Tracy Letts

I think we skipped Hemingway and Gellhorn, which was made for HBO with Clive Owen.

Apparently, it's a very small part.

Like, maybe.

I haven't seen it.

There are good things about The Judge.

Hollywood movies at some point entered into a period where I got skeptical of a lot of Hollywood filmmaking, a lot of tropes of Hollywood filmmaking.

But there's good stuff inside The Judge.

I think it's one of my favorite Robert Downey Jr.

performances.

I really do.

I think Mr. Duvall brings out the best in –

Robert Downey Jr.

There are a couple of scenes they have in this movie when it gets really specific what's happened between these two characters.

And they're able to – they're not just archetypes.

They're able to access real information, specific information about who these people are, where they've come from, what they want, what they wanted, how they were disappointed.

They're really effective scenes.

I like that Duvall was nominated for this movie because it doesn't feel like just, oh, let's give the old man another nomination.

I mean, I think he's really doing something.

I think he's giving a real performance here.

Well, the courtroom stuff is just, I was like, come on, have you ever spent 30 minutes in a courtroom?