Phil Rosenthal

So that's a lot of money.

And God bless it.

That has afforded me, my family, this ultra-privileged life to the point where we don't have to ever worry about money.

The Russian thing was a different thing.

They never had sitcoms in Russia.

The Nanny was the first sitcom that ever

was made in Russia, a version of the nanny.

The Americans that made it, a couple of them went over to Russia to help them do it.

And when the head of Sony asked me if I'd like to go and do it, I said, oh, I would do it if we could film the process.

Because that to me is funny.

He thought I should go there.

experience it and then come back and write a fictional feature comedy about a showrunner who goes to Russia to try to help them do the thing.

I said, if this situation really exists and what you're telling me, the funny stories you're telling me about doing the nanny over there really exists, let's film it for real.

And he said, yes, do it, do it, go do it.

So I did it.

And it's called Exporting Raymond.

It's my family's favorite movie because of how much I suffered in trying to get my ideas over to them.

Because even though they invited me to do it, they didn't listen to me for one second.

I would say of all the cultures in the world that I've now experienced, Russia is the most unique.

And the most different to us.