Matthew Lawson

I'm tired as I'm talking about it.

It's making me dizzy.

I think everyone feels hungover already from what just happened.

But, I mean, we have people at the Oscars like Javier Bardem and like Moe Tismal.

He's...

People really actively fighting and unable to even get their work like recognized or shown or traveled to the US talk about their work at the Oscars where like there's really critical art that people are either unable to see or there's discourse around it or actors being blacklisted.

And all we can talk about is Timothee Chalamet's offhanded comment from a random interview.

It just felt like this distraction.

Everyone had to chime in on it.

Everyone had to talk about it.

And then there's just so many very real issues that are happening around us in a literal war that's happening at the same time.

And it not only felt like a distraction, I just feel like even his comments were misconstrued.

I feel like a lot of the sentiment around it was misconstrued.

And also, the arts are suffering.

A lot of them are.

In this country, we're all suffering.

arts are suffering at most schools at most institutions like it's a real issue and yet we have to pick on one guy who's been overexposed and is like you know just the face right now of a very popular film it just felt like um kind of like a manic episode like a grand delusion where it just was like why are we doing this this is we're spending way too much time and resources on something that i think would be a throwaway comment if it was just years before you know

Yeah, and I think what's so upsetting, we talk about this a lot in our podcast, but the thing with Hollywood right now is that, unfortunately, as the bar, we would argue, gets lower for what bar's interview questions, what bar's a theme for interview, where you can just be asking these very casual questions, it's very low stakes, we're not going to get into politics, we're not going to get into...

you know, the mechanics or like the tea behind Hollywood.

So unfortunately, even when Timothee Chalamet has this like totally casual offhand comment, he's the only one maybe being slightly genuine in that sense, or actually commenting on the state of the industry.