David Marchese

Oh, I strongly disagree. Really? Yeah. Really? Well, why do you think they're evergreen?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, no, I 100% agree with that aspect of it. The aspect of the film that to me feels very much like a time capsule and representative of a specific Gen X attitude that has basically disappeared is the anxiety about the possibility of selling out. And I think now young creative people, it's like maybe just because they've realized it's so hard to actually make a living, the concept of...

Well, no, I 100% agree with that aspect of it. The aspect of the film that to me feels very much like a time capsule and representative of a specific Gen X attitude that has basically disappeared is the anxiety about the possibility of selling out. And I think now young creative people, it's like maybe just because they've realized it's so hard to actually make a living, the concept of...

Selling out is a total phantom that doesn't exist for people anymore. Because it's almost like... It's like, anybody's going to give me money? Of course I'll take it.

Selling out is a total phantom that doesn't exist for people anymore. Because it's almost like... It's like, anybody's going to give me money? Of course I'll take it.

I don't know what's the connection. I don't.

I don't know what's the connection. I don't.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, you know, another project I think you wanted to make for a long time was an adaptation of what makes Sammy run. Yeah. Bud Schulberg novel. Yeah. You tried for years to get that made. Yeah. And I thought, this...

And, you know, another project I think you wanted to make for a long time was an adaptation of what makes Sammy run. Yeah. Bud Schulberg novel. Yeah. You tried for years to get that made. Yeah. And I thought, this...

So for people who don't know the book, it's a story about a Jewish character named Sammy Glick, who's sort of a conniving, amoral striver in Hollywood and his unquenchable thirst to succeed in that world. And I thought that's an interesting movie for a young, successful Jewish man in Hollywood to want to make. What was it about that book that resonated with you?

So for people who don't know the book, it's a story about a Jewish character named Sammy Glick, who's sort of a conniving, amoral striver in Hollywood and his unquenchable thirst to succeed in that world. And I thought that's an interesting movie for a young, successful Jewish man in Hollywood to want to make. What was it about that book that resonated with you?

Do you think that was the resistance to making it? I think so.

Do you think that was the resistance to making it? I think so.

Do you think there are ways in which after October 7th, being Jewish in Hollywood has been trickier to navigate or have things felt different?

Do you think there are ways in which after October 7th, being Jewish in Hollywood has been trickier to navigate or have things felt different?

But has any of that reality in any way filtered into your working life? Um...