Andrew Callaghan

But yeah, I mean, to be fair, I am proud of the HBO project.

I didn't want people to come away from Dear Kelly thinking, oh my God, this guy hated his directorial debut.

Yeah.

And to clarify that, that those orders weren't coming from HBO, they were coming from Absolutely, which was Tim and Eric's production company.

Yeah, I mean, it generally is, but it's sort of like the 10,000 hours thing when it comes to those kinds of events, sort of practice makes perfect. Probably it was hard to keep my composure when I started my career, like around 2018. But after you go to, you know, 50 right-wing conspiracy rallies in a row, you might as well just be going to like IHOP or something. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it generally is, but it's sort of like the 10,000 hours thing when it comes to those kinds of events, sort of practice makes perfect. Probably it was hard to keep my composure when I started my career, like around 2018. But after you go to, you know, 50 right-wing conspiracy rallies in a row, you might as well just be going to like IHOP or something. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it generally is, but it's sort of like the 10,000 hours thing when it comes to those kinds of events, sort of practice makes perfect. Probably it was hard to keep my composure when I started my career, like around 2018. But after you go to, you know, 50 right-wing conspiracy rallies in a row, you might as well just be going to like IHOP or something. Yeah.

It wasn't HBO, we didn't even really come into contact with them until three months before the movie was like, you know, gonna gonna be released.

Yeah, we're just like, this is great.

HBO was great to work with the entire time.

They still are, you know what I mean?

But it was more of the studios that funded the film were very concerned about being seen as being on the wrong side of history.

I mean, you just like, everything's normalized, but yeah, I mean, to be fair, I am proud of the HBO project. Like I didn't want people to come away from dear Kelly thinking, Oh my God, this guy hated his directorial debut.

I mean, you just like, everything's normalized, but yeah, I mean, to be fair, I am proud of the HBO project. Like I didn't want people to come away from dear Kelly thinking, Oh my God, this guy hated his directorial debut.

I mean, you just like, everything's normalized, but yeah, I mean, to be fair, I am proud of the HBO project. Like I didn't want people to come away from dear Kelly thinking, Oh my God, this guy hated his directorial debut.

Ironically, if you were to look back at This Place Rules, even if you were to look back at it without the editorial notes, you would say this is a strongly anti-January 6th movie.

A hundred percent.

A hundred percent.

There was so much, like you said, so much press around it.

And there was a lot of posturing as to who was going to make the most elite hit piece about that.