00:00Please welcome Mr. Jason Reitman to our show this morning. Hi, Jason.
00:05Pleasure to be here.
00:06Nice to see you.
00:07One of our great embarrassments on the show here is you came in with Diablo Cody years ago,
00:13and we hadn't done our due diligence, and we were just more fascinated with the fact that she had been a stripper at some point
00:19and had a little...
00:23Well, he's getting into a successful Hollywood career.
00:26And here she is, this incredible script writer that she's become.
00:31And you and she seem to really synergize really well.
00:35So when you get a script from her, you just automatically, I see this, I see this.
00:41Yeah, I mean, look, I imagine it's like when you guys met for the first time,
00:45you don't realize when you're on a first date of a relationship that's going to last the rest of your life.
00:49And I met her for the first time, and we went to this bar in L.A.,
00:52and she ordered a dirty martini, and I got a Diet Coke.
00:56Because I am the rock and roll of that relationship.
01:00Diet Coke.
01:01And what has begun is this relationship where every five years we make a movie.
01:07It was Juno and then Young Adult and now Tully.
01:09And I'm looking forward to see the movies we make when we're in our 70s.
01:13Our hospice comedy is going to be amazing.
01:16Because you are, as you have said in interviews, her tone and her take on things is changing, as is yours.
01:25And now you're a family man yourself.
01:26But her ability to write females that, and people in general, but females that are flawed and relatable is uncanny.
01:37Yeah.
01:38And look, I think there's kind of a through line between all three films.
01:41And this one, Tully, is about that moment when you become a parent and you realize you have to grow up
01:47because your younger self is starting to feel like it's a different human being.
01:50In fairness, when you guys came in that time and we talked about her being a stripper.
01:54You guys feel really guilty about this.
01:55We do not.
01:57It feels stupid.
01:57We referenced this.
01:58It actually redirected the trajectory of the show because we said,
02:02we got to check up on these people.
02:04Here's why.
02:05Because Juno was such a great piece of work.
02:08And I think afterwards we're like, holy crap, we missed the boat on talking to her about her writing ability
02:12because Juno turned out to be so good.
02:14So it did serve as a lesson in...
02:18How odd that a woman came on a show and she was objectified for her beauty and her history
02:23and never talked about her talent that...
02:25What an odd moment.
02:27We've gotten better.
02:27We've gotten better, though.
02:28We hadn't seen her talent.
02:29We hadn't seen her talent, yes.
02:31And I suppose, Jason, that you probably dealt with this a lot of your life as well
02:34because, you know, you come from Hollywood royalty and people...
02:37Because of my stripping background?
02:38You were a stripper.
02:39Yeah.
02:40And you did that skating act.
02:41You did burlesque for like five or six years.
02:44No, because you have a reputation because you're a family.
02:47And you've had to prove in yourself on your own merits, you know?
02:51And has that been difficult for you?
02:52You know, my obituary will either begin,
02:55director of Juno died today or son of director of Ghostbusters died today.
03:00Yeah!
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