Josh Safdie

Everyone's the next superstar.

So I'm skeptical.

And I go and I meet this kid and he's in the corner of the room and he's with his buddy.

And he was there, but he wasn't like there.

He wasn't where he wanted to be.

And he had, he was like, he couldn't stand still.

He was like coming out of his own skin.

And he had these really big dreaming eyes.

And then I, then I went to go see a movie.

I call me by her name, like four months later.

And he, that movie could have been like kind of a small film, you know, and he just through his acting, through his performance, expanded the walls of this movie, made it a huge movie.

And, and I watched him on stage afterwards.

He just turns in this like super serious star forming performance.

And then he's doing being interviewed at the New York Film Festival, 1200 people.

And he's rocking back on his chair, which I do all the time, uncontrollably.

He fell down on his ass onto his back.

Could have been very embarrassing.

But every single person in that room laughed and we laughed like we were his guest.

And that was so like because we felt so intimate to him.

So I wrote it for when I said to him, I was like, I want that person to be this part.