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galaxy Con please help me welcome Emmy Award winner Academy Award winner Kelly
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good morning i like these i like these boots well thank you my daughter had them so I got them too
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i hope there's no age limit on wearing them well welcome back to Oklahoma is it
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is it kind of crazy to be here for the first time in we won't say how many
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years uh uh two years since two years a full two years since 1996 uh but is it
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is you know do you you know when you landed at the at the airport did you have a flood of memories like oh my gosh
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like I kind of I mean the truth is we weren't lucky enough to be in Oklahoma City that much no shade on city at all
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but it was a big day when we got to come into Oklahoma City on this shoot we were
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you know woke up every morning got in a van and went as far away from everything as we could so it looked like we were
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really in the middle of you know the cornfields and all the all of it is
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there a Is there a town a city a a country that
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you haven't filmed in that you would like to yeah um I'd love to go to New
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Zealand i'd love to go to Australia i'd love to go um I've never been to
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Alaska i'd love to go to Alaska now I I mentioned you know being uh an
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Academy Award winner an Emmy Award winner where do you I know you're in the midst of them of moving but where do you
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keep those trophies i have a little office area and I have a bookcase behind
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me and they're there but I always think I live in California so if there was an earthquake it's possible I could be
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killed by my own Oscar which would be very bad i don't think that's the way I want to
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go down richard Drifus has his in his refrigerator no no he doesn't yes so his
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his his trick is when somebody comes over and they ask for something to drink he says "Sure go get it yourself out of
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but he puts it in there when he's having a party I'm guessing." Right right so that's really weird
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sorry is that is that not the move to show tom Hanks um said that he mounts it
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to the hood of his car which is Now you you have you're halfway there to
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an egot right halfway there you're halfway there to record an album and do a play in New York uh which I've done
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but I haven't quite been rewarded right uh speaking of you just in Chicago you
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just got done with Betrayal that was How great was that oh it was incredible it's this beautiful theater in Chicago the
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Goodman Theater and it's a beautiful play and I was really lucky to do it before that I did a play in London at
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the Old Vic Theater so it's it was great now obviously you've done film
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television stage do you have a preferred method of entertainment
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um well you get paid better not doing a play and I'm getting a lot of plays
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lately but uh no it's really about the story and the people you're working with
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and the writing those are the three things that actually make it an incredible experience or not if if
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you're telling a story that you love and somebody wrote it beautifully it's going to be fun and if you're working with great people it's going to be even more
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fun and it doesn't really matter what venue
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stage you get instant reaction it's a little quite a bit different nobody bugs you i mean you step out on stage and
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this play was 75 minutes long and for 75 minutes no one's going step forward one
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inch oh you have an eyelash on your face oh can you talk louder you know it's really yours while you're out there and
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that's pretty pretty fun that's kind of your your background right going you know all the way back your your family
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uh root is rooted in that stage in that uh you know entertainment yeah my dad
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was a director of the theater then he took over directing all the voice over for Hannah Barbara animation in the 80s
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so all of those cartoons he directed the actors and the actors loved him and his
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wife my stepmother uh BJ Ward who comes to these sometimes she was like the second Betty Rubble which to me is you
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know pretty big deal i know isn't that wild look who suddenly cares
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wait a minute i know isn't that amazing it is yeah um so but I grew up going to
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see him directing plays and I loved being in that rehearsal room i loved being part of it i never thought I
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wanted to be an actor but I just knew I loved this thing that could happen in a
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room where people got together and told a story that just seemed so fun and then
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through a bunch of circumstances I ended up in the acting lane i was going to say uh you know did you ever feel
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pressure to follow those footsteps and and or was it because you were there and
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you saw it you felt kind of drawn to it i definitely didn't feel pressure i don't know that a lot of people go I
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hope my daughter's an actress it's like not the most secure career for a kid but
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um or an adult but I just loved it and they let me do it because I loved it you
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know it wasn't like if a kid comes home with an instrument that they want to pursue their music career or they
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clearly are obsessed with buildings and architecture interests them as a good parent you say "I'm going to follow you
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you know and they let they let me lead in that way." Now growing up you know
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watching shows living in New York uh finally uh 94 you got to host SNL i
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hosted twice i don't know the other year but so but that you know being able to
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host SNL while being you know growing up in in New York a full circle moment yeah
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it's a nervous like I never knew before
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um you know they know that it's going to be okay the other performers and the wardrobe people backstage but you do not
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know that so they're just ripping your clothes off and shoving a wig on you and pushing you out there and then afterwards it's the most fun thing you
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ever did but before it's terrifying because I mean it's because it's
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obviously a combination of live theater and television yeah the first time I did
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it the musical guest was Snoop Dogg who then went by Snoop Doggy Dog and so we did this you know they do these little
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promos and we stood together i was in like a cream colored Calvin Klein suit and he was in his full like cloud of
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smoke and the promo was me saying Helen Hunt and he says Snoop Doggy Dog and I say
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together again it's like the most odd couple ever
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uh obviously you've been around the entertainment business for a long time
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uh do you still get starruck by anybody oh yeah i was walking over here saying I
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did um a convention in I guess it was I don't remember Calgary I think and see
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3PO was Anthony Daniels was there this excites me
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i'm a Star Wars you're a star what's your what's your uh is that your fandom yeah yeah yeah i mean I'm Harry Potter
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too harry Potter but um pretty deep cut Star Wars so let me So let me ask not
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deep cut there's the movies in the middle I can't do and there's I can't roll i was going to say what is Helen
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Hunt's preferred method when you're telling somebody hey you're going to watch Star Wars you absolutely have to
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start with New Hope okay that's what we all started with and then you have to do Empire Strikes Back then to me you can
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cut to Daisy Ridley but there's probably people at this actual convention I'm insulting so I take So don't what do you
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guys think write it down do you guys start at four or start at one start at one one like the prequels oh you're the
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real thing i'm like fair weather i'm on team four show of hands for team
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four but you're you're right we're just we're just shallow
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tough bits to get to the good bits yeah it's true you got to live through the first three think how good that makes
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New Hope look right how What was your first gig was it like
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a commercials no it was a TV movie and my father was played by William Shatner
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i tried to tell him that but it didn't really land i don't know didn't seem to connect but um it was a TV movie called
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Pioneer Woman and this beautiful actress Joanna Pettit uh was the pioneer woman
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and she had a son and a daughter and I was the daughter and William Shatner was our father
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i was in a bonnet and whole thing and now here you show up to Oklahoma City
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and and he's here i know i know he'll get excited one of these times okay
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uh as I mentioned you had such an incredible career in in all facets uh
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film television stage what inspires you to keep doing that to keep going out and
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working as opposed to you know enjoying life enjoying retirements so what inspires you to keep going out and
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making that art um I just love it you know you I do this too i see people
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like composers who've written a show or a director who's made a movie and and I
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think they never have to do anything again they did the big thing but they're not dead like I'm still here and I still
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love getting together with people and working on things i don't love working on material that's not well written you
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know that's the secret of every script is I don't even remember the name of some of the writers and I'm like that's
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80% of what we're enjoying is that is the writing so I just still like it so
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much and you've directed as well like I did i directed a movie uh two movies one's called Ben She Found Me with me
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and B midler if you forget the title Google Me and B midler it's on Amazon
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and I'm really proud of it really really proud of it colin FTH is in it matthew Brick's in it um and then I did a movie
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called Ride about a woman in her 40s which is how old I was when I was making it um an unlikely woman learning to surf
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so a super typ New York woman whose son is a writer in New York and they're all
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intellect you know living kind of from here up and then he goes to LA and she's
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so sure that he's ruining his life she follows him and he says "Stand up on a surfboard then we'll talk." So the
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middle of the movie is this very unlikely person learning how to surf where did the surfing like where where
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does that background come from you like I love Hawaii a lot um and I would I saw
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a woman jump out of the water put her surfboard down get her kid in her hand from her partner
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nurse hand the kid back and jump back in the water and I was like I want to be her so it cut to me flailing and
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flapping and wiping out but I love I loved it so that's sort of how it started so one thing that you brought
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here to the show uh is this set of uh trading cards yeah I have a full set
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this big they're auctioned off at the table but um I'm not a big memorabilia person and I'm
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moving and I came across these and someone said "Those are a big deal." Somebody came to the table yesterday and
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said "You have a full set of those." So I brought them they're official Twister cards they have the thing logo on the
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background details about the scene and then all these cool There's me up on the truck what else is there there's a
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tornado not surprisingly here's the truck the truck who Who's got their picture with the truck here it's pretty
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fun right um there's me and Bill and a description of the scene anyway they're
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cool some of them are shiny and whatever so they're there if you want to come see them yeah come by the table uh throw
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your bid out there here's a whole set of uh ad plus some foil cards i heard the foil cards foil cards that's foil cards
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are that's a big deal they're all in there are the big ticket item um so you you mentioned and that was where I was
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going with this you're not a big or you're not a big memorabilia you don't have a lot of uh keepsakes i have
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t-shirts in a bin in storage i don't have It seems weird to come over to
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people's house and go "Please enjoy the spoils of my career." So I have not been
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somebody who's kept a ton of stuff the little in Twister I wore a little necklace that was a compass if you were
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looking carefully and I think my hairdresser on that movie went I'll keep that i think he maybe took it to the
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museum in Wakita so it might be there i could have this wrong but I think that's correct it's there okay thank you how
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many of you have been to the museum of course yeah so as mentioned so we have a
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microphone right there so if you have questions please feel free to to line up uh and and as we uh get through uh as as
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folks start to to line up I'll ask uh
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What is it like when you again you you see uh folks that are coming out here and uh to to to meet you or uh Twister
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Mad about you of course uh what are there any you you mentioned the word deep cut are
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there any deep cut movies that people come to you and say "I loved you with this." And you're like "Whoa I haven't
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thought about that." Well there are some that I don't particularly need to think about but then she found me that I mentioned when someone has seen that or
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it moved them in some way that means a lot to me
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hello what's your name hi there my name is Tim you already mentioned Ride and that was a movie that uh you directed
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starred in and wrote so why did you decide to take on all three roles for that film and uh what did you learn from
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doing that um well I wrote it because I had the idea about it and I directed it
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because when you sometimes when you write something directing can be like the next draft of the script all those
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choices become the next draft editing it is the next draft what you choose for people to wear is so I didn't want to
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hand it over to somebody else and then I didn't know another person my age who could survive out there on a surfboard
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so I just took all three jobs awesome thank you thank you so is is that hard
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when you do write something is that hard giving it up to somebody else to direct like hey here's my baby yeah i didn't I
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haven't done it yet i wrote two movies and directed them both but I'm writing another one now and I keep thinking
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maybe there's going to be some incredible director who can bring something new to it but we'll see hi
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what's your name uh it's Brienne hi hello um in regards to your play acting
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I was curious do you have like a play that you have on your wish list that you
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haven't portrayed a character in that you hope to someday be a part of well someone just brought me the idea of the
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cherry orchard which is a pretty incredible play and a pretty incredible part so I might do that in a year in the
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UK yeah thank you hi good morning hi what's your name hi Matthew hey hey um
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so I read somewhere where you pitched the idea for a twister or two can you
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tell us like a little bit about like what brought that up and maybe a little synopsis of what you had in mind i will
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maybe someone here will want to make it um I did a series called Blind Spotting that was created by this writer Raphael
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Cassal and his partner Deb Diggs so if you guys saw Hamilton or saw the Hamilton movies he's Lafayette big tall
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gorgeous um and the three of us watched the movie during COVID outside
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on like a screen I got on Amazon and showed it to my daughter this is movie is great like it seemed to really hold
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up and it was during 2020 and so we had this idea that maybe the new
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Stormchasers could be kids from a rocket um science club in a H.B.CU so black and
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brown kids nerds who are into this thing that they really are trying to do which is take those little sensors put them on
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a rocket and shoot them up into the tornado and so you know that Tisha Wright um she's the sister in Black
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Panther i thought she was amazing and I thought her as the new Joe Harding would be cool so we thought we were geniuses
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and that it would be a brother sister story instead of a couple um but they wanted obviously I didn't see the new
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one i hear it's really good but they obviously wanted to keep it closer to the original
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any bidders anybody want the cards or to bid like $40 million to make that movie
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that would be nice come to the table if you have $40 million to make the other Twister sequel thank you thank you thank
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you hi what's your name isaac hi um so you said you hadn't seen the new
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one yet but would you ever be willing to repraise your role as Joe if they made a third one yeah I mean it would just
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depend on everything you know how if the part was good and if it seemed like it would be fun maybe thanks thank you
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hi my name is Charlotte hi my husband's name is Tony and he absolutely loves Twister so that's his genre more than
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mine but I loved you in romcoms oh good and my favorite was As Good As It Gets and just wondered if you had any special
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memories from making that particular movie well I talked about good writing and that was you know I don't know that
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I've ever gotten to be in a movie with writing better than that it's just so beautiful i don't know if you guys have seen Terms of Endearment or Broadcast
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News but it's the same writer director and every time one of those movies comes
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on I can't turn it off and I think that's because the the actors are amazing i think we did a great job but
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the writing just gets you so I worked really hard on it he does a lot of takes
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and so you think "Don't you have it?" But he keeps pushing and pulling and
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weird little things come out of it well you just did awesome thank you thank you so much hi I'm Hi I'm Charlie hi i
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really enjoyed your performance on Hacks and I was curious about how you got involved with that and what it was like
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working with Anna Pinebinder and Jason aren't they good so this is this show on Max called Hacks and I play a super
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fierce studio executive network executive and um they just asked me and
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I thought the show was great and they had a fun idea for this sort of maniac woman I could play and then they asked
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me to come back for a second season so I think it the invitation was the big draw
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thank you and that I like the show thank you were you aware of the show before yeah I'd seen it and thought it was
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great uh what uh what else are you like what do you want like what's your preferred genre of shows that you I
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don't really have a genre you know I like Star Wars and then the show Adolescence that was just on just
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crushed me in the best way and so it can be all sorts of different things hi hi
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my name is Chanel hi Chanel i was just wondering if Twister like changed your perception of tornadoes after you filmed
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at all i mean I'm not like my character i will
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agree um you know I if people like my character run toward the tornado I will
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be the one running toward the basement um I mean they're cool from a distance i
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don't know i don't want to be in one just personally whenever I meet people who say I stormchase because of you I always want to apologize to their
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mothers i'm so sorry okay thank you
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hello what's your name hi Lucas hi Lucas i was wondering uh were you approached
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for the Twister sequel or No I didn't even approach you no if you could uh
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recommend anything that you've done outside of Mad Value Twister and
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pay forward is what what would you recommend to watch well I mean I'm being a little ruthless now but this movie
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Then She Found Me is maybe the thing I'm the most proud of i told my daughter "If I die just don't have a funeral just
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play that because it's it's my whole heart and soul." So that honestly is the one I would be thrilled if people
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watched and you're going to forget the title but Google Helen Hunt and B midler and there it'll be
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thank you thank you hi again me again uh I just want to know what changes have
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you seen in the industry as far as acting for women and what areas do you think still need to grow
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i mean women need to be given financial power that's the thing that's kind of why I was pushing for the Twister thing
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i wanted to direct it and I knew how to do that movie you know and it's one thing like a lot of times what you'll
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see with a TV series is they give episodes to women but the first episode
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the pilot they don't that's how you have ownership of a show the guy who directed
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the pilot of Mad About You gets paid for every episode forever so if they sort of check the box of
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diversity by including women and people of color as episode directors it doesn't really change till they give you the big
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one where you have a piece of it you know so that's the next change I hope happens thank you very much thank you
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hi what's your name my name's Larry hi there thank you for everything you've done i love Twisters i love Soul Surfer
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i was I was wondering if you had any interesting stories from the movie of Soul Surfer working with Dennis Wade or
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Kevin Sorbo yeah um if anybody doesn't know Soul Surfer is the story of Bethany
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Hamilton who lost her arm to a shark i try not to think about it when I surf um
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and then went back surfed a year later and was competing it's quite an incredible story i mean first of all to
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be asked to be in a movie that shoots in Aahu is not the worst day of your life
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and I was surfing then so you know okay and uh originally you meet her family by
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all the whole family's playing basketball and the director realized I surfed and was like "What am I doing?"
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So we had us all go on the water and I was nervous because it was bigger waves than I'd ever been on but we had a whole
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safety crew around us so we were fine but Dennis Quaid who I don't think had served ever just I looked over and there he was standing up so maybe it's not as
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hard as I made it thank you thank you that's the uh Adam Sandler uh
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version of uh because he shoots a lot in Oahu because he serves right so he's
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like "Oh uh I need to film a movie we're going to go to Hawaii." Yeah he shot one
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in Maui with Jennifer Aniston I think or I think the two of them that was shot in Maui he's smart right i don't get to
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choose very often that's why you got to you write directs that way you uh you choose but Oh and now we're going to go
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to New Zealand that's right i have to write his New Zealand movie hello what's your name hi my name is Gaylee hi um I
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just want to say thank you for all the things but especially mad about you um I was newly married about the time it was
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on the first time um so it got us through some things got to role play without having to do it but um lots of
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funny and humor but I was curious about how you felt maybe the positives and negatives about the reboot and just kind
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of talk about that because I also enjoyed it it was a different time in our marriage so it was just interesting
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that I got to kind of have that same time period yeah um you're different but I was just kind of curious what you
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thought yeah yeah um it's funny when you say that you were just married so like
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when the show had just started to come on and people were just starting to watch it they flew me and Paul to New
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York to do some publicity and we were supposed to do a phone interview in a hotel room so we were both staying in
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our own rooms and then we were supposed to meet in this third room to do a phone interview and we knocked on the wrong
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door and somebody opened their door and they're like "Why are Paul and Jamie at
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the hotel room?" Um and then when we
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finished we used to make jokes about doing a reboot like we'll do that when we do the reboot like we would never
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ever and then a lot of years went by and I saw Will and Grace and I was like that's really good they don't seem
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stupid at all so we started talking about a little and then we realized that the daughter would be leaving home right
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about then timewise and when we were making the show it was always like what's this year going to be about well
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this year will be about trying to get pregnant this year will be about being pregnant this year will be about and so
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we thought well that's a whole season that's a whole season what it's like empty nest you know I just went through
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it paul was about to go through it so that's kind of how it it got launched and I was really proud of it it was so
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fun to be with everybody again and we we felt like it was the same show thank you
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do you get a lot of people that come to your table that that just like this that uh have told you how much bad about you
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you know got them through mostly just that they see them we used to always hear Do you have a camera in our living
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room how do you know that's what we talk about which means we're all the same hi I'm John hi i just want to say I love
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Twister and Jurassic Park and rare weather you know the tornado factor amps up the fear factor during severe weather
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and then dinosaurs and severe weather is great um I just wanted to ask um as an actor actress you know you got a busy
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schedule red carpet you know all your plays and convention stuff how do you find downtime for yourself i have too
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much downtime my kids's out of the nest i'm not on a TV show so to me you know I had a big
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movie career while I was doing Mad About You and I raised a kid while I was making those movies so I'm like ready
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for a big job personally sorry sorry to change the narrative but
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right now I have some time on my hands that's good that's good thank you
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hello my name is Dakota hi um I've enjoyed you and everything I've seen you in thank you pretty great um but I did
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have a question about another actor you work with um I've heard from many people that Mel Gibson is extremely hard to get
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work with um what are your thoughts on working with him i'm not going to go into that a lot because there's been
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some things said and done uh from his camp that I am deeply offended by but I will tell you while I worked with him it
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was lovely thank you hello I'm Heather um society like really
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values youth and women but like as I've aged like it's actually like way better just being a woman how much are you
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aging you're like gorgeous and how old not very old yeah I'm 35 okay yes but I mean
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like 35 yeah but in some in some from some perspectives you're like getting
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old okay obviously but I think the alternative but like like my 30s are way better than
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my 20s i just wondering like how have your experience in the industry changed and like do you have a lot more freedom
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and power in the roles that you choose i don't have more freedom and power in the roles that I choose because that all depends on what's offered to you um what
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I make like that movie the two movies I've talked about those that's kind of what I have power over or making play
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readings or going to do a play if I can get it going that's what I have power other than that you just sit there and
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hope you get a good job I do feel what I've heard women say over the last set of years a little bit less giving a
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you know what I mean a little less does everybody like me which I'm really happy to let go of um and there are some
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really interesting parts for older people on TV right now dancing is a great show hacks is a great show um
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there's there's some good parts thank god thank you thank you
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hello again you just want you want to just sit here um so we've already established you're a
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very creative person writing directing acting and you have a love for Star Wars so here's a hypothetical if you were
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given the creative control to uh to a story within the Star Wars universe what
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do you think you would do an older Jedi Knight
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approaches um I don't know i just love them i keep thinking there's got to be some general in some war that where they
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need somebody here I am ready to go um but I don't know thank you
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hasn't happened yet but we'll see um I I I don't even know i think I just love being a fan honestly i'm just like a I'm
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a kid fan and the story underneath the stories means a lot to me fighting the darkness with light and cunning those
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are appropriate I think right now i'm curious did you see it in 77 when it
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came out i went to Empire Strikes you want to hear the worst story in the world i went
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to Empire Strikes Back on my 16th birthday i waited in line all day and someone drove by and guess what he
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shouted he had just seen the movie no is that the worst thing ever what
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that was tragic it's tragic and my parents were with me and a friend and they didn't hear it so I went and they
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said "What?" And I said "Nothing." I knew it was coming
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[Applause] just your friends that's right i did thank you very much thank you now
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there's been a a big thing where uh c you know certain celebrities have uh
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been undercover as stormtroopers and and some of these you know what do you mean uh who uh who are some of the Daniel
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Craig daniel Craig what yeah Daniel Craig was a Stormtrooper in what movie
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force Awakens I think awakens wait wait wait which one was he force
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Awakens i know i know the movie i
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was shooting do you know what scene perhaps he was in i think it was the
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interrogation scene with Ray i think basically trying to escape he's one of the stormers that drops the gun when Oh
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oh you're kidding she says "Drop your gun on your way out." Oh my god
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thank god I can't so So there's a chance so maybe I mean
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I'm going to be an undercover storm okay can I have a scene maybe yeah absolutely can I take
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[Applause] That's the big reveal that's the big reveal hi it's hard to follow that it's okay
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i'm pressing i brought my daughter Julie in she said "Come ask my question." Okay come ask your question well it was a it
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was my cousin Kathy actually was costumeumer on Twister oh wow it was her second movie she went on and did a
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couple dozen more the TV so great and she's a creator so she's a woman who owns her products oh great but the
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question I've heard her stories behind the scenes my daughter hasn't k and you said "What did she say happened?"
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Like for example the funniest one was she did uh The Devil's Own and she said
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Brett Pit doesn't shower how about that unfortunately I can't tell you whether that's true or not but um does she have
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behind the scenes twister stories uh she her mother my cousin Judy they own a
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ranch in Edmund and some of the cast went there for hanging out at the pool and I never hung out at any pool yeah
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i'm sorry wait a minute chris you weren't the cool kids i wasn't one of the cool kids so what is the question
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i'm sorry just you said you had more independence on the stage but Kathy was a costumeumer thing about the hair and
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the makeup pieces and people that have a hand in you from the time you get on set until director action can you talk about
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how they help you form your character yeah for sure i work with a hairdresser
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um makeup and hair but he did the hair on Twister someone asked last night "Why did your hair look so great and all
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that?" Because I'm like "A whole person's whole job was to come out in his big boots and like fluff my hair."
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Um but every job I've done he's I've sent to him to see if he had an idea
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because a little thing like what kind of eyeshadow she wears or from a costume or what kind of shoes how they change the
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way you stand that can give you so much of a character much more than you would think um yeah and a good fitting makes
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you feel like you're going to be able to play the part and a bad fitting just makes you want to quit and you feel quite sure you're going to be terrible
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in whatever the movie is thank you thank you hello hello hi do you have any stories
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about Brad Pitt that you would like to share well
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haven't ever stood in line like this before um I just wanted to say you're
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fantastic and um secondly I imagine you get lineups of people
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asking you questions all the time and they're probably always one that's like why don't they ask me about this so if I
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was just to pitch you a question right now what question would you love to answer that nobody ever asked oh my gosh
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I don't know um [Laughter]
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yes i got to think about it i just don't know because we there have been good questions
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thank you sorry hello hello my name is Ben i was wondering what was the behind
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the scenes like on Soul Surfer and The Twister well one was a little bit more
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fun than the other one I was being like pummeled with mud and
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leaves and a fire hose and a huge fan and the other I was like "Here's your surfboard."
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So it was a little bit more fun behind the scenes but when we weren't shooting all those guys and Wendell Josephson the
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one girl in the pack I just loved all of them and we hung out and we played cards and on Sundays we would just sit around
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together and they were so sweet and also a bunch of theater actors and indie film
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actors so that part was really fun basically when they said cut it got fun
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bye thank you hello hello hi again i was wondering um
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as an independent uh filmmaker I'm kind of making movies uh what as a director
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what advice would you give well I've heard I mean I'm probably giving you advice I've heard which is if
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you're is it something you wrote i'm working on it with a friend of mine who's really the the writer the creator
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of it kind of co-director great um make sure you finish the draft don't get
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derailed um if you give it to anybody for notes make sure you really tell them
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what you want to know because you don't want anybody just giving you their dumb old opinion you know like if you want to
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know does this make sense or did you track this person was this person's parent in the end or whatever make sure
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you know why you're giving it to people because too many opinions can take the thing you wanted to do out of your head
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and then the amazing thing now is you can make movies for so much less than you used to be able to make movies for
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so just keep going keep making stuff that's really my best advice thank you Sher
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hello hello hi uh my uh I wanted to ask you if you had any
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uh favorite memories from uh making the movie What Women Want uh cuz one of my relatives was the was one of the editors
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on the movie oh wow um my favorite part of making that movie was the director Nancy Meyers i'm sure all of you love
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her movies father of the Bride and Private Benjamin and um what's with the twins you know
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come on they reunited a remake lindsy Parent Trap exactly um she made that
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movie with Jack Nicholson something's got to give and so I just fell in love with her and we're still really good
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friends so that was the best part hello hello how are you what's your name
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okay it's okay i can tell everybody what you're saying if you want or do you want the mic
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yeah there we go i think he's got it you got it you're good if you speak up we're going to hear
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you perfect if you could make a lightsaber color
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what color would you make it would be rainbow
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100% all that i think that is the question that you
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would want to be asked that's the question that I would want to be asked
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what about you what about you black black would be incredible what
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kind of cool bad guy would have a black lightsaber that's genius actually no one's going to do my idea but your idea
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they're going to do thank you Alison this is my
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it doesn't sound weird to me his name is Anarchy and it doesn't sound weird to me at all you hang on to that guy
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nice to meet you Alistister everybody give it up for Alistister question of the day thank you we have
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two more questions here bye Alistair
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he's being taken right out [Applause] what's your name i was just wanting to
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know what your perspective was on Nia that was a very heavily emotional film for me i loved that movie it's a movie
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about Diana Nia that um Anette Benning played her and Jodie Foster played her partner i loved that movie i loved it i
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thought they were both so good um I knew Bonnie stole who Jody plays in the movie
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a little bit i just thought it was thrilling if you haven't seen it Niad it's amazing thank you
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hello last question no pressure don't blow it oh my god
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well it's not even really a question i just wanted to share a story about um I
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think the year that Twister came out was the year my parents came to Oklahoma or
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my mom did um after they got married and you guys had a premiere at a mall in
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Oklahoma City and um my mom was just telling me that it was like the first
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like big time Hollywood interaction she'd ever had and she she got like this napkin signed by you as you walk into
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the mall oh nice i hope was I nice okay good she didn't say she would have told
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you if I was not Yeah um I asked her if she still had the napkin so uh she doesn't but she got home he's like
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"Anyway I'll tell you what what you should do is find a napkin and bring it to the table bring it to the table i
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will sign it for her and say "Keep this one thank you so much thank you
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everybody." So you know I'm just going to ask you know uh obviously 1996 the Galaxy Con
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the Comic Con world didn't really exist right for you to come out and and meet your fans and hear their stories so what
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is it like to come out here all these years later and listen to uh fans tell
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you about this movie that that you made two years ago uh and and what it means
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to them it's a It's great i'm I don't look at my movies like I don't I see
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them when we're done and I walk away because it seems so sad to me like the idea of being an actor was like there I
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was in 19 seems really pathetic so I really leave it behind and I don't look at clippings or anything like that very
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rarely except lately when I'm moving and I found those um so it's really new for
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me to act and good for me to remember like me seeing a Star Wars movie at a time I really need to either have some
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courage or forget and have a fantasy moment it's really meaningful for me to hear that anything I've done has been
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that for people so I really appreciate everybody coming out thank you and thank you guys for coming
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out here and hanging out with us on this Sunday so before we go to commemorate this
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occasion we're going to take a a gigantic uh group photo here so if you guys want to gather up by the stage not
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on the stage but by the stage