September 20, 2025 • 12 mins
This week on KFI’s Gary & Shannon, we break down two of the biggest releases making headlines, and not all for the right reasons. The Jordan Peele-produced Him is dividing critics and audiences alike, while A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is falling flat despite its star power. Heather shares what’s working, what isn’t, and whether either of these films deserves a spot on your watchlist.
Don't miss the weekly entertainment report on Fridays on Gary and Shannon. And subscribe to Entertain Me and follow Heather on Instagram @theheatherbrooker
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back to entertain Me. I'm Heather Brooker. This week,
we are reviewing the Jordan Peele produced film Him, and
it is getting a lot of mixed reviews. A lot
of what I'm seeing is that it's making people uncomfortable
and they don't really know why. They can't quite pinpoint
what it is, whether it's the pure horror aspect of
it or the evil overtones. We're going to dive into
(00:24):
that this week on Gary and Shannon, as well as
talk about the downfall of rom Comms and the new
movie A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
What I'm hearing is Kenna has a lot of requests
that include Michael Monks and Heather Brooker because Canna doesn't
like the show right so.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And more other pieces. Let's fill it with anything other
than that. I'm just kidding, Heather. How are you? I'm good.
I'm good. I'm so excited to be here. But I
am so sad about Kianna. I know. I literally pulled
her into the newsroom the other day and just a
few minutes ago, and I gave her a little gift,
a little little gift to like, remember me buy in
our movie segments, and I give her a big hug,
(01:07):
and I just was like, thank you for being such
an amazing, inspiring young lady, and I hope that you
continued to do well. And you know, it's very rare
that you meet someone so young, who is so organized,
who is driven but also supportive of other people, and
like she's she's amazing. She's amazing. So it's a big
loss for us for sure. Yes, thank you, she is
(01:27):
still alive. I just want to remind everybody she's still
with us.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Our loss is going to be fresh noose game, right,
and they could use all the healthache. So what's going
on in the world of entertainment, music, movie, movie, whatever?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Wise?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, we have a couple of options. We can talk
about what's happened at the box office, what new movies
are coming out? Do, we can talk about Kimmel stuff,
we can talk about whatever you guys want to talk about. Movies.
Let's do movies.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Let's keep it in mind, too, tired of the Kimi
people are on the It's another one of those issues
that it turns out nobody's gonna You're not going to
convince anybody one where are the other him?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You hate him, you think he's a stupid idiot, or
you think he's the funniest thing in.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The world, and in a week it won't matter, and
in a week it won't matter. Do you think he'll
be back or you think he'll be gone, He'll be back. Yeah,
Oh that's interesting show. And everybody's telling him go to
streaming because if he goes to streaming, you can say
whatever he wants. He can, John Oliver it, you know,
say whatever he wants to do, whatever he wants. That's
really the way they're all gonna go. Yeah, streaming, Yeah,
(02:24):
for sure. So let's talk about well, first of all,
before we get into what's happening this weekend at the
box office, I want to know what Keanna's favorite movie is, Kana,
what is your favorite movie?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Okay, well it's not necessarily Well, the Hunger Games.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I like that whole four part movie series. I was
obsessed with the books when I was little. I watched them.
It's like my guilty pleasure just watching those. Let me
ask you this.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I loved The Hunger Games too, but I was very
shocked and it took a while for me to get
over the casting of Peta.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Really, I love Josh oh Good. So you didn't think
it was a good choice. You did, No, I mean, Shannon,
you Peter. That wasn't who you envision in your mind
me neither. To be honest, I think he grew on me,
for sure, but he wasn't who I pictured when I
was reading the books either.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
To be fair, the Hemsworth kid wasn't what I had
in my mind either. Maybe a little more with that
funky I don't know, somebody more rugged less yeah, pretty, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, he wasn't dirty, like, he wasn't dirty enough.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I like my men.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Dirty too, dirty sexy. That's what we call Michael Monks
ice cream dirty sexy. All right, So let's see Gary
is like, I'm uncomfortable. I don't know what I'm gonna say. Guys.
I've been up since three o'clock in the morning, so
anything could come out of my mouth. But first, let's
(03:54):
talk about the movies opening at the box office this weekend.
Him Him football short, simple home football, and Horror.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah. I heard this described on a late night show clip.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
God, how did you describe it? I don't want to
screw it up.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
But it sounds very cool, like uh yeah, like a
sci fi version of what's the movie we love about
the guy who is the drummer.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Whiplash.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Whiplash, Oh yeah, like a sci fi push push push
push to get the best, best best to the detriment
of your your soul type thing.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well, this goes really intense on I don't you have
to go to Raak? Do you want to go to Rake?
Before I do this?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You're gonna give me one line to tease it. In radio,
we like to have people come back after the okay socials,
we come back. I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
If I was up at three am, I would be
making zero sense.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well maybe I'm not making much sense.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Gary Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio. I've
had the Brookeries joined us him they knew one of
the new movies that's coming out.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And if you're still with us after that amazing tease
before the break, let's talk about it. So this is
a a satire, some critics are calling a satire on
the brutality of football and the cold hearted view towards
safety of its players. That's sort of like an overarching
theme and message in this film. It's full of very
(05:22):
fast cuts, blow by blow sacking. You know, in the sport,
booming music, lots of flashing X rays and injuries, and
there's also some occult style voodoo horror tropes that are
used in this that might give people a few jump scares,
but critics are saying that it's just all a bit
too much. A lot of people also think because Jordan
(05:43):
Peel is involved, that he directed it or wrote it,
and he didn't. He actually was just a producer on
the film. A man named Justin Tipping was the writer
and director of it, and it stars Marlon Wayan.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good for Jordan Peel, by the way, to be now
so well known, Yeah, but he can have a name
attached to a movie and people are like, oh, I
want to go see that, even though he's just the producer.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It was through his company, Monkey Pop Productions, And I
think that you know, you know, Oliver saw it our
new board op in there. Oliver, what did you think
about it?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I was just really underwhelmed. I just felt it didn't
go anywhere For a long time. It was a little
kind of repetitive of just oh, this is like very intense,
like do you want to be the best?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, that's what I got over the trailer, Like I
wanted to love it, and that's exactly all over the
feeling that I got, Like, okay, so to now, what
where's the there there?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Where's the substance? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I get the aesthetic, I get the push to be
the best. Now show me the math.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yes, yeah, So keep that in mind if you're going
to see it at the theaters this weekend. You know,
this is typically the time of year where studios kind
of release the films that they think maybe aren't going
to do so well, and they're ramping up to their
bigger titles as we get closer to the holidays. So
the other movie that's coming out this weekend, I want
to point out, Jim Jeffries is in the movie him.
(07:00):
Do you like Jim Jeffries?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I do.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I think he's really funny.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
He plays the guy's doctor apparently, but a doctor a doctor.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah. So all right, let's talk about a big, bold,
beautiful journey. And man, the reviews are a stinker for
this one. People are not I loved this trailer with
the doors. Doesn't it look so dreamy? And you're like, oh,
this looks like it could be like an epic romance. Well,
I'm worried that this is gonna do.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We never talked about it, but I was super excited
about the War of the Roses remake, just called Roses.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes, quite literally. All the funny parts are in the
trail trailer. Don't you hate that?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And I hated the fact that the Brits. I love them,
sorry Oliver, but they lose something when it comes to
the anger and the sex and the angst that Michael
Douglas and it's more likely Kathleen Turner brought to the
first iteration is like bubbling on the surface and they're
not like characters. To me, do not give me sexual chemistry.
(07:58):
And Michael Douglas in pan Turner had it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yes, they definite, And I was so disappointed.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And I felt like when I every time I've seen
the trailer for A Big Beautiful Life, I'm like, I
love this, and then I'm like, it's all in the trailer.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So this is.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie, Kevin Klein, and Phoebe waller Bridge
is also in them.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yes, yeah, they have smaller parts. Kevin Klein and Phoebe
waller Bridge. So this is a movie. This is literally
one of the headlines, A big, bold, beautiful journey is
none of those things.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So what else are they saying? And that was just
like the nicest one that I could find.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I was like E. So basically, this is a story
about everyday people who need supernatural assistance in order to
appreciate their own lives. So these two come together through
like a GPS in their car. Starts off with Colin
Ferrell's GPS guiding him to pick up Sarah. He picks
her up, the GPS guides them to a door, goes
in his doors, shows him what his life could be
(08:57):
like or an alternate universe kind of thing, and then
he appreciate his own life. Then it takes her. Then
it takes them to stare his door. Same thing. People
are saying that it's just sort of plotting, and it's like,
where again, where is this going? What are we doing it?
It's got great cast, wonderful cast of very talented people,
it just doesn't bring what the trailer is suggesting that
(09:19):
it might.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, they're lacking substance, they're lacking neat steak.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, Like I love the idea.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's kind of like a sliding doors type trope of
what could have been or what is and appreciating that
and all of the things.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But you know, when we talk a lot about rom
coms here, we lately I feel like have been so
disappointed with the wrong coms that are coming out. And
I've been thinking about this, and I'm wondering what it
is about the movies from the eighties and the nineties,
especially early two thousands when rom coms really were hot.
And it's got to be the chemistry between the actor
(09:54):
does because you can take a crap script, but if
you've got a couple of actors and it's directed, well,
well we're all in on it, and then it becomes,
you know, a very popular movie over time.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Here's a recent example of great chemistry, and it's everyone
hates this. Is that it with Kristen Bell, and everybody
hates that. Nobody wants this, Nobody wants this. Yes, but
he's a rabbi and Adam Brody, Adam Brody and Kristen Bell,
their chemistry is fantastic, is fantastic. And when I saw
(10:24):
that first season at show, I go, this is what
the wrong comes are missing. You can't just take two
big names or two people that are around the same age,
throw them together and expect Blackluster dialogue to happen, to
help out, to help out.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So I have a theory on this, and I think
it's because in the industry right now, people are actors
are doing self tapes. Nobody is really doing chemistry reads
anymore in the way that they used to back in
the day. Why not. I think it's because it's a
lot cheaper to just have the actors tape their auditions
and send it to producers and casting from their home.
(11:00):
They don't really do chemistry reads anymore and hangover from COVID, right,
I mean, yeah, it's a cheaper model. It's a cheaper
way too, because then you're just everything's just online with
your audition and then they maybe meet once or twice
before the movie. But Adam Brody in particular and Kristen
Bell had been friends for decades. They have that instant
chemistry and connection with each other and have fun. Fact,
(11:23):
I actually worked with Adam Brody on a TV show
years ago and he was to make out with him.
I try, but he was like, Maam, get off me.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He just.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But he had just gotten married to Layton Easter at
the time, so we were talking about getting married relationships
and all that stuff, So it was a really fun
He was very, very nice. But we're missing in the
rom comms. We're missing that chemistry.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Those people what an error like To me, that would
be the number one thing I would get set first
if I was a com y.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That actors having chemistry. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there are
some directors that still do it, but most actors right
now are recording their auditions and they're sending it in
and hoping for the best.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Liked Pitt and the Girl in F one. No chemist,
no chemistry.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Thank you, Thanks guys, I love you. Keana. We miss
you already. In the words of Heather Brooker, thanks so
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(12:33):
anytime on the iHeartRadio app.
Welcome back to entertain Me. I'm Heather Brooker. This week,
we are reviewing the Jordan Peele produced film Him, and
it is getting a lot of mixed reviews. A lot
of what I'm seeing is that it's making people uncomfortable
and they don't really know why. They can't quite pinpoint
what it is, whether it's the pure horror aspect of
it or the evil overtones. We're going to dive into
(00:24):
that this week on Gary and Shannon, as well as
talk about the downfall of rom Comms and the new
movie A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
What I'm hearing is Kenna has a lot of requests
that include Michael Monks and Heather Brooker because Canna doesn't
like the show right so.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And more other pieces. Let's fill it with anything other
than that. I'm just kidding, Heather. How are you? I'm good.
I'm good. I'm so excited to be here. But I
am so sad about Kianna. I know. I literally pulled
her into the newsroom the other day and just a
few minutes ago, and I gave her a little gift,
a little little gift to like, remember me buy in
our movie segments, and I give her a big hug,
(01:07):
and I just was like, thank you for being such
an amazing, inspiring young lady, and I hope that you
continued to do well. And you know, it's very rare
that you meet someone so young, who is so organized,
who is driven but also supportive of other people, and
like she's she's amazing. She's amazing. So it's a big
loss for us for sure. Yes, thank you, she is
(01:27):
still alive. I just want to remind everybody she's still
with us.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Our loss is going to be fresh noose game, right,
and they could use all the healthache. So what's going
on in the world of entertainment, music, movie, movie, whatever?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Wise?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, we have a couple of options. We can talk
about what's happened at the box office, what new movies
are coming out? Do, we can talk about Kimmel stuff,
we can talk about whatever you guys want to talk about. Movies.
Let's do movies.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Let's keep it in mind, too, tired of the Kimi
people are on the It's another one of those issues
that it turns out nobody's gonna You're not going to
convince anybody one where are the other him?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You hate him, you think he's a stupid idiot, or
you think he's the funniest thing in.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The world, and in a week it won't matter, and
in a week it won't matter. Do you think he'll
be back or you think he'll be gone, He'll be back. Yeah,
Oh that's interesting show. And everybody's telling him go to
streaming because if he goes to streaming, you can say
whatever he wants. He can, John Oliver it, you know,
say whatever he wants to do, whatever he wants. That's
really the way they're all gonna go. Yeah, streaming, Yeah,
(02:24):
for sure. So let's talk about well, first of all,
before we get into what's happening this weekend at the
box office, I want to know what Keanna's favorite movie is, Kana,
what is your favorite movie?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Okay, well it's not necessarily Well, the Hunger Games.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I like that whole four part movie series. I was
obsessed with the books when I was little. I watched them.
It's like my guilty pleasure just watching those. Let me
ask you this.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I loved The Hunger Games too, but I was very
shocked and it took a while for me to get
over the casting of Peta.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Really, I love Josh oh Good. So you didn't think
it was a good choice. You did, No, I mean, Shannon,
you Peter. That wasn't who you envision in your mind
me neither. To be honest, I think he grew on me,
for sure, but he wasn't who I pictured when I
was reading the books either.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
To be fair, the Hemsworth kid wasn't what I had
in my mind either. Maybe a little more with that
funky I don't know, somebody more rugged less yeah, pretty, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, he wasn't dirty, like, he wasn't dirty enough.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I like my men.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Dirty too, dirty sexy. That's what we call Michael Monks
ice cream dirty sexy. All right, So let's see Gary
is like, I'm uncomfortable. I don't know what I'm gonna say. Guys.
I've been up since three o'clock in the morning, so
anything could come out of my mouth. But first, let's
(03:54):
talk about the movies opening at the box office this weekend.
Him Him football short, simple home football, and Horror.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah. I heard this described on a late night show clip.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
God, how did you describe it? I don't want to
screw it up.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
But it sounds very cool, like uh yeah, like a
sci fi version of what's the movie we love about
the guy who is the drummer.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Whiplash.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Whiplash, Oh yeah, like a sci fi push push push
push to get the best, best best to the detriment
of your your soul type thing.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well, this goes really intense on I don't you have
to go to Raak? Do you want to go to Rake?
Before I do this?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You're gonna give me one line to tease it. In radio,
we like to have people come back after the okay socials,
we come back. I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
If I was up at three am, I would be
making zero sense.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well maybe I'm not making much sense.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Gary Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio. I've
had the Brookeries joined us him they knew one of
the new movies that's coming out.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And if you're still with us after that amazing tease
before the break, let's talk about it. So this is
a a satire, some critics are calling a satire on
the brutality of football and the cold hearted view towards
safety of its players. That's sort of like an overarching
theme and message in this film. It's full of very
(05:22):
fast cuts, blow by blow sacking. You know, in the sport,
booming music, lots of flashing X rays and injuries, and
there's also some occult style voodoo horror tropes that are
used in this that might give people a few jump scares,
but critics are saying that it's just all a bit
too much. A lot of people also think because Jordan
(05:43):
Peel is involved, that he directed it or wrote it,
and he didn't. He actually was just a producer on
the film. A man named Justin Tipping was the writer
and director of it, and it stars Marlon Wayan.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good for Jordan Peel, by the way, to be now
so well known, Yeah, but he can have a name
attached to a movie and people are like, oh, I
want to go see that, even though he's just the producer.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It was through his company, Monkey Pop Productions, And I
think that you know, you know, Oliver saw it our
new board op in there. Oliver, what did you think
about it?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I was just really underwhelmed. I just felt it didn't
go anywhere For a long time. It was a little
kind of repetitive of just oh, this is like very intense,
like do you want to be the best?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, that's what I got over the trailer, Like I
wanted to love it, and that's exactly all over the
feeling that I got, Like, okay, so to now, what
where's the there there?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Where's the substance? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I get the aesthetic, I get the push to be
the best. Now show me the math.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yes, yeah, So keep that in mind if you're going
to see it at the theaters this weekend. You know,
this is typically the time of year where studios kind
of release the films that they think maybe aren't going
to do so well, and they're ramping up to their
bigger titles as we get closer to the holidays. So
the other movie that's coming out this weekend, I want
to point out, Jim Jeffries is in the movie him.
(07:00):
Do you like Jim Jeffries?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I do.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I think he's really funny.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
He plays the guy's doctor apparently, but a doctor a doctor.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah. So all right, let's talk about a big, bold,
beautiful journey. And man, the reviews are a stinker for
this one. People are not I loved this trailer with
the doors. Doesn't it look so dreamy? And you're like, oh,
this looks like it could be like an epic romance. Well,
I'm worried that this is gonna do.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We never talked about it, but I was super excited
about the War of the Roses remake, just called Roses.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yes, quite literally. All the funny parts are in the
trail trailer. Don't you hate that?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And I hated the fact that the Brits. I love them,
sorry Oliver, but they lose something when it comes to
the anger and the sex and the angst that Michael
Douglas and it's more likely Kathleen Turner brought to the
first iteration is like bubbling on the surface and they're
not like characters. To me, do not give me sexual chemistry.
(07:58):
And Michael Douglas in pan Turner had it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yes, they definite, And I was so disappointed.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And I felt like when I every time I've seen
the trailer for A Big Beautiful Life, I'm like, I
love this, and then I'm like, it's all in the trailer.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So this is.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie, Kevin Klein, and Phoebe waller Bridge
is also in them.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yes, yeah, they have smaller parts. Kevin Klein and Phoebe
waller Bridge. So this is a movie. This is literally
one of the headlines, A big, bold, beautiful journey is
none of those things.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So what else are they saying? And that was just
like the nicest one that I could find.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I was like E. So basically, this is a story
about everyday people who need supernatural assistance in order to
appreciate their own lives. So these two come together through
like a GPS in their car. Starts off with Colin
Ferrell's GPS guiding him to pick up Sarah. He picks
her up, the GPS guides them to a door, goes
in his doors, shows him what his life could be
(08:57):
like or an alternate universe kind of thing, and then
he appreciate his own life. Then it takes her. Then
it takes them to stare his door. Same thing. People
are saying that it's just sort of plotting, and it's like,
where again, where is this going? What are we doing it?
It's got great cast, wonderful cast of very talented people,
it just doesn't bring what the trailer is suggesting that
(09:19):
it might.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, they're lacking substance, they're lacking neat steak.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, Like I love the idea.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's kind of like a sliding doors type trope of
what could have been or what is and appreciating that
and all of the things.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But you know, when we talk a lot about rom
coms here, we lately I feel like have been so
disappointed with the wrong coms that are coming out. And
I've been thinking about this, and I'm wondering what it
is about the movies from the eighties and the nineties,
especially early two thousands when rom coms really were hot.
And it's got to be the chemistry between the actor
(09:54):
does because you can take a crap script, but if
you've got a couple of actors and it's directed, well,
well we're all in on it, and then it becomes,
you know, a very popular movie over time.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Here's a recent example of great chemistry, and it's everyone
hates this. Is that it with Kristen Bell, and everybody
hates that. Nobody wants this, Nobody wants this. Yes, but
he's a rabbi and Adam Brody, Adam Brody and Kristen Bell,
their chemistry is fantastic, is fantastic. And when I saw
(10:24):
that first season at show, I go, this is what
the wrong comes are missing. You can't just take two
big names or two people that are around the same age,
throw them together and expect Blackluster dialogue to happen, to
help out, to help out.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So I have a theory on this, and I think
it's because in the industry right now, people are actors
are doing self tapes. Nobody is really doing chemistry reads
anymore in the way that they used to back in
the day. Why not. I think it's because it's a
lot cheaper to just have the actors tape their auditions
and send it to producers and casting from their home.
(11:00):
They don't really do chemistry reads anymore and hangover from COVID, right,
I mean, yeah, it's a cheaper model. It's a cheaper
way too, because then you're just everything's just online with
your audition and then they maybe meet once or twice
before the movie. But Adam Brody in particular and Kristen
Bell had been friends for decades. They have that instant
chemistry and connection with each other and have fun. Fact,
(11:23):
I actually worked with Adam Brody on a TV show
years ago and he was to make out with him.
I try, but he was like, Maam, get off me.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He just.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But he had just gotten married to Layton Easter at
the time, so we were talking about getting married relationships
and all that stuff, So it was a really fun
He was very, very nice. But we're missing in the
rom comms. We're missing that chemistry.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Those people what an error like To me, that would
be the number one thing I would get set first
if I was a com y.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That actors having chemistry. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there are
some directors that still do it, but most actors right
now are recording their auditions and they're sending it in
and hoping for the best.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Liked Pitt and the Girl in F one. No chemist,
no chemistry.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Thank you, Thanks guys, I love you. Keana. We miss
you already. In the words of Heather Brooker, thanks so
much for listening to Entertainment. Make sure you check out
our weekly Entertainer Report every Friday in the twelve o'clock
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