"Parker Posey"

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Speaker 1 Oh, good. He's into the hair.

Speaker 1 I'm wearing a hat today. Are you going to get a haircut at any point? Are you going to keep

Speaker 1 letting it get because I'm going to grow mine out again? I think I'm going to keep going for a little bit for the summer because I'm not really planning on doing too much this summer.

Speaker 1 You're going going to let it be long in the summer. Hang on, Sean.
No one's talking to you yet.

Speaker 1 Do you want it? Don't you want it short during the summer though, Will? I mean, for you.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 it does seem counter to me.

Speaker 1 Sean, you know. Can you mute your mic? Sean, he did say Sean.
He did say that we weren't talking to you yet. I know, no, I know, but let me know.

Speaker 1 Just give me like a hand signal or like touch your nose or something. I think that he's going to get to you, and you'll know when he's ready.
I mean, I don't want to speak for you, Jason.

Speaker 1 Okay, so go ahead, but the hair. Go ahead with the hair.
Yeah, I think, I don't know. I'm just going to, for the summertime, sorry.
thank you, Jason.

Speaker 1 Sean, even the, yes, sorry, green. And then it's even the chuckles.
Sorry. Sorry, God.

Speaker 1 God, bless.

Speaker 1 Wait, but Will, what would it look like if you cut your hair? You would look so different. Would you ever want to just cut the back? I'll cut it for you.
No.

Speaker 1 How about just cut the top and leave the party in the rear? Oh, no, no, no. I was thinking about like, or just going, I want to go for like Italian soccer manager, like that guy's Simone Ingrazi.

Speaker 1 Tiny pony. No, no, just kind of like that sort of Euro kind of long and then, you know what I mean? No, you look you look like Javier Bardem in no country for old men.

Speaker 1 Well, that's not a compliment. With the heart.
No, I know.

Speaker 1 That's not a compliment. No, if you if you comb it forward, that's what you would look like.
And you'd shoot people with a cow thing, whatever he did.

Speaker 1 That was that thing, yeah. Sean, has your hair ever been crazy? Has it always been what you got?

Speaker 1 My hair has been, what, really long? You know, when I grow it really long, Scotty says every single morning, if it's long, he goes, Hey, Mav, which is Tom Cruise Maverick and Top Gun.

Speaker 1 Well, that's a good thing, isn't it? No, I know, but he's like, Does he chase you around the house? Is he saying what do you say? When you go to Skeva, when you go to Skeva, what do you say?

Speaker 1 Just give me the accountant, is that what you say?

Speaker 1 Wait, every time, give me the CPA,

Speaker 1 every time you when I think I told you this, when I went on tour with Kenny Rogers, and uh, he caught me.

Speaker 1 He's a country western star

Speaker 1 When he would call people up during the 12 Days of Christmas from the audience or whatever, and this one woman walked up there and she had like

Speaker 1 big,

Speaker 1 almost like Princess Leia-like things on the side of her head and backstage. Cinnabons.
Yeah, Cinnabons. And I was so stoned during that whole tour.
Why wouldn't you be?

Speaker 1 It's true. Why wouldn't I? And by the way, what was he charging per ticket for the Kenny Rogers 12 Days of Christmas? That's a great question.

Speaker 1 I don't remember. I don't remember.
It's probably pretty steep. It was, well, it was stadiums.
It was like huge.

Speaker 1 But anyway, I go, I said, I was backstage acting like I was in the barber, and I commented on the woman. I go, and I look in the mirror and I go,

Speaker 1 just Planet of the Apes today, if you can.

Speaker 1 Remember the Planet of the Apes women had that hair on the side.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we got it. That's why we laughed.
Thank you. It was the laugh was the indicator that that we got.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 you don't need to explain.

Speaker 1 Don't sell past the sale. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Speaker 1 Yesterday, Will, I had lunch with our friend. This is from the prepared section of Sean's notes.
Well, no, well, it's what really happened yesterday.

Speaker 1 And I got my tarot cards read for the first time ever. Have you ever had that? Yeah.
Have you ever had? I've never done it.

Speaker 1 But anyway, so our friend does this for a living, this person that Will and I know. And I got my tarot cards read, but that's the whole story.
I'd never had it done before.

Speaker 1 I don't really remember, but I had a world card, a judgment card, and

Speaker 1 a guy that was hanged.

Speaker 1 Did you go all in when you saw your hand?

Speaker 1 No, yeah, exactly. Have you ever had it done? Have you ever been hypnotized? No.

Speaker 1 With a stopwatch?

Speaker 1 I wonder if they still do that. No, I've never been hypnotized.
No. I have.
Have you, really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I forget what it was. Is it ongoing?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I snapped out of it a a couple hours ago.

Speaker 1 But this was like, I don't know, 15 years ago.

Speaker 1 I was into some heavy therapy at the time. I was trying to, you know, fill some holes and mend some breaks in my brain.

Speaker 1 And it worked. It worked pretty good.

Speaker 1 I was surprised because I was pretty skeptical as one would be going into hypnotherapy, I think they called it.

Speaker 1 What was, and can I just, just to get to the nuts and bolts of it, what was your involvement just showing up? Amanda did everything else, found the person, made the appointment, drove you there.

Speaker 1 Without a doubt, yeah,

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 she did everything except just lay me back easy on the sofa. Well, no, and then she was hypnotized, she did everything.

Speaker 1 Oh, it was her, it was her.

Speaker 1 Um, but it was, uh, it was what uh, I was very curious. Like, what would that be? Do you just kind of zonk out? Um,

Speaker 1 and it was it basically took me to the place right before you fall asleep. And so I'm in that space, and a bunch of memories easily came back.
Oh, wow. It was like right there at my fingertips.

Speaker 1 And I was able to talk freely about all of these things that I guess are under a layer. Yeah, I would just go straight to sleep.
I wouldn't be able to speak. I know, but

Speaker 1 that's the hypnotherapist talent. They can kind of keep you just like floating right there on the edge, I guess.

Speaker 1 And you remembered all of it and as if it, yeah? I guess, yeah. I mean, I did retain some gain from it, from it, I suppose.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, I guess it's a valid form of therapy for sure. Never.
Much better than getting dealt a hand of cards. I mean, what's going on, Sean?

Speaker 1 That was kind of interesting, but I don't really remember anything. No, the tarot cards,

Speaker 1 that is also super valid. And

Speaker 1 who am I? Don't worry.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I'm not. No, are you walking it back?

Speaker 1 These people. Do you owe somebody money or something?

Speaker 1 What's going on?

Speaker 1 But guys, speaking of hypnotic,

Speaker 1 let's get to that world class.

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My guest today studied ballet as a kid, has some legit mime skills, plays the mandolin. No, plays the mandolin.

Speaker 1 As an actress, she's played a deranged vampire, a real-life prosecutor, an actor playing a reporter, a sociopath in outer space, and of course, a dog owner with a lot of feelings.

Speaker 1 You might not always see her coming, but once you do, she's the only thing you want to watch. Indie queen, forever party girl.
It's a totally original and someone I love very much. Double P?

Speaker 1 Parker Posey? Double P.

Speaker 1 Was that torture?

Speaker 2 I was hypnotized.

Speaker 1 Yeah, sure. I'm just happy to be awake now.

Speaker 1 Hi, fellas. Hi.
Hi. Kind of overdue.
I love your podcast. How have you not been on the show already? Are you sure this isn't your second? I live in Hollywood.
She doesn't know how to do it.

Speaker 1 Well, you don't have to live in Hollywood to be on the show.

Speaker 2 I know, but I don't. Well, someone didn't ask me.

Speaker 1 I don't live in in Hollywood either. You just invite me.

Speaker 2 I just did. I'm in upstate New York, but I'll come over.

Speaker 1 It looks like you live in a very handsome apartment there in the West Village. I want to say.
Are you in the West Village?

Speaker 2 It's called the Chateau Marmont.

Speaker 1 And it's on Sunset. Oh, you are in LA.

Speaker 2 And when I, yeah, I'm in L.A.

Speaker 1 Actually, out of all of us, you're the only one who's actually in Hollywood right now. Yes.
As it turns out, despite that.

Speaker 2 Really? Where are you guys?

Speaker 1 We're elsewhere. Yeah.
We're in the Wills and Simee Valley. Sean is in Chatsworth.
Yeah. And I'm in Brea.

Speaker 1 Sean's in Maddo.

Speaker 1 What is going on? What?

Speaker 1 We get a bang for a buck, better.

Speaker 1 Parker, you look gorgeous.

Speaker 1 I like the color of your hair. I took the hair.

Speaker 2 I took the hair for a movie I did with Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich, a Martin McDonough film.

Speaker 1 Jesus Christ. I'm so jealous of that film.
That cast.

Speaker 1 Steve Boucher. But you had to go to South Africa for it, right?

Speaker 2 Easter Island.

Speaker 1 Easter Island.

Speaker 1 Easter Island.

Speaker 1 It's called Wild Horse Nine, right?

Speaker 2 Wild Horse Nine. Easter Island is the furthest place you can go in the world, being furthest away from anywhere else.
It's a 17-mile island with the heads. Yeah.
With the

Speaker 1 thing, right, right. The cult of the.
It's off the coast of South America. Right.
So it's not South. Africa, it's South America.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It would be like if you flew from like Lima, Peru, and you wanted to go to Sydney, Australia You'd fly right over it. Okay guy cool it.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 everybody's got property in Portugal and are familiar with the southern hemisphere. It's smart.

Speaker 1 I wasn't.

Speaker 2 I wasn't. My parents would play a game with me in the car and they'd be like, what's the capital of Denver? And I'd say Colorado.

Speaker 2 And they would just think that was hilarious how stupid I was at geography and knowing where things were.

Speaker 2 And I would like do this thing. And my grandmother, nanny, she'd have this world, this globe, you know, know, those globes that you would love to spin it, you know? I'm going to go here.

Speaker 2 And I would just play that for hours.

Speaker 1 And I'd say, you know what?

Speaker 2 I'll know where I am when I get there. And if I'm lost and I don't know where I am, I'm going to ask somebody.
And they're going to tell me. They're going to tell me.

Speaker 2 And before the phones, I knew where to go and I'd ask people like directions and I was fine.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you come straight from Southeast Asia home, repack your bags, and then go to Easter Island, or was there a job in between? I'm speaking of the White Lotus show.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. That's a good question.

Speaker 2 Because there's been so much traveling that I wake up in bed and I don't know where I am. It takes me.
It's too much.

Speaker 1 You need a nice sitcom over at Universal Studios. Thank you.
And just relax.

Speaker 2 Do you know what? You know? I'm really loving Matlock. I'm loving Kathy Bates and Matt Lock Sound.

Speaker 1 You are? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Have you watched that? I bet you could do a nice arc on there. Yeah.
Just let them know.

Speaker 2 Oh, I just like that cozy formula. And

Speaker 2 she's just fantastic. And

Speaker 2 I'm into that. I'm also, I watched 1923 with Helen Mirren.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I haven't seen her yet. How was that?

Speaker 2 It's great. You know, I love the costumes and the learning about history and geography.

Speaker 1 It sounds like you're good about watching stuff.

Speaker 1 Do you gobble up everything?

Speaker 2 See, I'm doing all this. This is the awards push of Emmys and, you know, from White Lotus.
I've never been a part of the machine

Speaker 2 that has, you know, had that happen.

Speaker 1 So you're taking a look at the competition?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 How do you think your chances are holding up? Do you think Kathy Bates is the horse to beat?

Speaker 2 I do.

Speaker 1 I do. She's the one.

Speaker 2 I wonder if there's a horse named after her.

Speaker 2 There's a horse named after me. There's like a Posey Parker.
And yeah, I lived with a woman named Marcia Brill in the West Village. She was an 86-year-old born and bred, New York, Jewish lady.

Speaker 2 She's bad on the horses. And she'd go, go ahead, make my day.

Speaker 1 Go get them, make my day.

Speaker 2 And she would smoke, and she was four foot 11. I love her.
And my friends would come by and they'd be like, she's fabulous.

Speaker 2 Like, she is like having a stiff drink at five and was an editor.

Speaker 1 You'd go to the OTB with her or she'd just watch it.

Speaker 2 This was on TV on like a little perfect, you know, black and white little box TV from the 80s downstairs around the kitchen. Amazing.
But those times are no longer.

Speaker 2 But yeah, I'm open to LA. I want to, I'm using this podcast for you guys to tell everyone that I'm moving to Hollywood.

Speaker 1 True. No, you're not.
Are you?

Speaker 2 But you're not even, you guys aren't here. You're not in Hollywood.

Speaker 1 Well, we're in.

Speaker 1 We're not in Hollywood. I'm in the process of moving back to New York.
So, you know, I'm going the other way.

Speaker 2 Is everyone just not being able to do that?

Speaker 1 I'm going back.

Speaker 1 You are. Okay.

Speaker 2 I don't really know where to be. And I think that's from being in so many stories.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I should figure it out and stop this.

Speaker 1 Wait, but Parker, you've been going back and forth for years and years and years. If you wanted to move out to LA, you would have.
But

Speaker 1 you're in both all the time. And all of a sudden.

Speaker 2 I'm in a farmhouse. I'm a lady.

Speaker 2 I'm a steward of the land on this farm in upstate new york so i don't i can't couldn't carry both the city and the country and so now i'm like this so you got rid of the you know putting bird seed in the feeders yeah really

Speaker 1 too much yeah i didn't know that

Speaker 1 good for you

Speaker 2 so yeah it's a big switch but like like hudson valley type deal yeah the hudson valley type deal oh wow

Speaker 2 walty goggins is close by i just saw him last night i ran into him he has completed 18 months of of non-stop travel and work.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 He did Fallout. He did

Speaker 2 Righteous Gemstones. He did White Lotus.

Speaker 2 And I saw him driving up in the parking lot. And I was meeting some friends at 5.
Well, friends were picking me up at 5.35. It was 5.30.
Walton drives up. And Walton.

Speaker 2 And I see him in the car. And I swear he started crying.
He was like, I'm done. I'm done.
I just finished all of this

Speaker 1 mountain of work he gets to relax he's got a beautiful house we've seen it in magazines

Speaker 2 yeah my house isn't like that

Speaker 2 my house is really crunchy granola sweet yeah it's um

Speaker 2 the renovations i'm trying to renovate and get a new kitchen because there's the insulation you know the pipes freeze and all that and i love a project but so my house has been this this thing that i've this being you know i don't look at my I don't look at my house like mine.

Speaker 2 Like, I just want to give to it because it's an old farmhouse. Right.
So I guess what I'm saying, Will, is like, and you guys, I'm trying to figure out just where to land in a community.

Speaker 1 Let's shoot it. Let's shoot it.
Let's cover it. Let's shoot the reno of the kitchen.
Yes.

Speaker 1 We're going to get together with the gang over at Discovery. And they're going to pay for the twins.

Speaker 2 Well, I'm already that's a great idea because, and that's what I tell the contractors when they come over. I'm like, I want to, can you, are you open to me filming you with my phone?

Speaker 2 I would love to do like a home improvement show. I love

Speaker 1 this world.

Speaker 2 Put this on. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dress like you're from. Turn around.

Speaker 2 Do the hokey fokey.

Speaker 1 Dress like you're from 1923. Could you do that? Let's do a period reno.

Speaker 1 Yes. And get me a hamburger sandwich.
And then what about

Speaker 1 Joe Parker?

Speaker 1 You also.

Speaker 2 So I'm pitching all that stuff

Speaker 2 to like dead eyes.

Speaker 1 You told me that, I mean, I read that you like Duval kitchens. Because speaking of renovating your place, what's a Duval kitchen? I had a Google Day.

Speaker 2 Duval is loved, spelled backwards.

Speaker 2 How stupid it is.

Speaker 1 Sean Samuel is so stony.

Speaker 1 Just throw away my notes. Why don't you just look at the word and you say, well, what do you be backwards? I didn't know.
Was that? It's not a real thing. Is it a real thing?

Speaker 2 Spell out loved and put it, go to the mirror.

Speaker 1 I just did. Just look at stuff backwards.
You did?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Wait, it's a real thing? Duval? Yeah, what the fuck?

Speaker 2 They had this show on HBO Max

Speaker 2 called For the Love of Kitchens. And there are these groovy English people in their 50s, our age.

Speaker 2 And he was making furniture in the 90s and shopping around antique stores and refurbishing this and building that and meeting all these cool guys and, you know, making a living and being kind of a vagabond artist and making cool stuff.

Speaker 2 And, you know, that started way back then, right? Like in the 70s, people were making their own furniture and the nomadic lifestyle and all that.

Speaker 2 And then it goes out of style and then it it came back. But now I think there's a resurgence.
People are like, let me see things get fixed and built. Right.
And give me the reveal.

Speaker 2 Let me see how it's made. And so I love a reveal.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so,

Speaker 2 so, yeah, she didn't become a creative director on the show,

Speaker 2 Duval, until she was in her 40s and her kids were grown.

Speaker 2 And so they're this partnership, these two people that are so lovely and have this really beautiful show.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 2 yeah, it's called For the Love of Kitchens. Got it.
So Duval is their thing. But see, I don't know if I would.

Speaker 2 I said bye to the renovation because it's so expensive. I should just like

Speaker 2 sell it and move somewhere else.

Speaker 1 No, just keep working. Just keep working, just keep making money.
And then the money, then the price won't matter, right?

Speaker 2 It's different for women. Women don't get paid with the guys.
I don't know if you've heard about that.

Speaker 1 Well, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 There's a big discrepancy. There's a big discrepancy, darling.

Speaker 2 It just is. In these little indie movies, you don't make money.

Speaker 1 Well, but you know what? You should be applauded. But you do an endorsement.
You should be applauded for.

Speaker 1 I guarantee you, you've been tempted or offered or presented with some very ugly, low-hanging fruit that you have avoided, right?

Speaker 1 Some big, like, hey, Parker, be the star of this big, shitty studio movie. And you're like, yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 1 I like working with

Speaker 1 cool people on cool things. Is it true? It's got to be true.

Speaker 2 And, you know, it wouldn't be true now. I'll be honest.

Speaker 1 It was true when you were younger. It was true.
It was true when I was younger.

Speaker 2 But no, it still is true. You know, I had to turn something down that would have paid me a lot of money after White Lotus, and I could barely put a sentence together.

Speaker 2 I was so wiped from almost seven months of work in Thailand.

Speaker 2 And what that heavy lift was, and what that long distance run was,

Speaker 2 that it's like, you know, after you go through something, there's like a reverb that I need like three months, three or four months to settle down and get back to myself.

Speaker 1 And then they're dangling this big paycheck and still you're ready to go.

Speaker 2 And I said, I can't.

Speaker 2 I can't. Good for you.

Speaker 1 We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 You know, it's amazing, Parker. I remember you.
We don't know each other, but I lived in New York in the whole 90s when you were doing all the greatest films.

Speaker 1 And you're one of those people who's doing the kind of stuff that I wanted to do. Like I just admired you so much and do continue to.

Speaker 1 And we're about the same age. Maybe I'm 55, but we're like...

Speaker 1 you guys both play really young, though.

Speaker 1 I would see you around and stuff, and I wasn't working and I was desperately, but I'd see you around in the city and then doing stuff. Creep.
And we had a lot of mutual, and I'd be like,

Speaker 1 I just, I want to do what she's doing. Yeah.
I want to do work. You're working with great directors.
You're working with great performers. You're working with great writers all the time.

Speaker 1 Like consistently, year after year.

Speaker 1 All the films, Kicking and Screaming, Party Girl, whatever it is. All these great movies that you did.
All the Chris Guest stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then you add the Chris Guest stuff. I mean, you've got to be aware of that.
You got to be really proud. You have an incredible body of work.
You have to be aware of that.

Speaker 2 I just like, but it's, yes, I am.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 I can't say that I'm proud. That doesn't really...
I feel so blessed.

Speaker 1 I feel so lucky.

Speaker 1 Not lucky. It is

Speaker 1 fortunate. It's not luck.
You had

Speaker 1 good fortune, but it's not luck. I hate to bring it up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That is there.
I see what you mean. But yeah, it is a thing.
And

Speaker 2 I mean, I want to write another book. The last seven or eight years have been so,

Speaker 2 I'm just full of stories, you know, and I know I'm a story maker, and I'm here to share what I'm living and what I'm living in.

Speaker 1 No, wait a second, listeners.

Speaker 1 You know, we hate the term storyteller on this show for the obvious reasons.

Speaker 1 No, no, but you just said story maker. I think that's a, that's okay.
We like that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, I think we're gonna allow it.
We're gonna have a great fix. Yeah, Parker Posty.

Speaker 1 Parker, I'll tell you why. And by the way, you could get away with all of it because you have the credibility.
There are too many people now in this town, and by this town I mean LA

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 New York, I can consider who have been, that term storyteller has become this thing, and they refer to themselves as a storyteller. Or like influencers.

Speaker 2 I'm so, I barely can do Zoom right now. Like, I've listened to a few of your, I am so feeding the bird feed, you know, putting the seed in the bird feeders.

Speaker 2 Like, I didn't even know the storyteller thing was a thing that people are saying. But think about it.

Speaker 1 When you hear people say it all the time, you'll go for lunch and people are like, as a storyteller, you're like, you made an episode of a sitcom. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fuck up.

Speaker 1 Like, what are you talking about? And why are you referring to yourself in the third person as this as this

Speaker 1 abstract object that's full of creativity? Like, go fuck yourself.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 Now you're sitting in a chair. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, but you, but you, you're right. Jason's right.
And you say, story maker, and you are full of stories and you, you deserve it. And there's a, there's a,

Speaker 1 absolutely. You have that, you can back it up.

Speaker 2 It feels good to be supported by you guys, you know? Like, when my fame hit in the 90s, it's being famous and having that kind of success that I couldn't really explain.

Speaker 2 And I still don't really understand it. Like,

Speaker 1 Parker, look at at the screen.

Speaker 1 Look at that.

Speaker 1 That's Sean P. Hayes.
That's me and you in 1998,

Speaker 1 and you had no idea who I was. And I was like, I'm obsessed with Parker Posey.
And I grabbed you and I took a photo. And of course, I was in a movie called Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss.

Speaker 1 And I wear the merch like an idiot.

Speaker 1 Oh, Sean, I didn't know you were in that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. I did it.

Speaker 1 I was Billy in Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss.

Speaker 2 Yeah. That's like, you were so incredible in that play.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're so good. I thought that was amazing.
Which one?

Speaker 1 Are we talking about stop, stop? What's the double word one?

Speaker 1 What's the double word? Promises, promises. That's it.

Speaker 1 Promises, promises.

Speaker 1 Wait.

Speaker 1 But then Parker, yeah, speaking about being famous. You said it twice.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 so, but being like, like I just had that photo at the ready because I wanted to show you because that was you at, you know, just becoming Parker Posey in the 90s and being labeled the indie queen.

Speaker 1 Which I did you take that as a literal it girl. Yeah, the literal it girl.
Did you take, did you take that compliment well, or did you not want that? You know what it is?

Speaker 2 It's like when people point you out in a place as cool as New York and New York City, and you're not cool anymore.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 it's like

Speaker 2 you're, you're, you're, you're, I felt like I was called a name in a way where I was trying to be, or my path was more like,

Speaker 2 oh, Greg Mattola

Speaker 2 did a you know, a reading of his movie that he was trying to get financed, and then I introduced him to Leah Schreiber, who was in Party Girl. And then

Speaker 2 we do the day trippers a year later because he couldn't get the original script that he wanted finance, finance, because the budget was too, you know, it was such a community back then.

Speaker 1 Right, right.

Speaker 2 And I felt like

Speaker 2 when it got exposed, that

Speaker 2 right when I got exposed and the whole indie movement got exposed, it also got co-opted by the studio system. That's right.
And then it became this other thing.

Speaker 2 And all of a sudden, I wasn't viable to get a movie financed. And it was such a head trip because...

Speaker 2 And then I would have to audition for Hollywood movies when I'd carried the lead in independent movies that were shot in 23 days.

Speaker 2 And all of a sudden, I'm in a fluorescent lit room, like sweating and feeling like I'm being gaslit. You know, like I can promise I can do and memorize these lines and these scripts.

Speaker 1 And I will have to go. Let's just go.

Speaker 2 Trust me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 And I wasn't, so I had like a good 20 years of that, you know,

Speaker 2 after, and then working with great auteurs

Speaker 2 and doing these, you know, not getting paid a lot, but

Speaker 2 being able to,

Speaker 2 you know, work

Speaker 2 in the world yeah wealthy with respect yeah my creativity and feeling satisfied i imagine it's yeah it's a weird thing it's like it's a mystical thing i think my life and people's lives can have a mystical kind of quality if they're paying attention of like and it's a i think it's a healing thing i think i evolve i grow i i'm kind of a hippie like that well let me ask you this are you at a spot in your career and then we're and then we're going to talk about your personal life that's going to be great that's going to be a whole lighting change and a media change but um uh professionally, costume change.

Speaker 1 Are you at a place right now that

Speaker 1 you had

Speaker 1 the balls to even imagine and dream and hope for?

Speaker 1 Is this the career you thought you were going to have or the career that you hoped that you had?

Speaker 1 It's a lot there. Wow, that's a lot, JB.
Yeah. What the fuck? That's for real.
That's a good question.

Speaker 2 You know, when you do a lot of traveling and

Speaker 2 you're not home. I haven't been home for more than five days since February.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 It's so much more interesting than your career or where you thought you would be as far as like at, you know, the success that something like White Lotus gives you, right?

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 That I feel so blessed. I feel so protected.
I feel in my flow. And that is,

Speaker 2 I feel like I've learned. I've been through a lot.
You know, from 45 to 56

Speaker 2 was

Speaker 2 a lot.

Speaker 1 Like, what do you mean? What's what's a lot? Like, like good or challenging?

Speaker 2 My like, my dad had prostate cancer for 20 years from Agent Orange in Vietnam.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 I'm talking like a prolonged grief, like anticipatory grief. I think I had a lot of grief with my career and going, like, I don't quite understand it.

Speaker 2 As a woman, you get older and then, you know, and the culture changes. So you have that, and you

Speaker 2 you have good ideas that you pitch that are educational and kids would love them and they don't get made. You know, there's a lot of disappointment in

Speaker 2 the culture right now.

Speaker 1 Now more than ever.

Speaker 2 Now more is an artist and you're just kind of like, but this is such a powerful medium. I don't understand why

Speaker 2 more

Speaker 2 is being

Speaker 2 on the screen.

Speaker 2 If the arts are going to be subsidized in New York, is it going to be the apex of creativity?

Speaker 2 Then what can we make to form something that will be that and will hold that for our playwrights, for our writers who are born

Speaker 2 to tell

Speaker 2 that have that soul? And I've read enough scripts and I've seen enough plays to know that there is that divine spark when you read something that is like our town or something that is so.

Speaker 2 And, you know, we used to be a culture that aimed toward that. And I hope, you know, I'm an optimist.
Like, I will be that, you know, Tomascal, Tomascal checkoff character till the day I die.

Speaker 2 Like, I believe in, you know,

Speaker 2 being in Thailand for so long and coming back to America was so inspiring.

Speaker 2 I mean, everyone, I'm like, ugh, you know, I'm like, this country and these people and these trees and this nature, like, do you know how lucky we are? Right.

Speaker 2 Like, we got to like shape up in like this, this way that has been so crazy.

Speaker 1 What would you do now that you sit here? I love hearing you talk about that.

Speaker 2 Is that too much tooting, my friend?

Speaker 1 Are you kidding? I love that. I love that.

Speaker 1 If you had 20 more minutes on that. Did you just toot?

Speaker 1 If you had 20 more minutes on that, we would be good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Having said all that, when you sit, so sitting where you are today with all that information, like having all that stuff, and you tooted, would you,

Speaker 1 what, what would you,

Speaker 1 is there anything that you would have done differently? Was there a moment? Was there a thing? Is there something that you look back on and go, ah.

Speaker 1 She just duded.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Do you know what I mean? Stupid. Like,

Speaker 1 would you have done anything differently?

Speaker 2 Well, I know, because you're just all learning about, you know, you're changing and you're like, I mean, I think I...

Speaker 2 I could have been easier on myself.

Speaker 2 I think I could have not worked so hard and I could have deserved more.

Speaker 1 Or felt like you were deserving more, you mean?

Speaker 2 Yes, that's right.

Speaker 1 But wait, but Parker, I want to go through things in your life that kind of I read about that fascinate me. I didn't know you were a mind.
You were trained in mind trainer.

Speaker 2 That was a lie.

Speaker 1 A mind trainer lie? That was a total lie. Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 God, I was like,

Speaker 2 I had to put a resume and

Speaker 2 yeah, I'm a fan. I saw Marcel Marceau from New York, like on his 80th birthday, perform.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I cried my face off.

Speaker 1 Because you thought it was amazing that he was moving boxes that weren't there. Yes.
Yes. I've never, now where has mine skills?

Speaker 2 Anything that can reach like a four-year-old and a hundred-year-old, like what that did, like, it was just so artful and fantastic.

Speaker 1 Jason has a question about mind skills. I'm not making fun of mine.

Speaker 2 You're not getting me to make fun of mine, but I line up.

Speaker 1 Still going? Because I feel like it's so sort of kitsch now that you could actually make a run at it.

Speaker 1 If you had, if anyone out there has some mime skills, I bet you could really make yourself a nice living nowadays because it's kind of ironic.

Speaker 1 And you could probably pack some theaters, some large theaters, maybe not arenas, but I think you could do a theater.

Speaker 1 Is it still going?

Speaker 1 About mimes. I mean, your overhead's low.
You need something black, something black and tight. No props.
You're not allowed props. No words.

Speaker 1 No words either. Go get after it.
You need a spot. A stripey t-shirt and a spot.
And some leggings. Yeah.
Yeah. I'd go see a mime show.

Speaker 1 Okay, so wait. So Parker, you were named after the model Susie Parker, correct?

Speaker 2 Yeah, there are two parts of the story.

Speaker 2 They did love. My parents, you know, fell madly in love

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 married young, and my dad was drafted. And

Speaker 2 the, you know, the twins were born.

Speaker 1 And yeah, you have a twin brother, which I didn't have. I have a twin brother.

Speaker 2 And my, my, um...

Speaker 2 My mom had a friend when she was a little girl who

Speaker 2 my mom was 12, like 11 or 12, like still a Girl Scout and one of her friends had her sister had a baby and named her Parker and my mom whose name is Linda with a Y

Speaker 2 she always hated it Linda with a Y why to my mother Linda with a Y

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 she goes oh there's a little butterfly outside no way let's stop for a second

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so my mom said, if I ever have a little girl, I'm going to give her a strong name like Parker.

Speaker 2 But then she met my dad with this name like Posey,

Speaker 2 and I almost died at birth. My dad was like there.

Speaker 1 Wait, wait, let's not gloss over that. Hang on a second.

Speaker 1 You stop for the butterfly, but you don't stop for the butterfly. You don't louder than that?

Speaker 1 Were you almost dropped?

Speaker 1 Or was it a,

Speaker 1 were you still in the oven?

Speaker 2 I was still in the oven.

Speaker 2 I was born premature.

Speaker 2 And a week before on Halloween, my mom got the news that she was having twins. And so the story was that I was in her ribs and they didn't even know where I, where I was.

Speaker 2 So I was out at the beginning.

Speaker 1 Like Eve speaking the Bible, right? Like Eve came from Adam's rib.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 There you go.

Speaker 1 It's all coming together.

Speaker 2 And so, yeah, I was like not even three pounds. And

Speaker 2 so the doctor came in saying,

Speaker 2 your boy is fine, but we don't know about your girl. We need a name.

Speaker 1 So we're just going to park her right here.

Speaker 1 And so I'm going to park her right here.

Speaker 2 And what's the middle name? And my middle name is Christian because they wanted the help of

Speaker 2 Jesus and God and anyone else who would listen. And

Speaker 2 so, yeah, my dad will tell this story

Speaker 2 that

Speaker 2 he was in the hospital with a six-pack of beer, like kneeling and praying as he's like looking at me in an incubator with these like with these.

Speaker 2 And he's like, please, God, please let my little girl live. And at that moment, I screamed.

Speaker 1 No way.

Speaker 2 And so my dad, so I was like, okay, now my dad, my dad talks to God all the time. So it was like such a crazy story to tell, like a little kid.
You know how you tell.

Speaker 2 So I got a lot of that mythologizing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 2 As a kid, which I, and then he also said and i looked at that beer can and i said

Speaker 2 my my girl is the size of this beer can she's like a beer can with legs

Speaker 1 and that was like yeah i was like and look at me now so

Speaker 1 were you were you treated like this sort of the the the the golden child

Speaker 1 because you kind of like against all odds you kind of came to life and all that stuff

Speaker 1 no no no

Speaker 1 no they were i think that's often the case isn't it like sometimes people

Speaker 2 I mean, I was definitely daddy's girl. My dad, I describe as a comedian without a venue.
Like, he was really funny and really a performer, you know.

Speaker 1 Tell me about that time, because about your dad calling, you were in the summer program. I didn't know you were in ballet.
I didn't know you told me.

Speaker 2 I was at ballerina, and my dad, I auditioned. I went away when I was 12 for North Carolina School of the Arts to dance.
And

Speaker 2 I loved ballet and

Speaker 2 I auditioned for the for the dance program and I didn't get in and I was devastated and my dad called the dean of the school and he said my daughter's gonna be devastated what do I tell her and he said we loved her so much and she almost got in because she's so much fun but you just tell her she's an actress and that's how it all started

Speaker 1 no way really

Speaker 2 yeah and so I went back to NCSA for acting and it was there I did clowning and maybe that's why I, you know, I made fun of mime back then. But I, you know, I have respect for mime and I appreciate

Speaker 2 mime. And I did movement and dance and all of that.

Speaker 1 And so where did you grow up? Where was your childhood?

Speaker 2 Monroe, Louisiana.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. And so after born in Baltimore, raised in Louisiana, and then that's right.

Speaker 2 We moved to Laurel when I was 12. So I was already like out the door.

Speaker 1 What was your first pro gig?

Speaker 2 It was a short. I was a junior in college.
And it was a short called First Love, Fatal Love for HBO about a woman and a young person in high school who had AIDS.

Speaker 2 And this was played by a woman named Alex O'Dare, who I love and adore. She's Gabbie Hoffman's older sister, and she's just brilliant and a great person and woman.

Speaker 2 And she wrote a book, too, and she's just wonderful. And Steve Zahn.
Steve Zahn had 10 lines in that. I had 10 lines.
Matt Wood had 10 lines. I was 20, I think.

Speaker 1 Wow, wow. 19 1999.

Speaker 2 And then what and then you went you did that you graduated from where were you and then you what about you I want to hear like the little stories like when did that all click for you guys?

Speaker 1 No but when what how did you get to New York?

Speaker 1 You're in the chair. Yeah you're in the chair.
You're all in the chair. So when did you move to New York?

Speaker 2 So at NCSA when I was there at 16 because I went for the summer programs and I just loved it. One of the teachers there named Molly and she had this big cow.

Speaker 2 She was a modern dance teacher and she had this big cow patty bun on her head and wore like, you know,

Speaker 2 leotards and character skirts all day long she'd been wearing them for like 35 years right

Speaker 2 and i love the modern uh dance teachers um she said you know you may want to try auditioning for sunny purchase for drama and um

Speaker 2 Because these schools accept different types of actors. Yeah.
And so I wanted to, so it was the, I auditioned for NCSA, Juilliard, and SUNY Purchase. And Purchase was the school I got into.

Speaker 1 That's amazing. Wow.
And your roommate was a student.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I was living in New York City

Speaker 2 1989,

Speaker 2 90 of my junior year. Wow.
And freelancing with a manager. I know.
Gosh, it's wild to think about how long I've been doing this.

Speaker 1 That was the year I moved to New York, 90. Wow.
Same year.

Speaker 2 Where did you live?

Speaker 1 Oh, everywhere.

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Speaker 1 Parker, you've talked a lot about

Speaker 1 your,

Speaker 1 you know, you described your family as like these fabulous southern characters that you

Speaker 1 emulate sometimes and stuff. Like what it, what is your favorite things to go to when creating characters that emulate your family? Like a lot of my Midwestern stuff, like I do that too.

Speaker 1 Like our mid, we call pop instead of soda. You know, there's portillos, which which is a very, you know, popular Midwestern chain.
Obviously, the pizza. This is insane character work.

Speaker 1 Just as a quick aside, how do you

Speaker 1 anything about

Speaker 1 it all?

Speaker 1 Just as a quick aside.

Speaker 1 What did you say?

Speaker 1 Anything about 50 degrees. Are you in character now?

Speaker 1 Who are we talking to? Who are we talking to right now? I know. I got to chat.

Speaker 1 I got to go to zero.

Speaker 1 So soda, you call pop. Pop.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I gotta pen.

Speaker 1 Cinnamon rolls, but chili is very Midwestern. I put ketchup on steak.

Speaker 1 My mom used to say, like, my mom used to say. What if you were to play somebody from the Northeast? Who, me or Parker? What are you putting on your steak? No, you.
Sean, what would you call it?

Speaker 1 I don't know what they call it. Seltzer, right?

Speaker 1 What do they call it seltzer? Now you're in it. Don't they call soda?

Speaker 1 If you were in the south, you'd call everything a Coke. That's okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Coke.
Anyway, I didn't know if there was any.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the South is a different, you know, I just, yeah. Did you read plays? Did everyone read plays as a young actor?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. I did.

Speaker 2 Well, you were already on that TV show, Jason.

Speaker 1 Dumb, dumb, star.

Speaker 2 How cute were you on that little show?

Speaker 1 I mean, pretty cute. I was like, he's cute.

Speaker 1 He's really cute. He's very cute.
He's still very cute. Very cute.

Speaker 1 Don't kid yourself. Let's go slow through this section.
Okay, so listen, then, Parker, I want to go through your hobbies, if it's okay to call them hobbies.

Speaker 1 Pottery, sewing, ashtanga yoga, which I have no idea what that is. Ashtanga.
Ayurvedic medicine. I have no idea what that is.
Like,

Speaker 1 what are all those things?

Speaker 1 That's so stupid.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 What are those things? What's Ayurvedic? Is that it? Ayurvedic?

Speaker 2 Okay, Ayurvedic. When I was doing,

Speaker 2 I did a movie called The Eye with Jessica Alba,

Speaker 2 and it was based on a Korean film. Yay, Jessica.

Speaker 2 It was based on a Korean film, a horror film, about a woman who's blind and gets a child.

Speaker 2 And so she, my sister, Jessica, gets her eyes,

Speaker 2 you know, gets a surgery where she gets these eyes back, and they're the eyes of a murderer? And it was a great part because as her sister, because all I had to do is like, what's going on?

Speaker 2 You seem different, you know?

Speaker 1 And I was in New Mexico for like three weeks.

Speaker 2 And I went to the Ayurvedic Institute and I and I sat in on some classes with an Ayurvedic teacher named Dr. Vasant Ladd, who is like one of these leading Ayurvedic people in the country.

Speaker 2 And if you know Andrew Weill, I think his name is.

Speaker 1 with the big gray beard.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that guy. And so what do you know about it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 And I sat in on some classes at the Institute there. And I met this,

Speaker 2 I hung out at the Anna Perna Cafe, which is like the Indian cafe, and found the yoga classes, but heard from this guy, Prakash, that there was a

Speaker 2 there was an Ayurvedic school and I should go because this Dr. Vasant lad is incredible.
So I sat in on some classes there.

Speaker 1 It was really cool.

Speaker 2 What do they teach?

Speaker 1 What is Ayurvedic?

Speaker 2 It's a science. It's a science

Speaker 2 of the body. And like we're born into these bodies that tell us what our psychology is and what our diet, how we should eat.
And

Speaker 2 then there's three different,

Speaker 2 it's pitta, vata, and kapha. So everyone falls into these different

Speaker 2 categories of

Speaker 2 if there's like, if like I burn through energy, you know, like when I'm working, I'm like,

Speaker 2 I'm quick to grasp things, but I can easily forget them.

Speaker 2 And so it's like a way of your body, you're designed in a certain way. We're incarnated into these bodies to have this kind of experience.

Speaker 2 And with these bodies, they are teaching us how to be centered and aligned and

Speaker 2 open.

Speaker 1 And there's certain programs that benefit each type of body. That's right.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And certain foods.
So there were people who had cancer who did the Ayurvedic.

Speaker 2 There's a, it's called Pachakarma, I think. And it's really interesting.
And through diet, they've healed themselves.

Speaker 2 And then they're like, okay, we're opening a restaurant in Hawaii and I'm going to serve Ayurvedic food because this is healing people more than my chemo did, you know.

Speaker 2 So when my dad had cancer, I tried to get him to, you know, be more,

Speaker 2 to be healthier.

Speaker 2 And I I saw someone sent me

Speaker 2 a doc called,

Speaker 2 I think, surviving cancer, which had an interview of all these people who said, I'm not doing chemo. I'm just going to see what happens with my diet when I change it.
And anyway, it's kind of

Speaker 1 like I've met two people in my life who in the last 20 years who had

Speaker 1 different forms of cancer,

Speaker 1 who did similar things, who changed not just their diet, but their lifestyle, removed stress, and did all that stuff, and were able to completely eliminate the cancer.

Speaker 1 This one guy had been a firefighter and he developed lung cancer. True story.
And he ended up being JB. He ended up being one of the coolest guys I ever met.
He quit his life.

Speaker 1 He moved to Carmel and he became a caddy at Pebble. No way.
And he's one of, yeah, this guy, Ryan, and he's one of the coolest people I've ever met.

Speaker 1 And he's like, I just, I wake up every morning and I walk. My wife does it.
We make all this stuff and we, and I've changed my life and I like being a caddy. I'm out here in the thing.

Speaker 1 He plays golf as well. He's like, and I've just.
Zero stress. This is what I do now.
Zero stress. He refused the chemo and he beat it.
Now, again, that's amazing. I know.

Speaker 1 I don't know if it works, but he really did it. And he went full bore.

Speaker 1 He leaned into it. And

Speaker 1 in addition to beating the cancer, and I think he was predisposed to be this way, he had an incredible energy about him.

Speaker 1 He was an incredibly empathetic, kind person. And he had an aura about him, like really pretty amazing.

Speaker 1 Or you can wake up every morning and eat a Pop-Tart and stress out about your bottom line, right, Sean. And

Speaker 1 answer emails like

Speaker 1 a crazy person. Like a gopher.

Speaker 1 That's me. Parker Bryce.
Before you hit send, you get a reply from Sean. I'm not angry.

Speaker 2 Do you eat Pop-Tart, Sean?

Speaker 1 I do sometimes. I have a couple boxes and

Speaker 1 I have to cut down on the sugar just because it's not. I don't have to cut it all the way out.
I just have to cut down. How'd it go last night?

Speaker 1 I didn't have a dessert last night for the first time in like 10 years. And did you wake up feeling a little snappier?

Speaker 1 I did, actually. I slept a little better.
Yeah, actually. Yeah.
Yeah. Now, Parker, when you were in Thailand, did you see a lot of the Ayurvedic folks

Speaker 1 and some of your yoga practice? I bet was

Speaker 1 there was a lot of people. Oh my God, I did it all.

Speaker 2 I was so excited.

Speaker 1 I bet that was a dream for you. You must have loved it.

Speaker 2 It was a dream. I heard about about this place called Kamalaya.
Mike's lawyer's wife,

Speaker 2 I just struck up a conversation. We'd all just landed there like a week, you know, and she said, I'm going to this place called Kamalaya.
It's for women of a certain age.

Speaker 2 And, you know, I'm going to go there for two weeks and get this all sorted out. And then I saw her two weeks later, and she was just like,

Speaker 1 oh, really?

Speaker 1 What do you mean, just exhausted? No.

Speaker 2 Transformed. She was like, it changed my life.

Speaker 1 Yeah, wow.

Speaker 2 She got grounded. She was centered.
She was like, it opened up a lot of healing.

Speaker 2 So this place and these,

Speaker 2 it's very, you know, there's an Ayurvedic chef there. And it's a wellness center.

Speaker 2 And it has one of those plaques that Mike visited this place for White Lotus, you know, a digital detox, please no cell phones at the table and all of that. And there was a communal table.

Speaker 1 And I mean,

Speaker 2 I got to stay there for six weeks.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 And I did Reiki. I did sound baths.

Speaker 2 I went to that liminal space you were talking about earlier in the show.

Speaker 1 Right, the hippocampus.

Speaker 2 Where you're in between consciousness and you're in a theta state, I think it's called too. And I had waking, like...

Speaker 2 moments and dreams and I saw things and it was like it was it was founded founded on a monk's cave like 25 years ago. This couple, John and Karina, met each other and then reconnected and built

Speaker 2 this beautiful place. So it's

Speaker 2 the thing about Thailand that is so special is for the people.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like

Speaker 2 a rite of passage as a, you know, I don't know how old as a 13-year-old is, or maybe in high school, is to live in a monastery and live off the kindness of others who who are going to drop off food for you to eat.

Speaker 1 Wow, wow.

Speaker 2 So they have, it's a lot of reciprocity. Okay, at Kamalaya, there was a doctor named Dr.
CERN.

Speaker 2 I had this Moo Moo caftan dress on with dogs on it.

Speaker 2 And so she knew and I loved dogs. And so she told me about her, she showed me pictures of her dog KK.
KK means crooked and Thai.

Speaker 2 And KK had crooked eyes and his little, like, you know, a mix, kind of a corgi mix, but a little stockier. Sure.
And the dog, she showed me these pictures of KK with like

Speaker 2 carrying a dead leaf, like a leaf or a branch in his mouth, her mouth. Even KK knows to bring offerings when she wants something.
So she would make offerings of like a leaf or something.

Speaker 2 She'd bring it to the door for food at the back door. Isn't that the best?

Speaker 1 and then and then when you got back to the night when you got back to the united states you're like oh this is the best country in the world um so listen

Speaker 1 van eyes

Speaker 2 they're so kind like it's so there's yeah i love

Speaker 2 you and it's just so

Speaker 2 well yeah anyway I can tell you guys kind of spaced out and checked out. No, we were listening.

Speaker 1 Oh, I listened. We were listening.

Speaker 1 We were listening. I love that.

Speaker 1 No, Daisy Confused. Party girl.
You were queen of the Indies. All the waiting for Guffin, Best and Show.
White Lotus,

Speaker 1 you killed in that show. You have, remind me the name of the movie that's coming out.
It's called Wild Horse Nine.

Speaker 1 Yes. And really quick, before, do you remember when I came to your apartment in New York when you were practicing mandolin for Mighty Wind?

Speaker 1 That's right. Yes, and I sat there in your apartment with you, and you're like, I want to see what it's like to be in a Christopher Guest movie.

Speaker 1 And you showed me the outline of Best in Show, or no, of A Mighty Wind. And I was like, Oh, really? So, you just make all this stuff up? Like, you completely improvise.
It was, it's really cool.

Speaker 1 And then you were showing me the song that you were making up with the mandolin. Right? I just thought that was fascinating to me.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's so. I think I kind of got what it was to learn an instrument at the end there.
Like, I could start jamming with songs and then get that kind of space.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that was so cool. I'm so glad I got to do, yeah, do that.

Speaker 1 Do you remember our Oscar-winning film we did together called The Sweetest Thing?

Speaker 1 Yes. I mean, was that not just great? Yeah, I know.
It was the most fulfilling, right? We killed it. I love it.
I was so excited to be working with you.

Speaker 2 I really enjoyed hanging out with you guys. You know, you do these things and then you don't really feel like you're hanging out.

Speaker 1 We're going to come over to the chateau right now. We're going to have lunch.

Speaker 1 We're going to speed over.

Speaker 2 I have something at 2.30, and that's it.

Speaker 1 Parker, we love you very much. Thank you guys for being here.
This is such a sweet. And

Speaker 1 I hope you win for White Lotus because you deserve it. Yes, thank you.

Speaker 2 I just hope I'm nominated. Yes.
It's an honor to be nominated and I hope that happens. So thank you for sending out that Hollywood vibe.
I love it.

Speaker 1 You get our votes.

Speaker 2 Thank you guys. Bye, Heiny.

Speaker 1 Love you. Thank you.
Thanks, Parker.

Speaker 2 Love you guys. Thank you.
Bye. Bye-bye.

Speaker 1 Oh, and she covers up. Look at that.
Look at that. She knows what she's doing.

Speaker 2 I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 Love her. Wow.
Yeah. Really? That's a girl.
She's so funny. She's an original.
Yeah. Oh, it's just consistently exciting to watch.
She was on Will and Grace a lot, many episodes of Will and Grace.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? Why didn't we talk about that? Yeah, what happened to that?

Speaker 1 I didn't know whether to be like, hey, remember when you were on Will and Grace? Yeah. I didn't have any question about it.
It didn't stop me. Yeah.

Speaker 1 About what? Didn't stop me. Remember while we did Sweetest Sing together? Yeah, I know.
But

Speaker 1 yeah, I mean, she's always been so kind. I noticed so you remember.
Oh, really? Isn't she hilarious? Yeah, she's amazing. She's great.

Speaker 1 She's as advertised. She delivers.
Yeah. And she's,

Speaker 1 I don't know, but you guys, I love all that kind of talk about like all that healing stuff and the

Speaker 1 ivoristic or whatever it's called. That's what it was.
Ivoristic. Good for you.
Or something.

Speaker 1 Ayurvedic. Ayurvedic.
That's what it is. Ayurvedic.
I want to learn more about that. No, you don't.
We want you to learn more. I do, actually.

Speaker 1 I actually do want to learn more about it. Why don't you go to Thailand for six weeks and go to

Speaker 1 the fucking wellness center and get yourself flushed out? Yeah,

Speaker 1 why don't you go fucking he won't even go to the 405. What do you think he's going to fucking break some of the impacted bowels you've got right out?

Speaker 1 Can you imagine he had to go to a place that he didn't have access to Jeopardy every night? He'd be

Speaker 1 or Wheel of Fortune.

Speaker 1 It'd never fucking happen.

Speaker 1 No, I'm not going to Thailand. No.
I appreciate these almonds, but do you have any hickory almonds?

Speaker 1 Yes, man. Absolutely.
How about when she stopped for that butterfly? I love that. And, you know, a butterfly rhymes.
Here they come. Here it comes.

Speaker 1 Butterby?

Speaker 1 What? No. That's not even a thing, man.
God rhymes with butterfly. No.

Speaker 1 Keep working. You can just make it.
Will and I'll and I are talking. We'll talk for a while and you do some Google searching and come up with a buy.
Will, what's going on with your mic stand?

Speaker 1 I don't know, man. Leave it alone.

Speaker 1 Is there anyone in the office with you, Will? Yeah. There are are three.
There are people here. Yeah,

Speaker 1 what are they doing? Counting paper clips? They're working, man.

Speaker 1 They're working away.

Speaker 1 We got Twisted Metal season two coming out this summer on Peacock. Oh, look at that.
Give it a plug. Twisted Metal.
Well, you asked.

Speaker 1 This is a behind-the-scenes tour,

Speaker 1 hard rock tour.

Speaker 1 Super Team Canada. We got Super Team Canada coming out.
That's already out. That's an animated show.
Check it out. It's fantastic.
We also have our new doc that just got released,

Speaker 1 Sexiest Man in Winnipeg. Listen, we got a lot of things going on.

Speaker 1 Sure, sure, sure, sure. Yeah.
So, Sexiest Man in Winnipeg, that's about a doctor.

Speaker 1 You just got out of prison? Do you want to know the truth is it's about a guy who was a sports reporter.

Speaker 1 I can't. I can't

Speaker 1 fuck.

Speaker 1 You can't come up with a buy? I had a whole list. Oh,

Speaker 1 it's the sexiest man in Winnipeg, and it's about a guy who's a sports reporter who started robbing banks. True story? Yeah.
Well, it sounds like a lot of stories going on.

Speaker 1 It sounds like you're taking one and another one, and you're coming

Speaker 1 in.

Speaker 1 I'll allow it just to make the pain go away.

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