00:00First of all, what was the most surprising thing to you about the ride of this movie?
00:05I think that the kind of slow roll of it, just by virtue of that it's a tiny movie and we also had the strike.
00:13People have really found it in a trickle, so I've really loved every day or weekend or whatever.
00:19Someone goes on a plane, the little bits and bobs of people popping in to say that they loved it or that it meant something to them.
00:25So it's not this just big wash, it's been a really slow burn in a nice way.
00:29We also made something incredibly specific to us and the fact that it had the sort of universality that it did, I think it was just a thrill to us.
00:41And it was everything we had hoped for. And this recognition is just a little sprinkle sprinkle.
00:49Motivation maybe to continue working with your friends?
00:52Totally, well certainly the two of us are hoping to make some things and write some things together in our lives.
00:56So it was a great first trial with some of our dear friends as buffers.
01:01And now maybe we put it under the gauntlet and do it alone, baby.
01:04Yeah, we really ripped the band-aid off.
01:06Tell me about that, mixing business and pleasure.
01:09How do you, first of all, mixing a relationship and business.
01:12How is that?
01:14How do you guys find that, navigating that as artists but also as a couple?
01:20I think it was really put under, you know, we're both actors so we've existed in this space for a long time as like friends and then in a relationship.
01:30But we really put it under the microscope in working together so intensely on this film.
01:35And I think it was like, we did a good job.
01:38I'm really proud of us.
01:39I mean I think we definitely try to prioritize each having our own spaces and spheres and things that belong to us individually.
01:45So that when we do come together it's really intentional and it's something we really want to make together.
01:49And luckily part of, the greatest part of our relationship is that we really have similar sensibilities and find the same things funny.
01:56So it's a joy to like spend time, you know, making things that make us both happy.
02:01Yeah, we only fought one time on this entire film.
02:03Yeah.
02:04And it was on the final day.
02:06When we were like behind the clock.
02:07We had only like two and a half days to shoot the entire musical at the end of the film and a lot of pressure was on, you know, executing it and I got very anxious and I was on the God mic.
02:16And Ben was like on the God mic just sort of like dumping his anxieties on the children.
02:20It wasn't that bad.
02:21And I was like, go.
02:22I was like, get to Village.
02:24And I like sent him away.
02:26And then I took a minute and then we were okay.
02:28And that was it.
02:30And then you, you know, obviously you made up because then you got engaged after that.
02:34So tell me how that's going.
02:36I was just, I was just reading up on you guys in preparation and I Googled you and saw like some stories about wedding planning.
02:44So I, I, I hate to be that guy at the party, but how's it going?
02:47It's going like, well, we, we just, we're, we have like a long, um, runway, a long runway, long engagement, which has been like really nice and easy and chill and has made the process not feel like as anxiety inducing as I think a lot of people experience this process has.
03:01You know, we just make little decisions at a time.
03:03And I think, you know, we don't feel a ton of pressure on like the, the day that maybe some people feel because we just feel really lucky that we have lots of great, exciting celebration, celebratory moments as a couple all the time.
03:18So there's a lot of pressure on like a wedding being like the largest day in a lot of people's lives.
03:22But like, I don't know, he won like a Tony award at 22, you know what I mean?
03:27It's like, it's different.
03:29I gotta, I gotta ask two questions.
03:31One, which is a serious business question.
03:33Then we gotta go something light for the end because we can't end on this.
03:35This was too good.
03:36We can't end on something heavy.
03:38But I wanted to ask you because you're so smart writer, performer, you guys sing, do everything.
03:44The threat of AI is still, still looming.
03:46Are you nervous about that as artists?
03:47What do you, what do you make of it?
03:49I mean, it was just mentioned yesterday during the SAG Awards about, uh, Fran Drescher talking about just that it's still a thing that actors need to be aware of and, and it's, we just don't know how it's going to go.
03:58Are you reading up on it?
03:59How are you feeling about it?
04:01I've been very uninformed.
04:03I think, uh, in terms of just like being a big scary thing, it's certainly concerning and I would love to be able to still always do my job and be the only one that could do my job.
04:11Uh, but I honestly don't know enough about it to know how afraid to be or not.
04:15I feel, yeah, I'm probably the same.
04:17And I feel, um, dumb and scared about it all, you know?
04:24And then we'll go light.
04:24Uh, this, one of the great things about being here and being included among these nominees is championing, uh, independent film and storytellers and shining a light on some things that maybe need a little bit, a bit more of a light.
04:34Is there a performance or a film that's either among this group of nominees or the wider release from the past year that you really love that you want to shout out?
04:43Uh, I really loved All of Us Strangers, the Andrew Haig film and specifically Andrew Scott's performance in it and Paul, uh, Meskel's performance.
04:50Just amazing movie with like so much sophistication and a really beautiful queer relationship and I loved it.
05:11Yes.
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