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Our first produced screenplay was a talking animal movie.
From our perspective. Yeah. So we're trying to cast this part of a gunnery sergeant for this Whiskey Tango Foxtrot movie. And we're not really finding anybody. And Tiffany says, I got the guy. He has been in jail, basically, working in North Carolina.
He hasn't been able to work a bunch.
Because he's been on this series, small series, Army Wives.
That's it. He's available. He's great. So he came in sold, right? While we're making the movie in New Mexico, Sterling is just a...
a star we actually had said you know like i don't know who this guy is but we're working with him forever because he's he's something that's about to happen yeah and uh and we didn't know about darden yeah what happened was this dancing this is the script and we're editing and we're reading things oh this is sterling we just do you know so we we said dan you got to meet with this guy you're the only person we ever put up yeah for uh
You know, maybe hoping for a name or whatever. But at the same time, Tiffany said you were in the OJ thing. So we thought... We thought, oh, this is great. The studio knows him. Maybe this isn't far-fetched.
It worked out perfect.
Yeah, we bonded over the fact. When you go to art school, because you're not smart.
We were sort of bonding over the fact that we were put into these classes that you have to take, the foundation classes, drawing, painting, light color design, sculpture. I mean, some filmmakers can draw and do stuff, but not us. So you're the worst people in the class are the film majors. You're stuck. And so you naturally get together and bond.
And I think, you know, we kind of knew each other from our light color and design class. And then we met at the college bar one night, and we were doing some shtick while drinking a pitcher of beer, and then John just poured the entire pitcher over my head for a laugh. Are you serious? Love ever since.
Well, I just wanted to be a director and I didn't think, I never thought I could do comedy. I just didn't think it was appropriate for me. And John convinced me that I was funny. Funny enough. Funny looking. I didn't know that's what he meant at the time. Right what you know.
Lobby the DGA to, you know, shoot a movie or... Because they didn't want to give you both credit.
They thought you were gonna divide the work. It comes from a pure place, which was in the old days, you know, you would just like... you know, some guy would put his mistress on as a writer or director and a thing. And so they're just trying to make sure of that. But the fact that we wrote together was helpful, that we had been writing together for so long.
So it didn't hurt that you were also mistresses to each other?
Yeah. Well, we fooled them. And now they don't ask anymore. Because they can't imagine.
i like both okay it's a completely different thing when you've written it yourself yeah i think right i mean it's you just know it intimately and then i mean dan's a special case sort of speak fluent fogelman sure so there's not a lot of miscommunication right uh and he's just like a collaborator to us so so he's just part of the team i think um or we're part of his team and um
I think it's a really interesting thing when you're directing somebody else's material because you have to, just like an actor, you have to really dig into every word and understand what do they want out of this. So we always do this session where we ask a bunch of stupid questions for like two hours.
When you say this, is this a joke, or is this a reference? It's all that stuff. I find that interesting.
Dan was talking about This Is Us while we were shooting Crazy Stupid Love. Are you serious? As a movie idea, I believe. Yes, yes, yes. But in my memory, it was just- It was a movie. I have this rough idea, and it was always the reveal at the end that you've been watching. Yeah. I don't want to spoil it for anybody. An interconnected family. That was the big reveal.
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