Alex Ross Perry

They kind of hit the same stride around the same time.

Something I always loved about Peter Weir, younger, watching these movies, is what you just said.

Man, he really just has these awesome men at the center every time.

And they're just doing some of their best work consistently.

Yeah.

Ben, just pin that I tried to steer the conversation back to Peter Weir, and David immediately brought it back to this trivia factoid that we're all tired of hearing at the end of Oscar season.

I very deftly tried to turn this Sean Penn pitch.

Well, Penn came up.

I brought it back and David, who likes things to keep going in a tangential direction, was like, hang on, we'll talk about Peter Weir in a second.

Walter Brennan, who never worked with Peter Weir.

But at some point in that year, both Emily Yoshida and I conferred that you guys had gotten too big for...

Okay, so... In favor of heavies and famos.

Excuse me.

I mean, not to... No, no, no.

There's a bigger thing here.

Okay.

Bigger thing is you were chasing clout and fame.

I invited David to it because I was simultaneously getting an endless flurry of texts from this group text and David the day the first One Battle After Another trailer came out.

And I was like, David, would

I just don't have much else to do.