Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

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Last Podcast On The Left · Last Interview on the Left: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett - Ready or Not 2: Here I Come · 20 Mar 2026 podcast

We feel weird when something's not edging towards action.

And we also feel weird when it's lacking emotion because that's kind of what we always tie everything together with is how do you get someone like Samara at the center of this?

that can kind of ground all of the action, all of the horror, all of the emotion and make it feel like it's cohesive in one thing,

is always sort of the goal, but it's a bit of we love it all and we get to play, you know, kind of for a living now, which is incredible.

So it's this, how can we make this more action-y?

How can we make this more scary?

I mean, that's a conversation we have, I think, all the time.

It's like, let's lean harder this direction or that direction.

And sad how unsurprising it is.

But the weird thing that we saw bubble up when they released the new trailer was that this is Holly Weird conditioning people to be... Henry, I believe you were circling this at the beginning.

Conditioning people to be used to the idea.

I am actually, I think we're surprised at how much everybody's always into it.

It always feels like.

I was going to ask, what did you guys pick up on?

And there's a lot of, in this, it was funny, there was a lot of conversations when we were going, you know, going in, like pre-production, where...

We went back and we looked at... There's this thing that the studios do where they do a toe dip with critics.

And so before the movie's even finished, they show like a dozen critics and then they tell you how shitty your movie is.

It's the worst.

And they tell you how it's shitty and then you're just kind of bummed for a few weeks until you totally forget about it, which has happened on both of these movies.

And we went back when we were making this and looked at what the critics said about the first movie.

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