Beanie Feldstein

Well, welcome, welcome, welcome to our next. I'm expert on joint by MNE nominated Monica Nannam. And I'm a lawyer, MNE. Is my senior enemy?

Oh. Like a different. Today we have Beanie Felt's dean. She's an incredibly talented actress.

She was a neighbor's two. So he's already rising. Ladybird now in a very celebrated book smart. Just as number one movie of the year, she also was a real standout in the Broadway production of Hello Dolly.

And she has a new movie, How to Build a Girl. She's fantastic Beanie Felt's dean. We love her. So much.

A real armchair, which is always the best kind of guest. It was the first thing I wanted to my fact, because of the time I love Beanie. Yeah. He's an entrepreneur.

He's an entrepreneur. Your five years are senior, though. Almost six. Thanks for finding out.

We're not in the senior area. 100 years old. What's really funny is yesterday we talked to Ben. And I think 1993 was the earliest birth date I'd had written down.

And then now it's second 1993. I'm being mensled to the day. You all have so much. It shows.

It shows me your journey. But for me, it's particularly painful because that's the year I graduated high school. So you know, just thinking that you got brought home from the hospital on the day. I was celebrating.

It's a little rough for me. So could have been right there. Oh, I certainly was planning the rest of my life, right as your parents were contemplating what you're like. Yeah.

You have an interesting birth order dynamic and minus similar as severe. My brother is five years old or the me. And the sister is six and a half years younger than me. So between them is a gap of 11 and a half years.

And between you and Jordan, 16 years. Yeah, 15 and a half. Wow. We hear the youngest.

And the youngest. Oh, yeah. That's special. That's 17 and a half years.

So it was mom super young with Jordan and she was with you. Well, it's her family. She was 22 when she had him. Okay.

38 when she had a family. I don't want to get you too revved up this early. I don't know why. I don't know why.

You'll find that lead you many times into giving numbers like that. Yeah, the whole thing was a trap. The whole thing was a trap. I was actually trying to imagine how old your mother might have been.

But there's 38. That's not exactly that's so normal. But in 1993, that was on the older side. You know, it's a lot of my friends have parents around that exact age.

But I think that was just sort of becoming the kind of strange. I think it's an LA thing versus a mission thing. Like at least when I'm from people got after it right on the gate. So I don't have a 20, six year old myself.

But I define my movie to hear people like, oh, they were a longer memory. They had a certain way longer of kids. Yeah. And so maybe a little more normal.

I was just in my friend and she was like, I'm 29. I'm going to get child brought. I think that's definitely a more recent and coastal thing for sure. Yeah.

And I remember like maybe 16 of my moms took me to Germany for the first time. And we learned that like people live with their parents into the 30s. And we're like, so bizarre. Yeah.

And now it seems to be a little more normal here. I feel like it's a little bit of a direction we've gone. Agreed. You've grown on sandals, which for me having been from Detroit and looking at this place and watching Beverly Hills now, I have a fantasy of what it was like to grow up in my mind.

And then you can find me in fact your parents are actually in this industry. Yeah. Yeah. That's certainly an outskirt.

My mom is trained at FIT in New York as a costume designer. Fashion Institute of Technology. Very explosive. High seeing.

Yeah. So she went to New York University for years and then turned her to FIT. And it was too great that night. I think it's now too or four.

And she trained as a costume designer. She's remarkably creative. And a force of nature. She walked in the room like every single person in the crowd was from a church.

She's just magic. She's a black actor. A hundred percent. Oh, wow.

So I'm excited about that. It's a diamond. Oh, I'm like, oh, one of them. And we got five gentlemen.

Yeah. Exactly. And isn't it called the button? Probably should be the book.

So she trained at FIT. It was a costume designer. She did a few sitcoms. Most of the comic she wrote her biggest at FIT.

is taxi. My parents were like, Richie, my parents met at summer camp. And I'm almost 13. And I'm like, oh, well, well, okay.

We're still all under 18 nights. Yeah, it's not great. It's not really, not ideal, especially in this day. I mean, you're like 14, 14, 14, 14, 13 and 17 has a different connotation.

But we have best friends who they met at that age. I mean, like to know that, they're not married for many years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know my parents were married for 43 years.

Yeah, yeah. And I'm not guessing right in this one, Jewish away camp. Not specifically Jewish, but generally also are camps or vaguely Jewish. Well, right, not that people are not around allowed Jewish people to understand this.

But Jewish folks love to send their kids to camp. I know a little bit about why this happened. Oh my God. It sounds like why are they all the other kids in faith?

We do. You don't have to pray anything, but they're Asian, but on Friday, should you want to go around? And it's because when we moved to the States, as a people, we were crammed in tenants, on the lower side, we were crammed. And they wanted their kids to experience the outdoors and have space and also get them out of their small space.

And so they created these camps. So probably started in your tradition. Yes, I think so. Now, the beauty of it to me seems at least.

Like I think we had Zap Raffon, and he was saying that camp saved his life. In a state of order, he was like the same way. Oh, probably. I think it was a theater camp that he was talking about.

But he was saying in general school, he was fine, whatever, but he would go to the camp, and he was got him John Travolt at this camp. And I feel like that's a really nice experience. No, it was only a year. I went to both a normal camp, but I got campfire and the lake, and then I went to state of the state.

In state of Georgia, in New York. It's in upstate New York. And it's a beautiful performing arts, mostly theater camp. It was wonderful.

And I loved, I loved just normal sports singing songs and then I'm on. I have a camp too. And what age did you start going? Oh my god, it's like, okay, you're going away.

You're going away from three thousand miles away from the building and all that. Well, my parents are such New Yorkers specifically my mom that I grew up here, they don't feel like an LA person. I felt like we were very much East, those people were always looking to go back, it's like we would go East for holidays and all summer basically. Okay, so when you go away, wait a minute, what is this start?

I started 10. I just turned 10. In New York, while you're there to do their own thing, whatever weird stuff they get to. No, no.

The value of my parents is that every year, I mean, it still happens to happen a week ago, when they were alone together, and then I meet them after they didn't go and they'll start to get away. I'm always like, we were perfect. The whole time, and now of course, we're fighting for the other, this happens every year, like literally since I was like, you were very pretty now, of course. You got to get my side, I'm like, oh my god, I don't believe that you were perfect.

No, it's just you do that at home. I believe her, because you're in a relationship, yeah. Yes. Okay, and so you have to compromise a bit.

What do I think you can get down the road? There's no reason for you to deal with this today, right? But when you have kids, you have a set of course of action today, that you both have to agree on, and it's very fucking stressful because you're different people, and that makes perfect sense. You think I'm like 40 years, they were just like, oh, not, and you're like, oh, no, it's hard.

It's always like clinging to me, we're perfect when you were here, and I'm like, what is this about me? I know, it also came to me when I was around. It also scares me, because their job's been over for eight years, and yet it still may be causing that conflict to compromise. No, it just happened, they went on a cruise together, and then my girlfriend and I saw them and they'd be like, ah, I take my side, and I was like, oh, I'm in the car after my car, I take my car, but now I'm currently 26, and I was having some flashbacks to that conversation.

But you're going to TV at nine, right? You want to ABC sitcom? For one, if I could have been just walking through the background and seeing something I would unbatflip. You know, looking back, it was half a day, my dad took me, it was just singing, and I always sang during other night, I was in a time musical, so I don't think I fully understood that it was going to be on TV.

It was my wife and kids, and the setup was that the parent of correcting school play, and so it was all the auditions for the school play. So I was just in like a little, elementary school auditorium, seeing which felt very normal to be in school. So I was like, here I am, I'm from town, and you're a little fish and water. There was no stand-on-your-mark, there was no, here's my camera, it was just standing saying, right, parent of my elementary school wrote on my kids.

And Janice Harsh, she was unbelievable, like a pioneer, she has polio and is, one of my was like, and right, her is in the 70s and 80s, and she's like a total badass, and I'm like, and they had this whole setup, and she was like, being cast as same. Yeah, so it was more just like, hey, you want to do this, not like you were pursuing this on any level. No, my parents kind of kept me away from it. Yeah, they did a bad job.

It's 66% of you ended up in a film. Did mom costume design in this industry? Yeah, I'm like, the lady, he's early 90s, not when I was really growing up. And then she did personal styling.

She's like, she's like, I'm gonna do it anymore. Yeah, she's the romantic in the passionate one in your, obviously, it doesn't count. Yeah, she's like deeply pragmatic, a lot of all, that's an ounce. He's a norm core, is that a passion for this?

My nephews when they were like, pull their puddles, they're just like, oh, just like take a little, was it a positive of the money? Is, where is that endeavor is a counting? He did end up in maybe the coolest dynamic you could end up in a counting, wasn't he that two were counting for guns and roses? Yeah, you know, it's so funny, this is always really true.

My dad is a completely self-made man, he came from nothing, he had a bit of traumatic trial, and he lost his dad very young, and his mom, and he's a true self-made human being. And all of that is true, but it's just so funny when you know him, because there's no creative decision making involved in doing some in taxes. So they're like, you can show him on, you're like creative parents, and we're like, sure, I mean, like, my dad started having most of these clients, and then now he has actors and other people as well, but it started off from nearly as just music. And he managed you and Joan as shit.

He does, and I have to pay him. Oh, God, I think it was honestly, oh, I'm doing well, I'm making you pay you, but that's okay. Yeah, it's like respect for me, but it's like, but he does, yeah. Oh, that's really, let me just say this, I have a business manager, I'm ashamed to admit that, I feel like that's a family myself that I should be managing all my finances, but I'm not, about four years ago, really good friend of Monica and I, he's an SD-Sown in Nashville.

He said, so I hope you all at this business manager, he was like, I was like, oh, I'm like, oh, well, I'm not even going to check, see if it's there, that's a bad thing we've been able to see, but I'm just going to say that, it's not accurate. How does he mean time? I can't do it, it's very specific. He's a very charismatic person.

Anyways, I was involved, I'm talking to you. Anyways, I got home, I got really insecure about this, and I gotta do this, like I'm being trusted by Christians, I'm managing all of our stuff. So I called my guy, I love him. I called him, I go, hey, I don't wanna make this awkward between us, but I've decided to audit you, and he goes, oh, no problem, it all comes back, everything's on the up and up.

I feel great, I call Howard, I'm not even going to be on it, I'm not even going to be on it, I'm not even going to see nail polish color, but it's close, it's very close. It's very close, as you're talking to people. I don't know where Maka ends, and being a genius. I know, I love it.

I was like, this is gonna be a much better, very blurry around me, but he wants to get the guns and roses manager, so that is kind of like a feather in your cap, of cool factor. Again, I went born, so many families were in my house, I went before you were born XYZ, so I can't really speak to the specificity of it. I'm not asking you to talk to school, but if you ever personally said, Dad, what was Axel Rose like, great. How does specifically be with Axel Rose?

Although I should, but I have with some other people. Okay, good, good. I wonder ethically where the line is, I wonder if I can contrast to the stars in my daughter. So, I'm the mental, well, being if I were to say I can tell you, I mean, I think I should.

I'm gonna show you what I want to know. But I wouldn't tell you, right? I would say that if there's a line I'm down across it, and I'm very much the same way, like deeply afraid of authority. And it plays me like every minute of every day.

So, were you a rule file or going up? Yes, totally interesting. Interesting. So my wife is very much a rule file.

One of our two children loves the rule. It's a rule file. Yeah. Which we can't really transpose onto you, many of these dynamics that would happen, like, baby, the family, we built all that kind of stuff.

Right. It's sort of like a mixture of an only child in the youngest. Because I've been lonely with my parents, and we know it's often that it was like, and we found we have siblings. Right.

And is it safe to assume, because I have heard Jonah both in real life. He loves you so much. I mean, we love the podcast. We love all the time.

It's just the truth. But when he speaks about you on Howard Stern, it's like, you know what? Everyone sit down, because you're going to hear how I wonder if he's the next 12 minutes. It's like, it's like, it's like, the only time Howard can't see her.

It's like, no, you're going to hear about how much I love my sister. That's so sweet. But what age did you guys have a connection like that? You always said, when I was 14, he realized I was a person.

That's fair. Yeah, which is fair. Like, up until then, you're just sort of like this bumbling little thing, and then extension of him, his sister. Right.

In relation to him. And I think like 14, 15, which times I was high school, he was like, 8, 9, 14, 14, 5. And he was like, oh, she's here, and she's OK. And he can ask that you guys had a conversation where he was like, oh, wait, the lights on inside this person.

Or did he watch you perform and go, oh, this person, so was there an event that triggered it? I think I was always trying to be like, hey, my lights on. And he was just on his own path. Sure.

I do remember once, he was like 11. And I was like, don't know how old you think I am. He was like, 6. Ah, no.

No. I was, yeah. So I was like, I don't know. I think it was more just a little sister thing.

You carry that around with you. But then I was like in high school. And I went along with his friends. And his friends would start to ask me about my life.

And that sort of opened up. You kind of needed something to see someone through someone else's lens. 100%. And I think also he was 24, 25, 26.

And you don't really care so much about all that stuff that you cared more about in adolescence or early teens. He was more settled. And he was like, come here. This is the best.

I love you so much. It's almost like a sharp turn. That's the reason I did with the sibling. I'm going to find out I have a sister.

And I can't watch what they're in a zuric. And she's so crazy. I'm so delighted to know I have this person. And I was like, I'm a door one.

And I was like, hello. It is challenging senior siblings as human beings that are special and unique. Totally. Sorry you definitely like when I was younger.

He always loved kids. And so he was so excited that I was around. he was at 1617. And he very much was with my mom in helping her a lot.

But you know, I was like, come on, maybe we're on a really struggling with that. So they think it took him a little bit where I'm coming around. Now do you think of any little sister syndromes? And I can only compare this to my own situation, which is I often feel bad that she grew up in a house where I was older.

And so just by default, what I did was kind of cool. But what I did was very masculine and male and biting and dirt bikes and all this stuff. I just wonder what impact that has on a little female in the house. Yeah, the only thing I can think of it is I was like, I really am struggling to catch up on my movie intake.

And Jonas is such a signifier. He's like an encyclopedia knowledge about films. And to say, I don't feel like you haven't seen that. I'm like, no, and I'm like, the deep shame.

I'm like, he's so cool. And he knows everything. I'm like pathetic. And I know nothing.

Right. That's the only time I feel it now. Although you identified with me and you're very much grew up here. You went to school here.

And I would have prior to talking to Ben Platt, your best buddy. Yes. You know, he has one after the other. How old kids did he is.

It's too perfect. You were beyond excited. Many attacks were that we did. And so I've already been corrected on this.

So I can't even make the same point. But I had an idea of what Harvard West is. I imagine I'd go there and feel less than everyone else. And people would have famous parents.

And people would be billionaires and all that. And to me, I just feel like I would have been very feeling less than quite often. Ben didn't have that experience. He loved that place.

You feel the same? I loved it so much. But academically, I definitely felt less than. OK.

I loved academics in elementary school. And I applied for like seven grade. And at that point, I was like, super in 11. I'm like super in that.

I'm like super in that. And my brother's gone to college. I was my two British and less. And I was like, I would like English and 3D subjects.

I would like to sit at a desk. I kind of wanted that. I kind of wanted that. Exactly.

I needed more girls than I had other girls. And people were very loose. And I think I kind of craved some more structure. But then it got incredibly difficult academically.

Which is what I anticipated. I couldn't quite keep up with the level I expected to keep up. But wasn't that I couldn't keep up. But I thought I was a straight day person.

You weren't in the top 10% of all of us. It was. No, I was. I was wondering if I could expose.

So I struggled in high school academically. Socially, I loved it. And our group of friends is like the most special wonderful group of people. And our still our best friends to this day.

So socially, I was great. But academically, I really had big ups and downs. Like some years I really tried. And other years I was too afraid to try.

Because if I try and fail, that will hurt so much more. It's all my friends are seeing it like such a high level. It's really really a human being. And then something clicked like before junior year, thank God.

Because that's like what, you know, really flattering. Yeah, exactly. And I sort of was just like, all right, I'm going to start trying. And I didn't do perfect.

But I definitely did much better. But then it wasn't until I got to college that I really found myself academically. I was listening to you in college on Mark Marron. Oh.

And you were talking about the year in anthropology major. Yeah. So excited because I was a sociology major in college. And I didn't know any other actor or performer person that had gone down that path.

Yeah. I'm clean. That's so cool. He's so cool.

You went to Wesley. Wesley. Wesley. Oh, I was laying his.

Okay. And you already obviously had a great interest in acting. I'm singing in Broadway and all that stuff. So why not major in that?

Yeah. It's a good question. I visited so many schools that were like the FA programs to study musical theater. And then I visited a lot of like smaller schools more generally just like you ever want.

And I gone to stay for a manner for so many years. And I did like five musicals a year growing up. And I think I was just like I love how you love the phone, but I can't talk about her every single day in my life for the next four years. Like I had a little bit of great or like her nippers or whoever it is.

Yeah. I love them so much. But I need a break from musical theater. I think to find a way back to it, my brain needs a break from this I think in order to do better.

I don't know. I just felt academically I didn't want to be there. I wanted to perform that. But I didn't want to study it in an institutional classroom setting.

That didn't feel right. And I was like, I rather just go in on academics something so different and then hold performing as sort of like its own separate thing. Right. Well, now I tell myself that I didn't want a goal sheet degree.

That was my thing. I kind of did it for years to this. I'm already at the ground. I'm already like to be felt like a sheet.

Like I needed to get something more. I've told myself that forever. But I do think now when you're talking about it, I actually maybe also was fearful that I would have had a major in acting like theatrical acting. And I never saw myself as doing that.

And I don't imagine I would have been good at it. And so maybe I was also just afraid to major in that. Yeah. But you were grateful ultimately.

Right. You made your name. Very grateful. My upbringing was so beautiful.

But also very much in the bubble. And I sort of see Wesleyan and the city department just came on and just like popped that level. It was like six years old within the larger scope of what's going on. And I think critically about it for four years.

And it just cracked my mind. But I felt so much more engaged with the world around me and invested in what was going on. Yeah. And it just taught me to think critically.

And I'm literally in a way that I just hadn't been asked to. I was like, well, I don't know. It just really opened up a bit of a time that I didn't see coming. Like I'm going to talk to you.

I was just like, you know, I was in my school. Me too. Like I think it gave me a broader view of humans on planet Earth that I couldn't have gotten to. I just was going through life assuming like this is how it is.

It's always been this way. So I really even questioned anything. And then going like, oh no, we've been here for 150,000 years. We've only been living civilizations for 10,000 years.

That's interesting. Oh, there's a new experiment. Oh, look how many attempts we've thrown out. Like we're not there thinking about where we should go.

That's interesting. Don't assume all this stuff we inherited is worth defending or perpetuating. I was like, oh wow. Yeah, this is a new thing.

And we're figuring out still. I don't remember falling over the year because I was so young. It happens like three or four. So it felt like finding a passion for the first time since I was a kid.

It felt like it felt like it felt like it felt like it felt feeling a falling in love with something where finally you didn't know that you would ever be interested in. Or do it just like, you know, and just being so enthralled by it. Some of the most fascinating things that you still only listen to among tonight consume a lot of podcasts. And you don't really love when they're so self-disowned because they do the most interesting experience, right?

I love that. Yeah. It was a lot of us to do a lot of concluding. It was a lot of like postulating and analyzing.

But sometimes I search for conclusions. I'm like, oh, let's keep it. I have the same frustration on the anthropology, which is like we're just observing and really can't say anything. We eventually should get all this information and make some decision going forward.

But some way she may sound happy about it. Yeah, so yeah, totally. I apologize. I have now.

So my town that I grew up in four people and then like middle class people tops. I have to imagine that the gap between the lowest and the biggest is maybe a factor of five. But I have to imagine that that's where some people that literally their families had like 150 times as much money as other students families. Were you aware of any of that?

Did it bother you to make them secure or any of that? I don't think I thought it had an high school the way it went. I mean, I looked back and I was like, there's a lot going on that I just sort of missed. But it's kind of embarrassing to admit.

I think it's great. Like it says a bubble. So why would you be thinking anything else or normal? Yeah.

As I go through like now I think much more critically right try to observe much more key made out things like that. Because I think I'm trying to make up for being so privileged that I missed it in high school. Looking back there was such an insane level of privilege that I didn't even hit. You don't even need to scope of it.

When you come back from personification some people took their jet to Beijing to eat at a restaurant or whatever. I think their own ideas like this earlier they have in Ireland. But you never felt triggered by anything. I don't know because I think when I started so young there's like 12 and thinking back how can I go over to people's houses and not think this is different.

This is perhaps different than my house. This is not a legit sign. But I think you just see your friend and you just see their mom and that is not your answer. I think it's wonderful.

I'm very happy to hear that it didn't have a fact where you were like, oh my god, you know you guys are going to find me like a war poor. But I also think how privileged I might have had that like you have to be a certain level of privilege to be blind other people than saying privilege. And so I have to know what's that. Yeah.

I don't know. Stay tuned for our American expert. If you dare. What year did you graduate college?

2015. 2015. 2015. 2015.

You know you always wanted to be in acting in some capacity, right? Yeah, it was only Broadway. Now does that point your brothers very successful already? Yes.

Are you afraid at that point? Really quick. How do you know what they're doing? I'm just like like the sound of it.

It's not like a family name and it just like sounded great. She's kind of okay. She's so great. She's amazing.

She's so great. She's so great. She's so great. She's so great.

She's so great. She's so great. She's like, I'll just do that. Yeah.

So my sister's also an actor and I think it's a burden that I'm her brother at times. So I just wonder was there voice in her head? I'm like, oh, I'm a person. She's going to go, oh, of course she's going to get her brothers famous.

No. And that's the honor. I think because from age of three, I was like musical theater and I just put on blinders. And so I was like, Jordan has movies.

That's not my land. I'm in this lane. And I also was like, it's a bratty kid. And I was like, I can do this long.

And I'm like, you know, children's theater in my complaint ground. Like train. Objectively, you were on ABC. And I was acting professionally.

So you've been along with me as well. Yeah. That was a brief stand away from my community theater in Santa Monica. I just had such blinders on with theater that I think I genuinely didn't see that as a sort of tension or competition or anything.

I just was like proud and surprised and excited. And then just sort of was someone all like what he was doing and excited for him. Yeah. Well, that's the healthiest best response.

Whenever you talk, you will probably end up talking about your brother at some point. It's just inherently interesting. Yeah. And I could see myself having a chip on my shoulder about that.

Like, yeah, I know he is my brother. We have a stand with everyone. I was like, oh, it was crazy. I was crazy.

When Chris and I went first very publicly dating, I would want to talk to you. And I was like, what do you want to be about her? I think he had me as a conduit to talk about her. It wasn't for years that I noticed only the same thing to her.

These are not the fuck else to talk about. Totally. So get away from that. So when you started getting attention of your own in his name, it was brought up.

When you were talking about your own accomplishment, the fact that you still are proud of that is very honorable. And I end the, I wish I could start there. I wouldn't lie to you. I don't think you would.

I love this talk. And I can bring my phone to the wall. I'm not going to lie about it. It is a rule here.

I feel like I've been given. Like I'm not expected completely unexpected. People think it was a theater. Think about how different they are.

Like some time musicals and my first Broadway production, I would probably be a pre- I would probably be a pre- actually a cello bali to like, film it. But they're two completely different pieces. Like you're saying, what are you an opera singer? Or you rock or country singer?

Like they're completely different things. And I was like, I'm a rockie country. I never thought of it as like, I'm a great lover of movies. And I have a very hard time getting through live productions.

I can't buy in the way everyone else is. I'm like, that's a 30-year-old acting child. And it's like, why are you saying it? Like, it's a play to me.

Why are you saying it? Like, I don't understand. I have asked my wife so many times. We're learning that you were just me and Joanna.

Yeah, totally. So I feel like Larry David, when he said he hates me on the beach, because all he is looking around like, what is the experience of me? And I was just kidding, but I'm not. So you, retching 2015, and then do you immediately start pursuing getting into a Broadway show?

Yes and no. My freshman year of college, I had me down the East Coast from like when I was a kid, but my parents are only really, really want you to be a theater. Because in some world where you get on a show, like 12, and you lose all of your high school experience, and you love school, and we're just following what we see in the U. belong in school.

And so they were like just the other kind of thing. But I had this children's agent on the East Coast in 2001. And they were like, come on, I didn't work whenever you can. And I was going back and forth.

And I remember I called my mom and dad and I was just like crying. And I was like, I feel like I'm terrible in these auditions, and my papers aren't going back to school. Or am I not doing the reading or I'm I feel behind at school. And I felt like I suck at these auditions.

I'm caught between two worlds. I'm not succeeding at either of them. So I sort of very purposely was like just focus on college. Just do college, try to invest yourself in it, and acting can hold off with your children to be here.

It's like an honor privilege to go to a school like that. Just focus. So I did a lot of work. I have to go back and forth.

So I took an acting class before senior year and then I started auditioning much more. And I did a few things during my senior year. Please. So I did 100,000 black.

And then I did this pilot that never picked up, which isn't saying I can see that. I went like four lines on it. So I'm as objective as one can be having seen it. But the same thing.

I directed this pilot that Genji Kohan and Bruce Miller who did the hammer, he'd say, well co-created one. And he answered his star and it was about the same one, which is. And it was so unbelievably cool. And it had an amazing cast of Karen Gillin and Eddie and all these amazing people.

And I was like a small guest star. but it felt within my spring break. So my spring break of my senior college, I was involved in doing that, which was very crazy. And then when I graduated, I started auditioning, and then I got neighbors too, within like two months of graduating.

They were casting it out of LA, and I flew to LA to audition because I was like, this is on a tape, it doesn't add up. Like I know, like, like, call me like this is so improvised. Like if I make this weird static tape, or like this is being funny for three minutes in front of my bedroom door, this doesn't work, for just like being in the room in the room and then stuff. Yeah, exactly.

So I was in acting LA, and then I was knitting, and I just put the long roll that I was taking care of to sleep, and I got the call, and they're like, why are you just bringing me something? And I was like, she just went to sleep, and I don't care what you have to say. She makes up to sleep at the first night. I'm so pleased to sleep.

I was in LA, like August of 2015. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, no, it's insane. Yes, in your other reason, that movie.

Unfortunately, the one thing I've seen you in, I don't know why I didn't see Lady Bird. I'm supposed to. Every call me to, everyone loves it. Criminal offense, I haven't.

Yep, it's okay. I'm going to, I promise. I'm going to blame having no kids. Wait, wait, wait, but those are no questions.

But I was, yes, I was out of town and I was watching it. I was wondering what's about myself, so you guys can't watch me because I got a catch up on this. I'm going to do it. All right, I make up a pledge.

So does Lady Bird follow neighbors too immediately? Yes, I did. When he comes back to the female brain, my favorite assistant, we did that in like four days before I did the leader, but Lady Bird was pretty much the next. And how did you get Lady Bird?

I auditioned. I was the only person I think in the past that audition. Brad and scene, everyone else, or knew everyone else from their work, and I went in audition for her, and she read Lady Bird and I read my character's her best friend, Julie. And I remember I left skipping.

I just was like, I just genuinely did all like a possible dance, and I'm doing fun of someone I love so much. And I love the script and we're going to ever love anything. Like a musical book. I was like, I felt it.

So genuinely so deeply. I just was like, I did it. I left skipping and I ran into my friend from my family on the street. And we had lunch.

I just had to just like magic, and I was like, something good. Go with her. I'm trying nothing but it too much. And then two weeks on by.

And then I found out. This is a very nice ride so far. Because your first movie, it opens its a joke. And then you get straight into Lady Bird.

And I just panicked. And I got a saying around there. I know. But you should know I have to rehearse.

We should totally forget. I'm going to take the fortune. I would start getting panicked. And I'm going to get like, no, something.

Something that some of you have to drop. It's just my nature. Take it all in. I'm like, yeah, this is the ride.

Are you like, I don't deserve this. I'm a fraud. I'll be exposed to the. So we have like a few more visual rehearsals.

Sure going to be fired in that span of time. Every day was like, this is hella dolly. I'm not. And I'm standing here.

You can give me this door. Because I'm a Philistine. No, absolutely. It was first presented in 1964 with Carol Channing.

And it is one of the most like, produced, beloved classic musicals. Who wrote the music? German. It's an explosion of color and white.

And it is just joy shoved into hours and put on the stage. It's an explosion of color and white. And you love that. And like, do you consume her movies as a kid?

I guess what I'm saying is if I were a young Jewish girl, I would be inspired by other Jewish girls who have become star. My third thing is funny girl. It was. Our funny girl is turning three.

Oh, well, and I was obsessed with it. I would make my mom play it. Like every day my mom from preschool or whatever. I was like, like kids would watch Elmo.

Like, well, I mean, I was like, one more time. Bob, Bob, you're not giving me. Don't read my brain. One more time.

Totally on top. I would have heard of her from the BGs. Yes. Yieldy.

This became our theme song. Not a huge babs fan. There. I feel low rent when I see her or hear her perform.

I just feel like I'm a dirty kid from dirt road. But. What does that mean? Did you show my perfect and everything else?

Oh, our tequila. Oh, see? Oh, no, I haven't seen my girl. It's all about like a scrappy girl.

Oh, yeah. That's it. Yeah. It's all my issue.

I feel like she's an artist. And she sings while listening in her to pitch. And what do I know? It's a very intimidating tale level probably.

But guilty with her. I wasn't in a long time. No, no. I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love.

The way she singing off beat a bunch of times. Oh, it's Zap, I'm like, she's free, so I'm like, you felt gangster to me. The way she was fucking with the rhythm of that song. Totally.

I think she gave the first three minutes if any girl tried. I didn't like it. Okay. I'm still signing that.

Right after I watched Lady Bird, I'm going to give the first three minutes. I just say she played her first. Yeah, I should commit an hour and a half to figure out why I'm triggered by her first. You were typically Barbara Sryst.

Oh yeah, we're both talking about Barbara. Well, we played one from back. We went from back. Oh, you switched you switch.