Oh man, this is great stuff. A total pro, not taking shit from Tony Scott, going for the Wall Street lawyer role to finance his other stuff, rolling into a next-day Star Trek role. Excellent work, Will.

I honestly don’t think i’ve ever seen Saul in a role where i’ve hated him. From TNG to Warehouse 13 he’s always been an enjoyable actor who seems to love what he does. 

Shoutout also to Dreamscape, a pretty terrible film elevated by Sydow and Plummer.

He may have had many wonderful roles. But to me, he will always be Brewmeister Smith.

Damn. I honestly assumed he was functionally immortal.

Thank you for writing these interviews out again, rather than just using video.

It's got rasins in it. You like raisins.

Testicles...

Johnny, what can you make of this?

“Keys!!!" 

Nice.

One of my favourite gags in the whole movie is so understated that I’ve never been sure if it’s even intentional or just a happy accident of Christopher Guest’s line reading. Nigel shows up backstage at the last show of the tour to say “Sex Farm has gone number 1 in Japan... Spinal Tap’s recording of Sex Farm”, and…

I swear, if I ever find myself in the middle of an acrimonious break-up moment, I’m doing the whole

Airplane is right up there.

I came in here to stump for Spinal Tap like Gwen. Being a musician, Tap quotes are running patter, but even in civilian life, their uses are plentiful. Some more besides the ones she listed that I have used:

With you on that - Raiders was lightning in a bottle, it’s a miracle they got it so right at all; the tone and look was never to be adequately recaptured.

Time Bandits! “I would have started with lasers, 8:00 o’ clock, Day One!” 

My favorite movie of all time. Bar none. I’ve seen it a countless number of times, and it never, ever gets old for me. Ever. If you hate this movie, you hate fun. All there is to it.

Two things on Raiders:

Danette is smarter than that. Pamela Adlon is amazing and it’s become clear that, if anything, that guy was actually bringing the show down. He doesn’t deserve the attention we’re giving him right now.