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Join George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Emily Mortimer and director Noah Baumbach for a heartfelt discussion of their new film ‘Jay Kelly.’ From the romance of movie-making to the parallels between the film and their own careers, the legendary team open up about what the film has meant to them.
George recalls his surprise at Noah using scenes from George’s own career to represent Jay Kelly’s (and all of the bad haircuts brought back to light), while Adam reminisces about his own real-life career mentor, Lucien Hold, manager of the Comic Strip club in NYC. Noah reveals the real Hollywood legends that inspired some of the characters, and Laura shares her appreciation for the people around the table with her, and how it feels to look up while making a movie and to “realize you’re with your family and your best friends.”
‘Jay Kelly’ is now playing in theaters. On Netflix December 5.
George recalls his surprise at Noah using scenes from George’s own career to represent Jay Kelly’s (and all of the bad haircuts brought back to light), while Adam reminisces about his own real-life career mentor, Lucien Hold, manager of the Comic Strip club in NYC. Noah reveals the real Hollywood legends that inspired some of the characters, and Laura shares her appreciation for the people around the table with her, and how it feels to look up while making a movie and to “realize you’re with your family and your best friends.”
‘Jay Kelly’ is now playing in theaters. On Netflix December 5.
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00:00Is it true that George was the best Batman?
00:02Wow, that was so weird.
00:03Oh, of course!
00:04Oh, that's not the question.
00:05That is, yes, yes.
00:06Yes!
00:07Who's better?
00:08Who's better?
00:09Nobody.
00:10Nobody's better than me at Batman.
00:11Keaton can't sleep at night.
00:13Do you know who really, you know, all that, like, you know,
00:16Ben Affleck is Batman.
00:17I was the best Batman.
00:18He knows.
00:19They all know.
00:20None of the other ones had nipples.
00:21Did they?
00:22Yours was standing out for everyone.
00:25This is Around the Table with the creators and performers
00:28of Jay Kelly.
00:29All right.
00:29And Adam.
00:30Nice.
00:38Lately, I feel like my life doesn't really feel real.
00:41Suddenly remembering things.
00:44What is that?
00:45Memory?
00:48Peter Schneider played such an impactful role in Jay Kelly's
00:52life as a mentor and someone who got him his start.
00:55Do you have a person in your own life?
00:57Well, that's a good question.
00:58Well, thank you.
00:59George, I can't believe you brought that up because I was
01:02thinking about that this morning.
01:03Yes.
01:04There was a man, honestly, a man named Lucien Hold.
01:08Lucien Hold was the manager of the Comics Trip Club in New York City.
01:13He passed you.
01:14He decided if you can get on stage.
01:15And that guy spent so much time for no reason with me and Chris Rock.
01:20He used to tell us how to do.
01:21Really?
01:21Yeah.
01:22He really was like the greatest guy.
01:23Got nothing from it.
01:24No money from it.
01:25Just ran the club.
01:26Well, then I can shout out to Lucien.
01:28Lucien Hold unfortunately passed away, but was the greatest and we all love them.
01:32Every comic has a good Lucien story.
01:34Well, that's a good story.
01:35I like that story.
01:36That's a great answer.
01:37Yeah.
01:38That's an actual and honest great answer.
01:39I did think of him this morning.
01:40I don't even mean to know why.
01:41I wish he was here to see all the stuff we went on to do because he was there for Eddie
01:47Murphy.
01:48He was there for everybody.
01:49He like passed.
01:50He decided who got on and who didn't get on.
01:53So there's some guys that didn't get on.
01:55That hate his guts.
01:56Yes.
01:57We're waiting outside this comic to beat himself.
02:00Yeah.
02:01It's because you made the cut.
02:02Yeah.
02:03Yeah.
02:04Yeah.
02:05I love him so.
02:06One person's mentor is another person's.
02:08Yes.
02:09Beating.
02:10Nemesis.
02:11Target.
02:12But you guys wrote so beautifully about mentorship, right?
02:17So can you talk a little bit about Peter or others that found their way into this story
02:25for you that were your mentors or heroes?
02:29Yeah.
02:30I mean, it's not that Peter Schneider is playing him, but there are aspects of Peter Bogdanovich
02:35in the character, the neckerchief.
02:39I mean, I'm quoting Peter because this is who I heard it from, but he's quoting Jimmy
02:42Stewart, but is that movies are pieces of time is from Jimmy Stewart had said.
02:49And of course, Peter Bogdanovich would do it while playing, doing his great imitation
02:53of Jimmy Stewart.
02:54That's what movies are for us.
02:59Pieces of time.
03:02Pieces of time.
03:03Pieces of time.
03:04Pieces of time.
03:06Pieces of time.
03:07Something neverlord.
03:08Piece of time.
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03:23$2,880,000.
03:24Representation and music.
03:26No note, you're asking the truth of its collection.
03:29first met about you know what made us fall in love with this the performances or the filmmakers
03:35um i hope that's never lost well he was also because he made it when he first went to hollywood
03:41even before he made uh the uh any movies he was he really like went and found all the film those
03:48filmmakers you know from the generation before and and he interviewed a lot of them it's all in
03:53the book who the devil made it but he you know but he even became friends with like carrie grant
03:57and you know he was like he really was a connection to that era that era yeah you did that a lot too
04:04because we shared our friendship with gregory peck and yeah i would think gregory is a good
04:09example of it gregory and veronique his wife just a great example of like how to handle
04:14you know what we do if you get to a certain place in life how to handle it best because he was a
04:22class act the two of them together they just lit up a room and also they made everyone else the star
04:29of the dinner you know they were great really wonderful people and voice as a noble cause like
04:35he was such a statesman in that way like how to use your accomplishment and fame he and paul newman
04:44he was saying like how they like this is the way you do it yeah yeah there was i mean those guys were
04:50you know because they were you know if you look at it was sort of honestly the last of the actual
04:57movie stars of name above the title movie stars you know sort of newman redford peck sort of a little
05:02bit earlier but those were the guys that kind of after that movies became what the film was was the star
05:09more than the you know name above the title and so they took all of that you know the the um the equity
05:16they got from their name being out there and they tried to spread it around to other causes and things
05:21that mattered to them they were really good at it and they were good lessons about like how you can
05:25use your voice in other ways besides just saying other people's lines you know on the subject of
05:31mentors i would like to say that i feel that noah is my first real mentor it's important to have a
05:38mentor but you have to have you have to sort of have a certain level of confidence to kind of get
05:43yourself a mentor and to feel that you deserve one or something and anyway i'm just very grateful
05:48to know because he made me feel that i sort of deserve to have him as a mentor and he's been
05:54well you have been so sweet and kind and helpful and told me all these things and talked to me about
06:00peter and all the rest and connected me to all of that history through you and anyway i'm just very
06:06grateful because you're my that's really nice you were my mentor emily after this take this dinner
06:11i'm gonna what i'll tell you how much i appreciate for noah was there ever a moment when the film
06:18within a film aspect got confusing yeah there's peter's film that he's trying to make what else
06:24there's your film right but the job he's not going to the film that he's not going that he's trying
06:30to get him to go and do i mean i say i rather than be confusing i think we would use our crew
06:35would be in you know when we were shooting the opening sequence you know yeah so many of them
06:41are but was it confusing for you to be directing yourself in the as the director of the film within
06:47the film i hadn't acted in a while but you were so good yeah george cast me in the part i forced him
06:54i know i'm so glad you did oh so good well i think it actually made it easier for me because
06:59i could essentially direct the scene and be in the scene at the same time which would i think
07:05you know uh you've done that where you've directed yourself and i i i wouldn't even know how to begin
07:12oh it's terrible with that um uh it's terrible i mean because you're breaking a one cardinal rule
07:18actors can't do to actors which is if i'm you and i are doing a scene and i'm directing it yeah and
07:23we do the scene yeah the one cardinal rule is i can't tell you what to do right right but then
07:28you're the director you go okay that was good that made me go fast which is such a shit thing
07:34that's funny so usually i have to talk to the actors going i'm really i apologize for this but
07:38you know and then you got to learn the ventriloquist yeah on the other side and i got sorry you got
07:44to learn the ventriloquist cut too
07:46a little faster uh who are you who am i looking at just kidding yeah all right so do i act with him
08:01that's it laura if you could go back and get one more take like george is looking for j kelly's
08:08looking for for any moment of your life what would it be wow that's whoa yeah guys okay take me to
08:16therapy um well i'd like more than another one yeah i'd like a lot of them almost every one yeah
08:25and i'd like noah to be there yeah to guide me um because i would need direction because i might
08:34actually make the same choice i did when i felt like i'd screwed it up and i need another take
08:39yeah um yeah i think life is you know reflecting on what we've missed and that's the beauty of this
08:47film and what you guys wrote and gifted us as actors is to consider that in our own lives and in
08:54the storytelling so hopefully we are spending our lives asking those questions because we were
09:00never supposed to get it right we were just supposed to learn and grow from it um that's what i tell my
09:06kids every day anyway yeah that's good nice i remember something we always talked about with that's a
09:12notion of when an actor does ask if they haven't could do another one because it often means they're
09:18like they feel themselves going getting somewhere that they didn't like the thing oh yeah that the
09:26take before they didn't quite you know they sort of approached like something but they didn't fully
09:31and now that they're kind of aware of it they might be in more control of it and could actually
09:36go for it but then you do you kind of need two more because once you ask for one more then it's all
09:40on you to get it right and then you start thinking oh shit we shouldn't have done that but you also
09:44think that it's like this thing where actors will look at it and go i didn't feel this and so it's
09:52not pure and i need to feel it and the truth is as a director you could sit there and go no i felt it
09:58so it works we're good that's right and actors will be like can we go again it's like no we got it
10:02i promise you we got it actors have a very different take on it but you're you jay wants to go again
10:08in the beginning of the movie just because you don't want that movie to end also i think that's
10:12right all right it's like let's let's keep it going man let's i don't want to go home
10:16don't say anything that'll get you in trouble yeah i know i was just like i'm gonna open this
10:23one up to the table oh it's for the table the thing that nora efron said wrote on the things like
10:29things i will miss when i leave this life and things i won't miss and one of the things she'll miss
10:36is one for the table which is getting that i think and i i have to say i always do one for
10:43the i love one for the table yeah yeah yeah takes the pressure off everybody yeah yeah yeah and maybe
10:48we'll try the steak yeah that's always oh yeah yeah yeah all right i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i
10:54apologize this is not one for the table this is i just wanted to open this up to the table we're
10:57all such oh jesus wonderful people wonderful yes i almost said i almost said it let me say it for
11:05you noah says that we're all such legendary pros we've been waiting for you to say that about us
11:13it's not even you're all such legendary pros it's we're all such like including yourself also a
11:19legendary pro is interesting yes for us legendary pros was there anything on this shoot that was
11:26surprising i thought that was crazy when jim he seemed like a legendary pro himself and it's just
11:31the way he threw a fit and went to his trailer i'm not gonna make one more sandwich and walked off
11:35and by the way it wasn't even his trailer well that was noah's fault for calling him jimmy
11:43you don't do that at the gym brother no no you did that when we first had dinner with him yes yes i
11:51love that jimmy i didn't know i didn't know he was going to use sort of uh clips from my own actual
11:57career which was um a surprise but uh and you get to look at a lot of bad haircuts over there mullets
12:05anyway don't you laugh you had a mullet my mullet was fluffy
12:10mine wasn't as good as yours you just laid there nicely like full party in the back and
12:16oh yeah i remember bad bad bad bad bad i'm you know but it was a long time ago who would remember
12:23who would put it up on a screen that people could see with the score now with a beautiful score
12:29i don't know i don't even think to do a thing like that so that's why you were so emotional
12:34i was very emotional the head fuming adam just kept saying how do you still have a career
12:42that's what he kept saying to me which was painful but with the hand though yeah yeah but you were
12:47holding my hand oh yeah that's true i would love to take the opportunity to say something to
12:56an amazing group of friends which is when i think about all the memories of movies and i love movies
13:05and i feel so blessed to be part of them and i care so much about stories what is radically rare
13:17is when you look around when you're making one and you realize you're with your family and your best
13:22friends and ones you'll carry with you for the rest of your life and that's this group at this table
13:27and it's pretty amazing yeah it's fun yeah it was it was i mean yeah we will just sound sickening but
13:35it is like the day on this movie was like looking at all everybody and the people that that i love but
13:41also like look at this group of people we've got here on any given day i mean like jim or billy cruda
13:49patrick or stacy keach or riley you know i mean just to have people come in and out alba who were
13:56like you know just all so remarkably yeah and and and they get to join us and like it was that was
14:06really yeah something else yeah the thing that i like about the film is that there is a you know
14:12there is a romance to this of sort of old films where you just feel like this is about like
14:18you know let's put on a show and there's all this optimism of like you know how are we going
14:22to get this done and the way you design shots and all of those things where we go i don't know if
14:27we can pull this off and we're going to figure it out and it was just a the whole the making of it
14:32the watching of it have all been nothing but a joy yeah and a fun experience you know funding
14:37be with all of our troop traveling from milan all the way down to pienza i mean that was really
14:44special and fun to do incredible oh yeah that was a blast yeah and i knew all the restaurants all
14:50the way down oh yes you did what was the one that was the la bucca yeah that was that was in zbello
14:56that was so great yeah i even the sandwiches on the little bus was the best man
15:00yeah that was ridiculous and laura had four sandwiches kids we're just telling them how fun
15:11we are you behave like a legendary pro
15:22behave like a pro too many goddamn olives i was full of olive i'll be here with the olive
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