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Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with the excellent writer, actor showrunner and much more QUINTA BRUNSON!
Below will be the original writeup for this episode which originally aired on 22nd September 2022. A tremendous episode which might have been a first meeting with Quinta for some, but by now with any luck you'll be well acquainted with her work and the wide world of Abbott Elementary! This episode was at a truly busy point of her career and it's only gotten busier, so enjoy this look back into the recent past to hear some wisdom and fun and good times from not long ago.
Hopefully there'll be the new season kicking off next week so stay locked on for that - but as always, thanks so much for being here with us through the 'bridge season' while things are being constructed.
It's me on the intro/outro (your producer Buddy Peace), so don't be alarmed. I mean you no shock or surprise.
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STOP – Emmy time... A marvelous chat with Quinta, who you might know from the wonderful Abbott Elementary in more recent / present times. If you don't know Quinta, consider this your introduction to someone who is making power moves in the world of excellent media - she is BUSY but as you'll hear, has a proper grip on things and maintains clarity, sanity and that all important fun-ness that is so necessary in such a high pressure environment (showrunning and all that entails). So take a nice break and enjoy this lovely episode, and of course check Abbott Elementary among her other work!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
My name is Buddy Peace. I'm a producer and editor
at d J, a music maker, a pause and for
intro and outro purposes, and temporarily standing in for your
regular host and proud creator of this particular podcast, mister
Brett Goldstein. As Sissy Spasic, once said, my biggest thrill
in life is to read in the afternoon until I
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fall asleep and take a nap. You know what, Sissy
In a rare break of form and the intro, I'm
just going to say that sounds perfect, no further comments.
Every week Brett invites a guest on, he tells them
they've died, and then he talks to them about their
life through the medium of film. But this week we
are revisiting an earlier episode of the podcast in what
will likely be the last of the rewinds for this
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bridge season. Thanks so much for taking a trip through
the vaults with us. We appreciate that there's been a
minute since the new episodes, but thank you so much
to those of you who are still joining us. The
new season is looking like it will return in full
face next week early May so be absolutely sure to
join us for the grand reopening. It all goes to plan,
so yes, indeed, it is that time once more for
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a films to be buried with Rewind Classic. This Rewind
is from September twenty second, twenty twenty two, originally episode
two hundred and fourteen, featuring writer, actor and all round
treasure Quinta Bronson. A lovely episode from start to end,
featuring one of the busiest people in television. But as
you're here at this point in Quinta's career, we were
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just at the peak of busyness and there was so
much more to come. We're currently on season three of
Abbott Elementary, which you can find on Disney Plus, and
Quinta is keeping incredibly busy still as you can witness
on Instagram. All links will be in the episode description.
Let me take this opportunity to also remind you that
Brett has a Patreon page for the podcast, upon which
you will get a bonus section every episode with a
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secret from each guest, more questions, and a video of
each episode which looks nice and fresh. There are a
selection of tiers on there too, and on the uppermost
tiers I will make your cinematic soundtrack mixtape each month
with full track list that I reckon you'll enjoy very much.
So if you're of a supporting nature and feel like
some extras from the show, you'll find them all there.
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So that's it for now. Let's get you settled in
for a wonderful episode with the excellent Quinta Bronson. Catch
you at the end for a quick sign off, But
for now, please enjoy episode two hundred and fourteen via
Episode two hundred and ninety seven of Films to be
Buried With.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With. It
is me Berett Goldstein, and I am joined today by
an Internet star, a cable star, a network star, a writer,
a comedian, a skep coo, a show runner, a actor,
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a award winner, a award winner, a award winner, multi
multi multi award winner and multi award nominee, a hero
and the future of humanity and the leader of the
free world. She's also a stand up. Please welcome to
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the show, your hero and mine. It's the one that
only issues. It's quin to Brunson.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Hi, what a crazy intro, crazy crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Crazy true Hi Brett, Hi, Quinta how are you.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm good? Thank you, thank you for doing this for me.
Now I met you through Ashley Nicole Black. I believe
we met at the TED last season two premier. Is
that when we first met, Yes, and I said, what
are you up to? And you said, I'm working on
a little show, lovely little show called Abbot Elementary and
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I thought, well, good luck with that. And then it
turned out you made one of the best news shows
there is. And you have now been multi multi, multi
MOLTI Award winning and multi at this point of recording,
nominated for many Emmy's. You've had the most successful, biggest
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writing sitcom of network TV ever missed.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So in recent time. Thank you, but in recent time.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But yes, and you're now doing You are mid recording
season two? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yes, we are in the middle.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
We just finished shooting our fifth episode and so our
fifth week of shooting.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But we're in the writer's room. We've been in there since.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
May forgive me. Are you the showrunner as well on
that show?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I am? I am.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I have two wonderful co showrunners and co producers, Justin
Halpern and Patrick Schumacher, who we're like a three headed
beast because I do so much on the show, it
is definitely hard to be I wouldn't even want to
be the sole showrunner. Also because with the Abbed, I
had never show run before, and Justin and Pett so
great it, so I'm happy to be in this three
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headed beast with them.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Okay, I know you've been talking a lot about the show,
but can I ask you like practical stuff, because I'm
so fascinated. For the record, I love your show. I
think it's fucking brilliant, and I also think it's so
hard and rare for a sitcom to nail it in
the first episode, and that pilot is a fucking banger.
It's so funny, it sets up everything perfectly, and all
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the cast of characters are already funny and already their part,
you know what I mean. Like it feels like, oh,
this is the show. Whereas most shows take three or
four to find it, you had it episode one, and
so my first question I alwaysd like to ask is
about like the casting of it, because it's also there's
no big names in it. No disrespect to anyone. Yeah,
they're all incredible, but it's not like you were casting famouses.
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So how how much was that something you fought for?
How much was the network behind you? Because network, I
believe I've never worked in it, but I understand network's
very difficult. You get loads and lines of nights and
there's lots of people you have to please, And how
did that work for you in the early stages before
it was a proven thing.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
So I was super intentional about getting a certain type
of cast. As a TV watcher, I'm always just in
love with being introduced to new talent. It's so exciting,
not only because you know they're new, but it helps
you to fall in love with the character a little
bit more. I think, using the show You're on as
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an example, Ted Lasso introduced me to a whole crop
of new talent, and I think that that helped me
to fall in love with those characters even more, knowing
nothing about their lives or past roles, orything like that.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And I thought that. I just thought that was really
important for a.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Sitcom, and with it being a mockumentary, I wanted people
to feel like it was real, Like we all watched TV.
We know that television isn't real, but I do think
there's beauty in maintaining the illusion for as long as
you can so that audience members are able to get
fully invested did in this story, and so it was a.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Little bit of a we won't say fight.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
There were many discussions with the network about me really
wanting to stay true to my roots, on having a
mix of new faces and then faces the audience would
be familiar with, but who weren't megas. I felt like
Sheryl Lee Rolph, who plays Barbara, was the cap for
me because many people know her. She's just fantastic, wonderful,
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beautiful part of many of my favorite films growing up
in TV shows, but she still wasn't this mega famous
household name, and I saw an opportunity that to present
her with really good work that would kind of push
her over that threshold. And then Tyler James Williams is
no stranger to TV for sure, who plays Gregory, but
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he hadn't been Sometimes it's also about just giving someone
a role that they haven't had yet. The one role
that the network and I kind of had a big
put pull on was the role of Ava. And they
had a lot of big names that they were interested in,
but it was very important to me that ava, the
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character got to be brand new and got to come
with no baggage or preconceived notions, and I knew the
character would be very fresh and brand new to TV,
kind of incomparable to anything else that I had seen
in recent time, and I thought a fresh face was
the best way to convey that to the audience. And
we got multiple reads from people, but when Janelle auditioned,
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it became super clear that she was the essence of
what that character was, and for me, the discussion was
kind of over. Yeah, And like you said, like networks,
they like to have the names because they think the
names will bring the viewers.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And yes, that's true.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Sometimes, but I kind of believe that essence is what
you know, makes people fall in love more than just
a big name.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I've talked about this when we've done like press, Ted's
a I felt with Ted lasts, So I know that,
you know, most of us were fairly yeah, similarly not unknown,
but we've all done stuff, but no one knew we were.
So let's say, and I definitely remember that first read through.
Everyone's very nervous and stuff like that, and there's there's
pressure and all those things, but I do remember the
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Episode four read through was the time where I really
felt like everyone clicked. Like I looked around the room
and everyone was sewing it and we all had chemistry
with each other, and we all got each other, we
got the show, and it was a real moment. It
was really like a fun read through that way. It
was like, this is it. This is the fucking show.
And I wonder when did you have that feeling with
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everyone or was it really early?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I think it was very early. I think, you know,
we didn't do chemistry reads. I think the only one
that would have been done realistically was me and Tyler.
But Tyler was the first cast it. I kind of
as soon as I started writing that role, I had
Tyler mind, and we had already worked together before, and
everybody else just showed up on the day and I
think we were shooting one of our first big scenes
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all together and it was clicking in a way that
was a little bit strange for all the actors, like whoa,
you know, there's a bunch of people who've done a
bunch of TV and film before. It never really had
that feeling that their timing was so well matched up
with each other. But you know, I think I did
know that when casting the show. I once again there
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were certain things I was looking for. It wasn't just
the person being a good actor or knowing the character well,
but it's like, well, how will their version, how will
Lisan Walter's version of Melissa play with cherryl Lee Rouse's
version of Barbara. So I think that a good ensemble
comedy is like harmony in a song, where it's like, well,
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I want to lay this vocal track over this vocal
track to make a beautiful song. And I knew that
these people would be able to do that. So it
was really the when we were shooting the pilot, and
then for me in editing, I was just like.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Oh my god, these people edits so well.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Again, that was such a good I still get that
feeling while we're editing of just ooh, we don't have
to do too much, you know. And once again, especially
with Macuminary, everything's being filmed all at once, and of
course we get different taps, but to sometimes have one
scene where we don't have to cut to another angle
the entire time if we didn't want to, I think
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it's really really, really powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
What about I just want to know one sort of
practical thing. It's hard making a show and very very
very very lucky. But you're in the position where so
on you you're high show running, but you're writing, you're acting.
And when I didn't understand about network TV is you're
writing the show whilst making the show. How farad? How
many episodes have you written when you start filming? So
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season one was eleven episodes.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
That right, season almost thirteen episodes.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Thirteen episodes, and season two you got the full order
of twenty two episodes. When I saw that announcement, I
genuinely I thought, I felt like, oh, congratulations, what a night.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
It was such a bittersweet feeling. I was both thank you,
but also is this a threat?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Like what the fuck? It's so much TV?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
And we were really fortunate because the first season so
here in America on network TV. I'm not sure if
it works for you know, network or what is considered
network over there, but like we were mixed, which is healthy.
But for networks you have fall pickups and mid season pickups.
Eben Elementary for the first season was a mid season pickup,
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but we shot the entire series, wrote and shot the
entire series, and way before the show aired, we read
filming and omber in the show filmed in January and
this year not the case. So the show is airing
in the fall. So right now, we just finished filming
episode five, will be starting six next week. And our
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writer's room we now just finished episode to ten. We're outlined,
we're outlined to twelve, and my co showrunner Justin has
done He did such a good job of making sure
we were very far ahead so that by time I
had to set to film. You know, the first half
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of the season was pretty much laid out right, and
I wanted to lay out the rest of the season
so that my writers, everybody had a north star they
were going to.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And I'm still hyper involved. I am definitely a person
that don't get me wrong. I love my actors, I
love being on set, and I love acting, but i
also love being in that writer's room. So I'm fortunate.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Enough that you know, once again, because this is mockumentary,
a little known fact that's really exciting is your day
is finished much faster than the typical show.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
So we finished filming every day usually around three great
and if we're fourt we'll wrap shooting before lunch because
it's fast and I'll just go back up.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
To the writer's room, and you know, really right, if
I can really go through all of the stories and
the outlines help create the stories. But every episode as
of now is laid out so that we know where
we're going.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And I think.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's when did you last sleep?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
So I chose to sleep yesterday. Yesterday was the first
day in a very long time that I didn't do anything.
I stayed in the house, I did laundry, I caught
up on some TV shows I was really excited to watch,
and I didn't do anything. And that was the first
time probably in like three months. Part of that is
my fault, though, because I like to go out and
like some days when I could go home. I do
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like to go out with my writers. I like to
go out and like drink and stuff and have fun.
But I chose to just take it easy yesterday, which
was nice.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Quinna, this is awful. I've forgotten to tell you something,
and it's so bad after hearing it all of this. Uh,
I know, because I don't have to tell you, we
could just carry on without. But I should have told you.
I'll tell you. I'll just tell you you died. You're dead.
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You're dead.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Oh the podcast.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Oh, this is my favorite part of the podcast.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I don't want to be dead.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, I'm afraid you are. And I forgot about it
because I was side dazzled by all your news. But
then I remember it. You're actually dead? How did you die?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I hate this part.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Things good. I like people are scared of death on
this show.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I just wish it was like everyone at the same time,
like meteor everyone.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Okay, you want a mass extinction event.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I don't want that, But for the purposes of this,
I would love if no one, you know, no one
had to miss me and no one had to be said,
and they all just go out with a nice, beautiful
song and we know what's coming. Everyone gets to prepare
and hold on to their loved ones, including me.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
What's the song we're singing is the Meteor hits.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It's a beautiful song by Minie Riperton called Us Floors,
and I love it.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
It's a beautiful song.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I just love that song.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I love that song. I think it's so pretty co coordious.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Quite hard for everyone to sing that song, but I
love it. You know, it'd be quite funny.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
You are everyone, okay, So everyone's like holding hands, singing
MANI ripres and then their medio, but they're.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Not singing, it's playing.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Okay. It's a lovely song to go out to, for sure.
And then meteor hits. Everyone's instantly dead. I like that
to spare people being sad about you dying. You've decided
to kill everyone. That's the most selfless act you've done. That.
Thank you, to spare their being.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Selflessness in self and selfishness. They're only you know.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Do you worry about death?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
No? I wouldn't say I worry.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I know it comes for everyone who been dealing with
it a lot lately. I worry about not living life
and a way that doesn't you know. I don't want
to call for it. I don't want to pull it
towards my life. I want to try to take care
of myself and my mind and body and spirits so
that I'm not calling it upon me or dancing with it.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I would love to stave it off as long as possible.
But I'm not afraid.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You're not afraid of it. What do you think happens
when you die? Is there enough to life?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I have two schools of thought.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I think I don't I don't think that like, if
there is one, I'm not sure you get to carry
your consciousness with you. I think people have this version
where your consciousness, your current state of consciousness, follows you.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But I don't think that's true.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I think, oh, you think we just take our buddies
just no.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
No, no no, But just like a soul that is
the same soul that I have, but not my consciousness,
not all the things I know or people I know.
But I do think a soul could travel somewhere else
and you just don't get to take your what you
know with you.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
And then I have one theory that that's it to
put your done.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
So your soul premise is that all the things that
we think the way our mind works is all just
kind of baggage that's in the way of our soul,
and our soul is actually a much purer thing. It's
not our consciousness is like just shit that we've picked up.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, absolutely, because your consciousness is based on you know,
where you are, where you live, where you're from. And
I think that everyone kind of has a pure soul
to start with. Yeah, And I think that all the
other stuff, like you know, stuff that even in America
we always think everyone thinks like us, but like, I'm
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pretty sure I don't think the same way as a
kid who was born in a war torn country who
has different survival skills and tactics, different outlooks on life, relationships, love.
But I do think that a soul is a pretty
pure thing and that can transfer to I know not
where and I know not what, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I do think that I love that, and that has
not been said on this podcast before.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
And I think really I got really interested in just
theology as a whole, like just religion, the concept of
it and what's at the base of it. And for
most religions, even for people who are agnostic, the base
is still like good and evil. And I think that,
you know, like, yeah, dark forces are a thing. They're
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they're at play at any given time, and some people
materialize those things as the devil or you know, if
you go buy comic book theory a villain, like, you know,
it's all the same stuff. It's just good and evil,
I think, And so I think that that's how I
look at it.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
So you think, because I never know what if I
think like people are born evil or things like that,
like I tend to maybe far too optimistically think that
that isn't the case, and people can change and whatnot.
But you think there's something that's just evil.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Yeah, I think I've read enough about the psychology of
some of the most nefarious people of all time, and
it seems as though there was a component missing, you
could say, in their brain. But then there are other
scholars who are like it something actually missing in the
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makeup of their soul more than their brain, like a
lack of empathy or humanity.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
That most people are born with.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
So I think in some cases, there are some people
who have done very very heinous things, right like who
I wouldn't necessarily consider soulless. But then there are some
people who have also done very very bad things who
I will read about and I'm like, I am wondering
if a soul was ever there at all, because you
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think about some people who have killed in the name
of their lord and was told it was right. They're
just going by the conditioning of their upbringing or their surroundings.
But then I think I'll read about some other people
and I'm like, yo, what the fuck?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Like nothing led to this except like you just came
out of baby and just like decided to be awful.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I read a story recently about someone who's so dark
and I don't need to talk about it. Hearing someone
who did a horrible, horrible man serial killer and you know,
they were like, we don't know if from birth he
had the thing that makes you care about another human being.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That frightens me.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I know, it's so scary.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well, so where does your pure cell guy, Because you're
obviously not evil, and if you are, my god, you've
been very clever hiding it. Wow, then you're proper like
a master villain.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
No, I think life is probably easier for people who
are just straight up people to be honest, like the
lack of empathy problem makes things very simple for them.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But no, I think I don't know. I hope into
like either another good person or a plant. I just love.
I love plants, and I think they'd be.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
And they give oxygen, and yeah, I think they're really cool.
I have a plant I love now that just goes
and finds its son and comes back and I'm like,
it's just fucking living, just doing what it needs to do.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Mine in its business are the evil plants?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Weeds?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Oh yeah, okay, there you guys.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I don't know. What weeds exist?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Why they were born evil? Just to hoka the fuck?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
If I ever did make like an animated movie, I
feel like I would try to make it about plants
and weeds because but it's so boring, Like I'm not
I don't have the stematic for this yet you need to.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
They will make it, make it, make it? You wait,
you wait? S's cade eva weeds?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I know, and weeds.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I don't really see the purpose other than to kill
other plants. So I'm kind of confused about that place
in nature. And if I got to ask, you know,
God or whoever a couple of questions, I'd be like,
so why though.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Like why so?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I love? Okay, you've got two questions. We've got your
first one is why waits? What's your second one?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
My second one?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
This is your audience with God.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I'd like to know about dinosaurs, like I have a
few questions about yes, just yeah, Like what's up with rhinoceroses?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Are they are they the last? Or what's up?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Like?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Just tell me the deal? Are they coming back?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
What do we Just when I see your rhinoceros, I'm like,
that's crazy. No one's going to address that. That is
still here?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yes, I feel like.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
I'm getting off topic. This is why podcast scare me,
because now I'm like a.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Great, great question. Oh God, you're asking God why weeds?
Why rhinos? And God's like you had two questions, fair play.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
They were good ones, the weeds one though we don't
cover a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Though, if you think about it, I would start weeds,
but then we get to run where we need to go.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Right fucking rhinos. Rhino is a fucking walking dinosaurs. Shit
fucking hell, quinta. Anyway, listen, good news. There is a
heaven actually, and your goes to it. And this is
before you inhabit a plant. What is filled with your
favorite thing? What's your favorite thing?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Crab legs.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't know if you regret saying that, because when
you get to heaven, the walls are made of crab legs.
The chairs are made of crabs. It's okay, you made
your choice. It's quite comfortable that you know they've been deshelled.
You're on these crab legs, giant crab leg chairs.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Can I change answer? No?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And it's it's crab legs serving crab legs, Giant crab
legs walking around with Trains of crab Legs. But they're
all very excited to see you in crab leg heavan.
They're huge fans and they want to talk about your life,
but they want to talk about it through film. The
first thing they ask you, what's the first film you
remember seeing, Quincy Bronson?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
The first film I remember seeing is Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
We're back to dinosaurs. I know, what an amazing first film?
To say? How old are you? Where were you? How
did this happen?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
So? I was five?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
My brother was obsessed with dinosaurs, obsessed, and I had
to see this movie with him because he wanted to
see it.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
How how well was it was your age?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
My brother is eight years older than me, So I
was five, so he was thirteen.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I do that matter? I think I did?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yes? And is it just the TV?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
No, there's five of us, of course there is because
of your name.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Yeah, I'm the last, and then the rest are all
much older than me. So this is my closest brother
who was babysitting me at the time, but he needed
to see this movie. So and I think for that
it's the first one I remember seeing. I'm sure I
saw movies before that, but it was weird because I
wasn't scared of it, even though it could be a
really scary movie for kids. But I think it was
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a film that, even though my brain wasn't there to
understand filmmaking, I understood, like, dinosaurs don't exist, but I'm
seeing them in this movie.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
How did they do that? And the puppetry was so good.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
I think it was one of the first things that
made me ever even think I cared a lot about
film or television.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
On a deeper level.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, I have five.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Yeah, it's still to this day, that movie. It's just unreal.
It's it's still so good and holds up so well.
And I think I knew that when I was a
kid and my brother was obsessed with the dinosaurs, but
I was obsessed with the movie, you know, like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
We scared out your mind.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I wasn't. I should have been, but I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, too busy loving the craftsmanship of it.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
So I saw it, and I watched it over and over.
Then I got I had an on VHS. I would
watch it before bed, which is crazy, non stop.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
But I remember being with him in that theater and
watching that movie.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Beautiful, beautiful, what is the film that scared you the most?
And do you like being scared?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I don't like being scared. I hate scary movies. The
film that scared me the most was The.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Ring, the original of The American.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Oh, the American Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
And this was during the time that I think I
was maybe like fourteen or fifteen, but scary movies were
coming out left and right, like The Ring Saw like
it was just that time, and so.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I didn't know for scares.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, it was such a time, and I think that's
how I learned I didn't like scary movies. Like me
and my friends would go to the movies, and you know,
it was cool. It was appealing movies on TV. Everyone's
talking about it, you know, and it's one of commercials.
So I would go with them to the movies, and
I was like, I don't like this. I don't like
being scared.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Like I'm not a fan of this.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
And I watched the whole movie and I liked it
and appreciated it, but I was like, I don't enjoy
being scared. That's not not for your girl. So The
Ring really did that for me. That might have been
the last scary movie I had ever seen.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I do not like them. I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Wow, I don't even like movies making fun of scary
movies like scary movie that.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I don't enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
It's not laughing matter. You should not be making. What's
the film that made you cry the most? I know
you a crier, and to be honest, I know you
are because I saw you are Jimmy Kimo and you
made me cry. I know anyone listening who hasn't seen it.
Quinta went on Jimmy Kimmo and they surprised her with
her elementary teacher.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
I'd like to take this moment to say I'm not like,
I don't cry a lot, but I'd also like I
feel all of my emotions very openly. So if I
am gonna cry, I like, I can't stop it because
that's just what's gonna happen. And it's just been happening
to me a lot lately on TV. But I just
want people to know, not.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Like yeah, I mean, I just I don't know. And
sometimes it's just a lot of them.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm happy, and there's so much
happening right now and going on and sometimes you know, the.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Tears just start flowing.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
But the movie that made me cry the most I'm
actually embarrassed about, but I'm proud of.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
And it was Avengers Endgame.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Right right, so much like a baby at Tony start dying.
Marvel was just very big for me. I mean, it's
been a decade of my life. It's from the Iron
Man was a movie that I loved, an adored and
just thought was so well directed and well acted and
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was so well done. And then you know, Marvel turned
into Marvel and I had to be there every step
up of the way. And because they have a toe
hold on my life, apparently, Tony was just so big
for me. It's funny because like people always talk about
representation and I know it's ridiculous, but like Iron Man
was one of the first movies where I was like,
that is.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Me, I am that man. Wow, And he was just
really big for me.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I love this unapologetic human who made a choice to
do better and I just I just.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Love that character.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I've only watched Endgame three times because of how much
it hurts to watch it.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
In the end, it's really impressive what they did.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
People don't give it credit, and people may like try
to start the ship train the way people do, but
that was an incredible feat to have, you know, a
decade worth of films come together like that, and you know,
it's just something I'm not sure we'll ever see again.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
What's the film that you love? Most people don't like it,
It is not critically acclaimed, but you love it unconditionally.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I love this question. It is a film called Daddy's
Home that I love very very much. Well.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Daddy's Home stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlbergh.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Okay, and the sequel is with Mel Gibson, So sorry,
Daddy's Yes, Mike go Bag and Lit.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Ferrell and I fucking love that movie the first one.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
The first time I saw it was on a plane,
and you know, I have been drinking.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I was laughing out loud on the plane, just crying, laughing, crying.
I think it's so fucking funny and stupid. And I'll
watch it. I'll make other people watch it, like I
actually told like my writers and I was like, everyone
needs to go home and watch this film.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Right because I love it.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Because it's not critically acclaimed.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
It's just good jokes, it's really sweet storyline honestly about
these you know, the stepdad trying to get it together.
It's classic Will faralh but also not anyone's favorite Will
Feral film except for mine. It's so dumb. It's just
it's just a perfect movie. Hannibal Breast is perfect in it.
The kids are hilarious. I love it.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
On the other hand, what's the film that you did love?
You loved it, but you've watched it again recently and
you thought, this does not I don't like this anymore?
Whatever is hey the answer man?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
This one hurts But anchor man.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
From Will to Will.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I know, I know you look at that.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
It's not holding up for me. But I'm not throwing
it away. I'm not like, let's cancel it. It just
was very important for me at a very formative time
in my life. Like those one liners, those catchphrases are
part of the reason that I started loving and.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Doing comedy so much.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
But I did watch it again recently with my niece
and I was like, ooh, it's it's there are an
age for me in a way that's really a little rough. Yeah,
but it's just knowing that the comedy was of a
certain time. Yes, and that's okay. It's not as timeless
as I thought it would be.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I've talked about this before, but comedy is the thing
that I think dates the mist of all things. And
the only comedies that sort of tend to not date
are comedies that are just silly or physical or like.
But comedies with dialogue tend to date.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
It's so interesting too, because some comedies remain really good.
Although I think that some comedies are representative of what
we find funny at a certain time, Yeah, that doesn't
mean that they're not good when it's past that time.
I always think about the Three Stooges at a certain point,
like hitting each other. You know, that was the height
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of comedy. Like everyone was like, oh my god, this
fucking art. And now we look back at that and
it's like all right. But then there's another movie I
love with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. It's the movie
that Diamonds Are Girls Best Friend, Gentlemen Prefer Bonds. And
I think that's like a perfect timeless movie, even though
it was of a certain time.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
It's something that I'm like, I can.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Actually really be redone now, and the story is so
good that it could you know it still lasts. So
sometimes I think it's about story too, Like what is
the story of the.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Film we're seeing? Does it last longer than the time period?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
But with comedies in particular, that's like so that whole
era of like you know, Anchorman was just a favorite
of mine, but the rest of Jedd ap Taws movies
all and Adam McKay hold up really well. But like
the Rob Schneider movies of that time, like Hot Chick,
so representative of a time, you know, probably a story
that should never be told to get.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
But yeah, what's the film that means the mice to you?
Not necessarily the film itself is any good, but because
the experience you had around saying it will always make
it special to you.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Quintin Punson, of course.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
So this one is Transformers too, No Revenge of the Fallen.
It's not that good. But I liked it because I
loved the first one. The first one came out when
I was graduating high school in two thousand and seven,
and that was a movie me and my friends and
you know, my boyfriend at the time. We all went
to see Transformers on graduation night and I just loved it.
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It was a movie that gave me a similar feeling
to Jurassic Park, where I was like, how did they
do this? Like I need to know how they did this?
And it also still holds up. They did a good
job with that, like rendering in CGI. And then Transformer
two was coming out, and I had this one summer
with my boyfriend. He had gone away to college to Chicago.
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I stayed in Philly. When he came back for the summer,
we found out that Transformers Too was being filmed in Philly.
We found out that like they were using University of Penn,
the college that was very close to it. And so
the truth of the matter is we were hanging onto
this relationship by a.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Thread, and that thread was tracking.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Down where they were shooting Transformers Too. And I mean
we were running all over the city, like we heard
they're at you Pen. We're it's a million degrees outside,
it's like one hundred degrees.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
So we're and then we get to Upen and they're like,
they're not here today. They were here like a few
weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
And then we talked to a security guards that's like, yeah,
I actually think they're shooting like up it up in
South Philly.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
So we get in the car.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
We go to South Philly and my brother in law
at the time happens to text me.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
He's like, hey, Quinna, I know you like Transformers. They're
shooting at the Farmers Market today.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
I'm like, oh my god, we have to go down
to We're just getting anonymous tips and looking for optimists
prime to be riding around in the streets, which you know,
which was dumb. We wound up finding where they were
filming two days in a row.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
One was at this.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Market and I got to watch from afar and it
was so exciting. I actually got to meet Michael Bay
and like take a picture with them?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
You really did? You got to there?
Speaker 6 (38:04):
I did.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
Now, looking back, I'm like, I can't believe. I have
no idea.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
I look at that picture and just knowing how things
work now, I cannot believe I made it that far.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
I can't believe he took a picture with me.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I just excuse me.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
He was he was. They were right on the street
and he wasn't. I just I don't know. I was
very bold. I definitely was.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Like, what did you say to it?
Speaker 5 (38:31):
That? I loved the movie the first one, and I
was so excited about the second one, and at that
point I was kind of a fan because he had
also done Bad Boys.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I was like, whoa, you're really good. And he took it.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
I couldn't believe he took and he like unbuttoned his
shirt one button before taking it to That's one thing
I remember.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
And then the next day.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
He did he did, which is hilarious to me.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
And then the next day they were filming at this
big cemetery and my boyfriend and I tried to find
that and then what was stupid, which we didn't think
would be the case, we actually did wind up seeing
Optimist Prime from.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
This the highway.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
It's a big truck and where they happened to have
and we could just see him barely. It's this area
called Kelly Drive, and I'm like, I can't believe this.
So we go up there and it it's this cemetery
scene in the movie where Optimist Prime is there and
Bumblebee and we got to see like Shilah buff and
making fun. It was just like so unreal and able
to see such a big, massive movie being made in
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this very urban area. So it just meant a lot
to me because it was like kind of my first
time seeing a little bit behind the filmmaking process. And
when I went to go see it.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
I was like, wow, I was there. I saw that,
and you know it was cool.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Did you guys see it with the people that you've
been chasing around town with?
Speaker 5 (39:50):
No, because we had broken up by time it came,
So it's also important to me.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
For that reason.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
It was like, yeah, you know, I had this thing
that was ending, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
So when all you together was funding Transformers and when
Michael Bay under his top button, did you turn to
your boyfriend and goo within it?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (40:07):
I was so god. I was so young in.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Shit, maybe eighteen nineteen Okay, I started college at seventeen.
That was the first summer, so I was yeah, I
was probably eighteen too young.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
That's amazing. What is the film we most relate to?
And is it iron Man?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
I changed it? I was like, I'm not going to
say that. The one I.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Most relate to is this movie called Loving Basketball?
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Right and yet right, Okay, I'm happy you've seen it.
I just loved it.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
I think it was the most relatable coming of age story,
so to speak, for like a black girl that I
had ever seen, and one that was so good at
a sport that she didn't have any doubts about how
good she was at basketball. Her life was harder because
she was so good at basketball and so iron manesque.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
You see what kind of characters I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
To I answer my question about is it a lot
of pressure and overwhelming? And you're like, no, I now
understand why, because you're fucking iron man. You know you're
the best at basketball. Give a ship.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Your words are not mine.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I love it, I love it, but that is.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
Why I've never I understand the emotion and acknowledge like
the idea of them pastor syndrome, but that is not
something I've ever suffered. I feel very good at what
I do, and if anything, like I said, my life
is harder because I refuse to pretend that I'm not.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
The first person I've met who and I'm saying this
is a this is amazing. I think you're the first
person I've met doing what you do in this world
who doesn't experience imposter syndrome. That's I mean, I want
your brain you never had just and Okay, so then
we're talking about selves and talking about all this stuff.
Do you think the fact that you're like that, which,
(41:54):
by the way, is an incredible trait and you know,
a wonderful thing. Do you think you were bone that way?
Do you think it was instilled in you through your upbringing?
Is it like Camia like that, because many people are.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
I feel like it was instilled in me and my upbringing.
For one, I grew up in dance in a very
like I was a dancer, which was for me. My
world was a very positive environment made me very comfortable
with my body, talent, all of that.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
Really early on. My parents they.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
Did a very healthy thing where it wasn't like they
coddled me and told me I was like the best
in the world or anything. They were actually very realistic
with me at every turn of like what was possible,
what would be hard, what my strong points were. My
mom especially, I think we had a relationship where her
fears for me were based in what she knew I
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was capable of. And I think we had a very
conversation about that at one point too, where it was like,
all right, so your worries are because you're like worried
about what you created.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
Kind of and I I don't know, I just I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
I also trust that like wherever I wind up is
where I'm supposed to be too, and if not, I'm
not supposed to be there. I think that gives me
a lot of help with not feeling imposter syndrome. And
I think like, if you had a dream and then
you achieved it, then that's what.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
You were working to it.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
You were working in accordance with it, and I feel
like you you probably wanted to act right.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah. I mean, it's just funny hearing you because because
it's this thing I find so fascinating, where like, yeah,
everything was saying makes perfect sense, Like all the insecurity, impus,
the syndrome, anxiety, all this stuff is a lot of
wasted energy that gets in the way of the thing
you're ultimately going to do. I know what you're saying is, yeah,
I just don't have that annoying bit in the middle.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
And I don't think that we need to.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
I think it's like I don't think we need it.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
Yeah, I don't think that we have to.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
I don't think that you have that to take the
place of like humility. I think that I still don't
feel like I don't think i'm the best. I think
I'm the best. Quinta though I think that like I
am the best version of me, and I don't think
I'm like the best at things.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
I think I thought we were talking movies, Brett.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
We are, but we're talking how it is? Wow, you are,
Come on in, let's let's get let's get real. What's
the sexiest quinta?
Speaker 4 (44:27):
This one was really hard for me. I landed no.
I had a hard time thinking about this.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
I even went to my movie library to be like,
what is in here that I consider like super sexy?
Speaker 4 (44:37):
But I landed on Hitch that movie. I think it's
just a super classy sexy movie. Like I love the
music and I love the so it's.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
Not like sexy like hot, but I find it to
be really jazzy and classy, and I love the look
and feel of that movie and the why of the movie.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
You love Kevin James, And I can't blame you. What
there's a subcategory.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
Yes, I saw this one.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Traveling Boner is worrying why Dunes? What's the film you
found arousing You weren't sure you should?
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Mo Cup?
Speaker 4 (45:13):
No, it's actually like Wolf of Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
That's a great answer.
Speaker 5 (45:19):
I should not be attracted to Leonardo DiCaprio on that
or like the Wall Street World, or like the Drugs or.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
The you know, like horrible people doing things. But I
find the movie.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
I find him really attractive in the movie, and I
find you know, like the Wall Street Grind really attractive.
And I think Margot Robbie is just like super like
either're not a good couple, but I find to be.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
A super hot couple.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
It sucks.
Speaker 4 (45:49):
I'm embarrassed to say that.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
I find that that movie is very like arousing to me.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
That is really a perfect anset and that film is
interesting for maybe because I love my schools. When I
saw that film the first time, I hated that film.
The first time I saw it, I really didn't like it,
and I was like, I don't think I got it.
I sort of was like, this is a horrible film
and I don't understand its point of view, and I
just really sort of took against it. I found it.
(46:17):
I don't know, I didn't like it. And then I
saw it again a year later, a couple years out,
and I was like, this film's fucking brilliant. I didn't
realize how funny it was. It's a really funny film,
and I was like oh I get it now, I
get what you're doing. And yeah, all the things that
you're feeling is exactly what it wants you to. It's
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basically this similar thing that he does in Good Fellas.
It's like, yes, oh yeah, you you hate all these
people doing. How come you're enjoying this so much?
Speaker 4 (46:45):
You know, I'm like Jordan's hot though here some points,
you know.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
It's nice.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, it's a tough one.
Speaker 5 (46:52):
And I the first time I saw that movie, it's
not even my kind of movie, Like I don't like
movies like that, but it.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Just got me. I mean, if something is well directed,
well enough.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
You know, it's quite subtle that film in its way
in that it's really unastuttable. What it is subtle about
is its point of view, because it's from his point
of view. So you're you're watching a Dickhead's a dickhead
story being told by the dickhead. But then there's that
one scene right near the end of Wolf of Wall
Street after cale Chandler has been chasing him and trying
to get him, and then the dickhead character is like,
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fuck you, you wish you were me or somebody with that,
and then having got him you just see him on
a subway train on his own and this is his life,
and it's like it's really good, it's really smart.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Really good, and like, yeah, I really didn't get that.
Speaker 5 (47:41):
And it's a scene it's horrible, Like the relationship between
Jordan and his wife is horrible Michelle Margaret Robbin, but
the scene where she like puts his heel her heel
on his face. I was like, that is like one
of the scenes in the world.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Hands down.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
You're in the middle of this horrible relationship and it
shouldn't be that.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
I'm like, is this how people feel about euphoria? I
don't know. I just wonder what that scene is, how
I feel.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
How do you feel about euphoria?
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Is it because Euphooria doesn't quite get me.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
I understand that the acting is fantastic and it's well,
but you know, it's hard for me to watch.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
But some shit, I'm just like, what the fuck were
what's going on? But I wonder if other people.
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Feel that way about Euphoria that I felt like that
scene in Wulffle Walls.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Quinter a really big respect for that answer. Some people
don't take that seriously. That is a, that's a proper answer.
What is the greatest film of Full time? Objectively? Might
not be your favorite, but it's the greatest.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
This was hard. Yeah, and I don't think my answer
is good. But I said, catch me, if you.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Can, catch me, if you can. I went to see
thinking it would be fun. It looked like a fun
highest sort of caper. It depressed me for a whole week.
It's one of the films that's made me feel the
most sad. It's catch So when you say that's the greatest,
and like, oh, yeah, that film is horrible, it's not horrible,
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tells me I love it.
Speaker 5 (49:11):
I love It's such cool storytelling, the going back in
time and coming back to the present story. I mean,
I think it's so well done. I love Steven Spielberg.
I think he put his foot into that one. There
are certain scenes of it that are just so powerful
to me. When when you know Frank Avignelle learns that
his mom is cheating on his dad, his very foundation,
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you know, his family, what makes him start running in
the first place. You want to root for this kid
to you know it's going to catch up with him,
but you want to root for him to get out
of it by all means.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
Like I said, I just think it's so well directed.
I just love it.
Speaker 5 (49:48):
I've always loved that movie. I think that everyone's brilliant
in it. Christopher Walken, like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, even
like Amy Adams is in it for a little while,
who I just is a fucking.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Beast, and she's so good and even her small partner
is so great. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
I think it's a beautiful human story about running away.
I think it's really well done, and I think everyone
wishes they could run away and get away with it
at a point.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
But you just maybe it is the greatest film of time. God,
maybe you're right.
Speaker 5 (50:24):
And it leads to the version of accountability for him,
which I like too, even though it's in the form
of like working for the CIA, right, which is accountability
for him. It's what he's been from and in having
to atone for like his sins in a really interesting way.
But I think it speaks to the larger theme of
like you can't run away, like your options at the
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end are death or you gotta be accountable. And I
think it does such a good job that even with
having the person who was chasing him the whole time,
wind up being like a friend that's still like, I
get you, kid, I do, I like you, but everyone
has to be accountable for their actions.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
And I don't know. I love it.
Speaker 5 (51:06):
I loved it even prison wasn't accountable enough for him
because he could get out of prison.
Speaker 4 (51:14):
Well, you can still hate it, right, you can still.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
I don't hate I don't hate it. I actually think
it's brilliant. It just made me so sad. I think
what I hate about cas Mabehead is the marketing, because
marketing made it look like this is fun. It's not fun.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
It wasn't It might have come out on Christmas too,
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Fun times right. He's devastated by his dad. Neally wants
is to for his dad to tell him he loves him.
Oh wait, his dad dies before he ever gets the chance.
To the end, it was.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
A Christmas movie too, Yeah, I thought, Yeah, I love it.
It's I know it's not the best movie of all
time too. And I thought a lot about this question.
But a lot of the best all time I don't
really like that much.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
So I think that's a very good adset. What is
the film you could or have what's the Most Over again?
Speaker 5 (52:08):
Okay, the film I can watch the Most Over is
a very silly one. It's called Night at the Museum,
Battle at the Smithsonian.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Number number two.
Speaker 5 (52:18):
It's not even the first one, which would be but
I love the second one. It is so funny and
so cute, and I think it's so fucking funny. Like
I love Ben Stiller so much, and Amy Adams. There's
a theme here. Amy Adams is in it. I love
the Smithsonian Museum. It's my favorite museum in the world.
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It's such a good time. So when this movie was
taking place there, I.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
Was like, like, you did I try to get there?
Speaker 2 (52:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (52:48):
I Oh, that was too much. But Bill Hayter is
fucking hilarious in it, so funny. Who else Hank is?
Are you?
Speaker 5 (53:00):
Is so funny? Oh my god, It's like it's so good.
That's my multiverse of madness. They've got so many great
people and great.
Speaker 4 (53:12):
Characters in there. I watch it.
Speaker 5 (53:13):
If it's on TV, I stop everything I'm doing and
just watch it. I own it on Blu Ray and
DVD on Amazon like you wherever I go, just in
case I need a little pick me up.
Speaker 4 (53:24):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
That's very sweet. I don't like to be negative. I
don't think you do. Let's do it quickly. What's the
worst film you've ever seen?
Speaker 5 (53:32):
Okay, it's this movie called Blended by Adam Sandler and.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
Andrew war Is in it. I just think it's just awful,
just god awful. I do.
Speaker 5 (53:42):
It's not his best and I think I think Adam
Sandler actually does like bad movies really really well. I
think he's so good at it, and I admire him
for it. I think it's really just how full about
just go with it? I'm like, this is a bad
movie done right. And he takes his friends to Hawaii
and shoots a movie or Africa, and I love his
whole thing, But that one is not good to me.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
It's not good.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
You in comedy. You're a comedian, he's a very successful one.
What's the film that made you laugh the most?
Speaker 4 (54:11):
Meet the Fockers.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
That's a great film.
Speaker 4 (54:14):
That's good, right, it's great.
Speaker 5 (54:16):
Oh, it's so so funny every time I see it.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
That's your third sequel in this list.
Speaker 4 (54:24):
I know, I don't know what it is about. Yeah,
that's so weird.
Speaker 5 (54:28):
It is so funny, so well written, keeps holding up
to it goes back to what I was saying about,
like it just keeps standing the test of time. I'm
surprised how much it still makes me laugh out loud,
even though it came out so long ago and I've
seen it a million times once again, fantastic actors. Dustin
Hoffman never he makes me laugh from this deep place
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that it is like, oh.
Speaker 4 (54:49):
I know that, man, I know all that. Just be
nice to him, you know.
Speaker 5 (54:54):
Like, and Barbara Streisand is incredible in it.
Speaker 4 (54:58):
She's so lovely and hilarious.
Speaker 5 (55:02):
The scenarios. Every time they put, you know, been still
learn another situation.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
I'm always like, oh God, don't do this, only put
the baby. You guys know what's gonna It's.
Speaker 5 (55:12):
Like it's the first time every time I'm watching it,
and I just I love it so.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Funny, really good. Quinte, you have been wonderful, and I
genuinely I'm very grateful, knowing how insanely busy you are,
that you've given me this much of your time. I
really appreciate it. However, when you were thinking, I don't
want to die and for people to be sad, so
instead I'm going to put in order for a mass
(55:39):
extinction event. We could kill everyone to spare them the
pain of being said, because you're yourself, and you whacked
on leflaiir by Minnie RiPP it in up loud, and
you said, everyone, come outside, come outside, I've got something
to show you. Everyone, hold hands, try and think with me.
Ba boo boo bah. And then he said, and you
(56:02):
did your dance that you learned when you were young,
and really good dance. And everyone was like, oh, this
is lovely. And you said look up, look up, and
they all looked up, and a giant fucking meteor was
hurtling towards them, and as the song reached its peak,
the meteor hit you all hit all so hard that
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the only thing that survived was me. I was underground
with some rhinos, just eating twinkies and with some cockroaches
and some rhinos, and I was sitting with a rhino
playing paper and I was like, which dinosaur are you?
Then he was like, I'm gonna try serotops. You all
know that, and I was like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (56:41):
I thought exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (56:44):
Anyway, we wait for the debris to stop raining down,
we pop up and I've got a coughin with me.
You know what I'm like, and I'm walking around and go,
what's that really flat? That particularly flat? And I go, oh,
that's Quintera. That is Quinter is dead. She's everyone's dead,
but Quinter in particular is dead. And I get the
rhino to dig into the ground with his horn because
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you are properly in the earth. It's fair enough. She
buried herself. But I should put in a box. Anyway,
I get you up with. There's lots of rocks and
mud and and anyway, there's more of you than I
was expecting. I have to stuff you in this coffin.
There's no room in this coffin. There's only enough room
for me to slip a DVD into the side for
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you to take across to the other side. And on
the other side, it's movie night every night. What film
are you taking to crab leg Heaven to show the
giant crab legs you sit on crab legs when it
is your movie night, Quinter Brunson superstar, that would.
Speaker 4 (57:37):
Be taking with me night at the museum battle.
Speaker 2 (57:43):
Everyone will be so happy.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
They'll have such a good time.
Speaker 2 (57:47):
No one else brought it. No one else brought it.
That's so happy.
Speaker 4 (57:50):
No one else brought it. They're going to learn about history.
Speaker 5 (57:53):
It'll be good. They're gonna left, they're gonna cry. It's
a good movie.
Speaker 2 (57:57):
And God's going to give you your two questions. So
I hope you have a wonderful time, Quinta. Good luck
with everything. I hope that season two guys as well,
if not even better than season one. You're brilliant. You
are right in man. Is there anything you'd like to
tell people to look out for other than that but elementary?
Speaker 5 (58:18):
Well, speaking of movies, I will be in a movie
soon and everyone can watch it.
Speaker 4 (58:22):
It'll be on the Roku channel.
Speaker 5 (58:25):
We're the Weird al Yanka Big movie, which I think
is really really cool, and I do want to tell
people because I think they're going to enjoy it so much.
And in a time where it's fun to enjoy some good,
silly movies, I think people will really enjoy this movie.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
Cool. Okay, thank you, Quinta, Thank you Brat. This was
fun for a wonderful time. I have a lovely death
and now see you scene.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
So that was Quinta Bronson on a rewind classic episode.
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Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
My name is Buddy Peace. I'm a producer and editor
at d J, a music maker, a pause and for
intro and outro purposes, and temporarily standing in for your
regular host and proud creator of this particular podcast, mister
Brett Goldstein. As Sissy Spasic, once said, my biggest thrill
in life is to read in the afternoon until I
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fall asleep and take a nap. You know what, Sissy
In a rare break of form and the intro, I'm
just going to say that sounds perfect, no further comments.
Every week Brett invites a guest on, he tells them
they've died, and then he talks to them about their
life through the medium of film. But this week we
are revisiting an earlier episode of the podcast in what
will likely be the last of the rewinds for this
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bridge season. Thanks so much for taking a trip through
the vaults with us. We appreciate that there's been a
minute since the new episodes, but thank you so much
to those of you who are still joining us. The
new season is looking like it will return in full
face next week early May so be absolutely sure to
join us for the grand reopening. It all goes to plan,
so yes, indeed, it is that time once more for
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a films to be buried with Rewind Classic. This Rewind
is from September twenty second, twenty twenty two, originally episode
two hundred and fourteen, featuring writer, actor and all round
treasure Quinta Bronson. A lovely episode from start to end,
featuring one of the busiest people in television. But as
you're here at this point in Quinta's career, we were
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just at the peak of busyness and there was so
much more to come. We're currently on season three of
Abbott Elementary, which you can find on Disney Plus, and
Quinta is keeping incredibly busy still as you can witness
on Instagram. All links will be in the episode description.
Let me take this opportunity to also remind you that
Brett has a Patreon page for the podcast, upon which
you will get a bonus section every episode with a
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secret from each guest, more questions, and a video of
each episode which looks nice and fresh. There are a
selection of tiers on there too, and on the uppermost
tiers I will make your cinematic soundtrack mixtape each month
with full track list that I reckon you'll enjoy very much.
So if you're of a supporting nature and feel like
some extras from the show, you'll find them all there.
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So that's it for now. Let's get you settled in
for a wonderful episode with the excellent Quinta Bronson. Catch
you at the end for a quick sign off, But
for now, please enjoy episode two hundred and fourteen via
Episode two hundred and ninety seven of Films to be
Buried With.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With. It
is me Berett Goldstein, and I am joined today by
an Internet star, a cable star, a network star, a writer,
a comedian, a skep coo, a show runner, a actor,
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a award winner, a award winner, a award winner, multi
multi multi award winner and multi award nominee, a hero
and the future of humanity and the leader of the
free world. She's also a stand up. Please welcome to
(04:10):
the show, your hero and mine. It's the one that
only issues. It's quin to Brunson.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Hi, what a crazy intro, crazy crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Crazy true Hi Brett, Hi, Quinta how are you.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm good? Thank you, thank you for doing this for me.
Now I met you through Ashley Nicole Black. I believe
we met at the TED last season two premier. Is
that when we first met, Yes, and I said, what
are you up to? And you said, I'm working on
a little show, lovely little show called Abbot Elementary and
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I thought, well, good luck with that. And then it
turned out you made one of the best news shows
there is. And you have now been multi multi, multi
MOLTI Award winning and multi at this point of recording,
nominated for many Emmy's. You've had the most successful, biggest
(05:10):
writing sitcom of network TV ever missed.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So in recent time. Thank you, but in recent time.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But yes, and you're now doing You are mid recording
season two? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yes, we are in the middle.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
We just finished shooting our fifth episode and so our
fifth week of shooting.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But we're in the writer's room. We've been in there since.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
May forgive me. Are you the showrunner as well on
that show?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I am? I am.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I have two wonderful co showrunners and co producers, Justin
Halpern and Patrick Schumacher, who we're like a three headed
beast because I do so much on the show, it
is definitely hard to be I wouldn't even want to
be the sole showrunner. Also because with the Abbed, I
had never show run before, and Justin and Pett so
great it, so I'm happy to be in this three
(06:02):
headed beast with them.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Okay, I know you've been talking a lot about the show,
but can I ask you like practical stuff, because I'm
so fascinated. For the record, I love your show. I
think it's fucking brilliant, and I also think it's so
hard and rare for a sitcom to nail it in
the first episode, and that pilot is a fucking banger.
It's so funny, it sets up everything perfectly, and all
(06:25):
the cast of characters are already funny and already their part,
you know what I mean. Like it feels like, oh,
this is the show. Whereas most shows take three or
four to find it, you had it episode one, and
so my first question I alwaysd like to ask is
about like the casting of it, because it's also there's
no big names in it. No disrespect to anyone. Yeah,
they're all incredible, but it's not like you were casting famouses.
(06:50):
So how how much was that something you fought for?
How much was the network behind you? Because network, I
believe I've never worked in it, but I understand network's
very difficult. You get loads and lines of nights and
there's lots of people you have to please, And how
did that work for you in the early stages before
it was a proven thing.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
So I was super intentional about getting a certain type
of cast. As a TV watcher, I'm always just in
love with being introduced to new talent. It's so exciting,
not only because you know they're new, but it helps
you to fall in love with the character a little
bit more. I think, using the show You're on as
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an example, Ted Lasso introduced me to a whole crop
of new talent, and I think that that helped me
to fall in love with those characters even more, knowing
nothing about their lives or past roles, orything like that.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And I thought that. I just thought that was really
important for a.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Sitcom, and with it being a mockumentary, I wanted people
to feel like it was real, Like we all watched TV.
We know that television isn't real, but I do think
there's beauty in maintaining the illusion for as long as
you can so that audience members are able to get
fully invested did in this story, and so it was a.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Little bit of a we won't say fight.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
There were many discussions with the network about me really
wanting to stay true to my roots, on having a
mix of new faces and then faces the audience would
be familiar with, but who weren't megas. I felt like
Sheryl Lee Rolph, who plays Barbara, was the cap for
me because many people know her. She's just fantastic, wonderful,
(08:29):
beautiful part of many of my favorite films growing up
in TV shows, but she still wasn't this mega famous
household name, and I saw an opportunity that to present
her with really good work that would kind of push
her over that threshold. And then Tyler James Williams is
no stranger to TV for sure, who plays Gregory, but
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he hadn't been Sometimes it's also about just giving someone
a role that they haven't had yet. The one role
that the network and I kind of had a big
put pull on was the role of Ava. And they
had a lot of big names that they were interested in,
but it was very important to me that ava, the
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character got to be brand new and got to come
with no baggage or preconceived notions, and I knew the
character would be very fresh and brand new to TV,
kind of incomparable to anything else that I had seen
in recent time, and I thought a fresh face was
the best way to convey that to the audience. And
we got multiple reads from people, but when Janelle auditioned,
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it became super clear that she was the essence of
what that character was, and for me, the discussion was
kind of over. Yeah, And like you said, like networks,
they like to have the names because they think the
names will bring the viewers.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And yes, that's true.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Sometimes, but I kind of believe that essence is what
you know, makes people fall in love more than just
a big name.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I've talked about this when we've done like press, Ted's
a I felt with Ted lasts, So I know that,
you know, most of us were fairly yeah, similarly not unknown,
but we've all done stuff, but no one knew we were.
So let's say, and I definitely remember that first read through.
Everyone's very nervous and stuff like that, and there's there's
pressure and all those things, but I do remember the
(10:19):
Episode four read through was the time where I really
felt like everyone clicked. Like I looked around the room
and everyone was sewing it and we all had chemistry
with each other, and we all got each other, we
got the show, and it was a real moment. It
was really like a fun read through that way. It
was like, this is it. This is the fucking show.
And I wonder when did you have that feeling with
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everyone or was it really early?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I think it was very early. I think, you know,
we didn't do chemistry reads. I think the only one
that would have been done realistically was me and Tyler.
But Tyler was the first cast it. I kind of
as soon as I started writing that role, I had
Tyler mind, and we had already worked together before, and
everybody else just showed up on the day and I
think we were shooting one of our first big scenes
(11:03):
all together and it was clicking in a way that
was a little bit strange for all the actors, like whoa,
you know, there's a bunch of people who've done a
bunch of TV and film before. It never really had
that feeling that their timing was so well matched up
with each other. But you know, I think I did
know that when casting the show. I once again there
(11:24):
were certain things I was looking for. It wasn't just
the person being a good actor or knowing the character well,
but it's like, well, how will their version, how will
Lisan Walter's version of Melissa play with cherryl Lee Rouse's
version of Barbara. So I think that a good ensemble
comedy is like harmony in a song, where it's like, well,
(11:45):
I want to lay this vocal track over this vocal
track to make a beautiful song. And I knew that
these people would be able to do that. So it
was really the when we were shooting the pilot, and
then for me in editing, I was just like.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Oh my god, these people edits so well.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Again, that was such a good I still get that
feeling while we're editing of just ooh, we don't have
to do too much, you know. And once again, especially
with Macuminary, everything's being filmed all at once, and of
course we get different taps, but to sometimes have one
scene where we don't have to cut to another angle
the entire time if we didn't want to, I think
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it's really really, really powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
What about I just want to know one sort of
practical thing. It's hard making a show and very very
very very lucky. But you're in the position where so
on you you're high show running, but you're writing, you're acting.
And when I didn't understand about network TV is you're
writing the show whilst making the show. How farad? How
many episodes have you written when you start filming? So
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season one was eleven episodes.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
That right, season almost thirteen episodes.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Thirteen episodes, and season two you got the full order
of twenty two episodes. When I saw that announcement, I
genuinely I thought, I felt like, oh, congratulations, what a night.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
It was such a bittersweet feeling. I was both thank you,
but also is this a threat?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Like what the fuck? It's so much TV?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
And we were really fortunate because the first season so
here in America on network TV. I'm not sure if
it works for you know, network or what is considered
network over there, but like we were mixed, which is healthy.
But for networks you have fall pickups and mid season pickups.
Eben Elementary for the first season was a mid season pickup,
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but we shot the entire series, wrote and shot the
entire series, and way before the show aired, we read
filming and omber in the show filmed in January and
this year not the case. So the show is airing
in the fall. So right now, we just finished filming
episode five, will be starting six next week. And our
(13:58):
writer's room we now just finished episode to ten. We're outlined,
we're outlined to twelve, and my co showrunner Justin has
done He did such a good job of making sure
we were very far ahead so that by time I
had to set to film. You know, the first half
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of the season was pretty much laid out right, and
I wanted to lay out the rest of the season
so that my writers, everybody had a north star they
were going to.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And I'm still hyper involved. I am definitely a person
that don't get me wrong. I love my actors, I
love being on set, and I love acting, but i
also love being in that writer's room. So I'm fortunate.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Enough that you know, once again, because this is mockumentary,
a little known fact that's really exciting is your day
is finished much faster than the typical show.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
So we finished filming every day usually around three great
and if we're fourt we'll wrap shooting before lunch because
it's fast and I'll just go back up.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
To the writer's room, and you know, really right, if
I can really go through all of the stories and
the outlines help create the stories. But every episode as
of now is laid out so that we know where
we're going.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And I think.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's when did you last sleep?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
So I chose to sleep yesterday. Yesterday was the first
day in a very long time that I didn't do anything.
I stayed in the house, I did laundry, I caught
up on some TV shows I was really excited to watch,
and I didn't do anything. And that was the first
time probably in like three months. Part of that is
my fault, though, because I like to go out and
like some days when I could go home. I do
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like to go out with my writers. I like to
go out and like drink and stuff and have fun.
But I chose to just take it easy yesterday, which
was nice.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Quinna, this is awful. I've forgotten to tell you something,
and it's so bad after hearing it all of this. Uh,
I know, because I don't have to tell you, we
could just carry on without. But I should have told you.
I'll tell you. I'll just tell you you died. You're dead.
(16:18):
You're dead.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Oh the podcast.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Oh, this is my favorite part of the podcast.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I don't want to be dead.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Well, I'm afraid you are. And I forgot about it
because I was side dazzled by all your news. But
then I remember it. You're actually dead? How did you die?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I hate this part.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Things good. I like people are scared of death on
this show.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I just wish it was like everyone at the same time,
like meteor everyone.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Okay, you want a mass extinction event.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I don't want that, But for the purposes of this,
I would love if no one, you know, no one
had to miss me and no one had to be said,
and they all just go out with a nice, beautiful
song and we know what's coming. Everyone gets to prepare
and hold on to their loved ones, including me.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
What's the song we're singing is the Meteor hits.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It's a beautiful song by Minie Riperton called Us Floors,
and I love it.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
It's a beautiful song.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I just love that song.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I love that song. I think it's so pretty co coordious.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Quite hard for everyone to sing that song, but I
love it. You know, it'd be quite funny.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
You are everyone, okay, So everyone's like holding hands, singing
MANI ripres and then their medio, but they're.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Not singing, it's playing.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Okay. It's a lovely song to go out to, for sure.
And then meteor hits. Everyone's instantly dead. I like that
to spare people being sad about you dying. You've decided
to kill everyone. That's the most selfless act you've done. That.
Thank you, to spare their being.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Selflessness in self and selfishness. They're only you know.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Do you worry about death?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
No? I wouldn't say I worry.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I know it comes for everyone who been dealing with
it a lot lately. I worry about not living life
and a way that doesn't you know. I don't want
to call for it. I don't want to pull it
towards my life. I want to try to take care
of myself and my mind and body and spirits so
that I'm not calling it upon me or dancing with it.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I would love to stave it off as long as possible.
But I'm not afraid.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You're not afraid of it. What do you think happens
when you die? Is there enough to life?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I have two schools of thought.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I think I don't I don't think that like, if
there is one, I'm not sure you get to carry
your consciousness with you. I think people have this version
where your consciousness, your current state of consciousness, follows you.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But I don't think that's true.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I think, oh, you think we just take our buddies
just no.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
No, no no, But just like a soul that is
the same soul that I have, but not my consciousness,
not all the things I know or people I know.
But I do think a soul could travel somewhere else
and you just don't get to take your what you
know with you.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
And then I have one theory that that's it to
put your done.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
So your soul premise is that all the things that
we think the way our mind works is all just
kind of baggage that's in the way of our soul,
and our soul is actually a much purer thing. It's
not our consciousness is like just shit that we've picked up.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, absolutely, because your consciousness is based on you know,
where you are, where you live, where you're from. And
I think that everyone kind of has a pure soul
to start with. Yeah, And I think that all the
other stuff, like you know, stuff that even in America
we always think everyone thinks like us, but like, I'm
(20:03):
pretty sure I don't think the same way as a
kid who was born in a war torn country who
has different survival skills and tactics, different outlooks on life, relationships, love.
But I do think that a soul is a pretty
pure thing and that can transfer to I know not
where and I know not what, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I do think that I love that, and that has
not been said on this podcast before.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
And I think really I got really interested in just
theology as a whole, like just religion, the concept of
it and what's at the base of it. And for
most religions, even for people who are agnostic, the base
is still like good and evil. And I think that,
you know, like, yeah, dark forces are a thing. They're
(20:52):
they're at play at any given time, and some people
materialize those things as the devil or you know, if
you go buy comic book theory a villain, like, you know,
it's all the same stuff. It's just good and evil,
I think, And so I think that that's how I
look at it.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
So you think, because I never know what if I
think like people are born evil or things like that,
like I tend to maybe far too optimistically think that
that isn't the case, and people can change and whatnot.
But you think there's something that's just evil.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Yeah, I think I've read enough about the psychology of
some of the most nefarious people of all time, and
it seems as though there was a component missing, you
could say, in their brain. But then there are other
scholars who are like it something actually missing in the
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makeup of their soul more than their brain, like a
lack of empathy or humanity.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
That most people are born with.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
So I think in some cases, there are some people
who have done very very heinous things, right like who
I wouldn't necessarily consider soulless. But then there are some
people who have also done very very bad things who
I will read about and I'm like, I am wondering
if a soul was ever there at all, because you
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think about some people who have killed in the name
of their lord and was told it was right. They're
just going by the conditioning of their upbringing or their surroundings.
But then I think I'll read about some other people
and I'm like, yo, what the fuck?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Like nothing led to this except like you just came
out of baby and just like decided to be awful.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I read a story recently about someone who's so dark
and I don't need to talk about it. Hearing someone
who did a horrible, horrible man serial killer and you know,
they were like, we don't know if from birth he
had the thing that makes you care about another human being.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That frightens me.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I know, it's so scary.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well, so where does your pure cell guy, Because you're
obviously not evil, and if you are, my god, you've
been very clever hiding it. Wow, then you're proper like
a master villain.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
No, I think life is probably easier for people who
are just straight up people to be honest, like the
lack of empathy problem makes things very simple for them.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But no, I think I don't know. I hope into
like either another good person or a plant. I just love.
I love plants, and I think they'd be.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
And they give oxygen, and yeah, I think they're really cool.
I have a plant I love now that just goes
and finds its son and comes back and I'm like,
it's just fucking living, just doing what it needs to do.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Mine in its business are the evil plants?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Weeds?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Oh yeah, okay, there you guys.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I don't know. What weeds exist?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Why they were born evil? Just to hoka the fuck?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
If I ever did make like an animated movie, I
feel like I would try to make it about plants
and weeds because but it's so boring, Like I'm not
I don't have the stematic for this yet you need to.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
They will make it, make it, make it? You wait,
you wait? S's cade eva weeds?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I know, and weeds.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I don't really see the purpose other than to kill
other plants. So I'm kind of confused about that place
in nature. And if I got to ask, you know,
God or whoever a couple of questions, I'd be like,
so why though.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Like why so?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I love? Okay, you've got two questions. We've got your
first one is why waits? What's your second one?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
My second one?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
This is your audience with God.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I'd like to know about dinosaurs, like I have a
few questions about yes, just yeah, Like what's up with rhinoceroses?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Are they are they the last? Or what's up?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Like?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Just tell me the deal? Are they coming back?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
What do we Just when I see your rhinoceros, I'm like,
that's crazy. No one's going to address that. That is
still here?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yes, I feel like.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
I'm getting off topic. This is why podcast scare me,
because now I'm like a.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Great, great question. Oh God, you're asking God why weeds?
Why rhinos? And God's like you had two questions, fair play.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
They were good ones, the weeds one though we don't
cover a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Though, if you think about it, I would start weeds,
but then we get to run where we need to go.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Right fucking rhinos. Rhino is a fucking walking dinosaurs. Shit
fucking hell, quinta. Anyway, listen, good news. There is a
heaven actually, and your goes to it. And this is
before you inhabit a plant. What is filled with your
favorite thing? What's your favorite thing?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Crab legs.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't know if you regret saying that, because when
you get to heaven, the walls are made of crab legs.
The chairs are made of crabs. It's okay, you made
your choice. It's quite comfortable that you know they've been deshelled.
You're on these crab legs, giant crab leg chairs.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Can I change answer? No?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And it's it's crab legs serving crab legs, Giant crab
legs walking around with Trains of crab Legs. But they're
all very excited to see you in crab leg heavan.
They're huge fans and they want to talk about your life,
but they want to talk about it through film. The
first thing they ask you, what's the first film you
remember seeing, Quincy Bronson?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
The first film I remember seeing is Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
We're back to dinosaurs. I know, what an amazing first film?
To say? How old are you? Where were you? How
did this happen?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
So? I was five?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
My brother was obsessed with dinosaurs, obsessed, and I had
to see this movie with him because he wanted to
see it.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
How how well was it was your age?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
My brother is eight years older than me, So I
was five, so he was thirteen.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I do that matter? I think I did?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yes? And is it just the TV?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
No, there's five of us, of course there is because
of your name.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Yeah, I'm the last, and then the rest are all
much older than me. So this is my closest brother
who was babysitting me at the time, but he needed
to see this movie. So and I think for that
it's the first one I remember seeing. I'm sure I
saw movies before that, but it was weird because I
wasn't scared of it, even though it could be a
really scary movie for kids. But I think it was
(27:11):
a film that, even though my brain wasn't there to
understand filmmaking, I understood, like, dinosaurs don't exist, but I'm
seeing them in this movie.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
How did they do that? And the puppetry was so good.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
I think it was one of the first things that
made me ever even think I cared a lot about
film or television.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
On a deeper level.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, I have five.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Yeah, it's still to this day, that movie. It's just unreal.
It's it's still so good and holds up so well.
And I think I knew that when I was a
kid and my brother was obsessed with the dinosaurs, but
I was obsessed with the movie, you know, like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
We scared out your mind.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I wasn't. I should have been, but I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, too busy loving the craftsmanship of it.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
So I saw it, and I watched it over and over.
Then I got I had an on VHS. I would
watch it before bed, which is crazy, non stop.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
But I remember being with him in that theater and
watching that movie.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Beautiful, beautiful, what is the film that scared you the most?
And do you like being scared?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I don't like being scared. I hate scary movies. The
film that scared me the most was The.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Ring, the original of The American.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Oh, the American Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
And this was during the time that I think I
was maybe like fourteen or fifteen, but scary movies were
coming out left and right, like The Ring Saw like
it was just that time, and so.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I didn't know for scares.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, it was such a time, and I think that's
how I learned I didn't like scary movies. Like me
and my friends would go to the movies, and you know,
it was cool. It was appealing movies on TV. Everyone's
talking about it, you know, and it's one of commercials.
So I would go with them to the movies, and
I was like, I don't like this. I don't like
being scared.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Like I'm not a fan of this.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
And I watched the whole movie and I liked it
and appreciated it, but I was like, I don't enjoy
being scared. That's not not for your girl. So The
Ring really did that for me. That might have been
the last scary movie I had ever seen.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I do not like them. I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Wow, I don't even like movies making fun of scary
movies like scary movie that.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I don't enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
It's not laughing matter. You should not be making. What's
the film that made you cry the most? I know
you a crier, and to be honest, I know you
are because I saw you are Jimmy Kimo and you
made me cry. I know anyone listening who hasn't seen it.
Quinta went on Jimmy Kimmo and they surprised her with
her elementary teacher.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
I'd like to take this moment to say I'm not like,
I don't cry a lot, but I'd also like I
feel all of my emotions very openly. So if I
am gonna cry, I like, I can't stop it because
that's just what's gonna happen. And it's just been happening
to me a lot lately on TV. But I just
want people to know, not.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Like yeah, I mean, I just I don't know. And
sometimes it's just a lot of them.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm happy, and there's so much
happening right now and going on and sometimes you know, the.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Tears just start flowing.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
But the movie that made me cry the most I'm
actually embarrassed about, but I'm proud of.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
And it was Avengers Endgame.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Right right, so much like a baby at Tony start dying.
Marvel was just very big for me. I mean, it's
been a decade of my life. It's from the Iron
Man was a movie that I loved, an adored and
just thought was so well directed and well acted and
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was so well done. And then you know, Marvel turned
into Marvel and I had to be there every step
up of the way. And because they have a toe
hold on my life, apparently, Tony was just so big
for me. It's funny because like people always talk about
representation and I know it's ridiculous, but like Iron Man
was one of the first movies where I was like,
that is.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Me, I am that man. Wow, And he was just
really big for me.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I love this unapologetic human who made a choice to
do better and I just I just.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Love that character.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I've only watched Endgame three times because of how much
it hurts to watch it.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
In the end, it's really impressive what they did.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
People don't give it credit, and people may like try
to start the ship train the way people do, but
that was an incredible feat to have, you know, a
decade worth of films come together like that, and you know,
it's just something I'm not sure we'll ever see again.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
What's the film that you love? Most people don't like it,
It is not critically acclaimed, but you love it unconditionally.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I love this question. It is a film called Daddy's
Home that I love very very much. Well.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Daddy's Home stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlbergh.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Okay, and the sequel is with Mel Gibson, So sorry,
Daddy's Yes, Mike go Bag and Lit.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Ferrell and I fucking love that movie the first one.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
The first time I saw it was on a plane,
and you know, I have been drinking.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
I was laughing out loud on the plane, just crying, laughing, crying.
I think it's so fucking funny and stupid. And I'll
watch it. I'll make other people watch it, like I
actually told like my writers and I was like, everyone
needs to go home and watch this film.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Right because I love it.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Because it's not critically acclaimed.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
It's just good jokes, it's really sweet storyline honestly about
these you know, the stepdad trying to get it together.
It's classic Will faralh but also not anyone's favorite Will
Feral film except for mine. It's so dumb. It's just
it's just a perfect movie. Hannibal Breast is perfect in it.
The kids are hilarious. I love it.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
On the other hand, what's the film that you did love?
You loved it, but you've watched it again recently and
you thought, this does not I don't like this anymore?
Whatever is hey the answer man?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
This one hurts But anchor man.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
From Will to Will.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I know, I know you look at that.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
It's not holding up for me. But I'm not throwing
it away. I'm not like, let's cancel it. It just
was very important for me at a very formative time
in my life. Like those one liners, those catchphrases are
part of the reason that I started loving and.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Doing comedy so much.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
But I did watch it again recently with my niece
and I was like, ooh, it's it's there are an
age for me in a way that's really a little rough. Yeah,
but it's just knowing that the comedy was of a
certain time. Yes, and that's okay. It's not as timeless
as I thought it would be.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I've talked about this before, but comedy is the thing
that I think dates the mist of all things. And
the only comedies that sort of tend to not date
are comedies that are just silly or physical or like.
But comedies with dialogue tend to date.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
It's so interesting too, because some comedies remain really good.
Although I think that some comedies are representative of what
we find funny at a certain time, Yeah, that doesn't
mean that they're not good when it's past that time.
I always think about the Three Stooges at a certain point,
like hitting each other. You know, that was the height
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of comedy. Like everyone was like, oh my god, this
fucking art. And now we look back at that and
it's like all right. But then there's another movie I
love with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. It's the movie
that Diamonds Are Girls Best Friend, Gentlemen Prefer Bonds. And
I think that's like a perfect timeless movie, even though
it was of a certain time.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
It's something that I'm like, I can.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Actually really be redone now, and the story is so
good that it could you know it still lasts. So
sometimes I think it's about story too, Like what is
the story of the.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Film we're seeing? Does it last longer than the time period?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
But with comedies in particular, that's like so that whole
era of like you know, Anchorman was just a favorite
of mine, but the rest of Jedd ap Taws movies
all and Adam McKay hold up really well. But like
the Rob Schneider movies of that time, like Hot Chick,
so representative of a time, you know, probably a story
that should never be told to get.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
But yeah, what's the film that means the mice to you?
Not necessarily the film itself is any good, but because
the experience you had around saying it will always make
it special to you.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Quintin Punson, of course.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
So this one is Transformers too, No Revenge of the Fallen.
It's not that good. But I liked it because I
loved the first one. The first one came out when
I was graduating high school in two thousand and seven,
and that was a movie me and my friends and
you know, my boyfriend at the time. We all went
to see Transformers on graduation night and I just loved it.
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It was a movie that gave me a similar feeling
to Jurassic Park, where I was like, how did they
do this? Like I need to know how they did this?
And it also still holds up. They did a good
job with that, like rendering in CGI. And then Transformer
two was coming out, and I had this one summer
with my boyfriend. He had gone away to college to Chicago.
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I stayed in Philly. When he came back for the summer,
we found out that Transformers Too was being filmed in Philly.
We found out that like they were using University of Penn,
the college that was very close to it. And so
the truth of the matter is we were hanging onto
this relationship by a.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Thread, and that thread was tracking.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Down where they were shooting Transformers Too. And I mean
we were running all over the city, like we heard
they're at you Pen. We're it's a million degrees outside,
it's like one hundred degrees.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
So we're and then we get to Upen and they're like,
they're not here today. They were here like a few
weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
And then we talked to a security guards that's like, yeah,
I actually think they're shooting like up it up in
South Philly.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
So we get in the car.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
We go to South Philly and my brother in law
at the time happens to text me.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
He's like, hey, Quinna, I know you like Transformers. They're
shooting at the Farmers Market today.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
I'm like, oh my god, we have to go down
to We're just getting anonymous tips and looking for optimists
prime to be riding around in the streets, which you know,
which was dumb. We wound up finding where they were
filming two days in a row.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
One was at this.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Market and I got to watch from afar and it
was so exciting. I actually got to meet Michael Bay
and like take a picture with them?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
You really did? You got to there?
Speaker 6 (38:04):
I did.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
Now, looking back, I'm like, I can't believe. I have
no idea.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
I look at that picture and just knowing how things
work now, I cannot believe I made it that far.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
I can't believe he took a picture with me.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I just excuse me.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
He was he was. They were right on the street
and he wasn't. I just I don't know. I was
very bold. I definitely was.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Like, what did you say to it?
Speaker 5 (38:31):
That? I loved the movie the first one, and I
was so excited about the second one, and at that
point I was kind of a fan because he had
also done Bad Boys.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I was like, whoa, you're really good. And he took it.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
I couldn't believe he took and he like unbuttoned his
shirt one button before taking it to That's one thing
I remember.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
And then the next day.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
He did he did, which is hilarious to me.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
And then the next day they were filming at this
big cemetery and my boyfriend and I tried to find
that and then what was stupid, which we didn't think
would be the case, we actually did wind up seeing
Optimist Prime from.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
This the highway.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
It's a big truck and where they happened to have
and we could just see him barely. It's this area
called Kelly Drive, and I'm like, I can't believe this.
So we go up there and it it's this cemetery
scene in the movie where Optimist Prime is there and
Bumblebee and we got to see like Shilah buff and
making fun. It was just like so unreal and able
to see such a big, massive movie being made in
(39:34):
this very urban area. So it just meant a lot
to me because it was like kind of my first
time seeing a little bit behind the filmmaking process. And
when I went to go see it.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
I was like, wow, I was there. I saw that,
and you know it was cool.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Did you guys see it with the people that you've
been chasing around town with?
Speaker 5 (39:50):
No, because we had broken up by time it came,
So it's also important to me.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
For that reason.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
It was like, yeah, you know, I had this thing
that was ending, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
So when all you together was funding Transformers and when
Michael Bay under his top button, did you turn to
your boyfriend and goo within it?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (40:07):
I was so god. I was so young in.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Shit, maybe eighteen nineteen Okay, I started college at seventeen.
That was the first summer, so I was yeah, I
was probably eighteen too young.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
That's amazing. What is the film we most relate to?
And is it iron Man?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
I changed it? I was like, I'm not going to
say that. The one I.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Most relate to is this movie called Loving Basketball?
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Right and yet right, Okay, I'm happy you've seen it.
I just loved it.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
I think it was the most relatable coming of age story,
so to speak, for like a black girl that I
had ever seen, and one that was so good at
a sport that she didn't have any doubts about how
good she was at basketball. Her life was harder because
she was so good at basketball and so iron manesque.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
You see what kind of characters I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
To I answer my question about is it a lot
of pressure and overwhelming? And you're like, no, I now
understand why, because you're fucking iron man. You know you're
the best at basketball. Give a ship.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Your words are not mine.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I love it, I love it, but that is.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
Why I've never I understand the emotion and acknowledge like
the idea of them pastor syndrome, but that is not
something I've ever suffered. I feel very good at what
I do, and if anything, like I said, my life
is harder because I refuse to pretend that I'm not.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
The first person I've met who and I'm saying this
is a this is amazing. I think you're the first
person I've met doing what you do in this world
who doesn't experience imposter syndrome. That's I mean, I want
your brain you never had just and Okay, so then
we're talking about selves and talking about all this stuff.
Do you think the fact that you're like that, which,
(41:54):
by the way, is an incredible trait and you know,
a wonderful thing. Do you think you were bone that way?
Do you think it was instilled in you through your upbringing?
Is it like Camia like that, because many people are.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
I feel like it was instilled in me and my upbringing.
For one, I grew up in dance in a very
like I was a dancer, which was for me. My
world was a very positive environment made me very comfortable
with my body, talent, all of that.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
Really early on. My parents they.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
Did a very healthy thing where it wasn't like they
coddled me and told me I was like the best
in the world or anything. They were actually very realistic
with me at every turn of like what was possible,
what would be hard, what my strong points were. My
mom especially, I think we had a relationship where her
fears for me were based in what she knew I
(42:48):
was capable of. And I think we had a very
conversation about that at one point too, where it was like,
all right, so your worries are because you're like worried
about what you created.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
Kind of and I I don't know, I just I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
I also trust that like wherever I wind up is
where I'm supposed to be too, and if not, I'm
not supposed to be there. I think that gives me
a lot of help with not feeling imposter syndrome. And
I think like, if you had a dream and then
you achieved it, then that's what.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
You were working to it.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
You were working in accordance with it, and I feel
like you you probably wanted to act right.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah. I mean, it's just funny hearing you because because
it's this thing I find so fascinating, where like, yeah,
everything was saying makes perfect sense, Like all the insecurity, impus,
the syndrome, anxiety, all this stuff is a lot of
wasted energy that gets in the way of the thing
you're ultimately going to do. I know what you're saying is, yeah,
I just don't have that annoying bit in the middle.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
And I don't think that we need to.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
I think it's like I don't think we need it.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
Yeah, I don't think that we have to.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
I don't think that you have that to take the
place of like humility. I think that I still don't
feel like I don't think i'm the best. I think
I'm the best. Quinta though I think that like I
am the best version of me, and I don't think
I'm like the best at things.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
I think I thought we were talking movies, Brett.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
We are, but we're talking how it is? Wow, you are,
Come on in, let's let's get let's get real. What's
the sexiest quinta?
Speaker 4 (44:27):
This one was really hard for me. I landed no.
I had a hard time thinking about this.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
I even went to my movie library to be like,
what is in here that I consider like super sexy?
Speaker 4 (44:37):
But I landed on Hitch that movie. I think it's
just a super classy sexy movie. Like I love the
music and I love the so it's.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
Not like sexy like hot, but I find it to
be really jazzy and classy, and I love the look
and feel of that movie and the why of the movie.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
You love Kevin James, And I can't blame you. What
there's a subcategory.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
Yes, I saw this one.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Traveling Boner is worrying why Dunes? What's the film you
found arousing You weren't sure you should?
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Mo Cup?
Speaker 4 (45:13):
No, it's actually like Wolf of Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
That's a great answer.
Speaker 5 (45:19):
I should not be attracted to Leonardo DiCaprio on that
or like the Wall Street World, or like the Drugs or.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
The you know, like horrible people doing things. But I
find the movie.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
I find him really attractive in the movie, and I
find you know, like the Wall Street Grind really attractive.
And I think Margot Robbie is just like super like
either're not a good couple, but I find to be.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
A super hot couple.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
It sucks.
Speaker 4 (45:49):
I'm embarrassed to say that.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
I find that that movie is very like arousing to me.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
That is really a perfect anset and that film is
interesting for maybe because I love my schools. When I
saw that film the first time, I hated that film.
The first time I saw it, I really didn't like it,
and I was like, I don't think I got it.
I sort of was like, this is a horrible film
and I don't understand its point of view, and I
just really sort of took against it. I found it.
(46:17):
I don't know, I didn't like it. And then I
saw it again a year later, a couple years out,
and I was like, this film's fucking brilliant. I didn't
realize how funny it was. It's a really funny film,
and I was like oh I get it now, I
get what you're doing. And yeah, all the things that
you're feeling is exactly what it wants you to. It's
(46:37):
basically this similar thing that he does in Good Fellas.
It's like, yes, oh yeah, you you hate all these
people doing. How come you're enjoying this so much?
Speaker 4 (46:45):
You know, I'm like Jordan's hot though here some points,
you know.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
It's nice.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, it's a tough one.
Speaker 5 (46:52):
And I the first time I saw that movie, it's
not even my kind of movie, Like I don't like
movies like that, but it.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Just got me. I mean, if something is well directed,
well enough.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
You know, it's quite subtle that film in its way
in that it's really unastuttable. What it is subtle about
is its point of view, because it's from his point
of view. So you're you're watching a Dickhead's a dickhead
story being told by the dickhead. But then there's that
one scene right near the end of Wolf of Wall
Street after cale Chandler has been chasing him and trying
to get him, and then the dickhead character is like,
(47:27):
fuck you, you wish you were me or somebody with that,
and then having got him you just see him on
a subway train on his own and this is his life,
and it's like it's really good, it's really smart.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
Really good, and like, yeah, I really didn't get that.
Speaker 5 (47:41):
And it's a scene it's horrible, Like the relationship between
Jordan and his wife is horrible Michelle Margaret Robbin, but
the scene where she like puts his heel her heel
on his face. I was like, that is like one
of the scenes in the world.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
Hands down.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
You're in the middle of this horrible relationship and it
shouldn't be that.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
I'm like, is this how people feel about euphoria? I
don't know. I just wonder what that scene is, how
I feel.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
How do you feel about euphoria?
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Is it because Euphooria doesn't quite get me.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
I understand that the acting is fantastic and it's well,
but you know, it's hard for me to watch.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
But some shit, I'm just like, what the fuck were
what's going on? But I wonder if other people.
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Feel that way about Euphoria that I felt like that
scene in Wulffle Walls.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Quinter a really big respect for that answer. Some people
don't take that seriously. That is a, that's a proper answer.
What is the greatest film of Full time? Objectively? Might
not be your favorite, but it's the greatest.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
This was hard. Yeah, and I don't think my answer
is good. But I said, catch me, if you.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Can, catch me, if you can. I went to see
thinking it would be fun. It looked like a fun
highest sort of caper. It depressed me for a whole week.
It's one of the films that's made me feel the
most sad. It's catch So when you say that's the greatest,
and like, oh, yeah, that film is horrible, it's not horrible,
(49:09):
tells me I love it.
Speaker 5 (49:11):
I love It's such cool storytelling, the going back in
time and coming back to the present story. I mean,
I think it's so well done. I love Steven Spielberg.
I think he put his foot into that one. There
are certain scenes of it that are just so powerful
to me. When when you know Frank Avignelle learns that
his mom is cheating on his dad, his very foundation,
(49:33):
you know, his family, what makes him start running in
the first place. You want to root for this kid
to you know it's going to catch up with him,
but you want to root for him to get out
of it by all means.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
Like I said, I just think it's so well directed.
I just love it.
Speaker 5 (49:48):
I've always loved that movie. I think that everyone's brilliant
in it. Christopher Walken, like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, even
like Amy Adams is in it for a little while,
who I just is a fucking.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Beast, and she's so good and even her small partner
is so great. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
I think it's a beautiful human story about running away.
I think it's really well done, and I think everyone
wishes they could run away and get away with it
at a point.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
But you just maybe it is the greatest film of time. God,
maybe you're right.
Speaker 5 (50:24):
And it leads to the version of accountability for him,
which I like too, even though it's in the form
of like working for the CIA, right, which is accountability
for him. It's what he's been from and in having
to atone for like his sins in a really interesting way.
But I think it speaks to the larger theme of
like you can't run away, like your options at the
(50:46):
end are death or you gotta be accountable. And I
think it does such a good job that even with
having the person who was chasing him the whole time,
wind up being like a friend that's still like, I
get you, kid, I do, I like you, but everyone
has to be accountable for their actions.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
And I don't know. I love it.
Speaker 5 (51:06):
I loved it even prison wasn't accountable enough for him
because he could get out of prison.
Speaker 4 (51:14):
Well, you can still hate it, right, you can still.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
I don't hate I don't hate it. I actually think
it's brilliant. It just made me so sad. I think
what I hate about cas Mabehead is the marketing, because
marketing made it look like this is fun. It's not fun.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
It wasn't It might have come out on Christmas too,
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Fun times right. He's devastated by his dad. Neally wants
is to for his dad to tell him he loves him.
Oh wait, his dad dies before he ever gets the chance.
To the end, it was.
Speaker 4 (51:45):
A Christmas movie too, Yeah, I thought, Yeah, I love it.
It's I know it's not the best movie of all
time too. And I thought a lot about this question.
But a lot of the best all time I don't
really like that much.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
So I think that's a very good adset. What is
the film you could or have what's the Most Over again?
Speaker 5 (52:08):
Okay, the film I can watch the Most Over is
a very silly one. It's called Night at the Museum,
Battle at the Smithsonian.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Number number two.
Speaker 5 (52:18):
It's not even the first one, which would be but
I love the second one. It is so funny and
so cute, and I think it's so fucking funny. Like
I love Ben Stiller so much, and Amy Adams. There's
a theme here. Amy Adams is in it. I love
the Smithsonian Museum. It's my favorite museum in the world.
(52:39):
It's such a good time. So when this movie was
taking place there, I.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
Was like, like, you did I try to get there?
Speaker 2 (52:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (52:48):
I Oh, that was too much. But Bill Hayter is
fucking hilarious in it, so funny. Who else Hank is?
Are you?
Speaker 5 (53:00):
Is so funny? Oh my god, It's like it's so good.
That's my multiverse of madness. They've got so many great
people and great.
Speaker 4 (53:12):
Characters in there. I watch it.
Speaker 5 (53:13):
If it's on TV, I stop everything I'm doing and
just watch it. I own it on Blu Ray and
DVD on Amazon like you wherever I go, just in
case I need a little pick me up.
Speaker 4 (53:24):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
That's very sweet. I don't like to be negative. I
don't think you do. Let's do it quickly. What's the
worst film you've ever seen?
Speaker 5 (53:32):
Okay, it's this movie called Blended by Adam Sandler and.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
Andrew war Is in it. I just think it's just awful,
just god awful. I do.
Speaker 5 (53:42):
It's not his best and I think I think Adam
Sandler actually does like bad movies really really well. I
think he's so good at it, and I admire him
for it. I think it's really just how full about
just go with it? I'm like, this is a bad
movie done right. And he takes his friends to Hawaii
and shoots a movie or Africa, and I love his
whole thing, But that one is not good to me.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
It's not good.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
You in comedy. You're a comedian, he's a very successful one.
What's the film that made you laugh the most?
Speaker 4 (54:11):
Meet the Fockers.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
That's a great film.
Speaker 4 (54:14):
That's good, right, it's great.
Speaker 5 (54:16):
Oh, it's so so funny every time I see it.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
That's your third sequel in this list.
Speaker 4 (54:24):
I know, I don't know what it is about. Yeah,
that's so weird.
Speaker 5 (54:28):
It is so funny, so well written, keeps holding up
to it goes back to what I was saying about,
like it just keeps standing the test of time. I'm
surprised how much it still makes me laugh out loud,
even though it came out so long ago and I've
seen it a million times once again, fantastic actors. Dustin
Hoffman never he makes me laugh from this deep place
(54:48):
that it is like, oh.
Speaker 4 (54:49):
I know that, man, I know all that. Just be
nice to him, you know.
Speaker 5 (54:54):
Like, and Barbara Streisand is incredible in it.
Speaker 4 (54:58):
She's so lovely and hilarious.
Speaker 5 (55:02):
The scenarios. Every time they put, you know, been still
learn another situation.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
I'm always like, oh God, don't do this, only put
the baby. You guys know what's gonna It's.
Speaker 5 (55:12):
Like it's the first time every time I'm watching it,
and I just I love it so.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Funny, really good. Quinte, you have been wonderful, and I
genuinely I'm very grateful, knowing how insanely busy you are,
that you've given me this much of your time. I
really appreciate it. However, when you were thinking, I don't
want to die and for people to be sad, so
instead I'm going to put in order for a mass
(55:39):
extinction event. We could kill everyone to spare them the
pain of being said, because you're yourself, and you whacked
on leflaiir by Minnie RiPP it in up loud, and
you said, everyone, come outside, come outside, I've got something
to show you. Everyone, hold hands, try and think with me.
Ba boo boo bah. And then he said, and you
(56:02):
did your dance that you learned when you were young,
and really good dance. And everyone was like, oh, this
is lovely. And you said look up, look up, and
they all looked up, and a giant fucking meteor was
hurtling towards them, and as the song reached its peak,
the meteor hit you all hit all so hard that
(56:24):
the only thing that survived was me. I was underground
with some rhinos, just eating twinkies and with some cockroaches
and some rhinos, and I was sitting with a rhino
playing paper and I was like, which dinosaur are you?
Then he was like, I'm gonna try serotops. You all
know that, and I was like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (56:41):
I thought exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (56:44):
Anyway, we wait for the debris to stop raining down,
we pop up and I've got a coughin with me.
You know what I'm like, and I'm walking around and go,
what's that really flat? That particularly flat? And I go, oh,
that's Quintera. That is Quinter is dead. She's everyone's dead,
but Quinter in particular is dead. And I get the
rhino to dig into the ground with his horn because
(57:04):
you are properly in the earth. It's fair enough. She
buried herself. But I should put in a box. Anyway,
I get you up with. There's lots of rocks and
mud and and anyway, there's more of you than I
was expecting. I have to stuff you in this coffin.
There's no room in this coffin. There's only enough room
for me to slip a DVD into the side for
(57:25):
you to take across to the other side. And on
the other side, it's movie night every night. What film
are you taking to crab leg Heaven to show the
giant crab legs you sit on crab legs when it
is your movie night, Quinter Brunson superstar, that would.
Speaker 4 (57:37):
Be taking with me night at the museum battle.
Speaker 2 (57:43):
Everyone will be so happy.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
They'll have such a good time.
Speaker 2 (57:47):
No one else brought it. No one else brought it.
That's so happy.
Speaker 4 (57:50):
No one else brought it. They're going to learn about history.
Speaker 5 (57:53):
It'll be good. They're gonna left, they're gonna cry. It's
a good movie.
Speaker 2 (57:57):
And God's going to give you your two questions. So
I hope you have a wonderful time, Quinta. Good luck
with everything. I hope that season two guys as well,
if not even better than season one. You're brilliant. You
are right in man. Is there anything you'd like to
tell people to look out for other than that but elementary?
Speaker 5 (58:18):
Well, speaking of movies, I will be in a movie
soon and everyone can watch it.
Speaker 4 (58:22):
It'll be on the Roku channel.
Speaker 5 (58:25):
We're the Weird al Yanka Big movie, which I think
is really really cool, and I do want to tell
people because I think they're going to enjoy it so much.
And in a time where it's fun to enjoy some good,
silly movies, I think people will really enjoy this movie.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
Cool. Okay, thank you, Quinta, Thank you Brat. This was
fun for a wonderful time. I have a lovely death
and now see you scene.
Speaker 3 (58:53):
So that was Quinta Bronson on a rewind classic episode.
Be sure to check out the Patreon page at patreon
dot com. Slash Brett Goldstein where you get extra chat,
video and mixtapes at Various Tears and otherwise. If you
fancy leaving a note on Apple podcasts, that would be
lovely too. But to make every review of your favorite
film much more fun and way more interesting to read
(59:15):
for everyone involved, Thank you so much to Quinti Brunson
for fun times and presents on the podcast. Thanks to
Screwbia's PIP and the Distraction Pieces Network. Thanks to and
this is where Brett thanks me for editing and producing
the podcast, so I say it is a pleasure. Thanks
to iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network for
hosting it. Thanks to Adam Richardson for the graphics and
(59:35):
LISALYDM for the photography. We'll be back next week with
any luck with a brand new episode. But that is
it for now, Brett and I and all of us
at Films to be buried with hope you're all very
well and in the meantime, have a lovely week and
now more than ever, be excellent to each other.
Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
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