HIND BRITTNEY

Today actor Brittney Jefferson (Rap Shit) pitches us a script that warms our hearts and teaches us about difficult family dynamics.

Transcript

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Social media has been spreading fake images of the Hollywood sign on fire.

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Today, the Hollywood sign has been tough to climb, remaining one of the most iconic and distinguishing landmarks of Los Angeles.

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Hi, hi.

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Welcome to Hollywood. Hollywood is not dead. I'm gonna be reading the intro straight off my phone because I'm super professional. I'm your host, Emily O'Bear, and I'm joined by my co-host Lucia Mills. Yes, I am. We are two broke out-of-work actresses pretending to be studio heads on a mission to save Hollywood.

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Yay! Yay!

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Each week we invite to pitch their original movie ideas, and we decide whether to green light the project or pass on the project. So sit back, relax, and have a laugh.

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Have a laugh. Yeah. You guys, today is a very special episode because guess what? Not only is the first one we're taping, yippee! But also we have a very special guest, my very close friend, Brittany Jefferson. Yes, Brittany, thank you so much for being here. Like jokes aside, uh, we were so nervous and excited at the same time to have you here. Yeah, so cute. But yeah, I'm not gonna like uh, you know, that I'll do after. Um so Brittany, um, I wanted her here today because uh she's someone I look up to. Um, she's someone that inspires people a lot, works hard, uh, cares about the things that she does, cares about her people, cares about God, and that's the kind of person that you want on your side. Yeah, uh, but let's talk about projects and things that you've done in the past that like uh I mean, I don't I don't wanna, you know, uh say too much, uh, because I kind of want you to say, but you've seen her um working with Israel on uh rap shift. Uh that project was phenomenal, by the way. Thank you. Um we've seen her on uh not another church movie, okay? Um and you've been working behind the scenes a lot too. So please, uh, please go because um I could talk forever and also um say a lot of nothing. So go ahead.

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Um, well, I mean, yeah, I I feel like we're all the same. Like we're working actresses, trying to uh no, I'm not trying. We're making our way in Hollywood, and um, we're falling forward. Yes. All right, always falling forward, and um, yeah, I've just been blessed to be able to work behind the scenes uh for a couple of years under um my mentor at the time, rest in peace, Carl Craig. He took me under his wings and taught me the ins and out about the business, learning how to do like a budget and just everything of how like what people don't see whenever you're looking at a show or a movie. And I'm very grateful for that because um it came into handy. And um, yeah, uh reoccurring commercials, but um the rest has still been written, so TBD, and maybe by the time this comes out, it'll be even more great news to share. So yes. Yeah, we're falling forward. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Okay, okay. Um, well, you know what? Um, let's get right into it because you guys, you know what's up with us. Um, we are uh studio executes. We are studio heads.

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We're two studio heads, but we have to transform into studio head mentality. So just give us like a second. Let me straighten my tie. We're gonna become really serious, and we're gonna listen to Britney's pitch here. I'm getting nervous. No need to be nervous. No, no, you're the most professional person who's come through it off.

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Y'all put me on the spot.

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I should have been um, yeah, so a pitch, okay. Already you're impressing us. We have never seen anybody we've never seen anybody could come through this office.

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We haven't grin lighting anything, right? Like everything has gone.

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You were with us last season. Me and Lucia basically just shat on each other the entire season.

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And that's fine because the projects were total garbage. Yeah.

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Wait, did y'all green light anything between two? I'm literally not.

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Yeah, majorly, yeah. It was you who was just, it felt like a lot of you just absolutely dunking on me. Bro, you too.

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Like, she's so millionaire.

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Like, what is gonna be into the projects? They were not passion projects of mine, but that's besides the point. Brittany is our main focus today. We're not gonna fight at all.

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We can fight after.

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Well, yeah, I don't mind if y'all fighting y'all agree like me, you know. So we'll sit, we're sitting up straight, we're here, we're present, we're ready to listen to your pitch.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

Okay. Let's go. Alrighty. Um, this is my first pitch, so I feel like you guys are popping a cherry here. Okay. Let's see. Okay, we have um an estranged, and then we have an estrang daughter, and he didn't even know that he fathered her. It was like a one-off with her mom, right? But he knows he has a child. And um the will that was passed down to him also is passed down to her that in order to keep the money, I guess that that he's inherited, um it has to be by a blood child. So now he didn't have any children, but he knows that he may have a child. And if not, by default, if he does not have any children, then it will go to his then spouse. So he has a spouse, and let's say she's about 15, 20 years younger than him. Okay, so she knows this, and she's doing a research conspiring the whole time, and she knows that the strange daughter is um, how do we say, an addict. So she feels like this is an easy alley hoop that she can just get her in, sign these papers, send her on her way, give her a bus ticket and a meal, and she'll be happy with anything she can get because she's um she's an addict, she's addicted to popping pills, okay? We'll take it there. And so she conspires for this whole thing, this whole arrangement for them to come. But in the meanwhile, the daughter, in the time that she spends, this weekend that she spends with her father, they realize like at first it was such a riff, and the the wife, the younger wife, was loving the riff. And the two have so much more in common. And the daughter actually is sober for these this weekend, right? And so she's able to be in her clear mind, and she's not crazy, she's not like you know, they medicated her because you know it was just they thought that she had lost it and she became addicted to pills. But along this time over the weekend, there is actually a lot of healing that goes on. And it actually now she kind of peeps that the the stepmom younger wife um has been conspiring to play on her addiction, and her and the father actually bond, and in their bonding, it heals him so he's not going to die. Like, um like there is some healing that happens that he was always missing in his heart, and long story short, the father ends up having another couple of years in his life, and it ends up coming out what this young wife was trying to conspire and play, and it just brings them together, and now they build an empire together, the daughter and the father, and she's out. Okay, I don't know what'd y'all think.

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It was tugged at my heart strength.

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Low key a little bit.

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Yeah. I absolutely loved that story.

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Y'all don't have to go next to me. Y'all don't have to be nice to me.

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I'm I'm gonna say what's on my mind, and I'm gonna speak straight into the mic while doing that. Um I love a good redemption story like this, and I loved the nuanced characters. Now I'm gonna launch into some questioning just to see if we've got a full solid script that we could potentially green light. I think this is a story that Hollywood needs right now. I think we need some positivity, to be honest. Um, a lot of what's going on in movie theaters, a lot of depressing stuff out there, which there's a time and a place, but it's nice to see people win in a movie, you know? Okay. I'm tired of not seeing people win in a movie. Okay, life's already hard enough.

SPEAKER_02 9:45

Uh I would want to add, uh, if that's okay. Um I wanna know, did you think about the race of the cast?

SPEAKER_00 10:00

I did. I did, I did, I did.

SPEAKER_02 10:03

Um, okay. Yes, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

So um the father and the daughter are black, and I feel like to add a little more. I would make the the stepmom, the the the wife, I would make her like either she would she wouldn't be black, maybe white or you know, maybe Latina. Just to add, you would think that that's the premises of their their father.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

That would definitely add. And and I love that the redemption story is between black people. Um, when it comes to fatherhood and like, I mean, I would know. I don't, I'm not sure. Okay, I mean it's not a father. I'm not a father. I'm not a father.

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Uh let's uh but yes, yeah.

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Be free.

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You can let us know anything you want right now.

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Um, um, yes, so I would like to see some something like that. I'm I'm glad that we don't have to clash too much in on the idea of uh of the casting so far.

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Okay.

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Um uh and yeah, I think that you said the that the um the wife the would be younger, right? Yeah, like how much younger?

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Between like 15 and 20 years. So I would say the father, let's say he's like 68. Okay. The father's like 68. So she would will make her like early 40s, late 30s.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Yeah, I like that she's younger because it adds this whole other element. Now, with this um stepmother character, would you want her to have any sort of nuance to her? Like, is she a good person or is she just out for herself? Like, what how do you see her character being? Is she truly an antagonist or is she kind of more layered than that? Like maybe like a Marty Supreme sort of situation. Okay. Where you're looking at the character and you're like, there's a lot going on there. Um I guess that would be my first question.

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Okay. Um, so yeah, I think that it's a thing of she's not um she's not a bad person, you know. I think it just reveals um greed that people have, and you never know what you'll do until you're presented with and yeah, with this amount of money, but you have this obstacle, which is this estranged daughter, which is, you know, essentially, you know, maybe labeled crazy, um, who you know was um given a bunch of you know, like pills, and it became an addiction, you know. Um, but she's not crazy, you know.

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You just not to cut you off, but like in her point of view, like the the stepmom, uh yeah, she could totally be like, okay, this you know, this this girl is crazy, like uh all she all she's good for is popping pills and she never visited her dad.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

And then yeah, it's like are you really deserving of this? Like, you know, yeah, like they your pain, your mom and your dad had a one-off, right? And like that's just because of that, you get this money, and I've actually been taking care of him or whatever, you know, and so you're not a lot of times people aren't necessarily bad people, but you don't know what your character is until you're like presented with an obstacle that will really show who you are.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

Yeah, so yeah, that's uh fair. Um, I do have a question about uh what was um let's call her Emily, this uh addict.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

Um why was she very well yeah, let's give them names. That that helps. So the daughter is Emily.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

She's definitely Emily. Okay. What was the like I would love to know what she has been doing this whole time? Like, how did she get to popping pills? And like what um, you know what I mean? Like, what was her relationship with her mom and all that?

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Like, I've not all that, but give me just a little, you know, little freestyle, a little go a little deeper than what I expected in a pitch. Okay, I could I could totally do this again improv. So we're gonna be eating hot day. Okay, um, you said what has she been doing, right?

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What brought her to bumping pills like that?

SPEAKER_00 14:47

So um essentially her mom, this this whole thing, um her mom, she doesn't even know who her mom is, you know. Okay, so she's been kind of like in and out of foster homes. And so when you're told, like as a child, like there's something wrong with this child, whatever the case may be, money. Um, and I I would say let's take it to the root of money, you know, and that could be the thing that she's always seen in people, the evil of money, where she doesn't even want the money, she's like, whatever, you know. But um, so like, you know, with foster care parents, they just want the money a lot of times with these kids and don't even plan on, you know, loving them. They have no intention. I just want to collect my check and give you a roof over your head and feed you. So um, she has, you know, she's even estranged with her mom, but just because she's different, you know, in the sense of like maybe she doesn't talk with, you know, maybe she hasn't felt comfortable, you know, when you've not been given a chance to like be able to be who you are or loved on. So, you know, they just deem her something's wrong with her. She's weird, and so it's just like here, give her this, this, this, this medicine. And so that develops a deeper story of her addiction.

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Okay. I this justification is good enough for me.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

Yeah, okay. It's great. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 16:09

Well, I think too, it like we were just talking about, you know, the nuance of the mom character and then the nuance of the daughter character. And this just kind of leads into an alternate, like an alternate conversation. I kind of want to just ask you about you guys because it's been ask you guys about um, it's been on my mind lately, but I feel like there's so many people that go online and they're like so, I don't know, allergic to characters with like so many layers, and they want good or bad. And I'm like, I don't know what that shift in society is, but it's like I saw it in the discourse of like Marty Supreme a lot. I don't know. See, I haven't seen that yet.

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So but basically You have to know that uh Emily is obsessed with Timothy Chalamet.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Oh, literally not. That's not true. It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

This is a safe space.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

I literally am not, she's just I'm learning a lot. She's the she's a father of a father. Like, I'm so obsessed. No, like I really don't have any strong feelings towards Timothy Chalamet. Um he's kind of strange, actually. But um anyway, sorry Timmy, I know you're watching this. Um but basically I think it's really interesting because I like saw Marty Supreme, and this is not just um about Marty Supreme, but I think it's about a lot of things, and a lot of people were like, I either hated or I loved the movie, and the people that loved the movie were like, he's a guy that like went for his goals, and he um but I was like he was also really shitty to like everybody around him. And then the people that hated it were like, he's just a really shitty character. And I was like, can't we see like the nuance of him like his character growing up in a really bad situation, not having money, obviously being a terrible person because he like stepped on people all around him and it's like to get to where he was. But I think it's like interesting, goes back into these characters where I'm like, Yeah, I love bringing that kind of I don't know, is it media lit? It's not media literacy, but it's like having characters. Storytelling.

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Good storytelling.

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Yeah, because I love it when I watch a show and I'm like, I kind of don't like all these characters in a way.

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And yet I'm still watching this.

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Still watching because their dynamics are so interesting. So yeah, I just I guess I wanted to like touch on that because I'm like, what do you guys think about that? And do you feel like that energy where you're like people a lot of people are so scared of like these like super like complex like characters?

SPEAKER_02 18:37

Well, i if I may, um yeah, I I think that we were trained to not want complex characters. If you think about it, like we are our nature is not um to forgive so easily, yeah. You know, how many times do we say, um, yeah, forgiveness is good, but I'm not Jesus, you know what I mean? Like, and um, which is horrible, right? Um, but it's true, it's um at least for me, sometimes it's hard for me to forgive, you know? Yeah, and like that. Why would I forgive a character that does quote unquote shitty things, you know what I mean? But then yes, it's true that I have to um take a step back and realize, oh, this is why they were so shitty. And that's uh, you know, but um I truly believe that we were trained to just see black and white. I mean, looks uh uh look at um Superman, for example. I think about that all the time.

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Yeah.

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Uh Superman is just good.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

Yeah.

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And then you have uh love him too.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Like, yeah, Superman's awesome. Yeah, this new Superman's awesome. Right.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

It's interesting, and I enjoyed it, but like No, but I mean not only like the movie, like it's also the this cultural thing of saying like the character of Superman. Yeah, he's so great. Um and he's so he's so great even when he's not Superman, when he's Clark Kent, he's so caring and loving or whatever. And then you have the opposite, which is his uh what's the bald guy? Um the Lex Luther. Yeah, Luther, Lex Luthor, right? Which is yeah, he's he's just bad. Like there's no in between, you know what I mean? And for uh decades, that's what the culture was. You have the bad guy and the good guy, and that's it. The in between, it's not a thing, you know?

SPEAKER_01 20:28

But it's so cool to like experience, it's so cool to experience characters. It's so cool to experience characters like that because it's like you almost like like for the dad, I'm trying to think how to phrase this question, but for the dad, do you want to go into his like backstory at the beginning of the movie? Do you want it to be kind of unknown to the audience? Because it's so easy to be like, oh, he was like, you know, there's reasons to blame him, you know, reasons to not like his character. Like, how would you necessarily like frame telling the father's point of view?

SPEAKER_00 21:05

Uh-huh. Yeah. Um, I feel like that would be something that you start seeing the the human him, you know, in the part of where him and the daughter are connecting. You know, you know, one it's easy to to blame the guy and say, well, you weren't there for your child, but sometimes you you have to blame the women if we're being honest. Like what if she didn't tell him? Yeah. You know, like he didn't know he had a child. Right. You know, and sometimes you get so caught up in the the trying to please or live up to a parent, you know, that people lose their way and they become, and next thing you know, they look around them and life has happened. And it's like children, I'm 40 now. And it's like, you know, it could be one of those things where it's just like it wasn't a thought. Because he was just trying to live up to, you know, as a child, be good enough for his parents, especially if he's left this inheritance. You know, so that could be a burden on him, but to not even know that there was a child, yeah? 100%. And so um I think in the beauty of what I always like is that all things work together for our good, right? And so in that they're not bad, but you make bad choices. And if you continue to make those bad choices, then it becomes a character thing where it's like you're not a good person, you know? There's a pattern there, there's a pattern there, and you're continually to choosing to be this person. Yeah, so now you've given bad permission to take over, and that's your place. But every day you can redeem yourself. That's the beauty about like what God gives us when people when it's free will, but people think free will is I can do what I want.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

But yeah, uh yes, you were saying that, like, uh that that's the beauty of uh um free will.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

Yeah, beauty of free will, and um I think in the moment that they get to know each other, it's almost like I wish I would have known you and had this opportunity, you know. So it's still working out for their good because that thing that he didn't even realize he was missing is the same thing that kind of essentially heals him, you know? That's how powerful love is.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

So I actually would love to see a oh, this makes sense moment when they see each other or when they start um spending time with each other um of even uh her saying um or him saying it this makes sense, you belong here or with me, you know. Um and even for her to say that, you know, like because it she's someone that has been popping pills and probably being uh all over the place with no guidance and no.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Just accept that's just how my life at least is supposed to be, you know.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

So I would love to see that. That's my point.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, well, we can get into casting now. Oh, yeah, shall we? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so um, we'll start with you and see if you have any particular people that you would want to cast in each of these roles.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

Um and then and you can even use your phone for Google and stuff if you don't remember names or I think I know who I would want to.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

Um, of course, for the daughter myself, I feel like that would be okay. I feel like I would definitely love to explore that because it's the opposite of my childhood, it's the opposite of um anything that I've experienced. So just being able to uh explore what that would be like, that who would she be? Yeah, you know, um, yeah. So I would say me for Emily. I think you named her Emily. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

Her name is Emily.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Um for the father, just because like he's so good, and I don't think he's officially retired yet, even though he mentioned he would, but Denzel for sure. Because I want to just work with him.

SPEAKER_02 25:18

Oh my god. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Yeah, I'd watch the hell out of it.

SPEAKER_02 25:22

Oh my god, are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_00 25:23

Like, and I'm not gonna lie, I am even more in love with um Rachel McAdams after seeing Sin Help. She would eat that really. So I didn't even see it. I haven't seen Sin Help, but I forgot. I like I loved her already, but it's just like she's a beast. So I feel like, yeah, she would, she would definitely just I don't know, she would, she would bring some, just like because I didn't think that she was funny, okay? Like I didn't, but send help, she's actually, she has moments where she's funny, and it's like, oh, so just to see her just go on the roller coaster and bring that to life. I feel like there would be a challenge. It's not like when people would normally think, like, you know, okay, this this black daughter, this this white mom, stepmom, and it's not that much of a difference in age, like almost like she would just conform or just like no, I feel like she'll give up, like, she'll deliver in that scene. Like, it's not she's not gonna be an easy layover either. They're not an easy layup for either each other.

SPEAKER_01 26:37

I can see her just do. I could see Rachel McAdams getting like kind of gritty too.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

Oh, yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

Like I've seen the stills from Send Help, and it looks like she's like kind of disheveled and like Yeah, you don't usually see her as a I don't want to give, I don't want to give away, but it's so it's it's so good.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

And I was not expecting it to be funny because I like sometimes just to see what the movie is, like without watching a trailer or just sometimes sometimes you hear a name and you're just like, I just want to go see it. Yeah, I'm like, I don't like to do all the research sometimes and take away from the movie experience. I want no expectation, so I didn't know that it was actually funny, too. So it was like, am I supposed to be laughing at you have moments like am I supposed to laugh? This was actually funny. So yeah, that's cool.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

I need to go see it. Well, um, obviously, I would recast the father as Timothy Chalamet. Oh, look, we're new, we're new all along. That's my only change. Um just kidding. You said Denzel Washington, and I really can't top that. I'm like, that would be I just love him.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

Any chance that I can get to work with him, I don't care if I have to be crackhead number two. But literally. I wanna, I am, I am working with Denzel. So at any moment.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

This is also a good segue question. It you said Denzel, obviously, but like we all have actors that were like, I want to work with that actor before they, you know, pass away and their career, whatever. Is there any other are there any other actors that you feel really passionately about?

SPEAKER_00 28:15

Oh yeah, for sure. It's so it's so many. I think all the greats really um like I mean, uh, of course, Denzel, um, Brad Pitt, Leonardo though. Ooh, Leonardo the capital. Like he's so good.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

Like you can't, okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Like I don't, I don't think people understand, like, Leonardo is so real.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

Like, yeah, like it's so gritty the way uh I don't know um how to explain. Like it's so urgent.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

He should be like a uh what do you call it in colleges where they um study like certain.

SPEAKER_02 29:04

Like his technique should be studied.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

He should he should be studied, yeah. Like, because my one of my first times being introduced to him was a movie called Was Killing Gilbert Grape. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:16

My god, that movie.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

And he was and he was so young, he was so young, and he played um an autistic little boy, and I that was my first time, the first time I ever saw anything he did. And um this was years afterwards because I was obviously young, but I think no, it wasn't my first time. It was the second thing I saw of him. The first thing I saw was Titanic, Titanic, and I fell in love with him, yeah. And then I I don't know how at such a young age, but um, I watched What's Killing Gibber Great, yeah, and that's great. When I tell you, I cried. I really thought that that was like I didn't feel like I was watching a movie. I felt like I was watching someone's life, like almost a documentary with so Leonardo for sure.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Yeah, it's he he continues like because I just saw one battle after another, yeah, and it was by no means like my favorite movie of last year, but his performance is so good.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

I just yeah, was insane. I enjoyed the story, I enjoyed the movie a lot. I I mean there was I'll shut up. I won't say that, but I enjoyed the movie, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Um, but I enjoyed the movie a lot. Um, yeah, and the little girl was so good. Oh my god, like them two together. I would love to see a part two of just their story. Like I enjoyed them. And um uh oh, what's his name? Benicio uh Oh, yeah. Oh, I know who you're talking about, but I think he was so good. The Tore or something like that. Yeah, he was so good in the movie too. I loved him.

SPEAKER_02 31:03

But um Yeah, but that's his name, I think. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

Um, of course, uh let's see. It's so many. I feel like Viola, Angela, Regina King, Regina Hall. Yeah, um, oh gosh. Um Merrill, Merrill, like the um Julia Roberts. Oh yeah. Oh my god, yeah. It's so many, and I'm already knowing that I can't even think of everybody's name, but yeah, I know it's so difficult, but it there's so many good.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

What was the guy that played the movie I Am Sam? He's another one. I don't know. It was something about me. Have y'all ever seen I Am Sam? I haven't seen it right now. Yeah, I don't know what it is about me, y'all, but he played an autistic father. And when I tell you, it was really great. I need to watch that. I boohoo crying. I might watch that again tonight. I'm trying to see if I feel like crying. But yeah, who was it? Sean Penn? Yeah, Sean. Oh, yeah, Sean Penn. He was in one battle after. Let me tell you, Sean Penn has this way of transforming himself that you forget that he was this I I promise you, I was like, who the heck is this in one battle after this? His character, how did I forget this? He's so good. I have to work with Sean Penn. Yeah. And George Cloney, because he's just fine. Yeah, and Will Smith, because he's just fine. But I don't, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

Um, yeah, but Sean Penn, um, yeah, he's amazing, right? But the concept of uh fat uh fatty si fatty shising uh black women, my God, and it was such the way it was portrayed, I it got me chills. Like it gave me chills, I'm not gonna lie. I uh it made me also throw up because it was disgusting. But like I didn't think that other people were sensitive to it.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

Um see, I'm gonna tell you, I'm not the type of person. When I go see a movie, I political, my my political views, all of that goes out the window for me. Um I'm gonna be honest.

SPEAKER_02 33:13

Like, but that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's why like that got me, because that part did stick with me, you know. Yeah, yeah. Even um, for example, the movie that did it for me last year was uh Sinners, right? A lot of people like I Michael B. Jordan. Uh absolute absolutely, like uh all day, every day. Like Michael B. You know, but that's another conversation. But um uh for someone like me that I'm a Christian, right? Uh funny thing, that explains so much to me about you know what the Bible says about don't follow false prophets, and you know, about um don't just let anybody in, you know, and like be aware of of who's with you and who's not with you, you know. Um but with that being said, like I I lost it when I watched that movie. I kept I actually have it on repeat, like I still watch it. I probably watched it like 11 times.

SPEAKER_03 34:16

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

I don't know. It inspired me so much, and like uh it actually gave me awareness too about um, you know, other cultures and how much the country has been uh um influenced by other cultures, but yeah, I also try not to be political about it because at the end of the day I'm going to the movies to enjoy the movies, you know what I mean? And and that's the only time I can I get to escape a little bit, you know. Um, but yeah, sorry, continue and then I'm mean to No, you're good.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

I don't even remember what I was saying at that point, but yeah, I think I got it out, yeah. So yeah, yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_01 34:57

Okay, well, um with that, we will uh debate about Brittany's drummer. Yeah. So I'm gonna straighten up my tie and we're me and Lucier are gonna take a quick two-second break. And we are gonna very secretly talk about this. Oh, by the way, we have a bottle of champagne in the middle of the table. So I don't know if I said this already, but I'm gonna say it again. Okay, great. I don't remember anything. Um, there's a bottle of champagne here. If we green light Britney's script, we're gonna pop it and we're all gonna have champagne. It's gonna be great. If we if we pass on it, we're gonna probably pop it too because we want to drink. And me and Lucia are gonna drink in front of Britney.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

She won't have any. We don't share wealth. Why would we do that?

SPEAKER_00 35:59

Okay, so without further ado, the moment of silence.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

Okay, do you want to deliver the news? Okay. Um uh folks, uh Do I live here or do I live here?

SPEAKER_02 36:14

Yeah, I'm putting on a show right now. It was really hard for us to get to this conclusion. Um Brittany, you know, I have so much love for you. And you know, um, you know, we've we've been friends for so long, but it's yes.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

Close your eyes. Yeah, because I always duck when people clock bottles. I was always like it's really cool.

SPEAKER_03 36:42

Just do it that way.

unknown 36:49

No?

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Yeah. Doing it on your barefoot. Would you like some brand news?

SPEAKER_00 36:57

Uh, sure. Alright. I'm not getting okay. Y'all sharing the wealth. Hey. You were not supposed to not as bad as everyone said.

SPEAKER_02 37:06

You were not supposed to say the brand, bruv, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Yes. No, she said that she is barefoot. Yes. Barefoot. She's barefoot right now.

SPEAKER_02 37:19

Well, you guys, while we enjoyed this beautiful um, you know, champagne little ritual, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 37:26

This is um Brittany for yes. Thank you, Brittany. Thank y'all for having me.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

I can't wait to make this movie and save Hollywood.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

Woo!

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Brittany, you are the best, and I can't wait to see what's uh next for you. Um and uh yeah, your biggest fans are here. So let's cheer. Cheers, cheers, y'all.

unknown 37:48

Cheers.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

Cheers. Cheers to Hollywood. Friday the Hollywood sign for stupid presentation.

SPEAKER_03 37:57

Why don't we all wave with this?

SPEAKER_00 37:58

iconic and distinguished at the works of Los Angeles. Bye. That's so cute.