Yeah. And that they had gotten lighter and lighter, and now they've gotten insanely heavy. And the stuff they're wanting you to do with them, they really want you to run after some of these actors. they want you to go crazy start booking it well and it's this is just this generation i mean they're so spoiled and they just decide to go wherever they want and you just have to chase them with the camera and they're not holding anything heavy no exactly some of them the amount of

makeup they have must be a little heavy well it's entitlement is what we consider it that you're just that Hollywood entitlement yes thank you for saying that and there's the poor camera person running behind them yeah trying to get a shot and they're and they They don't get to, I don't see them on the cover of Entertainment Weekly or Premiere magazine. No, they weren't at the GQ party last week. I didn't see it. Of course, I didn't see them there. We all were all there.

We were chopping it up a little bit. Yeah, that was fun. We had a really nice time. What was that dessert they had given us that was so delectable? That's right. It was so interesting. It had, um, that was a GQ's, uh, they tried to do a kind of like a cuiz cake yes a queque yeah but a dequequees cake it didn't

didn't quite work didn't quite work each quiche's cake yeah and it was and it was and it was it was delicious deli delish yes it was but it but the name was challenging for all of us yes but surrounded by beautiful people it's always wonderful the dessert gorgeous yeah and here I am mm-hmm here we are a fucking troglodyte feel like don't be hard in yourself Sean please feel like

disgusting are we going there now sliming through the GQ party well I'm not here to make you feel better about yourself well we actually do need you to make you feel better about himself just so just in the interest of us like getting going yeah in terms of

getting the fitness secrets of the stars you know that becomes something I'm upset is going to need is just to kind of be wound up a little bit so that he can't perform. And this is your special superpower. This is what you do. You generate performances. You take these, you know.

I make people feel good about themselves. Exactly. Well, Sean, you are a very good eater. Well, and Paul, you know, I've been waiting to hear that. His whole food. I finish. I've not just mine. A lot of these,

you know, these these stars, right? They just pick these little, they're like birds. Not for me, not for me. Anytime I saw someone not for me, I just told the whole waitstaff, if they say not for me, yes, for me.

There you go. And so I had piles of these G-Quiche's cakes and all the, yes. I think you were eating off of a Walt Goggins plate at one point. Mac and G-Q-Q-E-Keeze, yes. Yeah, Walt, yeah, Walt slimming down. he's always bulking and cutting and bulking and cutting

and he's in a cutting phase and so I was in a cutting phase with some of the treats on his plate cutting the creak cake and I saw you're over the caviar table and it was quite impressive

I appreciate that he brought a straw he took it straight to the dome big big metal straw I bring a wide I bring a boba straw a metal boba straw But see, you should have used, you know, a, you know, a mother of pearl straw because, you know, the caviar doesn't interact well with the steel.

So I'm told. His is an uncle of pearl straw, which is actually way more masculine. Yes. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah. Nice.

Well, congratulations. And so those have just been kind of falling out over the course of the ensuing week. We might have a couple caviars fall out of. They've been dripping out of, yeah, I sort of loaded my sinuses up with caviars. are and so they've been coming out of various head holes and I don't really have any say over when it happens or how it happens but

one big sneeze that's going to look like a act naturally the Caspian Sea exactly yes yes the C Paul yes fellas the house made this is a pot boiler

I would dare say thriller fogging the lens in the theater in addition to providing thrilling twists and I thought okay it's gonna have twists

is it gonna have turns that was where I actually I let my guard down once I saw a couple twists and I said well they're pretty much done here comes a turn yeah then we got you again right

didn't we turn me they turned me right around but I want to know what this is like for you Paul because you we know about method acting yes you your approach is method directing where you believe that the movie is real you don't know how you got there you're watching

you get very scared something play out that you're not prepared for they're not paying attention to you you want them to but you don't my understanding is that you frequently will try to intervene with the scenarios taking place or you'll be in the trailer punishing yourself for your failure to step up and protect your characters

yeah i feel bad i've called the police several times. Of course. Shooting. I know. Yeah. They stopped showing up because they knew what I was doing and I didn't. So that was the director who cried.

Well, part of the problem. Exactly. That's right. That's me. And what could go wrong? I know. The movie, so the people are, and again, I don't want to say too much.

They're acting a little strange, aren't they? Do you think? Like everyone has something to hide? Why aren't, and this is an exclusive to any one person, but I've noticed this a little bit, and this is a simple favor, too. Why is it that women are never quite what they seem? Why is it that women these days, and I think this is art reflecting life, these women are never quite what they seem? Is anyone male or female? Well, okay, because that's what he's asking.

Because it's, yes, but it's not, yes, I think that. I may be thinking of these movies and the posters and who are on the posters and the characters and I'm seeing these women on the thing and I go, I wonder if they'll be what they seem. And time and time again, I go,

hmm, this is kind of like what happens to me. But I suppose I'm not what I seem either. Well, there you go. See, dudes are fairly inconsistent too, I find.

Here I look like this in a different way. Slug sliming around the GQ party. And if you could just give them a little, a little, that's like that's what I look like but now we know I'm a champion I'm a champion I'm saying there you go

he's good by yourself Sean is interested in like men's wear and things like if you could just compliment like his choices today yeah I thought you wear suits obviously he's spent a lot of time on on his sort of my more casual suits

he's made a lot of choices today yeah well I know it's it's a it's a good look It's befitting a good eater Yeah It's loose and it's comfortable I've got the kangaroo pocket You know what I mean

That's a little extra caviar in there In my little pouch Do you line it with plastic So that it doesn't leak out That's a really smart idea Yeah So the next Hollywood party I didn't used to

And this is me at the next GQ party Paul taught me this yelling from the house top we used to do that in college i got invited to some things that they did the dGA when i was a student at uh at film school and uh we'd always sneak in a bag and steal all the cheese little cheese uh cubes that's got to go and kick me too there you go that's going in mm-hmm kick me again another kick me another another another kick in the ass exactly the speaking of women not being what they seem Paul it always the way

this movie has Sarah Cooper in it yes the great Sarah Cooper now there was no way for you to know this Paul but Sarah Cooper actually has made a series of videos passed around underground where she does

kind of like faces of death style these VHS tapes disrespectful impersonations of the president of the United States So yeah I think I've heard him Yes the and the

You go oh president from a long time ago No the current president It's actually the current president right now I thought it was Garfield she was making fun of And Garfield is on everyone's lips right now Exactly not the cat I just wonder Paul I'm just worried

Okay the movie's gonna come out Uh huh And I worry that you are exposed in a way that if I didn't say something, I don't want you to be able to forgive myself. Thank you for the warning. Thank you for the warning. When suddenly this becomes a talking point. Well, there you go. And maybe we can prep a little bit today for what your response will be.

So I'm, I don't know who would be talking about this, Billy Bush, I guess. Yeah. I'm going, you've got a new movie out. we're here on the red carpet. How dare you, sir? Hey, man, you know what? To, uh, freedom of speech. I'm disarmed instantly.

See, look at that. Exactly. Get right in Billy's face. Say like freedom of speech, baby. Freedom of speech. Oh, yeah. First amendment. Done.

Okay. I think my understanding is that the studio has taken care of it and they have replaced Sarah Cooper digital. digitally in this film yes with Baron Trump yes

he doesn't he doesn't speak but he doesn't have to exactly the power is there yeah the power is there he exudes interesting thought experiment

does freedom of speech extend to lip syncing wow it's not freedom of lip that's right wow Can you mouth fire in a crowded theater? Just make the shape.

If it comes out of somebody else's mouth, if you're a ventriloquist, does your dummy have freedom of speech? That's what I want to. Wow. Well, that's for the courts to decide. There we go. We'll put this Department of Justice on that's what they do.

Paul, did you worry at all with your background? And of course, Hayes kindly listed many of your credits and not even all of them. Did you worry at all as you have sort of made this impressive transition more dramatic, more thrillery, twisty work

that people who have a familiarity with your earlier films will be watching with an expectation that spy will kick in the door and deal with some of the baddies. Well, I'm trying to launch the fig cinematic universe. Yes. And I was

asking this next. Did you consider spy kicking in the door? Because from my experience, I was going, I think spy would handle some of this stuff pretty well. I know. I was kind of hoping Statham would show up because he could fix him every problem. You know what? I actually think, having seen the movie, if you remember the movie, she actually proved herself to be just as good of a spy. Yes, and that is, although, and that's another instance where this woman,

was not exactly what she seemed. And we did learn that through the course of the film. Very mysterious, exactly. Keep you on your toes, right? And I can't even pick which spy I would want to save me. Jason Statham. There, I know. I don't know.

It depends which Statham you're getting a working man, Statham, or the beekeeper Statham, yes. If you're getting Rick Ford, maybe not. There you go. I'm referencing my own movie, but... Paul, that's what we're asking you to do. We can name every single character and every, you know, every movie we've ever seen.

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there's not that much meat on it no it's like the wings and the feet and they're putting it and i said is this like some kind of Halloween thing because that was a few weeks ago and they said no no no no this is normal at the grocery store now. This is what's normal at the grocery store now. And I said, this is making me wish that I could just get my meat without even going to the grocery store. Yeah. Like, seeing them cut up the bat meat and me saying is this for Halloween and them saying, no, this is normal? It's making me not even want to go to the grocery store at all.

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Paint us a picture of like where you, you have a special, you know, you got to read the book. It's sort of a beat read, isn't it? it's this hard seat that has a big hole in the middle no I'm joking of course I would never read that on the toilet maybe a chapter or two

I see it with a hole in the middle doesn't have to be a toilet it doesn't when I'm on it if there's a hole okay and I can feel the keyboard warriors aggregating this this can get taken out of context it's all clickbait boys

but that's That's good press. So, yeah, it's a great question because everyone's got their own reading rituals. And this feels like a beach read. Am I wrong? I wouldn't dare call it that. I mean, yeah, it's a, what? Yeah, I guess I'd call it a beach read, but you don't have to be on the beach.

Well, and so I have a feeling you weren't. We know what? Look at this. This does not go on the beach. This flees from the beach. It's like a vampire. Are you beach? fellas are you beach boys oh god yeah i mean i can tell we go to summer oh

some of this time of year yeah the boogie boarding yes oh there you come mr paul yes it's a chef's kiss on that nominal yes yes it's uh zama zuma zuma zum and a bum bum when we go there because it is a really really a phenomenal experience i can't go in the water but just to be that close to it is sort of terrifying and exhilarating and i obviously can't touch the water i can't you know do you have a water allergy is it what i'm hearing yeah i guess that's basically uh yes that's that's a kind way to put it that's why yeah that's why he only more of a serious syndrome going on here? He has a, it's, yeah, he has a syndrome.

And he only drinks Celsius because that is the one drink that doesn't have water in it. Celsius. It's the first water-free liquid. It was created at MIT. Wow, really? Yeah. Yeah. It was like, I'll have to pick some of that up.

I mean, you're a movie guy, you know, like that sort of Goodwill hunting. Like, they always kind of change the story a little bit for the movie. but he was not solving, you know, equations on a board. That's all like movie magic. That's exciting, you know. But what really happened was there was a janitor there who was just mixing the different cleaning fluids until he finally created a drink that had no water, no liquid whatsoever.

Wow, that's wonderful. But it was liquid, but it had no water. I would try it, but since I'm in showbiz, all I drink is LeCroy. Really is the showbiz drink. It is the showbiz drink. If they find these other people find out, we can't. We waited the factory for what new flavor is going to be introduced. And then we run around and celebrate.

So this is a segment we've been doing on our show, top 15 LaCroix flavors. We put them up on the board. So we've got, you've got numbers one through 15 here. And you can go in any order you want. Usually people go completely out of order. They'll go, this is number 11. This is number nine, you know. This is, if you have any honorable mentions as well that you want to throw in, but we like to go through those.

And let's people kind of imagine that they're on one of your sets and they're rooting through the cooler for, oh, is there any of Paul's favorite here? I want a curry favor with the big boss man, you know. Yeah. You walk up drinking one of my favorites. I'm like, hey, there's something about this person. Wait a minute. You and I are kind of on the same level of vibing out. Exactly. You want to star in a movie now? Yes. And that's, yeah. And so. what is the flavor that what is that for you um probably i like one of the most hated flavors uh which is lemon cello oh my goodness some people get very upset about that devilish decadent so i'm an italian uh lover so there you go you know i feel like i'm in rome i feel like

i'm in rome it does transport us when i crack open that can lemon jella see naples the cry It's so funny to me. People are watching a movie, and you see, like, critics talk about this, where people that just, like, don't understand the business asking why the characters are just, like, doing all these little burps all the time, where, like, why did they have to stop talking and kind of, like, swallow something? Yeah, it's not an audible belch, but it's just a little, like, sort of, like, you can see a little air pocket come up, yeah, like.

And, an erp, if you would. Yeah. Like, if it was in a cartoon, it would, you know, a drawing of an old, he drunk a little bubble it would be erp exactly with little stars around and then he pulls out the thing and he you know an elephant walks past and he pulls the bottle out it's got three exes and he drops it out yeah yeah the elephant was real never drinking again exactly so he actually didn't have a problem it turns out he didn't have to stop drinking yeah he just saw something that was real mr winchester i love you is that line in my little

I believe that is, yeah, and that's going to be in the trailer, so. We're changing the name of the movie to that, actually. It's going to double feature to serve with love. Educate me, Paul. Yes, sir. Adapted a book before this? First book? I mean, I've done three movies based on books.

Come on. Yes, I did a simple favor. There you go. Oh, that's a book. Simple favor is a book. that was a book and then the school for good and evil was a book school for good and evil okay and now the housemaid do you wish i mean when you meet these writers do you wish that they like didn't make you do all this work about like what pants they have just say what pants are supposed to have

on for this part all right just say what like what were they doing with their hands here yeah exactly where they not holding stuff right well you must be reading the book going some of this can't be in the movie you know what I mean yes you got a weed you got a weed exactly it's like they take that out maybe too long just describe it

and have pictures in there please I'm a very visual person I know you are too I'm so visual I'm seeing stuff I'm has to look I'm accumulating information about the world from what I see with my eyes that's my

thing. And I'm the opposite, and that's what makes it a partnership. You see me with these headphones on, and everything you say is creating these, like, incredible, you know, imaginary worlds for me to dive into. And I can't understand what I'm seeing at all. Does that make sense, Paul? Sure. You know, it does. There's things called comic books that could maybe help you along okay but can he hear those that for me it's all yes he would love that there we go a graphic novel i'd love to know about oh yeah here's yeah the graphic novel and he's sold the graphic part of it graphic novel sounds so much smarter than comic book doesn't yeah that was a good branding exercise yeah speaking of branding and we've we've gotten there

He's in my movie. Branding Sclinar, exactly, is in my movie. Speaking of branding, how was branding Scler to work with? He was brand spanking fantastic. He's the best. I love that guy so much. He's a very funny guy, too. He looks strong.

I didn't think what he was doing. He's tall. Glad you thought it was funny. Yeah, well, you know, that's the kind of monster I am. did you get any big hugs me oh yeah of course sure you got to be looking forward it's bittersweet to rap a movie always because you this is your family now you've been you know you've been with them but also it's a completion of something it's an achievement and you got to be thinking man on rap day i'm going to get a monster hug from branding's car

exactly right i was count i was counting the days i was like in a prison cell where you just we go and then his big musly arms enveloped me exactly i know he is a big handsome man where we shoot just one of those i don't need to he just one i'm not greedy there you go one big arm like that come on that would qualify you as being a superhero i don't care which side big arm here he comes to save the day big harm causing big harm wait this is this is writing itself oh my gosh and it's one of these graphic novels we've been talking about oh there you go let's get the paint pictures going where'd we shoot we're we're on location uh this we shot in new jersey yeah the housemaid shot in new jersey

in madison new jersey and uh morristown good gracious elizabeth old stomping grounds really are you uh you're already a jersey i forget it i used to be at madison morrist Addison? Well, Elizabeth. Morris Town. Morristown, forget it. Here I am. Here I am peering through the gates of Fairley Dickinson University.

There you are. Pushing the Ivy aside, right? Exactly. At Headgum Studios. I was literally just sitting where you are last week. Oh, no. I know. Sorry, it might have left so.

Well, it's just, yeah. What show was that? That would be a Zajir's, Zazir and Nicole's show. They're lovely, funny people. And that went better or worse? We have time. You got to pick. We have time.

There's absolutely no reason to declare now whether this one went better or worse than theirs. It's not a competition, boys. It's not a competition. Did they only get, like, you know, did they have to decide whether it was a successor failure after 29 minutes? No. They know, exactly. It's been 29 minutes.

And how long does it feel? It's flying by, isn't it, Paul? It's flying by. I thought, didn't we just start? Mm-hmm. Yes. Two days ago. Ha, got you.

Uh-huh. That's what I call a put down. I'm learning so much. You see, in comedy, we got a thing called put down. We got to pick me up. Yeah. We got a, I don't know, I'm just making these up. No.

Yes. And it's something I can't give away our secrets. some of these characters in the movie. Mm-hmm. I know, it's true. And they're putting them down and picking them up. Smack it, flip it and reverse it or whatever they say now. I mean, Jesus Christ, Paul, you know, I can't keep up with all this stuff.

The kids in their terminology. Speaking of, just as a kind of peek into the process of, you know, where Hollywood is at right now. Yeah. Are there boy intimacy coordinators? um i don't know to be quite honest okay i don't i'm not you know i guess if there is one yeah i have some questions for them i send them to you i just want to i just have some questions that i feel like they could help me with uh you know what i think we could arrange that yeah if there was even one and i don't know if they're ever boys but um i feel like when i see them it's not a boy

usually but if there was one that was a boy and I don't care movie whatever I don't you know it has nothing to do with that but just for me for some of my stuff it'd just be easier for you talk to a boy yeah I would rather talk to a boy some of the questions I don't even know if a girl knows necessarily nothing right

like women doing it right oh my god I think they should have the job for him to talk to I don't think only they should have the job necessarily I don't think that that's always you know kind of a rule that you don't want to only ever have one perspective on something and I think it could be really helpful for me actually if we could find one who was a boy

and I think that would make me feel a little safer in some of the questions that I have. I think that we have them. They're called stunt coordinators and so there you go. Intimate stunts. The way Intimate stunts. The way Sean

is doing it, he does have to wear those suits when you wear for when the dog comes up and bites you on the arm. All right. There's big styrofoam ones. Big padded. And I'm coated in a special gel where I can be on fire for a couple of minutes as well.

There you go. Excellent. So you're perfectly safe. Yeah. So that part is fine. But then once I have that on, there's some other questions I have about how some other stuff could work. But it's like not for you.

Obviously, it's for if you can find one of them. Okay. Let me look around. I know they're out there. And it sounds like a very sexy scene. Do you want to give me your phone number? See? Look at that. It works. Was the snow real?

The snow was real and wasn't supposed to be there. It snowed the day before we did it. I guess we're going with snow, which I'm glad we did. But, yeah, that snow is all real and very cold. If you want snow that shows up real on camera, you got to call me next time, Paul. And I'll give you my number. Because, like, I, my snow shop, real snow often doesn't appear on camera as real.

It doesn't read. And that's why Hayes had to ask. You know how when you see ice cream in a commercial, it's really a big hunk of mashed potatoes. That's right. That's right. So I have this supply of, like, this incredible. So what I did was I left a 32 rack of Starry in my freezer. Have you had Starry?

I have not. What is that? I haven't either because I left it all in the freezer and it had closed. undrinkable that way but I now have this incredible supply of the most real looking snow because I sent a video to the manufacturer to try and get them to like basically paint like threatening them right let's settle this yeah this is faulty starry we don't have to like bring the courts I could have been in the freezer with it when this happened and then pictures of himself in the freezer I'm just like transported to this like this

this winter wonderland that just real snow does not do it the same way that an exploded can of starry does that's true but how much do you have do you have enough to cover an entire lawn with it how big is your freezer? You're the director

I don't want to tell you how to do your job but if you get up really close to it it can look huge oh oh so it's what I was doing like like it was like the ice planet off really you're like in that new Apple ad that they play constantly with just like that people making movies and the guy gets hit in the face with the fake snow that's I thought that

you look familiar I'm that every single one of those is me it's all based on Hayes energy I bring to a production let's just grip it and rip it he's like Forrest Gump but just for Apple ads it's always something that has happened to him he's always interacting with that You're like zealig, exactly. You remember the one where they crushed all the instruments and books and all these, they smiths them up. Statues, that was all my stuff. That was his. Wow.

His house was empty afterwards. They crushed it. Except for a phone. They gave me a phone. Well, that was nice. I actually had one already. Never work with animals or children, they say. But there's a child in the movie.

Yes. Indiana. Very talented, very talented. Indiana. Did she talk about her experience on any other film sets? No, she was very focused on our movie. She didn't mention any, she didn't mention a movie. She didn't mention a movie that she filmed last fall.

What movie was that? Wow. It's called The Dink. Sort of a pickleball tennis movie. Oh, she in there? She didn't mention it. Wow. So it sounds like she said she wasn't in it.

So she told you I'm not in it. Well, that can be arranged. That can be arranged. Might make some things confusing. Yeah. Oh, no. No, there's no way around it. I mean, unless we can do this kind of Baron Trump move.

Could it be Baron Trump? Let her know. You could get Sarah Cooper real quick. There you go. I got a hair trigger on that these days. Paul, which theater should people see this movie in? Whichever one holds the most people Because you want to be with a big crowd

Because this gets a big gets a big response Where the Michigan Wolverines play Yes, stadiums I'm pushing for sports stadiums College stadium you're doing a college At the big house College basketball court tour It's projected onto the court, yes

the movies shown straight down the cheaper seats you got to look at it upside down you can have cheerleaders or you know mascots for the movie or sort of dancing on the sidelines right i like the idea of cheerleaders for a movie i think that's actually a good idea could help some of these they just come out when things get slow and like hey everybody they pump you up sometimes i have who am i rooting for in this yeah who do i support they'll tell you yeah that's Right. Yeah. But with a thriller, they'll have to, you know, they'll fake you out. Well, that's interesting that they would sort of change their, you know, allegiance in the middle of the film with a new sweater of sorts.

There you go. It's like, now I've got a different sweater on. I go, oh my. And I would feel betrayed, honestly, by them. Wouldn't know what to believe. But that's the process. That's the point. That's art, isn't it? It's supposed to provoke us. It's supposed to make us feel stupid we'll call them the red herrings oh and they have red hair hair wow they're and they're red herring all over the place there you go exactly for those in the audience who don't know what a red herring is it was a term invented by alfred hitchcock or something that's uh you it it misleads you just so people don't think i'm just talking about fish oh no i no paul our audience is very savvy they know so much about this stuff you do not have to

hold their hand through any of it did i just insult them all by explaining that are the mean tweets coming no no no no they're not on they're on a different platform okay it's it's got a different name now, right? They, well, that was X. Yeah, they were found to be a little the stuff they were doing was not really appropriate for the platform.

There was actually a line. They've created their own space where they can really sort of stretch their legs a little bit, yes, it's 5,000. Yeah, so it's, you know, I didn't know that I didn't know they went that high, but a million, a million chan, exactly. There you go.

said. Mm-hmm. Back the tape up. Back the tape up. Five thousand. Kevin, make it seem like I said a million chan in the edit because I just feel like, I can't get fucking domed by Paul Feig like that in my own fucking show. Too late, man.

This is going out live, baby. How much, uh, how much AI are we using in the movie? and how many scoops what's the dosage what's the dosage and moving forward do we even have to show up anymore they would they would

I think the people in charge would love that but I am a devout hater of AI I don't I refuse to use any of it I don't use chat GPT I don't use any of that stuff you're that people in charge Let me ask you, fellas, did any of us ask for AI? Tell me one person who said, I really wish there was artificial intelligence taking people's jobs away.

As I look back, the only people I heard asking for it were made of metal. Wow. Uh-huh. See? Aha. I mean, when I was a kid and I watched Star Wars, I was like, hey, that'd be cool to have a droid, but I didn't. say go out and invent one. It's going to eventually kill me.

Yeah, well, and in Star Wars, the droids aren't making movies. Yeah. Well, R2D did project Princess Leia. He did actually make a movie. That was actually not the perfect example. Most robots in movies, it is true, they don't make movies. This one specifically did make a movie and project.

it. Yes. He's his own distribution. He's studio. He's the author. He's the distribution. I mean, I wish we had been talking about a different movie. Yeah. And it feels like I just got walked into this. Yep. Sorry. Lured you in. Just set my ass up. Now, as the director, you will, of course, be leaving prizes under the seats for people who go see the movie. What kind of treats what are the giveaways can they expect to get obviously not under every seat but yes that's why you got to buy multiple tickets yeah so you got to go you got to go more than once and you got to sit in different areas of the theater and um so what what is the giveaway with this one is it is it a wink to the movie are we giving away you know mother's precious china

No, you need to give away bottles of my gin that show up very prominently in the film. I don't know if you notice them or not. Taped to the underneath a movie scene. Yeah. There you go. You save a lot of people, a lot of trouble. We'll tell you before the movie so you can just enjoy it. You can sip as you scream and watch the movie.

There you go. By the way, it's called Arding Stall's Brilliant. in London dry gin, go pick yourself up a bottle. That's what you call. That's called a plug, my friends. And is this a Casamigo situation? Are you the mastermind behind the gin? Are you picking the juniper berries?

I am. It's my recipe. And I designed the bottle. Personal recipe. And are you at odds at all with Mr. Ryan Reynolds and his aviator gin? And are the two of you bitter rivals? And is it a contest between you? And, of course, you've made a simple favor with Blake, and you're thinking,

oh, no, if he comes to set, we're going to have a gin off. So, well, I definitely promoted aviation in the first simple favor. But, you know, there you go. No, Ryan and I have a good relationship. I called it aviator. I was trying to help you. I was trying to kill their SEO. Keep doing that.

Keep doing that. Don't make movies in Star Wars. They sold their gin, so they're fine. so call it whatever you want well chime in in the comments listeners is this the Clem Dogg's worst episode of all time I just have to call it

it's just too many this is too many we like we just have to when does a movie come out comes out December 19th all right bye that's it that's it Hollywood Handbook that was a hit gum podcast