1 00:00:10,094 --> 00:00:12,221 [SLOW INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING] 2 00:00:13,305 --> 00:00:14,373 ERIC APPEL: All right. Hello. 3 00:00:14,473 --> 00:00:19,645 My name is Eric Appel, and I am the director of The Breadwinner. 4 00:00:21,814 --> 00:00:26,735 And look at this glorious TriStar Pegasus. 5 00:00:27,486 --> 00:00:30,114 I was very excited the first time I saw this 6 00:00:30,197 --> 00:00:32,408 because I grew up loving TriStar movies. 7 00:00:32,491 --> 00:00:35,786 Muppets Take Manhattan, Labyrinth, Monster Squad, 8 00:00:35,869 --> 00:00:39,039 Short Circuit 1 and 2, Look Who's Talking. 9 00:00:39,123 --> 00:00:39,940 Classics. 10 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,959 NATE: You guys like cups, right? You have a bunch of them. 11 00:00:42,042 --> 00:00:43,027 I mean, by the way... 12 00:00:43,127 --> 00:00:46,755 APPEL. Nate talking about cup holders here was unscripted. 13 00:00:47,631 --> 00:00:51,677 This shot originally developed into Nate selling cars to this couple. 14 00:00:53,137 --> 00:00:55,264 But we wanted to add a moment at the top of the movie 15 00:00:55,347 --> 00:00:57,224 where we show that Nate's a great car salesman. 16 00:00:57,307 --> 00:00:59,767 This happened later. 17 00:01:00,477 --> 00:01:04,481 We wanted to show that he sold cars in his own unique Nate kind of way, 18 00:01:04,565 --> 00:01:07,401 so we shot an additional scene to put in this opening 19 00:01:07,484 --> 00:01:11,905 with Jared Curtis, who you'll see right here. 20 00:01:12,614 --> 00:01:14,324 Jared Curtis was a high school quarterback 21 00:01:14,408 --> 00:01:18,328 who just signed with Vanderbilt, which is Nate's favorite college team. 22 00:01:18,412 --> 00:01:23,876 So, Nate had the idea that he could be selling Jared a minivan. 23 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,004 So we're showing that this guy is such a good car salesman 24 00:01:27,087 --> 00:01:30,632 that he could put this flashy college quarterback 25 00:01:30,716 --> 00:01:34,094 into, like, a dorky family vehicle. 26 00:01:35,179 --> 00:01:37,431 This whole, uh... The whole opening of this movie, 27 00:01:37,514 --> 00:01:42,519 we ended up sort of re-shuffling things, uh, around 28 00:01:42,603 --> 00:01:44,271 when we were in post-production. 29 00:01:45,397 --> 00:01:51,361 The original opening started with Mandy Moore's character, Katie, 30 00:01:51,945 --> 00:01:54,281 going through her morning routine, 31 00:01:54,364 --> 00:01:56,784 but we later decided to open it up with Nate, 32 00:01:56,867 --> 00:01:59,787 since the movie's from his perspective. 33 00:02:00,370 --> 00:02:02,498 But Mandy's character's, like, 34 00:02:02,581 --> 00:02:06,376 one of these perfect Instagram moms. 35 00:02:07,377 --> 00:02:10,964 She juggles a million things, she does them all perfectly. 36 00:02:11,048 --> 00:02:17,638 We did a lot of research on command centers and home calendar systems, 37 00:02:19,014 --> 00:02:19,998 which are really insane. 38 00:02:20,098 --> 00:02:22,851 There's a ton of content on Instagram like this. 39 00:02:22,935 --> 00:02:25,562 But she's... she's, like, very type-A. 40 00:02:25,646 --> 00:02:28,649 She runs the house, she makes the schedules, 41 00:02:28,732 --> 00:02:30,567 and, uh... and she loves it. 42 00:02:30,651 --> 00:02:35,072 This couple is, like, totally happy with their roles, 43 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:37,616 as, you know, the... the breadwinner 44 00:02:37,699 --> 00:02:40,452 - and the stay-at-home super mom. - "Buy Sam a horse"? 45 00:02:40,536 --> 00:02:41,770 It's on the calendar. 46 00:02:41,870 --> 00:02:43,664 - [CHUCKLES] - Yeah, nice try. 47 00:02:43,747 --> 00:02:46,166 I can't hear you. What'd you say? 48 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:48,252 APPEL: And, of course, here, we're... we are introducing 49 00:02:48,335 --> 00:02:52,548 the idea that Sam wants a horse, which, uh... 50 00:02:52,631 --> 00:02:55,759 which factors into the story later on, 51 00:02:55,843 --> 00:02:58,011 plays a pretty big role in the story, this horse. 52 00:02:58,095 --> 00:02:59,079 NATE: Wait! 53 00:02:59,179 --> 00:03:03,350 APPEL: And then we meet Nate, the hero of our story, of course, late 54 00:03:04,518 --> 00:03:06,311 to, uh, bring the trash out, 55 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:09,273 which is something that, uh, I've experienced many times. 56 00:03:09,356 --> 00:03:11,024 NATE: ...forget to take out the trash. 57 00:03:11,775 --> 00:03:14,278 APPEL: So all this voiceover sort of came later. 58 00:03:14,695 --> 00:03:16,737 And, uh... 59 00:03:17,030 --> 00:03:20,534 we have a little fourth wall-breaking line here, 60 00:03:20,617 --> 00:03:21,935 which was... which was fun to put in. 61 00:03:22,035 --> 00:03:24,913 Like, Nate's narrator is aware that we're watching a movie... 62 00:03:24,997 --> 00:03:26,498 [LAUGHING] ...which is kind of funny. 63 00:03:26,582 --> 00:03:27,524 Trash came an hour ago. 64 00:03:27,624 --> 00:03:31,003 APPEL: Uh, these trash guys are Brian Bates and Aaron Weber 65 00:03:31,086 --> 00:03:31,779 from the Public Figures Podcast, which at the time 66 00:03:31,879 --> 00:03:34,464 from the Public Figures Podcast, which at the time 67 00:03:34,548 --> 00:03:36,592 was called The Nateland Podcast. 68 00:03:36,675 --> 00:03:39,136 This was their first ever movie appearance, 69 00:03:39,219 --> 00:03:42,764 and, um, yeah, it was super fun to have them on set that day. 70 00:03:42,848 --> 00:03:44,166 Mom, I'm 13. 71 00:03:44,266 --> 00:03:46,226 - I'm allowed to like boys. - KATIE: Oh, I know that. 72 00:03:46,310 --> 00:03:48,103 But sometimes it takes dads a little longer to... 73 00:03:48,186 --> 00:03:50,188 APPEL: This scene at the breakfast table here, 74 00:03:50,272 --> 00:03:52,524 it was also something like the Jared Curtis scene 75 00:03:52,608 --> 00:03:54,610 that we picked up with additional photography, 76 00:03:54,693 --> 00:03:58,822 which took place, like, maybe six months after principal photography. 77 00:03:58,906 --> 00:04:00,574 It must have fell from the tree! 78 00:04:00,657 --> 00:04:03,243 APPEL: You'll notice, in that time, 79 00:04:03,327 --> 00:04:05,579 Birdie, who plays Hadley, the middle child, 80 00:04:05,662 --> 00:04:08,248 grew about three inches. 81 00:04:08,332 --> 00:04:10,584 So, uh, if you've ever watched this movie 82 00:04:10,667 --> 00:04:15,839 and wondered why Hadley looks a little bit different in some scenes, that's why. 83 00:04:15,923 --> 00:04:18,467 Probably more noticeable to me, who, you know, 84 00:04:18,550 --> 00:04:21,511 I've seen the movie about 7,000 times. [LAUGHS] 85 00:04:21,595 --> 00:04:23,722 And, uh, it's definitely noticeable to me. 86 00:04:23,805 --> 00:04:27,768 The other... What... What's less noticeable is the fact that Charlotte, 87 00:04:27,851 --> 00:04:32,773 who plays Sam, the youngest daughter, had lost both of her front teeth 88 00:04:32,856 --> 00:04:37,069 six months after we, you know, wrapped principal photography. 89 00:04:37,152 --> 00:04:40,864 So... Which became a whole thing when... when we did this additional stuff, 90 00:04:40,948 --> 00:04:44,826 we... we had to make her fake teeth to wear in these additional scenes, 91 00:04:44,910 --> 00:04:46,870 which really... really bugged her, 92 00:04:46,954 --> 00:04:49,539 and she said... she said it made her talk funny, but... 93 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:53,752 you know, she has a very cute voice. 94 00:04:55,128 --> 00:04:58,632 And Mandy's wearing a wig because she was on another show with a different haircut. 95 00:04:58,715 --> 00:05:01,718 Making movies is a, uh, very, very complicated thing. 96 00:05:01,802 --> 00:05:05,097 You don't think about these... these things. 97 00:05:05,180 --> 00:05:07,182 - GIRLS: Ooh! - Oh, yeah? 98 00:05:07,265 --> 00:05:10,143 APPEL: So we just saw the, uh, the Star Minder, of course. 99 00:05:10,227 --> 00:05:15,232 This is the product that Katie, uh, brings to Shark Tank. 100 00:05:16,650 --> 00:05:19,903 This was designed, Jon Billington, our production designer. 101 00:05:19,987 --> 00:05:24,282 Uh, we spent a lot of time working on designs for the Star Minder, 102 00:05:24,366 --> 00:05:26,827 and... and came up with something that... For a moment, we were like, 103 00:05:26,910 --> 00:05:30,414 "Should we actually go on Shark Tank and try to... try to sell this thing?" 104 00:05:30,497 --> 00:05:32,290 ...excited to meet you. He's always asking about you. 105 00:05:32,374 --> 00:05:34,835 - Oh, that guy? - It's going to be fun. It's happening. 106 00:05:34,918 --> 00:05:37,629 Well, you know I love a good hang with a stranger. 107 00:05:37,713 --> 00:05:41,633 APPEL: Yeah, so Nate has no idea who the, uh... who the Ashfords are, 108 00:05:41,717 --> 00:05:45,846 Conor and Angela, which is something that's kind of pulled right from my life. 109 00:05:45,929 --> 00:05:48,098 My wife was very involved at our kids' school 110 00:05:48,181 --> 00:05:50,517 and would often tell me stories about people who 111 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,644 I was definitely not on a first name basis with, 112 00:05:52,728 --> 00:05:55,689 and she wouldn't give me enough context to understand who she was talking about. 113 00:05:55,772 --> 00:05:58,525 So I'd be like, "Wait, who are Mike and Jeanie?" 114 00:05:58,608 --> 00:06:00,736 And she's like, "Oh, they're Celia's parents," 115 00:06:00,819 --> 00:06:02,988 and I also have no idea who Celia is. 116 00:06:04,281 --> 00:06:07,117 When my sister first saw the movie, she stopped at this part 117 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,536 and she was like, "That is... That's so you, right there." 118 00:06:09,619 --> 00:06:11,830 ...for those Titan tickets. 119 00:06:11,913 --> 00:06:15,751 APPEL: Uh, this is Nate's first scene here at the Toyota dealership, 120 00:06:15,834 --> 00:06:19,796 Zach Cherry plays Dan, the floor manager. 121 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,383 Zach and I were both performers at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 122 00:06:23,467 --> 00:06:26,136 in New York, but in different eras. 123 00:06:27,054 --> 00:06:28,680 I'd been a fan of his for a while. 124 00:06:28,764 --> 00:06:33,310 I love him on Severance, and we have a ton of mutual friends. 125 00:06:33,393 --> 00:06:37,647 But I hadn't met him until we cast him in the movie, and he's great. 126 00:06:37,731 --> 00:06:41,818 I loved... loved working with Zach. Super funny guy, 127 00:06:41,902 --> 00:06:45,363 as is Kumail Nanjiani, who's also a friend. 128 00:06:45,447 --> 00:06:48,575 We worked together on a couple episodes of Silicon Valley. 129 00:06:48,658 --> 00:06:50,744 And Kumail and Nate have a connection. 130 00:06:50,827 --> 00:06:53,580 They did stand-up together in Chicago, 131 00:06:53,663 --> 00:06:57,709 and Nate actually said the first time he was ever written about 132 00:06:57,793 --> 00:07:00,837 was in an article that was about Kumail. 133 00:07:00,921 --> 00:07:04,007 Nate just, like, happened to be performing on the same bill 134 00:07:04,091 --> 00:07:06,760 the night that, uh, this writer went to the show. 135 00:07:06,843 --> 00:07:08,345 How long you been practicing this? 136 00:07:08,428 --> 00:07:10,180 45 to 50 minutes this morning. 137 00:07:10,263 --> 00:07:12,015 APPEL: There he is, bouncing his pecs. 138 00:07:12,974 --> 00:07:17,270 When I first met Kumail, he was not, uh... he did not quite have this physique... 139 00:07:17,354 --> 00:07:21,608 [LAUGHING] ...that he got for, uh... for his Marvel movie. 140 00:07:21,691 --> 00:07:25,487 We only had three days to shoot everything that took place at that car dealership, 141 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:27,906 'cause it was a working Toyota dealership. 142 00:07:28,782 --> 00:07:30,575 So in all of those scenes, just on the other side 143 00:07:30,659 --> 00:07:32,744 of where the scene is taking place, people are actually showing up 144 00:07:32,828 --> 00:07:35,122 and getting their cars serviced, which is pretty funny. 145 00:07:35,205 --> 00:07:36,273 I can eat that one. 146 00:07:36,373 --> 00:07:37,274 Okay. 147 00:07:37,374 --> 00:07:39,042 Hey, what are these frisbees about? 148 00:07:39,126 --> 00:07:40,877 - Disc golf! You play? - Oh, wow. 149 00:07:40,961 --> 00:07:44,422 APPEL: Now we're at Conor and Angela's house. 150 00:07:44,506 --> 00:07:48,135 The Ashfords, played by Colin Jost and Kate Berlant, 151 00:07:48,218 --> 00:07:50,370 and, uh... 152 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:54,224 Yeah, in this relationship, Kate plays the working parent, 153 00:07:54,349 --> 00:07:57,018 and Conor is the stay-at-home parent, 154 00:07:57,102 --> 00:08:01,982 and, uh, at this point in the movie, Nate has nothing in common with Conor, 155 00:08:02,065 --> 00:08:04,276 who's very thirsty for a friend. 156 00:08:05,152 --> 00:08:07,821 Uh, he doesn't really hang out with other dads, so he's trying 157 00:08:07,904 --> 00:08:11,158 to pretend he's really into disc golf to impress Nate, which... 158 00:08:11,241 --> 00:08:12,784 NATE: You hit the target on that one. 159 00:08:12,868 --> 00:08:17,205 ...which I think is a sport that probably wouldn't impress Nate. 160 00:08:17,289 --> 00:08:21,293 It's not only that Conor isn't good at it, but Nate, I don't think... [LAUGHS] 161 00:08:21,376 --> 00:08:24,212 Nate's character doesn't really care about disc golf at all. 162 00:08:24,296 --> 00:08:26,506 - So, Angela, how's work? - Oh, really good. 163 00:08:26,590 --> 00:08:29,634 APPEL: We tried to make Conor, like, the opposite of Nate in every way. 164 00:08:29,718 --> 00:08:34,389 So, you know, he's eating these weird, uh, vegan burgers 165 00:08:34,472 --> 00:08:36,892 that our prop department put together. I don't even know what it looks like. 166 00:08:36,975 --> 00:08:38,894 Some sort of kimchi, like... 167 00:08:40,937 --> 00:08:44,399 beet slaw that's like squished together. 168 00:08:44,482 --> 00:08:46,318 - I'll get Keith to do it. - Who's Keith? 169 00:08:46,401 --> 00:08:47,719 APPEL: The crazy thing about this scene 170 00:08:47,819 --> 00:08:52,616 is that we had to ADR almost all of the dialogue 171 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:55,660 because it was pouring out. 172 00:08:56,578 --> 00:09:00,123 It was pouring out during the scene, so we had to, like, tent it, 173 00:09:00,207 --> 00:09:02,959 and, uh, the rain was so loud, 174 00:09:03,043 --> 00:09:06,796 our script supervisor Dea, her computer got wet 175 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,549 while we were shooting this scene and caught fire. 176 00:09:09,633 --> 00:09:14,554 There was, like, flames shooting out of the keyboard. [LAUGHS] 177 00:09:14,638 --> 00:09:17,933 And, uh, it was a pretty wild, uh... wild day on set. 178 00:09:18,016 --> 00:09:19,684 We had to VFX the pool. 179 00:09:19,768 --> 00:09:22,729 There were, like, raindrops hitting, uh... hitting the pool. 180 00:09:22,812 --> 00:09:27,484 So, all of these shots have VFX that you would never notice, 181 00:09:28,902 --> 00:09:32,280 where we had to, like, take the raindrops out of the water, 182 00:09:32,364 --> 00:09:38,453 but then VFX ripples back into the water so it, you know, didn't look weird 183 00:09:38,536 --> 00:09:40,038 and...and still. 184 00:09:40,956 --> 00:09:44,292 Making a movie in Georgia in the summer is crazy, 185 00:09:44,376 --> 00:09:47,963 because there's rolling thunderstorms that come through almost every day. 186 00:09:48,046 --> 00:09:51,758 So, if you have an exterior scene that shoots multiple days, 187 00:09:51,841 --> 00:09:56,012 you're always going to be battling the inconsistencies of the weather. 188 00:09:56,096 --> 00:09:59,891 And, uh, don't worry, because I'll be pointing that kind of stuff out 189 00:09:59,975 --> 00:10:02,978 throughout this entire commentary every time we're outside. 190 00:10:03,645 --> 00:10:05,855 Basically, every time we're outside, 191 00:10:05,939 --> 00:10:08,441 it's raining at some point during the scene. 192 00:10:08,525 --> 00:10:12,821 Because her company sponsors that craft fair in Centennial Park, 193 00:10:12,904 --> 00:10:14,306 and she thinks she can give me a booth. 194 00:10:14,406 --> 00:10:16,116 Yes, of course. 195 00:10:16,199 --> 00:10:20,078 APPEL: So here's Nate being, uh, a super supportive husband. 196 00:10:20,161 --> 00:10:24,791 It was very important for us and for Nate that, you know, unlike a movie, 197 00:10:25,792 --> 00:10:27,961 maybe from the '80s, where it would be like, 198 00:10:28,044 --> 00:10:29,196 a dad is very resistant to helping out, 199 00:10:29,296 --> 00:10:31,672 a dad is very resistant to helping out, 200 00:10:32,007 --> 00:10:33,158 he wants to go to work, 201 00:10:33,258 --> 00:10:36,094 and he doesn't feel like it's his place to help out at home. 202 00:10:36,177 --> 00:10:40,140 Nate... Nate's... Nate's like a very supportive husband, 203 00:10:40,223 --> 00:10:41,541 even here in this Shark Tank scene. 204 00:10:41,641 --> 00:10:46,771 He's, like, very eager to help out, take time off work, support his wife. 205 00:10:47,564 --> 00:10:49,482 It's really just that he's a fish out of water. 206 00:10:49,566 --> 00:10:51,526 He's never done this stuff before, 207 00:10:51,609 --> 00:10:54,571 and he starts to lose his identity during it, 208 00:10:54,654 --> 00:10:55,931 which is why he, you know, 209 00:10:56,031 --> 00:10:59,117 kind of takes matters into his own hands around the midpoint. 210 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,077 ...can decide what the specific tasks are, 211 00:11:01,161 --> 00:11:02,020 and you do them together. 212 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,124 APPEL: This Shark Tank scene was super fun to shoot. 213 00:11:06,207 --> 00:11:08,501 We got to fly out to LA on a Saturday 214 00:11:08,585 --> 00:11:11,463 during our, um... during principal photography. 215 00:11:11,546 --> 00:11:13,631 We shot this whole segment with the sharks, 216 00:11:13,715 --> 00:11:17,218 piggybacking onto an actual Shark Tank shoot. 217 00:11:17,302 --> 00:11:20,972 So right before the scene, we got to watch the sharks 218 00:11:21,056 --> 00:11:24,059 actually crush people's dreams. [LAUGHS] 219 00:11:24,142 --> 00:11:27,771 I think maybe right when we got there, they had given someone a deal, 220 00:11:27,854 --> 00:11:30,523 but, like, the rest of the day, they passed on everyone's deals. 221 00:11:30,607 --> 00:11:32,817 We got to see, like, real... real tears. [CHUCKLES] 222 00:11:32,901 --> 00:11:35,319 It was pretty wild. 223 00:11:35,487 --> 00:11:38,948 And then they came up to the green room and we did a read-through of the scene, 224 00:11:39,032 --> 00:11:42,494 like, that... that's where I met all the sharks for the first time. 225 00:11:42,577 --> 00:11:45,205 And it was a... an extremely nerve-racking experience, 226 00:11:45,288 --> 00:11:47,707 having to immediately give notes to the sharks 227 00:11:47,791 --> 00:11:49,793 on how they were reading things. 228 00:11:50,794 --> 00:11:53,380 Really, I just wanted them to be themselves, 229 00:11:53,463 --> 00:11:59,344 'cause I wanted this to feel as much like a real Shark Tank segment as possible. 230 00:12:00,303 --> 00:12:02,764 And we shot with their actual production team, 231 00:12:02,847 --> 00:12:08,019 and all 13 of the cameras that they, uh, shoot their show with, 232 00:12:08,103 --> 00:12:12,732 and their incredible director, Ken Fuchs, was in charge of all the cameras, 233 00:12:12,816 --> 00:12:16,152 covering it the same way he would have if it was a real Shark Tank pitch. 234 00:12:16,945 --> 00:12:20,698 So, like, any of those, like, slow zoom-ins on Nate's face, 235 00:12:20,782 --> 00:12:24,077 or... or just the way that they cover it, it's really how they do it 236 00:12:25,161 --> 00:12:29,916 on Shark Tank, and it's the way Ken would direct it as if it was a real episode. 237 00:12:30,834 --> 00:12:32,027 - So... - [IMUFFLED] Now, it's gone. 238 00:12:32,127 --> 00:12:32,986 Oh. 239 00:12:33,086 --> 00:12:36,756 ...we ended up like running the scene all the way through... 240 00:12:37,715 --> 00:12:40,260 I think, four times with the sharks... 241 00:12:40,343 --> 00:12:41,970 - I'm out. - [COUGHS] 242 00:12:42,053 --> 00:12:44,222 ...and then we... we released them and went in 243 00:12:44,305 --> 00:12:47,100 for some pickup shots with Nate and Mandy 244 00:12:47,183 --> 00:12:49,352 when they're negotiating with each other. 245 00:12:49,978 --> 00:12:51,421 Tell us about you. What do you do? 246 00:12:51,521 --> 00:12:52,922 [IN NORMAL VOICE] I'm a Toyota salesman. 247 00:12:53,022 --> 00:12:58,194 APPEL: The first take, which was really just a rehearsal that we shot, 248 00:12:58,278 --> 00:13:03,450 I think was the most fun, because Mandy felt like she was actually on Shark Tank. 249 00:13:03,533 --> 00:13:06,703 You could feel her... her nerves. 250 00:13:06,786 --> 00:13:10,582 And I think that the moment that we used before Nate comes out, 251 00:13:10,665 --> 00:13:15,170 when it's her just talking to sharks, is probably from that first, uh, take. 252 00:13:16,671 --> 00:13:22,051 I wrote out a bunch of fake figures for how many Star Minders she sold, 253 00:13:22,135 --> 00:13:25,805 and, like, how much they cost to make, what the profit margins are. [LAUGHS] 254 00:13:25,889 --> 00:13:28,099 And she quickly memorized it and then had to go out there 255 00:13:28,183 --> 00:13:30,101 and spit out all these facts. 256 00:13:30,185 --> 00:13:32,854 And I told the sharks to actually grill her 257 00:13:32,937 --> 00:13:34,814 and ask her questions for authenticity. 258 00:13:34,898 --> 00:13:37,984 So, I'm super happy with how it all turned out. 259 00:13:38,067 --> 00:13:41,613 But, yeah, when they're holding the Star Minders and flipping them open 260 00:13:41,696 --> 00:13:44,407 and looking at 'em, they're just like kind of making up the questions 261 00:13:44,491 --> 00:13:48,411 as if we were on a real Shark Tank segment, which is great. 262 00:13:48,495 --> 00:13:50,413 Maybe you could call your mom to come help? 263 00:13:50,497 --> 00:13:51,773 Katie, I'm not calling my mom. 264 00:13:51,873 --> 00:13:53,708 I mean, how hard can it be? I can do it. 265 00:13:53,791 --> 00:13:54,901 I could do 80%... 266 00:13:55,001 --> 00:13:57,212 APPEL: The other crazy thing about this scene was 267 00:13:57,295 --> 00:13:59,297 there was a whole situation around the doughnut 268 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:03,092 that Nate was going to eat, where some wires got crossed 269 00:14:03,176 --> 00:14:06,596 in production and Props had asked Nate what kind of donuts he liked, 270 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:08,932 and he said he liked Voodoo Doughnuts, 271 00:14:09,015 --> 00:14:12,560 which are like pretty big, extravagant doughnuts. 272 00:14:12,644 --> 00:14:16,689 I wanted something a little simpler that, like, you'd find in a... in a greenroom. 273 00:14:16,773 --> 00:14:18,358 Like an Entenmann's or something. 274 00:14:19,442 --> 00:14:23,446 And, uh... but they were like, "No, Nate wants Voodoo Doughnuts." 275 00:14:23,530 --> 00:14:25,698 And I'm like, "I don't know if he really... 276 00:14:25,782 --> 00:14:29,035 "you just asked him what is... What kind of donuts he likes?" 277 00:14:29,702 --> 00:14:31,104 We ended up calling this Donut Gate. 278 00:14:31,204 --> 00:14:34,707 For a moment, like... [CHUCKLES] ...it sort of went away. 279 00:14:34,791 --> 00:14:37,710 A couple of weeks later, someone came to me while we were shooting a scene. 280 00:14:37,794 --> 00:14:40,004 It was before we shot Shark Tank. They were like, 281 00:14:40,838 --> 00:14:44,342 "So it's going to be $5,000 to get Nate this Voodoo Doughnut." 282 00:14:44,425 --> 00:14:47,053 And I'm like, "What? What are you talking about? 5,000?" 283 00:14:47,136 --> 00:14:50,515 They're like, "Well, just for consistency, like, we're shooting part of it in LA, 284 00:14:50,598 --> 00:14:51,708 "we're shooting part in Georgia, 285 00:14:51,808 --> 00:14:54,561 "there isn't a Voodoo Doughnuts in Atlanta. 286 00:14:54,644 --> 00:14:59,274 "So we have to get the same donut from a Voodoo Doughnuts in Florida, 287 00:14:59,357 --> 00:15:02,402 "and then, like, pay transpo to drive it up." 288 00:15:02,485 --> 00:15:04,195 [CHUCKLING] And it just ended up... 289 00:15:04,279 --> 00:15:06,322 [IN NORMAL VOICE] There was, like, overtime involved. 290 00:15:06,406 --> 00:15:08,533 It ended up being this crazy expense. 291 00:15:08,616 --> 00:15:11,119 And I... I was like, "All right, here's what you do. 292 00:15:11,202 --> 00:15:14,998 "Go get me a box of Entenmann donuts and leave them at video village." 293 00:15:15,957 --> 00:15:17,358 So they buy a box of Entenmann's. 294 00:15:17,458 --> 00:15:19,502 Nate comes walking up, getting ready to shoot this scene. 295 00:15:19,586 --> 00:15:21,879 I'm like, "Hey, Nate, are you cool 296 00:15:21,963 --> 00:15:24,048 "eating one of these donuts in the Shark Tank scene?" 297 00:15:24,132 --> 00:15:26,426 And Nate goes, "Can I have one now?" 298 00:15:26,509 --> 00:15:28,761 And I was like, "Yeah, of course." [LAUGHS] 299 00:15:28,845 --> 00:15:31,598 And then he eats this Entenmann's donut, and I'm like, "All right, great! 300 00:15:31,681 --> 00:15:34,809 "I just saved us $4,995 by, uh, making it Entenmann's." 301 00:15:34,831 --> 00:15:38,229 "I just saved us $4,995 by, uh, making it Entenmann's." 302 00:15:38,980 --> 00:15:40,732 [LAUGHING] 303 00:15:41,691 --> 00:15:43,343 - [GROANING] [CLATTERING] 304 00:15:43,443 --> 00:15:46,904 APPEL. It's funny sometimes how, like, the wires can get crossed, 305 00:15:46,988 --> 00:15:49,741 and you think that, like, "Oh, Nate's the star... MandM's," 306 00:15:49,824 --> 00:15:53,786 you know, but really, he doesn't care what he's eating. [LAUGHS] 307 00:15:53,870 --> 00:15:55,955 Spaghetti falling out of the cabinets. 308 00:15:56,706 --> 00:15:58,708 I don't know if you had a bad experience with spaghetti, 309 00:15:58,791 --> 00:16:01,961 but if you've ever had to pick up broken, dry spaghetti off the ground, 310 00:16:02,045 --> 00:16:04,547 it's very frustrating and very annoying. 311 00:16:06,341 --> 00:16:08,468 NATE: Come on. Get through. 312 00:16:09,218 --> 00:16:10,762 Oh, whatever. 313 00:16:10,845 --> 00:16:12,455 Extra calcium. 314 00:16:12,555 --> 00:16:13,915 Toast. 315 00:16:14,015 --> 00:16:16,141 - [THUMPING] - Broken! 316 00:16:16,643 --> 00:16:19,687 APPEL: We spent a lot of time shooting Nate making eggs. 317 00:16:21,522 --> 00:16:26,152 The set smelled absolutely awful, nauseating, 318 00:16:26,235 --> 00:16:29,155 just burning eggs all morning long. 319 00:16:30,490 --> 00:16:33,576 We shot so many variations of Nate getting eggshells in the bowl. 320 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:35,953 At one point... [CHUCKLES] 321 00:16:36,037 --> 00:16:39,499 ...there was a shot where he just, like, slammed an egg down on the counter 322 00:16:39,582 --> 00:16:42,377 to break it, and then kind of just pushed all the shells 323 00:16:42,460 --> 00:16:45,129 and egg mess into the bowl, like... 324 00:16:46,005 --> 00:16:51,094 like, made a little, you know, uh... you know, just flattened out his hand 325 00:16:51,177 --> 00:16:52,845 against the counter and, like, scooped them all in. 326 00:16:52,929 --> 00:16:53,746 It was really funny, 327 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:56,516 but it made his character seem... [LAUGHS] ...way too stupid. 328 00:16:56,599 --> 00:16:58,685 It's like, this guy's made breakfast before. 329 00:16:58,768 --> 00:17:01,187 We ended up deciding to pull back on some of that. 330 00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:02,855 Dad, are you Mom now? 331 00:17:02,939 --> 00:17:05,692 APPEL. But his idea to pour eggs into the strainer to get around the shells 332 00:17:05,775 --> 00:17:08,861 was actually... I think that was actually kind of smart. 333 00:17:08,945 --> 00:17:13,491 That's Nate showing his smarts, and then he burns them anyway. 334 00:17:13,574 --> 00:17:15,018 And two, I'm your dad. 335 00:17:15,118 --> 00:17:19,205 APPEL: And this is, like, the first real big scene with Nate and the girls. 336 00:17:19,288 --> 00:17:23,793 Stella, Birdie, and Charlotte, who play our kids were the best. 337 00:17:24,502 --> 00:17:27,672 We had so much fun on set together. 338 00:17:29,132 --> 00:17:33,428 Before we filmed, Nate and I, along with, like, our... our... 339 00:17:33,511 --> 00:17:37,682 Jeremy Latcham, our producer, and JoAnn, our line producer, 340 00:17:38,725 --> 00:17:44,480 we took the kids to a bowling alley arcade, dinosaur-themed, 341 00:17:44,564 --> 00:17:48,985 black light, mini golf place in, uh... in rural Georgia. 342 00:17:50,278 --> 00:17:52,989 I wanted them to feel like a real family, 343 00:17:53,072 --> 00:17:55,450 and, uh... and I thought it would be, you know, 344 00:17:55,533 --> 00:17:58,703 just a really fun way to break the ice to... You know, 345 00:17:58,786 --> 00:18:02,290 Nate had met them before, and they'd done family photos and stuff, but... 346 00:18:03,458 --> 00:18:05,918 you learn a lot about each other when you bowl together. 347 00:18:06,836 --> 00:18:08,671 And we gave each other fun nicknames. 348 00:18:09,338 --> 00:18:11,090 They called me Wild Eric. 349 00:18:11,174 --> 00:18:12,575 That was the name that they gave me. 350 00:18:12,675 --> 00:18:16,137 That was, like, up on my... That was my bowling name. 351 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:18,389 And I crushed it. I think I actually played... 352 00:18:18,473 --> 00:18:22,477 Everyone thought that I was hustling them, like, by coming up 353 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,688 with the idea to go bowling, because I got the best bowling score 354 00:18:25,772 --> 00:18:29,025 I've ever gotten in my entire life that night. 355 00:18:29,108 --> 00:18:32,028 And, uh, I will never get a score that good. 356 00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:34,614 And everyone thought I was this incredible bowler. 357 00:18:34,697 --> 00:18:36,282 When my kids came to town later, 358 00:18:36,365 --> 00:18:40,828 we went back to the bowling alley with the actors, and I was awful. 359 00:18:40,912 --> 00:18:42,705 I played like my normal bowling self. 360 00:18:42,789 --> 00:18:44,916 You're going to want to check Hadley's model volcano here... 361 00:18:44,999 --> 00:18:51,005 APPEL: Hadley and Gracie are, uh, both wearing Taylor Swift shirts. 362 00:18:51,088 --> 00:18:53,883 Uh, when they came down the stairs, they were arguing about, 363 00:18:55,092 --> 00:18:56,886 you know, how... [MOCKINGLY] "I wore it first." 364 00:18:56,969 --> 00:18:58,996 "No, you're copying me." 365 00:18:59,096 --> 00:19:00,456 - GRACIE: Oh! - KATIE: Mmm. 366 00:19:00,556 --> 00:19:02,558 APPEL: [IN NORMAL VOICE] But we got them Taylor Swift shirts, 367 00:19:02,642 --> 00:19:05,478 and, uh... which is not the easiest thing to pull off. 368 00:19:05,561 --> 00:19:08,022 - Hey, I'm right here. - I'm going to be back before you know it. 369 00:19:08,105 --> 00:19:09,732 I promise. Come here. 370 00:19:09,816 --> 00:19:11,776 - We're all going to die. - [CHUCKLES] 371 00:19:11,859 --> 00:19:14,612 - [CLANGS, RINGS] - Hey! I fixed the toaster. 372 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:17,223 - Bye. - KATIE: Bye. 373 00:19:17,323 --> 00:19:20,326 - Have fun. - KATIE: I love you guys. 374 00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:21,269 Don't worry about a thing. 375 00:19:21,369 --> 00:19:24,080 When you get back, the house will be exactly like you left it. 376 00:19:24,622 --> 00:19:27,291 - [DOORKNOB RATTLING] - Dad... 377 00:19:27,375 --> 00:19:28,693 APPEL: In this next scene, where... 378 00:19:28,793 --> 00:19:30,795 where, uh, Nate's driving the kids to school, 379 00:19:30,878 --> 00:19:35,800 we have Opalite by Taylor Swift and... and, uh... 380 00:19:35,883 --> 00:19:41,305 Spring Aspers, who... who, uh, sort of acted as our music supervisor, 381 00:19:41,389 --> 00:19:43,266 deserves a huge shout-out for that. 382 00:19:44,684 --> 00:19:46,310 We didn't end up putting Opalite in the movie 383 00:19:46,394 --> 00:19:51,732 until we were on the mixing stage just days before finishing the film. 384 00:19:52,608 --> 00:19:55,778 And then Spring, uh... Spring made it happen for us, 385 00:19:55,862 --> 00:19:58,155 and it really was transformative. 386 00:19:58,239 --> 00:20:01,033 We used to have a song that was sort of like a, um... 387 00:20:02,243 --> 00:20:04,245 kind of like an old-school, 388 00:20:04,328 --> 00:20:07,373 country-sounding song playing in the car. 389 00:20:07,456 --> 00:20:10,835 And switching it to Taylor Swift put the whole scene, 390 00:20:10,918 --> 00:20:12,879 like, in the kids' perspective. 391 00:20:12,962 --> 00:20:14,922 And since they're messing with Nate in this scene, 392 00:20:15,006 --> 00:20:17,383 they're not telling him exactly how to get to the school. 393 00:20:17,466 --> 00:20:21,721 They're calling Mom. I think it just, like, really amped things up and... 394 00:20:21,804 --> 00:20:25,766 and just gave a new flavor to the scene that we ended up liking 395 00:20:25,850 --> 00:20:28,686 better than the old version. And we loved the old version, 396 00:20:29,979 --> 00:20:32,523 but the Taylor Swift song definitely added a lot. 397 00:20:32,607 --> 00:20:34,483 - [LINE RINGING] - No! Sam, give me the phone. 398 00:20:34,567 --> 00:20:35,843 - Ringing! - NATE: Sam, hang up the phone. 399 00:20:35,943 --> 00:20:37,303 - l was just... - You were just what, Dad? 400 00:20:37,403 --> 00:20:38,679 No! No! I was just... 401 00:20:38,779 --> 00:20:40,364 - Just say it! Admit it! - Dad. Just admit it. 402 00:20:40,448 --> 00:20:43,326 - NATE: No, no, I was just... - Laser tag! Laser tag! Laser tag! 403 00:20:43,409 --> 00:20:44,727 - Dad, look out. - I'm watching. 404 00:20:44,827 --> 00:20:46,370 - Just give it back real fast. - I don't have it. 405 00:20:46,454 --> 00:20:47,730 - Sam! - Say it! You were... 406 00:20:47,830 --> 00:20:49,415 Okay! All right, fine, I was just bluffing! 407 00:20:49,498 --> 00:20:50,858 - Ha! I knew it! - NATE: Now will you please 408 00:20:50,958 --> 00:20:52,735 - hang the phone up! - Dad! Look out! 409 00:20:52,835 --> 00:20:55,211 - [GRUNTING] [BRAKES SCREECH] 410 00:20:57,131 --> 00:20:58,366 - [GIRLS SCREAMING] [SPLUTTERING] 411 00:20:58,466 --> 00:20:59,784 [GASPS] [LINE RINGING] 412 00:20:59,884 --> 00:21:03,262 KATIE: Hi, guys. What's up? You miss me already? 413 00:21:03,346 --> 00:21:05,242 APPEL: This volcano splat moment was like in all of our trailers. 414 00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:06,933 APPEL: This volcano splat moment was like in all of our trailers. 415 00:21:07,725 --> 00:21:09,085 Big moment. 416 00:21:09,185 --> 00:21:12,772 And we did the volcano in one take, I should mention, too. 417 00:21:12,855 --> 00:21:13,756 And thank goodness, 418 00:21:13,856 --> 00:21:17,526 'cause cleaning out the car and resetting it would have been a nightmare. 419 00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:21,197 DAN: Well, it's an employee photo, and you are no longer an employee. 420 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,950 Dan, I didn't quit. I'm on leave. 421 00:21:24,033 --> 00:21:24,892 I've heard that before. 422 00:21:24,992 --> 00:21:28,454 I think you need to just figure out where your priorities are. 423 00:21:28,537 --> 00:21:30,039 I did. They're with my children. 424 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:32,792 Great, okay, well, it hurts to hear you say that out loud. 425 00:21:32,875 --> 00:21:34,110 Come on, man. If you had kids... 426 00:21:34,210 --> 00:21:36,295 APPEL: So Nate's back here at the car dealership. 427 00:21:36,379 --> 00:21:38,047 There's, like, smooth saxophone music 428 00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:40,925 in the background that always really makes me laugh. 429 00:21:42,134 --> 00:21:46,138 And I love the idea that Dan has five kids that he never talks about. 430 00:21:47,682 --> 00:21:50,017 The comedic heightening of Nate's work world 431 00:21:50,101 --> 00:21:53,479 means his boss thinks you should never even speak of your family at work. 432 00:21:53,562 --> 00:21:55,690 Like... [CHUCKLES] ...work is a place for working, 433 00:21:55,773 --> 00:21:59,986 home is a place for the family, which is ridiculous, yes. 434 00:22:00,069 --> 00:22:02,863 But Zach Cherry plays it like it's reality, 435 00:22:02,947 --> 00:22:05,408 and that's what makes it so funny to me. 436 00:22:05,491 --> 00:22:11,122 And also, the... the idea that Nate's... 437 00:22:11,872 --> 00:22:14,083 The floor manager at work treats... 438 00:22:14,166 --> 00:22:18,838 He... He acts like he's some jilted lover in this situation. [LAUGHS] 439 00:22:18,921 --> 00:22:23,426 Like, Nate and him are like work bros, and now that Nate's choosing his family, 440 00:22:23,509 --> 00:22:26,762 it's like, I found a new man in... in Peyton. 441 00:22:26,846 --> 00:22:29,015 - [PEYTON GROANING] - NATE: This is your guy? 442 00:22:30,057 --> 00:22:31,642 That's my number one guy. 443 00:22:31,726 --> 00:22:35,813 APPEL: Kumail originally broke Nate's mug at the end of this scene, too, 444 00:22:35,896 --> 00:22:38,733 but I think it made audiences hate him too much. 445 00:22:39,817 --> 00:22:43,654 He's Nate's work rival, but he's not a real bad guy. 446 00:22:43,738 --> 00:22:46,866 He's... He's a guy willing to drink hot coffee to be right. 447 00:22:48,117 --> 00:22:50,536 But there's a later scene where Nate goes back to work, 448 00:22:50,619 --> 00:22:51,938 where he's drinking out of the mug, 449 00:22:52,038 --> 00:22:54,206 and we had it all cracked and glued back together, 450 00:22:54,707 --> 00:22:58,961 and then had to VFX the mug and do, like, 3D... [LAUGHS] 451 00:22:59,045 --> 00:23:02,131 ...you know, VFX-ing on it to make it look normal, 452 00:23:02,214 --> 00:23:05,426 once we made the decision to not break it in the first place. 453 00:23:07,636 --> 00:23:09,472 And this scene where Nate buys eggs, 454 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:12,058 this was also done when we went back for additional photography, 455 00:23:12,141 --> 00:23:14,643 we wanted one more scene where Nate is out there 456 00:23:14,727 --> 00:23:17,188 trying to do things, uh, that Katie would, 457 00:23:17,271 --> 00:23:20,357 like grocery shop, but he's overwhelmed by all the choices at the store. 458 00:23:20,441 --> 00:23:23,235 Like, there's a zillion different types of eggs, 459 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:26,655 which there never used to be. And he wants to do it right, 460 00:23:26,739 --> 00:23:29,617 but he ends up panicking and not buying anything. 461 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:34,038 I really love this Pat guy that we... [LAUGHING] ...asked to... 462 00:23:34,121 --> 00:23:36,290 to be the grocery store clerk. 463 00:23:36,373 --> 00:23:38,042 Him and Nate really played well off each other. 464 00:23:38,125 --> 00:23:39,919 NATE: ...grilling you pretty hard on the eggs 465 00:23:40,002 --> 00:23:41,962 and I'm not wearing you out, am I? 466 00:23:42,046 --> 00:23:45,674 APPEL: And that scene was edited by, uh, Eirinn Disbrow. 467 00:23:45,758 --> 00:23:49,678 We gave her this scene to do, um, to get her an additional editing credit, 468 00:23:49,762 --> 00:23:54,725 and she did a fantastic job with it. There was a ton of improv. 469 00:23:54,809 --> 00:23:56,836 We basically just like... 470 00:23:56,936 --> 00:24:00,272 That... So this grocery store is like a little two-wall set, 471 00:24:00,356 --> 00:24:02,650 and, uh, we just rolled cameras and, like, 472 00:24:02,733 --> 00:24:06,320 had these guys riff about eggs for... for like, an hour. [LAUGHS] 473 00:24:06,403 --> 00:24:08,739 You know, one or two nights. Uh... 474 00:24:09,824 --> 00:24:13,619 Twelve, thirteen tops. Thirteen tops. And... 475 00:24:13,702 --> 00:24:15,788 APPEL: So, yeah, here's Nate trying to, uh... 476 00:24:15,871 --> 00:24:20,000 He... He's once again picking up towels. It's all towels. 477 00:24:20,084 --> 00:24:23,462 Katie told him to do the towels before you do the rest of the laundry. 478 00:24:24,505 --> 00:24:25,865 And he's trying to talk on the phone, 479 00:24:25,965 --> 00:24:28,342 call his mom, leave a message, walk with the laundry basket, 480 00:24:28,425 --> 00:24:30,511 and he slips on a wet towel. 481 00:24:30,594 --> 00:24:34,140 Nate's stuntman, Ben, did so many great falls in this movie. 482 00:24:34,223 --> 00:24:36,559 I love the way he went down the stairs. 483 00:24:36,642 --> 00:24:39,145 He landed so his foot went through the wall. 484 00:24:41,355 --> 00:24:43,983 He... He really nailed it on, like, the first take. 485 00:24:44,984 --> 00:24:47,903 The shot of Nate's face popping up and looking into the hole 486 00:24:47,987 --> 00:24:51,490 was something that I went back and grabbed a couple of weeks after we shot the scene. 487 00:24:51,574 --> 00:24:54,577 That was the real benefit of building the house interiors on stage, 488 00:24:54,660 --> 00:24:57,997 that I could always go back for a pickup shot if I thought of it later. 489 00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,148 And, uh... 490 00:24:59,248 --> 00:25:01,250 you know, because we weren't at someone's actual house, 491 00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:02,918 we could put a hole in the wall. 492 00:25:03,919 --> 00:25:06,463 Shout-out to our production designer, Jon Billington, 493 00:25:06,547 --> 00:25:08,591 for giving us such a great house interior 494 00:25:08,674 --> 00:25:11,093 that looked good from any angle you shot it from 495 00:25:11,177 --> 00:25:13,304 without, uh, feeling too big 496 00:25:13,387 --> 00:25:16,015 for what I imagine this family's income level would be. 497 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,226 And then outside, we meet Keegan. 498 00:25:19,310 --> 00:25:24,190 This was Will Forte and Nate's first scene together that we shot. 499 00:25:24,273 --> 00:25:26,442 Originally, there was a shot where Will, after being hired, 500 00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:28,485 throws a hammer up in the air in celebration. 501 00:25:28,569 --> 00:25:30,679 And it almost hits Nate. 502 00:25:30,779 --> 00:25:33,240 I think make... makes it into the gag reel at the end. 503 00:25:33,324 --> 00:25:35,284 It was funny, but we didn't want to tip off 504 00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:38,037 exactly how bad of a roofer Keegan was in this first scene. 505 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:42,082 So we wanted to save that reveal for the next scene with Keegan, 506 00:25:42,166 --> 00:25:46,170 where Katie calls Nate to check in and you see him falling outside the window. 507 00:25:46,253 --> 00:25:51,717 Will Forte is the best, one of the funniest human beings in the world. 508 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,470 He also played a record exec, Ben Scotti 509 00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:57,181 in my first movie, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. 510 00:25:57,264 --> 00:25:59,391 That's where we first worked together. 511 00:25:59,475 --> 00:26:01,517 And, um... 512 00:26:01,685 --> 00:26:04,104 You know, when we sent him this script, I hadn't talked to him 513 00:26:04,188 --> 00:26:07,191 since we shot Weird, and I sent him a text, 514 00:26:08,734 --> 00:26:12,363 "Hey, Will, I know we haven't talked, you know, in a couple of years. 515 00:26:12,446 --> 00:26:14,406 "I... 1 think you'd be really great for this part." 516 00:26:14,490 --> 00:26:16,158 And I was so shocked, like... 517 00:26:17,952 --> 00:26:21,372 two... like, an hour later, my phone rings, and it's Will Forte, 518 00:26:21,455 --> 00:26:23,082 and he's like, "I read the script last night. 519 00:26:23,165 --> 00:26:25,793 "I love it. I want to do the movie." [CHUCKLES] 520 00:26:25,876 --> 00:26:29,588 It was crazy how, uh... how quickly he jumped on board. 521 00:26:29,672 --> 00:26:31,757 He... He ended up being a big fan of Nate's. 522 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,636 So, it was like mutual love for both of those guys. 523 00:26:35,719 --> 00:26:38,555 ...introduce you to a concept called the bubble... 524 00:26:38,639 --> 00:26:41,558 APPEL: And this teacher is really great, Charity Cervantes. 525 00:26:41,642 --> 00:26:43,435 She played our kindergarten teacher. 526 00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:46,939 We cast her out of Atlanta, and she really felt like one. 527 00:26:48,732 --> 00:26:52,069 The second we saw her audition, we were like, "Yes." 528 00:26:52,152 --> 00:26:54,071 She feels exactly like a kindergarten teacher. 529 00:26:54,154 --> 00:26:56,907 The way she talks in such a gentle way. 530 00:26:56,991 --> 00:26:58,784 - Uh, the beginning of it. - The beginning? 531 00:26:58,867 --> 00:27:00,828 Yeah, the beginning and the rest of it, too. 532 00:27:00,911 --> 00:27:01,770 - Okay. - [SCHOOL BELL RINGING] 533 00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:04,268 APPEL: Yeah, it's funny. She says kiddos a lot too. 534 00:27:04,290 --> 00:27:04,773 APPEL: Yeah, it's funny. She says kiddos a lot too. 535 00:27:04,873 --> 00:27:07,293 I have kids and my wife was... was really involved 536 00:27:07,376 --> 00:27:09,336 with their elementary school, volunteering. 537 00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:11,672 She was, uh, the president of the parent's association. 538 00:27:11,755 --> 00:27:14,341 She worked as an assistant librarian for a little while. 539 00:27:14,425 --> 00:27:17,720 And the more time she spent there, the more she would sound 540 00:27:17,803 --> 00:27:20,264 kind of like that teacher that we just had. [CHUCKLES] 541 00:27:20,806 --> 00:27:24,435 There's something about referring to kids as kiddos that's really funny to me. 542 00:27:24,518 --> 00:27:26,895 Friends is another word she would throw around all the time. 543 00:27:27,813 --> 00:27:29,648 [IMITATING TEACHER] "We don't hit our friends." 544 00:27:29,732 --> 00:27:32,151 [IN NORMAL VOICE] Everything was this friend, that friend. 545 00:27:32,234 --> 00:27:35,654 [INTRIGUING ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING] 546 00:27:37,740 --> 00:27:40,868 Uh, the song playing here where Nate sees Brian 547 00:27:40,951 --> 00:27:44,663 for the first time is Mr. Fantasy by Mr. Fantasy, 548 00:27:44,747 --> 00:27:47,958 who I believe is actually the dude who played Archie on Riverdale. 549 00:27:48,042 --> 00:27:49,626 I think it's like his alter ego. 550 00:27:50,419 --> 00:27:52,129 Anyway, as soon as I heard it, I was like, 551 00:27:52,212 --> 00:27:54,923 "Oh, it's perfect for this moment where Brian's doing a TikTok dance." 552 00:27:55,007 --> 00:27:57,843 And it actually plays three times in the movie. 553 00:27:57,926 --> 00:27:59,370 We already heard it once, 554 00:27:59,470 --> 00:28:01,597 coming from Gracie's phone in the opening, 555 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,683 when she's watching that, uh... watching Brian dance. 556 00:28:05,517 --> 00:28:07,186 And it will play again later, 557 00:28:07,269 --> 00:28:09,521 when she has Brian over at the house in act two. 558 00:28:10,397 --> 00:28:12,358 Brian was played by Maddox Batson, 559 00:28:12,941 --> 00:28:15,819 who's a, uh, young rising country star. 560 00:28:15,903 --> 00:28:20,115 When his audition tape came in, I showed it to my, uh, 561 00:28:20,199 --> 00:28:22,368 then 13-year-old daughter, and I was like, 562 00:28:23,285 --> 00:28:24,787 "What do you think about this kid being, 563 00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:26,830 "like, the love interest for the 13-year-old?" 564 00:28:26,914 --> 00:28:31,502 And she goes... [IMITATING DAUGHTER] "Maddox Batson auditioned for your movie?" 565 00:28:31,585 --> 00:28:34,797 [IN NORMAL VOICE] Like, I had no idea at that time. 566 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,550 She was obsessed with the song of his and, like, totally knew who Maddox was. 567 00:28:38,634 --> 00:28:40,244 And then, uh... 568 00:28:40,344 --> 00:28:43,889 I met with him, and he was super nice and grateful for the opportunity, 569 00:28:43,972 --> 00:28:46,892 and he ended up being the perfect Brian. 570 00:28:46,975 --> 00:28:52,231 So, thank you to my daughter Adelaide, for turning me on to Maddox Batson. 571 00:28:53,190 --> 00:28:55,901 By the way, I forgot to mention, it was also raining on and off 572 00:28:55,984 --> 00:28:58,654 in that scene where... where they met... [LAUGHS] ...Brian. 573 00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:02,408 We had to, like, stop down and wipe the windows of the... of the van 574 00:29:02,491 --> 00:29:03,892 because there was rain on all of them. 575 00:29:03,992 --> 00:29:05,744 Uh... Oh. 576 00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:08,664 How do I say it? Um... 577 00:29:11,834 --> 00:29:14,420 APPEL: I wrote all of the stuff on this construction paper, 578 00:29:14,503 --> 00:29:17,089 the confusing notes Nick would have taken with the crayon. 579 00:29:17,172 --> 00:29:19,758 I always love when you could put funny things in text, 580 00:29:19,842 --> 00:29:22,594 and there's... there's, like, too much of it to read in one viewing. 581 00:29:22,678 --> 00:29:25,556 It's like a little reward for those who watch the movie more than once, 582 00:29:25,639 --> 00:29:28,684 or take a screen grab, or know how to use their pause button. 583 00:29:28,767 --> 00:29:30,085 But... 584 00:29:30,185 --> 00:29:32,396 there's a bunch of dumb, funny things written on the paper by me 585 00:29:32,479 --> 00:29:33,839 ten minutes before we shot the scene. 586 00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:37,109 So, definitely go back and pause it... [CHUCKLES] ...and take a look at those. 587 00:29:39,403 --> 00:29:43,824 And this scene with Nate and Charlotte was... She was so great. 588 00:29:43,907 --> 00:29:47,077 You could give Charlotte anything to do or say, and she would always nail it 589 00:29:47,161 --> 00:29:50,289 and make it funnier than when you pitched it to her. 590 00:29:50,372 --> 00:29:51,690 Incredibly talented. 591 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:54,501 GRACIE: Yeah, my dad would never let me have one. Are you kidding? 592 00:29:54,585 --> 00:29:55,611 Gracie. 593 00:29:55,711 --> 00:29:58,297 APPEL: And her room looked so much like my youngest daughter's room. 594 00:29:58,380 --> 00:30:00,466 Our set decorator, Jen, did an incredible job 595 00:30:00,549 --> 00:30:02,759 in making these rooms feel like real spaces. 596 00:30:02,843 --> 00:30:04,678 Thirteen more days. 597 00:30:05,846 --> 00:30:08,640 APPEL: The door slam. Gracie doesn't even have a bedroom. 598 00:30:08,724 --> 00:30:11,602 What is built there is 'cause we only ever see Gracie, 599 00:30:11,685 --> 00:30:13,270 like, opening and closing her door. 600 00:30:13,353 --> 00:30:16,899 That's a little one wall set with the posters on it. 601 00:30:17,524 --> 00:30:22,321 If you actually go in there, it's the stairs down to the basement. 602 00:30:22,404 --> 00:30:24,490 Just in the construction of our set, we had... 603 00:30:24,573 --> 00:30:28,911 The upstairs was built on one stage, and the downstairs was on another. 604 00:30:28,994 --> 00:30:32,623 And all of those shots you just saw of Nate doing his chores, 605 00:30:32,706 --> 00:30:34,833 those were my hands, so, 606 00:30:34,917 --> 00:30:37,711 if you enjoyed that hand acting, 607 00:30:37,794 --> 00:30:39,505 I don't know if there's anyone watching this 608 00:30:39,588 --> 00:30:44,801 that is, like, a scout for hand acting in commercials, maybe, but... 609 00:30:46,011 --> 00:30:48,847 You could reach Sony Pictures and get my contact info, 610 00:30:48,931 --> 00:30:50,682 and I'd be... [CHUCKLING] happy to... 611 00:30:50,766 --> 00:30:52,559 [IN NORMAL VOICE] ...to do more hand acting. 612 00:30:54,353 --> 00:30:56,146 [CELL PHONE RINGING] 613 00:30:56,230 --> 00:30:57,856 Uh, so that was the end of Nate's first day. 614 00:30:57,940 --> 00:31:01,485 We really only see two days of Nate trying to live Katie's life. 615 00:31:01,568 --> 00:31:05,072 And then we use a montage to jump us all the way to the last weekend, 616 00:31:05,155 --> 00:31:08,617 his final challenge, which ends up being this sleepover. 617 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:10,786 KATIE: I called all the top-rated places 618 00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:12,312 so I could make them bid against each other. 619 00:31:12,412 --> 00:31:14,706 [CHUCKLES] Then I also called my friend's cousin, Keegan, 620 00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:16,500 'cause his bid was so low... 621 00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:18,669 APPEL: Yeah, Nate... Nate learns here. 622 00:31:18,752 --> 00:31:19,820 I love this expression, 623 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,280 "Aye, yai, yai..." 624 00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:23,048 - [LAUGHING] ...he makes. - [YELPING NEARBY] 625 00:31:23,131 --> 00:31:26,552 Realizing that Katie actually called several roofers. 626 00:31:27,177 --> 00:31:31,807 And this was just like the guy that she was using to drive everyone else's... 627 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:35,978 You know, to better negotiate with... with the other roofers, 628 00:31:36,061 --> 00:31:39,565 and Nate just hired him, no questions asked, and... 629 00:31:39,648 --> 00:31:41,942 he has fallen off the roof, and he's... 630 00:31:42,025 --> 00:31:43,177 KATIE: Thank you, I love you. 631 00:31:43,277 --> 00:31:45,053 NATE: Love you. 632 00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:47,530 APPEL: Got one foot still up there. 633 00:31:49,491 --> 00:31:52,286 So Nate... Yeah, Nate steps on pistachios here, 634 00:31:52,369 --> 00:31:56,665 and we reveal Brett Cullen, who plays Nate's dad. 635 00:31:57,332 --> 00:31:59,251 - What are you doing? - WALTER: I was sleeping... 636 00:31:59,334 --> 00:32:01,253 APPEL. He's supposed to represent, like... 637 00:32:01,336 --> 00:32:04,089 This will... This is what Nate will someday become 638 00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:06,633 if he doesn't change by the end of this movie. 639 00:32:06,717 --> 00:32:12,180 Like, his dad is super lazy, super unhelpful, always sleeping, 640 00:32:12,264 --> 00:32:14,558 leaving pistachio shells all over the place. 641 00:32:14,641 --> 00:32:16,251 Brett was awesome. 642 00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:19,688 He's... He's really one of my favorite parts of the movie, 643 00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:22,316 like every scene he's in, I... I think he's fantastic. 644 00:32:23,108 --> 00:32:27,446 He also played Tim Riggins's dad on Friday Night Lights, 645 00:32:28,113 --> 00:32:31,575 which is the, like, more alcoholic version, I guess, of Nate's dad. 646 00:32:33,744 --> 00:32:36,204 So he has a history of playing really great, supportive men. 647 00:32:36,830 --> 00:32:37,773 That's what I'm saying here. 648 00:32:37,873 --> 00:32:39,458 And all the cleaning sprays. 649 00:32:39,541 --> 00:32:41,418 Under our sink, it looks like a Baskin-Robbins. 650 00:32:41,501 --> 00:32:45,088 APPEL: And these ladies at the school, the other moms, the room parents, 651 00:32:45,172 --> 00:32:48,717 they used to be called the mug moms in early drafts of the script 652 00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:51,928 of Nate and Dan Lagana's script. 653 00:32:52,012 --> 00:32:55,015 And while the name didn't end up sticking, 654 00:32:56,433 --> 00:32:58,477 they still... We kept their matching Stanleys. 655 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,104 They all have these matching big Stanley mugs 656 00:33:01,188 --> 00:33:03,440 that are blinged out with dumb tchotchkes. 657 00:33:05,025 --> 00:33:07,694 These are like... these are the ladies that Conor hangs out with, 658 00:33:07,778 --> 00:33:11,114 and they immediately love Nate, uh, which makes Conor jealous. 659 00:33:11,198 --> 00:33:13,325 He gets a little territorial here. 660 00:33:14,785 --> 00:33:19,122 In the... in the script and... and what we shot, actually, he was... 661 00:33:19,206 --> 00:33:22,417 He got a lot more territorial and... and was like, 662 00:33:22,501 --> 00:33:25,003 "Stay away from these moms, please," to Nate. 663 00:33:25,087 --> 00:33:28,507 But when we watched the scene back, there was a little too much going on, 664 00:33:28,590 --> 00:33:31,051 and the messages were a little mixed. So... 665 00:33:32,177 --> 00:33:34,221 We decided to focus their conversation, uh, here 666 00:33:34,243 --> 00:33:36,932 We decided to focus their conversation, uh, here 667 00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:38,892 when Conor follows him over to the car. 668 00:33:40,394 --> 00:33:41,895 To focus it more on... 669 00:33:41,978 --> 00:33:43,338 There's a little bit about the moms, 670 00:33:43,438 --> 00:33:46,942 but focus it on Nate ignoring Conor's texts, 671 00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:52,781 since we'd already established that Conor wanted so badly to be Nate's friends. 672 00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:54,741 - I bring it to them. See? - Okay. 673 00:33:54,825 --> 00:33:56,018 You know, and if you wanna hang out... 674 00:33:56,118 --> 00:33:57,994 APPEL: He wanted so badly to be Nate's friend. 675 00:33:58,078 --> 00:34:00,247 But Nate's just not ready yet. 676 00:34:00,330 --> 00:34:03,625 He still, at this point, feels like he has nothing in common with Conor. 677 00:34:03,709 --> 00:34:08,130 It's not until the end that he learns that these guys do, uh... 678 00:34:08,213 --> 00:34:10,632 There's a little... little bit of common ground between these two. 679 00:34:10,716 --> 00:34:13,343 - Yeah, like, the whole color changes. - I don't think I've gotten any of them. 680 00:34:13,427 --> 00:34:14,369 - CONOR: Really? - Yeah. 681 00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:15,537 Can I see? 682 00:34:15,637 --> 00:34:17,180 APPEL: And a lot of this text message stuff, 683 00:34:17,264 --> 00:34:18,849 this is... this is improvised. 684 00:34:18,932 --> 00:34:23,019 A lot of this is improvised by, uh... by Colin and Nate. 685 00:34:23,103 --> 00:34:24,688 - Bowl. - Bowl? 686 00:34:24,771 --> 00:34:26,481 APPEL: Yeah, the scripted version of this scene 687 00:34:26,565 --> 00:34:29,609 really was just focused on, like, stay away from the moms. 688 00:34:29,693 --> 00:34:33,238 It was like he... Conor was almost... It was like a little mafia guy. 689 00:34:33,321 --> 00:34:35,365 You know... [IMITATING MAFIOSO] "You want to bring them something, 690 00:34:35,449 --> 00:34:38,118 "you bring me something, I bring it to them." [CHUCKLES] 691 00:34:38,994 --> 00:34:41,371 [UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING] 692 00:34:42,873 --> 00:34:44,583 - [WHIRRING] [IN NORMAL VOICE] All right. Here's Nate. 693 00:34:44,666 --> 00:34:49,171 This sort of follows Nate over the, uh... you know, the course of these two weeks, 694 00:34:50,255 --> 00:34:52,340 trying to fix his oatmeal problem. 695 00:34:52,424 --> 00:34:53,659 You know, there's more spaghetti. 696 00:34:53,759 --> 00:34:56,762 All of the... Every issue that he has with his kids is heightened. 697 00:34:56,845 --> 00:34:58,889 Originally, the montage was way weirder 698 00:34:58,972 --> 00:35:01,266 and more dreamlike when I first conceived it, 699 00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:03,935 but it just did not fit the tone of the movie. 700 00:35:04,728 --> 00:35:07,397 I did this, like, LSD sequence in the Weird Al movie 701 00:35:07,481 --> 00:35:09,733 that ends in this crazy black void 702 00:35:09,816 --> 00:35:12,694 where Daniel Radcliffe, like, hatches out of an egg. 703 00:35:12,778 --> 00:35:15,781 I'm like, "You know, I'm going to do another weirdo montage in this." 704 00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:17,616 And it was just like... [CHUCKLES] 705 00:35:17,699 --> 00:35:19,451 When we ended up watching it, we go, "You know what? 706 00:35:19,534 --> 00:35:22,954 "This feels like it wants to be a more classic '80s montage," 707 00:35:23,038 --> 00:35:26,124 you know, since the whole movie is kind of an homage to, like, 708 00:35:26,208 --> 00:35:28,126 the movies that Nate and I grew up with, 709 00:35:28,210 --> 00:35:31,379 these... you know, the... the Mr. Moms, the Uncle Bucks. 710 00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:33,048 [LOW RUMBLING] 711 00:35:34,049 --> 00:35:40,222 So everything is in slo-mo, you know, which is... were in both versions, 712 00:35:40,305 --> 00:35:41,890 but the old version was so much darker. 713 00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:45,602 The music I used was Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights 714 00:35:45,685 --> 00:35:47,395 from Romeo and Juliet... 715 00:35:49,731 --> 00:35:52,359 which is just way moodier and darker, 716 00:35:52,442 --> 00:35:54,653 and everything was longer and more drug out. 717 00:35:54,736 --> 00:35:57,364 Uh, like the shot of Nate drowning in towels at the end. 718 00:35:57,447 --> 00:36:00,200 That was the really weird dreamlike shot. 719 00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:02,828 But the problem was it just didn't make you smile, 720 00:36:02,911 --> 00:36:06,706 which... which ended up hurting the scenes that followed. 721 00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:10,085 Before we fixed it, we kept omitting this scene here 722 00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:12,546 where Nate... We kept going back and forth on this, 723 00:36:12,629 --> 00:36:14,589 the scene where Nate talks to Katie on the iPad, 724 00:36:14,673 --> 00:36:18,426 'cause it felt like the scene, it was dragging. It was such a downer. 725 00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:21,596 But once we found the right tone for the montage, 726 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,123 everything that followed it, 727 00:36:23,223 --> 00:36:25,225 it sort of lifted everything else up 728 00:36:25,308 --> 00:36:31,189 and... and made us find the right version of, uh... of this scene, 729 00:36:32,482 --> 00:36:34,192 you know, where Nate's talking on the iPad, 730 00:36:34,276 --> 00:36:36,778 which is... which is important... It's an important scene. 731 00:36:36,862 --> 00:36:38,613 - ...your healthy breakfast thing... - KATIE: No, I know. 732 00:36:38,697 --> 00:36:40,532 - ...but, you know... - No, no, no, no. It's fine. 733 00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:41,558 I wanted to check... 734 00:36:41,658 --> 00:36:45,620 APPEL: Mandy shot her side of this iPad conversation 735 00:36:45,704 --> 00:36:48,206 a week or two after we shot Nate's side. 736 00:36:48,999 --> 00:36:51,918 And this was like in a little workshop warehouse space 737 00:36:52,002 --> 00:36:55,672 on the Trilith Studios lot that we turned into a Korean factory. 738 00:36:57,591 --> 00:36:59,509 And we shot it with an actual phone, 739 00:37:00,343 --> 00:37:03,722 'cause it always bumps me when I see a scene in movies 740 00:37:03,805 --> 00:37:08,018 that's supposed to be filmed on a phone or, you know, FaceTime or something, 741 00:37:08,685 --> 00:37:13,315 and it's been shot with cinema cameras, and it just looks way more beautiful. 742 00:37:13,398 --> 00:37:16,610 I like the imperfections of a cell phone camera. 743 00:37:17,944 --> 00:37:22,240 I directed an episode of, uh, The Afterparty on Apple TV that was like, 744 00:37:22,324 --> 00:37:26,828 all of the flashbacks in this episode were supposed to be cell phone footage, 745 00:37:26,912 --> 00:37:28,641 and it was really, you know, that... that's where I... 746 00:37:28,663 --> 00:37:30,248 and it was really, you know, that... that's where I... 747 00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:34,502 We shot everything with the native iPhone camera. 748 00:37:34,586 --> 00:37:36,254 It's like, I don't even want to use 749 00:37:37,130 --> 00:37:40,216 Filmic Pro or something, where you're using an iPhone 750 00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:42,552 to shoot log footage and make it look better. 751 00:37:42,636 --> 00:37:44,721 Just like, use the native camera. 752 00:37:44,804 --> 00:37:47,015 And all the imperfections make it feel real. 753 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:50,769 NATE: Ladies, I think we know why we're here. 754 00:37:50,852 --> 00:37:53,605 APPEL: I love this joke here where Nate's dad doesn't even 755 00:37:53,688 --> 00:37:55,131 know that Katie was out of town. 756 00:37:55,231 --> 00:37:56,550 He's been sleeping on the couch for a week, 757 00:37:56,650 --> 00:37:58,944 just completely oblivious to everything. [CHUCKLES] 758 00:37:59,027 --> 00:38:01,404 And he just bounces as soon as his wife gets home. 759 00:38:01,988 --> 00:38:04,115 There's like a little line as he goes up the stairs 760 00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:05,951 where he's like, "Finally get a home-cooked meal," 761 00:38:06,534 --> 00:38:08,745 'cause, like, Nate's just been ordering pizza every day. 762 00:38:09,746 --> 00:38:12,874 The towel interrogation was in Nate and Dan's original draft. 763 00:38:12,958 --> 00:38:14,626 Uh, this used to be much longer. 764 00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:18,254 This is actually the scene we used for chemistry reads with Nate 765 00:38:18,338 --> 00:38:20,840 and the girls during the audition process. 766 00:38:20,924 --> 00:38:25,220 We had six kids, and we mix and match them with Nate until we found the right combo. 767 00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:27,639 And all the kids were great. 768 00:38:27,722 --> 00:38:30,558 It was really like one of the most heartbreaking things 769 00:38:30,642 --> 00:38:35,271 to have to tell three children that they did not get the roles. 770 00:38:35,355 --> 00:38:38,233 But really, it is just... it just had to do with, like, 771 00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,652 us finding the right combination of kids. 772 00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:43,154 They were all fantastic actors, 773 00:38:43,238 --> 00:38:47,117 and, uh, I'm sure they will all go on to do great things. 774 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,661 I pulled the Post-it off the calendar. 775 00:38:49,744 --> 00:38:51,830 Okay, but did you call people's parents? 776 00:38:51,913 --> 00:38:53,273 NATE: I don't even know your friends' names, 777 00:38:53,373 --> 00:38:55,542 so how would I know who their parents are? You know. 778 00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:59,004 APPEL. It was so fun putting, um, Colin Jost in this 779 00:38:59,087 --> 00:39:01,256 ridiculous, like, line dancing outfit. 780 00:39:02,924 --> 00:39:05,301 Like, he's almost... It's almost like he's bragging to Nate, 781 00:39:05,385 --> 00:39:07,345 like, "See, I have... I have friends. 782 00:39:07,429 --> 00:39:09,264 "I'm going line dancing with my friends." 783 00:39:10,432 --> 00:39:15,020 We did so many takes of him, uh, line dancing down the walkway. 784 00:39:15,103 --> 00:39:18,106 We almost used a version where at the end, the music drops out 785 00:39:18,189 --> 00:39:20,525 and he hits his key fob to get into his car. 786 00:39:20,608 --> 00:39:22,235 You hear, like, the... [IMITATES BEEPING] 787 00:39:22,318 --> 00:39:24,362 ...Of him getting into his car. [CHUCKLES] 788 00:39:24,446 --> 00:39:27,449 He goes from doing this stupid dance to, like, walking normal, 789 00:39:27,532 --> 00:39:29,534 just showing, like, the awkwardness of it. 790 00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:31,019 But ultimately, we ended up going out 791 00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:33,997 on my horror movie shot, where we're slowly pulling out 792 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,249 as the door is, like, magically closing. 793 00:39:36,332 --> 00:39:37,876 Just one and done. And we got it. Okay? 794 00:39:37,959 --> 00:39:40,462 APPEL: I like those little flourishes 795 00:39:40,545 --> 00:39:43,089 where the reality gets heightened a little bit. 796 00:39:43,173 --> 00:39:46,301 It's very John Hughes, I feel, where... 797 00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:48,887 John Hughes would... The movie was... 798 00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:51,765 His movies were always, like, pretty grounded in reality. 799 00:39:51,848 --> 00:39:54,142 But there would be these little cinematic flourishes 800 00:39:54,225 --> 00:39:56,853 where you get to, like, heighten things. 801 00:39:56,936 --> 00:40:00,899 And it's something the camera does, or just the way it sort of uses 802 00:40:00,982 --> 00:40:05,445 these, like, cinematic tropes to... to get an idea across. 803 00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:10,033 And, uh, so that... that, I guess, was kind of my homage to that. 804 00:40:10,116 --> 00:40:11,826 I've never had someone bleed like that before. 805 00:40:11,910 --> 00:40:13,495 Jane, don't worry about it. I'm sorry... 806 00:40:13,578 --> 00:40:16,915 APPEL: The song that's playing there, of course, is Candy by Mandy Moore, 807 00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:20,376 which was a big song on the set of our movie 808 00:40:21,044 --> 00:40:24,089 because, uh, Mandy's schedule was so spread out. 809 00:40:24,172 --> 00:40:25,573 And she has small children at home. 810 00:40:25,673 --> 00:40:27,634 She didn't stay in Georgia for the whole shoot. 811 00:40:28,593 --> 00:40:31,846 So after she left, uh, for a couple of weeks 812 00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:32,914 in the middle of the shoot, 813 00:40:33,014 --> 00:40:37,185 the kids choreographed this whole dance to Canady, 814 00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:41,356 and they made shirts and everything. [CHUCKLES] And when Mandy got back, 815 00:40:41,439 --> 00:40:43,775 they, like, sat her down, and it was this big surprise. 816 00:40:43,858 --> 00:40:49,072 They, like, performed this dance routine that they made to, uh... 817 00:40:49,823 --> 00:40:51,016 to Candy. 818 00:40:51,116 --> 00:40:53,576 Like I said, the kids were the best. 819 00:40:53,660 --> 00:40:55,061 They made this just the most... 820 00:40:55,161 --> 00:40:58,915 Real summer camp vibes on the set of The Breadwinner. 821 00:40:58,998 --> 00:41:01,417 You can't repair the memory of a friend 822 00:41:01,501 --> 00:41:03,753 telling you your eyes are too close together. 823 00:41:05,547 --> 00:41:07,757 APPEL: Oh, and I forgot to mention, when we cut to that big, uh... 824 00:41:07,841 --> 00:41:10,760 the wide shot of, uh, Nate screaming, 825 00:41:10,844 --> 00:41:12,078 that was me screaming. 826 00:41:12,178 --> 00:41:13,997 Seems quiet. 827 00:41:14,097 --> 00:41:15,765 APPEL: I didn't want Nate to blow his voice out, 828 00:41:15,849 --> 00:41:17,851 but I was fine blowing mine out, 829 00:41:17,934 --> 00:41:20,562 'cause I don't have to, like, pack arenas full of people 830 00:41:20,645 --> 00:41:22,438 and talk to them on a nightly basis. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 831 00:41:22,522 --> 00:41:24,691 ...group activity before they start splitting off and... 832 00:41:24,774 --> 00:41:26,176 APPEL. Forte's so funny in this scene. 833 00:41:26,276 --> 00:41:28,486 I kept having him, uh, say... 834 00:41:28,570 --> 00:41:30,321 [IMITATING WILL] "That's when they're getting me." 835 00:41:30,405 --> 00:41:32,991 [IN NORMAL VOICE] And, like, more and more intense every take. 836 00:41:33,074 --> 00:41:35,743 I think I was just really trying to get Nate to break... 837 00:41:37,662 --> 00:41:41,958 For roof... Him saying the thing about the ice cream for... 838 00:41:42,041 --> 00:41:44,502 for roof reasons is really funny to me, too. 839 00:41:45,044 --> 00:41:46,921 There were a couple other mentions of things that he did 840 00:41:47,005 --> 00:41:50,884 for roof reasons that... that ended up getting cut, but... 841 00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:55,847 That was another Matt Roller line... "Roof reasons." 842 00:41:55,930 --> 00:41:58,057 - TRISHA: Stop, no, you're... - HADLEY: It has an "E" at the end. 843 00:41:58,141 --> 00:42:00,185 TRISHA: Oh, my gosh! You're so dramatic about this. All the time. 844 00:42:00,268 --> 00:42:04,606 APPEL: Zach and Leo, our composers, did a great horror score here. 845 00:42:06,608 --> 00:42:10,111 They also scored my Weird Al movie and won an Emmy for it, 846 00:42:10,195 --> 00:42:15,658 and, uh, Leo did the score for a show called Son of Zorn 847 00:42:15,742 --> 00:42:18,453 that I used to direct on, uh, that was on Fox. 848 00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:22,832 And, uh, I love those guys. They are the best. 849 00:42:22,916 --> 00:42:25,210 They crushed it with all the music in this movie. 850 00:42:25,293 --> 00:42:27,462 I have blisters from my flashcards. 851 00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:29,589 APPEL: Hadley's spelling bee friends, Trisha and Avery, 852 00:42:29,672 --> 00:42:34,135 are played by Jasmine Washington, who cried real tears in her audition, 853 00:42:34,219 --> 00:42:37,513 so we had to... we had to cast her, and Maggie Toomey, 854 00:42:37,597 --> 00:42:39,641 who is also Conor and Angela's daughter. 855 00:42:40,183 --> 00:42:41,376 She plays Conor and Angela's daughter, 856 00:42:41,476 --> 00:42:43,686 who got hit by the frisbee back in act one. 857 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,689 She had actually auditioned to be Hadley, 858 00:42:46,773 --> 00:42:49,525 and she got really close to getting the... uh, the part. 859 00:42:50,109 --> 00:42:52,737 So I was very happy to bring her back for this... this small role. 860 00:42:53,363 --> 00:42:55,240 No one cares about a spelling bee. 861 00:42:55,990 --> 00:42:57,016 What? 862 00:42:57,116 --> 00:42:59,702 APPEL. I love the way she says "fiduciary" 863 00:42:59,786 --> 00:43:01,788 to Nate here. [CHUCKLES] It was very funny. 864 00:43:02,413 --> 00:43:04,540 She was like the darker version of Hadley. 865 00:43:05,166 --> 00:43:08,127 Um, she felt perfect to be Conor and Angela's kid. 866 00:43:08,211 --> 00:43:10,338 I wouldn't have them on my desk 867 00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:11,739 because it would be kind of dumb. 868 00:43:11,839 --> 00:43:15,009 APPEL: And I love that this is like our... It's a heartwarming scene 869 00:43:16,219 --> 00:43:17,720 where Nate gives good advice, 870 00:43:17,804 --> 00:43:20,932 but just in, like, the dumbest, worst way. 871 00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:24,060 I don't know if it's just like a dad thing to do, 872 00:43:24,143 --> 00:43:28,106 but I could see myself framing this in a similar way for my... my daughter, 873 00:43:28,189 --> 00:43:31,484 trying to make her feel better by insulting the entire competition... 874 00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:33,861 [LAUGHING] ...that she cares about and calling it stupid. 875 00:43:34,696 --> 00:43:39,117 [IN UNISON] F-I-D-U-C-I-A-R-Y. 876 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,827 Look at that. You're already spelling better 877 00:43:40,910 --> 00:43:43,955 than a grown man who owns a home. 878 00:43:44,038 --> 00:43:45,748 - It doesn't matter who gets... - APPEL: Nate's makeup 879 00:43:45,832 --> 00:43:48,793 the kids did, uh, was really funny, too. 880 00:43:49,585 --> 00:43:54,257 Rebecca Hickey, our, uh, makeup artist, oh, went to my high school. 881 00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:55,967 I have... It's crazy. 882 00:43:56,050 --> 00:43:59,304 She... She also, uh... She's been nominated for multiple Emmys. 883 00:43:59,387 --> 00:44:02,098 She does the makeup on The White Lotus. 884 00:44:02,181 --> 00:44:03,041 And, uh, we went to high school together. 885 00:44:03,141 --> 00:44:04,542 And, uh, we went to high school together. 886 00:44:04,642 --> 00:44:06,352 She... She graduated... 887 00:44:06,894 --> 00:44:10,398 Her brother married my sister's best friend. 888 00:44:10,481 --> 00:44:13,818 We were, like, before... years before this movie, 889 00:44:13,901 --> 00:44:15,094 we were at a wedding together. 890 00:44:15,194 --> 00:44:17,572 We didn't know each other, and it's just wild 891 00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:21,284 'cause we went to high school at... at Union-Endicott High School 892 00:44:21,367 --> 00:44:24,787 in upstate New York, which is, like, as far from Hollywood as you can get. 893 00:44:24,871 --> 00:44:27,582 And we both ended up here and working on the same movie. 894 00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:29,959 Pick them up. Drop them off. Pick them up again. 895 00:44:30,043 --> 00:44:31,194 Never get time to myself. 896 00:44:31,294 --> 00:44:32,879 APPEL: Just when Nate thinks things are going well, 897 00:44:32,962 --> 00:44:35,131 he got a fish tank full of water barfed on him. 898 00:44:35,882 --> 00:44:39,927 If you look very closely, I think there's like oatmeal in that, uh, barf. 899 00:44:40,011 --> 00:44:43,389 There's like little specks you could see stuck to Nate's shirt. 900 00:44:43,473 --> 00:44:45,850 ...back hurts. My jeans don't fit right... 901 00:44:45,933 --> 00:44:49,812 APPEL: And hear Nate ranting about how hard Katie's job is, 902 00:44:49,896 --> 00:44:53,316 you'll notice he's eating a whole bunch of KFC, 903 00:44:54,650 --> 00:44:56,094 delicious KFC. 904 00:44:56,194 --> 00:44:58,946 And they're not paying me to say that right now. 905 00:44:59,030 --> 00:45:01,824 There's a lot of brands in this movie, real brands. 906 00:45:01,908 --> 00:45:06,371 And that's actually something that was important to Nate, 907 00:45:06,454 --> 00:45:09,957 because in his stand-up, he's always talking about real... 908 00:45:10,041 --> 00:45:10,984 He talks about McDonald's. 909 00:45:11,084 --> 00:45:13,127 He talks about Taco Bell and DoorDash. 910 00:45:13,211 --> 00:45:17,924 Like, so many of his jokes are rooted in the real things 911 00:45:18,007 --> 00:45:21,010 that people interact with on a... on a daily basis. 912 00:45:21,761 --> 00:45:23,513 Nate should eat the same kind of fast food 913 00:45:23,596 --> 00:45:26,516 and chain restaurants that, you know, a lot of America eats at, 914 00:45:26,599 --> 00:45:28,476 and a lot of what he talks about. 915 00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,353 " with a new email address." 916 00:45:30,436 --> 00:45:32,146 Whole company is run by a robot. 917 00:45:32,814 --> 00:45:34,382 You want a donut? 918 00:45:34,482 --> 00:45:37,693 No. I was embarrassed on national television by a donut. 919 00:45:38,361 --> 00:45:39,178 Oh, dude... 920 00:45:39,278 --> 00:45:41,531 APPEL: And Nate's friendship with Peter is expanding here. 921 00:45:41,614 --> 00:45:44,826 Uh, Martin Herlihy, he's so funny. 922 00:45:45,451 --> 00:45:49,038 Love him on SNL and... and in Please Don't Destroy. 923 00:45:49,122 --> 00:45:50,623 NATE: That's enough. Swipe it away. 924 00:45:50,706 --> 00:45:52,066 - GRACIE: And action! - [SCREAMING] 925 00:45:52,166 --> 00:45:53,026 PETER: Oh, dude, that's you! 926 00:45:53,126 --> 00:45:55,002 APPEL: It's funny, Nate, like a lot of guys, 927 00:45:56,003 --> 00:45:59,090 doesn't really have many friends outside of his work friends. 928 00:45:59,173 --> 00:46:01,759 You know, they talk about the male loneliness epidemic. 929 00:46:01,843 --> 00:46:04,303 That's it. A lot of guys just have work buddies. 930 00:46:04,387 --> 00:46:07,265 Since Peyton hates him, I like to think that Dan at work is really Nate's 931 00:46:07,348 --> 00:46:10,685 only friend and he misses him and he wants to go back to work, 932 00:46:11,602 --> 00:46:13,980 not only 'cause staying at home is harder for him, but also it's like 933 00:46:14,063 --> 00:46:18,067 his whole identity and social life is wrapped up into being at Toyota. 934 00:46:20,069 --> 00:46:22,989 And we had gone back and forth on the ending of that scene too. 935 00:46:23,072 --> 00:46:25,783 There was originally a scene after that, uh, 936 00:46:25,867 --> 00:46:28,536 scene with... with Peter, where Nate accidentally 937 00:46:28,619 --> 00:46:30,955 sets off these alarms in the house. 938 00:46:31,038 --> 00:46:35,543 And when he goes outside, Keegan jumps off the roof 939 00:46:35,626 --> 00:46:38,754 and beats him up, thinking he's an intruder. [CHUCKLES] 940 00:46:38,838 --> 00:46:39,781 [LAUGHING] But... 941 00:46:39,881 --> 00:46:42,592 [IN NORMAL VOICE] But the scene with Peter felt... really felt like the ending. 942 00:46:42,675 --> 00:46:46,888 It really put a cap on the, uh... on the whole sleepover bit. 943 00:46:46,971 --> 00:46:50,975 So, when the alarm scene was there, that button at the end with the Tik Tok 944 00:46:51,058 --> 00:46:56,981 and seeing himself on TikTok wasn't. Uh, it felt clunky, but it actually worked 945 00:46:57,064 --> 00:46:59,859 really well as the button for the first half of act two. 946 00:46:59,942 --> 00:47:01,986 All right, dude. Just give me the lasagna. 947 00:47:02,069 --> 00:47:03,946 APPEL: Nate seeing himself on that TikTok, 948 00:47:04,030 --> 00:47:07,074 it's basically like Nate is forced to look at his own reflection. 949 00:47:07,158 --> 00:47:11,120 He's in this, like, midpoint low, and he's forced to look at himself 950 00:47:11,204 --> 00:47:14,165 being bad at what he's trying to do. 951 00:47:14,248 --> 00:47:18,002 And he doesn't like what he sees, which leads to, you know, 952 00:47:18,085 --> 00:47:20,963 the decisions he makes after this scene. 953 00:47:21,547 --> 00:47:23,591 Nah, I'm fine. It ha... It happens all the time. 954 00:47:23,674 --> 00:47:24,784 Does it? 955 00:47:24,884 --> 00:47:26,552 Yes, it does. 956 00:47:26,636 --> 00:47:28,387 APPEL: Alexis, uh, uh... 957 00:47:29,388 --> 00:47:31,974 Our costume designer made this great apron for Nate. 958 00:47:32,850 --> 00:47:35,561 We thought it... She put those frills on it. 959 00:47:35,645 --> 00:47:39,524 We wanted it to look as, like, funny and feminine as... as possible. 960 00:47:39,607 --> 00:47:42,276 And, uh, we thought it needed one more touch. 961 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,404 So she had... She got this great, um... 962 00:47:46,113 --> 00:47:48,157 woman who did embroidery. 963 00:47:48,241 --> 00:47:54,080 She had done, like, a bunch of horse embroidery on... on some clothes for Sam, 964 00:47:54,163 --> 00:47:56,958 and we were like, "Let's embroider mushrooms." 965 00:47:57,041 --> 00:47:58,025 [CHUCKLING] It's just... 966 00:47:58,125 --> 00:48:01,420 [IN NORMAL VOICE] Mushrooms on this, uh, apron. 967 00:48:01,504 --> 00:48:06,759 So those are, like, original embroidered mushrooms that we, uh... that we did. 968 00:48:07,260 --> 00:48:09,387 ...the flight info, and I'll see you tomorrow. 969 00:48:10,513 --> 00:48:12,640 Okay. Bye. 970 00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:14,850 - Are you leaving again? - GRACIE: What? Mom? 971 00:48:14,934 --> 00:48:18,688 APPEL: We went back and forth a lot on the music in this scene. Uh, Tim Roche, 972 00:48:18,771 --> 00:48:22,942 who... who was an additional editor that came out and did... did some work for us, 973 00:48:24,110 --> 00:48:27,029 he's the one that, like, came up with the idea to put some tension in. 974 00:48:27,113 --> 00:48:31,742 Like those timpani drums that hit when Nate, like, hears Katie on the phone. 975 00:48:33,119 --> 00:48:35,246 That was, uh... That was his idea. 976 00:48:35,329 --> 00:48:37,456 And... And Zach and Leo really ran with it. 977 00:48:37,999 --> 00:48:39,442 KATIE: I know it's hard. 978 00:48:39,542 --> 00:48:41,627 It's really hard for me, too. 979 00:48:41,711 --> 00:48:44,130 APPEL: Yeah, we went... we went back and forth a lot on... 980 00:48:44,213 --> 00:48:45,923 on this music, trying to find, like, what's... 981 00:48:46,924 --> 00:48:48,926 what's too much, what's too little? 982 00:48:49,010 --> 00:48:51,345 Is this going to make it too sappy? Is it... 983 00:48:52,263 --> 00:48:53,247 'Cause... 'Cause they're not... 984 00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:57,101 Like, things aren't that bad for the family here, 985 00:48:57,184 --> 00:48:59,937 like, the girls obviously want Mom back, 986 00:49:00,021 --> 00:49:03,107 and Nate wants his life back, but it's not like... 987 00:49:03,190 --> 00:49:06,068 Things aren't dire enough to have, like, music, 988 00:49:06,152 --> 00:49:09,071 that's... that's too... too sad or emotional. 989 00:49:09,155 --> 00:49:10,223 [KATIE SIGHS] 990 00:49:10,323 --> 00:49:11,766 NATE: [PANTING] All right. 991 00:49:11,866 --> 00:49:13,534 APPEL: But I do really like Nate's... 992 00:49:13,618 --> 00:49:16,954 Nate's acting in this scene, in this moment here. 993 00:49:17,038 --> 00:49:19,040 I think it's some of his best in the movie. 994 00:49:19,123 --> 00:49:22,001 We'll figure it out, all right? It's great. 995 00:49:23,294 --> 00:49:25,004 - Thank you. - NATE: [STUTTERS] It is great. 996 00:49:25,087 --> 00:49:27,048 Yeah, itis. It really is. 997 00:49:27,131 --> 00:49:30,343 APPEL: This walking up, kind of recalibrating and... 998 00:49:30,426 --> 00:49:32,303 and telling her it's gonna be okay. 999 00:49:32,928 --> 00:49:35,181 He's trying to be supportive 1000 00:49:35,264 --> 00:49:37,183 even though he's frustrated. 1001 00:49:37,975 --> 00:49:41,479 There's like a lot of great subtext behind his facial expressions. 1002 00:49:41,562 --> 00:49:42,588 ...of the future. 1003 00:49:42,688 --> 00:49:44,732 Oh, that's great. That's great. 1004 00:49:44,815 --> 00:49:46,759 KATIE: Oh. And this is the best part. 1005 00:49:46,859 --> 00:49:49,820 APPEL: And yeah, Katie... Katie thinks what's gonna help is a... 1006 00:49:49,904 --> 00:49:55,159 is @ more high-tech calendar, which is like the last thing that Nate is... 1007 00:49:55,242 --> 00:49:59,664 [LAUGHS] He's like, "I don't want more rules and schedules." 1008 00:50:00,665 --> 00:50:02,540 KATIE: You're gonna love it. 1009 00:50:02,917 --> 00:50:03,734 [ANIMATED CAT MEOWS] 1010 00:50:03,834 --> 00:50:04,735 APPEL: There was also a scene right after this 1011 00:50:04,835 --> 00:50:05,987 APPEL: There was also a scene right after this 1012 00:50:06,087 --> 00:50:09,965 that we deleted, where Katie wants to get intimate with Nate, 1013 00:50:10,049 --> 00:50:12,677 but he's... He falls asleep. [CHUCKLES] 1014 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,347 And it was cute, but it wasn't really necessary, 1015 00:50:16,430 --> 00:50:18,474 and it was kind of the only moment in the film 1016 00:50:18,557 --> 00:50:21,143 that had any sort of... That, like, brushed up 1017 00:50:21,227 --> 00:50:23,813 against any kind of sexualized content, 1018 00:50:23,896 --> 00:50:28,067 so, ultimately, we decided to omit it. 1019 00:50:28,150 --> 00:50:31,570 You know, we... we thought, "This is going to be a great movie 1020 00:50:31,654 --> 00:50:34,699 "that you could bring families to, you know, that... that parents 1021 00:50:34,782 --> 00:50:37,034 "and their kids can see." And like, 1022 00:50:37,118 --> 00:50:39,537 let's just not have a scene in there where kids are going to be like, 1023 00:50:39,620 --> 00:50:42,415 "What was going on in that bedroom?" [CHUCKLES] 1024 00:50:43,541 --> 00:50:47,086 No... No uncomfortable conversations need to be had at, uh... 1025 00:50:48,462 --> 00:50:49,614 at home. 1026 00:50:49,714 --> 00:50:52,132 The second Katie leaves, 1027 00:50:52,383 --> 00:50:55,720 Nate gets caught not washing the kid's clothes. 1028 00:50:56,637 --> 00:51:00,015 Uh, because he can't get ahead of the towels. 1029 00:51:00,641 --> 00:51:04,937 And the girls', uh, reactions to this are just the last straw. 1030 00:51:05,020 --> 00:51:07,064 There was... Originally, it made it a little too long, 1031 00:51:07,148 --> 00:51:10,276 but there was a text message he got from Dan in here that was like, 1032 00:51:10,359 --> 00:51:15,197 "Peyton has pulled ahead in the... in the competition at work." 1033 00:51:15,281 --> 00:51:16,223 Or... Actually, uh, no. 1034 00:51:16,323 --> 00:51:18,409 I think Dan said something, like, uh, 1035 00:51:18,492 --> 00:51:21,579 "I promised myself I wouldn't text you, but..." 1036 00:51:21,662 --> 00:51:24,081 And it was just a little... It was like too wordy. 1037 00:51:24,165 --> 00:51:27,626 It was too much to read, and it... it slowed things down. 1038 00:51:28,335 --> 00:51:30,171 That's a lot of the reason you end up cutting stuff. 1039 00:51:30,254 --> 00:51:33,007 It just slows it down. It... It's funny in theory. 1040 00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:34,717 It's funny in the script, but... 1041 00:51:36,469 --> 00:51:37,912 You... You get the idea. 1042 00:51:38,012 --> 00:51:41,348 And unless it's not... If it's not a killer joke 1043 00:51:41,432 --> 00:51:43,893 that just has the whole, entire audience guffawing, 1044 00:51:43,976 --> 00:51:45,211 it's just, you've got to get rid of it. 1045 00:51:45,311 --> 00:51:47,271 ...this was temporary, I thought, I'll just be her. 1046 00:51:47,855 --> 00:51:48,798 But clearly, it's not. 1047 00:51:48,898 --> 00:51:52,318 APPEL: This dad era speech, you know, we ran out of time with the kids. 1048 00:51:52,401 --> 00:51:56,781 Kids aren't allowed to work as many hours as, uh, adults are, 1049 00:51:56,864 --> 00:52:00,034 and the younger they are, the less they're allowed to work. 1050 00:52:00,117 --> 00:52:01,869 So Charlotte, who plays Sam... 1051 00:52:03,496 --> 00:52:05,956 We would lose her, I think six hours or something, 1052 00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,627 she's allowed to work. And that's not even factoring in school time. 1053 00:52:10,795 --> 00:52:15,633 So there are so many scenes where, like, we're on Sam's... Like in this scene, 1054 00:52:15,716 --> 00:52:18,552 when we're behind Sam in that wider shot. 1055 00:52:19,178 --> 00:52:20,204 That is not Sam. 1056 00:52:20,304 --> 00:52:24,391 We had body doubles for all the kids, just in case we ran out... 1057 00:52:24,475 --> 00:52:27,645 So that's not Sam there, that is Sam's double. 1058 00:52:28,437 --> 00:52:29,380 So it was really funny. 1059 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:34,652 Like in the raw footage, whenever Sam speaks, it's, uh... 1060 00:52:35,903 --> 00:52:38,864 the voice of a middle-aged script supervisor... [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 1061 00:52:38,948 --> 00:52:41,575 ...we're hearing, which always made us, uh... 1062 00:52:41,659 --> 00:52:44,912 always made us laugh, this adult voice coming from the other room. 1063 00:52:45,621 --> 00:52:49,166 And there was a bit in here that we cut, where... 1064 00:52:49,917 --> 00:52:51,544 And we just found out that all our clothes are dirty. 1065 00:52:51,627 --> 00:52:54,421 APPEL: Oh, like, after the crying in the, uh... 1066 00:52:54,505 --> 00:52:57,174 When Sam's like, "I saw you crying in the closet," Nate goes, 1067 00:52:57,258 --> 00:52:59,385 "Oh, we're telling secrets now?" And he gets up in her face, 1068 00:52:59,468 --> 00:53:02,137 and he goes, "Sam sneaks down in the middle of the night 1069 00:53:02,221 --> 00:53:05,891 "and eats ice cream." [CHUCKLES] And she goes, "How dare you?" 1070 00:53:06,475 --> 00:53:08,561 [LAUGHS] But that was another one of those things. 1071 00:53:08,644 --> 00:53:10,980 It just made the scene a little too long. 1072 00:53:11,063 --> 00:53:13,065 There was also a little more hesitation 1073 00:53:13,148 --> 00:53:17,111 from Hadley getting on board with Nate's plan. 1074 00:53:17,695 --> 00:53:20,489 She, like, grabbed the iPad to call Katie, 1075 00:53:20,573 --> 00:53:23,200 but Gracie was like, "Wait, let's hear him out here." 1076 00:53:23,284 --> 00:53:28,664 Which... Which I thought helped set up Gracie lying and throwing that party 1077 00:53:28,747 --> 00:53:31,667 and having the friends over later, but it ended up being unnecessary. 1078 00:53:31,750 --> 00:53:33,794 Oh, I'll get two weeks of T-shirts... 1079 00:53:33,878 --> 00:53:37,548 APPEL: And this... this was super fun to shoot in a Walmart, 1080 00:53:37,631 --> 00:53:39,884 in a real Walmart, like, while they're... 1081 00:53:41,302 --> 00:53:44,471 while it's open for business. Walmarts are so huge that, basically, 1082 00:53:44,555 --> 00:53:48,434 they just closed down each section we were shooting in when we were shooting it. 1083 00:53:51,186 --> 00:53:54,982 But it's a little wish fulfilment, and I'm like, kids are really going to love this. 1084 00:53:55,065 --> 00:53:59,153 Just seeing other kids running around with shopping carts and knocking into stuff. 1085 00:53:59,236 --> 00:54:02,573 When I was a kid, there was a thing called the Toys "R" Us Super Toy Run 1086 00:54:02,656 --> 00:54:06,577 that was like on... I think it was like a Nickelodeon Sweepstakes thing 1087 00:54:06,660 --> 00:54:09,788 where you just got to run around in a Toys "R" Us with a shopping cart, 1088 00:54:09,872 --> 00:54:12,374 knocking things into it, and... and that's what I thought of. 1089 00:54:12,458 --> 00:54:14,543 That was kind of the inspiration for this. 1090 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,172 So, we looked at lots of options that would fit, 1091 00:54:18,255 --> 00:54:19,448 and ultimately ended up using 1092 00:54:19,548 --> 00:54:21,675 We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister, 1093 00:54:21,759 --> 00:54:24,845 which actually ended up working better. 1094 00:54:24,929 --> 00:54:28,724 And it made it feel like Nate and the kids were being defiant as a team. 1095 00:54:30,184 --> 00:54:32,645 Which is what this really needed. They're all on board with this. 1096 00:54:32,728 --> 00:54:34,771 The kids are going along with it. 1097 00:54:35,064 --> 00:54:39,276 You know, what I've learned as a director is you always have to be open 1098 00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,655 to a different choice, because you never know. 1099 00:54:42,738 --> 00:54:44,949 It could end up being a better choice. 1100 00:54:46,450 --> 00:54:49,745 Just about everything in the montage was from the original shoot, 1101 00:54:49,828 --> 00:54:52,206 with the exception of Nate's running things like a dealership. 1102 00:54:53,290 --> 00:54:55,250 That... That we got with additional photography. 1103 00:54:55,334 --> 00:54:59,213 It's Nate's smart way of incentivizing his kids to do these chores 1104 00:54:59,296 --> 00:55:02,424 he's supposed to be doing, so he could go back to work. 1105 00:55:02,508 --> 00:55:03,617 ...Is back! 1106 00:55:03,717 --> 00:55:04,994 Nate, what are you doing here? 1107 00:55:05,094 --> 00:55:06,845 Uh, doing what I do best. 1108 00:55:06,929 --> 00:55:10,808 Living life my way and selling amazing vehicles. 1109 00:55:10,891 --> 00:55:12,084 Peyton. 1110 00:55:12,184 --> 00:55:13,627 Wait! He's back? He can't be back. 1111 00:55:13,727 --> 00:55:16,146 Well, what about your daughters? Hey, does your wife know you're back? 1112 00:55:16,230 --> 00:55:19,108 Don't worry about my family. They're taken care of. 1113 00:55:22,528 --> 00:55:23,762 [KEEGAN LAUGHING] 1114 00:55:23,862 --> 00:55:25,531 GRACIE: All right, you guys can choose the next song. 1115 00:55:25,614 --> 00:55:28,158 You know, my ex-wife said she didn't think... 1116 00:55:28,242 --> 00:55:30,703 APPEL: And, uh, you know, Will and the kids here, this is a... 1117 00:55:30,786 --> 00:55:32,021 this is a little bittersweet to shoot. 1118 00:55:32,121 --> 00:55:34,707 This was the last... I think this was our last day. 1119 00:55:35,416 --> 00:55:40,838 So it was like... And everyone was like so close at this point, which was great. 1120 00:55:40,921 --> 00:55:43,257 The kids, like, loved Will so much, 1121 00:55:43,340 --> 00:55:45,217 them singing at the beginning of the scene, 1122 00:55:45,300 --> 00:55:47,845 the... the Bumble Bee song, like that is... 1123 00:55:48,554 --> 00:55:50,764 something that they were just doing. 1124 00:55:50,848 --> 00:55:52,766 They were singing it, like, before we even rolled, 1125 00:55:52,850 --> 00:55:54,209 and I'm like, "You know what, guys? 1126 00:55:54,309 --> 00:55:56,061 "Why don't we come into every scene, and you're, like, 1127 00:55:56,145 --> 00:55:57,980 "finishing that song and laughing?" 1128 00:55:59,314 --> 00:56:00,591 - [SIGHS] - I know. 1129 00:56:00,691 --> 00:56:02,609 Look, you want to get Brian's attention, 1130 00:56:02,693 --> 00:56:05,195 this is how you do it. It isn't edgy clothes. 1131 00:56:05,279 --> 00:56:06,180 It's to dress conservatively. 1132 00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:07,514 APPEL: Yeah, Nate's... Nate's solution 1133 00:56:07,614 --> 00:56:10,951 to the Brian problem is another just ridiculous... 1134 00:56:11,535 --> 00:56:15,205 Wear turtlenecks to school and take a different route to class. 1135 00:56:17,624 --> 00:56:21,003 Nate's way of dealing with problems is just to not deal with them. 1136 00:56:21,086 --> 00:56:23,088 You know, it's like, just, uh, cover yourself up 1137 00:56:23,172 --> 00:56:25,132 and, uh, don't look at this kid anymore. 1138 00:56:26,425 --> 00:56:29,011 It's just so... It's just so lazy and... 1139 00:56:29,094 --> 00:56:30,537 Put it on the board. 1140 00:56:30,637 --> 00:56:34,516 - [AIR HORN BLOWING] - [CLATTERS, SHATTERS] 1141 00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:37,686 Here's to work-life balance. 1142 00:56:37,770 --> 00:56:39,313 APPEL: The air horn was a... 1143 00:56:39,938 --> 00:56:42,066 [LAUGHS SOFTLY] The air horn was ridiculous. 1144 00:56:42,149 --> 00:56:43,984 It popped up a couple other times in the movie. 1145 00:56:44,068 --> 00:56:47,488 Originally, Nate pulled the air horn out in the Shark Tank greenroom. 1146 00:56:47,571 --> 00:56:50,240 [LAUGHS] But that was a little... It was a little too ridiculous 1147 00:56:50,324 --> 00:56:54,411 that Nate would have brought his little work air horn all the way to Shark Tank. 1148 00:56:56,121 --> 00:56:57,998 NATE: Yeah, Sam's still kissing kids. 1149 00:56:59,124 --> 00:57:02,711 APPEL: This shot with Nate, this was Nate's first shot in the entire movie. 1150 00:57:02,795 --> 00:57:05,172 This was on day one of filming. 1151 00:57:06,340 --> 00:57:08,300 We did three days at Toyota. 1152 00:57:09,134 --> 00:57:11,845 And, uh... And that was Nate's first. 1153 00:57:11,929 --> 00:57:13,514 He's been with us forever. 1154 00:57:13,597 --> 00:57:17,434 APPEL: The, uh... The horse seller here is Dusty Slay, 1155 00:57:17,518 --> 00:57:21,230 who was a really funny stand-up comedian 1156 00:57:21,313 --> 00:57:24,066 who was also on The Nateland Podcast with Nate. 1157 00:57:25,609 --> 00:57:28,362 Dusty is the first person we thought of for this scene. 1158 00:57:28,987 --> 00:57:30,222 There's something about Dusty that just 1159 00:57:30,322 --> 00:57:33,242 gives off a, "I'm gonna sell you a dangerous horse" vibe. 1160 00:57:33,325 --> 00:57:36,537 And there... And... And he's just got such a nice, like, friendly demeanor, 1161 00:57:36,620 --> 00:57:38,455 that it's like, "All right, I'll buy a horse from this guy. 1162 00:57:38,539 --> 00:57:40,691 "How bad could it be?" 1163 00:57:40,791 --> 00:57:42,376 The horse's name was Ace. 1164 00:57:42,459 --> 00:57:44,086 We call the horse Cinnamon in the movie, 1165 00:57:44,169 --> 00:57:49,049 but Ace was the actual... Cinnamon is in the credits as Ace. 1166 00:57:50,217 --> 00:57:54,054 Really incredible horse actor, the finest horse actor in, uh... 1167 00:57:55,556 --> 00:57:59,101 in the Atlanta area, which, uh, you'll see more of later 1168 00:57:59,184 --> 00:58:01,770 when he's clomping around the house knocking things over. 1169 00:58:02,604 --> 00:58:07,776 He had a really great trainer who... Yeah, Ace was just aces. 1170 00:58:09,736 --> 00:58:12,906 And, uh, this scene right here, this is something else we got 1171 00:58:12,990 --> 00:58:14,224 when we did additional photography. 1172 00:58:14,324 --> 00:58:17,161 We wanted to show that everything was working out well for Nate and the kids 1173 00:58:17,244 --> 00:58:19,288 before we pulled the rug out from underneath him. 1174 00:58:20,664 --> 00:58:23,125 And I felt it was important to tease out that 1175 00:58:24,209 --> 00:58:29,256 Nate was going to try to do both the spelling bee and his work party. 1176 00:58:29,965 --> 00:58:33,468 That scene when... when we did some test screenings, 1177 00:58:33,552 --> 00:58:35,804 and... and friends and family screenings, 1178 00:58:36,763 --> 00:58:39,433 you know, it didn't feel like there was enough tension there 1179 00:58:39,516 --> 00:58:40,501 in the back and forth. 1180 00:58:40,601 --> 00:58:44,563 Originally, it came out of nowhere during the spelling bee. 1181 00:58:44,646 --> 00:58:47,816 The idea that, like, today is also the day of Nate winning... 1182 00:58:47,900 --> 00:58:50,527 uh, accepting his award for Salesman of the Year. 1183 00:58:52,571 --> 00:58:55,115 But I think shining a light on it in this scene 1184 00:58:55,657 --> 00:58:58,952 helped increase the tension where you learn... 1185 00:58:59,036 --> 00:59:02,039 You know, he sets up, like, "Oh, I'm gonna do both of those things," 1186 00:59:02,122 --> 00:59:05,334 and then when we see them happening, you immediately know, like, 1187 00:59:05,417 --> 00:59:07,419 "He's not gonna be able to do both of these things." 1188 00:59:07,502 --> 00:59:09,254 [AUDIENCE CLAPPING] 1189 00:59:12,174 --> 00:59:14,468 And the, uh, spelling bee was, uh... 1190 00:59:14,968 --> 00:59:17,679 This was a really fun day to shoot. 1191 00:59:19,514 --> 00:59:23,477 We have a lot of fun faces in the audience. 1192 00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,187 Well, I'll say first that the mug moms... 1193 00:59:25,270 --> 00:59:29,524 Originally, Conor was gonna be sitting by himself, but the day before this, 1194 00:59:29,608 --> 00:59:31,568 we shot with those ladies, 1195 00:59:31,652 --> 00:59:35,239 uh, the... the previous scene that we had seen with Conor and the moms, 1196 00:59:35,322 --> 00:59:37,658 and we had so much fun shooting with them. 1197 00:59:37,741 --> 00:59:39,826 There was so much laughing, the vibe was so good 1198 00:59:40,494 --> 00:59:42,829 that I asked them to stick around for another day 1199 00:59:42,913 --> 00:59:45,207 and be sitting with Conor at the spelling bee. 1200 00:59:46,291 --> 00:59:49,086 Other fun faces in the audience. 1201 00:59:49,169 --> 00:59:53,048 My wife and kids are, uh... are in this scene. 1202 00:59:53,131 --> 00:59:56,051 They are to the left of Nate, uh, behind him. 1203 00:59:56,635 --> 00:59:59,554 In between Nate and Conor in the background are, uh, 1204 00:59:59,638 --> 01:00:02,641 Nate and Colin's assistants. 1205 01:00:02,724 --> 01:00:06,228 And our producer Jeremy Latcham's parents 1206 01:00:06,311 --> 01:00:11,608 are over on the right side in the background in that same row. 1207 01:00:11,692 --> 01:00:17,114 There they are in the blue shirts. That is like our friends and family row. 1208 01:00:17,197 --> 01:00:19,241 - [APPLAUSE] - Unpredictable, man. 1209 01:00:19,324 --> 01:00:21,034 - That was a wild ride. - CONOR: Yeah. 1210 01:00:21,118 --> 01:00:22,436 That's not how I spell it. 1211 01:00:22,536 --> 01:00:23,145 - [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] - [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 1212 01:00:23,245 --> 01:00:25,831 - [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] - [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 1213 01:00:25,914 --> 01:00:27,624 APPEL: And here we are back at Toyota. 1214 01:00:28,417 --> 01:00:30,210 Salesman of the Year is happening. 1215 01:00:30,294 --> 01:00:34,298 This was our... This was the first shot that we got with, uh... 1216 01:00:34,381 --> 01:00:36,049 Yeah, the morning of our first day. 1217 01:00:38,176 --> 01:00:43,557 Dan and Peyton. The actual first shot was... 1218 01:00:44,349 --> 01:00:48,937 The actual first shot of the day was Kumail on the... 1219 01:00:50,022 --> 01:00:52,065 Jumbotron, which you'll see at the end of the movie. 1220 01:00:52,149 --> 01:00:55,319 That was the very first thing that we shot, was Jumbotron footage. 1221 01:00:55,402 --> 01:00:59,990 But the first, like, real scene was that little thing with Kumail and Zach. 1222 01:01:00,073 --> 01:01:02,451 They just keep going until there's only one kid left. 1223 01:01:02,534 --> 01:01:03,352 [SIGHS] 1224 01:01:03,452 --> 01:01:05,162 Have you not been to a spelling bee before? 1225 01:01:05,245 --> 01:01:07,664 [WHISPERING] They didn't have them when I was in school. 1226 01:01:08,665 --> 01:01:13,545 APPEL: Casting comedians, especially stand-up improv guys, 1227 01:01:13,628 --> 01:01:15,464 sketch comedy guys, 1228 01:01:15,547 --> 01:01:19,134 they give you so many options, and there's so much improv 1229 01:01:19,217 --> 01:01:23,847 that ends up on the cutting room floor and... and a lot of it ends up in, 1230 01:01:23,930 --> 01:01:27,351 like this... this little bit about, "Why don't you come sit up next to me?" 1231 01:01:27,434 --> 01:01:30,437 Like that was... You know, that came from Colin. 1232 01:01:30,937 --> 01:01:35,275 This guy eating the cake that... that cake shot, I feel like 1233 01:01:35,359 --> 01:01:39,488 we... we were asked to take that shot out a couple of times. [LAUGHS] 1234 01:01:39,571 --> 01:01:41,907 It was... People were really on the fence about that. 1235 01:01:41,990 --> 01:01:42,933 But we loved it so much. 1236 01:01:43,033 --> 01:01:45,619 We fought for it. So I hope if that background actor 1237 01:01:45,702 --> 01:01:49,289 that's eating the cake sees this, know that we fought for you, man. 1238 01:01:49,373 --> 01:01:51,917 We fought to keep you in this movie. [LAUGHS] 1239 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:53,360 We just loved it. 1240 01:01:53,460 --> 01:01:55,629 Chill. Bring it down. I got to introduce you... 1241 01:01:55,712 --> 01:01:58,006 APPEL: It sort of helps make... 1242 01:01:58,090 --> 01:02:01,468 We wanted this... We wanted Nate's work party to look lame. 1243 01:02:01,551 --> 01:02:04,388 It's like, this is what you're... you're ditching your family for, 1244 01:02:04,471 --> 01:02:07,265 like, this lame work party with just like a bunch of... 1245 01:02:08,058 --> 01:02:11,061 middle-aged people milling about, eating, uh, 1246 01:02:11,895 --> 01:02:14,481 Nothing Bundt cake, that is a... 1247 01:02:14,564 --> 01:02:16,483 You'll see. [CHUCKLING] That's what they are eating. 1248 01:02:16,566 --> 01:02:17,467 I don't really know them. 1249 01:02:17,567 --> 01:02:19,444 - l was on one episode. - MIKE: Listen, don't hold out on me. 1250 01:02:19,528 --> 01:02:23,740 APPEL: [IN NORMAL VOICE] Mike Vanderholden here is played by comedian Derrick Stroup. 1251 01:02:23,824 --> 01:02:26,201 Um, he opens up for Nate a lot. 1252 01:02:26,284 --> 01:02:28,703 Uh, he was on Nate's CBS Christmas special. 1253 01:02:28,787 --> 01:02:30,022 That's how we... we learned about him. 1254 01:02:30,122 --> 01:02:31,440 Really funny, really nice guy. 1255 01:02:31,540 --> 01:02:36,086 This is the first time he ever acted, and he was fantastic, real natural. 1256 01:02:36,169 --> 01:02:38,422 There's a lot more to this scene that we ended up cutting, 1257 01:02:38,505 --> 01:02:40,132 again, for pacing, 1258 01:02:40,215 --> 01:02:42,592 which hopefully we'll put out in the deleted scenes. 1259 01:02:42,676 --> 01:02:44,928 But at the end of the shoot day, 1260 01:02:46,304 --> 01:02:48,348 Derrick goes up to Nate, you know, 1261 01:02:48,432 --> 01:02:51,476 he'd never acted before, never been on a set before. 1262 01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:53,937 And, uh, he goes up to Nate and goes, "Hey, before I leave, 1263 01:02:54,020 --> 01:02:56,773 "I want to say, uh, where's that Eric guy? 1264 01:02:56,857 --> 01:02:59,943 "The guy with the white Dodgers hat? He was really helping me out a lot. 1265 01:03:00,026 --> 01:03:02,028 "I wanted to go say bye to him." 1266 01:03:02,112 --> 01:03:05,574 And Nate's like, "The director of the movie?" 1267 01:03:05,657 --> 01:03:08,326 And he's like, "Oh, yeah, is that who he is?" [CHUCKLES] 1268 01:03:08,410 --> 01:03:12,789 So like, to Derrick, who had never been on a set, I was just some... 1269 01:03:12,873 --> 01:03:16,626 I don't know who... who I was... Like, in what capacity I worked for the movie, 1270 01:03:16,710 --> 01:03:20,088 but I was just some helpful guy that was, like, just giving him tips 1271 01:03:20,172 --> 01:03:22,716 on, like, what to say and how to say it. 1272 01:03:22,799 --> 01:03:24,593 [HESITATES] 1273 01:03:24,676 --> 01:03:26,511 Very funny and charming. 1274 01:03:26,595 --> 01:03:30,015 I ended up going and seeing one of Nate's shows that Derrick was at, 1275 01:03:30,098 --> 01:03:34,769 and Nate was, like, roasting him backstage about that moment. 1276 01:03:34,853 --> 01:03:37,481 And, uh, anyway, check out Derrick Stroup. 1277 01:03:37,564 --> 01:03:39,608 He's got a really funny Netflix special. 1278 01:03:39,691 --> 01:03:43,403 And, uh, yeah, I think... I think you'll be seeing a lot. 1279 01:03:43,487 --> 01:03:44,554 He's a real rising star. 1280 01:03:44,654 --> 01:03:46,323 We'll be seeing a lot... lot of him, hopefully more. 1281 01:03:46,406 --> 01:03:49,242 It's amazing to win Salesman of the Year, it is. 1282 01:03:49,326 --> 01:03:51,661 But the real prize will be when I go home... 1283 01:03:51,745 --> 01:03:54,080 APPEL: In this scene, there was a bit where Nate won the tickets 1284 01:03:54,164 --> 01:03:57,709 that made us all laugh that we ended up having to cut, again, for pacing. 1285 01:03:57,792 --> 01:03:59,419 And maybe 'cause it was a little too ridiculous, 1286 01:03:59,503 --> 01:04:03,965 but Dan originally had the Toyota next to him, 1287 01:04:04,049 --> 01:04:07,344 I think it was like a RAV4, present him with the tickets. 1288 01:04:07,427 --> 01:04:10,972 So it's like, they were on the trunk, which was open. 1289 01:04:11,056 --> 01:04:14,184 So Dan's like, "Presenting your tickets, the Toyota RAV4" 1290 01:04:14,267 --> 01:04:17,270 and he hits a button on the key fob, and the trunk lowers. 1291 01:04:17,354 --> 01:04:21,816 And the tickets just sort of slide off the trunk into Nate's hands, and he's like... 1292 01:04:21,900 --> 01:04:23,301 [CHUCKLES] Um... 1293 01:04:23,401 --> 01:04:26,029 "This is what you're giving up your family time for." 1294 01:04:26,112 --> 01:04:27,614 I just wanted you to be there. 1295 01:04:28,990 --> 01:04:31,409 You told me not to put all my self-worth into a dumb contest, 1296 01:04:31,493 --> 01:04:32,811 but look at where you are right now. 1297 01:04:32,911 --> 01:04:37,457 APPEL: This right here, this is Birdie's first shot of the whole movie. 1298 01:04:37,541 --> 01:04:38,733 She had to come in. 1299 01:04:38,833 --> 01:04:43,672 She had to come in hot, crying, yelling at Nate, which was, um... 1300 01:04:44,422 --> 01:04:46,550 I mean, she handled like such a pro. 1301 01:04:47,259 --> 01:04:49,052 She was, uh... 1302 01:04:49,803 --> 01:04:51,846 She had previously been on Stranger Things, 1303 01:04:51,930 --> 01:04:54,766 SO she was no, um... The final season of Stranger Things. 1304 01:04:54,849 --> 01:04:56,835 No stranger to acting. 1305 01:04:56,935 --> 01:05:01,565 And, uh, I would have been terrified as a 11-year-old, 1306 01:05:01,648 --> 01:05:03,091 to have to shoot all that. 1307 01:05:03,191 --> 01:05:04,901 But she was so good. 1308 01:05:05,026 --> 01:05:07,904 - [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS] - [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 1309 01:05:07,988 --> 01:05:09,389 KEEGAN: Looks like they're having some fun. 1310 01:05:09,489 --> 01:05:11,575 APPEL: Nate, this was also Nate's... you know, I should say, 1311 01:05:11,658 --> 01:05:13,952 Nate's first time acting, this movie. 1312 01:05:14,035 --> 01:05:16,413 He had... Other than SNL, Nate had never... 1313 01:05:16,496 --> 01:05:19,583 And one DoorDash commercial, Nate had never acted before. 1314 01:05:19,666 --> 01:05:20,901 What is happening? 1315 01:05:21,001 --> 01:05:23,587 APPEL: So it was a surprise to Nate that we shot things 1316 01:05:23,670 --> 01:05:25,589 out of order in the way that we did. 1317 01:05:26,798 --> 01:05:29,718 That we threw Nate right into like, "Yeah, we're... we're shooting 1318 01:05:29,801 --> 01:05:33,513 "three straight days of all of your stuff at the Toyota dealerships." 1319 01:05:33,597 --> 01:05:37,142 So, on one of Nate's first scenes, he's having to... 1320 01:05:38,184 --> 01:05:40,854 get yelled at by his daughter and soften and... 1321 01:05:41,438 --> 01:05:46,693 A lot of, like, complex kind of heavy acting that Nate had to do 1322 01:05:47,694 --> 01:05:50,864 with barely, uh, any experience. 1323 01:05:50,947 --> 01:05:52,991 And Jeff Dockweiler came on. 1324 01:05:53,074 --> 01:05:55,035 He's a great acting coach, Dock, 1325 01:05:55,118 --> 01:05:58,330 he came on and... and kind of helped Nate through all that, too. 1326 01:05:58,413 --> 01:06:01,041 And he was really... It was really fantastic to have Dock there. 1327 01:06:01,124 --> 01:06:01,942 It is not about lying. 1328 01:06:02,042 --> 01:06:04,753 No. It's about keeping us busy with shortcuts 1329 01:06:04,836 --> 01:06:06,279 SO you can keep doing whatever you want! 1330 01:06:06,379 --> 01:06:08,006 And, by the way... 1331 01:06:08,089 --> 01:06:09,758 APPEL: Gracie's, uh... Gracie's party's 1332 01:06:09,841 --> 01:06:11,384 something that we talked a lot about in prep. 1333 01:06:11,468 --> 01:06:13,303 I almost didn't even like calling it a party. 1334 01:06:13,386 --> 01:06:17,057 I imagine Gracie wanted Brian to come over, invited him. 1335 01:06:17,140 --> 01:06:18,933 Brian invited a couple of his friends, 1336 01:06:19,017 --> 01:06:21,478 a couple of those friends told their friends. 1337 01:06:21,561 --> 01:06:23,897 And suddenly, Gracie has, like, 20 kids at her house. 1338 01:06:24,773 --> 01:06:28,693 It wasn't like a rager college party, you know? 1339 01:06:28,777 --> 01:06:30,779 It's just like a bunch of kids milling about, 1340 01:06:30,862 --> 01:06:33,323 filming each other, doing TikTok dances. [CHUCKLES] 1341 01:06:33,948 --> 01:06:35,475 Trash day's tomorrow. 1342 01:06:35,575 --> 01:06:37,118 APPEL: And the dead horse bit here, 1343 01:06:37,202 --> 01:06:39,162 this is... this is pulled right from Nate's stand-up. 1344 01:06:40,163 --> 01:06:42,499 That's how the movie ended up with a horse in it in the first place, 1345 01:06:42,582 --> 01:06:44,834 we were trying to dramatize a lot of the ideas 1346 01:06:44,918 --> 01:06:47,337 that Nate had in his stand-up specials. 1347 01:06:47,420 --> 01:06:52,509 You know, Nate... Nate and, uh... and Lagana's original script was just... 1348 01:06:54,094 --> 01:06:56,680 It was all of these ideas... 1349 01:06:57,597 --> 01:07:00,350 A lot of ideas that came from things 1350 01:07:00,433 --> 01:07:05,522 that Nate had talked about on stage, sort of woven together in... in this... 1351 01:07:06,272 --> 01:07:09,109 in this story, in this movie plot. 1352 01:07:10,235 --> 01:07:11,861 The horse in the house... 1353 01:07:11,945 --> 01:07:13,221 [BOTH EXCLAIMING] 1354 01:07:13,321 --> 01:07:16,199 ...which obviously, that's not something that's in Nate's stand-up. 1355 01:07:16,282 --> 01:07:18,827 That's just what happens when you try to move a dead horse. 1356 01:07:19,577 --> 01:07:22,288 We had a day and a half to shoot this stuff. 1357 01:07:22,372 --> 01:07:26,543 This required a ton of prep, building out a bunch of interactive gags 1358 01:07:26,626 --> 01:07:29,504 on the set that the horse could, uh... could interact with. 1359 01:07:29,587 --> 01:07:30,864 It was originally written as the horse 1360 01:07:30,964 --> 01:07:33,717 bucking and kicking its way through the house, but that would have been 1361 01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,719 a little too insane and violent with kids around, 1362 01:07:35,802 --> 01:07:38,888 SO we treated it more like a confused horse. 1363 01:07:38,972 --> 01:07:41,015 Just lumbering around the house. 1364 01:07:41,099 --> 01:07:44,060 And its big horse butt 1365 01:07:44,144 --> 01:07:46,004 is the thing that is like... 1366 01:07:46,104 --> 01:07:48,732 You know, a horse weighs a lot. 1367 01:07:48,815 --> 01:07:53,695 A horse tries to turn in a narrow space and sideswipes a banister. 1368 01:07:53,778 --> 01:07:56,865 That banister's going to get blown out from the wall. 1369 01:07:56,948 --> 01:08:00,702 So that's how we ended up, uh, with everything the horse does. 1370 01:08:00,785 --> 01:08:02,662 There was the one kick. 1371 01:08:03,204 --> 01:08:07,917 And... And this house is built on, uh... The exterior is an actual house. 1372 01:08:08,001 --> 01:08:09,753 The interior is built on stage. 1373 01:08:09,836 --> 01:08:12,589 So we had to have this horse at two places. 1374 01:08:12,672 --> 01:08:15,550 When the horse exits the front door, we had to bring this horse 1375 01:08:15,633 --> 01:08:18,928 into these real people's home, we had to ask permission, 1376 01:08:19,012 --> 01:08:22,432 can we bring a horse into your actual living room? 1377 01:08:22,515 --> 01:08:24,601 [CHUCKLES] And thankfully, they were okay with it. 1378 01:08:24,684 --> 01:08:27,437 And thankfully, the horse did not poop on their floor, 1379 01:08:28,396 --> 01:08:30,690 although the horse peeing would have been much worse. 1380 01:08:30,774 --> 01:08:33,735 Horse poop is easier to clean up. Pee is a different thing. 1381 01:08:33,818 --> 01:08:36,321 I remember there was one moment on the set where the... 1382 01:08:36,404 --> 01:08:41,534 where, uh, the horse was about to pee, and it was like, alarms going... 1383 01:08:41,618 --> 01:08:45,330 They're like, "The horse has to pee!" Like, everyone's running off set. 1384 01:08:45,413 --> 01:08:47,457 They're, like, quickly trying to get the horse out 1385 01:08:47,540 --> 01:08:50,126 so it can, like, fire hose all over the... 1386 01:08:50,210 --> 01:08:51,961 you know, all over the ground outside. [CHUCKLES] 1387 01:08:52,045 --> 01:08:53,588 I have fantastic news. 1388 01:08:53,671 --> 01:08:57,133 APPEL: Um, but just like the horse, the roof required a ton of planning. 1389 01:08:57,217 --> 01:09:00,887 We built a roof set on the backlot, and then we comped it in. 1390 01:09:00,970 --> 01:09:03,640 Let me pause real quick. That's my brother and my sister-in-law, 1391 01:09:03,723 --> 01:09:05,625 right there behind Mandy. 1392 01:09:05,725 --> 01:09:09,270 They came to set that day, and I was like, "I'm gonna put you in a shot 1393 01:09:09,354 --> 01:09:11,147 "that's uncuttable." 1394 01:09:11,231 --> 01:09:12,507 [CHUCKLES] 1395 01:09:12,607 --> 01:09:16,110 Unfortunately, Jeremy Latcham's daughter was in a shot 1396 01:09:16,194 --> 01:09:19,239 that was cuttable at Walmart. I thought it was uncuttable, 1397 01:09:19,322 --> 01:09:23,660 so apologize to, uh, Isabella for getting cut out of the movie. 1398 01:09:23,743 --> 01:09:26,120 KATIE: I could not have done any of this without you. 1399 01:09:26,204 --> 01:09:31,334 But yeah, we did so much prep with this... this roof. 1400 01:09:32,919 --> 01:09:38,466 And the roof was actually... with all the stuff on top of it, 1401 01:09:38,550 --> 01:09:42,345 was built on the backlot at Trilith Studios. 1402 01:09:42,428 --> 01:09:45,056 And we built that on stage, and we had to photograph that 1403 01:09:45,139 --> 01:09:48,518 from a bunch of different angles, and then comp that onto the house 1404 01:09:49,227 --> 01:09:51,771 that we were at in McDonough, Georgia, 1405 01:09:51,855 --> 01:09:54,816 which is like 45 minutes away from where we were shooting. 1406 01:09:54,899 --> 01:09:57,318 KEEGAN: You thought you could get what you wanted. 1407 01:09:57,402 --> 01:10:01,656 APPEL: And the collapse was like such a... You know, it was like a Rube Goldberg 1408 01:10:01,739 --> 01:10:04,742 and... and all these bungees that Keegan was using 1409 01:10:04,826 --> 01:10:07,871 to tie everything together, they snapped in a specific order. 1410 01:10:07,954 --> 01:10:08,980 And this knocked into that. 1411 01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:10,398 I mean, it was very detailed. 1412 01:10:10,498 --> 01:10:14,252 It happens very fast in the movie, but it was so planned out. 1413 01:10:14,335 --> 01:10:18,464 This knocks into that, which knocks into that, and it's like dominoes going down. 1414 01:10:18,548 --> 01:10:21,134 And these things roll down and knock out the support beam. 1415 01:10:21,217 --> 01:10:24,053 And then Keegan's little, like, apartment 1416 01:10:24,137 --> 01:10:26,139 that he built on top goes crashing through. 1417 01:10:26,222 --> 01:10:29,934 And the first time that we did it, there was a malfunction. 1418 01:10:30,018 --> 01:10:35,356 And the whole roof caved in before the top thing fell. 1419 01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:39,319 So we had to rebuild it all and go back and shoot it again. 1420 01:10:40,528 --> 01:10:42,697 So I hope you enjoyed the roof falling, 1421 01:10:42,780 --> 01:10:46,284 because it was... it was... That was a real barn burner. 1422 01:10:46,367 --> 01:10:47,685 Getting that thing to... 1423 01:10:47,785 --> 01:10:50,830 Getting that thing to work properly in comping and... 1424 01:10:50,914 --> 01:10:53,666 [SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING] 1425 01:10:53,750 --> 01:10:55,793 Keegan originally had a richer speech to Nate, 1426 01:10:55,877 --> 01:10:57,378 where he talked about how Nate's kids don't care 1427 01:10:57,462 --> 01:11:00,401 about seeing him on the Jumbotron, but we cut it to make room 1428 01:11:00,423 --> 01:11:01,966 about seeing him on the Jumbotron, but we cut it to make room 1429 01:11:02,592 --> 01:11:05,803 for this scene with the campout with the girls, which ended up being 1430 01:11:05,887 --> 01:11:07,805 one of my favorite scenes in the movie. 1431 01:11:09,390 --> 01:11:11,893 This we got in additional photography. 1432 01:11:13,186 --> 01:11:15,855 There was a different apology that he gave to the girls 1433 01:11:15,939 --> 01:11:18,691 after, uh, the following two scenes, 1434 01:11:18,775 --> 01:11:20,218 once we're at Conor's house, 1435 01:11:20,318 --> 01:11:22,862 but, uh, we wanted... we wanted it to just be a... 1436 01:11:22,946 --> 01:11:25,949 a bigger, richer apology, and just hammer, 1437 01:11:26,032 --> 01:11:29,869 this is where Nate sort of learns... 1438 01:11:30,620 --> 01:11:33,164 He... He's starting to show real growth, right? 1439 01:11:34,248 --> 01:11:38,920 He... He spent this alone time with the girls for the first time. 1440 01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:44,550 And, you know, it has taught Nate what's really important, 1441 01:11:44,634 --> 01:11:47,303 that it's not about winning trophies at work, it's about... 1442 01:11:48,471 --> 01:11:50,890 spending time with the ones you love. 1443 01:11:50,974 --> 01:11:55,478 And that requires you to do a lot more work, 1444 01:11:55,561 --> 01:11:59,065 but it's richer and... and more rewarding at the end of the day. 1445 01:11:59,148 --> 01:12:00,216 ...sitting in the living room. 1446 01:12:00,316 --> 01:12:02,485 And they look out the window and they see a bear. 1447 01:12:02,568 --> 01:12:03,761 Just a cute bear. 1448 01:12:03,861 --> 01:12:07,281 APPEL: This bear story, uh, came from Nate. 1449 01:12:07,365 --> 01:12:09,117 Nate wrote this bear story. 1450 01:12:09,867 --> 01:12:11,910 ...the bear gets bigger. 1451 01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:13,663 APPEL: Which we just really liked. 1452 01:12:13,746 --> 01:12:18,584 I mean, we never... we never got that deep about it in discussing it with Nate. 1453 01:12:18,668 --> 01:12:21,629 I don't know if you want to think of the bear story as some sort of metaphor. 1454 01:12:22,922 --> 01:12:24,574 Maybe... 1455 01:12:24,674 --> 01:12:26,426 Is Nate the bear? 1456 01:12:26,509 --> 01:12:30,680 Maybe the bear is Nate's responsibilities? 1457 01:12:30,763 --> 01:12:34,559 Uh, and they just keep getting bigger and bigger or, you know, it's... 1458 01:12:34,642 --> 01:12:38,187 it's something that I thought was small but turned out being real big. 1459 01:12:39,772 --> 01:12:42,775 It's funny that we never discussed, we just liked the way that it sounded. 1460 01:12:42,859 --> 01:12:46,112 And we liked the way that it got the kids laughing. 1461 01:12:46,195 --> 01:12:51,868 Really, that was the purpose of the speech, was to, uh, kind of... 1462 01:12:51,951 --> 01:12:55,371 The girls are still mad at him and he needs to disarm them. 1463 01:12:55,455 --> 01:12:59,792 And just see a little bit of a... a chuckle from them. 1464 01:12:59,876 --> 01:13:03,463 And then he could segue into this part of it, where he's talking about... 1465 01:13:04,672 --> 01:13:08,384 how sorry he is to each one of them for his shortcomings. 1466 01:13:09,260 --> 01:13:12,055 Talk about personal space and bubbles. 1467 01:13:12,138 --> 01:13:13,039 What? 1468 01:13:13,139 --> 01:13:15,058 Yeah, we got to figure that out. 1469 01:13:16,184 --> 01:13:17,293 Hadley... 1470 01:13:17,393 --> 01:13:20,063 APPEL: And Nate... I mean, I think Nate's best acting in the movie is this scene. 1471 01:13:20,146 --> 01:13:21,339 And it makes sense, 1472 01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:23,983 because it was six months after we shot the rest of the movie, 1473 01:13:24,067 --> 01:13:26,069 and it's like the last thing that we did with Nate. 1474 01:13:26,152 --> 01:13:28,071 Are you trying to spell "inexcusable"? 1475 01:13:28,154 --> 01:13:31,199 Yeah. Ah, you're so smart. 1476 01:13:31,282 --> 01:13:33,868 And Gracie, I can't even be mad at you for throwing that party. 1477 01:13:33,951 --> 01:13:34,978 APPEL: And Hadley looking... 1478 01:13:35,078 --> 01:13:36,996 Hadley being three inches taller. [CHUCKLES] 1479 01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,373 This is one... This is one of those scenes. 1480 01:13:39,457 --> 01:13:40,525 ...that I was setting. 1481 01:13:40,625 --> 01:13:41,859 [PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] 1482 01:13:41,959 --> 01:13:44,837 I'm not the dad I want to be. All right? 1483 01:13:45,630 --> 01:13:48,341 And the truth is it's because I've never worked at it. 1484 01:13:48,424 --> 01:13:51,719 Loving you three came just so easily, you know? 1485 01:13:51,803 --> 01:13:53,429 And I thought that was enough. 1486 01:13:53,513 --> 01:13:55,623 But it's not. 1487 01:13:55,723 --> 01:13:57,850 APPEL: I also like the idea here that Nate... 1488 01:13:57,934 --> 01:14:01,020 that Sam doesn't even know what the... what the bubble talk is 1489 01:14:01,104 --> 01:14:05,149 when Nate's like, "I should have talked to you about bubbles." She's like, "What?" 1490 01:14:05,233 --> 01:14:07,610 [CHUCKLES] It's like he hasn't even tried. 1491 01:14:07,693 --> 01:14:10,070 He hasn't even attempted... 1492 01:14:11,030 --> 01:14:14,325 to give her that talk, even though he has now, at this point, 1493 01:14:14,408 --> 01:14:17,161 seen her kissing other, uh, kids at school. 1494 01:14:18,204 --> 01:14:20,106 I'm a salesman. 1495 01:14:20,206 --> 01:14:22,667 APPEL. It was also nice going back and shooting this scene, 1496 01:14:22,750 --> 01:14:26,003 it afforded us the opportunity to tie Nate's job into the third act. 1497 01:14:27,255 --> 01:14:29,532 This was a new idea that... 1498 01:14:29,632 --> 01:14:32,718 I was like, "Oh, I want to see that he's using his skills 1499 01:14:32,802 --> 01:14:36,931 "as a salesman to convince Peyton, and then, ultimately, Conor 1500 01:14:37,014 --> 01:14:39,267 "to lend him a house that they could shoot at." 1501 01:14:39,350 --> 01:14:42,812 So... So Katie's live stream ends up going okay. 1502 01:14:44,772 --> 01:14:49,318 We were scrambling to shoot this scene, because the position of the sun... 1503 01:14:51,070 --> 01:14:52,989 We didn't want it to be dark out yet. 1504 01:14:55,199 --> 01:14:59,912 We wanted it to be dark at Conor's house, but the sun is setting here, 1505 01:14:59,996 --> 01:15:02,999 and because we're shooting this at a real house, 1506 01:15:03,958 --> 01:15:07,295 the sun had to actually be setting, which gives us, like, one hour 1507 01:15:07,378 --> 01:15:11,090 to shoot this whole scene. And of course, we have two comedians 1508 01:15:11,174 --> 01:15:14,969 who are, like, trying to make each other laugh and breaking and... 1509 01:15:16,053 --> 01:15:17,914 PEYTON: Wow. 1510 01:15:18,014 --> 01:15:19,515 Honestly, I never thought... 1511 01:15:19,599 --> 01:15:21,184 APPEL: It was... [CHUCKLES] 1512 01:15:21,267 --> 01:15:22,977 There was so much improv. 1513 01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:25,605 Kumail had come back to town for this scene, 1514 01:15:25,688 --> 01:15:27,982 'cause we only had him for two days at the very beginning 1515 01:15:28,065 --> 01:15:32,361 of our schedule for the Toyota stuff, and then he came back for this. 1516 01:15:32,904 --> 01:15:35,406 And there was so much improv in this scene 1517 01:15:36,782 --> 01:15:39,285 that did not at all feel appropriate to put in the movie, 1518 01:15:39,368 --> 01:15:43,039 that I think was just Kumail trying to get Nate to break. 1519 01:15:43,122 --> 01:15:46,250 [LAUGHING] But there's takes where Nate's like, 1520 01:15:46,334 --> 01:15:48,044 [IN NORMAL VOICE] "I know that, you know, 1521 01:15:48,127 --> 01:15:50,004 "we haven't always gotten along well at work," 1522 01:15:50,087 --> 01:15:54,884 and, uh, Kumail is like, "For two years, you called me Osama." 1523 01:15:54,967 --> 01:15:56,369 [LAUGHS] 1524 01:15:56,469 --> 01:15:58,971 And Nate's like, "Yeah, yeah..." 1525 01:15:59,055 --> 01:16:00,973 Well, you know, there was, the whole thing was going on, 1526 01:16:01,057 --> 01:16:03,726 that was like... that whole thing had just kind of happened. 1527 01:16:03,809 --> 01:16:09,065 I'm like, "We can't... We're never gonna be able to put 9/11 jokes 1528 01:16:09,148 --> 01:16:12,735 "into our, like, sweet family movie." [LAUGHS] 1529 01:16:13,444 --> 01:16:14,987 [CHUCKLES] 1530 01:16:15,071 --> 01:16:18,199 But that's what happens. You know, you... There's so much stuff 1531 01:16:18,282 --> 01:16:22,536 that ends up on the floor that, uh... that's just inappropriate. 1532 01:16:22,620 --> 01:16:24,288 You're making yourselves laugh. 1533 01:16:24,372 --> 01:16:28,125 And we're a bunch of comedians who, you know, will... will say anything. 1534 01:16:28,209 --> 01:16:32,630 But we definitely cannot present all of that to an audience. 1535 01:16:34,298 --> 01:16:36,592 But it made the crew laugh. I'll say that. 1536 01:16:37,635 --> 01:16:40,263 This was also shot extremely quickly. 1537 01:16:40,346 --> 01:16:41,205 This, uh... 1538 01:16:41,305 --> 01:16:44,183 And by the way, this is a very funny outfit that Conor's wearing. 1539 01:16:44,267 --> 01:16:46,519 There was a version of this where Nate was gonna go to the window 1540 01:16:46,602 --> 01:16:50,773 and see Conor inside, like, dancing to some weird music and vacuuming. 1541 01:16:50,856 --> 01:16:52,817 But we ended up, uh... 1542 01:16:52,900 --> 01:16:54,443 Really, we were just out of time. 1543 01:16:54,527 --> 01:16:56,679 This, uh... 1544 01:16:56,779 --> 01:16:58,764 This... This was shot... 1545 01:16:58,864 --> 01:17:02,285 You know, we did all this stuff at Conor and Angela's house 1546 01:17:03,577 --> 01:17:06,247 on week two of... of shooting. 1547 01:17:07,290 --> 01:17:12,420 I love that, Shary Shirazi, who's... who's, um, one of the execs at TriStar. 1548 01:17:13,004 --> 01:17:16,757 Big shout-out to Shary, we put it in and it crushed, 1549 01:17:16,841 --> 01:17:17,533 and, uh... and so it... it stayed in and... and we love it. 1550 01:17:17,633 --> 01:17:21,012 and, uh... and so it... it stayed in and... and we love it. 1551 01:17:21,095 --> 01:17:22,496 ...look like our house 1552 01:17:22,596 --> 01:17:24,557 so Mom's live stream goes off without a hitch. 1553 01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:26,309 - Dad! Wake up. - [GASPS] 1554 01:17:26,392 --> 01:17:28,269 I was listening. I just had my eyes closed. 1555 01:17:28,352 --> 01:17:30,229 Why are you here? I texted Mom to come. 1556 01:17:30,313 --> 01:17:33,274 Well, she sent me. Said maybe I'd learn something. 1557 01:17:33,357 --> 01:17:35,593 Whatever that means. [CHUCKLES] 1558 01:17:35,693 --> 01:17:36,928 Okay. 1559 01:17:37,028 --> 01:17:41,657 My plan is five simple steps that require perfect cooperation. 1560 01:17:41,741 --> 01:17:44,785 - Step one, interception. - [ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING] 1561 01:17:44,869 --> 01:17:45,853 We have to make sure 1562 01:17:45,953 --> 01:17:48,247 the car that picks up Mom and Lori from the airport 1563 01:17:48,331 --> 01:17:50,374 is a car that we control. 1564 01:17:50,458 --> 01:17:53,461 Would either of you ladies care for a pistachio? 1565 01:17:54,086 --> 01:17:55,488 NATE: Step two... 1566 01:17:55,588 --> 01:18:00,468 APPEL: This heist stuff was all really fun to shoot too and figure out... 1567 01:18:00,551 --> 01:18:04,013 You know, things like this require a lot... a lot of planning 1568 01:18:04,096 --> 01:18:06,223 'cause you have to figure out, like... 1569 01:18:06,307 --> 01:18:08,267 You know, you're... you're shooting these things 1570 01:18:08,351 --> 01:18:11,812 all across the entire schedule that you're shooting the movie. 1571 01:18:11,896 --> 01:18:15,649 But you have to know, like, your ins and out... If you're gonna do whip pans, 1572 01:18:15,733 --> 01:18:18,235 everything has to be meticulously planned out, 1573 01:18:18,319 --> 01:18:20,613 with, like, wooshes in and out. 1574 01:18:20,696 --> 01:18:25,618 So, the first thing that we shot here at the Ashford House, 1575 01:18:25,701 --> 01:18:29,080 because again, this was all week two, when we were on location, 1576 01:18:30,122 --> 01:18:32,124 um, I had to shoot this part of Nate's speech. 1577 01:18:32,208 --> 01:18:35,586 So, you know, I had this mapped out, and I had to explain it 1578 01:18:35,669 --> 01:18:39,423 to the camera that it's like, and to Nate, why exactly after 1579 01:18:39,507 --> 01:18:42,551 every one of his lines we're, like, whipping in a different direction. 1580 01:18:42,635 --> 01:18:47,515 But it's like, you say this, we whip left to right, so then, 1581 01:18:47,598 --> 01:18:50,893 when we shoot that scene, we'll come into it left to right, 1582 01:18:50,976 --> 01:18:55,314 but we'll go out of it from down to up. And then we've got to go back into Nate 1583 01:18:55,398 --> 01:18:58,484 from down to up for his next line as we're pushing in. 1584 01:18:58,567 --> 01:19:01,779 And then go from right to left when we go out of it 1585 01:19:01,862 --> 01:19:03,948 to get into the next thing. Anyway. 1586 01:19:04,031 --> 01:19:05,016 Very complex. 1587 01:19:05,116 --> 01:19:07,143 - ...text the driver and let him know. - Great. 1588 01:19:07,243 --> 01:19:11,205 APPEL: That was Evan Henke as the voice of the captain. 1589 01:19:11,288 --> 01:19:13,082 That's our editor. Uh... 1590 01:19:13,791 --> 01:19:20,214 And his voice was in there in the very first assembly of the movie that I saw. 1591 01:19:20,297 --> 01:19:22,049 And that... And we never changed it. 1592 01:19:22,133 --> 01:19:23,968 And it made it all the way through. 1593 01:19:25,386 --> 01:19:28,848 Congratulations, Evan Henke. [LAUGHS] 1594 01:19:28,931 --> 01:19:30,599 Does it look too nice in here? 1595 01:19:30,683 --> 01:19:32,184 I mean, for you. 1596 01:19:32,268 --> 01:19:35,020 Uh, you know what? You're right. 1597 01:19:35,104 --> 01:19:38,190 Hey, Conor, you got any dry spaghetti we can throw on the floor? 1598 01:19:38,274 --> 01:19:39,133 APPEL: This was tough, too. 1599 01:19:39,233 --> 01:19:42,445 This... This we shot a million times trying to get the timing right. 1600 01:19:42,528 --> 01:19:43,637 It looks pretty simple. 1601 01:19:43,737 --> 01:19:46,407 That shot of... just that shot that moved, 1602 01:19:46,490 --> 01:19:49,493 that Steadicam shot that moves around as they're all, um... 1603 01:19:50,619 --> 01:19:51,604 getting the house ready. 1604 01:19:51,704 --> 01:19:54,331 It's not that big and crazy of a move, but it's just... 1605 01:19:54,999 --> 01:19:57,793 These things are just kind of tricky to pull off 1606 01:19:57,877 --> 01:20:01,088 and have land exactly the way you want to land. 1607 01:20:01,172 --> 01:20:03,299 And it's not like we had a lot of rehearsal time, 1608 01:20:03,382 --> 01:20:05,301 because we're in this... we're at a location. 1609 01:20:05,384 --> 01:20:08,012 We weren't on stage, so we couldn't go in one night 1610 01:20:08,095 --> 01:20:11,056 and figure it out or, like, on a lunch break. 1611 01:20:11,807 --> 01:20:14,477 I didn't even see that house fully dressed 1612 01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:18,063 until the day that we got there to film it. 1613 01:20:18,147 --> 01:20:20,316 So we kind of had to figure all that out on the, uh... 1614 01:20:21,233 --> 01:20:22,635 on the fly, 1615 01:20:22,735 --> 01:20:24,737 and then just rehearse it as we were shooting it. 1616 01:20:24,820 --> 01:20:26,572 So I don't know, that's probably, like, 1617 01:20:26,655 --> 01:20:28,449 the 10th or 11th take that we end up using. 1618 01:20:28,532 --> 01:20:29,809 If this goes wrong... 1619 01:20:29,909 --> 01:20:31,660 - I love you, son. - You love me? 1620 01:20:31,744 --> 01:20:34,455 APPEL: And the fun thing about the third act of this movie 1621 01:20:34,538 --> 01:20:37,416 is we get to dip into all of these different genres, 1622 01:20:37,500 --> 01:20:38,943 which is super fun to me, 1623 01:20:39,043 --> 01:20:45,466 which, if any of you listening to this have seen my Weird: Al Yankovic movie, 1624 01:20:45,549 --> 01:20:48,802 there's a lot of, like, genre jumping we do. 1625 01:20:48,886 --> 01:20:52,014 l... I like putting in moments that feel like moments 1626 01:20:52,097 --> 01:20:56,060 from other types of movies that I love, so... 1627 01:20:56,143 --> 01:20:57,770 I... I don't even... 1628 01:20:57,853 --> 01:20:59,772 - You know this man? - Yeah, this is my... 1629 01:20:59,855 --> 01:21:01,173 APPEL: You get Nate planning. 1630 01:21:01,273 --> 01:21:03,150 You get your whole heist sequence 1631 01:21:03,234 --> 01:21:05,110 when Nate's planning what they're gonna do. 1632 01:21:05,194 --> 01:21:07,488 It turns into, like, a little bit of an action movie there, 1633 01:21:07,571 --> 01:21:09,448 where Nate's dad's driving. 1634 01:21:10,241 --> 01:21:13,327 Yeah, we were on our way to the house now, and... 1635 01:21:13,410 --> 01:21:16,372 APPEL: And then... And Lori's, uh... 1636 01:21:16,455 --> 01:21:17,998 I love Lori's... [CHUCKLES] 1637 01:21:18,082 --> 01:21:19,959 That line from Lori really makes me laugh. 1638 01:21:20,042 --> 01:21:21,485 "You know this man?" 1639 01:21:21,585 --> 01:21:23,878 My car is just fine. 1640 01:21:26,215 --> 01:21:28,050 APPEL. Lori was really great. 1641 01:21:28,133 --> 01:21:30,177 We shot this before we went to Shark Tank. 1642 01:21:30,261 --> 01:21:33,264 So I guess that was one nice thing when I went to Shark Tank, 1643 01:21:33,347 --> 01:21:36,016 I already knew Lori from shooting with her, so... 1644 01:21:37,393 --> 01:21:38,836 I was... I was hoping... I'm like, 1645 01:21:38,936 --> 01:21:43,774 "Tell the other sharks that I'm... that I'm an all right guy..." [CHUCKLES] 1646 01:21:43,857 --> 01:21:46,151 "cause I have to direct them." 1647 01:21:46,235 --> 01:21:50,155 But it was wild having Lori in... in Georgia with us. 1648 01:21:51,824 --> 01:21:56,161 In this, again, I will say, second week of shooting the movie. 1649 01:21:56,245 --> 01:21:59,999 We're shooting the whole third act of the movie in the second week. 1650 01:22:01,125 --> 01:22:05,921 And on day two of that week, being at this house, 1651 01:22:06,005 --> 01:22:08,257 I got strep throat. 1652 01:22:10,134 --> 01:22:15,514 So, on day one of shooting at the house, shooting this big ending sequence... 1653 01:22:15,598 --> 01:22:18,642 Or maybe it's... We shot the Conor and Angela outdoor scene 1654 01:22:18,726 --> 01:22:20,711 was the first thing we shot. 1655 01:22:20,811 --> 01:22:22,396 Of course, there was a thunderstorm 1656 01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:24,773 and there was lightning, and we all had to go to lunch, 1657 01:22:24,857 --> 01:22:28,235 and then we had to stop down because of thunder and lightning, 1658 01:22:28,319 --> 01:22:31,530 and I just started feeling really under the weather. 1659 01:22:31,614 --> 01:22:33,157 And they ended up calling the day 1660 01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:35,576 because we were gonna have thunderstorms for the rest of the day. 1661 01:22:35,659 --> 01:22:38,495 I went home, took some NyQuil, thought I was gonna sleep it off, 1662 01:22:38,579 --> 01:22:43,083 woke up the next day feeling even worse, and they sent a doctor over to my house. 1663 01:22:43,167 --> 01:22:46,879 And it turns out that I had strep throat, so we lost a day of shooting. 1664 01:22:46,962 --> 01:22:49,256 So this whole third act of the movie, it's like... 1665 01:22:49,340 --> 01:22:51,675 This is with a lost day of shooting, 1666 01:22:52,635 --> 01:22:55,638 and there's so much to do here, and it's all so complicated, 1667 01:22:55,721 --> 01:22:58,849 and it involves the entire cast and a horse... 1668 01:23:00,351 --> 01:23:05,356 and a shark, not a real shark, but a TV one. And, uh... 1669 01:23:06,273 --> 01:23:08,442 And it was just a lot, it was... it was a lot. 1670 01:23:08,525 --> 01:23:10,319 We were all really thrown into it. 1671 01:23:10,402 --> 01:23:14,490 Nate's... Nate's first experience on a movie set was really... 1672 01:23:14,573 --> 01:23:17,242 Started out just shot out of a cannon. 1673 01:23:19,203 --> 01:23:22,247 And there was a scene... There was a scene that we cut, I should mention, too, 1674 01:23:22,331 --> 01:23:26,669 where Nate gives the horse a pep talk, which was really funny, 1675 01:23:26,752 --> 01:23:29,254 like before, when he... After he sees it, before he's riding it. 1676 01:23:29,338 --> 01:23:31,965 It's a better cut going straight to him riding it. 1677 01:23:32,049 --> 01:23:33,634 NATE: Whoa! Whoa! Coming in hot! 1678 01:23:33,717 --> 01:23:37,012 APPEL: And also, it was very hard for him to, uh... 1679 01:23:37,096 --> 01:23:39,682 The horse wouldn't really look him in the eyes, 1680 01:23:40,808 --> 01:23:44,687 because it just wanted to eat horse food out of the trash can. 1681 01:23:44,770 --> 01:23:45,838 So it's a lot of horse... 1682 01:23:45,938 --> 01:23:49,733 Nate trying to, like, redirect the horse's face as he's talking. 1683 01:23:49,817 --> 01:23:52,194 He keeps having to stop to go, "Shh. Shh." 1684 01:23:52,277 --> 01:23:54,530 "It's okay, just here. Look at me right here." 1685 01:23:54,613 --> 01:23:56,448 I had to make a deal with him. 1686 01:23:56,532 --> 01:23:59,368 Let's just say our house isn't exactly camera-ready. 1687 01:23:59,451 --> 01:24:00,519 Oh, no, no, no, no. 1688 01:24:00,619 --> 01:24:02,663 APPEL: And another thing I should say too, is, uh, 1689 01:24:02,746 --> 01:24:06,083 when Nate was searching the house before, 1690 01:24:06,166 --> 01:24:10,295 we actually just hid the Star Minder in the house, 1691 01:24:10,379 --> 01:24:14,466 and that's Nate actually searching for it. 1692 01:24:14,550 --> 01:24:17,386 And I ended up having to tell him where it was, 1693 01:24:17,469 --> 01:24:19,680 'cause I hid it in a place where we had never filmed. 1694 01:24:19,763 --> 01:24:22,474 It was just, like, at the end of a hallway that was just background 1695 01:24:22,558 --> 01:24:24,393 when he finds the Star Minders. 1696 01:24:25,769 --> 01:24:26,962 This scene too. 1697 01:24:27,062 --> 01:24:30,149 What's the most complicated about this, where Nate's in the bushes, 1698 01:24:30,232 --> 01:24:35,404 is this is shot over the course of three different days. 1699 01:24:35,487 --> 01:24:37,281 So the car pulling up to the house, 1700 01:24:37,364 --> 01:24:40,576 and the stuntman, Ben, flying off the horse, 1701 01:24:40,659 --> 01:24:43,704 that is one day where it is beautiful and sunny, 1702 01:24:43,787 --> 01:24:45,289 clear blue skies. 1703 01:24:46,081 --> 01:24:48,542 Lori walking into the house 1704 01:24:48,625 --> 01:24:51,295 and her coming back out to talk to Katie, 1705 01:24:51,378 --> 01:24:54,590 that's a different day when she's exiting the car. 1706 01:24:54,673 --> 01:24:57,885 Her inside the car talking to Mandy 1707 01:24:59,428 --> 01:25:01,054 is a different day 1708 01:25:01,138 --> 01:25:04,767 as is when Mandy is going up to Nate at the bushes, 1709 01:25:04,850 --> 01:25:07,561 and the weather is different every single day. 1710 01:25:07,644 --> 01:25:09,813 So you can see how it's grey. 1711 01:25:09,897 --> 01:25:14,777 It is, like, straight-up raining this day when Mandy is talking to him. 1712 01:25:14,860 --> 01:25:18,155 But then, like, in wider shots, we did some sky replacement. 1713 01:25:18,238 --> 01:25:19,682 We're all... [SIGHS] 1714 01:25:19,782 --> 01:25:23,952 Just a... Just a real nightmare having to deal with the weather. 1715 01:25:26,413 --> 01:25:29,583 And... And, of course, it's all because we were on location 1716 01:25:29,666 --> 01:25:32,920 for the first four weeks of shooting this movie, 1717 01:25:33,003 --> 01:25:36,215 and the weather was just totally unpredictable. 1718 01:25:37,049 --> 01:25:40,427 And then once we got onto the stage where we shot all the interiors, 1719 01:25:40,511 --> 01:25:43,847 beautiful and sunny outside every single day, no rain at all. 1720 01:25:45,349 --> 01:25:47,351 That's probably an exaggeration, but... 1721 01:25:48,018 --> 01:25:49,086 [CINNAMON WHINNIES] 1722 01:25:49,186 --> 01:25:52,564 You look really familiar. Where, uh... Where do I know you from? 1723 01:25:52,648 --> 01:25:53,882 I'm on Shark Tank. 1724 01:25:53,982 --> 01:25:54,883 No... 1725 01:25:54,983 --> 01:25:57,444 APPEL: I love this joke where he recognizes her, 1726 01:25:57,528 --> 01:25:59,112 but not from Shark Tank. 1727 01:25:59,196 --> 01:26:02,199 [CHUCKLING] Like, where else would he know Lori from? 1728 01:26:02,282 --> 01:26:04,368 I missed you guys. Hi. 1729 01:26:04,451 --> 01:26:05,953 [PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING] 1730 01:26:09,373 --> 01:26:13,836 APPEL: We played a lot with, uh, Katie's anger level outside the house. 1731 01:26:14,670 --> 01:26:18,674 We couldn't make her too, too furious just because she has to soften 1732 01:26:18,757 --> 01:26:23,303 when she walks inside and see. It's anger, it's confusion, 1733 01:26:23,387 --> 01:26:25,347 it's... There's a little bit of betrayal, 1734 01:26:25,430 --> 01:26:28,183 but then she comes in and is genuinely impressed. 1735 01:26:28,267 --> 01:26:32,813 Now, if we remember way back to the start of this film, 1736 01:26:32,896 --> 01:26:38,861 Nate was a guy who could not even get the trash out onto the curb on time, 1737 01:26:38,944 --> 01:26:43,156 and now he has, like, completely redecorated 1738 01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:46,702 the interior of Conor and Angela's house 1739 01:26:46,785 --> 01:26:50,664 to make it feel like home and make it feel like it's all of... 1740 01:26:50,747 --> 01:26:56,044 It has Katie's warm, feminine touch. It's got... 1741 01:26:56,128 --> 01:26:57,671 All of her favorite stuff is there. 1742 01:26:57,754 --> 01:27:01,091 The kids' artwork, like, her crafting table. 1743 01:27:02,384 --> 01:27:07,389 So, uh, she's... She is truly touched at that moment where she walks in, 1744 01:27:07,472 --> 01:27:13,228 and it's... Really, it's the effort that, uh... that surprises her. 1745 01:27:13,312 --> 01:27:15,564 So good! Three poised daughters, 1746 01:27:15,647 --> 01:27:18,483 and a husband who, I have to say, is incredibly good at... 1747 01:27:18,567 --> 01:27:19,802 Maintaining comfortable eye contact? 1748 01:27:19,902 --> 01:27:21,178 - Exactly. - NATE: Yes. 1749 01:27:21,278 --> 01:27:24,281 APPEL: And again, the footage for the live stream is shot on, like, 1750 01:27:24,364 --> 01:27:29,661 the tiniest, crappiest camera that, like, a background actor is holding. [LAUGHS] 1751 01:27:29,745 --> 01:27:32,331 That we're just like, "We're just gonna roll on this." 1752 01:27:32,414 --> 01:27:33,315 She's going to kill me. 1753 01:27:33,415 --> 01:27:35,083 Why did she say this is her house? 1754 01:27:35,167 --> 01:27:37,544 Because this is my house, dollface. This is my house. 1755 01:27:37,628 --> 01:27:38,654 What is happening? 1756 01:27:38,754 --> 01:27:40,255 Listen, delay the live stream! 1757 01:27:40,339 --> 01:27:41,198 - Nate... - HADLEY: Dad... 1758 01:27:41,298 --> 01:27:45,510 APPEL: Kate Berlant, who I love so much and I wish was in more of the movie, 1759 01:27:45,594 --> 01:27:49,014 her saying "dollface" really cracks me up. 1760 01:27:49,097 --> 01:27:50,974 "This is my house, dollface." 1761 01:27:51,058 --> 01:27:55,312 That was her just improvising, and we cracked up on set. 1762 01:27:56,021 --> 01:27:58,173 No, no. It's done. 1763 01:27:58,273 --> 01:27:59,942 It's over. It's... 1764 01:28:01,777 --> 01:28:02,761 All right. 1765 01:28:02,861 --> 01:28:05,948 APPEL: Yeah. So this right here, so Nate gives this speech here. 1766 01:28:07,157 --> 01:28:12,371 And... Nate had been... This is the big... It's act three. 1767 01:28:12,454 --> 01:28:15,624 It's Nate giving his big, "Let me sum it all up for you, 1768 01:28:15,707 --> 01:28:17,834 "here's the moral of the story, 1769 01:28:17,918 --> 01:28:19,544 "here's what I've learned" speech. 1770 01:28:19,628 --> 01:28:22,004 ...unlivable mess right now. 1771 01:28:22,172 --> 01:28:24,299 I thought I could do what you do. 1772 01:28:25,050 --> 01:28:26,451 APPEL: And I think he's great. 1773 01:28:26,551 --> 01:28:29,471 We did... We did many takes of this, because I have to say, 1774 01:28:29,554 --> 01:28:34,977 one more time, Nate, at this point, has been an actor for maybe eight days 1775 01:28:35,060 --> 01:28:37,312 of his life, okay? [LAUGHS] 1776 01:28:37,396 --> 01:28:38,797 He is 46 years old. 1777 01:28:38,897 --> 01:28:41,066 He's been an actor for the last eight days. 1778 01:28:41,149 --> 01:28:44,027 And actually, in between, I think those... 1779 01:28:44,111 --> 01:28:46,780 It was maybe, like, five days from the first week, 1780 01:28:46,863 --> 01:28:51,118 then Nate went and did stand-up in some other city 1781 01:28:51,201 --> 01:28:53,203 'cause he was touring while we were shooting. 1782 01:28:53,286 --> 01:28:55,998 Nate went and did stand-up and then he came back to us 1783 01:28:56,081 --> 01:28:59,251 and had to get back into, like, "I'm an actor" mode. 1784 01:29:00,585 --> 01:29:04,339 But he is such a natural and... and that's... that's why 1785 01:29:04,423 --> 01:29:07,300 when, you know, I was originally approached with this, 1786 01:29:07,384 --> 01:29:10,679 I was a fan of his stand-up, and, uh... 1787 01:29:12,347 --> 01:29:14,224 coming into this, I was like, 1788 01:29:14,307 --> 01:29:18,478 "I... I think Nate is really going to be able to pull this off." 1789 01:29:18,562 --> 01:29:21,023 Even though he hasn't acted before, 1790 01:29:21,732 --> 01:29:24,735 you know, a lot of it is based on his stand-up 1791 01:29:24,818 --> 01:29:30,282 and, uh, his... his persona that he's cultivated. 1792 01:29:32,034 --> 01:29:34,536 But he's got such a natural, breezy way of talking 1793 01:29:34,619 --> 01:29:37,789 and what people love about Nate, it's his cadence, is like... 1794 01:29:38,832 --> 01:29:40,625 the way he says things. 1795 01:29:40,709 --> 01:29:45,547 And I was like, "All right, if I can just get Nate to not be in his own head 1796 01:29:45,630 --> 01:29:48,633 "and to just speak naturally and talk the way that he does 1797 01:29:48,717 --> 01:29:50,719 "and act the way that he does on stage, 1798 01:29:52,596 --> 01:29:54,639 "I think that we're gonna end up with a really great performance." 1799 01:29:54,723 --> 01:30:00,562 And Nate gave me... It was everything that I could have hoped for and more. 1800 01:30:04,191 --> 01:30:07,986 I think Nate did a really great job playing a, you know, sort of, 1801 01:30:08,070 --> 01:30:11,073 alternate universe version of Nate Bargatze... 1802 01:30:11,156 --> 01:30:13,575 [CHUCKLES] ...in... in Nate Wilcox. 1803 01:30:13,658 --> 01:30:17,329 That... That shot of Nate hugging the kids and... and picking up Charlotte, 1804 01:30:17,412 --> 01:30:20,999 that we did when we did additional photography. 1805 01:30:21,083 --> 01:30:25,253 We rebuilt that wall from the... the Ashfords' house. 1806 01:30:25,879 --> 01:30:27,923 The original hug is something... 1807 01:30:28,006 --> 01:30:31,384 When he originally hugged the kids, we got only one take of it, 1808 01:30:31,468 --> 01:30:34,012 and we thought of it at the last minute when we were shooting, 1809 01:30:34,096 --> 01:30:36,848 we were like, "We should get a shot of Nate hugging the kids." 1810 01:30:36,932 --> 01:30:40,185 And Nate, at this point, barely knows the girls. 1811 01:30:40,268 --> 01:30:41,853 His hug felt a little like, 1812 01:30:42,979 --> 01:30:46,483 I don't know. It just wasn't... It wasn't like a real fatherly hug. 1813 01:30:46,566 --> 01:30:50,153 And then I'm like, "Let's see if we could redo this hug," 1814 01:30:50,237 --> 01:30:53,949 you know, when we go back to shoot these additional scenes, and, uh... 1815 01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:57,160 it's like Little Women, all of a sudden, 1816 01:30:57,244 --> 01:30:59,246 that day when he's picking the girls up at the end of this. 1817 01:31:00,747 --> 01:31:04,584 My little breadwinners. [LAUGHS] 1818 01:31:04,668 --> 01:31:06,211 Candy! Give me! Give me! Give me! 1819 01:31:06,294 --> 01:31:08,964 NATE: Please make it last past the second quarter. 1820 01:31:10,298 --> 01:31:12,217 Hadley, vegetables. 1821 01:31:12,300 --> 01:31:15,178 APPEL: And then, yeah, here we are. Here we are at the end. 1822 01:31:15,262 --> 01:31:17,414 Nate is now... 1823 01:31:17,514 --> 01:31:22,060 Him and... and Katie have found the right work-life balance. 1824 01:31:22,144 --> 01:31:24,521 Nate now works as the salesman. 1825 01:31:24,604 --> 01:31:28,066 Uh, he's the head of sales for Katie's Star Minder company. 1826 01:31:28,150 --> 01:31:32,070 They both... They are both able to work from home, 1827 01:31:32,154 --> 01:31:35,198 and they're able to split their parenting duties. 1828 01:31:35,282 --> 01:31:39,744 And in a perfect world, we would all be doing this, right? 1829 01:31:39,828 --> 01:31:43,623 We'd all be working, uh... We'd all... We'd all be working from home. 1830 01:31:43,707 --> 01:31:46,710 Someday, when robots are doing everything for us, 1831 01:31:46,793 --> 01:31:48,587 maybe we'll all be able to just stay at home 1832 01:31:48,670 --> 01:31:52,007 and spend time with our families. [LAUGHS] 1833 01:31:52,090 --> 01:31:54,759 But these two are really living the dream. 1834 01:31:56,011 --> 01:31:59,806 And we got all of these shots, all of these stadium shots, 1835 01:31:59,890 --> 01:32:01,808 a couple of months after we finished shooting. 1836 01:32:01,892 --> 01:32:05,270 We went to Nissan Stadium, 1837 01:32:05,353 --> 01:32:08,940 and along with NFL Films, 1838 01:32:09,024 --> 01:32:11,109 who helped us shoot this footage at the stadium. 1839 01:32:11,193 --> 01:32:14,571 We got all these shots at an actual Titans game. 1840 01:32:14,654 --> 01:32:16,948 They were playing the Rams, if you look real closely, 1841 01:32:17,032 --> 01:32:19,242 you could see a bunch of people wearing Rams jerseys. 1842 01:32:19,326 --> 01:32:21,036 [ALL CHEERING] 1843 01:32:21,119 --> 01:32:23,997 And I had, like, an all... Oh, and that's my voice, by the way. 1844 01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:25,707 I am the announcer. 1845 01:32:25,790 --> 01:32:27,667 You might recognize the voice of the announcer. 1846 01:32:27,751 --> 01:32:30,086 That's me. That's my big cameo in this movie. 1847 01:32:30,170 --> 01:32:32,839 Not just my hands or my scream. 1848 01:32:32,923 --> 01:32:34,758 I'm also the voice of the announcer, 1849 01:32:35,884 --> 01:32:41,014 which I did on set and then, uh, redid for the movie. 1850 01:32:41,097 --> 01:32:43,892 But when we were at this Titans game, 1851 01:32:45,101 --> 01:32:47,729 I had... I had, like, an all-access pass 1852 01:32:49,064 --> 01:32:50,732 to be on the field. 1853 01:32:50,815 --> 01:32:53,735 I've been to football games before, but never that close. 1854 01:32:53,818 --> 01:32:56,488 And there was actually a moment where I was on the sideline 1855 01:32:56,571 --> 01:32:58,823 when the game started. We were just getting all this footage. 1856 01:32:58,907 --> 01:33:01,201 And the NFL Films guys have done this a million times. 1857 01:33:01,284 --> 01:33:02,477 They know what they're doing. 1858 01:33:02,577 --> 01:33:05,830 But I'm standing on the sideline and, like, kickoff is happening, 1859 01:33:05,914 --> 01:33:09,834 and I'm like literally on the line. 1860 01:33:09,918 --> 01:33:15,966 Like, I'm standing on the sideline, the... the cheerleaders are behind me. 1861 01:33:16,633 --> 01:33:19,219 That's how close I am to the game, and I'm wondering, 1862 01:33:19,302 --> 01:33:22,430 am I suppo... Like, is someone going to tell me to move? 1863 01:33:23,098 --> 01:33:25,767 And they did just to make way for, like, the camera. 1864 01:33:25,850 --> 01:33:28,311 You know, there's, like, a camera truck that drives around on the field. 1865 01:33:28,395 --> 01:33:31,439 But it was insane having that kind of access 1866 01:33:31,523 --> 01:33:33,316 and being that close to an NFL game. 1867 01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:36,361 I'm like, "If I trip and fall, I'm literally on the field." 1868 01:33:37,737 --> 01:33:39,531 I'm like, "I could streak right now." 1869 01:33:39,614 --> 01:33:43,076 I could... My lifelong dream of streaking at a football game. 1870 01:33:43,159 --> 01:33:46,121 I've never been in better position to do it, 1871 01:33:46,997 --> 01:33:51,376 but, uh... but I ended up bailing 'cause I like my life. 1872 01:33:51,459 --> 01:33:53,545 And I don't... [LAUGHS] I don't want to ruin it. 1873 01:33:53,628 --> 01:33:56,256 ...one of the days. I don't know the day, but it's a day. 1874 01:33:56,339 --> 01:33:57,657 Wait, it's trash day! 1875 01:33:57,757 --> 01:33:59,159 APPEL: And... And then here we are. 1876 01:33:59,259 --> 01:34:02,971 Here we are. We are in our, uh... This is our gag reel. Thank you. 1877 01:34:03,054 --> 01:34:06,808 For those who have stuck around with me all the way until the end credits, 1878 01:34:08,476 --> 01:34:10,795 thank you very much. 1879 01:34:10,895 --> 01:34:12,814 "Put your trash in your pockets, take it to your homes." 1880 01:34:12,897 --> 01:34:15,942 APPEL: I gave a shout-out to a friend of mine, Colin Mulligan, 1881 01:34:16,026 --> 01:34:20,905 a friend of mine from high school who loves watching commentaries. 1882 01:34:20,989 --> 01:34:22,907 He watches every single... 1883 01:34:22,991 --> 01:34:27,203 He texts me almost every day about something he has learned 1884 01:34:27,287 --> 01:34:32,000 from another DVD or Blu-ray commentary that he's watched. 1885 01:34:32,083 --> 01:34:34,502 The man loves commentary tracks. 1886 01:34:34,586 --> 01:34:39,257 And I told him for... "For as long as we keep making them..." 1887 01:34:39,341 --> 01:34:42,218 We love physical media, everyone. 1888 01:34:42,302 --> 01:34:44,888 "As long as we keep making these commentary tracks, 1889 01:34:44,971 --> 01:34:48,933 "and I keep doing them, I will shout you out at the end of every commentary track." 1890 01:34:49,017 --> 01:34:52,520 So, Colin Mulligan, this is for you, buddy. [CHUCKLES] 1891 01:34:52,604 --> 01:34:54,439 NATE: You don't think about that when you buy a horse. 1892 01:34:54,522 --> 01:34:56,608 That's a huge thing dying in your yard. 1893 01:34:56,691 --> 01:34:58,777 You can't just scoot it off into the woods... 1894 01:34:58,860 --> 01:35:01,154 APPEL: So yeah, the idea here at the end of the movie, 1895 01:35:02,030 --> 01:35:03,740 uh, for this gag reel was to let... 1896 01:35:03,823 --> 01:35:07,118 We wanted audiences to know that a lot of this, 1897 01:35:08,119 --> 01:35:10,955 a lot of the ideas in this movie came from Nate's stand-up. 1898 01:35:11,039 --> 01:35:13,917 You know, this all started with Nate and Dan Lagana 1899 01:35:14,959 --> 01:35:19,714 figuring out a theatrical feature for Nate that would... 1900 01:35:21,508 --> 01:35:25,053 much like a... you would base a sitcom. 1901 01:35:26,262 --> 01:35:31,142 Everybody Loves Raymond is based off the comedy of Ray Romano. 1902 01:35:31,226 --> 01:35:36,773 The Breadwinner is based off the comedy of, uh... of Nate Bargatze. 1903 01:35:36,856 --> 01:35:38,650 [ALL LAUGHING] 1904 01:35:38,733 --> 01:35:40,135 [ALL SLURPING] 1905 01:35:40,235 --> 01:35:42,070 We were the breadwinners. 1906 01:35:43,321 --> 01:35:46,032 APPEL: So we sort of... You know, we used gags. 1907 01:35:46,116 --> 01:35:49,869 It works as a gag reel, and it's also, you know, 1908 01:35:49,953 --> 01:35:53,331 all these funny jokes from... from years of Nate doing stand-up. 1909 01:35:53,957 --> 01:35:57,252 And we even snuck in that "whipped cream, with cream" joke, 1910 01:35:57,335 --> 01:36:00,672 even though it's not really... [LAUGHS] 1911 01:36:00,755 --> 01:36:03,258 It doesn't... I mean, they do use whipped cream 1912 01:36:03,341 --> 01:36:06,386 in the movie, so it ties, but we love that joke so much. 1913 01:36:08,763 --> 01:36:14,686 Nicole Brown, president of TriStar, huge fan of that joke of Nate's, 1914 01:36:14,769 --> 01:36:16,771 and was like, "We have to figure out a way to work in 1915 01:36:16,855 --> 01:36:19,441 "that 'whipped cream with cream' joke, which we all love," 1916 01:36:19,524 --> 01:36:23,319 and, uh, we found a way to work it in, which is great, and then here we are. 1917 01:36:23,403 --> 01:36:24,471 We're looking at credits now. 1918 01:36:24,571 --> 01:36:29,576 We're looking at credits, we're listening to the, uh, score suite by Zach and Leo, 1919 01:36:29,659 --> 01:36:31,286 and, uh... 1920 01:36:32,829 --> 01:36:35,957 I'm gonna keep talking all the way to the bitter end, folks. 1921 01:36:37,500 --> 01:36:39,878 Company 3, I see Company 3 in here. 1922 01:36:39,961 --> 01:36:42,130 We did, uh... They did our color. 1923 01:36:42,213 --> 01:36:44,757 Love Company... Love Company 3. 1924 01:36:45,717 --> 01:36:50,221 Jill, our colorist, also colored Wicked. 1925 01:36:50,305 --> 01:36:52,307 She colored Joker. 1926 01:36:52,390 --> 01:36:56,186 I mean, a lot of very beautiful, very colorful movies. 1927 01:36:56,269 --> 01:37:00,440 Her first... Here's a fun fact about... Here's a fun fact about Jill. 1928 01:37:02,233 --> 01:37:05,612 Jill's first movie working in the color department was 1929 01:37:06,362 --> 01:37:08,348 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 1930 01:37:08,448 --> 01:37:14,996 Which, uh, was like the first movie to use that digital coloring. 1931 01:37:15,079 --> 01:37:19,292 And we talked about it while we were, uh, doing the color, and I'm like, 1932 01:37:19,375 --> 01:37:22,003 "Oh, wow, I know all about... I remember watching 1933 01:37:22,086 --> 01:37:25,048 "those DVD special features on... on the coloring in that movie." 1934 01:37:25,131 --> 01:37:28,343 And she's like, "Well, that's me as, like, a 20-year-old. 1935 01:37:28,426 --> 01:37:29,411 "Like, I'm in there. 1936 01:37:29,511 --> 01:37:30,954 "You see a lot of me." 1937 01:37:31,054 --> 01:37:36,601 And I have not gone back and watched it again, but... but I'll have to do that. 1938 01:37:37,310 --> 01:37:40,772 Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Stevie Wonder. 1939 01:37:42,232 --> 01:37:43,550 We love Stevie Wonder. 1940 01:37:43,650 --> 01:37:46,444 I put that Stevie Wonder... That's another, uh... 1941 01:37:47,820 --> 01:37:50,949 Not the cheapest song to put in your movie. 1942 01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:56,329 And I put it at the end of the movie just 'cause I love the song 1943 01:37:56,412 --> 01:37:58,039 and I'm like, "This feels really great." 1944 01:37:58,122 --> 01:38:02,961 This is a really happy song to sort of go out on, 1945 01:38:03,044 --> 01:38:07,048 and it gives you a really good feeling, and, uh... 1946 01:38:08,174 --> 01:38:11,177 Nicole Brown watched it at our first screening, 1947 01:38:11,261 --> 01:38:13,846 and she was like, "I love this Stevie... 1948 01:38:13,930 --> 01:38:17,934 "We have to keep this song, at least through all the testing. 1949 01:38:18,017 --> 01:38:19,727 "We'll figure it out at the end." 1950 01:38:19,811 --> 01:38:23,815 And, um... And then we ended up getting it. 1951 01:38:23,898 --> 01:38:28,611 Thank you to Tom Rothman, the chairman here at Sony Pictures, 1952 01:38:28,695 --> 01:38:31,614 for getting us this Stevie Wonder song. 1953 01:38:31,698 --> 01:38:33,533 This was our gift from Tom 1954 01:38:35,159 --> 01:38:38,079 at the end of the, uh... of the shoot. 1955 01:38:38,162 --> 01:38:41,124 And, um... And I'm very thankful that we got it, 1956 01:38:41,207 --> 01:38:44,335 'cause it's such a fantastic track to put at the end of the movie. 1957 01:38:47,630 --> 01:38:51,009 And, um... And sustainability makes a difference, folks. 1958 01:38:51,092 --> 01:38:52,535 I want to leave you with that. 1959 01:38:52,635 --> 01:38:54,512 If there's one thing I want to leave you with, 1960 01:38:54,596 --> 01:38:59,517 it's that sustainability... [CHUCKLES] ...truly does make a difference. 1961 01:38:59,601 --> 01:39:01,811 We want a greener Earth here. 1962 01:39:01,894 --> 01:39:04,272 Nate's got some very funny jokes... 1963 01:39:04,355 --> 01:39:07,025 [CHUCKLING] about recycling and, like, Earth Day 1964 01:39:07,108 --> 01:39:09,652 that are... that kind of run counter to what I just said, 1965 01:39:09,736 --> 01:39:11,446 but, everyone, recycle! 1966 01:39:11,529 --> 01:39:14,032 This has been... I hope you enjoyed The Breadwinner. 1967 01:39:14,824 --> 01:39:16,742 Until next time.