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October 7, 2025 48 mins
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Review of Movie :One battle after Another-By Dr.Afshan Hashmi

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Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hello everyone, this is your loving hosts and bestseller aut
radio and TV personality Doctor Rafshan Hashmi live from her
studio in Rockville, Maryland. And today, folks, we will be
talking about a movie which I saw yesterday, One Battle
after Another, and I want to give a review on that.

(01:18):
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(02:01):
And now I'm working on my third book, but it
is taken long because my mind gets jagged, you know,
by illegal droning. And also you know, there are some
criminals who are after me because they feel I am vulnerable.
So all this is affecting my business. And I would
request ag Bondie and President Trump, you know, to please

(02:25):
look into into the matter and punish these people. And
today I saw some of the ag Bondie's testimony and
I loved it and I have put it on my channel.
Also because all these criminals, you know, they should be
treated in a very bad manner because they cannot come

(02:47):
from other countries and they can hit us, you know,
and I feel that they are military people from other
countries because and this movie is also regarding the military thing,
you know, so it is kind of I was thinking
how to write the review, and I wrote the review
of this just just now, because all the day I

(03:09):
was that poisonous insects and all were put put in me,
and there was so much of injury, injury, you know.
I feel that. And I was confiscated, you know. And
then the same way my husband was confiscated, and he
sacrificed his life for this, for this country, which is

(03:31):
United the States of America. We were not trained or
anything one fine morning. We were We were just you know,
caged and beaten up. And I feel that I have
been discriminated by that because we are Muslims and we
and and are because of my liniage, I'm direct descendant
of Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him, because my parents

(03:55):
and my from maternal and paternal sites at Ahraris and
Araris are the one who's bread Islam and from the
Muslim religion. And I don't know what people think that
I am rich or anything. I have no powers or anything.
It is just that I do a lot of prayers

(04:17):
and the Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon his is my
life and his three besties are my life. So I
am into Bollywood Hollywood and I pray. That is all
I have done since childhood. So whoever thinks that I
am rich or anything, I am not rich. It is
very hard, you know. And I have got such heart treatment,

(04:40):
you know. So having said that, folks, you know, which
led to the death of my parents, my younger brother
and also my husband. And I am a widow and
of course you know widows are vulnerable, so you know,
I want the law and order in this country. Having
said that, folks, I didn't come here to leave my

(05:02):
family and every one, you know. After coming here, I want,
you know, to make my career. But my whole career
was jumbled up, you know, so I went went into business.
And now this review is also through my company, Doctor
of Shanhashi Consulting Group. And if you want, you know,

(05:24):
please contact me at Ubshan at Dr rafshanhash me dot com.
And also you can go to my website which is
here www. Dot u shanhash me dot com or www.
Dr rashanhash me dot com. And then there is a
radio website Doctor shttp slash slash Doctor of Shan Hashmi's

(05:48):
radio dot com. So these are the three websites I
have and please go and look look into it. Having
said that, folks, now I will go on a break
and then I will talk about what this movie was about.
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Speaker 3 (08:44):
So, folks, let's talk about.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
What this.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Wikipedia has to say about one back to laughter another
because all movies have Wikipedia page. One Battle after Another
is a twenty twenty five American action thriller film produced,
written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, inspired by the
nineteen ninety novel Vineland by Thomas by Tim and I

(09:15):
would say that all these novels you know are fiction
and all or whether it was a true story or
whatever it was. Why these kind of things are happening today,
Like people get ideas from these novels, Like there was
one one a novel President is Missing, you know, and

(09:35):
I haven't read it. It was written by President Bill Clinton.
I hadn't read it, but it shows the mindset of
President Bill Clinton and also the mindset of the co author,
you know. So, and since President Trump has come, you know,
there is so much of politics, so much of noise

(09:58):
in your head. And yes, I voted for President Trump
in the first election. So that doesn't mean you know
that my friends will will leave me, or or I
will I will be abused, or I feel that all
Trump supporters are abused and all. And if Madame Hillary

(10:20):
Clinton did not become president, that doesn't mean that it
is the end of her world. She should know how
to coop up with those things they tell us, you
know that forgive everyone, forgive everyone, So why can't she
forgive and move on? So I have suggested that she
should read a Holy Kuran and do some interpretations of

(10:43):
that that she can understand what my agony is, you know.
And if I voted for President Trump, I liked his
policy second time I did not vote for him or anyone.
I voted for Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him because
me and my husband were butchered during Kamhala Harris administration.

(11:04):
And I call that Kamala Harris administration because President Biden
was so much mutilated during that time that he took
some time away and Kamala was running the show and
she was bordered cizarre. So all these criminals have come
during Kamala's time. And why Kamla did this, I don't know.

(11:27):
Kamala has a lot to tell. So now folks, I
will read about this. So this is the Wikipedia page.
And yes, my money was confiscated, you know, in the
wrong way. So I wanted to see this movie on Sunday,
but I didn't have enough money in my bank to

(11:49):
go and see this movie. And I really wanted to
bring those perspectives also when I do review that an
average American person whom I am our page paycheck to paycheck.
You know, we were always paycheck to paycheck, and my
husband and me slogged my whole life, you know, to

(12:10):
bring this kind of life. We don't believe in putting
someone in my house so that that person can take
away the wealth whatever. I don't have any wealth or anything,
but there are so many vulnerabilities in this century city
called Montgomery County. I don't know what anthef Anthony Brown,
the attorney journal of Unite of for Maryland, is doing

(12:33):
that is why? Why? Why is he not helping ag
Bondi to clean up the mess? And I don't know
whether he's helping or not. So it says uh so.
Inspired by the novel Vineland by Thomas piche And, it
stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Seint Peene, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall,

(12:56):
Tiani Taylor, and Chays Infinity, and follows and ex evolutionary
who must rescue his daughter from a corrupt military officer.
Anderson had wanted to adapt Pynchon's novel Vineland for years,
and eventually incorporated several of his own stories into the
book's narrative. In June twenty twenty three, Anderson announced his

(13:18):
follow up to Lecord's Pizza twenty twenty one for star
Vico Mortessen, Jock and Phoenix and Regina Hall, and by
the following January, DiCaprio and Ben had replaced Mortterson and Phoenix.
Filming took place in California and was shot using Vista,
which in making it one of the first films along

(13:39):
The Brutes twenty twenty four, to use the format for
principal photography since the nineteen sixties. The budget initially greenlit
to dollar one fifteen million, balloon to as much as
dollar one seventy five million, the most expensive of Anderson's career,
One Battle after Another, had at PRIs World premier in

(14:01):
Los Angeles on September eight, twenty twenty five, and was
theoretically released in the United States by Warner Brothers Pictures
on September twenty six. The film received critical acclaim and
has crossed a dollar one zero two million worldwide, becoming
Anderson's highest grossing film. He took Pat Colhen and Perfidia

(14:24):
Beverly Hills are members of the far left revolutionary group
the French seventy five, breaking out detained immigrants from a
detention center in California. Perfidia humilates the commanding officer, Steven Lockjoy,
who developed a sexual fascination with her. That and Perfidia

(14:46):
became lovers as the French seventy five carry out attacks
on politicians, offices, banks, and the power great. And these
are the things which are very very happening these days.
Because I remember you can go in see Secret Service
UH press release in which they said that the power
grade of New York when the when the United Nations

(15:09):
session was going on and world leaders were here in
president from when they're the smart grid you know, was attacked.
So that is computer bombing and we are no computer experts.
My computer was also broken by droning and who will
pay that thing? So those criminals should be charged who

(15:31):
have broken that and with penalties, you know, ag Bondie
that how how they are doing this? So this film
shows that, and I was very surprised to see this,
that this is happening in today's America. Perphilia gives birth
to a baby girl, Charlene, but that is unable to
pursuade her to live as a family. He abandons them

(15:54):
to continue her revolutionary activities. After Perfidia is captured at
a post bank robbery, log Jaw arranges for her to
avoid prison and exchange for information about the friend seventy five.
When I went to buy the ticket, there was this
boy who said all disabled seats have been taken and

(16:16):
he would not sell me a ticket of that. But
eventually I got one disabled ticket and I went inside
the house. Everything was there, was not a single person,
which he said that it was occupied. So and also
you know, it was so to see someone is standing
in the bank robbery. So the copycats, you know, who

(16:39):
think that doing these kind of things is very very
very nice and they will become famous, you know. So
those are the kind of people, you know, who should
understand that if you do robbery, or if you go
in somebody's house and through droning you do theft, as
it has happened to me, then it is a theft.

(17:00):
You know, it is not that you are doing it
or you are playing some kind of activity. And by
illegal droning, my husband was killed. So you know I
am suffering. My family has been shattered, you know by
all this. At this age, do you think I will
like someone to go and marry that someone? At this
stage you want that your husband would retire and it

(17:22):
was thirty two years of marriage, you know they would
he would retire and we would like He was a
very busy. He used to work in health care and
I am I am also a healthcare person and a
research person. So we were very busy in our careers
and he wanted after retirement to go and see the world,

(17:43):
but God never gave us that chance. And these criminals,
you know, are so bad, so bad, and they do
things very deliberately so and they sell narcotics and they that,
and for that they do thefts in various bands. I

(18:04):
never had this problem before, but since my husband has
died and during his illness, this problem has arised so much,
and I wanted to bring this in the attention of
ag bonding. So this picture showed all that. So let's
talk about the movie. Perfidia gives birth to a baby girl, Charlene,

(18:27):
but Pat is unable to pursue pursued her to live
as a family. She abandons them to continue her revolutionary activities.
After Perfidia is captured at a bossed bank robbery, a
log Jaw arranges for her to avoid prison in exchange
for information about the French seventy five. She enters witness

(18:49):
protection as Logjaw hunts down her comrades and shoots many
of them on site, forcing the others to go on
the run as Pat and Charlene are forced to live
in hiding as Bob and Willow produced and Barfedia escapes
the law of Jow custody and please to Mexico. Now
they are putting pressure on the back of my head,

(19:12):
like I cannot even say that, you know, President Clinton
wrote a book that the President is missing. I can't
even say that in a conversation. What kind of America
are we living? Is my First Amendment rights? And you
know my rights are violated if people are putting pressure

(19:35):
for saying that. Sixteen years later, living in the century
cysty of Baktank Cross, Bob has become a paranoid drug
added so they do induce narcotics. You know, I was
put on narcotics, and many people have been put on narcotics,
including my husband. I have never taken narcotics nor my husband,

(19:56):
you know, and he had to go through a drug
you know. So how they ruined people's career. You know
this This movie you know shows that also, So I
was in gross to think but somehow, you know, it
was not that very engrossing. And I will tell you
why Bob has become a paranoid drug edic. He is

(20:20):
over protective of Willow, who has grown into a self
reliant and is spirited teenager. Through his venement and anti
immigration efforts. Now Colonel Lockjaw has become a prominent figure
in the US security agencies. He's invited to join the
Christmas Adventures Club, a secret society of far right white

(20:41):
promise so Promasis. He hunts for Willow to cover up
his inter relation relationships with the Club. Forbids, he hires
an indigenious bounty hunter, a anti Q who captures Boss
Comrade Howard Sommerville, triggering a discress signal to the remaining
friend seventy five. So you can read this all. And

(21:02):
now I will go on a break and my sound
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A monstrous infection is spreading worldwide.

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Oh my god.

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Is this a simple infection or a deliberate attempt to
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(22:01):
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out what happens next.

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Go now, the world is depending on you.

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and it is read by doctor Rafshan Nahid Hashmi in
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business owners, and models to name a few. In these
book club meetings, members would come prepared after reading a
book of a famous woman author, and that author was
even invited from any part of the world to give
her presentation, followed by a Q and A in this
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Speaker 4 (23:54):
And now, thanks to doctor Oshan Hashmi's radio shows.

Speaker 7 (24:12):
Rise and Shine, that.

Speaker 8 (24:15):
An eyelash, good morning, there are no hands on the clock.
Why because they're not needed?

Speaker 7 (24:24):
What time is it?

Speaker 4 (24:26):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (24:27):
Fuck?

Speaker 9 (24:28):
You know?

Speaker 4 (24:28):
I don't, I don't.

Speaker 8 (24:29):
I don't remember that part. All right, let's just not
nitpick over the passwords. This is Bob Ferguson.

Speaker 10 (24:35):
I was a part of the French seventy five.

Speaker 8 (24:40):
Did not go like Tonys in Steve lockchil just to
attack me home and I cannot remember for the life
of my only child the answer to your question.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Maybe you should have studied the rebellion text a little harder.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
I need to find my daughter.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Well, then call us back when you have the time.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
M did you just you just.

Speaker 11 (25:11):
You know you are so unsuitable for my daughter. My
cow comes from a whole line of revolutionary and you
look so lost.

Speaker 12 (25:23):
What are you gonna do about this?

Speaker 13 (25:24):
Baby?

Speaker 10 (25:25):
Well?

Speaker 7 (25:25):
Know what freedom is? What no fear? No, not one thing,

(25:50):
it's another.

Speaker 10 (25:51):
I find that to be true.

Speaker 8 (25:55):
I need you brother, say please, courage, bom courage, say.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Good Yeah, thank you, Hey, thank you?

Speaker 8 (26:06):
Since say thank you, since, say thank you God.

Speaker 10 (26:09):
Damn it.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
So folks, now it's my review time for this movie.
When I went to see this movie, I saw many
ideas related to what I have experienced since twenty eleven
till now. How people are drugged and then how a
man meets his daughter, and what are those emotions. When
military goes on a mission, there are bound to be
some new relationships. It's how those relationships play when the

(26:43):
military is back from the mission. I had donated many
medals in charities of my husband, and any of my
growth ideas were there, I would request that I'd be
considered for renumeration of my ideas and things you. It
reflects the life of secret societies and US Army collaborations
and how human population of America is affected after the war.

(27:08):
War is not good for society. I always believe in
I like President Trump's agenda peace through strength. There are
so much destruction between bars in Middle East. How those
children are affected are disastrous. Trauma is in their minds
their whole life. I love to see Bollywood and Hollywood
movies since childhood. It relaxes me. But hooligans are also present,

(27:32):
are also present and lines these cinemas. My car was
put on hold and I was alone. It has happened
many times with me. Everyone want freedom while the Montgomery
County I live has these kinds of criminals harboring. I
give three stars to this movie. And also, you know,

(27:52):
I want to read from the Holy Quran that you know,
these criminals it can be treated of their psychotic trauma
through this. Some are that that they did not win
the elections. Some have those kinds of psychotic trauma. Some
has those kinds of trauma. I am no medical doctor,

(28:14):
but I am just an observer that. How you know,
since President Trump has come, how much politics you know
is there? No? Everyone is fighting with everyone. So for
those psychotic people you know who have trauma and they
are troubling the trumpions, I would request them to read

(28:35):
this Holy Quran the Hanafi style. This one saw the
Arabia believes in Hanafi's system. And for that, you know,
I would say that the pathways of heavenly aside al marriage.
A mocker asked for judgment day, a challenger has demanded
a punishment bound to come for the di wills to

(29:00):
be averted by none from God's Lord of pathways of
heavenly ascent, through which the angels and the Holy Spirit
will assent to him on the day fifty thousand years
in lend so endured this denial o Prophet with beautiful patients.
They truly see this day as impossible, but we see

(29:21):
it invitable the pathways of heavenly Ascent. This Muccan chapter,
which takes its name from verse three, condemns the Pagans
for ridiculing the day of judgment and the Prophet Versus
thirty six point thirty seven. The truth of the hour
is reformed, along with the horrors that will ensure this qualifies.

(29:45):
For the people of Hall and the people of Paradise
are described. The Prophet is is reassured while the Pagans
are warned. Both them are embedded in the story of
Nohah in the next chapter. So this is the Holy Quran.
Which I will. I will ask all those people who
are suffering for some kind of psychotic trauma, although I

(30:09):
am no medical doctor, go and consult your psychiatrist, you know,
and don't bother us because you're you because of your
psychotic trauma, we are suffering. My husband was killed and
many people, and many of my family members were killed.
You are not normal people. You are very dangerous people.
You are behind behind it, and you are wolves. So

(30:33):
go and read this Holy Koran and try to understand
what God will give you punishment when you go in
the grave. Having said that, folks, you know, now I
will go, I will sign off from this and I
will ask Rebel to play that interview however she can.

(30:53):
And please go and buy these two books and give
me an honest review. And also I will see you
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(31:35):
those conversations are started by that, so it is based
on reality. I didn't read that novel. But if you
read a novel and you go and start killing people,
or if you see a film in which a bank
is robbed and you say that you are you will
rob a bank, then you really have a psychotic trauma.

(31:56):
If you have lost the election, or if you have
lost a job. So no one is responsible for it.
Go and do some soul searching, and don't come and
throw injurious insects on me. Go and talk to us
as psychiatrist. That's what you all want. And I have
a lot of experience in clinical research, but I am

(32:20):
not a medical doctor. So I want to say this
disclaimer and see you next a week and tears and
bye bye.

Speaker 11 (32:30):
Thank you so much for doing this with us. Great
to have all of you here. I thought I'll just
start by asking Paul to talk us through what I
understand was a twenty year process of thinking about this material.

Speaker 9 (32:44):
I think I made a terrible mistake being honest about
that when I was first asked about it, because it's
kind of it's in some ways embarrassing. You think, what
were you doing for twenty years? But if I'm philosophical
about it or emotional. So I was waiting for all
of these people to come.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Maybe.

Speaker 9 (33:06):
Yeah, I really mean that. Leo and I tried to
work together a long time ago. That didn't happen. I've
had pieces of a story for a long time and
started to get pretty serious about it about six or
seven years ago because Adam Sumner, our wonderful producer assistant

(33:28):
director who's worked Leo's worked for me for a long time,
said right, let's go, let's go do this now, and
so here we are.

Speaker 11 (33:38):
You said you were waiting for all of them, would
you say, in a way, it's also a film that
was kind of waiting for this moment.

Speaker 9 (33:44):
Yeah, I mean, you can't get too philosophical about it.
You know, each movie has its moment. You make them.
You put whatever, every single thing you have into it
every time, and sometimes that connects and sometimes that doesn't.
But you don't care less. You they're you know, a
product of view in your life and the commitment of time,

(34:05):
and this this just feels quite special in terms of
the collection of people who've come together, not the least
which is Chase, because she wasn't even born when I
started thinking about this, but to get everybody at this time,
you know, to Sean's been around, but we've known each other,
but here we are. We worked together before, briefly. Regina

(34:28):
and I have been neighbors for years. Venetia and I
have worked together. But yeah, just something through the push
of Adam and the luck of the draw and we
all ended up here.

Speaker 11 (34:38):
You said, you and Leo, I've been wanting to work
together for a while. Do you remember when you guys
started talking. Leo, he actually cast your father before you.
In fact, that's right, your dad, George's and liquorice pizza.

Speaker 9 (34:50):
Yeah, yeah, I needed somebody that looked like Pablo Farroh.
I don't know if in Pablo Faraoh fans around, but
Pablo far is amazing, unique artist who did great titles
and commercials and things like that. He's no longer with us,
and I had the idea of casting Leo's dad, George.
So yeah, that was really fun. But Lee and I

(35:10):
met a million million years ago.

Speaker 11 (35:13):
Were there moments where you came close to working together?

Speaker 4 (35:16):
Now?

Speaker 9 (35:16):
I don't know that we came close together. I think
it was we came very close to Boogie Nights and
talked about that, but that didn't work out and then
and there was always a kind of mutual respect and
a kind of feeling and a desire to get going
and to do something. But this seemed really right in
terms of where he was at and where I was at,
and so yeah, worth the way.

Speaker 11 (35:37):
Yeah, I would love to hear from your point of view.
Was this a project that Paul had talked about over
the years.

Speaker 10 (35:43):
You know, Yeah, we met during a long time ago
and we're talking about Boogie Knights and just to watch,
you know, a generational director like that blossom and watch
his filmography unfold before your eye. And I've just been
a fan of the fact that he creates these worlds

(36:05):
that are so singular, so unique, and you as an
audience member, I mean, I'm just a fan. You become
enveloped in these worlds that come from his imagination, and
like I think everyone here just feels the same way.
We're just proud to be a part of his filmography.
But more than that, as Paul was saying, to be
a part of a film like this that really feels

(36:27):
like a lightning rod moment in holding a mirror up
to society. Now, the device of nature of where we're
at the extremism, but all with this great satire and
epic scope. It was just we're all going to.

Speaker 7 (36:42):
Say yes to that opportunity.

Speaker 11 (36:44):
Yeah, I'd love to hear you maybe say a bit
about the character of Bob. You know, we see him
in the film at two very different points of his life,
and I'm curious about that. I mean that, like, sixteen
year old gap in the middle is just reallykind of
an important aspect of this film.

Speaker 10 (37:03):
It came from the singular idea of the fact that
my character in a lot of ways is in the backdrop.
He's like an extra to Perfidia's extremism, and I just
love the idea of him opening this opening shot. He
has a wheelbarrow with some makeshift explosives and he's just
trying to catch up, you know. And then the idea

(37:24):
of what you think is going to be a traditional
espionage thriller of a man that's going to use all
his tactics from his past to succeed, and he can't
remember the damn password. He's two stone. I mean that
one singular idea kind of consumes the entirety of the
character a lot of ways, and I think we you know,
we got to this point after point in the movie

(37:46):
where we're at pivotal decisions with the character and we,
you know, working with PAULI just don't take the obvious choice,
and he's like, no, this is who this man is.
He just keeps moving forward. There is no great heroic moment,
and that kind of unlocked the character in a lot
of ways for me. Plus you know, plus the idea

(38:08):
that you know, he's, uh, I don't know, just try
his best to be a dad, and that that's the
heart of it.

Speaker 9 (38:15):
His heroic moment is in the sixteen years you know,
of raising her, in the off camera heroism of raising her.
That's we don't get to see that part, but what
we feel him as a hero anyway, he doesn't quote
unquote save the day.

Speaker 11 (38:33):
Actually, maybe wanted to bring Sean in. You know, your
characters Bob and Lockshaw are these like antagonists. And then
like watching the film again today, I realized they only
share one scene that's right in the supermarket. Yeah yeah,
but it's interesting that there's this. You know, obviously they
revolve around Perfidia and the Willow characters. But I was Sean,

(38:55):
maybe you can say a bit about this incredible creation.
Sure you kind of out out pensioned with the names yea,
but I mean just the name Lockjaw obviously suggests a
certain physical physicality, and you know just how you worked
out this this character.

Speaker 13 (39:17):
And I think that anything that I would find myself
really am excited about or proud of this. This was
sort of a gift, not sort of, This was a
gift to get as a as a piece and as
an actor.

Speaker 14 (39:33):
I think that I've been more value added to a
project when I've had the experience of kind of early
in the reading of the script the first time sort
of hearing.

Speaker 15 (39:44):
The music of a character, and this one just clicked.
I have no idea, and I don't think there was.

Speaker 7 (39:55):
Paul would only know how much I interpreted, how much
he wrote me literally or subliminally to hear the music
that way. So it's what I heard, It's what he
guided all the nuance or the levels through. And I
got to just be an actor, which I liked.

Speaker 11 (40:19):
Maybe we'll bring in Tiana, and your character also is
really only in the first act of the film, the
first thirty forty minutes, but she certainly leaves an impression.
I think, you know, the rest of the film is
in a way like everybody picking up after what Perfidio did.
So I'm wondering if, yeah, you can say a little

(40:40):
bit about casting Tiana in this very important role.

Speaker 9 (40:43):
Well, I needed somebody who was going to make a
very big impression for forty minutes, and the right man
for the job was.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
No I was.

Speaker 9 (40:56):
I feel lucky today we connected. I put a lot
of in that character, a lot of pressure on myself
to get that character right because she's she meant a
lot to me. She's extremely exciting character, extremely volatile, extremely untrustworthy,
but magnetic and and and it was.

Speaker 7 (41:15):
It was a terrific part.

Speaker 9 (41:17):
And so it was pretty clear after getting together with
her that I've just felt very strongly that she was
was just going to be a lot of not only
terrific in the part, but a terrific partner to work with.
And she is and one of big, big time. I
can't say enough about her.

Speaker 16 (41:37):
Come on, Oh my god, the PTA is talking about me.
He knows I exist. You guys, You'll have to understand
how big of a deal this is. I'm still pinching myself,
like who, All right, sorry, carry on.

Speaker 11 (41:58):
I always want to hear from you.

Speaker 16 (42:00):
Oh, oh my god. No, I literally was not trying
to be funny.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
I was so serious.

Speaker 16 (42:04):
You don't even understand. I'm PTA's biggest fan, and I
really I call him Chef pt Anderson because I always say,
let that boy cook.

Speaker 7 (42:13):
Let him cook.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
He just be cooking, you know.

Speaker 16 (42:15):
To be able to work with him is like being
in a kitchen, you know, and he's the master chef
and I'm the student, and I just want to learn, learn, learn,
learn and learn. And I caught myself SpongeBob SquarePants because
I'm just a sponge and I'm just gonna like soak
it all up. But yes, I love Paul and just

(42:35):
the environment he creates, his gentle leadership, how he mentors us.
To me, I always say, he reminds me of a quarterback,
you know, that's the captain of the team. But they're
on a field with you. You get what I'm saying, Like,
they make smart and quick decisions. And that's what he does.
And that's the person that I want to get on
the field and play for. That's the person that I'm

(42:58):
honored that he's able to trust us to receive the
ball and take it to the touchdown. So I'm honored
to be a part and I'm just so happy to
play put Vidia and you know, being able to get
into this character that is just unapologetically herself.

Speaker 11 (43:12):
Another amazing name for the character, named after the song.

Speaker 9 (43:19):
That here absolutely for Fidia, named after the Alberto Dominguez song.

Speaker 11 (43:25):
Chase. I don't know if everybody here knows this, but
this is your first feature film. Oh, Paula wanted to
know how you found Chase and Chase, I want to
know about reading for the for the part.

Speaker 9 (43:47):
The old fashioned way, traditional auditions. Cassandra Kolcundis, who's the
casting director.

Speaker 11 (43:54):
You've worked with her for years, right forever and ever.

Speaker 9 (43:56):
And ever, and she's really terrific. And if I'm really honest,
there was a minute where we started to think about
this film a little while ago, and we started looking
for Willa's and we didn't really see anything, so I
didn't get too serious. I didn't get ready to do it.
And then as we came around this time in this incarnation,

(44:17):
I saw a tape of Chase. I was became aware
of Chase, and I felt pretty strongly right away that
she was going to be terrific. And we did a
really good old fashioned to get together to audition for
the part, and auditioned to a few different people, but

(44:37):
Regina and Leo were there and they started to kind
of look at me and make fun of me, because
you know, Chase's audition was about an hour and a
half and everybody else was a few minutes, so it
was pretty obvious that I that I had had found
our daughter, our hero.

Speaker 10 (44:54):
And not to interject, but the auditioning process I don't
think was a traditional one. It was like a six
month discussion with karate classes and chemistry workshops and finding
our characters. And then I think he casually at some
point said to her, oh, by the way, you have
the part right, very.

Speaker 12 (45:16):
Casually, and then started like talking shop. Immediately after. I
was like, okay, so you're gonna come back out here.
We're going to start your karate training again officially. And
I was like, oh, okay, cool, you're just going to
brush past the fact that you just cast me in
your movie. But yeah, it was literally months and months
of auditioning and going in for chemistry reads and camera tests,
and every time I was like, this is so much

(45:38):
fun getting to be in Paul's world. And getting to
play with Leo and Regina, and I hadn't met Teana
or Sean or Benicio yet until later on, but just
getting the opportunity to play and be in his world
was such a gift, and it was one that I
was not taking lightly, and I wanted to make sure
that I was making myself proud but also doing justice
by Willa and showing Paul what I can do. But yeah,

(46:02):
it was a crazy long audition process, but it was
a lot of fun.

Speaker 11 (46:05):
I'd love to hear you, actually both of you talk
about the scene that you have together at home before
she leaves. It seems like a really important moment for no,
like the emotional core of the film.

Speaker 9 (46:19):
Yeah, I'll say a little bit and then I'll hand
it off. But yeah, we did realize that we had
one bite at the apple to show these two together,
you know, to show you what their dynamic was. But
we're picking up in the middle of this incredibly tense
moment between them. They are not seeing eye to eye.
She is starting to feel like a prisoner in this

(46:40):
cabin in the woods. She's not a little kid anymore.
He's hungover, he's paranoid.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
And so.

Speaker 9 (46:49):
That could go a few different ways. That could be, like,
these people just at each other's throats, But think what
happens because they're both so good is that you get
that dramatic purpose of it. But you see that there
is a tremendous amount of love and affection between them,
just they're just not communicating properly, and it gives them
a great opportunity for the humor of it, you know,

(47:10):
to see what happens when somebody drives down there. This
is the dramatic situation that allows us to get to
know them. We shot that very early and it was
it felt like we were off to a very good
start after spending two or three days doing that scene.

Speaker 10 (47:25):
Yeah. Plus plus the idea of no phones was a
big one. Yeah, I mean there was a world at
some point where I think Paul was toying with what
what if there are no phones in these workshops? We
got to do these sort of chemistry reads. She worked out, well,
of course I'm going to have a phone, and that
became this pivotal point in the movie. But I just
love the way that Paul introduces this family dynamic of

(47:47):
one you know, sort of washed up revolutionary that is
kind of a hip neck, as we would call it,
And I only got that term when I went up
north to northern California. I realized, there's hip necks, there's
hippies that are also rednecks. Let's get off my property.
But I'm also woke.

Speaker 7 (48:03):
That clicked for me about about Bob.

Speaker 10 (48:07):
And then the fact that he's trying to, you know,
connect with his daughter, and there's this generational disconnect and
then they're all.

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