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Dec. 22, 2023

Jennifer Morrison | Inspiration is Everywhere

Jennifer Morrison | Inspiration is Everywhere

On this episode of The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down with Actor & Director, Jennifer Morrison.  We chat about her journey from the theater stage in Chicago, to the dynamic world of television…both in front of and behind the camera.  Jennifer shares her early experiences in directing community theater and how her acting roles, especially on hit shows like "House", served as an education for her work as a director.

Jennifer discusses the often overlooked aspects of filmmaking, from the demands of filming schedules to the creative process that continues to drive her passion. She reflects on the informal film education she received on sets, fueled by her curiosity and eagerness to learn from the crew on her various projects. Our chat is not just about her transition from actor to director, but also about the deliberate steps she took to ensure her path was marked with integrity…steering clear of potential industry stigmas and focusing on a diverse portfolio that includes everything from musicals to thrillers.

We chat about her new directorial project, Peacock’s "Dr. Death" and the creative collaboration required for the anthology series. Jennifer also gives us a sneak peek into her current and future projects, as well as her love for the art of storytelling.  This episode offers an intriguing look at her career, in addition to nuggets of wisdom and insight into the continuous evolution of a dedicated artist in the entertainment industry. 

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

0:01:49 - Jennifer Morrison's Career and Directing Journey

0:09:26 - Working on House

0:11:25 - Balancing Work and Filmmaking Passion

0:14:17 - Directors' Influence and Career Path

0:17:11 - Directing and Acting in Various Genres

0:27:16 - An Insightful Conversation on TV Directing

0:32:47 - Current and Future Projects and Preferences

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Jennifer:

I joke about this, but it's literally

 

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Jennifer: happened to me more than once where, like,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I've sat in the dentist office and like,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: picked up the coffee table book and like

 

 

 

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Jennifer: the images in that book become inspiration

 

 

 

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Jennifer: for something I'm shooting.

 

 

 

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

 

 

 

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Announcer: Now there's your host, Marc Preston.

 

 

 

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Marc: Alright, here we go another episode of

 

 

 

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Marc: Story and Craft.

 

 

 

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Marc: Thank you so much for stopping back by.

 

 

 

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Marc: Hey, if this is your first episode, hi, I'm

 

 

 

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Marc: Marc Preston and today we're all going to

 

 

 

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Marc: sit down and have a conversation with the

 

 

 

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Marc: lovely, the talented Jennifer Morrison,

 

 

 

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Marc: been acting since she was 13 years old.

 

 

 

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Marc: You probably know her as an adult actor in

 

 

 

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Marc: TV shows like House.

 

 

 

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Marc: This is us once upon a time how I met your

 

 

 

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Marc: mother.

 

 

 

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Marc: But the cool thing about Jennifer she is

 

 

 

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Marc: also a very accomplished TV director Done

 

 

 

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Marc: film as well, but you probably know

 

 

 

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Marc: projects she's worked on like Euphoria, joe

 

 

 

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Marc: Pickett.

 

 

 

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Marc: So right now she's directed a number of

 

 

 

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Marc: episodes for the new season of Doctor Death.

 

 

 

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Marc: Just rolled out the new season on Peacock.

 

 

 

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Marc: She is a blast to speak with about the

 

 

 

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Marc: It's kind of a micro master class in the TV

 

 

 

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Marc: industry and you know half of the name of

 

 

 

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Marc: this program is Craft.

 

 

 

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Marc: Alright, so let's jump right into it.

 

 

 

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Marc: Today it's Jennifer Morrison Day, right

 

 

 

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Marc: here on Story and Craft.

 

 

 

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Marc: Where are you located right now?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I'm in Los Angeles.

 

 

 

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Marc: Is that where you're originally from?

 

 

 

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Marc: Are you a California kid?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I mean, I've lived here longer than

 

 

 

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Jennifer: anywhere else, but I grew up in the Chicago

 

 

 

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Jennifer: suburbs and then I moved to Los Angeles in

 

 

 

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Jennifer: 2000.

 

 

 

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Marc: Now, well, I always have to ask people from

 

 

 

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Marc: the Chicago area Lou, malnotti's or

 

 

 

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Marc: Giardano's which one is your place?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Lou Malnotti's.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Yeah, malnotti's, for sure.

 

 

 

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Marc: I was looking over a little bit of your

 

 

 

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Marc: obviously wonderful acting career, the

 

 

 

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Marc: directing thing.

 

 

 

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Marc: Was that always like a conscious thing,

 

 

 

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Marc: where you always like I want to direct

 

 

 

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Marc: someday, or is it just kind of a natural

 

 

 

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Marc: evolution over time throughout your career?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Yeah, I have to say it's a little bit of

 

 

 

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Jennifer: both.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I started directing theater really young.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I started directing community theater when

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I was in high school.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: The very first production I ever directed

 

 

 

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Jennifer: was the who's Tommy at the Community

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Theater near me, which was an aggressive

 

 

 

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Jennifer: first production.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: And then when I went to college I directed

 

 

 

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Jennifer: some theater and even when I moved out to

 

 

 

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Jennifer: LA I directed some theater and then I got

 

 

 

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Jennifer: cast on the show House and my life became

 

 

 

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Jennifer: 20 hours a day for six years.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: That was my life and so I wasn't directing

 

 

 

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Jennifer: as much.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: But what I was realizing was that I could

 

 

 

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Jennifer: use set as a way to learn all the technical

 

 

 

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Jennifer: stuff, to potentially be a filmmaker as

 

 

 

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Jennifer: well.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: So I really had that experience of

 

 

 

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Jennifer: directing theater and then used being on

 

 

 

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Jennifer: set for House and Warrior and how I met

 

 

 

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Jennifer: your mother, and once upon a time I kind of

 

 

 

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Jennifer: just used all those sets as my film school

 

 

 

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Jennifer: in terms of asking people questions and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: really studying the technical side of

 

 

 

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Jennifer: things.

 

 

 

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Marc: I mean you're really picking things up from

 

 

 

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Marc: after.

 

 

 

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Marc: I mean it's almost like being an actor is

 

 

 

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Marc: way easier of a gig.

 

 

 

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Marc: It seems like, you know, because you show

 

 

 

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Marc: get to go home, you know, and TV is a

 

 

 

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Marc: pretty aggressive production schedule.

 

 

 

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Marc: It seems like it is.

 

 

 

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Marc: Kind of going back to the beginning on

 

 

 

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Marc: origin story type thing.

 

 

 

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Marc: Were you?

 

 

 

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Marc: You said you directed community theater in

 

 

 

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Marc: high school?

 

 

 

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Marc: Were you a theater kid or were you?

 

 

 

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Marc: Was theater always your thing, or were you

 

 

 

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Marc: kind of going I want to be on TV one day,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: No, theater was my thing.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: You're right, that was a good guess.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Yes, I was a theater kid.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I loved being on stage.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I was going to Saturday school like

 

 

 

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Jennifer: creative Saturday school things that I

 

 

 

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Jennifer: don't remember what it was actually called,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: but we would just call it Saturday school

 

 

 

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Jennifer: where I was doing plays there and then did

 

 

 

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Jennifer: all the school plays and all the plays in

 

 

 

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Jennifer: high school and the musicals and all that

 

 

 

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Jennifer: stuff.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: So that was really where my heart was and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: that's ultimate.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I majored in theater and English in college,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: so, yeah, so for me my life really sent

 

 

 

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Jennifer: around theater and Loyola in Chicago, which

 

 

 

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Jennifer: ended up being a really great school for me

 

 

 

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Jennifer: to go to.

 

 

 

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Marc: Or when you came out of school, were you?

 

 

 

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Marc: Were you focusing on just doing local

 

 

 

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Marc: Or, again, what were you up to after your

 

 

 

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Marc: Loyola time?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Well, so part of the reason I ended up at

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Loyola and, like I said, really happy I

 

 

 

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Jennifer: ended up there, I had I really appreciate

 

 

 

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Jennifer: the education I got there was because they

 

 

 

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Jennifer: were willing to let me work as an actor

 

 

 

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Jennifer: while I was there.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: And I was already working as an actor

 

 

 

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Jennifer: because I did my first film when I was 13

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and I already had representation and stuff.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: So I wanted to go to a school that was

 

 

 

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Jennifer: going to let me continue my career, whereas,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: like you know, I'd gotten into Northwestern

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and DePaul and other schools that I really

 

 

 

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Jennifer: admired and thought maybe I'd want to go to,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: but they were conservatory programs where

 

 

 

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Jennifer: they weren't going to let you work

 

 

 

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Jennifer: professionally while you were actually in

 

 

 

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Jennifer: school.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: And Loyola was not a conservatory program

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and they also had really wonderful

 

 

 

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Jennifer: professors there at the time for theater

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and there was no graduate program.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: So it meant that as an undergraduate I

 

 

 

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Jennifer: didn't have to compete with graduate

 

 

 

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Jennifer: students for roles and so it gave me an

 

 

 

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Jennifer: opportunity to really be actually on stage

 

 

 

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Jennifer: acting a lot more.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: And, like I said, because I had an agent

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and had already sort of gotten into the

 

 

 

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Jennifer: industry before that, I did three films.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I was in three films while I was in college

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and they really accommodated the schedule

 

 

 

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Jennifer: And so when I graduated I really didn't

 

 

 

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Jennifer: make a decision because my heart was that I

 

 

 

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Jennifer: really wanted to go to New York and try to

 

 

 

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Jennifer: But I also knew how lucky I was that I had

 

 

 

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Jennifer: an agent in Los Angeles and that I sort of

 

 

 

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Jennifer: had, you know, a little bit of a head start,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: having been a kid actor, and I was like I

 

 

 

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Jennifer: think I need to do LA while I'm young and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: hope that, you know, whatever success comes

 

 

 

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Jennifer: from that, or experience comes from that,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: will also lend me the opportunity to

 

 

 

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Jennifer: eventually go to New York.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: And so, luckily, that is what happened.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I mean, I ended up having a place in New

 

 

 

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Jennifer: York for 12 years and I've done plays in

 

 

 

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Jennifer: New York as well now, but I just did it a

 

 

 

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Jennifer: little bit later.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: You know, I went to LA first once I

 

 

 

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Jennifer: graduated.

 

 

 

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Marc: When you were 13.

 

 

 

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Marc: What kind of role was this?

 

 

 

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Marc: Was this a movie or was it a TV show?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Yeah, so I played Richard Geer and Sharon

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Stone's daughter in the film Intersection

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and Marc Rydell was the director and Vilmos

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Zygman was the cinematographer.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: It was like a really wild, amazing group of

 

 

 

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Jennifer: just veteran everything to be introduced to

 

 

 

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Jennifer: that world through.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I think Marc Rydell had just come off of

 

 

 

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Jennifer: directing on Golden Pond and you know

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Vilmos Zygman has shot all he you know,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: shot some of the most epic movies ever.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: But yeah, so I and I got that from making a

 

 

 

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Jennifer: tape in Chicago and sending that in and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: then they flew me out to Vancouver where we

 

 

 

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Jennifer: shot the movie and I met with Marc Rydell

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and had auditions there and then ultimately

 

 

 

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Jennifer: got cast.

 

 

 

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Marc: I'm trying to remember that the wife was

 

 

 

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Marc: cheating on him, or it was.

 

 

 

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Marc: Am I thinking the right movie?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: It opens with a car crash, so it was like a

 

 

 

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Jennifer: big car crash, yeah.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: And then he's pulled between Lelita

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Dvidevic and Sharon Stone's character and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: he's sort of honestly, I would have to go

 

 

 

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Jennifer: back and watch it to tell you the whole

 

 

 

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Jennifer: story, because I don't think I've seen it

 

 

 

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Jennifer: since I was like 15.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: But yeah, it was Sharon and Lelita and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Richard and me.

 

 

 

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Marc: What were your folks thinking?

 

 

 

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Marc: of I don't know about this?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I was really lucky.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: You know, my parents are both teachers and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I think for them they're both music

 

 

 

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Jennifer: teachers, so they understood that I was

 

 

 

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Jennifer: interested in being creative and their

 

 

 

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Jennifer: attitude was always you know, if you're

 

 

 

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Jennifer: doing well in school and you're paying

 

 

 

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Jennifer: attention to your studies, you can do this

 

 

 

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Jennifer: for fun, and I think that was a great way

 

 

 

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Jennifer: to be introduced to it, because I never had

 

 

 

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Jennifer: that pressure.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: You know, I didn't have stage parents, I

 

 

 

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Jennifer: didn't have someone forcing me to do it and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I also didn't have someone fighting me

 

 

 

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Jennifer: terribly.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: It was just if this is something you enjoy,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: then it's something that you love and we

 

 

 

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Jennifer: can make it work while you're still also

 

 

 

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Jennifer: taking your studies seriously, then you can

 

 

 

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Jennifer: do it, and so I think that was a really

 

 

 

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Jennifer: nice way for me to be introduced to all

 

 

 

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Jennifer: that.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: It kept a nice balance in my life.

 

 

 

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Marc: Yeah, you know, whenever I speak to young

 

 

 

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Marc: actors the kid actors it's always nice.

 

 

 

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Marc: When they've got the fire they're the ones

 

 

 

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Marc: like really wanting to do it.

 

 

 

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Marc: It always gets.

 

 

 

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Marc: I know in times I've done projects and I've

 

 

 

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Marc: been on since with kids who have this

 

 

 

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Marc: traditional stage parents.

 

 

 

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Marc: It's always uncomfortable.

 

 

 

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Marc: You know, I feel for those kids because I

 

 

 

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Marc: tell when I get a student and they're not

 

 

 

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Marc: It's just something that one of them to do

 

 

 

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Marc: internal fire.

 

 

 

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Marc: You got to really want to do it yourself.

 

 

 

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Marc: Now, as you were coming up, you know, let's

 

 

 

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Marc: say you get to house.

 

 

 

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Marc: So, by the way, my I have a good friend of

 

 

 

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Marc: mine who's a commander in the Coast Guard.

 

 

 

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Marc: I think he knows every episode by heart,

 

 

 

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Marc: So you mentioned earlier it kind of altered

 

 

 

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Marc: the trajectory of kind of where you're at.

 

 

 

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Marc: How do you?

 

 

 

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Marc: What was that experience like with house

 

 

 

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Marc: working on a the schedule?

 

 

 

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Marc: What was that like and was it kind of where

 

 

 

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Marc: you wanted to be?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Yeah, I definitely wanted to be there.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I you know it was.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I was.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I was always up for a lot of pilots.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I had done pilots before that didn't go and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Brian Singer was directing the pilot.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I learned a tremendous amount from him as a

 

 

 

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Jennifer: director and obviously that group of actors

 

 

 

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Jennifer: was just incredible.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Hugh Laurie is extraordinary, and Lisa

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Edelstein and Jesse Spencer and Omar Epps

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and it was just such a great ensemble to be

 

 

 

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Jennifer: a part of and it was such a great way to be

 

 

 

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Jennifer: a young actor, learning you know when

 

 

 

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Jennifer: you're, when you're going toe to toe with

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Hugh Laurie every day, when you're 20

 

 

 

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Jennifer: something and and you're getting to learn

 

 

 

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Jennifer: from all of his experience.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: It was really incredible, but it was tough.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: It was a tough show.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I mean, this was back in the day when no

 

 

 

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Jennifer: one cared about how abusive the hours were

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and we really were working sometimes 20

 

 

 

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Jennifer: hour days.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: We were really excited about like an 18, 16

 

 

 

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Jennifer: to 18 hour day.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Oh yeah, that was a good day.

 

 

 

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Marc: Vincent Donoffrio.

 

 

 

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Marc: he's, that back then, like you said, it was

 

 

 

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Marc: kind of untethered.

 

 

 

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Marc: Was it nonstop working or was there just a

 

 

 

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Marc: scene?

 

 

 

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Jennifer: No, it was a combination of things.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I mean it was, it was a lot.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: I mean when you think about, like every

 

 

 

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Jennifer: show is different and the reason the hours

 

 

 

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Jennifer: are longer different.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: But, like for house, a lot of it was just

 

 

 

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Jennifer: that every room was a glass box.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: So you're constantly trying to deal with

 

 

 

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Jennifer: all the reflections that could happen.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: You know everything reflects and everything,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: because you've got glass in every direction

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and then you've got five or six people in

 

 

 

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Jennifer: the room and then you're covering five or

 

 

 

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Jennifer: six people in every scene and it was just,

 

 

 

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Jennifer: it's just.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: It's just a lot that had to be accomplished

 

 

 

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Jennifer: in the day and plus, we all had to know all

 

 

 

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Jennifer: this medical dialogue.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: So it was like you know, you would have

 

 

 

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Jennifer: this 18 hour day and then you'd go home and

 

 

 

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Jennifer: be memorizing medical words for the next

 

 

 

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Jennifer: day and then they would force your call.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: Like it's a thing called force calls, where

 

 

 

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Jennifer: you're supposed to have 12 hours off from

 

 

 

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Jennifer: from set to set in terms of like turn

 

 

 

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Jennifer: around and they can ask to pay you a little

 

 

 

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Jennifer: bit, and then you have to make it extra to

 

 

 

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Jennifer: make it 10 hours instead of 12.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: And the crazy thing about that is by the

 

 

 

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Jennifer: time you drive at home 45 minutes and then

 

 

 

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Jennifer: you drive to set 45 minutes and so that's

 

 

 

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Jennifer: another hour and a half that you've lost.

 

 

 

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Jennifer: And then you know you go home and you need

 

 

 

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Jennifer: to memorize for an hour and you need to eat

 

 

 

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Jennifer: and you need to.

 

 

 

361

 

00:12:03,056 --> 00:12:04,940

 

Jennifer: You know it's like you literally are only

 

 

 

362

 

00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,707

 

Jennifer: home for barely enough time to like

 

 

 

363

 

00:12:08,275 --> 00:12:10,160

 

Jennifer: memorize, sleep for six hours if you're

 

 

 

364

 

00:12:10,180 --> 00:12:11,644

 

Jennifer: lucky, and then turn around and go back to

 

 

 

365

 

00:12:11,664 --> 00:12:11,825

 

Jennifer: work.

 

 

 

366

 

00:12:12,675 --> 00:12:12,956

 

Jennifer: So it was just.

 

 

 

367

 

00:12:12,976 --> 00:12:13,578

 

Jennifer: You know it was.

 

 

 

368

 

00:12:13,779 --> 00:12:14,521

 

Jennifer: It's the old days.

 

 

 

369

 

00:12:14,622 --> 00:12:16,821

 

Jennifer: Luckily, they've really done a good job of

 

 

 

370

 

00:12:16,901 --> 00:12:18,889

 

Jennifer: trying to keep things more to 12 to 14 hour

 

 

 

371

 

00:12:18,929 --> 00:12:20,215

 

Jennifer: days, which is much more humane.

 

 

 

372

 

00:12:21,419 --> 00:12:22,883

 

Jennifer: But you know, back then it was just, that

 

 

 

373

 

00:12:22,903 --> 00:12:23,445

 

Jennifer: was my whole life.

 

 

 

374

 

00:12:23,495 --> 00:12:24,920

 

Jennifer: I don't have a lot of memories from that

 

 

 

375

 

00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:25,181

 

Jennifer: time.

 

 

 

376

 

00:12:25,281 --> 00:12:26,976

 

Marc: Thank you, sag AFTRA yeah yeah, yeah,

 

 

 

377

 

00:12:27,056 --> 00:12:27,537

 

Marc: exactly.

 

 

 

378

 

00:12:35,295 --> 00:12:37,561

 

Marc: Was it back then where you becoming more

 

 

 

379

 

00:12:37,601 --> 00:12:39,085

 

Marc: intrigued with what was happening, like

 

 

 

380

 

00:12:39,125 --> 00:12:41,922

 

Marc: with the grips, the lighting, the camera,

 

 

 

381

 

00:12:41,982 --> 00:12:42,786

 

Marc: the you know?

 

 

 

382

 

00:12:42,886 --> 00:12:44,874

 

Marc: Was that something you were just inherently

 

 

 

383

 

00:12:44,914 --> 00:12:47,062

 

Marc: paying attention to, as if naturally a

 

 

 

384

 

00:12:47,102 --> 00:12:47,805

 

Marc: future director?

 

 

 

385

 

00:12:47,915 --> 00:12:49,240

 

Marc: I mean, was that something that already

 

 

 

386

 

00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,828

 

Marc: intrigued you or how did how did the

 

 

 

387

 

00:12:52,490 --> 00:12:55,724

 

Marc: directorial vibe kind of bubble up with?

 

 

 

388

 

00:12:55,744 --> 00:12:55,825

 

Jennifer: you.

 

 

 

389

 

00:12:55,895 --> 00:12:57,541

 

Jennifer: Yeah, I mean, I had always been such a

 

 

 

390

 

00:12:57,621 --> 00:12:58,384

 

Jennifer: lover of cinema.

 

 

 

391

 

00:12:58,515 --> 00:13:00,022

 

Jennifer: You know, I had my favorite films that I

 

 

 

392

 

00:13:00,063 --> 00:13:02,273

 

Jennifer: would carry around on DVD when I'd be out

 

 

 

393

 

00:13:02,334 --> 00:13:04,021

 

Jennifer: of town, working and things like that, and

 

 

 

394

 

00:13:05,025 --> 00:13:07,074

 

Jennifer: watch the movies that I loved over and over

 

 

 

395

 

00:13:07,094 --> 00:13:09,161

 

Jennifer: and over again and watch the you know, the

 

 

 

396

 

00:13:09,201 --> 00:13:11,850

 

Jennifer: specials, things behind the scenes and all

 

 

 

397

 

00:13:11,870 --> 00:13:14,318

 

Jennifer: of the commentaries and read about it and

 

 

 

398

 

00:13:14,338 --> 00:13:14,599

 

Jennifer: all of it.

 

 

 

399

 

00:13:15,355 --> 00:13:16,582

 

Jennifer: And you know, it was really just kind of

 

 

 

400

 

00:13:16,623 --> 00:13:18,413

 

Jennifer: doing the best I could to put myself

 

 

 

401

 

00:13:18,433 --> 00:13:19,117

 

Jennifer: through film school.

 

 

 

402

 

00:13:19,197 --> 00:13:20,526

 

Jennifer: Honestly, you know I was looking at film

 

 

 

403

 

00:13:20,546 --> 00:13:22,136

 

Jennifer: school syllabuses and looking at what they

 

 

 

404

 

00:13:22,156 --> 00:13:24,476

 

Jennifer: watched and watching those things, and then

 

 

 

405

 

00:13:24,636 --> 00:13:26,040

 

Jennifer: when I was curious about something or

 

 

 

406

 

00:13:26,081 --> 00:13:27,915

 

Jennifer: didn't understand something, you know I

 

 

 

407

 

00:13:27,935 --> 00:13:29,901

 

Jennifer: would use this cinematographer on set as

 

 

 

408

 

00:13:29,941 --> 00:13:31,405

 

Jennifer: like a resource, or I would talk to the

 

 

 

409

 

00:13:31,446 --> 00:13:33,500

 

Jennifer: grip or I would talk to the dolly grip or I

 

 

 

410

 

00:13:33,561 --> 00:13:35,165

 

Jennifer: would, you know, ask the gaffer.

 

 

 

411

 

00:13:35,515 --> 00:13:37,761

 

Jennifer: And you know I realized that people who

 

 

 

412

 

00:13:37,841 --> 00:13:39,605

 

Jennifer: love what they do love talking about what

 

 

 

413

 

00:13:39,645 --> 00:13:42,300

 

Jennifer: they do, and so it became just this

 

 

 

414

 

00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,796

 

Jennifer: incredible film school for me and that was

 

 

 

415

 

00:13:45,218 --> 00:13:47,307

 

Jennifer: that was started on the set of house.

 

 

 

416

 

00:13:47,367 --> 00:13:49,596

 

Jennifer: But then, you know, continued once I was

 

 

 

417

 

00:13:49,637 --> 00:13:52,087

 

Jennifer: working on Once Upon a Time and working on

 

 

 

418

 

00:13:52,107 --> 00:13:54,276

 

Jennifer: the film warrior and being able to sort of

 

 

 

419

 

00:13:55,058 --> 00:13:56,643

 

Jennifer: talk to Gavin O'Connor about some of that

 

 

 

420

 

00:13:56,683 --> 00:13:57,265

 

Jennifer: stuff as well.

 

 

 

421

 

00:13:57,435 --> 00:13:59,182

 

Jennifer: And you know, just I was very lucky because

 

 

 

422

 

00:13:59,223 --> 00:14:01,191

 

Jennifer: I've worked with probably over 200

 

 

 

423

 

00:14:01,813 --> 00:14:03,237

 

Jennifer: television directors and I've worked with

 

 

 

424

 

00:14:03,277 --> 00:14:07,346

 

Jennifer: about 30 film directors and I've gotten to

 

 

 

425

 

00:14:07,387 --> 00:14:09,240

 

Jennifer: really just take all the good and the bad

 

 

 

426

 

00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:10,798

 

Jennifer: from them, you know, like learn from both

 

 

 

427

 

00:14:10,838 --> 00:14:14,168

 

Jennifer: the good and the bad, and sort of hone my

 

 

 

428

 

00:14:14,229 --> 00:14:16,335

 

Jennifer: skills and ask all the right questions.

 

 

 

429

 

00:14:16,576 --> 00:14:18,641

 

Jennifer: And I think the biggest thing that I took

 

 

 

430

 

00:14:18,681 --> 00:14:20,225

 

Jennifer: away from the directors that I really

 

 

 

431

 

00:14:20,265 --> 00:14:22,820

 

Jennifer: admired was just that they were really

 

 

 

432

 

00:14:22,980 --> 00:14:24,564

 

Jennifer: honest about what they knew and what they

 

 

 

433

 

00:14:24,604 --> 00:14:24,985

 

Jennifer: didn't know.

 

 

 

434

 

00:14:25,715 --> 00:14:27,379

 

Jennifer: And I think a lot of times you have you

 

 

 

435

 

00:14:27,419 --> 00:14:29,344

 

Jennifer: have directors who feel like they have to

 

 

 

436

 

00:14:29,424 --> 00:14:30,795

 

Jennifer: act like they know everything, and the

 

 

 

437

 

00:14:30,815 --> 00:14:32,159

 

Jennifer: truth is you've got an entire team of

 

 

 

438

 

00:14:32,219 --> 00:14:34,305

 

Jennifer: people to know things with you and for you,

 

 

 

439

 

00:14:35,195 --> 00:14:36,440

 

Jennifer: and I'm just sort of honest about all that

 

 

 

440

 

00:14:37,645 --> 00:14:40,174

 

Jennifer: you end up in a position where you can

 

 

 

441

 

00:14:40,194 --> 00:14:42,062

 

Jennifer: learn a lot and also you can contribute a

 

 

 

442

 

00:14:42,102 --> 00:14:42,282

 

Jennifer: lot.

 

 

 

443

 

00:14:42,555 --> 00:14:43,861

 

Marc: Well, when you said you were looking at the

 

 

 

444

 

00:14:43,901 --> 00:14:47,075

 

Marc: syllabi or of the film schools, were there

 

 

 

445

 

00:14:47,175 --> 00:14:49,381

 

Marc: in movies or TV shows or something that you

 

 

 

446

 

00:14:49,461 --> 00:14:51,387

 

Marc: watched, that really kind of informed, like

 

 

 

447

 

00:14:51,535 --> 00:14:54,178

 

Marc: yeah, that's kind of my style, that's my

 

 

 

448

 

00:14:54,639 --> 00:14:56,223

 

Marc: that you kind of held on to and kind of

 

 

 

449

 

00:14:56,243 --> 00:14:58,167

 

Marc: made part of your own like directorial DNA.

 

 

 

450

 

00:14:58,836 --> 00:14:59,727

 

Marc: Was there anything out there that you

 

 

 

451

 

00:14:59,747 --> 00:15:00,234

 

Marc: really loved, like that?

 

 

 

452

 

00:15:00,415 --> 00:15:01,842

 

Jennifer: Yeah, I think, you know, one of the things

 

 

 

453

 

00:15:01,862 --> 00:15:03,469

 

Jennifer: that was really influential for me was

 

 

 

454

 

00:15:04,554 --> 00:15:07,685

 

Jennifer: there is a book of interviews with Scorsese.

 

 

 

455

 

00:15:07,835 --> 00:15:11,675

 

Jennifer: It's like 400 pages of pure interview and

 

 

 

456

 

00:15:12,196 --> 00:15:14,743

 

Jennifer: he talks so much about craft, like actually

 

 

 

457

 

00:15:14,763 --> 00:15:18,078

 

Jennifer: talks about craft, and I was, I've always

 

 

 

458

 

00:15:18,138 --> 00:15:22,386

 

Jennifer: been really in awe of and admiring of his

 

 

 

459

 

00:15:22,827 --> 00:15:23,027

 

Jennifer: way.

 

 

 

460

 

00:15:23,268 --> 00:15:24,799

 

Jennifer: The way that he uses the camera to tell

 

 

 

461

 

00:15:24,860 --> 00:15:27,072

 

Jennifer: story visually and moves the camera, you

 

 

 

462

 

00:15:27,092 --> 00:15:28,280

 

Jennifer: know, is when to move the camera, he knows

 

 

 

463

 

00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:29,326

 

Jennifer: when not to move the camera.

 

 

 

464

 

00:15:29,367 --> 00:15:30,876

 

Jennifer: You know it's a very he's just a very

 

 

 

465

 

00:15:30,936 --> 00:15:32,741

 

Jennifer: effective visual storyteller and really

 

 

 

466

 

00:15:32,801 --> 00:15:34,895

 

Jennifer: creative with how he uses the camera, and

 

 

 

467

 

00:15:34,915 --> 00:15:37,141

 

Jennifer: so it was just really that became kind of a

 

 

 

468

 

00:15:37,201 --> 00:15:38,926

 

Jennifer: North Star for me in terms of just like

 

 

 

469

 

00:15:39,535 --> 00:15:40,779

 

Jennifer: conversation about craft.

 

 

 

470

 

00:15:43,595 --> 00:15:45,661

 

Jennifer: And so, you know, I really I admire a lot

 

 

 

471

 

00:15:45,681 --> 00:15:47,186

 

Jennifer: of those movies from the 70s, you know, I

 

 

 

472

 

00:15:47,295 --> 00:15:49,581

 

Jennifer: like, I like that kind of vibe of like

 

 

 

473

 

00:15:49,701 --> 00:15:51,586

 

Jennifer: using the camera to be a character in the

 

 

 

474

 

00:15:51,626 --> 00:15:51,927

 

Jennifer: story.

 

 

 

475

 

00:15:52,135 --> 00:15:53,664

 

Marc: Yeah, I do kind of like that when they do

 

 

 

476

 

00:15:53,705 --> 00:15:55,475

 

Marc: that in TV now, when you kind of feel like

 

 

 

477

 

00:15:55,595 --> 00:15:58,224

 

Marc: you are an additional observer in the scene,

 

 

 

478

 

00:15:58,915 --> 00:16:01,665

 

Marc: I kind of dig the I don't know what you

 

 

 

479

 

00:16:01,685 --> 00:16:03,713

 

Marc: would call it the action of it or the

 

 

 

480

 

00:16:03,954 --> 00:16:05,460

 

Marc: kinetic vibe that you get from it.

 

 

 

481

 

00:16:06,397 --> 00:16:09,166

 

Marc: But looking back at your career now, as far

 

 

 

482

 

00:16:09,206 --> 00:16:11,354

 

Marc: as TV like house, were you given the

 

 

 

483

 

00:16:11,374 --> 00:16:13,020

 

Marc: opportunity to direct any of the episodes?

 

 

 

484

 

00:16:13,595 --> 00:16:16,483

 

Jennifer: So here's the thing it and I feel like I

 

 

 

485

 

00:16:16,503 --> 00:16:17,787

 

Jennifer: get in trouble every time I see this, but

 

 

 

486

 

00:16:17,875 --> 00:16:20,882

 

Jennifer: it's just the truth there is an unspoken

 

 

 

487

 

00:16:20,962 --> 00:16:21,966

 

Jennifer: attitude in the industry.

 

 

 

488

 

00:16:22,006 --> 00:16:23,954

 

Jennifer: That is, if, as an actor, the first thing

 

 

 

489

 

00:16:23,975 --> 00:16:26,207

 

Jennifer: you work on as a director is your own show,

 

 

 

490

 

00:16:26,950 --> 00:16:29,421

 

Jennifer: it was some sort of like gift that was

 

 

 

491

 

00:16:29,441 --> 00:16:31,108

 

Jennifer: given to you and everybody else made it

 

 

 

492

 

00:16:31,168 --> 00:16:34,051

 

Jennifer: happen and you didn't really direct, and I

 

 

 

493

 

00:16:34,111 --> 00:16:36,036

 

Jennifer: was not interested in having that stigma

 

 

 

494

 

00:16:36,076 --> 00:16:38,102

 

Jennifer: attached to what the way that I wanted to

 

 

 

495

 

00:16:38,130 --> 00:16:39,674

 

Jennifer: be a filmmaker and the way that I wanted to

 

 

 

496

 

00:16:39,714 --> 00:16:42,411

 

Jennifer: be able to contribute as a filmmaker, and

 

 

 

497

 

00:16:42,831 --> 00:16:45,758

 

Jennifer: so I don't think that I was probably in a

 

 

 

498

 

00:16:45,798 --> 00:16:46,981

 

Jennifer: place where that would have even been

 

 

 

499

 

00:16:47,021 --> 00:16:47,382

 

Jennifer: offered to me.

 

 

 

500

 

00:16:48,230 --> 00:16:49,153

 

Jennifer: I was in a place where that would have been

 

 

 

501

 

00:16:49,173 --> 00:16:51,530

 

Jennifer: offered to me by once upon a time, but I

 

 

 

502

 

00:16:51,651 --> 00:16:54,336

 

Jennifer: very, very intentionally did not direct

 

 

 

503

 

00:16:54,457 --> 00:16:54,837

 

Jennifer: anything.

 

 

 

504

 

00:16:54,938 --> 00:16:57,082

 

Jennifer: I was on because I wanted to start it.

 

 

 

505

 

00:16:57,890 --> 00:16:59,795

 

Jennifer: I wanted to climb through that experience,

 

 

 

506

 

00:17:00,357 --> 00:17:01,801

 

Jennifer: the way that a filmmaker does.

 

 

 

507

 

00:17:02,431 --> 00:17:03,979

 

Jennifer: So I made a short film first and I

 

 

 

508

 

00:17:04,039 --> 00:17:05,547

 

Jennifer: submitted that to festivals and then that

 

 

 

509

 

00:17:05,567 --> 00:17:07,072

 

Jennifer: went to festivals and then I worked on some

 

 

 

510

 

00:17:07,112 --> 00:17:08,997

 

Jennifer: music videos and I worked on an anthology

 

 

 

511

 

00:17:09,057 --> 00:17:10,621

 

Jennifer: series for Refinery 29.

 

 

 

512

 

00:17:11,331 --> 00:17:13,436

 

Jennifer: And so I was really cutting my teeth on all

 

 

 

513

 

00:17:13,456 --> 00:17:15,140

 

Jennifer: these things like the way that you normally

 

 

 

514

 

00:17:15,180 --> 00:17:17,395

 

Jennifer: would, and then I really fought very hard

 

 

 

515

 

00:17:17,435 --> 00:17:20,748

 

Jennifer: to put my feature together and found that

 

 

 

516

 

00:17:20,808 --> 00:17:22,614

 

Jennifer: financing for that made that film sold it

 

 

 

517

 

00:17:22,655 --> 00:17:25,973

 

Jennifer: to Netflix, and so it was really important

 

 

 

518

 

00:17:26,013 --> 00:17:29,140

 

Jennifer: to me to kind of climb through that process

 

 

 

519

 

00:17:29,802 --> 00:17:34,918

 

Jennifer: organically and not be perceived as like,

 

 

 

520

 

00:17:35,118 --> 00:17:37,082

 

Jennifer: oh well, she was just given this favor of

 

 

 

521

 

00:17:37,122 --> 00:17:37,724

 

Jennifer: an episode.

 

 

 

522

 

00:17:38,110 --> 00:17:39,514

 

Jennifer: It's not a fair thing because, no matter

 

 

 

523

 

00:17:39,594 --> 00:17:40,737

 

Jennifer: what, you still have to direct.

 

 

 

524

 

00:17:41,259 --> 00:17:41,840

 

Marc: That's interesting.

 

 

 

525

 

00:17:42,430 --> 00:17:43,456

 

Marc: So you really drew a line of delineation

 

 

 

526

 

00:17:43,476 --> 00:17:45,508

 

Marc: between you and camera, because I wonder

 

 

 

527

 

00:17:45,529 --> 00:17:48,508

 

Marc: what it's like to direct yourself and be in

 

 

 

528

 

00:17:48,528 --> 00:17:50,042

 

Marc: an episode that's got to be really rough.

 

 

 

529

 

00:17:50,083 --> 00:17:50,830

 

Marc: To have that objectivity.

 

 

 

530

 

00:17:50,930 --> 00:17:54,419

 

Marc: You got to trust, I guess, your DP to give

 

 

 

531

 

00:17:54,439 --> 00:17:55,903

 

Marc: you a good you know, got to trust somebody

 

 

 

532

 

00:17:55,950 --> 00:17:57,294

 

Marc: on the set to give you feedback on your own

 

 

 

533

 

00:17:57,334 --> 00:17:57,816

 

Marc: performance.

 

 

 

534

 

00:17:57,896 --> 00:18:00,612

 

Marc: I guess Is there any genre that you kind of

 

 

 

535

 

00:18:00,713 --> 00:18:04,740

 

Marc: wanted to focus on, indirecting, because

 

 

 

536

 

00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,812

 

Marc: you've covered some interesting like

 

 

 

537

 

00:18:07,932 --> 00:18:10,679

 

Marc: euphoria and you're dealing with young folk,

 

 

 

538

 

00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:11,240

 

Marc: you know.

 

 

 

539

 

00:18:11,281 --> 00:18:14,397

 

Marc: And then is there any specific genre you

 

 

 

540

 

00:18:14,437 --> 00:18:16,724

 

Marc: like to stick to, if you, or do you like to

 

 

 

541

 

00:18:16,764 --> 00:18:17,125

 

Marc: do it all?

 

 

 

542

 

00:18:18,108 --> 00:18:18,710

 

Jennifer: Not necessarily.

 

 

 

543

 

00:18:18,991 --> 00:18:20,575

 

Jennifer: I mean, I really looked at television as an

 

 

 

544

 

00:18:20,636 --> 00:18:22,401

 

Jennifer: opportunity to try every genre.

 

 

 

545

 

00:18:22,610 --> 00:18:28,361

 

Jennifer: You know, my feature Sun Dogs is very much

 

 

 

546

 

00:18:28,381 --> 00:18:29,463

 

Jennifer: like an underdog story.

 

 

 

547

 

00:18:30,872 --> 00:18:32,496

 

Jennifer: It's a very traditional American film.

 

 

 

548

 

00:18:32,557 --> 00:18:35,211

 

Jennifer: I feel like, you know, on purpose, I grew

 

 

 

549

 

00:18:35,291 --> 00:18:37,415

 

Jennifer: up loving things like the Graduate and

 

 

 

550

 

00:18:37,455 --> 00:18:41,743

 

Jennifer: loving things like Miracle, groundhog Day.

 

 

 

551

 

00:18:43,592 --> 00:18:44,354

 

Jennifer: What About Bob?

 

 

 

552

 

00:18:44,414 --> 00:18:45,997

 

Jennifer: You know, like just those, like you know,

 

 

 

553

 

00:18:46,058 --> 00:18:47,882

 

Jennifer: kind of all American, heartfelt.

 

 

 

554

 

00:18:48,350 --> 00:18:51,855

 

Jennifer: You know movies and I wanted to find

 

 

 

555

 

00:18:51,876 --> 00:18:53,159

 

Jennifer: something that had that energy to it,

 

 

 

556

 

00:18:54,030 --> 00:18:56,462

 

Jennifer: whereas with television I felt like here's

 

 

 

557

 

00:18:56,482 --> 00:18:58,110

 

Jennifer: a chance to go work on all different levels

 

 

 

558

 

00:18:58,190 --> 00:18:59,614

 

Jennifer: of budgets with all different kind of

 

 

 

559

 

00:18:59,674 --> 00:19:01,479

 

Jennifer: technical requirements, with all different

 

 

 

560

 

00:19:01,499 --> 00:19:04,015

 

Jennifer: kinds of casts, and really just get the

 

 

 

561

 

00:19:04,055 --> 00:19:05,279

 

Jennifer: experience of trying all of it.

 

 

 

562

 

00:19:05,430 --> 00:19:07,657

 

Jennifer: And so you know euphoria, I got to work

 

 

 

563

 

00:19:07,677 --> 00:19:08,700

 

Jennifer: with PT Anderson's crew.

 

 

 

564

 

00:19:09,110 --> 00:19:10,114

 

Jennifer: I got to work with Sam Levinson, who's a

 

 

 

565

 

00:19:10,175 --> 00:19:12,196

 

Jennifer: genius, like it was just all movement.

 

 

 

566

 

00:19:12,250 --> 00:19:14,256

 

Jennifer: It was a master class in movement and how

 

 

 

567

 

00:19:14,276 --> 00:19:15,920

 

Jennifer: to achieve really difficult shots.

 

 

 

568

 

00:19:16,530 --> 00:19:17,979

 

Jennifer: And then you know to go and work on, like

 

 

 

569

 

00:19:18,019 --> 00:19:19,709

 

Jennifer: Joe Pickett, which is a western, and be

 

 

 

570

 

00:19:19,729 --> 00:19:21,758

 

Jennifer: able to really like work with horses and

 

 

 

571

 

00:19:21,939 --> 00:19:23,687

 

Jennifer: animals and out in the wilderness and like

 

 

 

572

 

00:19:23,727 --> 00:19:25,574

 

Jennifer: with landscape, and then do a grease rise

 

 

 

573

 

00:19:25,594 --> 00:19:27,259

 

Jennifer: of the pink ladies and direct a musical and

 

 

 

574

 

00:19:27,299 --> 00:19:28,895

 

Jennifer: figure out what that looks like and all the

 

 

 

575

 

00:19:28,935 --> 00:19:30,543

 

Jennifer: technical things that go into accomplishing

 

 

 

576

 

00:19:30,604 --> 00:19:32,794

 

Jennifer: a musical and then do surface, which is a

 

 

 

577

 

00:19:32,854 --> 00:19:33,236

 

Jennifer: thriller.

 

 

 

578

 

00:19:33,830 --> 00:19:35,698

 

Jennifer: So it was like what my team and I were

 

 

 

579

 

00:19:35,718 --> 00:19:38,228

 

Jennifer: really looking for from a directing

 

 

 

580

 

00:19:38,288 --> 00:19:39,994

 

Jennifer: perspective on television in the last few

 

 

 

581

 

00:19:40,034 --> 00:19:42,381

 

Jennifer: years has been how do I do as many

 

 

 

582

 

00:19:42,461 --> 00:19:45,450

 

Jennifer: different genres as aggressively as

 

 

 

583

 

00:19:45,531 --> 00:19:47,495

 

Jennifer: possible, just because I really wanted to

 

 

 

584

 

00:19:47,555 --> 00:19:49,580

 

Jennifer: be inside those worlds and really

 

 

 

585

 

00:19:49,660 --> 00:19:52,696

 

Jennifer: experience what was required of those

 

 

 

586

 

00:19:52,756 --> 00:19:53,499

 

Jennifer: different genres.

 

 

 

587

 

00:19:53,690 --> 00:19:56,263

 

Jennifer: And so I think that I'm always I think Sun

 

 

 

588

 

00:19:56,283 --> 00:19:57,670

 

Jennifer: Dogs is always going to look like a North

 

 

 

589

 

00:19:57,790 --> 00:19:59,456

 

Jennifer: Star for the kind of films that I make.

 

 

 

590

 

00:20:00,390 --> 00:20:02,300

 

Jennifer: But what excites me is kind of moving from

 

 

 

591

 

00:20:02,341 --> 00:20:03,990

 

Jennifer: genre to genre on television.

 

 

 

592

 

00:20:04,656 --> 00:20:05,645

 

Marc: You know it sounds like you don't have any

 

 

 

593

 

00:20:05,706 --> 00:20:06,130

 

Marc: free time.

 

 

 

594

 

00:20:06,230 --> 00:20:07,714

 

Marc: I'm like thinking of the timeline of these

 

 

 

595

 

00:20:07,795 --> 00:20:08,256

 

Marc: projects.

 

 

 

596

 

00:20:08,276 --> 00:20:09,620

 

Marc: I'm like you don't have a lot of time off.

 

 

 

597

 

00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:11,647

 

Marc: Do you have, like, do you want to carve out

 

 

 

598

 

00:20:11,708 --> 00:20:11,890

 

Marc: space?

 

 

 

599

 

00:20:11,910 --> 00:20:12,610

 

Marc: You know I'm gonna.

 

 

 

600

 

00:20:12,689 --> 00:20:14,231

 

Marc: I want to do some time on camera.

 

 

 

601

 

00:20:14,231 --> 00:20:15,536

 

Marc: I want to work on some projects and then

 

 

 

602

 

00:20:15,917 --> 00:20:16,680

 

Marc: come back to directing.

 

 

 

603

 

00:20:16,770 --> 00:20:18,915

 

Marc: Are you kind of, is there like a pendulum

 

 

 

604

 

00:20:18,936 --> 00:20:20,640

 

Marc: that swings for you, or is it just sort of

 

 

 

605

 

00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:21,041

 

Marc: whatever?

 

 

 

606

 

00:20:21,590 --> 00:20:23,774

 

Jennifer: You know it's a good question and I think

 

 

 

607

 

00:20:23,815 --> 00:20:25,224

 

Jennifer: it's probably depends on what moment you

 

 

 

608

 

00:20:25,265 --> 00:20:26,732

 

Jennifer: asked me that question what the answer was

 

 

 

609

 

00:20:26,773 --> 00:20:27,014

 

Jennifer: to it.

 

 

 

610

 

00:20:28,430 --> 00:20:32,983

 

Jennifer: But really, the sort of grounding force

 

 

 

611

 

00:20:33,003 --> 00:20:35,490

 

Jennifer: that I feel I look to when I'm trying to

 

 

 

612

 

00:20:35,510 --> 00:20:37,374

 

Jennifer: make a decision about whether I'm acting or

 

 

 

613

 

00:20:37,414 --> 00:20:39,859

 

Jennifer: directing or what projects next is really,

 

 

 

614

 

00:20:39,999 --> 00:20:40,781

 

Jennifer: who am I working with?

 

 

 

615

 

00:20:41,790 --> 00:20:43,135

 

Jennifer: You know, we we all get to do the coolest

 

 

 

616

 

00:20:43,156 --> 00:20:43,617

 

Jennifer: thing in the world.

 

 

 

617

 

00:20:43,690 --> 00:20:45,276

 

Jennifer: We get to, like, do what we love all day,

 

 

 

618

 

00:20:45,316 --> 00:20:47,294

 

Jennifer: every day, and unfortunately, that doesn't

 

 

 

619

 

00:20:47,314 --> 00:20:48,839

 

Jennifer: mean you're always in a great environment.

 

 

 

620

 

00:20:48,970 --> 00:20:51,554

 

Jennifer: It should mean that, but not every set is a

 

 

 

621

 

00:20:51,594 --> 00:20:54,315

 

Jennifer: happy set, and so what's really important

 

 

 

622

 

00:20:54,355 --> 00:20:55,678

 

Jennifer: to me is looking at the team of people that

 

 

 

623

 

00:20:55,698 --> 00:20:56,300

 

Jennifer: I'm gonna work with.

 

 

 

624

 

00:20:57,370 --> 00:20:58,957

 

Jennifer: So, you know, if a job comes up or an

 

 

 

625

 

00:20:58,977 --> 00:21:01,206

 

Jennifer: opportunity comes up as an actor where I'm

 

 

 

626

 

00:21:01,307 --> 00:21:03,012

 

Jennifer: really inspired by the showrunner and the

 

 

 

627

 

00:21:03,052 --> 00:21:05,197

 

Jennifer: writers and the other actors and the whole

 

 

 

628

 

00:21:05,217 --> 00:21:06,780

 

Jennifer: group, like I will jump at that.

 

 

 

629

 

00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,003

 

Jennifer: That was, this is us for me.

 

 

 

630

 

00:21:08,150 --> 00:21:09,814

 

Jennifer: You know, I was dying to work with Dan

 

 

 

631

 

00:21:09,834 --> 00:21:11,959

 

Jennifer: Fogelman and I loved all those actors and I

 

 

 

632

 

00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,113

 

Jennifer: loved the show, and so that was a no

 

 

 

633

 

00:21:14,133 --> 00:21:15,096

 

Jennifer: brainer of like.

 

 

 

634

 

00:21:15,136 --> 00:21:16,741

 

Jennifer: Yes, I will carve out the time to do this,

 

 

 

635

 

00:21:16,830 --> 00:21:18,515

 

Jennifer: and I feel very lucky to be here and to

 

 

 

636

 

00:21:18,595 --> 00:21:19,598

 

Jennifer: even be asked to be here.

 

 

 

637

 

00:21:20,871 --> 00:21:22,776

 

Jennifer: And then same thing with with directing,

 

 

 

638

 

00:21:22,796 --> 00:21:24,100

 

Jennifer: you know, it's like who's the showrunner,

 

 

 

639

 

00:21:24,311 --> 00:21:25,683

 

Jennifer: who's the cinematographer, what's the

 

 

 

640

 

00:21:25,805 --> 00:21:27,214

 

Jennifer: creative team, who's the production

 

 

 

641

 

00:21:27,254 --> 00:21:29,055

 

Jennifer: designer Like, what's this cast look like?

 

 

 

642

 

00:21:29,510 --> 00:21:31,255

 

Jennifer: So, for me, the decisions right now are a

 

 

 

643

 

00:21:31,315 --> 00:21:32,618

 

Jennifer: lot more about not.

 

 

 

644

 

00:21:32,779 --> 00:21:34,392

 

Jennifer: It's not so much am I gonna act or am I

 

 

 

645

 

00:21:34,413 --> 00:21:34,875

 

Jennifer: gonna direct.

 

 

 

646

 

00:21:35,190 --> 00:21:37,295

 

Jennifer: It's what opportunities are available to me

 

 

 

647

 

00:21:37,336 --> 00:21:38,819

 

Jennifer: and what's the ecosystem that I might be

 

 

 

648

 

00:21:38,860 --> 00:21:41,336

 

Jennifer: joining, and so I'm really like looking at

 

 

 

649

 

00:21:41,377 --> 00:21:43,868

 

Jennifer: that kind of creative collaboration and I

 

 

 

650

 

00:21:44,028 --> 00:21:46,016

 

Jennifer: and I move toward, like the places where

 

 

 

651

 

00:21:46,036 --> 00:21:46,979

 

Jennifer: I'm really inspired.

 

 

 

652

 

00:21:47,270 --> 00:21:48,855

 

Marc: I just feel like you have so much more

 

 

 

653

 

00:21:48,895 --> 00:21:49,978

 

Marc: energy than I do.

 

 

 

654

 

00:21:51,611 --> 00:21:53,957

 

Marc: You have a great collage of things you're

 

 

 

655

 

00:21:53,977 --> 00:21:56,183

 

Marc: working on, but you're constantly active.

 

 

 

656

 

00:21:56,230 --> 00:21:58,375

 

Marc: I mean, what are you doing when you, you

 

 

 

657

 

00:21:58,415 --> 00:22:00,721

 

Marc: know, when you are not doing something

 

 

 

658

 

00:22:00,761 --> 00:22:03,934

 

Marc: creative on or behind the camera, what are

 

 

 

659

 

00:22:03,954 --> 00:22:05,078

 

Marc: you doing to kind of fill up your days

 

 

 

660

 

00:22:05,198 --> 00:22:05,459

 

Marc: usually?

 

 

 

661

 

00:22:05,731 --> 00:22:08,158

 

Jennifer: Um, I mean, I feel like I am just sort of a

 

 

 

662

 

00:22:08,198 --> 00:22:10,234

 

Jennifer: creative being, so much of my life is just

 

 

 

663

 

00:22:10,274 --> 00:22:12,099

 

Jennifer: kind of accumulating inspiration.

 

 

 

664

 

00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,602

 

Jennifer: Right, you know it's like I feel like I

 

 

 

665

 

00:22:15,663 --> 00:22:16,948

 

Jennifer: joke about this, but it's literally

 

 

 

666

 

00:22:16,988 --> 00:22:18,315

 

Jennifer: happened to me more than once where, like

 

 

 

667

 

00:22:18,375 --> 00:22:19,964

 

Jennifer: I've sat in the dentist office and like

 

 

 

668

 

00:22:20,005 --> 00:22:21,772

 

Jennifer: picked up the coffee table book and like

 

 

 

669

 

00:22:21,852 --> 00:22:24,098

 

Jennifer: the images in that book become inspiration

 

 

 

670

 

00:22:24,139 --> 00:22:24,961

 

Jennifer: for something I'm shooting.

 

 

 

671

 

00:22:25,470 --> 00:22:27,134

 

Jennifer: You know, it's just, I feel like if you're

 

 

 

672

 

00:22:27,234 --> 00:22:28,137

 

Jennifer: open to it, you can.

 

 

 

673

 

00:22:28,959 --> 00:22:31,194

 

Jennifer: You can sort of collage inspiration in your

 

 

 

674

 

00:22:31,234 --> 00:22:31,415

 

Jennifer: life.

 

 

 

675

 

00:22:31,610 --> 00:22:33,879

 

Jennifer: And so I think a lot of the time spent for

 

 

 

676

 

00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,430

 

Jennifer: me when I'm not on a set, you know, even if

 

 

 

677

 

00:22:36,611 --> 00:22:38,700

 

Jennifer: I am trying to take care of errands or

 

 

 

678

 

00:22:38,740 --> 00:22:40,729

 

Jennifer: whatever, is also just trying to stay open

 

 

 

679

 

00:22:40,749 --> 00:22:42,777

 

Jennifer: to those different influences and and and

 

 

 

680

 

00:22:42,858 --> 00:22:45,408

 

Jennifer: letting things accumulate inside of me so

 

 

 

681

 

00:22:45,428 --> 00:22:47,556

 

Jennifer: that I have that well of creativity to use

 

 

 

682

 

00:22:47,576 --> 00:22:48,198

 

Jennifer: when I'm working.

 

 

 

683

 

00:22:48,910 --> 00:22:50,758

 

Jennifer: But I also, you know, like I work out and I

 

 

 

684

 

00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:51,944

 

Jennifer: spend time with my family.

 

 

 

685

 

00:22:52,506 --> 00:22:53,310

 

Jennifer: I love hiking.

 

 

 

686

 

00:22:53,651 --> 00:22:55,216

 

Jennifer: You know it's great to live in LA because

 

 

 

687

 

00:22:55,236 --> 00:22:56,861

 

Jennifer: there's always a, you know, a pretty decent

 

 

 

688

 

00:22:56,890 --> 00:22:57,713

 

Jennifer: hike nearby.

 

 

 

689

 

00:23:00,110 --> 00:23:01,395

 

Jennifer: It's nice when there's time that I can

 

 

 

690

 

00:23:01,435 --> 00:23:02,599

 

Jennifer: travel with my family.

 

 

 

691

 

00:23:02,750 --> 00:23:03,894

 

Jennifer: Like that's something that's always really

 

 

 

692

 

00:23:03,954 --> 00:23:04,195

 

Jennifer: nice.

 

 

 

693

 

00:23:06,010 --> 00:23:08,617

 

Jennifer: But yeah, I would say, like you know, my

 

 

 

694

 

00:23:08,677 --> 00:23:10,202

 

Jennifer: husband and I love watching stuff together.

 

 

 

695

 

00:23:10,270 --> 00:23:11,475

 

Jennifer: We always have shows that we're watching

 

 

 

696

 

00:23:11,495 --> 00:23:11,736

 

Jennifer: together.

 

 

 

697

 

00:23:11,850 --> 00:23:13,235

 

Jennifer: We always have a list of movies that we're

 

 

 

698

 

00:23:13,275 --> 00:23:13,978

 

Jennifer: working our way through.

 

 

 

699

 

00:23:14,230 --> 00:23:17,035

 

Jennifer: Like our life is really very much centered

 

 

 

700

 

00:23:17,095 --> 00:23:19,720

 

Jennifer: around either working or finding

 

 

 

701

 

00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,844

 

Jennifer: inspiration for work, and we just love it

 

 

 

702

 

00:23:22,270 --> 00:23:22,571

 

Jennifer: Like it's.

 

 

 

703

 

00:23:22,792 --> 00:23:24,338

 

Jennifer: It doesn't feel like work when you love it.

 

 

 

704

 

00:23:24,630 --> 00:23:25,392

 

Marc: Now who's your husband?

 

 

 

705

 

00:23:25,432 --> 00:23:26,333

 

Marc: In the industry as well.

 

 

 

706

 

00:23:26,413 --> 00:23:28,497

 

Jennifer: He is yeah, yeah, no, he's an.

 

 

 

707

 

00:23:28,537 --> 00:23:29,259

 

Jennifer: He's an actor.

 

 

 

708

 

00:23:29,719 --> 00:23:30,421

 

Jennifer: He's an actor, yeah.

 

 

 

709

 

00:23:32,470 --> 00:23:33,380

 

Marc: Do you all try to work in such a way where

 

 

 

710

 

00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:34,270

 

Marc: you're both not working on a pretty intense

 

 

 

711

 

00:23:34,370 --> 00:23:37,357

 

Marc: project at the same time, or do you just

 

 

 

712

 

00:23:37,378 --> 00:23:39,128

 

Marc: kind of take it as it comes to you?

 

 

 

713

 

00:23:40,453 --> 00:23:43,381

 

Jennifer: No, I mean so far it's worked out really

 

 

 

714

 

00:23:43,421 --> 00:23:43,561

 

Jennifer: well.

 

 

 

715

 

00:23:45,794 --> 00:23:48,059

 

Jennifer: I think it's part of the joy of both being

 

 

 

716

 

00:23:48,099 --> 00:23:49,381

 

Jennifer: in the industry is that you really

 

 

 

717

 

00:23:49,421 --> 00:23:51,672

 

Jennifer: understand we would never take it

 

 

 

718

 

00:23:51,712 --> 00:23:54,019

 

Jennifer: personally and we would never be offended

 

 

 

719

 

00:23:54,079 --> 00:23:55,893

 

Jennifer: by the time that needs to be spent on a

 

 

 

720

 

00:23:55,933 --> 00:23:58,575

 

Jennifer: project, and we do really try to be there

 

 

 

721

 

00:23:58,615 --> 00:23:59,097

 

Jennifer: for each other.

 

 

 

722

 

00:23:59,510 --> 00:24:00,834

 

Jennifer: It's like there's different things that we

 

 

 

723

 

00:24:00,874 --> 00:24:02,479

 

Jennifer: need from each other on different projects,

 

 

 

724

 

00:24:03,351 --> 00:24:05,116

 

Jennifer: and I think that that's been a really

 

 

 

725

 

00:24:05,156 --> 00:24:07,381

 

Jennifer: beautiful part of our partnership is just

 

 

 

726

 

00:24:07,542 --> 00:24:08,915

 

Jennifer: it's like okay, what do you need from me on

 

 

 

727

 

00:24:08,935 --> 00:24:09,256

 

Jennifer: this one?

 

 

 

728

 

00:24:09,350 --> 00:24:11,260

 

Jennifer: You need me to like give you space so that

 

 

 

729

 

00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,230

 

Jennifer: you can think and be alone, or you need me

 

 

 

730

 

00:24:13,270 --> 00:24:14,575

 

Jennifer: to be there to run lines with you every

 

 

 

731

 

00:24:14,615 --> 00:24:14,816

 

Jennifer: night.

 

 

 

732

 

00:24:15,530 --> 00:24:17,595

 

Jennifer: So we really we have found creative ways to

 

 

 

733

 

00:24:17,635 --> 00:24:19,460

 

Jennifer: do that for each other, even when we can't

 

 

 

734

 

00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,162

 

Jennifer: be in the same city.

 

 

 

735

 

00:24:20,631 --> 00:24:23,002

 

Jennifer: Thank God for Zoom and FaceTime and all the

 

 

 

736

 

00:24:23,043 --> 00:24:24,530

 

Jennifer: things, because now I think you could be a

 

 

 

737

 

00:24:24,610 --> 00:24:25,253

 

Jennifer: lot more present.

 

 

 

738

 

00:24:27,753 --> 00:24:29,096

 

Jennifer: But I'm sure it'll continue to get more

 

 

 

739

 

00:24:29,136 --> 00:24:31,000

 

Jennifer: complicated as our lives continue and

 

 

 

740

 

00:24:31,020 --> 00:24:31,982

 

Jennifer: different jobs come up.

 

 

 

741

 

00:24:33,993 --> 00:24:36,017

 

Jennifer: But it's like if I'm directing something

 

 

 

742

 

00:24:36,037 --> 00:24:37,901

 

Jennifer: and he's acting on something, oftentimes

 

 

 

743

 

00:24:37,961 --> 00:24:40,476

 

Jennifer: he's the one who's like I get it.

 

 

 

744

 

00:24:40,570 --> 00:24:42,578

 

Jennifer: I know you're basically working 24 seven,

 

 

 

745

 

00:24:42,750 --> 00:24:44,856

 

Jennifer: so like he'll ask for a Friday off so he

 

 

 

746

 

00:24:44,896 --> 00:24:47,333

 

Jennifer: can fly to me, and then vice versa.

 

 

 

747

 

00:24:49,053 --> 00:24:51,538

 

Jennifer: It's like, if I'm not, if I'm in prep and

 

 

 

748

 

00:24:51,598 --> 00:24:53,683

 

Jennifer: I'm not actually on set at that moment, I

 

 

 

749

 

00:24:53,703 --> 00:24:55,053

 

Jennifer: have a little bit more time, but he's got a

 

 

 

750

 

00:24:55,073 --> 00:24:56,658

 

Jennifer: really intense role, then I'll try to fly

 

 

 

751

 

00:24:56,698 --> 00:24:56,959

 

Jennifer: to him.

 

 

 

752

 

00:24:58,170 --> 00:24:59,314

 

Jennifer: And there's also been times where we've

 

 

 

753

 

00:24:59,334 --> 00:25:01,480

 

Jennifer: just it's turned out that he's had time off

 

 

 

754

 

00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:02,674

 

Jennifer: while I was directing something and he's

 

 

 

755

 

00:25:02,694 --> 00:25:03,958

 

Jennifer: been able to come and stay with me for a

 

 

 

756

 

00:25:03,978 --> 00:25:04,279

 

Jennifer: stretch.

 

 

 

757

 

00:25:04,430 --> 00:25:07,451

 

Jennifer: So we just make the best of it and, like I

 

 

 

758

 

00:25:07,471 --> 00:25:09,557

 

Jennifer: said, it's the lucky part of both being in

 

 

 

759

 

00:25:09,577 --> 00:25:10,901

 

Jennifer: the industry is that we do at least

 

 

 

760

 

00:25:10,990 --> 00:25:12,738

 

Jennifer: understand what each other is going through.

 

 

 

761

 

00:25:13,031 --> 00:25:14,797

 

Marc: Is he down with you directing him in a

 

 

 

762

 

00:25:14,837 --> 00:25:15,259

 

Marc: project?

 

 

 

763

 

00:25:15,350 --> 00:25:16,774

 

Marc: Is that something he's kind of like?

 

 

 

764

 

00:25:17,035 --> 00:25:18,659

 

Marc: You know, I don't know about that or is he

 

 

 

765

 

00:25:18,679 --> 00:25:19,361

 

Marc: kind of cool with it?

 

 

 

766

 

00:25:19,511 --> 00:25:21,512

 

Jennifer: No, he would love that Like he's actually.

 

 

 

767

 

00:25:21,953 --> 00:25:24,720

 

Jennifer: He's yeah, he's like my husband's the best

 

 

 

768

 

00:25:24,780 --> 00:25:25,342

 

Jennifer: he really is.

 

 

 

769

 

00:25:25,850 --> 00:25:26,995

 

Jennifer: He's an incredible human being and like

 

 

 

770

 

00:25:27,377 --> 00:25:27,839

 

Jennifer: he's just.

 

 

 

771

 

00:25:27,899 --> 00:25:30,511

 

Jennifer: He's such a I mean he's an incredible human

 

 

 

772

 

00:25:30,531 --> 00:25:33,304

 

Jennifer: being and like a great talent and he's

 

 

 

773

 

00:25:33,559 --> 00:25:36,647

 

Jennifer: incredibly egoless with me when I direct

 

 

 

774

 

00:25:36,902 --> 00:25:39,436

 

Jennifer: him, which is which is incredible, because

 

 

 

775

 

00:25:39,476 --> 00:25:40,919

 

Jennifer: I think that that's a really tough thing to

 

 

 

776

 

00:25:40,959 --> 00:25:43,312

 

Jennifer: do in a partnership, but he really trusts

 

 

 

777

 

00:25:43,372 --> 00:25:47,523

 

Jennifer: me and and yeah, we've I mean, a lot of the

 

 

 

778

 

00:25:47,543 --> 00:25:49,050

 

Jennifer: directing has just been on like self tapes

 

 

 

779

 

00:25:49,130 --> 00:25:51,100

 

Jennifer: to get jobs and things like that, but it

 

 

 

780

 

00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:51,823

 

Jennifer: goes really well.

 

 

 

781

 

00:25:51,984 --> 00:25:52,708

 

Jennifer: You know like we're.

 

 

 

782

 

00:25:52,889 --> 00:25:54,516

 

Jennifer: We make a good team when it comes to that

 

 

 

783

 

00:25:54,556 --> 00:25:56,034

 

Jennifer: stuff, so it's been.

 

 

 

784

 

00:25:56,095 --> 00:25:56,536

 

Jennifer: Oh, there he is.

 

 

 

785

 

00:25:57,753 --> 00:26:00,212

 

Jennifer: I was just bragging about here, so I might.

 

 

 

786

 

00:26:00,273 --> 00:26:00,936

 

Jennifer: He just walked through.

 

 

 

787

 

00:26:01,831 --> 00:26:04,578

 

Marc: You know it's funny the well not funny.

 

 

 

788

 

00:26:04,638 --> 00:26:06,823

 

Marc: But I've talked with folks that now you had

 

 

 

789

 

00:26:06,850 --> 00:26:08,757

 

Marc: this kind of three month gap during the

 

 

 

790

 

00:26:08,797 --> 00:26:09,138

 

Marc: strike.

 

 

 

791

 

00:26:09,270 --> 00:26:10,635

 

Marc: How did you fill up your time during that?

 

 

 

792

 

00:26:11,076 --> 00:26:12,191

 

Jennifer: Oh, yeah, I mean that's.

 

 

 

793

 

00:26:12,211 --> 00:26:14,097

 

Jennifer: It's obviously a whole other thing.

 

 

 

794

 

00:26:14,117 --> 00:26:18,782

 

Jennifer: Yeah, I mean, the thing is I, a lot of it

 

 

 

795

 

00:26:18,822 --> 00:26:20,428

 

Jennifer: was just us being able to have time

 

 

 

796

 

00:26:20,448 --> 00:26:21,773

 

Jennifer: together and with our family, which is

 

 

 

797

 

00:26:21,814 --> 00:26:22,296

 

Jennifer: incredible.

 

 

 

798

 

00:26:22,991 --> 00:26:26,440

 

Jennifer: And we, we, we try to take advantage of

 

 

 

799

 

00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:27,042

 

Jennifer: things like that.

 

 

 

800

 

00:26:27,190 --> 00:26:28,674

 

Jennifer: You know, obviously we wouldn't wish the

 

 

 

801

 

00:26:28,694 --> 00:26:30,440

 

Jennifer: strike on the industry or on us or on

 

 

 

802

 

00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,217

 

Jennifer: anyone, and we really want to be back to

 

 

 

803

 

00:26:33,257 --> 00:26:36,897

 

Jennifer: work too, but but you know, we, we did try

 

 

 

804

 

00:26:36,937 --> 00:26:38,321

 

Jennifer: to take advantage of the fact that we could

 

 

 

805

 

00:26:38,341 --> 00:26:40,254

 

Jennifer: be home together, living in our house and

 

 

 

806

 

00:26:40,735 --> 00:26:43,462

 

Jennifer: and being a family and really enjoying that,

 

 

 

807

 

00:26:44,371 --> 00:26:45,694

 

Jennifer: and it was a blessing, you know.

 

 

 

808

 

00:26:45,915 --> 00:26:47,318

 

Jennifer: Yeah, exactly, exactly.

 

 

 

809

 

00:26:49,070 --> 00:26:50,715

 

Jennifer: And also, you know there's so many things

 

 

 

810

 

00:26:51,156 --> 00:26:52,320

 

Jennifer: that I have had plates, I mean so many

 

 

 

811

 

00:26:52,380 --> 00:26:54,514

 

Jennifer: plates spinning that I have as a director,

 

 

 

812

 

00:26:54,595 --> 00:26:57,742

 

Jennifer: that didn't necessarily stop during that

 

 

 

813

 

00:26:57,782 --> 00:26:59,213

 

Jennifer: time, you know, I mean we couldn't cast

 

 

 

814

 

00:26:59,253 --> 00:27:00,598

 

Jennifer: anything and it couldn't actually go into

 

 

 

815

 

00:27:00,638 --> 00:27:01,039

 

Jennifer: production.

 

 

 

816

 

00:27:01,310 --> 00:27:03,555

 

Jennifer: But you know there's, there's all sorts of

 

 

 

817

 

00:27:03,735 --> 00:27:07,082

 

Jennifer: other things that were being asked of my

 

 

 

818

 

00:27:07,143 --> 00:27:09,175

 

Jennifer: mind creatively for some of the projects

 

 

 

819

 

00:27:09,195 --> 00:27:10,640

 

Jennifer: that I'm attached to as a filmmaker.

 

 

 

820

 

00:27:10,790 --> 00:27:13,096

 

Jennifer: So so that did fill some of it.

 

 

 

821

 

00:27:13,296 --> 00:27:14,940

 

Jennifer: And you know, traveling a little bit and

 

 

 

822

 

00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:15,462

 

Jennifer: all that stuff.

 

 

 

823

 

00:27:15,830 --> 00:27:18,818

 

Marc: Well, on Dr Death, you know, like in movies

 

 

 

824

 

00:27:19,279 --> 00:27:20,991

 

Marc: it's really a director's medium and they

 

 

 

825

 

00:27:21,011 --> 00:27:22,235

 

Marc: say on TV it's a writer's medium.

 

 

 

826

 

00:27:22,255 --> 00:27:23,419

 

Marc: But you look at some of these shows and

 

 

 

827

 

00:27:23,439 --> 00:27:24,992

 

Marc: kind of the way things are done, and

 

 

 

828

 

00:27:25,012 --> 00:27:26,259

 

Marc: especially if you're directing multiple

 

 

 

829

 

00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:27,969

 

Marc: episodes, you really get to kind of put

 

 

 

830

 

00:27:27,990 --> 00:27:28,873

 

Marc: your own thumbprint on that.

 

 

 

831

 

00:27:29,790 --> 00:27:31,356

 

Marc: What was kind of your idea and kind of like

 

 

 

832

 

00:27:31,376 --> 00:27:32,118

 

Marc: how did it come to you?

 

 

 

833

 

00:27:32,270 --> 00:27:33,994

 

Marc: And also kind of how did you kind of put

 

 

 

834

 

00:27:34,014 --> 00:27:35,699

 

Marc: your own thumbprint on what this was all

 

 

 

835

 

00:27:35,739 --> 00:27:36,821

 

Marc: about this season?

 

 

 

836

 

00:27:37,250 --> 00:27:38,054

 

Jennifer: Yeah, it's a great question.

 

 

 

837

 

00:27:38,990 --> 00:27:41,719

 

Jennifer: So yeah, dr Death is an anthology series,

 

 

 

838

 

00:27:41,910 --> 00:27:44,077

 

Jennifer: so each season is a different cast and a

 

 

 

839

 

00:27:44,097 --> 00:27:45,360

 

Jennifer: different story that's being told.

 

 

 

840

 

00:27:45,550 --> 00:27:48,480

 

Jennifer: So it's exciting because, even though there

 

 

 

841

 

00:27:48,580 --> 00:27:50,868

 

Jennifer: is this kind of like heartbeat of a

 

 

 

842

 

00:27:50,908 --> 00:27:52,877

 

Jennifer: throughline of each season, is a doctor

 

 

 

843

 

00:27:52,897 --> 00:27:54,645

 

Jennifer: that has done something terrible within the

 

 

 

844

 

00:27:54,686 --> 00:27:56,232

 

Jennifer: system and kind of gotten away with it.

 

 

 

845

 

00:27:57,395 --> 00:27:58,779

 

Jennifer: Each year it really starts over.

 

 

 

846

 

00:27:59,270 --> 00:28:01,758

 

Jennifer: So the first year was about this Dr, dr

 

 

 

847

 

00:28:01,798 --> 00:28:03,676

 

Jennifer: Dunge and I actually directed episodes

 

 

 

848

 

00:28:03,716 --> 00:28:05,766

 

Jennifer: three and four of the first season when

 

 

 

849

 

00:28:05,847 --> 00:28:08,034

 

Jennifer: Patrick Big Manus was the showrunner for

 

 

 

850

 

00:28:08,054 --> 00:28:10,359

 

Jennifer: that season and worked with, you know, alec

 

 

 

851

 

00:28:10,379 --> 00:28:12,492

 

Jennifer: Baldwin, christian Slater, josh Jackson

 

 

 

852

 

00:28:12,632 --> 00:28:16,703

 

Jennifer: great cast Grace Gummer, and, and I got two

 

 

 

853

 

00:28:16,763 --> 00:28:19,489

 

Jennifer: episodes where it was sort of a really big

 

 

 

854

 

00:28:19,589 --> 00:28:21,373

 

Jennifer: visual concept for those two episodes

 

 

 

855

 

00:28:21,393 --> 00:28:23,704

 

Jennifer: because a huge section of it was like this

 

 

 

856

 

00:28:23,764 --> 00:28:25,468

 

Jennifer: fantasy sequence that needed to feel like

 

 

 

857

 

00:28:25,508 --> 00:28:29,482

 

Jennifer: it wasn't real and so I really got to Put a

 

 

 

858

 

00:28:29,542 --> 00:28:32,012

 

Jennifer: visual stamp on that because of the fantasy

 

 

 

859

 

00:28:32,072 --> 00:28:34,039

 

Jennifer: sequence of it all and and that went really

 

 

 

860

 

00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:35,988

 

Jennifer: well and I got along so well with Patrick.

 

 

 

861

 

00:28:36,049 --> 00:28:38,198

 

Jennifer: And then when season two was being

 

 

 

862

 

00:28:38,218 --> 00:28:40,105

 

Jennifer: conceived and they decided to do the Paolo

 

 

 

863

 

00:28:40,125 --> 00:28:41,831

 

Jennifer: Macchiarini story and they needed someone

 

 

 

864

 

00:28:41,871 --> 00:28:43,778

 

Jennifer: to pilot the second season and do the first

 

 

 

865

 

00:28:43,798 --> 00:28:44,400

 

Jennifer: four episodes.

 

 

 

866

 

00:28:45,622 --> 00:28:47,947

 

Jennifer: You know, I think because of how sort of

 

 

 

867

 

00:28:48,007 --> 00:28:50,372

 

Jennifer: visual those episodes were, that I ended up

 

 

 

868

 

00:28:50,512 --> 00:28:53,184

 

Jennifer: directing in the first Go around of the

 

 

 

869

 

00:28:53,245 --> 00:28:54,148

 

Jennifer: anthology series.

 

 

 

870

 

00:28:55,061 --> 00:28:56,746

 

Jennifer: They thought of me for this and I met with

 

 

 

871

 

00:28:56,806 --> 00:28:58,310

 

Jennifer: Ashley Michael Holbin, who's a showrunner

 

 

 

872

 

00:28:58,370 --> 00:29:01,211

 

Jennifer: on this one, and she was just incredible

 

 

 

873

 

00:29:01,292 --> 00:29:03,584

 

Jennifer: and we had a great collaboration and and I

 

 

 

874

 

00:29:03,604 --> 00:29:05,349

 

Jennifer: just attribute both Patrick and Ashley

 

 

 

875

 

00:29:05,389 --> 00:29:07,762

 

Jennifer: Michael as just being Just such

 

 

 

876

 

00:29:07,843 --> 00:29:09,466

 

Jennifer: collaborative partners like you were saying

 

 

 

877

 

00:29:09,487 --> 00:29:10,890

 

Jennifer: like sometimes the director is a little bit

 

 

 

878

 

00:29:10,910 --> 00:29:12,785

 

Jennifer: minimalized on television and I don't think

 

 

 

879

 

00:29:12,885 --> 00:29:14,839

 

Jennifer: either of them would ever allow that, you

 

 

 

880

 

00:29:14,859 --> 00:29:14,940

 

Jennifer: know.

 

 

 

881

 

00:29:15,060 --> 00:29:17,345

 

Jennifer: So I was really grateful to feel like a

 

 

 

882

 

00:29:17,386 --> 00:29:19,711

 

Jennifer: real partner in that situation, with in

 

 

 

883

 

00:29:19,731 --> 00:29:22,685

 

Jennifer: both situations and and Ashley and Michael

 

 

 

884

 

00:29:22,705 --> 00:29:26,362

 

Jennifer: and I were just like so close and Just in.

 

 

 

885

 

00:29:26,863 --> 00:29:29,709

 

Jennifer: We also had very similar taste and and saw

 

 

 

886

 

00:29:29,749 --> 00:29:31,112

 

Jennifer: the show in such a similar way.

 

 

 

887

 

00:29:31,172 --> 00:29:34,762

 

Jennifer: So it was a great partnership and I've

 

 

 

888

 

00:29:34,843 --> 00:29:37,748

 

Jennifer: learned over the years like it's really

 

 

 

889

 

00:29:37,809 --> 00:29:40,043

 

Jennifer: important to find that right partnership

 

 

 

890

 

00:29:40,103 --> 00:29:40,966

 

Jennifer: with your showrunners.

 

 

 

891

 

00:29:41,006 --> 00:29:42,390

 

Jennifer: You know every showrunner is different.

 

 

 

892

 

00:29:42,450 --> 00:29:44,383

 

Jennifer: Every showrunner Operates a little bit

 

 

 

893

 

00:29:44,403 --> 00:29:44,805

 

Jennifer: differently.

 

 

 

894

 

00:29:44,885 --> 00:29:47,267

 

Jennifer: Every showrunner is Differently generous in

 

 

 

895

 

00:29:47,287 --> 00:29:48,816

 

Jennifer: terms of how much they let you put your

 

 

 

896

 

00:29:48,877 --> 00:29:50,889

 

Jennifer: stamp on things, but no matter what,

 

 

 

897

 

00:29:51,190 --> 00:29:52,458

 

Jennifer: they're the ones who conceived of it in

 

 

 

898

 

00:29:52,478 --> 00:29:54,404

 

Jennifer: their brain, so I'm doing the best I can to

 

 

 

899

 

00:29:54,444 --> 00:29:56,449

 

Jennifer: kind of climb inside their heads and try to

 

 

 

900

 

00:29:56,489 --> 00:29:58,073

 

Jennifer: bring to life this thing that they've been,

 

 

 

901

 

00:29:58,701 --> 00:30:00,586

 

Jennifer: they've been working on for sometimes years,

 

 

 

902

 

00:30:00,667 --> 00:30:02,512

 

Jennifer: before I even come to the project, you know.

 

 

 

903

 

00:30:03,806 --> 00:30:07,304

 

Jennifer: And so with with the Second season of dr

 

 

 

904

 

00:30:07,365 --> 00:30:09,429

 

Jennifer: Death, you know, it was just exciting to do

 

 

 

905

 

00:30:09,449 --> 00:30:11,032

 

Jennifer: the pilot, is exciting to be a part of the

 

 

 

906

 

00:30:11,072 --> 00:30:11,934

 

Jennifer: casting process.

 

 

 

907

 

00:30:12,801 --> 00:30:15,149

 

Jennifer: It was wild because we shot all four

 

 

 

908

 

00:30:15,209 --> 00:30:17,384

 

Jennifer: episodes at once, so it was basically like

 

 

 

909

 

00:30:17,404 --> 00:30:19,470

 

Jennifer: making a four-hour movie and we had to cast,

 

 

 

910

 

00:30:19,550 --> 00:30:22,645

 

Jennifer: you know, 120 actors or something before we

 

 

 

911

 

00:30:22,705 --> 00:30:23,888

 

Jennifer: even started, because we were

 

 

 

912

 

00:30:23,908 --> 00:30:25,291

 

Jennifer: cross-boarding everything, which meant

 

 

 

913

 

00:30:25,351 --> 00:30:26,874

 

Jennifer: everybody had to be there and available.

 

 

 

914

 

00:30:28,702 --> 00:30:30,345

 

Jennifer: And it was really important to me that I

 

 

 

915

 

00:30:30,446 --> 00:30:32,389

 

Jennifer: wanted, I I wanted to still have the

 

 

 

916

 

00:30:32,429 --> 00:30:33,872

 

Jennifer: heartbeat, in essence, of what was

 

 

 

917

 

00:30:33,952 --> 00:30:35,221

 

Jennifer: established in the first season, but I

 

 

 

918

 

00:30:35,301 --> 00:30:36,927

 

Jennifer: wanted it to have its own look in its own

 

 

 

919

 

00:30:36,967 --> 00:30:39,585

 

Jennifer: vibe, and the story was so different that

 

 

 

920

 

00:30:39,605 --> 00:30:41,370

 

Jennifer: it was asking for a different energy.

 

 

 

921

 

00:30:41,450 --> 00:30:45,905

 

Jennifer: And so you know, the dog, the Palo Macchi

 

 

 

922

 

00:30:45,945 --> 00:30:48,812

 

Jennifer: Rini character, is kind of swirling people

 

 

 

923

 

00:30:49,012 --> 00:30:51,950

 

Jennifer: into Misconceptions at all times and he

 

 

 

924

 

00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:53,500

 

Jennifer: spins the truth all the time.

 

 

 

925

 

00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,605

 

Jennifer: And so there were just there were times

 

 

 

926

 

00:30:55,645 --> 00:30:58,152

 

Jennifer: where movement was really important to keep

 

 

 

927

 

00:30:58,352 --> 00:31:00,398

 

Jennifer: the audience in a place of feeling that

 

 

 

928

 

00:31:00,418 --> 00:31:01,300

 

Jennifer: kind of whirlwind of energy.

 

 

 

929

 

00:31:02,243 --> 00:31:03,708

 

Jennifer: And then there were times where, because

 

 

 

930

 

00:31:03,788 --> 00:31:06,376

 

Jennifer: that was happening, stillness really meant

 

 

 

931

 

00:31:06,457 --> 00:31:07,480

 

Jennifer: something, you know.

 

 

 

932

 

00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:09,605

 

Jennifer: So you you'll feel that there's a push and

 

 

 

933

 

00:31:09,645 --> 00:31:11,209

 

Jennifer: pull between movement and stillness in the

 

 

 

934

 

00:31:11,249 --> 00:31:13,013

 

Jennifer: show and that was very much in the design.

 

 

 

935

 

00:31:13,681 --> 00:31:15,245

 

Marc: Are you naturally a person who likes to

 

 

 

936

 

00:31:15,326 --> 00:31:17,070

 

Marc: prepare a lot, because that's what seems

 

 

 

937

 

00:31:17,090 --> 00:31:20,144

 

Marc: like TV and I don't know if I could ever

 

 

 

938

 

00:31:20,204 --> 00:31:22,630

 

Marc: direct, because I'm so like sometimes if I

 

 

 

939

 

00:31:22,670 --> 00:31:24,281

 

Marc: go to a restaurant with a big menu I'm like

 

 

 

940

 

00:31:24,321 --> 00:31:26,128

 

Marc: a pain in the ass, I mean, like I'm, I

 

 

 

941

 

00:31:26,168 --> 00:31:27,734

 

Marc: can't make my mind, and being a director,

 

 

 

942

 

00:31:27,794 --> 00:31:29,240

 

Marc: it's all about the choices, you know.

 

 

 

943

 

00:31:30,083 --> 00:31:31,529

 

Marc: So are you naturally somebody who just kind

 

 

 

944

 

00:31:31,569 --> 00:31:34,040

 

Marc: of really prepare is a lot, so you walk in,

 

 

 

945

 

00:31:34,060 --> 00:31:35,988

 

Marc: that it's, you're ready to go day off.

 

 

 

946

 

00:31:36,149 --> 00:31:37,314

 

Jennifer: Yeah, I mean here's.

 

 

 

947

 

00:31:37,334 --> 00:31:39,101

 

Jennifer: The thing is like I am a big prepper, but

 

 

 

948

 

00:31:39,322 --> 00:31:41,108

 

Jennifer: that preparation is so that I can be

 

 

 

949

 

00:31:41,168 --> 00:31:41,609

 

Jennifer: flexible.

 

 

 

950

 

00:31:42,111 --> 00:31:43,696

 

Jennifer: You know it's like I always look at the

 

 

 

951

 

00:31:43,736 --> 00:31:44,940

 

Jennifer: preparation as the safety net.

 

 

 

952

 

00:31:45,121 --> 00:31:46,732

 

Jennifer: You know it's like there's always, there's

 

 

 

953

 

00:31:46,772 --> 00:31:47,819

 

Jennifer: always something you don't expect on the

 

 

 

954

 

00:31:47,860 --> 00:31:47,920

 

Jennifer: day.

 

 

 

955

 

00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,104

 

Jennifer: There's always a crisis that you don't

 

 

 

956

 

00:31:49,144 --> 00:31:50,287

 

Jennifer: expect on the day that you're gonna have to

 

 

 

957

 

00:31:50,307 --> 00:31:54,361

 

Jennifer: pivot and solve, and you can't be so Stuck

 

 

 

958

 

00:31:54,401 --> 00:31:56,286

 

Jennifer: in your prep that you can't let go of it to

 

 

 

959

 

00:31:56,426 --> 00:31:57,589

 

Jennifer: adjust to the circumstances.

 

 

 

960

 

00:31:57,669 --> 00:31:59,012

 

Jennifer: But also there's oh there's gonna be a

 

 

 

961

 

00:31:59,072 --> 00:32:00,545

 

Jennifer: moment of Inspiration that you may not have

 

 

 

962

 

00:32:00,565 --> 00:32:01,047

 

Jennifer: seen coming.

 

 

 

963

 

00:32:01,401 --> 00:32:02,865

 

Jennifer: But as long as you have that preparation

 

 

 

964

 

00:32:02,905 --> 00:32:05,392

 

Jennifer: and you know you have a plan that can work

 

 

 

965

 

00:32:06,322 --> 00:32:08,089

 

Jennifer: If you so choose to go with it.

 

 

 

966

 

00:32:08,903 --> 00:32:11,196

 

Jennifer: It gives you an efficiency to the way that

 

 

 

967

 

00:32:11,236 --> 00:32:12,642

 

Jennifer: you move through your day and I think that

 

 

 

968

 

00:32:12,662 --> 00:32:15,149

 

Jennifer: that's the greatest gift a director can

 

 

 

969

 

00:32:15,189 --> 00:32:17,114

 

Jennifer: give themselves is efficiency, because that

 

 

 

970

 

00:32:17,154 --> 00:32:19,662

 

Jennifer: means you have time for that shot, that's a

 

 

 

971

 

00:32:19,722 --> 00:32:21,552

 

Jennifer: new inspiration, or you have time to have

 

 

 

972

 

00:32:21,593 --> 00:32:22,920

 

Jennifer: that extra take with the actor.

 

 

 

973

 

00:32:23,624 --> 00:32:26,943

 

Jennifer: So I really do believe in prep, but I also

 

 

 

974

 

00:32:27,204 --> 00:32:28,829

 

Jennifer: it's it's very similar to how I think as an

 

 

 

975

 

00:32:28,909 --> 00:32:30,088

 

Jennifer: actor, which is you prep, you prep, you,

 

 

 

976

 

00:32:30,128 --> 00:32:31,358

 

Jennifer: prep, you prep, and as soon as you're there

 

 

 

977

 

00:32:31,378 --> 00:32:32,605

 

Jennifer: on the day You've got to let it all go and

 

 

 

978

 

00:32:32,646 --> 00:32:35,622

 

Jennifer: just be, and it's a similar thing, I think,

 

 

 

979

 

00:32:35,662 --> 00:32:37,353

 

Jennifer: is a filmmaker, which is like you prep, you

 

 

 

980

 

00:32:37,373 --> 00:32:38,683

 

Jennifer: prep, you prep, you're prepared, you're

 

 

 

981

 

00:32:38,703 --> 00:32:40,342

 

Jennifer: ready to go, you have that safety net, but

 

 

 

982

 

00:32:40,382 --> 00:32:42,512

 

Jennifer: you also have to let go and just be and let

 

 

 

983

 

00:32:42,653 --> 00:32:44,040

 

Jennifer: let inspiration in the moment come.

 

 

 

984

 

00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,625

 

Jennifer: There's got to be a balance between

 

 

 

985

 

00:32:45,665 --> 00:32:47,010

 

Jennifer: preparation and inspiration.

 

 

 

986

 

00:32:47,482 --> 00:32:49,733

 

Marc: What is the next thing on your agenda?

 

 

 

987

 

00:32:49,773 --> 00:32:51,040

 

Marc: Is it gonna be a directing project?

 

 

 

988

 

00:32:51,181 --> 00:32:52,186

 

Marc: It's gonna be on camera.

 

 

 

989

 

00:32:52,246 --> 00:32:54,197

 

Marc: Do you already have something lined up that

 

 

 

990

 

00:32:54,217 --> 00:32:54,760

 

Marc: you're wanting to do?

 

 

 

991

 

00:32:55,201 --> 00:32:57,428

 

Jennifer: You know, I don't know, because I

 

 

 

992

 

00:32:57,528 --> 00:33:00,845

 

Jennifer: originally was Asked to be the producing

 

 

 

993

 

00:33:00,885 --> 00:33:02,669

 

Jennifer: director for grease rise of the pink ladies

 

 

 

994

 

00:33:02,710 --> 00:33:05,567

 

Jennifer: for the second season and then, with all of

 

 

 

995

 

00:33:05,627 --> 00:33:07,032

 

Jennifer: the stuff that happened with the strike and

 

 

 

996

 

00:33:07,052 --> 00:33:08,316

 

Jennifer: all the complexities of all that stuff,

 

 

 

997

 

00:33:08,336 --> 00:33:09,540

 

Jennifer: that show ended up getting cancelled.

 

 

 

998

 

00:33:09,741 --> 00:33:11,971

 

Jennifer: So the job I had lined up is no longer

 

 

 

999

 

00:33:12,031 --> 00:33:12,292

 

Jennifer: there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:12,453 --> 00:33:14,100

 

Jennifer: So I'm right now.

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:14,381 --> 00:33:16,386

 

Jennifer: I mean I have, I'm attached to a Netflix

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:16,406 --> 00:33:18,011

 

Jennifer: movie that just isn't greenlit yet to

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:18,051 --> 00:33:21,684

 

Jennifer: direct, and I have two projects that I'm

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:21,704 --> 00:33:24,947

 

Jennifer: about to take to Marcet as a director and

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:25,901 --> 00:33:27,646

 

Jennifer: and I'm writing a script that I'm hoping to

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:27,666 --> 00:33:29,610

 

Jennifer: direct as well, that has producers already

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:29,691 --> 00:33:32,145

 

Jennifer: on board and and Financing and all that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:32,206 --> 00:33:34,016

 

Jennifer: So I have all these things that are sort of

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:34,077 --> 00:33:35,585

 

Jennifer: percolating, but I don't have, like, the

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:35,625 --> 00:33:37,837

 

Jennifer: next doctor death job that I can say for

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:37,857 --> 00:33:38,460

 

Jennifer: sure is coming.

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,827

 

Jennifer: So it's just a matter of like which thing

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:41,028 --> 00:33:44,303

 

Jennifer: actually falls into place, hopefully early

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:44,364 --> 00:33:44,766

 

Jennifer: next year.

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:44,966 --> 00:33:45,770

 

Marc: Maybe a vacation?

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:45,870 --> 00:33:47,538

 

Marc: Maybe I'm hearing all the stuff you're

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:47,558 --> 00:33:48,000

 

Marc: doing going gosh.

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:48,181 --> 00:33:49,427

 

Marc: I knew need to be more efficient with my

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:49,467 --> 00:33:49,829

 

Marc: time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:50,855 --> 00:33:51,860

 

Jennifer: I did just have a strike.

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,121

 

Jennifer: I had, I had, plenty of vacation on this

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:54,181 --> 00:33:56,902

 

Jennifer: strike, so I'm, I'm, I'm ready, I'm ready

 

 


Speaker:

00:33:56,942 --> 00:33:57,963

 

Jennifer: to work in January.

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:06,050 --> 00:34:07,594

 

Marc: Well, as we kind of wrap up here, I do a

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:07,614 --> 00:34:09,278

 

Marc: little something I call my seven questions,

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:09,585 --> 00:34:10,648

 

Marc: kind of my favorite, one of my favorite

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:10,668 --> 00:34:12,533

 

Marc: parts of the little shindig I do every week,

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:13,625 --> 00:34:14,749

 

Marc: just kind of a little extra get to know you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:15,785 --> 00:34:17,231

 

Marc: One of the questions I like to always ask

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:17,291 --> 00:34:17,833

 

Marc: is I'm a big food.

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:17,925 --> 00:34:19,673

 

Marc: I kind of started off with the Giordano's

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:19,713 --> 00:34:22,285

 

Marc: little malnadi's question but what is your

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:22,506 --> 00:34:24,312

 

Marc: favorite comfort food?

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:25,306 --> 00:34:27,689

 

Jennifer: I love pasta, like I love like a great

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:27,729 --> 00:34:29,254

 

Jennifer: bolognese, and I'm not picky.

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:29,506 --> 00:34:31,666

 

Jennifer: It could be probably from anywhere I'm fine

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:31,706 --> 00:34:33,511

 

Jennifer: with, like you know, like one of our

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:33,692 --> 00:34:35,597

 

Jennifer: favorite restaurants in New York is Rosdora,

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:35,705 --> 00:34:38,092

 

Jennifer: which is like this extraordinary Michelin

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:38,132 --> 00:34:39,716

 

Jennifer: star Italian restaurant.

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:39,825 --> 00:34:41,554

 

Jennifer: So, like, you can take me there and give me,

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:41,795 --> 00:34:43,825

 

Jennifer: you know, a ragu, or you could also take me

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:43,905 --> 00:34:46,131

 

Jennifer: to Olive Garden and I'm either way, you

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:46,171 --> 00:34:48,136

 

Jennifer: give me pasta and it's, it's my comfort.

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:48,425 --> 00:34:50,312

 

Marc: You know, sometimes you just need is to big

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:50,376 --> 00:34:52,502

 

Marc: bowl of pasta, some just average wine and

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:52,545 --> 00:34:54,031

 

Marc: just you know, olive Garden sometimes

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:54,051 --> 00:34:55,397

 

Marc: satisfies that, you know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:55,558 --> 00:34:58,108

 

Marc: But if you just need to carb overload, you

 

 


Speaker:

00:34:58,148 --> 00:34:59,472

 

Marc: know it's scoos as a soul.

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:00,565 --> 00:35:01,812

 

Marc: Now the next question I got is if you're

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:01,832 --> 00:35:04,144

 

Marc: going to sit down, you got like a few hours

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:04,184 --> 00:35:06,472

 

Marc: to sit down with three people to sit down

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:06,512 --> 00:35:07,074

 

Marc: talk story.

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:07,185 --> 00:35:09,270

 

Marc: Who would those three people be at the

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:09,331 --> 00:35:10,514

 

Marc: table, with you living or not?

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:10,634 --> 00:35:12,890

 

Marc: Actually, who would you like to sit down?

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:12,910 --> 00:35:13,492

 

Jennifer: with.

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:13,605 --> 00:35:14,775

 

Jennifer: I think one of the people I would love to

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:14,816 --> 00:35:15,845

 

Jennifer: sit down with is Greta Gerwig.

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:15,925 --> 00:35:19,593

 

Jennifer: I think she's so brilliant and just so has

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:19,633 --> 00:35:20,976

 

Jennifer: her finger on the pulse of really

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:21,037 --> 00:35:22,969

 

Jennifer: interesting, unique work right now as a

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:23,009 --> 00:35:23,470

 

Jennifer: filmmaker.

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:25,445 --> 00:35:28,369

 

Jennifer: So I'd say Greta Gerwig for sure, and like

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:28,409 --> 00:35:31,539

 

Jennifer: maybe Lois Weber, she was like so she's not

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:31,580 --> 00:35:33,847

 

Jennifer: alive, but she was in the early days, was

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:34,369 --> 00:35:35,914

 

Jennifer: writing, directing, producing all her own

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:35,974 --> 00:35:36,275

 

Jennifer: stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:36,425 --> 00:35:37,628

 

Jennifer: She was the first woman to start her own

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:37,688 --> 00:35:41,036

 

Jennifer: studio, really just like a pioneer in the

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:41,076 --> 00:35:43,792

 

Jennifer: industry and was just like a force as a

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:43,872 --> 00:35:46,430

 

Jennifer: filmmaker and I think had she been a male

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:46,490 --> 00:35:48,053

 

Jennifer: who did what she did, we'd all be talking

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:48,073 --> 00:35:48,795

 

Jennifer: about her differently.

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:50,226 --> 00:35:52,681

 

Jennifer: But like she was just a really, really

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:52,741 --> 00:35:55,430

 

Jennifer: fascinating it was kind of like a Lucille

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:55,450 --> 00:35:56,052

 

Jennifer: Ball sort of.

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:56,192 --> 00:35:57,957

 

Jennifer: Yes, yeah, very much so.

 

 


Speaker:

00:35:58,465 --> 00:36:00,048

 

Marc: Now, who would the third person be?

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:00,529 --> 00:36:01,771

 

Marc: Maybe Martin Scorsese, you know?

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:01,931 --> 00:36:02,552

 

Jennifer: Oh sorry, three.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:02,673 --> 00:36:04,275

 

Jennifer: You said three, I was thinking I was yeah

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:04,295 --> 00:36:04,376

 

Jennifer: yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:04,776 --> 00:36:05,898

 

Jennifer: Yeah, scorsese, I'll take.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:05,918 --> 00:36:07,769

 

Jennifer: Yeah, exactly, I would say Scorsese Greta

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:07,789 --> 00:36:08,713

 

Jennifer: Gerwig and Lois Weber.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:08,825 --> 00:36:10,311

 

Jennifer: Those that'll be a great conversation.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:10,967 --> 00:36:12,493

 

Marc: It would be quite educational, without a

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:12,553 --> 00:36:12,693

 

Marc: doubt.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:12,805 --> 00:36:14,333

 

Marc: Now I do want to go to the third question,

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:14,353 --> 00:36:16,505

 

Marc: which is when you were a kid, who was your

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:16,625 --> 00:36:19,266

 

Marc: first celebrity crush, first person that,

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:19,286 --> 00:36:21,271

 

Marc: just like just captivated you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:24,145 --> 00:36:24,847

 

Jennifer: It was.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:24,867 --> 00:36:27,275

 

Jennifer: There was that movie, the ladybug movie.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:27,345 --> 00:36:28,488

 

Jennifer: It was like a soccer movie.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:31,385 --> 00:36:34,565

 

Jennifer: I think Cura Knightley was maybe in it and

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:34,585 --> 00:36:36,112

 

Jennifer: I think his name was Jonathan Brandis.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:36,205 --> 00:36:37,870

 

Jennifer: I don't think he's actually alive anymore,

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:38,111 --> 00:36:38,492

 

Jennifer: sadly.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:38,592 --> 00:36:43,734

 

Jennifer: But like blonde hair cute kid like I just

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:43,754 --> 00:36:45,367

 

Jennifer: remember having a crush on him His birthday

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:45,387 --> 00:36:46,551

 

Jennifer: was the day after mine.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:47,185 --> 00:36:48,950

 

Jennifer: His birthday was April 13th, and I somehow

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:48,990 --> 00:36:51,156

 

Jennifer: thought that meant, like you know, it was

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:51,217 --> 00:36:51,959

 

Jennifer: fate for sure.

 

 


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00:36:52,260 --> 00:36:53,704

 

Marc: Yeah, and I was like, oh, did we share a

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:53,764 --> 00:36:54,065

 

Marc: birthday?

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:54,386 --> 00:36:56,175

 

Marc: I'm, you know, it's always funny like the

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:56,879 --> 00:36:58,044

 

Marc: people you share birthdays with somehow,

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:58,064 --> 00:36:59,590

 

Marc: like you should all get a convention going

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:59,650 --> 00:37:01,727

 

Marc: with each other If you were to live on.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:01,747 --> 00:37:04,353

 

Marc: The next question if you're live on an

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:04,414 --> 00:37:06,809

 

Marc: exotic island, it's not like a you know

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:06,829 --> 00:37:07,371

 

Marc: some castaway.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:07,565 --> 00:37:09,118

 

Marc: It's maybe a nice resort or whatever, but

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:09,138 --> 00:37:11,070

 

Marc: there's no streaming, there's no internet.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:11,585 --> 00:37:14,072

 

Marc: You have to bring a DVD of a movie and a CD

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:14,674 --> 00:37:16,118

 

Marc: of your favorite album or something to

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:16,138 --> 00:37:17,631

 

Marc: listen to over and over and watch over.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:17,745 --> 00:37:18,989

 

Marc: So what would that DVD and what would that

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:19,030 --> 00:37:20,033

 

Marc: CD be for you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:20,425 --> 00:37:22,071

 

Jennifer: I think the DVD would probably be the

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:22,091 --> 00:37:22,553

 

Jennifer: graduate.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:22,765 --> 00:37:24,370

 

Jennifer: I feel like I go back to that movie a lot

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:24,411 --> 00:37:25,454

 

Jennifer: for a lot of different reasons.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:25,665 --> 00:37:28,286

 

Jennifer: I really liked that film, yeah, and I feel

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:28,367 --> 00:37:30,276

 

Jennifer: I love the way that it's, I love the

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:30,297 --> 00:37:31,925

 

Jennifer: craftsmanship of it, but I also love the

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:32,045 --> 00:37:37,400

 

Jennifer: story and I love the characters and, yeah,

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:37,541 --> 00:37:38,885

 

Jennifer: I feel like there's just always, I feel

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:38,905 --> 00:37:40,368

 

Jennifer: like every time I watch that something new

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:40,409 --> 00:37:42,614

 

Jennifer: presents itself to me and I really, I

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:42,654 --> 00:37:43,276

 

Jennifer: really enjoy that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:44,246 --> 00:37:46,033

 

Jennifer: And in terms of a CD, I would take Beck's

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:46,073 --> 00:37:49,004

 

Jennifer: Morning Face, which is just a beautiful

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:49,124 --> 00:37:49,325

 

Jennifer: album.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:49,425 --> 00:37:50,267

 

Jennifer: That, I feel like, is.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:52,332 --> 00:37:54,016

 

Jennifer: I feel like a lot of albums now are not

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:54,056 --> 00:37:55,847

 

Jennifer: like complete, they're not like start to

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:55,867 --> 00:37:57,390

 

Jennifer: finish, where you need to hear the whole

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:57,430 --> 00:37:59,696

 

Jennifer: thing together to feel its experience.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:59,816 --> 00:38:01,207

 

Jennifer: Right right and that's.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:01,488 --> 00:38:03,036

 

Jennifer: That's one of the few albums, I think in

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:03,056 --> 00:38:04,744

 

Jennifer: the last, you know, 10 years.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:04,764 --> 00:38:06,649

 

Jennifer: That is like very much like an album.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:07,450 --> 00:38:09,254

 

Jennifer: That is a complete thought, you know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:09,435 --> 00:38:10,456

 

Marc: Yeah, yeah, that's a really good point.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:10,496 --> 00:38:12,099

 

Marc: After spending some time in radio, you know,

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:12,139 --> 00:38:13,688

 

Marc: last time was my heyday and radio was like

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:13,708 --> 00:38:17,456

 

Marc: the nineties, but music radio that is.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:18,105 --> 00:38:19,716

 

Marc: And the thing is it seems like they would

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:19,765 --> 00:38:21,248

 

Marc: always put out an album with only really

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:21,296 --> 00:38:23,354

 

Marc: two songs that were that great and then the

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:23,426 --> 00:38:25,149

 

Marc: rest was kind of fluff and they just were

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:25,221 --> 00:38:26,465

 

Marc: wanting to move CDs.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:26,485 --> 00:38:27,851

 

Marc: You know the record industry, you know, but

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:28,112 --> 00:38:29,107

 

Marc: you're right, the ones that kind of have

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:29,127 --> 00:38:31,974

 

Marc: this whole arc of a story really kind of

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:31,994 --> 00:38:32,556

 

Marc: make it special.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:32,985 --> 00:38:35,052

 

Marc: If you were in a question five here, if you

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:35,072 --> 00:38:38,204

 

Marc: were to say perfect day, how would you

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:38,224 --> 00:38:38,826

 

Marc: define that?

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:38,846 --> 00:38:40,332

 

Marc: From time you get up to time you go to bed,

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:40,465 --> 00:38:41,850

 

Marc: what would be the component parts of a

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:41,890 --> 00:38:42,693

 

Marc: perfect day for you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:43,026 --> 00:38:44,951

 

Jennifer: I think, a little bit of balance, you know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:45,011 --> 00:38:46,756

 

Jennifer: I think if I, you know, you get up, you

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:46,776 --> 00:38:49,030

 

Jennifer: have your coffee, have a quiet morning

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:49,050 --> 00:38:51,516

 

Jennifer: where you're not rushed, be able to go to

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:51,536 --> 00:38:53,451

 

Jennifer: the gym, work out, maybe go for a hike or

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:53,491 --> 00:38:55,611

 

Jennifer: something If you don't want to go to the

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:55,631 --> 00:38:58,903

 

Jennifer: gym, spend time with my husband and family

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:58,963 --> 00:39:01,691

 

Jennifer: in there, maybe have lunch with everybody

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:02,112 --> 00:39:03,456

 

Jennifer: and then spend some time on set.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:03,725 --> 00:39:04,908

 

Jennifer: You know, it's like if you could, if you

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:04,928 --> 00:39:06,613

 

Jennifer: would be on set for maybe four hours a day,

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:08,185 --> 00:39:10,152

 

Jennifer: you know, and then, like you know, have a

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:10,192 --> 00:39:13,904

 

Jennifer: nice dinner at a nice restaurant, watch

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:13,964 --> 00:39:16,051

 

Jennifer: maybe a great episode of Welcome to Rexham

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:16,091 --> 00:39:18,018

 

Jennifer: or something, and go to bed at 10,.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:18,299 --> 00:39:21,128

 

Jennifer: You know I'm a person of simple pleasures,

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:21,249 --> 00:39:21,570

 

Jennifer: clearly.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:22,385 --> 00:39:24,072

 

Marc: That's a very aspirational go to bed at 10.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:24,606 --> 00:39:25,970

 

Marc: I don't know the last time I actually did

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:25,990 --> 00:39:28,689

 

Marc: that, but that would be wonderful.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:29,285 --> 00:39:30,448

 

Marc: Now, last couple of questions.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:30,568 --> 00:39:32,373

 

Marc: If you weren't doing what you were doing

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:32,413 --> 00:39:35,368

 

Marc: right now, what you know, if you're in some

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:35,448 --> 00:39:36,431

 

Marc: cosmic universe?

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:36,451 --> 00:39:38,335

 

Marc: You were not able to do this, what would be

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:38,876 --> 00:39:39,558

 

Marc: your second choice?

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:39,825 --> 00:39:41,570

 

Marc: What would you be doing for a living and

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:41,651 --> 00:39:42,854

 

Marc: how would you be occupying your day?

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:43,325 --> 00:39:44,991

 

Jennifer: I think I would be an interior designer.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:46,605 --> 00:39:49,246

 

Jennifer: I'm pretty sure I really love it, like I've

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:49,286 --> 00:39:51,512

 

Jennifer: decorated so many homes and apartments over

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:51,552 --> 00:39:57,106

 

Jennifer: the years and I you know my love of that

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:57,146 --> 00:39:58,891

 

Jennifer: kind of overflows into like working with

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:58,911 --> 00:40:00,115

 

Jennifer: production designers and stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:00,265 --> 00:40:02,369

 

Jennifer: So I think if I had to not be in the

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:02,409 --> 00:40:05,816

 

Jennifer: industry, I think I would definitely go to

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:06,076 --> 00:40:07,479

 

Jennifer: school for interior design.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:07,966 --> 00:40:08,788

 

Marc: Well, they're going.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:08,848 --> 00:40:10,171

 

Marc: Instead of actors, it would be sofas.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:10,392 --> 00:40:11,134

 

Jennifer: Right, exactly.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:12,465 --> 00:40:13,427

 

Marc: So, josh, if you were to jump in your

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:13,468 --> 00:40:17,377

 

Marc: DeLorean and travel back in time to the to

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:17,397 --> 00:40:19,670

 

Marc: when you were 16, you had a piece of advice

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:22,617

 

Marc: or a bit of guidance or something to 16

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:22,657 --> 00:40:24,308

 

Marc: year old you to make your in that moment,

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:24,348 --> 00:40:26,193

 

Marc: make your life better or set you on a

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:26,413 --> 00:40:27,216

 

Marc: different path.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:27,905 --> 00:40:28,939

 

Marc: What would that piece of advice be?

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:29,787 --> 00:40:30,912

 

Jennifer: I would just say have more fun.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:31,165 --> 00:40:33,066

 

Jennifer: I was a really serious kid Like I was.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:33,548 --> 00:40:34,992

 

Jennifer: I was always kind of serious and worried

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:35,012 --> 00:40:36,706

 

Jennifer: about everything adding up and I think I

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:36,726 --> 00:40:38,511

 

Jennifer: would have just told myself to give myself

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:38,551 --> 00:40:39,253

 

Jennifer: a little bit of a break.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:40,336 --> 00:40:41,871

 

Jennifer: But I wouldn't want to change my trajectory,

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:42,065 --> 00:40:42,185

 

Jennifer: like.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:42,206 --> 00:40:44,094

 

Jennifer: I definitely feel very grateful for the

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:44,134 --> 00:40:46,485

 

Jennifer: life that I have and I do love my life, but

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:46,906 --> 00:40:48,690

 

Jennifer: I do think I could have relaxed a little

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:48,710 --> 00:40:49,512

 

Jennifer: bit, a little bit younger.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:49,733 --> 00:40:50,555

 

Marc: Fantastic, Fantastic.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:51,705 --> 00:40:52,893

 

Marc: Well, I really appreciate you taking time

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:52,933 --> 00:40:54,685

 

Marc: out with me and you know it's being it's

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:54,765 --> 00:40:56,287

 

Marc: Friday, you know you're kind of looking at

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:56,307 --> 00:40:56,647

 

Marc: the weekend.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:56,725 --> 00:40:58,088

 

Marc: I appreciate you taking time out.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:58,248 --> 00:40:59,230

 

Marc: Of course, See you next week.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:59,250 --> 00:41:00,454

 

Marc: You do a podcast as well.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:00,695 --> 00:41:04,161

 

Jennifer: I do, yeah, so I have a book club through

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:04,181 --> 00:41:05,747

 

Jennifer: my production company, apartment 3C, and

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:05,767 --> 00:41:08,612

 

Jennifer: it's called Jen's Bookshelf and the podcast

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:08,652 --> 00:41:10,017

 

Jennifer: is called the Bookshelf with Jennifer

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:10,037 --> 00:41:13,415

 

Jennifer: Morrison and I pick 10 books a year and we

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:13,435 --> 00:41:16,120

 

Jennifer: highlight them and I post quotes from the

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:16,141 --> 00:41:19,852

 

Jennifer: book and I interview the authors and so the

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:19,892 --> 00:41:21,556

 

Jennifer: podcast is my interviews with the authors

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:21,596 --> 00:41:23,611

 

Jennifer: about their craftsmanship and about their

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:23,631 --> 00:41:26,161

 

Jennifer: approach and what their creative process is

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:26,341 --> 00:41:28,550

 

Jennifer: and where their ideas came from and the

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:28,650 --> 00:41:30,134

 

Jennifer: process of getting the book published and

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:30,695

 

Jennifer: all that stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:31,176 --> 00:41:31,718

 

Marc: You're a reader.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:31,758 --> 00:41:32,780

 

Marc: Very good, I need to do more of that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:33,830 --> 00:41:34,633

 

Marc: I listen to audiobooks, because regular

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:34,653 --> 00:41:36,199

 

Marc: books just put me to sleep, you know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:36,410 --> 00:41:37,635

 

Marc: So I got to do the audiobook thing while

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:37,675 --> 00:41:38,197

 

Marc: I'm driving.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:39,311 --> 00:41:42,057

 

Marc: But again, I do appreciate your time and

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:42,177 --> 00:41:44,582

 

Marc: have a wonderful, hopefully relaxing,

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:44,622 --> 00:41:45,083

 

Marc: weekend.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:45,510 --> 00:41:46,833

 

Marc: Hopefully we'll have a chance to catch up

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:46,873 --> 00:41:47,334

 

Marc: down the line.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:47,414 --> 00:41:48,316

 

Jennifer: Thanks so much, Marc.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:48,376 --> 00:41:49,599

 

Jennifer: Thank you, have a great weekend.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:49,940 --> 00:41:50,481

 

Jennifer: Bye.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:52,975 --> 00:41:54,712

 

Marc: All right, there you go, jennifer Morrison.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:55,034 --> 00:41:56,779

 

Marc: Enjoy this chat quite a bit.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:57,030 --> 00:41:58,497

 

Marc: I told you it was going to be kind of one

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:58,517 --> 00:42:01,210

 

Marc: of those crafty episodes talking about how

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:01,390 --> 00:42:04,370

 

Marc: the sausage gets made, as it were Insta

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:04,390 --> 00:42:04,812

 

Marc: sausage.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:04,872 --> 00:42:07,591

 

Marc: It's television, of course, but it was a

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:07,652 --> 00:42:07,913

 

Marc: blast.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:07,953 --> 00:42:09,434

 

Marc: Speaking with her, I mean she's been acting

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:09,474 --> 00:42:11,464

 

Marc: since she was 13, so it's you know she's

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:11,504 --> 00:42:13,333

 

Marc: had a good majority of her life in this

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:13,373 --> 00:42:13,755

 

Marc: industry.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:14,410 --> 00:42:16,115

 

Marc: Don't forget to check out Jennifer's latest

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:16,175 --> 00:42:18,521

 

Marc: work directed a number of episodes Doctor

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:18,791 --> 00:42:21,680

 

Marc: Death Streaming right now on Peacock.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:21,850 --> 00:42:24,259

 

Marc: The new season, season two, just kicked off.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:24,611 --> 00:42:26,217

 

Marc: Again, I want to thank you for stopping by.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:26,370 --> 00:42:27,996

 

Marc: It means a lot to me that you pop in each

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:28,056 --> 00:42:30,393

 

Marc: week and if this is your first episode,

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:30,433 --> 00:42:32,439

 

Marc: again, hey, thanks for sticking with me and

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:33,321

 

Marc: hanging out.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:33,410 --> 00:42:35,036

 

Marc: And you know great episodes to come.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:36,350 --> 00:42:37,575

 

Marc: It's still a little bit up in the air.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:38,410 --> 00:42:40,036

 

Marc: Maybe not an episode next week, we don't

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:40,076 --> 00:42:40,257

 

Marc: know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:40,830 --> 00:42:43,313

 

Marc: We're planning on it, making a big move

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:43,373 --> 00:42:45,661

 

Marc: down to the South Texas coast, going to be

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:46,063 --> 00:42:49,355

 

Marc: planting our studios on South Padre Island

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:49,395 --> 00:42:49,857

 

Marc: in Texas.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:50,190 --> 00:42:51,534

 

Marc: That's where all this fun is going to

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:51,595 --> 00:42:54,373

 

Marc: emanate from going forward, so trying to

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:54,413 --> 00:42:55,878

 

Marc: live that Jimmy Buffett lifestyle.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:56,210 --> 00:42:57,610

 

Marc: By the way, much love to Jimmy Buffett.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:57,670 --> 00:42:58,796

 

Marc: I don't know if I ever sent out a little

 

 


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Jennifer Morrison

Actor / Director / Producer

Jennifer Morrison is a multi-talented force whose dynamic work can be seen both in front of and behind the camera. In front of the camera, Morrison most recently co-starred on NBC’s widely acclaimed show “This Is Us” as Cassidy Sharp in an arc that carried over three seasons. She played the American Marine veteran who was battling an addiction while struggling to return to a normal civilian life. Morrison’s role was pivotal on the show as her character created a link in the broken Pearson family. Aside from acting, she has successfully shifted to directing as well as producing through her company, Apartment 3C Productions. Morrison’s next directing project will be for Peacock’s second season of their hit true-crime series “Dr. Death.” Morrison directed and executive produced the first four episodes of season two, set to premiere on December 21, 2023.

Morrison has been a primetime television fixture for more than a decade. Her first big break came in the leading role of Dr. Allison Cameron on the Emmy Award winning medical drama, “House.” For six seasons, Morrison played an immunologist alongside Hugh Laurie, whose idealism and sincerity often brought her into conflict with her cynical boss, including unresolved romantic feelings for him. Most notably, Morrison was later cast as the beloved Emma Swan in ABC’s fan favorite “Once Upon A Time.” Over seven seasons, Morrison portrayed the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, who audiences learn is the only person with the ability to break the curse cast over a fictional Maine town, comprised of fairy tale chara… Read More