Director John Lee Hancock of “The Blind Side” and “The Little Things” on What a Director Does and Working with Denzel Washington + Movie Review: Without Remorse (Amazon) + Marvel Cinematic Universe Release Schedule (For Real This Time!)

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Speaker 1: I never know how to start these things, Like five weeks before, we're just going at this one. Hello, everybody, Welcome to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I am your host Movie Mike on Twitter and Instagram at Mike Destro. Have a really great episode for you guys. Today. I'm gonna be talking to director John Lee Hancock, who directed The Little Things. He's also done The blind Side, Would You Love Right Dead? Love with sign And he also did The Rookie He has. His name is John Hancock. Yeah, John Lee Hancock. Isn't that what you say when somebody you're John Hancock your signature was saying that's his name. Yeah, I was just saying the coincidence. Yes, his name is John Lee Hancock. Will talk to him about that movie, The blind Side, basically just what it's like to be a director on a big Hollywood movie. Kelsey, you're here to co host the podcast. And also when we talk about the movie Without Remorse and Michael B. Jordan's we'll talk about the new Marvel lineup that came out, a lot of stuff to talk about. Yeah, I actually, um, I just updated my Instagram bio to read unofficial co host and unpaid intern of the Movie Mike Movie Podcast. I would just like the unpaid intern parts, okay, because I do sometimes find you stories and sent you do you do send in movie news? You know, it's like a third job between my favorittime job in grad school. So I just I wanted to put that out there that I am the unofficial co host. All right, we'll get all that in this episode. There we go, and you also help me out when I can't speak yes, which is often all right. Well, without any further ado, let's get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking I MTV with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network Movie Movie Podcast, about to talk to director John Lee Hancock, who you probably know a lot of his movies. He's directed The blind Side, Little Rookie, Saving Mr Banks, The Founder, the Alumo, The Highwayman, and most recently directed a move we called The Little Things, which I have talked about on the podcast, starring Denzel Washington, Rommy Malick, and Jared Leto. So we'll get into the making of that movie, what it was like to direct three Oscar winning actors. And then I also have to ask him about the blind Side. And he's calling my cell phone now. So let's get into a conversation with John Lee Hancock. Hey, how's it going, John? I'm good, doing good. Hey, big fan of all your work. Excited to get to talk to you. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Well. I want to first talk about The Little Things, which is available now on blue ray and DVD. And you filmed this movie back in obviously at that time you didn't know what the world was gonna look like when the movie finally came out. But I myself, I watched it on HBO Maximum came out earlier this year, and now everybody's getting a chance and now watch it at home. How does that feel to you, Like, do you care if people experience what you've worked on on the big screen or you just care that anybody watches it in any capacity? I think it's I think it's both. I'm greedy that way. I would love people to have the opportunity to watch movies, uh in the theater. And I think you know, there's a certain spectacle to that with certain movies, and I do little things the big visual landscape to look at. That said, it's pretty great that so many people have had access to the movie through streaming. So I'm not I'm not completely agnostic about at all that I've had great both in the theater and with streaming. For yourself personally, like what if you're going to sit down and watch a movie, how do you want to take it and you want to go to the movie theater or do you want to sit down and watch it at home? I think it for me personally, it depends on you know, if it's if it's a movie I'm really excited to see, then yeah, I want to go to the theater. If it's if it's one that is kind of yes, you know some people some people like this and you go, well, I'll give it a try. Well that's that's more of a home thing. And that doesn't mean that sometimes you don't turn it on and become completely engrossed in it, um, but you like having the options at least I do to do both. When of filming, the little things like what's a typical day like for you as an actor? Like from when you wake up to when you get on set. How does that kind of go. It's a little different for every movement, but for the little things. We shot a lot of nights, so that means you're going to work at you know, one in the afternoon so that you can then start shooting and want to get dark and you know, and sometimes staying there until until first life the next morning. Um. But just in general, whether it's days or nights, you're you're there. You know, I wake up, I go through all my notes again, I've got done of the night before as well, go through all my notes, look at my different shot list and ideas and things to look for and put that in my pocket and then go to work. And you know that if the actors arrived, you have discussions with them about the day's work and they're prepared for it as well, and then you roper sleeves and start shooting. So what are those discussions like, Because you have i mean three Oscar winning actors here you're working with, what are those discussions in tail of like what you talked to them about before you get start it in to day. I think it's different for every actor you work with. Everybody has a different process and in a certain way. Every single actor he is a method actor, and that they have a method, you know, it leads to their excellence. And my job is to provide an atmosphere that allows them to do their best work. So, you know, one person might want to talk about specific details of wardrobe for seeing. Another actor might want to talk more philosophically about what the scene means. Another actor might just want to be reminded of where this scene that we're shooting falls and the linear, linear structure of the of the plot. So everybody is different, and that doesn't mean they're going to be the same from day to day either, And so you're just you're just there to help however you can it to kind of gently guide the story and the actors. When it comes to somebody like Denzel Washington, what do you Is there any really like? Is there like a direction you give him? Or is he more of this like, Okay, how do I get my scene here? I think the most important thing with a lot of actors, but with Denzel is having lots and lots and lots of discussions in prep, which was a huge advantage press on this money because he would call all the time with really good questions about scenes, and so like set up an office next to mine and prep and said just come in and we would sit for hours and talk about everything. We talked specifically about the scenes, about lines of dialogue, what they meant, but we would also talk about Joe Deacon and what music you listened to, kind of how he dressed at home, what his relationship you know, with his with his daughters. Is all these different things that aren't necessarily in the in the story, that are h into that. And so when you when you spent all that time talking ad nauseam about a scene, by the time you're there, I mean he would go he would go good drive and look at locations, um, you know, just on his own suss him out. So by the time we get there, we've talked about it so much that it's just kind of like I remember, we remember we talked about the how who was going to be over there? Well, there it is. And then you know, when you've got something like Denzel, the last thing you want to do is try to hobble them in any way. I mean just to say with Jared and Romney, and then you don't want to hobble them and say here's how it is in my head. Here it this way, because nobody wants to do that and you're not gonna end up with the best product. You want to work them to bring to the table. There the characters, they become quickly that they know more about the characters than you ever will, very quickly, even though I made up made the characters. So you want to give them a free reign to to do something something that is very exciting. I love that. That's great. You mentioned earlier about filming a night, which I kind of realized now thinking back on the movie, how it kind of had like this like almost like a blue and red tone in certain in certain scenes. Was it always the idea to kind of film it a night, to kind of give it that kind of more dramatic feel. Well, it was. It was written, you know with it was written with lots of night sentence. I just wanted to show how difficult the job was, UM, and the toll it took. And this was, uh, you know set and so it's pre b and a pre cell phones. You know, every cop had have a roll of quarters with them them, you know, to find in no where the cell phones would have made calls. UM and you just had to sit and stake out cars, and there was no CCTV um, you know, cameras everywhere and that kind of stuff, So it was just making it difficult. I think part of the difficulty is and you stay up all night watching the house in case somebody, you know, a suspect walks out. Um. So it was as it was as written, but that was just wanted to make it real. It really tough on these homicide coups. So when you finished the little things, what what is the run time, like the very start of it before it gets cut down any further, what's like the original the runtime? Well, you've got I mean, you're doing a simbolage, which is essentially your editor just putting all the scenes together in the order, and that's usually very very long before one you trimmed into the scenes into uh you know, you start your removed scenes. You don't need um. But gosh, what was then run two hours and forty five this or something? Maybe you know, maybe three hours, but you know it was that's the same for me. A run time for the Rookie was three hours as well, so it falls out pretty quickly. One of my favorite sports movies is The blind Side, And I think because with that movie, it's almost not so much just a movie that's focused on sports, but it's the idea that you can come from nothing and go on to accomplish great things. I think that's why that movie kind of resonated so much with me. And when you're doing that movie, how do you kind of play the line of following along exactly what happened in real life and also just making something that's compelling to watch? Well, I mean, for you know, job one is entertainment, right to make something compelling to watch or it's something that's moving. But I think before you take on a project, you look at it and say, how much of this is true? Uh, you know, and how much of this is made up? Stuff that supports thematically what what the movie is about. And you know, I just don't take on a project if you go half of this as hocum, because you know, you want to be as truthful as possible. They're always going to be You're always going to take there may be three different events that happened over the course of nine months and you put them all in the same week. And to me that that doesn't bother me. That within the realm of me saying this is a true story. But that's why everything says based on a true story, because you know it's it's one. There are actors playing real people, so it's not real. You know, Sandra Bullock, you know, was not was not in was not living in Memphis. So yeah, but I mean yeah, I think every every every different writer, director has their own has their own line they don't want to cross, and some of them have. Some of them say, I don't you know, I don't care to make stuff up. It's thematically in line with what we're doing. I work in country music. I work on a country music morning show, and I know Tim McGraw as the country artists more so than I did like the act What is the actor Tim McGraw? Like, I mean, Tim was, Tim was a big, big star and he he was doing some had done some acting, was quite good, I thought, um, but was interested in in playing the role. And Billy Bob Thornton put us together and we started talking and I didn't want to. I didn't want it to be kind of stunt casting. I didn't want it to be Oh, and they got Tim McGrath, even I thought, even though I thought he was great in Friday Night Lights, that this was kind of a different character, and he this is great with him. He put himself on tape for the role and and did two or three scenes from it with Faith reading with him and sent him to me, and I thought he was terrific. And that's so I said, great. My final question for you is, with things kind of opening back up, we're getting back into the movie theaters, how do you think the overall movie going experience will change. Are we going to go to a place to where things become more available like on like on streaming the day they are also releasing theaters, or the kind of just going back to just full on theater releases. I think probably a combination of of of everything. I think one thing that that probably will happen is at the bare minimum that the windows have already shrunk for some movies. You know, and I understand, if you've got a big blockbuster movie, it can sustain itself for you know, sixty days or ninety days in a in a theater and still continue to make money. Whereas you know, other movies, adult dramas, things like that pretty much at you know, a thirty day window is all they can is all they can hold. So I think that that kind of a window that is not one size fits all, but it fits to the movies and whatever relationship studios and the theaters have. But I think so, you know, there will for some movies, there will there will be a streaming compound in a theatrical component. I believe. I think theaters will come back and come back strong. I think everybody's going to be wanting to go to the theater. I know I certainly can't wait to be able to be back in the theater um. But we'll see, We'll see if there's a delineation between you know, blockbusters are for theater and adult dramas are for you know, streaming services. I don't. I don't know. Do you think that changes anything of like how you're going to approach your next movie of like okay, that could kind of go and be that in between. No, I mean, I mean, you know, when I made The Highwayman for Netflix, which was a great experience. I made it, you know, like it's going to be seen in the theater. You don't, you don't you don't ever shoot it, so you go, oh, so somebody can watch it on their phone. Or watch it on you know, their their monitor on their computer or something. You make it the same way, um to be seen in the theater. And you know, and and Netflix to your credit, you know, put the home and in theaters for you know, a couple of three weeks before it was streaming. So no, you do you do it. You do it exactly. I mean I do it exactly the same one. We'll appreciate the time, John, Everybody go watch the little Things, get the blue ray, watch it again and they dreal mags do all the things. Appreciate the tive. Thanks Mike. I'm gonna get into a movie review now. Kelsey, you are back. You hung outside of the room and I did an interview, right, okay, you think it went okay? I think I was taking my final when you did your interview. Do I sound like an idiot just saying just hearing one half of an interview? I didn't hear you because again, I was taking a final. Okay. You were focused on trying to finish grad school. There you did, and you did it this week? Did I finished? So proud of you. Think it's amazing you have it all. I have three letters after my name. Now, what are the letters again. M p oh, so you have an MPH and also the unpaid intern on this podcast, I do. I have a lot of time. Gotta go update my resume. Well, we're gonna get into talking about without remorse. Um, I like Michael B. Jordan. Do you like him? Do you find him attractive? Find him very attractive? It's got weird to say no. After watching this movie, I was like, I think I finally no. I got it before, but this one really solidified it. So before we get into that, here's just a little bit of the trailer. They took everything from me, my family, I got nothing left a series of strategic attacks the world. We have to respond. I need to be on that team. A commander career, you'll lead the mission. So what this movie is about is Michael B. Jordan's character. He is a Navy seal and he is avenging the murder of his wife, who is pregnant in the movie, and then kind of discovers this whole larger, bigger conspiracy that's going on. And it's not that I wasn't expecting to like this movie. I just liked it in a different way than I did, if that makes sense. Because it's pretty much a full on action movie. You don't really have to know a whole lot about the backstory. You kind of get that all in the movie. But I think it's a very easy watch. And watching this movie in about twenty minutes in, I was like, this is a movie that your dad would love. Yeah that was We both looked each other and we were like, my parents would love they would love this, And I think that's a movie. This is a movie that will It's kind of an easy pleaser. You could put it on and like a big audience would like it. Like I think it could be a perfect just wide release of like, oh, anybody could go in and watch this movie. And we're past Mother's Day now, but with Father's Day coming around, if you need a movie to watch with your dad, I think this is a really good one. I don't think this would have screamed Mother's Day lest your mom finds Michael B. Jordan's attractive and then she might have wanted to watch this. Maybe you did. But it's violent, but I think not more violent than any other war movie, or actually wasn't like gratuitously violent. Yeah, it's not as bloody as some other recent movies. It's not as bloody as that. What did you watch last week? The one with Bob Nobody? Yeah, that's a lot more. That was literally just I walked in the room and watched like the last twenty minutes and it was just like blood everywhere. Yeah, it's the gunfire is all pretty much just basic what you would see in an action movie. There's no like straight on head shots. You don't see a lot of blood or brains. So I think in that regard, would you let your brother to watch this? Yeah, they've watched worse. How old are your brothers there? Eleven and fifteen? Is that right? They both had a birthday since the last time that I was checking with you, eleven and fifteen, So I think they could watch this movie. I mean it's I'm pretty sure my eleven year old brother watched Jackass a couple of weeks ago. Because I asked you, I was like, one age, did you start watching Chack? I mean I started watching Jackuys in like third grade? Okay, there we go. Maybe now, maybe later than that because it came out, but yes, they could watch it. They watch all the Marvel movies. I feel like this one was it R. Yeah, it is rated R. Well, yeah, they probably still want to watch it. Yeah, there's no over the top cursing, there's no nudity. It's just like the violence. But there's really nothing in this movie you wouldn't see on like broadcast television these days, they play video games. Yeah, so what did you think overall about this movie? I thought it was good. I mean I didn't I don't even think I read the description of it going into it. I think I was just like, oh, Michael B. Jordan's action movie wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but it kept me entertained. I don't think you're gonna walk away from this movie and think like, man, I gotta tell everybody gonna go watch this movie. But one, it's easily accessible. It's on Amazon. I thought they were going to charge like an extra fee to watch it. Nope, it's free to watch. I thought that was a win there. And then also I found like I didn't have to think a lot while watching this movie, and that's a little bit refreshing sometimes. And I will also say Jody Turner Smith was great and it Yeah, as like the I would say she was the female lead, Yeah she is. She was awesome in it. And overall, there's nothing that this movie is trying to do that it doesn't accomplish. I think it kind of knows what kind of movie it is. It's not going to try to be like a really deep movie. It's not really going for another level of like here's Michael B. Jordan's the situation. You feel for his character. You watch him go through these crazy things, which there was a lot of like cool action sequences, like there's a scene again spoiler free where they go down in a plane and then they're underwater and that whole kind of sequence is like it was that's probably hard to film. Yeah, that was really that one. Like they did such a good job that it made me feel claustrophoe, but yeah I did. And when you know movies done a good job is when you feel like you're in that situation and they're not going to make it. You also felt kind of uneasy at the start of this movie because you know what's coming. The whole premise of the movie is that he is going after these guys who murdered his wife. I did Hide under the Blanket and you refused to watch, which I never understood that, Like, even in scary movies. Why do you hide I don't know, because I don't want to see it. It might give me nightmares. But I told you it was saved to come out. I don't know. I just don't like watching stuff like that, like knowing what was coming and they didn't really show it in the movie. But still it's just like suspense things. I can't handle that. It just freaks me out. I don't like suspense, So suspense is not your thing. What about violence on this level? Like that's what I was talking about last week and I reviewed Nobody, Like what's your level of violence? It's a good question. Is it gunshot to the head or is it just over use of blood? Or is it just straight up horror violence? Like where where do you kind of draw the line of Like I'm out, definitely no horror violence. I'm trying to think, like zero Dark thirty was almost a little too violent that I would say zero dark thirty is the line, Okay, yeah, I would say this is below that. Yeah, there's just I don't even know how to describe it. There's just like certain things I can't watch. It's not even like blood, Like I love medical shows. I can watch yark, I can watch crazy Anatomy. That doesn't bother me. It's just something about the level of violence in which the blood is brought about. I'll counter with the other thing you're really into, which I'm also into, is Dr pimple Popper, which that's another level of but sometimes I can't. I'm kind of surprised you're into that, to be honest, Now, I love that kind of have like a like too graphic to show that you don't watch I can't watch those, but just like a nice black head. Yeah, so you like them more, just like the lower scale Dr pimple Popper at home you do you get really mad at me. I run away from from you and you'r Dr pimble Popper. I like the one the SI those are my favorite. I've been in the Doctor pimple Poppa for a while. I can't watch if it's like two people are gonna stop listening, if it's too like lickey And that's all all says. This has been our tangent on pimple popping, insists and things that come out of the body. But back to the movie. If you had to rate this movie, what would you rate it? Three point seven five out of five passports. Oh that's a pretty that's a pretty solid score. I would give it three point five out of five Russians. I just added up point to five because Michael B. Jordan takes a shirt off a few times. Oh okay, I mean he does look really good in this movie. There's the scene where he gets shot up and then he's in the hospital. I'm like, how did he stay still ripped after spending time in the hospital, Like, I have to work so hard just to maintain what I have and he goes through being shot down, and is they able to still be ripped? Man? The movies movies? Um, but yeah, I feel like it's I also like that it's not a straight on war movie, which I would I wouldn't been in a place to watch a straight on a warm movie. It's more of like this little team of soldiers. It's like a like a recondission. There you go. I think that's why I liked it. So if you want to watch that movie, hop over to Amazon and check it out. All Right, So I've kind of been talking about recently how I'm not excited for all the new Marvel stuff coming out. I'm like, you know what, at the end of Endgame. I was kind of good. I wasn't really excited about all the things, and as they kept delaying everything, I was like, I don't know that I even want to watch it when it comes out. My excitement level for Marvel has kind of gone down. And that's coming from somebody who's seen every single Marvel movie and it's been all about it for so long. But then last week they dropped that three minute trailer, and the overall kind of message behind that trailer then putting it out is like they're ready for people to come back together and watch Marvel movies. And after watching that trailer, I'm a little more hype now. I think I'm hype again. I think it's just because you haven't been able to go see a movie. Yeah, And I think that's what it reminded me of because in that opening sequence to that trailer, they show the scene that came up that was out on the internet. Of all the people watching Endgame on opening night in the theater, you hear the roar when the big scene happens and the entire theater erupts, and their whole thing is like, we're ready to come back together again to experience movies. To experience these characters. This is what it's all about, this is what Marvel is great at. And I kind of forgot that. It's been so long since I've had that feeling and experience that and remember what that was. That it's not only a movie you're watching on the couch, taking in the story and trying to take apart what you like from it. It's also a shared experience. And I think that's why I loved Marvel, and I kind of forgot about that. I think we all kind of have lost that feelings example, So watching that trailer again, I was like, you know what, I am ready to get back into a theater and watch a Marvel movie. And we're both fully backs now. I think we're ready to kind of enter back into society a little bit. But I still think going to see an actual movie in theaters is still kind of down there on the list. Like for me, I'm I'm still looking at what's available for you know, on demand, Like that's why I watched Nobody last week. That's also why I haven't seen Four Good Days with Me Lacoonist because it's only in theaters. I want to watch it, but I'm like, I'm not ready to go back for that. That's not the movie that's going to get me back into a theater yet. We also don't have a free weekend for the next time. That's also too We're pretty fast. But anyway, they released the schedule now. Black Widow comes out on July nine, which I am excited for if anything else in between would make me excited to go back to the theater. I think July nine is the date plans that weekend too, so we won't be seeing that one, okay, but maybe I'll sneak off and wanting him. I'm just kidding, day get Marvel, Why do you have to move with to July nine? Anyway, that's coming out, maybe I can see it early on September three. Shang Chai and The Legend of the Ten Rings comes out on November five. The Eternals comes out December seventeen. Spider Man No Way from Home comes out. Yeah. I am super excited about that one. And there's been a lot of theories going around on what's going on with that movie. If they're bringing back Tobey Maguire, if they're bringing back Andrew Garfield. Andrew Garfield has said in an interview that he has not been contacted. We need to rewatch the last one. But here's what he had to say. Listen, I can't speak for anything else but for myself, Like like they might be doing something, but then I ain't none, like I ain't got cold. Doesn't sound like he's lying to you, like I I don't think he is, Like I don't think. I think something is going on there because there's been so much speculation. But I've kind of been tired of this speculation, Like I just want them to announce it. I don't know how secretive they would be about this, which Marvel is because there's some stuff that leaked online of like crew members wearing the shirt with like clues to who's in the movie. They've been saying that Toby maguire is going to be in it. But I don't really fall into the speculation. I just want to know when it's announced, if he's in it or not. He doesn't, It doesn't to me. It doesn't sound like he's really aware of it. But he could also be lying and throwing people off the trail, but I think that would be I just think if those three actors were all in one movie, that's what they would be using to promote it. Do you think they would hide that. I don't think they would hide that. I also don't know how they would do that, and I don't know if it would be that great. Yeah, I just I just think they would be that would be like the main thing, like here's Spider Man, here's coming back, We're doing this big thing, And that's what Marvel would be. So I am looking forward to that, whatever it is. The last one I thought was really good and probably underrated, I would say, but excited for that one. Marvel spider Man just my favorite superhero. Who's yours? Oh? Marvel? Anyway? Black Widow, Really I didn't know that. How did I not know that? Why wouldn't it be a female followed by Spider Man? There you go. On March now we're getting into two. We got Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. I don't think I've seen any of the doctors. Really, wasn't that on our list? Yeah? Oh, it is on the list. You need to watch those um On May six is Store Love and Thunder. I think that one will be really good. On July eight, they announced it's called Black Panther. Wakonda Forever. So it's basically going to be now in homage to Black Panther as Chadwick Boseman, which I think would be good. I liked that they gave it that title. I think that kind of they were wondering on whether or not how to address his death and if you're just gonna kind of move on from his character. But I think this movie will be pretty powerful. And then on November eleventh, two you have The Marvels, which is actually Captain Marvel two, but they're calling it the Marvels because they are bringing in the character from wand Division. Monica Rambo from Wan Division is going to be in that movie, so they're calling it the Marvels. There's also a third character that could be great. February three is ant Men in the Wasp. You still have to watch those. I think those those are more funny than they are just straight on normal superhero movies. I think they're probably down there on the list for me, but I still enjoy those. That's so long, you know how I feel about movies coming out that far out. I could be dead by that, Oh my gosh. And then May five is guarding into the Galaxy volume three, So that's a long time away. But I think all of these are set in stone now, like this isn't gonna move again. It better not move again, otherwise this segment will make sense later. So for the sake of the credibility of this podcast, Marvel, do not move any more dates or I will go insane. You know how I feel about not seeing a Marvel movie in almost two years. I'm rolling my eyes because you're getting a little dramatic. Gonna throw this table, okay, okay, well, anyway, that's Marvel news. All right, we'll finish this up with the movie news. Now. I saw a picture of Mark Wahlberg, who is getting ready for a new movie called Father stew and he has put on twenty pounds in three weeks. So he posted a picture of him all like ripped up, and then a picture of him kind of with like a gut. Now, I know I've had to do dumb things for work. How do you feel about this? I think it's stupid having to do crazy things for work. Yes, are we talking about you or Mark Wahlberg both? What if I had to put on twenty pounds for work in three weeks, that's just not healthy. Yeah, I mean he's working with like a nutritionist to gain weight in a healthy manner. But that's a lot of weight to put on really quick. I think he's I mean the thing about Mark Wallberg, he has such a crazy workout routine beforehand that I feel like his body can take it on. But it's also I mean, kind of a shock to your body if you go so long eating healthy, working out all the time and then you go into this kind of mode. Yeah, because I feel like he had to like eat so much to gain twenty pounds because his metabolism is probably ridiculously high from working out. Yeah. The other thing I think about situations like this is whenever somebody wins an oscar for some kind of body transformation, it's usually losing weight or putting on a lot of weight. But I know, like Chris Hemsworth, who is super ripped up, He's like, I don't get taken seriously because I am like this, like because I'm so muscular. But I think that's a whole other thing to like to maintain the level of body it takes to be sore. I think that's a thing within itself of like yo, like that's an amazing accomplishment too. I know it's not a dramatic change of like dropping weight like Christian Bale would do, you know, one or the other way. But I think that's another thing, like even the Rock maintaining what he is to do those kind of movies, Like that's a great accomplishment, but you don't see them really getting wreck nice for that, So props to Mark Wahlberg, who I think is an underrated actor. Marky Mark Marquis Mark. But the most recent dumb thing I did for work, which if you don't know, I am a writer and producer on the Bobby Bones Show. I had to carry around a purse for a week, which you weren't a big fan of. Were you less a big fan of me having to carry around the purse? And when I had the idea of pepper spraying myself, don't even get me started on the peppers. So it would be the pepper spray. That was the dumbest thing you've ever done. Yeah, I mean the purse thing. It was more I felt more embarrassed, and I think you did. Yeah, I don't care if you carry a purse, yeah, And I was just more annoyed of like having to remember it all the time. Yeah, it was kind of funny every morning when I was half asleep and link, don't forget your purse today. Yeah that was hard because I was like, I'm so used to just taking my normal things. Having to add on a purse is where I found the trouble, Like, I don't care what people think about me. Yeah, guy wearing a purse. Who cares? They're not going to see me or remember me the next time I go there. The pepper spray was by far also because you came home and forgot that you probably shouldn't give me a kiss. Yeah, and then my lips burned for an hour. That was my bad, that was your bad. So but I mean, I think that's a part of me having this type of job that you've kind of had to adapt to, and I commend you for it. I mean, and a lot of the times I'm not even the ones having to do the dumb things. Other people on that you have to do much dumber things. I just sometimes come up with the ideas that you come up with the dumb and get looped into it. That one backfired on me because that started out was an idea I had. I was like, yeah, I'll submit it and it probably won't be me, and it was yeah, and you really kind of take one of your purses to work, and I was like, probably not giving you my good purse. So I carried around an abbey's old purse for which, let me say this abby got way more. I feel like she got secondhand hate because everybody was dogging on the purse. I was like, gets the abbey's purse. This is the purse look like a purse. Like, who's gonna want the older Yeah, who's going to offer up a nice purse for somebody else to carry around for a week? Yeahs like Lunchbox getting it? And I was like, for sure not getting Lunchbox my nice purse. But anyway, that'll wrap it up for movie News And before I hop out of here, every single week I give a shout out to one of you guys listening. Anybody who sends me a d M on Instagram, a message on Facebook, or tweets me at my d stro or we have the email movie Mike d at gmail dot com. And this one actually comes to us from Twitter from Brian Brown, who was talking about last week's episode about the best years in film and he said, I really enjoy your podcast and agree there are a lot of good years in movies. I'm more of an eighties and a nineties movies guy and wanted to give you a look at a great year. Here are the top ten highest grossing movies from four and all are considered classics. And I looked at this year and I think it's a pretty solid list. You have Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Gremlins at the Karate Kid, Police Academy, Footloose, and then some other ones in the top ten there. But I think that first top seven is a pretty strong case for so appreciate you Ryan for listening and for tweeting, and for everybody else who makes this a part of You're a week. That's a big deal to me, especially people who listen on Mondays. We love the Monday listeners, don't We love the Monday Monday crew. I don't have a name for you, guys. I don't think you guys need a name. I just know you have a place in my heart. The movie Monday Ars, the movie Monday Ars. I'm just going off the dome here, Okay. The monthy I kind of like the Monday crew. Okay, I'm sure whatever, We'll appreciate you guys for listening. Hope you enjoyed the interview. Until next week, we will talk to you then later