John Requa
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53 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
John Requa’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh my God, welcome back to the podcast. On this, a very special day. The two gentlemen who we are welcoming into the studio today are two of my favorite members of the This Is Us family. We have Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.
Thank you so much for joining us. Pleasure to be here. These two gentlemen are a creative duo. Yes, they are. Directing, writing, producing team, who I think, I Love You Philip Morris was probably the first like- First film? Your coming out party, as it were. Our first official directing.
Yeah, in the 80s. The 80s.
I hitched my horse. There was disease. There was disease. There was. But if anybody ever asks me about you two, because I do talk about you a lot, I have a great amount of respect and admiration for both of you. I said, all you need to know about these two men is that they directed the pilot of This Is Us and Bad Santa. We wrote Bad Santa. And wrote Bad Santa.
Those two projects, if you mash them together, I think are a perfect encapsulation of you two. And thank you so much for joining us today.
Someone off the podcast told Sterling that he talks too much on the podcast. And now he has like a thing. And we want him to erase that from his memory.
Let's not get the WBM.
That's right. So they have been working with you. They are working with you.
By the entire This Is Us crew. Yeah, that's right. And we will be interviewing the creator of This Is Us right after this. It's a family affair. It's pretty exciting. Can you guys, let's go back to the 1900s. Let's go back. And talk to me, because we actually, with Isaac and Elizabeth, had another kind of what I view as, maybe it's not as rare, but a rare happening in our industry, which is a...
directing, writing, team. And you guys have been doing that from the beginning. And so had Isaac and Elizabeth. And we had two sets of those on our show, which I think is even rarer. That's true. You guys started in college. Talk to me about where you went, how you decided that this partnership was going to be lasting. If you still have. I mean, it might not.
Yeah, tell me about that, because there are several directing duos. There's a lot more, I'd say, writing teams than there are directing teams. Logistically speaking, the unions... don't like that. They don't like to.
No.
That seems to be the, even for those of us who didn't know Dan's story, when we read that script, that we knew that there was something different about that script. And everyone we've talked to has had that same response. More That Was Us after these words from our sponsors. We are getting away next weekend and we're taking the whole family to San Diego to celebrate my dad's birthday.
We've got all kinds of stuff planned. We're going to see a little concert, take the kids down there, see some friends, and we are going with Airbnb.
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I think it's when I rolled the camera up in the window. And the window shattered. Oh, was it you? What did you do? Well, it was so hot. We would roll the windows down between takes me and Chrissy's window up front. Yasu was sitting in the backseat with the camera and he had like, OK, rolling. He had rolled his window down so he could fit the back of the camera out the window.
And when I went to roll our windows up, I hit the wrong switch. And all I heard Yasu very quickly go, Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Boom. the whole window exploded on the back of it. I remember this now. Yeah, yeah. It was about then that we stopped letting the actors drive. The camera union. The camera union. The operators, the operator union.
It's also kind of a trajectory of life in general. It all starts out so fun. It all starts out so fun, so light. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
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