Michael Angarano
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76 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Michael Angarano’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thanks, man.
Please. It's two old friends, myself, Michael, Sarah, who go on an impromptu road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento. That's it. That is literally... That's all you need to know. That's all you need to know. And it started as exactly that. We started writing it 10 years ago. And it's just funny because we're shooting this, doing this in Los Feliz adjacent area, east side.
You know, this was the old stomping grounds 10 years ago. And I don't live around here anymore, but driving around here, I'm like, oh, yeah, we used to write in this coffee shop. We used to hang out at the Par 3 down the street. This is like where my friend Chris Smith and I, we wrote this 10 years ago and didn't start. When we wrote it, we didn't really know what it was going to become.
We wanted to make it eventually, but it started just as this impromptu road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento. It started as like a joke. Hey, you want like a million signs around Los Angeles? Say I-5 North Sacramento. Yeah. So we just reverse engineered the story around that joke one day. We did a pilot together that didn't get picked up.
So we were unemployed, hanging out, going to like the par three in the batting cages. And we, yeah, man, we just, you know, as we grew and evolved and matured as guys, like the story changed and evolved and kind of became what it is now. Which I don't want to spoil the movie. We're not going to spoil it. Yeah, don't spoil it. But that's sort of what, that's kind of how it grew.
I mean, so many. Yeah. So many. And I'm so happy that it's gotten a theatrical release and a pretty significant one. I mean, it's all over the country. It was only in a couple 200 theaters, but still it's like people all across the country and in Canada can go see it. So it was...
It wasn't until I think I watched our notes screening, and we had a big notes screening when we were editing, where I realized how much a movie like this needs to be seen in a theater. Because it is a comedy. And it's not the same when you watch it alone in a room. Sure. And even it affected our editing process. It's like, oh, this actually plays, and it plays bigger.
And so to answer the question, I think when we were making it, I mean, even though I would have always loved it to be in a theater, I don't think I ever was dead set on it being released in theaters. Because I was just like, oh, I just want people to see it. However people can see it, whether it's on a stream, whatever it is these days, I was like, that's going to be what it is.
And so the fact that we got... an actual significant release in theaters, I've just been so happy because it's so, it's so harmonious with the film itself. Like it really should be seen in the theater and it's really nice to see it with people. Yeah. To experience it together. It should be just, you know, you forget. Yeah.
It needs to ruin your day. It needs to like, I'm not eating lunch.
Well, the trick is you don't.
that's part of it well but the really amazing I've always kind of said that this film just because it was always written with the idea of it being fun for us like it was never really wrote it to make money we're not making money but it was always with the idea of like you know if this ever stops being fun we're gonna stop and for Chris and I so it always was born around this like good energy concept
And then, when we were trying to package the movie, Mike Serra, we get, who I've been a friend of for, you know, 20 years at this point. And so, Maya came around. Yeah. We were not together. Okay. I did not know Maya personally at all. How's that? I was just a fan of her show, Pen15. Yeah? Mm-hmm.
And so I wrote her a letter asking her to, you know, if she was interested, if she would want to attach herself to the part. This is how you guys met? This is how we met.
Yeah, this is how we met. And this film, we met. She said yes, which was, for us, that was like a miracle. Because for this character, she's like... It's such an important, integral character to the story. And I've always said it. And this is what I said in my letter to her.
I was like, really, the film, the film's tone, the film's, I mean, everything about the film really hinges on this performance and this character. And so it's a small Venn diagram of what we need from this actor to play this part. Yeah. And so the fact that she said yes was like such a win for us. And we wouldn't meet Maya and I for like months because she was doing season two of her show.
And so it was like a very, very small window. Her agent called mine like the day before. She's like, Maya will be available at 4 p.m. tomorrow. Yeah. And I'm like, I'm there.
Yes. No, literally. I was like, wherever, however, I'll like, I'll bring her lunch, whatever it is. I'll like, just want to say hi and duck out. I'll give her babies. Yes. Literally, I will start a life. And so the meeting went very well. Very well. Went very well. And we... truthfully, like we spoke about the movie for like seven minutes and we met for like, you know, two hours.
It was just like, and we just very much got along. But we, you know, we, we wouldn't, the movie wouldn't get made for several years. And so, you know, we just kept in touch and, you know, months later we started dating and then, and then, you know, the movie would get made. By the time the movie got made, we were engaged and had a child. Oh, Listen, you own a wife. Write a movie.
And when you see the film, it has this amazing sort of prophetic-ness to it. Oh, I can't wait.
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