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Rashida Jones

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"Rashida Jones"

And she said to me, you have to make...

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

you have to make a documentary about your dad and i was like oh i do i do don't i i didn't want to but she was right because the truth is he's so well documented he's so accomplished right that it's almost impossible to spend any time storytelling about who he is as a person to cover so much ground with just what he's like like contributed to the world and culture i wanted to do something that felt like it captured his personality because nothing ever has

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

you have to make a documentary about your dad and i was like oh i do i do don't i i didn't want to but she was right because the truth is he's so well documented he's so accomplished right that it's almost impossible to spend any time storytelling about who he is as a person to cover so much ground with just what he's like like contributed to the world and culture i wanted to do something that felt like it captured his personality because nothing ever has

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

you have to make a documentary about your dad and i was like oh i do i do don't i i didn't want to but she was right because the truth is he's so well documented he's so accomplished right that it's almost impossible to spend any time storytelling about who he is as a person to cover so much ground with just what he's like like contributed to the world and culture i wanted to do something that felt like it captured his personality because nothing ever has

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

and so that was kind of the goal and then al hicks who i love by the way have you if you've never seen he made a documentary called keep on keeping on which is about clark terry who's my dad who's my dad's mentor oh wow player and his last mentee who was who's this incredible jazz pianist he's blind justin coughlin it's like about their relationship it's like if you're ready to cry

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

and so that was kind of the goal and then al hicks who i love by the way have you if you've never seen he made a documentary called keep on keeping on which is about clark terry who's my dad who's my dad's mentor oh wow player and his last mentee who was who's this incredible jazz pianist he's blind justin coughlin it's like about their relationship it's like if you're ready to cry

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

and so that was kind of the goal and then al hicks who i love by the way have you if you've never seen he made a documentary called keep on keeping on which is about clark terry who's my dad who's my dad's mentor oh wow player and his last mentee who was who's this incredible jazz pianist he's blind justin coughlin it's like about their relationship it's like if you're ready to cry

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

That's what you turn on. It's like waterworks. It's so good.

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

That's what you turn on. It's like waterworks. It's so good.

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

That's what you turn on. It's like waterworks. It's so good.

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

Keep on keeping on. So Hicks, he directed that. We met on my first day of filming in Montreux in Switzerland at the Jazz Festival. I had like a 5D camera. I was like trying to figure out what to do, how to do it. And we met that day and then I asked him to co-direct with me.

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

Keep on keeping on. So Hicks, he directed that. We met on my first day of filming in Montreux in Switzerland at the Jazz Festival. I had like a 5D camera. I was like trying to figure out what to do, how to do it. And we met that day and then I asked him to co-direct with me.

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

Keep on keeping on. So Hicks, he directed that. We met on my first day of filming in Montreux in Switzerland at the Jazz Festival. I had like a 5D camera. I was like trying to figure out what to do, how to do it. And we met that day and then I asked him to co-direct with me.

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

Yeah. Yeah. It felt, it felt intimate and too intimate. In fact, cause there's a whole scene where, I mean, he almost died while we were filming and we stopped filming. And luckily my brother was like filming a bunch of stuff in the hospital, like show my dad. Cause he was, went into diabetic coma and you know, uh,

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

Yeah. Yeah. It felt, it felt intimate and too intimate. In fact, cause there's a whole scene where, I mean, he almost died while we were filming and we stopped filming. And luckily my brother was like filming a bunch of stuff in the hospital, like show my dad. Cause he was, went into diabetic coma and you know, uh,

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

Yeah. Yeah. It felt, it felt intimate and too intimate. In fact, cause there's a whole scene where, I mean, he almost died while we were filming and we stopped filming. And luckily my brother was like filming a bunch of stuff in the hospital, like show my dad. Cause he was, went into diabetic coma and you know, uh,

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

Luckily, the conclusion of the story was such that we could put it in and felt like the real triumph through that because my dad is a beast and he has cheated death many times. 91, still crushing it.

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

Luckily, the conclusion of the story was such that we could put it in and felt like the real triumph through that because my dad is a beast and he has cheated death many times. 91, still crushing it.

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

Luckily, the conclusion of the story was such that we could put it in and felt like the real triumph through that because my dad is a beast and he has cheated death many times. 91, still crushing it.

SmartLess
"Rashida Jones"

No, I heard you guys talking about that. And we actually did. We watched it recently too. We watched all three. And great films. Great films. I don't know if anybody knows, but really great films. And three, great film. I don't know. I think we watched the edited version, but I watched it because I hadn't seen it since I know Sophia so well. And just seeing baby Sophia in that movie.