Esther Zuckerman

We thank Julia for keeping our industry afloat, but we're not going to take her seriously until she does Erin Brockovich, right?

Right.

Whatever it is.

Even that arc between, like, 90 and 2000, where it's like, they cannot ignore her in Pretty Woman.

They have to give her a Best Actress nomination.

They do, because it's such a phenomenon.

But by 10 years later, they're like, you're not getting one again until you actually break the genre.

And it was always just, well, if they keep making money, we'll keep making them, even if we don't really respect them.

The second the fucking obsession with overseas grosses

blew up.

Yeah.

It fucked everything up because these movies are super culturally specific and it's like in the same way that we don't fucking want to watch the French movie called Calcuchance about like four people drinking wine and finger banging each other.

They don't want to see our movies even if they are our stars.

What?

They don't want to see our movies?

It's rare.

Those aren't the movies they want us to export as much, right?

And they rarely would connect.

Yes.

Unless the premise is, like, so gold.