Your new movie Irresistible,
which by the way,
I should say premieres this Friday,
he gets Steve Carell because
you worked with him and stuff.
You go to him.
Did you always have him in
mind or did you have another?
He's the one I wrote it for.
So he,
after I wrote it,
I didn't have anybody else
involved until I sent it to Steve.
So Steve is the one who read it and went.
Yeah,
I would like to do this.
I'm imagining you on the set of your new
movie sitting in that director's chair.
Does he have a bullhorn?
Oh please.
He's up there,
'Where's
my grapes?
I got limited time here.
You fuckers!"
Cattle prod,
whatever I needed to do.
Is it great telling Carell,
Hey,
Hey,
take it down a notch.
You know what I mean?
You're a little bit over the top here.
That dude made my life so easy on set.
I can't even tell you.
A couple of people like
Joe Scarborough and Mika,
they appear in the film
and that I find that fun.
I didn't want it to be
overly populated with that.
Like if you notice in the movie,
there's an MSNBC anchor,
a CNN anchor and a Fox anchor.
Um,
and it's actually the same woman and
she's always just in different wigs and
dresses.
And her name is always a Brooke.
So there's just stupid
stuff like that in it.
I hope people watch the movie.
And I was even thinking with this,
COVID-19,
there's been no big movie premiere,
right?
You don't have the red carpet and Carell
walks around and all the stars walk
around and you get interviewed.
It may be one of the worst
effects of this pandemic.
And I know people don't
talk enough about it.
About how directors are not getting
their due with a big red carpet.
You know?
Cause I see a lot of coverage.
You're suffering.
Frontline heroes and all
of these people dying,
but such little concern.
What about you?
You know,
like you sit there but two years of your
life and you don't take your big party,
you're not getting your
big party for your movie.
The party's nice for the
people that work on it.
But to be perfectly honest,
the promotion,
you,
you,
you know me well enough to know
that going out and promoting is
that's the one I always get in trouble.
Cause I'll say something that,
you know,
it's stupid and everybody will jump up.
Maybe it's better you
don't have a big premiere.
It's going to go from,
we haven't heard from
this guy in five years.
So exciting to see him back to,
will you please shut the fuck already?
