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Helen Hunt Talks Twister, Star Wars Fandom, Directing, & Her Oscar Fears | GalaxyCon Oklahoma 2025
Jun 27, 2025
Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Helen Hunt sits down with fans at GalaxyCon Oklahoma 2024 for an unforgettable panel filled with laughs, heartfelt stories, and candid reflections. She shares behind-the-scenes memories from Twister, thoughts on the sequel (Twisters), and why she'd love to return—if the part is right.
Helen opens up about her Star Wars fandom (and a heartbreaking Empire Strikes Back spoiler), her early acting days with William Shatner, and the hilarious way she stores her Academy Award to avoid a tragic earthquake mishap. She discusses directing her passion projects like Then She Found Me and Ride, and even pitches her own inclusive Twister sequel idea.
Don’t miss Helen’s advice to aspiring filmmakers, her feelings about Mad About You’s reboot, and her dream stage role in The Cherry Orchard. From working with Mel Gibson and Nancy Meyers to navigating career choices in Hollywood, this panel gives fans a rare look at the actor, director, writer—and fan—behind the spotlight.
📸 Stay tuned to the end for a massive group photo with the audience!
🎟️ Recorded live Memorial Day Weekend 2025 at GalaxyCon Oklahoma
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galaxy Con please help me welcome Emmy Award winner Academy Award winner Kelly
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Helen Hunt
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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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say that as people
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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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Oh my gosh amazing
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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
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