Rosemarie DeWitt
Appearances
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Well, it's funny you said that because I remember saying to her after that, I want to play you in a movie. And then she wrote Touchy Feely. And then I thought I was playing her then. But in that one, I think I kind of almost was more because she was so protective of it. We kind of didn't know what movie we were making. Like Ron and I did a scene together, my husband, Ron Livingston.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And I remember us both going like... I don't know what this scene's about. And Ron's like, I don't really. And he's like, and I don't think Lynn wants to tell us. And we're like, great. But I loved her so much and I trusted her so deeply. And I would feel like I would do some of my best work always in her presence and in her loving care that I didn't care. Like your sister, sister, I remember.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
We had that big sort of big three way fight and we only had two cameras and we did Mark and Emily's coverage first. And I was like, I don't know what's going to happen. You guys just start yelling at me because I just trusted Lynn.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. But also you knew that someone was going to make you look good.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You know what I mean? It wasn't like her ego was going to come out later and then do something weird with the movie that no one intended.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I mean, well, we're also at that age now.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Where you go through and you're like, oh, wow, that person. I was in New York last week and I ran into an actor that I kind of came up with. Yeah. Like 20 years ago.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And we were naming people and we're like, wow. all those people are gone. But we're not old.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. Well, and then you're the only one. I know. Like my dad died last year at 90. And he's like, I'm it. I'm the only one left. You know, he's like, there's no one even to...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Oh, no, it was great. And he was like, he went. He's 90. Yeah, and he was healthy until the end. You know, he was a, what do you call it? You know, a really stubborn motherfucker. You know, so he wouldn't get the walk. You know, he went out in a blaze of glory with all the broken bones that one can have at that age.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But he ran that body right into the ground.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Tough. Marine Corps, 30 years. Yeah, tough. Really? Tough.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, I mean, it depends. I was his ninth child, so I don't— Nine children! I mean, not with my mom. He had eight with his first wife, Dorothy. Eight? Eight. Catholic, you know. Yeah. Irish. He was Irish Catholic.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And, and then me. So I think maybe they had more of that.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
That guy. And then I had, I had a subtler guy.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Oh, it's just me with him and my mom. And then I had eight half brothers and sisters.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, I mean, to different degrees. You know, I remember a million years, like one of the first movies I ever did was Rachel Getting Married, and it was all about family. It's a good movie. And I started, I did press kind of for the first time. And I remember I just couldn't answer any questions about family because I could never figure my own family out. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You know, it was like about a sibling relationship. And I just gave the most neutral, boring answers because I'm like, I can't speak to this because I don't understand. It's complicated. How old were you then? Oh, I don't know. 30s.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Full Irish. Yeah, so I remember, like, even before she passed away, I was young, she wanted to see a priest. And I was thinking, why? Like, what have you ever done? She wanted to make confession.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And I was like, you don't leave the house. What do you have to confess?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I mean, a laundry list. I don't know. I shouldn't bash anything. But I just feel, I remember my husband's mom is a Lutheran. She's retired now, pastor. That's a different approach. Totally. And he didn't understand that my concept of religion was like anything you do is bad. And even if you go to confession, you still can't be forgiven.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I had a therapist who one time said to me, gosh, I wish you were Jewish. Our guilt is so much better than yours.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. No, I have that too. Yeah. Are you still religious? No, I just have ongoing shame about everything. You do? I mean, I'm working on it. I think it's alleviating as I get older.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I know. Well, I guess we decided early on. Yeah. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, they say, like, try to make friends with that guy. And they'll be like, hey, I'm going to drive the car now, guy. You stay in the back seat.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And you're like, why do you get so much air time?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, that's what they called him. That was his kind of moniker because he was a washed-up fighter at like 30, and then he was like a longshoreman. He had three kids, and then he just started taking fights during the Great Depression to pay the bills. It wasn't about like... His like unlived life. It was just they needed to put food on the table. Right.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And he just started winning because he was so hungry and he became the champ.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. We lived with him. And I remember, like, hiding behind the chair. You know, when I was little, we lived with him for a little bit. We smoked a pipe. You know, I have very specific memories. And there's some family lore and, like, stories that you hear over in your head.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And then when I was like, you know, in my early 20s, like different directors were attached. They were going to make a movie about him. And I was like a stalker. You know, I was like, I have to be in this movie. And by then, like, my mom wasn't alive.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And my dad was a, like, he fought in the Golden Gloves. So he, like, he was a... He's a boxer, too? Yeah, he was, like, small.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But he, like, looked up. He kind of bragged on my grandpa so much. But my mom was so humble about it. So it was no big deal.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And then, of course, he had all the, you know, the old pictures and, you know, like too much. Like it was so embarrassing to my mom the way he was trying to telegraph it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I don't think she thought that, but I just think she didn't need anyone to, you know, not that she wasn't proud of him, but it wasn't her. It's just her dad, you know.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, I think sometimes about like the way we parent now and, you know, like where we help our kids with their feelings and we talk to them about everything. I remember meeting, like I knew my three oldest siblings from when I was born.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But the younger five, I didn't meet until I was 10 years old.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But nobody explained it to me. It was just like... Here they are. We're driving up to Maine. We're going to spend a weekend. These are your brothers and sisters. And I remember them all kind of being like, hey, punk. You know, like none of them were that excited to meet me. Yeah, yeah. I mean, they're lovely now and we all love each other. But, you know, nobody...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
It was like I remember watching Mad Men years ago, and I thought the show was so perfect, except when they sat their kids down and explained that they were getting divorced. I was like, nobody did that.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, it was just throw them to the wolves. They'll figure it out.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, but I was just saying the parents just didn't do a lot of life coaching, I didn't think, in the 70s and 80s.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I read books. I probably talk too much. I literally make, you know, speaking of that inner critic voice, I had like a conversation with her earlier today.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Because I was in New York last week, and I did some late-night TV stuff, and they wanted to see it. They're like, did you talk about us? They always want to have an internet footprint. They're mad that I have no social media. They just think it's so painful that I don't like it, that they have this particular mom. So I was like, well, I talked about you guys on the TV. Do you want to see it?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And then I showed it to them, and then that critic lady, I was talking to her in my head. I'm like, oh, I should probably go home tonight and be like, How did you feel to see yourself on TV last night? Was it okay? Do I?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, like a picture of them in a Halloween costume.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I guess so. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how funny they are.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I've done them before. Yeah. And then there's always that pressure. I guess not for you because you just get on here and talk every day. Just talk.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
It's like 48 hours before. I'm like, shoot. I should have been paying attention in my life. What are my stories? What's funny? Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. I mean, my kids are, when you said you started with, how are you? They're so funny to me.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So it's like, I just go, what was Saturday? Oh, okay. I got one.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
She's verbal. She is. Yeah, she's a brilliant girl from England, and she's really funny. In the movie, though, she plays nonverbal, and she really does have cerebral palsy. Right, of course. I mean, so she's so vulnerable in the movie to just...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
you know allow us to witness life you know like she has to we have to carry her in certain ways and you know yeah um and she just gives a really it's one of those ones especially because she really is the age of the kids who are mean to you in school like you want the mood you just want everyone to see it because you just want like everybody to go feel yeah feel like this is her and go this she's so cool right you should be so lucky to know her and know her world
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, I have a my oldest one is in sixth grade, like starting those middle school years. And she's kind of like, what's happening to everybody? Like she can see that everybody's losing their mind. Like it's puberty.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, it's not that. But but it's the meanness thing. Well, meanness has been like it just becomes a thing justified.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. Where they really just start trying on things.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, I guess. And like kind of moving for power, vying for power by being mean and making people look dumb.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So kids that you've known your whole life that are so kind, it just like hijacks them.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, like this one was easy because it was like both our girls are adopted.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Gracie's black, Zaza's Latina. And you just, I kind of know already what it's like to have to advocate for them. Like when you're an adoptive family and visually so, like when people can see it coming, they feel entitled to like ask questions. Yeah, yeah. When did you get them? You know, and I'm like, well, they're standing here. They're human beings.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
We're not going to, let's be normal human beings and talk, you know. And they're great. Like my older one will be like, can you mind your business?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So I already kind of went in there knowing like, oh, this is a part I want to explore about how do we, I almost feel like my kids advocate for themselves better than I actually can. But I was interested in that part of the role of how a mom, and she messes up. Like in the movie, she messes up and I mess up. And, you know, I think she likes dad better than me, you know, in the movie.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, sometimes. Right now, they're kind of really into me.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I like it. But I know, like, teenagers, they're going to be all about him.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I mean, as far as acting, they think he's so much—he is cooler. But they're like—my little one will be like, don't you feel bad? People stop and ask dad for autographs, and nobody asks you. I'm like, I don't feel bad. She's like, yes, you do.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Band of Brothers. Yeah, he's got some good, he's got some doozies in there.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
It's crazy. And it's also crazy because that's, like, the least one like him. Like, he's not like that at all.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, not at all. I mean, I think I drive him a little crazy.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No. If anything, he's like a little Mr. Magoo-ish.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
That's what drives me crazy. He has this moment every day where he sits on the end of our bed with his socks in his hand and stares at them for about seven minutes. And I'm always like, what is that?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, but then when I say like, what are you thinking about right now? And it is some, it's usually something like that happened in history in like 1712 or the cooling and heating system in our house. Like he like, you know, he reads Scientific American for fun. Like he's not into...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I have it. Ron has it. My oldest kid has it. And my youngest doesn't. And it's like, she's so miserable with all of us.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I mean, because somebody told me, like a doctor told me.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Well, I could tell because you and I, like, I want to cut you off. You want to cut me off. Like, we probably just want to just keep jumping.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, I think that might be narcissism. No, no, no, no. I like ADHD better.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, but you said make it all about me. Isn't that the classic?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Is that what I just read today? That's a really good premise.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No. I mean, I do sometimes. Yeah. I mean, sometimes, but not enough. Like, I want that to be harder and scarier. I was really nervous doing Your Sister, Sister. Like, those things made me nervous.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, the improv and that movie I jumped in last minute for somebody who fell out and I had to like, you know, say hi Mark Duplass and then we're doing like a sex scene into this scene and the break, you know, like it was, I like where, I like the, I like the fear. So yeah, the fact that you're nervous gets me excited. That makes me think you're going to transform your life.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
That sounds really helpful to your process.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, you do a whole recasting of the role and then compare, despair, and then you finally get there.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You just did a series in Vancouver, too.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, because I ran into John Hamburg, you know, one of your directors.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I didn't get it. I was thinking, like, oh, maybe we could have dinner or something.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Well, at least you were watching old movies.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Well, that's great. But that also tells me you're not that nervous.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
OK, but I'm just mean because like I still I guess I still use my trailer time to do like work.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. I mean, I do a lot of like, and now I'm the mother of this murder child. You know what I mean? So I'm in my trailer feeling, you know, various degrees of despair.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, but I'm just saying if you want to just make a list, you could just watch all the moves.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Oh, no, this guy's a good-hearted person.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I mean, I guess I always did it. I, you know, came, like, you know, we talked about, like, more working class background. Like, nobody went into the arts.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Really? Yeah. So I didn't have, I didn't think it was something I could ever pursue. I went to college to try to not do it. But I was telling a friend recently, we were talking about something. And I was like, yeah, you know, in kindergarten, I wanted to be a ballerina and I got the seal. And then in first grade, I wanted to be Gretel and Hansel and Gretel, but I was the tree.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And she's like, you always wanted to be an actor. Most people couldn't tell you like what roles they didn't get in kindergarten. So I guess I always wanted to do it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You are? Where? See, I feel genetically New York, but tell me more.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And my dad's from Jersey City. My mom and my dad were both born in Jersey City.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, I like it. It's beautiful. I mean, parts of it are really beautiful.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But I was born in Queens, so I feel genetic. And then I lived there.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I was born in Queens. And then I, you know, went to college in New York and then went there at 21 to become an actor. So I feel genetically linked to New York in a way.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
what it was yeah i guess for a minute you know yeah i guess yeah i remember my cousin got married and they were i wish i could remember it was a queen's boulevard or something there's a whole strip of irish bars oh yeah that's where everybody met and got married yeah yeah yeah so okay so you grew up in jersey yeah and you want to be an actor now given that you were the station of life you were into where your parents like what are you fucking talking about
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, it was kind of good in that no one cared about me that much. You know, like my dad said to me a couple of years ago, he's like, I can't believe that you're successful. And I'm like, what? What do you mean you can't believe it? And he's like, I don't know. I just thought I was like, why? What did you think it would be? He's like, I don't know.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I just thought you'd get married, get pregnant, get married to some guy on the block.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So, no, they weren't discouraging at all. I think they were like, cool, but I don't think they thought. But I don't even think they cared if I went to college.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
My father-in-law is such a good guy. And he'll say things to me like, you know what Tiger Woods' problem is? And I'm like, tell me. You know what I mean? Because he's really, he's always looking for the loophole, you know.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, we just kind of did it recreationally after my mom, like a bonding thing after my mom died.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Well, he said I played like an 80-year-old golfer. I just hit it like straight down the fairway, but like 100 yards.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
The scene. Well, I went to college and I was like a creative studies major.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Which was like Hofstra. Okay. Make your own Sunday kind of major. Yeah. Classes on Beckett and Jack Kerouac.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And then New York City, I studied with some really, really good theater teachers.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You know, and then I did theater. I thought that was going to be my life. Ron Van Loo.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Earl Gister, Lloyd Richards. Like, really, like, old school.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No Meisner. I never did Meisner. And then I was, you know, doing off, off, off, off, off, off, off, yeah, theater, theater, theater.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I'm glad you asked. That's so weird. Nobody's ever said that. Nobody's ever said, oh, you came from the theater naked.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. It was Off Broadway. Oh. Then my naked one. So it was kind of close to Broadway.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
It was Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. It was a good play.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I think it was probably an okay production.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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I mean, it's kind of in the play. But I know what you mean. No, there were other ones. I remember one time I had an agent say to me that, you know, the casting director says she has to be comfortable doing anything naked. Otherwise, you shouldn't come in on this. And I was like, well, I'm not comfortable doing anything. Like, I don't know what that means.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So, I mean, there's certainly a lot of that when you're an actress in your 20s.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And luckily, no one's asking anymore. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Did you see that movie? I haven't seen it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Well, that's what I meant. Because when you said the sentence that women would do anything to fight aging, I was like, oh, that hurts so much.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Like, why can't we just get old together?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, we can. But I just mean, like, our culture. Like, why can't we all just, like... It's a culture, too.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Freaking out. But I hate that I even think about it. I mean, I don't mind if I think about it like it's related to mortality.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But I don't enjoy thinking about it when when I feel like it's connected to my livelihood.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Or my like how much I'll be able to express myself going forward.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. No, I'm happy. I just—you know what I mean? There's a—I think a pressure and— And then you look around, and if everybody's going to look a different age, then, you know, I guess I can start playing grandmas.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I mean, you know, it's like one of those ones where you had the kid at 14. Oh, right, right.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Well, I think it's meant to prepare you.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
She must have a condition or can't afford the hairdresser. Yeah, because it's unheard of.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You know, it's funny. I got my first Broadway offer, and I turned it down because I was getting stuff out here. But that had been the goal. Broadway. At the time, yeah. And then the only reason I think I left New York was because I was going through a divorce, you know, a breakup, and I needed to get out of Dodge. Like, I needed a change of scenery.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So I came out here and I would say got lucky and all those things. And also, you know, when your life is in free fall, you're like, what are you going to do? Tell me I can't have the job. You know, like you have a fearlessness about you. And I was just able to make a couple of things happen. So that gave me a foundation.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
It didn't feel like that. Yeah. No, it more felt like I don't. Yeah, or I don't know what the fuck I'm going to do, so I might as well just go for broke, you know, kind of thing.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, not since my kids. I did a play at Williamstown last, but it's a different gig, you know, with your family.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, and you also have to move everybody there to not get paid and pull them out of school, you know.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. Well, it's like Ron is in a dad band right now. It's just fun, you know, his midlife crisis.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
He plays the keyboards and sings a bit. How are they? He's really good. I mean, it's the kind of thing, like, they have, you know, these... what are they, 80s songs and these other songs. I don't know how many times you can hear them, sing them, but they're kind of great. They're called Notorious D.A.D.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But my point of bringing it up was, oh, that he's like, God, he's like, I'm glad I became an actor. He's like, you gotta carry your equipment around. You know, like it's so unglamorous. You know, and the theater is a real, it's a real blue collar gig. It's a great gig. I love it. Like, there's nothing like, well, you know, you do comedy in front of a live audience.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You still can do whatever you want, but yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I mean, in terms of like the direction, you know, you can switch it up. But yeah, but you have to say the words.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, is that an age thing or just an interest thing?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Totally. Yeah, especially if it doesn't work. There was a play I did one time with Jonathan Demme that just didn't quite work. He directed it? He directed it, but he also, it was the only play he ever did as a director, and it's such a different medium. And I used to wake up in the morning and be like, Maybe if I break my own leg, I don't have to do it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, just because it was such a hard play and it wasn't working. If it's working, it's transcendent. Right. But it just wasn't working. Oh, no. Yeah, it was hard. Was it off-Broadway? It was off-Broadway, yeah. I'm going to tell you a story that Ron and I do this bit. I one time jumped into a play. I love saying off-Broadway.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Someone got fired and I jumped in with like three or four days of rehearsal.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And somebody in the cast, in order to make me feel better, was like, oh, no, you don't understand. I had to, this guy Michael, oh, I wish I could remember his last name. He was a great musical theater actor.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But he had to go on in the lead role unrehearsed.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So he had to learn all the songs, all the dances by the next day he was going on. And he said he stayed up till like six in the morning with his wife. And all of a sudden she closes the script and looks at him and says, you don't know this. And sometimes Ron and I just do that to each other.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Because like, could you imagine having to go out and doing an entire play and knowing you just don't know it?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, they don't really know. And although like some of the grand dams of the theater are like, I'd like you to pause right here. And he's like, you'll be lucky if I don't piss on your leg. Like I'm going to do whatever I can do to get through these two and a half hours.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, just that time. I mean, I've run into him a bunch since. But because that was such an epic movie, I felt like I worked with him more than once. And also he was one of my, you know, when you come up in the theater, I'd seen a lot of Kenny Lonergan plays. They were like really, like This Is Our Youth and Lobby Hero. Those are like seminal plays. Like if you were those ages. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You know, if you were in your 20s and you're watching other actors like Mark Ruffalo and Josh Hamilton and Glenn Fitzgerald, like just some Heather Burns, these like great parts.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So I loved I loved Kenny back then. Yeah. So I just, you know, it was a small part, but I was so happy to be part of that ensemble.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. I love a heavy. I love a heavy movie, though.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Where you realize, like— Actually, the thing I just did when we were up in Vancouver, it's a limited series for—it's called Untamed, and it's in that vein of Mare of Easttown, you know, or True Detective.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And it was like—that sometimes happens, especially when you're alone, where my kids had left a little bit early to go back to school, and I was like, okay, if I don't finish this role soon because it was so heavy, I'm like, I'm going to go down a little bit. You know what I mean? Like I'm going to slip under.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So I was like, this really needs, you know, and it was just like ended. And I was like, okay, good.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You know, you stay in it. It's not even that. It's just like when you said you were watching old movies. Again, it was like, you know, those shows are a lot about like true crime and stuff. And then I'm like imbibing all the true crime stuff, too.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So it's like not only the role when I'm there, when I'm not working, I feel like I should be taking in that stuff, too, just to kind of not lose the thread.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. I got to go home. This has to wrap. So it was perfect timing. Oh, thank God it wrapped. But it was really heavy.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And at least if it's a movie or a play. I remember one time Ron said to me, we were somewhere on a beach. And I was like, oh, my God, this beach is amazing. Why is this beach so epic? He's like, well, I think finally you're, like, back to yourself. You know, because it's just, yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
First I go, why is the script in my lap? Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, no, but like, what's the title of it?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, that's exactly where I would start.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
For me, personally. I'd be like, where do I see this dynamic in my own life?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. And it wouldn't have to necessarily, for me, be in the career. It could be anywhere. But I'd start to mine it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
He's like, who the fuck cares about the Emmys?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Like, existential. Sure. And also, like, you know, when you spend time with people who are old, like, older, meaning in their 70s and 80s, and how they have to go back to all those past things and keep talking about it and talking about it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Thank God you figured that out before you started shooting.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, but I mean, and also sometimes halfway through the shoot, you know, like where you're like, oh, I know.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, and there might be something I wished I could have, I would have played so different. But then I'm so grateful.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Most of the time you don't, right? Like you grow into it and you find your way.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. Well, and that's true too. You know what I mean? And like you're saying with process, I don't think it's that. I'm always marvel at the actors who do all the amazing physical exterior work and the inner work at the same time. Like it's such a craft. And then I always just feel like I'm some version degree away from that.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. Yeah, he is, because that's the thing I hate when I watch. As long as the actor is doing, like, using what's really there, I love it. Yeah. If someone's trying to pretend, you know, that... like the light didn't just fall on their face and keep acting.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Or that they don't. And like, you know, if you're working with the other actor and you kind of can't stand them and it's a love scene, I like seeing that complicated mess of like, you kind of can't stand them and it's a love scene, you know?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I know. Well, we're always unsatisfied. Like, that's our job. And the audience is, you know.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
They're not sitting there picking it apart. Like, they're there to love it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I'm seeing it Monday. I heard it's great, actually. Like, the script was really good.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I did a remake of Poltergeist with Sam Rockwell. That, you know, was fun.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I did. But that was almost more of like, you know, that's like a nice horror movie.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Smile 2 is like, you're supposed to be freaked out.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, it's ghosts. Ghosts aren't scary. And this one, everything's a spoiler, but the guy, Parker Finn, who directed it, really knows. It's fun when you're working with a filmmaker who really knows what they want.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And it's like, oh, and yeah, you're going to look right down the lens. Like, they just know what's scary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So technically, it was a little challenging, but fun.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I'm like a momager, you know, like a Kris Jenner.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You know, or like any pop star, you know, a pop star's mom.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, that's what was fun about it. It was fun to play somebody who you were like, is this genuine? Like, do they love their kid? Are they pushing them too much? Like, what's wrong? What's in it for them? You know, all that kind of stuff. So it was a little bit of that kind of exploration.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And the girl who plays my daughter, Naomi Scott, it's so... I don't know if this gets you excited, but she played Princess Jasmine in the Will Smith Aladdin. And then when someone gets to then do such a transformation, you know what I mean? And now she's playing, you know, like Olivia Rodrigo. And she can really sing and dance and do all the things.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So I know she's not going to be able to walk down the street in a couple weeks.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
They do. Especially if it's done well. Because if you go to the movies and you get to all be together and you talk about your feelings. Could you imagine right now if other people all felt the same way you did about starting this job on Monday? You know how good you'd feel if everybody was in it with you? But you get to go to a movie and be all scared together. You know what I mean?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And then laugh that you all had the exact same feeling. It's fun.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I mean, I went to see The Wild Robot the other day because I have kids.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. Yeah. Great. Great. Great. Still great. I know. Holds up.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I haven't watched it with them. I wonder, yeah, I wonder if they like it. It kind of bums me out, 11 and almost 9. It bums me out when they don't think movies are great. You know what I mean? My daughter the other day went into, she's like, does hip hop, and there was an acting class for dancers at the studio.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And I knew the woman. She's like, oh, she should come in and try it for a little bit. And she kind of looked at me like... No. But she went in. So I opened the door 10 minutes later and she's like rolling around the floor like she's pretending she's a pig and the whole class is laughing. I'm like, oh, she's having a ball. She comes out like 15 minutes later. I was like, oh, is the class over?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
She's like, no. Acting is so stupid and boring. I just raised my hand and said, I'm sorry, I need to be somewhere. And she left the class. And I'm like, oh, this thing that I've devoted my life to, you have just decided is like the dumbest stuff ever.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, but she knows herself. She is like that kid who just doesn't suffer, like whatever that Fosse quote is, doesn't dance for grandma. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's like, yeah, I'm not feeling this at all.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
The opposite. Like she probably is an actress. I won't let her anywhere near it, you know, but she is.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. Yeah. When she's 18, she could do whatever she wants.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I don't know. I mean, because she's also sometimes, as we all know, she's also really sensitive and like she's all the things, but she's like a natural mimic. And if she hears a song, like when she was little, she would hear songs on the radio and Like, turn it off. It's too sad. Yeah, yeah. You know, like, she just feels stuff. So I also want to protect her. Yeah. You know, it's a business.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
It's a job. Yeah, yeah. She doesn't need to go to work.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But she's... Feels stuff. But she feels it so much. Yeah. Do you? It's beautiful. I think maybe I was like that. But like I said, I didn't really grow up in an environment where that was okay.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, I almost feel like that's like the great, it's like awful to go through these. Like I don't, I always don't want to go through awful experiences. But I realized like, because I've been, I was lucky enough to bury both my parents and be with both my parents when they passed. Like help them go.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And I when I after both those experiences, I was like, this is what it's all about. Like, this is what life is. And then your heart is so much more open and you're capable of so much more love and so much more presence. I mean, maybe that's not everybody's experience, because sometimes those things can sink you.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
All right. Yeah, but I just need to understand more.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Isn't it funny also to find people that believe in you that much later in life? Somebody asked me this morning, who was the first person that made you feel like you could be an actor? And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know if I've met them. No, I'm kidding. Do you know? I don't know. I think there's a lot of people along the way. But to have somebody see you...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You know what I mean, in life? And, like, also probably know you well enough to know that you want to do it. Like, you want to. Because you seem, as much as you seem scared right now, you seem really excited. You know? No, and, like, really happy.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I love acting because I love that, like, the complexity and the mystery and the beauty and, like, what you had, let's say, with Lynn, like, has a container.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
think anybody thinks about me that much, quite honestly.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Oh, okay. Well, today, what was your assumption about what I was like?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And if somebody you love— That's the thing that we all want. We all want to see the thing that everybody doesn't want to show us. I know. Isn't that weird? That's the thing that makes us fall in love with our people and whatever. And that's the thing that I feel like— You've got to let that happen. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Well, and also in the role that you're going to do, too. I mean, I don't know why we're talking about acting so much. I mean, I guess I know why because it's a podcast.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Is that like I love to see? Like I love to really see someone take an authentic breath. Like while the camera's on.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Or show that thing that they didn't want us to see, that they didn't plan at home in their room.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And it made them feel awkward. And again, that's what I know. Of course we're going to talk about Lynn. Those were the moments that she wanted.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
So when she found them, that was the lightning in a bottle. And then she built the whole movie around it. She would change the movie. Yeah. Because she's like, that happened. And now we're going to make this whole movie lead up to that moment because that was true.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
a pilot recently like during the strike just to be creative right and it was like it's like almost sometimes you forget that we lose people yeah because i was like well lynn will direct this yeah you know what i mean and then like it's like i woke up i was like oh wait no and i was like oh god i gotta go find my my my lynn but there's no lynn so then you just have to go out and make new friends and new creative partnerships and there isn't anyone like as poetic in the way that she was poetic you know there are other
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. I was so glad, though, that I was coming to do this with you. It's so nice to see you.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You guys talked. We did. We went through a lot of years, especially in between projects, where we really kind of had to hash life out.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I had a big, long infertility journey, and she was going through her stuff. And then when you get happy, that's when you don't talk to each other as much. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, you can just text or send a Marco Polo.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, that's it. You know, and then until the next big threshold that you want to share with them.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Like maybe seven or eight years, like you've had a long road, but I wouldn't change it because now that I met my kids, I'm like, they wouldn't be these kids if it didn't take the exact amount of time that it took.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And how are the adults, like the young kids now that are adults, like how are they in their adopted life? Because it comes with a lot of loss, too.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
All that. Yeah, you can't not. It's, again, like when we're talking about the other existential things, like that's an existential question. And like, where do I come from?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I mean, I think the way that, not a trend, that's not the right word, but the way they kind of do it now in adoption is like, You know, you try to do open adoptions. Like, we know our daughter's birth families and stuff, and we're in relationship. Oh, you are? Yeah, but they didn't really do that back when your brother adopted.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
And then if you went back, like, if someone like you or I were adopted, they maybe wouldn't even tell you you were adopted.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. So who knows what's right and what's in the best interest. I think it might have been when my brother did it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, it's cool. Is it? It is. But, I mean, it's a lot of complexity and nuance, you know, because, you know, you're there to focus on your child. So it's like what's best for them, even though, you know, it's not what's best for me as mom. It's not what's best for them as first mom. It's like what, if you center the kid, like what really is best for them? So you have to take cues off them.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Remember, like, you want to go to the water park with, you know, these guys? And if they say yeah, you do it. If they say no, then you go, okay, we're not going to do it this time.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, it's heavy. But, I mean, it's like what we're talking about. Life is, right?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
What's he doing right now? He did pick up today. He's home. He's going to go do. You guys live here? We live right, yeah, like Los Feliz.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. Although I came earlier from press, so that took me like an hour and a half to get here.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, it wasn't even a junket. It was more like a 40-minute, like a 30-minute with peace and a this and a that.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, not the rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No, that's just for Smile 2, and then the other one comes out at the end of November.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Oh, yeah, like the one I told you about up in Vancouver.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Oh, you mean one that I haven't done yet?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
No. I kind of want to, yeah, I don't know. I really like the writing process. I mean, I guess you do that, too. Ron and I wrote that. I really enjoyed it. So I might, like you're saying, go write that movie. I liked scratching that itch.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah. You don't have the patience for it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I know. I kind of feel like that's how Ron and I are. I feel like I kind of come up with the rainbows. And then I'm like, how about, what if a scene, and then he can sit there and actually hyper-focus and hammer it out.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
But I'm very much like, I'm just going to talk the scene into my phone.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
That's like ADHD or something. Maybe that's what that is.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
Yeah, when you said, do you get scared? You know, like acting. And I'm like, no, but I want to be scared. I just got scared to see the jacket.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I know. Let's not get too sad too quick. I feel sad.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
You're going to make me cry like 10 seconds in?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I think we, like, shared some Zoom. That was it? Yeah, and then— Yeah, I'm more remember, I did Little Fires Everywhere with her when she started telling folks that you guys were meeting. So I just remember her kind of pulling me into her, you know, the sad kind of production office, those temporary ones and shutting the door and like locking it and be like, I have to tell you something.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1593 - Rosemarie DeWitt
I loved her. It's funny. I was on the way over here. Of course, I was thinking about her. And I was thinking about the way we know some people. And some people, we just know their souls. It's not like you spend Thanksgiving together. Your soul knows their soul. And that's just how I felt about her. And that's so few people in the world.