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Asian, Not Asian
"evan hansen" Discussed on Asian, Not Asian
"People get very threatened. If we ever step outside the lines, right? Really? Interesting. What do you mean by that? Yeah. Yeah, what do you mean by that? I think at least I'll speak in my experience in my experience. And a lot of my friends, frankly, as like a person of color on a set as an actor of color on a set, if you speak up about something in the script, oftentimes you'll get a lot of resistance, and you'll get a lot of people with hurt feelings. I've seen white actors say similar shit and it just received very differently. And so time and time again. And it's changing. It's getting a little better, I guess, but. Yeah, it's just harder. I think when you're an actor or a color on a set, you have higher expectations put upon you in terms of how you behave. Because the mentality by and large, it's like you should just be grateful to be here and that you have a job. It doesn't matter that this line doesn't feel authentic to you. Or like the story point is stereotypical in some regards, like tough luck. You're not the writer. And so you just got to tread lightly and pick your battles and do it in ways that are productive. And I say all of that having fucked up many times along the way in terms of not picking my battles and not doing it in a particular way. Do you feel as you book bigger stuff, you get more comfortable and your opinions received a little bit better. I feel maybe when you first got a typical, maybe that was your first big gig. I'm not really sure. But maybe it was. And maybe. People didn't know who you were or you felt a little uncomfortable, even being on set because you're surrounded by so many famous people. But after Dear Evan Hansen, I feel like, you know, you are a real asset now. You've always been, but now you're a perceived real asset. Do you feel this gives you more confidence to speak up and people are less threatened by you? Or do you feel that is always sort of constant? I think I don't know if people are more or less written by me, but I definitely personally am more confident and I think I have just a better stronger skill set on how to navigate people and how to manage people and how to there's so much of it is just like navigating ego. Both my own ego and other people's ego. Yeah. So for me, yeah. So for me, individually, is what I'm feeling, ego driven, or because there's an actual problem. And that allows me to pick my battles, right? Like if it's an ego thing, and I can identify that, then I can just take a step back and let things slide. But if there's an actual problem, then I'll have to speak up. And the way I speak up has gotten just a lot better. In terms of how to phrase something, how to talk about racism to white people, so it doesn't trigger their fragility and no one who to talk to on a set to get a specific thing. Change. Because I'm different shows and movies, different people hold authority and power. And so you have to really identify who's actually in charge here. For this specific point, like, oh, I have a thing about costume that I want to talk about, who do I talk to? And so I think I've just gotten better at that, which means it's being received better because I'm approaching it better. Whether or not people are actually more or less threatened, I have no clue. But I definitely feel like I've grown a lot in terms of that. And I've learned. And I've been learned in taught, I've been taught by other actors of color who have been doing this a lot longer than me. There you go. Which has been which has been really cool. This sounds a lot like that self reflection thing that I don't know what you're talking about. So I think that's probably very important. And yeah, it sounds like it's working for you. So no, I think that's cool. It sounds like you are an asset and you're getting these things. And I do feel like, hey, you know, yeah, we were just saying it's not like 2018 anymore. Things are different. It does feel like you're starting to see more, whatever, more people of color in different kinds of things. But I am seeing a lot more Asian best Friends. I just saw Spider-Man, the new one, and hey. That guy's bald. Did you know that? I had no fucking idea. I had a thought. I thought so. Well, yeah, I saw an interview and he does like, I think he shaves his head. I don't think he's bald ball, but he shaves his head. He doesn't have hair. That's not his real hair, which I that's why I like him. Asian ball solidarity, all right? That's what's all about. But you know, I was like, hey, that's cool. You know, he's kind of like just off of the main thing. I don't know. I don't know if you had any thoughts as far as, hey, is it a good thing that we're seeing the Asian best friend or is it kind of like glass ceiling situation of, all right, well, you kind of got this thing, but you can't really be the hero yet or what? I don't know if you've ever had kind of mulled that over. Oh my God, yeah, I mean as someone who plays Asian best friend and pretty much every project I've ever done. It is a double edged sword, right? I'm happy that we get these roles on that. The availability of roles is increased and we're getting more representation on screen. But there is limitations to that and then after and it's also getting kind of tired at this point in my opinion. We should have access to it all. And I think the real progress is going to be when we actually do get the hero and lead roles. Kick more often. Have you seen have you seen have you watched Ted Lasso? I've seen the first couple episodes. Okay, there's this character Nate and he is something like that, right? Yeah. Yeah. He's funny. He's very funny. And it's interesting because this is very controversial, but the character over time. I hope this is not a spoiler, but he becomes a villain over time. Oh, cool. And it's really interesting because at the beginning, he is sort of like the meek best friend. He's very sweet. And over time he's become more and more, he becomes more and more vindictive. And I know a lot of people don't like kind of like, oh, why are they going to make the South Asian guy the bad guy? But I was like, this is awesome because a lot of times I feel, I feel vindictive. I feel angry. I feel like I'm like, yeah, I'm really actually really mad and I would stab everybody in the back if I could. And he does that. And so I don't know, do you ever want to play like a bad person? That's kind of awesome. Hell yeah. Oh my God, to play a villain would be so fun. I've auditioned for so many villains and I'm just like, I just wanted these come through. You know, I want to play like drug dealers. I want to play, you know? Romantically, I want to play, you know, I don't fucking know. Just things, you know, people always ask me like, what's my dream role? And I really don't have a single dream role. I know that the roles I don't want to do. I don't want to do the Asian best friend. The funny Asian best friend anymore. If there's like an evil Asian best friend, that's fun. That's cool. There you go. He's your best friend and he will help you bury the body..
Asian, Not Asian
"evan hansen" Discussed on Asian, Not Asian
"This week, we have one guy one. One dude holding it down. The one that holding that down, yeah. We've had a good run. It's slowing down a little bit. I think people are going to catch on that. You don't get anything for your money. I think people are starting to catch on. It's not worth it. But just one guy, and his name is Austin, Kim. Austin Kim, can I say before we guess this guy sounds hot as shit? Can I say that? I've never met an Asian. I've never met an Asian Austin. I think there's a reason because they're too hot. You know? There could be an Austin Kim of my generation and maybe of like, you know what I'm saying? I feel this, you gotta be born after 9 11 to be a neighbor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good time reference point for sure. For sure, for sure. For sure. Yeah, there you go. Well, he's Korean, I think. I think. I think he's Korean. I think he's Korean. He's a hot Korean. Maybe he maybe he lives in. Maybe he lives in Austin. Who knows? But yeah, you sound hot and you're doing cool stuff with tacos. So thanks for your money. Thank you so much for your donation. Yeah, dude. We are going to go ahead and get to introduce our guest today, dude. I mean, first of all, before we even fucking say his name, can I just say, very stoked that he showed up? You know what I'm saying? Oh my God. We have had some celebrity celebrity guest book. Straight up just ditching us not even to show up. It is not cool. It is not cool. If you're not gonna come, just say you're not gonna come. And that's fine. It's okay. And this is why I just do successful, because he shows up, you know? And if he shut the show up to the game. It's a great reflection on your professional integrity. And I think may I say maybe also your parents, you know, shouts to your parents for grazing your right. You know, if your parents, you know what, yeah. No, no child of mine is not gonna go to a comedy podcast recording, okay? That's what? That's what immigrant parents say. Always to each other. Yes. Oh my gosh. Well, I'm so excited to bring up our guests today. Comedian writer, actor, you may have seen him on Netflix's atypical or the movie Dear Evan Hansen, along with Ben Platt, give it up for the amazing, the sensational Nick dodani. Thanks for having me, guys. I can't believe we've had people just ghost you. Straight up ghost us, dude. We're just too nice. We're just meeting boys. I know. Wow. I would never do that to you. Thank you. I mean, you can tell. I mean, we can tell from your amazing jacket. But for real, I think in our opinion, because we've had celebrity people were like, we like Randall park, you know, he showed up like 5 minutes before he was supposed to, you know? I feel like we can really tell you so nice. Who is easy to work with? In the biz. Yeah, I'll go there. Guess who canceled on us? The biz, man. Nick, we thank you so much for coming on the show. First of all, how are you doing, man? How you feeling? I know it's a little early. Mike is based in New York. That's why we do this kind of early, but thanks for waking up for us. How's everything going for you? Good man, I'm doing well. I know, 9 a.m. on a Saturday is just like wildly early for me, so. Apologies if I'm dead. I do have my coffee though. No. This is what you look at 9 a.m.. I don't think you can handle you're gonna look Friday night at 7 p.m.. I mean, you must look just so incredible. You look great. For half a day and you look way better than I do, yeah. I feel like you were up at like, you know, I feel like, oh yeah, nice so early, but you're actually up at 5 doing calisthenics and burpees. And then painting, doing your hair, working on a script. Whatever, whatever, SoulCycle. And then this is like your 8th activity, because you just look fantastic. I wish I was that kind of Asian, but I'm really not. I love that. Well, Nick, we always start this podcast by asking each other what kind of Asian word this week to figure out what it means to be Asian American in this country. What about damn? Complicated. So we'll start with Mike. Mike, what kind of Asian were you this week? You know, I don't know. I mean, I put it down here on the little outline here. And it says I was a social anxiety Asian. That's not quite exactly right. But I want to describe what I kind of am feeling. So hey, the American virus is lifting a little bit. Mask mandates are being lifted. People are going out. So I've been going out. I've been hanging out after comedy shows or I'll after my whole Ronnie thing. That was some friends who are out of town. But I got this thing, and I don't know if y'all can relate. But I used to be somebody who used to, I used to love being out really late. I used to love being out until like, you know, in this New York City, you could be out to like three or four and you could stay out all night if you want. And I would be like all about it. I would be like, yeah, this guy, like 2 o'clock would be when I would even start thinking about maybe I should go home. And sometimes I wouldn't. Yeah. But now, I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's because of COVID. I don't know if it's because I'm used to it because I've been at home so much. But I'm like, as soon as it's like ten 30 or 11, I'm like, I should think about going home. And it's not because I am old, but it's not just that. It's not like I'm tired. And I want to go home. There's something in me where I'm like, oh shit, the moon is going to get too high. And I got to go home before something happens. I feel like I'm sorry. So this is like, hey, we don't have to get into it or anything like that, but it's just like the world is the word is on fire right now, but it's that. You don't know if just China is going to start bombing New York City or something. I think there's that, there's like bad things could happen if I'm outlaid, it's been kind of weird in the city. It's also just like, it's just like there's something in me where I'm like, oh, I should be watching Netflix right now. You know what I'm saying? I've been doing that so much. I should be home watching richer on Amazon Prime. That's what I should be doing. And I don't know where I don't know what it is, but I don't have that thing where I'm like, you know, Tommy, I party. I feel like it's like dangerous to party. I don't know how to describe it..
TIME's Top Stories
"evan hansen" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"Garrick. Dear evan hansen. The film adaptation of stephen levinson's multiple award winning stage musical is extensively a nice little movie about a teen trying to overcome social anxiety disorder about learning that. It's okay to be anxious and depressed and that being medicated. For those things if necessary is normal and healthy. But it's really a monster movie. A picture in which a troubled kid gets away with monstrous behavior because he's anxious old so anxious and just can't help himself. Meanwhile another kid dies by suicide in everyone including his own mother grasps at straws to think of anything. Good to say about him. This is a movie that repeatedly calls out a dead kid just to make its points if that's your idea of entertainment or even just adequate message based filmmaking run. Don't walk to see deer. Evan hansen. It's entirely possible. That deer evan hansen worked better on stage. Where it's easier to accept signs and writ large especially when they arrive in the form of pseudo revelatory songs belted showbiz style. I have not seen the stage production but watching the movie version directed by stephen bosque and starring. Now twenty eight year old. Ben platt reprising the role. He originated on broadway. I felt a creeping sense of sorrow for anyone who had ever bought a ticket to this. Ill advised medicine show because the movie goes down like a horse pill platz. Evan is a high school senior whose life is ruled by anxiety and depression. His father went awol long ago and his hardworking mother. Heidi played by julianne moore giving her all in a thankless role struggles to raise him alone. His therapist has advised him to write helpful letters to himself every day as a way of bolstering his courage for whatever may lie ahead on his first day of high school his arm in a cast following us summer accident. He writes one of those letters in which he confesses his law for a classmate. Zoe played by caitlyn deaver and then accidentally printed out at school. Connor colton ryan the school. Loaner we know this because he wears black clothing and shudder dark. Nail polish makes it to the printer. Before evan does and reads the letter because zoe is his sister. Connor thinks the letter is some sort of scheme on evans part. A ploy to make him blow his gasket in public as everyone always expects them to do. He pockets the letter and storms off the next day. Evan and everyone else discovers connor has died by suicide a revelation. That's dropped as if he'd failed to come to school because of a hangnail. The complication is that before. Connor discovered the letter he signed evans cast and large definitive letters. Either as a mean joke or an awkward attempt at friendship. The movie itself isn't sure. Which because evan has no other friends save one. Jared played by nick donnie. Who's deadpan sarcasm. As a relief from the movies relentless earnestness everyone including connors grief-stricken but weirdly clueless. Mother may quivering. Amy adams comes to believe that he and connor were friends and probably lovers. Evan comes to relish this role of make believe best buddy to the plots sacrificial suicide kid and he plays it to the held until finally an eternity later really his lies catch up with them. Is that even a plot. I'm still not sure the movie weaves a precarious case of special pleading for its character while reassuring us that the dead kid really didn't have much of a personality to begin with until miraculously minutes from the end we're graced with the revelation connor to was a real human being with feelings and even play guitar. Meanwhile platt dressed in an assortment of kindergarten style. Stripy t shirts. Looks a little too much like will ferrell. Playing a full grown man stuck in the mind of a teenager. He hits one sensitive song after another most of them about being an outsider. Looking at in the like out of the sing. Your heart out ballpark. Many have already noted that platt now looks too old to play a teenager. but that's hardly the movies gravest said dear. Evan hansen so exquisitely engineered to give us all. The feels is really a story about a megalomaniac in training..
The Big Picture
"evan hansen" Discussed on The Big Picture
"That's really that's incredible less. Maybe he shouldn't have fallen this much but again he's not he's in the harder they fall but otherwise. Just there's not that much lineup. He's slowing down a little bit. I'm sure he's working on. Atlanta right now returned to atlanta where he so great as darius. He was ten last time he's thirteen now. Keith stanfield i feel like is going to be a staple. Our moviegoing lives in the next ten years. Which is very exciting number. Twelve somebody who jumped way high from number thirty to number twelve who is deaf patel the handsomeness man in the world. According to my husband. Which again i think could be accurate. Yeah i think. I think these next three were letting her oscar prognosticator selves jump in a little bit. Don't know whether he'll be nominated for the green light one of the great performances and it was nice to kind of see dev patel who has been like a beloved actor. It's certainly a beloved internet boyfriend. Like get his moment and get. Have everyone be so excited about it. So i think he's getting some burn off of that and i'm also anticipating his next movie in a big way which is called monkey man which he directed which has been described as john wick in mumbai so deaf patel transitioning action hero. Just that's kind of the last piece of the puzzle for him and he's obviously terrific actor so he's between what he's accomplishing. Where he's going. He's at number twelve number eleven. Who do we got chris. Spencer oscars oscar also genuinely extremely famous obviously was in twilight was kinda had her whole tabloid run and then his reinvented. Not reinvented herself. But his escaped all of that to become one of the coolest people on the planet. Very famous great actor. In spencer. Which i think will be something again have not seen. But she's playing. Princess diana and that seems to get a lot of attention these days. So coming up from fifteen to eleven christy stewart. Going to be a big kristen stewart fall here on the show elsewhere. Yeah number ten. Not my favorite actor in the world but person who are going to have to reckon with here on the podcast. Their name is jennifer lawrence jennifer. Lawrence is about to be the co star of. Look leo dicaprio. Adam mckay's new movie and then she'll have red white and water after that which seems like an twenty twenty two film. At this point she was number nine previously. She's number ten now of course academy award winner star many films and many people. Seeing winter's bone the hunger games series american hustle. My beloved mother. Maybe after mother. I'm fully in on j. j. law. We'll see. I really enjoyed making you do that. Whole segment. jabber. Lawrence is really famous and a giant star. Another picture we got criticized for was michael jordan at eighteen. That people thought maybe we had them a little too low. Even though he hasn't had the greatest pandemic. I agree that we may have misplaced him a little bit so i'm trying to rectify that here. We've got him at number nine thirty three years old so he's going to be eligible for that much longer but he too much like dev patel is making his debut with creed three which is frankly. One of the few remaining standalone.
The Big Picture
"evan hansen" Discussed on The Big Picture
"Here again. Not her fault. Not her fault. But i really eight pastor by in all senses of the experiences on dharma's so this is maybe we'll about this in six months because obviously she's in no time today which is finally knock on wood like allegedly coming out in a couple of weeks. I really don't want to jinx it. I need this guy's just like flight. A candle out needs a to quite frankly blind got moved to twenty twenty two allegedly. Will we see two twenty twenty two not holding my breath and then one of the great movie casualties of the is deep water which they're not even gonna promote deep water. This is obviously the movie that made with athletic director by adrian line and where they dated for year and now have moved on and ben affleck is really has a new even more public relationship. If you can believe it. So i don't know what they're gonna do. It feels like they're completely burying this. I don't know maybe they just think february is a fun. Disreputable time to release a kinky erotic thriller. I'm hoping it's an adrian line special. Whether or not ben in on a are willing to go into photo ops. i don't even really care. Show me the movie. show me the movie with like one. One of them commits a torrid murder. I've thought about the warner brothers publicity team more than once with respect to this just missed the window instead. It's too bad not missing the window number seventeen. Jessie buckley probably my favorite active actress. Who has a lot of stuff lined up. I was talked about her in the. I'm thinking of anything's episode. And she was one of the stars occur. Noble in wild rose choose thirty three last year. She's vaulting all the way to seventeen. She's also in the loss daughter. Much like the coda. Johnson olivia colman. Olivia colman not eligible for this list. By the way in case you forgot and then she's also co starring in a movie. That i heard a little bit of buzz about when i was a telluride. Which is sarah. Polly is coming back to direct. A film called women talking with jessie buckley. And your girl claire foy. This is a movie that is like very noisy on our radar. Twenty twenty two. I think there are a lot of people who are who see jessie buckley. In that. Kind of kate blanchett meryl streep kind of lineage of a certain kind of performer. Whose very flexible can do any kind of a movie. Can accents can do. Transformations can do seriously dramatic can do funny can do them huge fan. She gets sing. She can singer ass off. She's she's good. Things ahead for jessie buckley. She's number seventeen number. Sixteen we got a little flack for this one last time because we people have said that we underrated bryan larson's i can't believe she moved all she's done for the past two years. Nissan commercials. How many nissan commercials can one. I make like what is going on. I'm money is money. i don't..
The Big Picture
"evan hansen" Discussed on The Big Picture
"That's that's as big as it gets this really nineties magazine stuff or just nineties in general where everyone is decided that this is the next person and she will be in these movies and then she will be slotted into this feature in the magazine for now but she'll soon be cover only. I think it's great. I think it's a good choice. Thank you very much. Congrats to rachel who i've never seen act before. Who's number thirty three. Well i wanna take number thirty three her passion project here. Yeah love kaelin. Diva who people probably will remember from book smarter. Maybe the netflix series unbelievable which won several awards. The biggest reason she's on this list right now is not derived enhancing though i think she's pretty good in the movie it's ticket to paradise in which she plays opposite. George clooney and julia roberts This is a big comeback. Movie for julia. Roberts is a huge movie for twenty twenty two. And she's right at the center of the film She's also the titular star of filling out called rosalyn. she's got a lot of projects booked. I think she has been identified. I'm not to be too reductive. But like kind of as next. Amy adams type. I'm very approachable. Likable mainstream woman at the center of films and is a damn good actor so i. I don't even know if we mentioned her in our last conversation maybe unbelievable had not even been released by that point. But i feel like that kind of confirmed in the hierarchy. Yeah and i think she's paying a little bit of a deer. Evan hansen task tax in terms of placement on this list. But that's the way it goes when the list is made which is also sort of true of our number thirty two. Who is cynthia revox. And this this is really just like a timing thing. She had a lotta movies. Come out in two thousand nineteen then obviously. The pandemic affected a lot of people but she hasn't had anything out in a while. She's got a john ridley scifi movie coming up. She is apparently going to be in the roberts. Meccas pinocchio which. I don't know what to say about that. I knew she played. She is playing the blue fairy according to wikipedia. Which is not a character that i remember but i didn't really invest a lot of time in pinocchio. Well is the is the blue fairy grant pinocchio life again. I don't remember pinault afraid to be out. And also roberts during the cgi live action version of this. I have my doubts. It's nightmare fuel. Pure nightmare fuel. So so again this. This is a timing issue. Kind of got lost in in panic. Lemba yes she. I mean she's obviously the academy award nominated actors. She's another one too though. Who some of the people we've discussed. Thus far is a real nuts multi hyphen it. Shoop start as aretha franklin in the genius tv series. That's you know gets. Her doctor viewpoints. She's a singer. She's a stage performer. She's kinda got a lot of eggs going on in in her basket so she falls from number fourteen and number thirty two. Cynthia revoz the biggest faller on our list. Maybe we'll circle back next year. She'll do better unfortunately for her..
The Big Picture
"evan hansen" Discussed on The Big Picture
"And ben platt is kinda just doing his performance from broadway. It's really overstated. He's really slouching. An awkward his hands are doing a lot. He's very much playing for people sitting in the balcony which is not screen acting screen acting as much more subtle even in a musical. You have to restrain yourself. And he's been directed into a performance. Does exactly what you're talking about. It makes him seem like he should be a data at home depot. He so he's like two big he's too he's too old he's too mannered an awkward in a way that is so recognizable and seems so perform. It seems like he's in an episode of the macho. While you know julianne moore's trying to be in a grounded universe or it seems like he's in pitch perfect or it seems like he's in the politician which was a ryan murphy show which is just a different by bible. I mean it's a different energy. It is a different and a lot of people really like it. I think it's never been our taste. Wish we heard this is not a a movie or a musical. that is to meyer ashanti's that it is not. But i think even independent of that it just is not working and so the format really stands out. It really doesn't so. I wonder if you had recast this film with a younger actor if it would have been more successful to its credit not only trubisky involved but the show is written by bench pasok and justin paul who people know wrote songs for la la land and who wrote the greatest showman and have a pretty long track record of success in this space. The great showman is another one of those post hamilton projects that really popped and really kind of set off this big movie musical boom that we're kind of living through in twenty twenty one. I wonder if the younger kid. If let's say you. Just cast noah joop from a quiet place in that part. Who looks like a kid. Who's in honey. Boy who is he. He's he should go on summer vacation. I think gps incredibly talented. And it's like the only kid in the world working a lot working lot. So at this point i think nnaji would be bringing all of his juke to it. But a noah joop like individual. I see what you're saying. That would have been better although it's not as if caitlyn deavere is sixteen years old either..
The Big Picture
"evan hansen" Discussed on The Big Picture
"Not to make fun of like. I can support a lot of things but like you. Crying deer evan hands and it's going go on like mccollum just. Fyi being open with you. Because i trust you. And i trust the listeners of this show i truly i love your relationship with your daughter like will to this. But here's the thing it's not as if it's a compliment really i'm crying at ups commercials right now. You know what i mean. I'm just i'm at fedex commercials all the time. One where like fedex. Baby heart for the baby transplant. Come on gets me every time. Yeah so they didn't cry at. There are cheap ways to manipulate people with with music with with score with a certain kind of image with a certain impression that someone that you care about is in danger you know. That's like a tried and true method in storytelling to get people to soften up and to get them to take in what you're trying to do on the other hand because of this like uncanny valley thing and because ben platt is looks like a middle age man in the middle of the movie. There's something so disorienting. Every time you're watching it it is it is a fascinating pop cultural artifact. I do you think. I don't know if it is that i really isn't it because it feels like it's like it is doing things that will be representative of this time. It's it's it's a. It's a story that isn't going to age well because it's like it's yet another story about how dangerous the internet is when you're a teenager and all like what what what positive things can provide and also how it can take things away from people twenty years from now. Our relationship to the internet might be totally different. It might not even be the dominant aspect of communication but this movie is trying to reflect something that is happening right now so to me i like. I really didn't like that. The movie was about that. I'm sick of movies about that. But it strikes me as something that will look back on me like damn remember that. Remember when that was the key talking point in our culture around teenagers. This isn't the first movie or tv show to address some of the issues in a film. Either and it's a very big issue among parents among kids in school among kids. Who spend a lotta time on social media etcetera. I think i found it so an apt especially because i could not connect to the songs that all and i did go back and read many reviews of the musical itself to try to understand what was happening because this is an absolute sensation. Hit like i said at one best musical at one best original score free musical at one best book of a musical one like for the ideas the music the ben platt performance all of the above and i.
The Big Picture
"evan hansen" Discussed on The Big Picture
"I'm sean fantasy. I'm amanda dobbins and this is the big picture a conversation show about movie stars and those who desperately wanna be one last march in the early days of the shutdown in the united states. Amanda wild away. The hours on this show by creating a completely arbitrary list of the top thirty five movie stars under the age of thirty five using our own parameters our own brains and our own feelings. People were kind of mad about the list what we get wrong. How has the landscape changed. And who has emerged in the past eighteen months to surge onto the list. We revisit and re rank are thirty five in today's episode but first let's talk about youth or at least an attempt at representing youth. I'm talking about the weekend's big release. Dear evan hansen which is in theaters on friday. Who where to begin. Amanda dear oven has what is. Dear of enhancing amanda. It is an adaptation of a tony winning musical which will come back to and it is about a young man named evan hansen. Who is having a very difficult time in high school going through some mental health issues some social anxiety issues and has been encouraged to write himself letters of you know like self belief and pas positive thinking one of these letters falls into the hands of another person and i just i'm gonna say because we need to talk about what this film okay. Another troubled student at the high school who then takes his own life and the parents of the second teen find the letter. That evan hansen has written to himself. They believe their son wrote this last letter to evan hansen before he killed himself and then assume that evan hansen. This tea and with no friends actually had a beautiful friendship with their now deceased child and the main character. Evan hansen goes along with it. And it's like yeah. He was my friend and invents a whole story and friendship and ultimately like a philosophy on how to live and connect with other people that becomes like essentially a hit. Ted talk on the internet and then he become something of a mental health advocate but really just sort of friendship at a community of care for other people a wellness figurehead popular on the internet. And and then things sort of unravel but for the most part no one is held responsible for any of the choices made in in the in the musical and the movie and then people sing songs about discovering themselves and it ends. That is the one part. I want to underline you. You just described the bones of the story very accurately and it's a musical. This story is a musical and so of course. The character is break into song as the story unfolds. I thought this was very troubling movie. A movie that really did not work for a variety of reasons. I think neither you. Nor i saw the show on broadway and so we don't really have a relationship to the show. It was a big hit and of course it. Was tony winning. But it is. Unnerving film is unnerving in a in a variety of ways in part because of the characterization part specifically because of what made me think of revisiting our thirty five hundred thirty five list. Which is the casting of ben platt. Who of course. I believe originated the role on broadway and is now twenty seven years old and so he and frankly he looks like he's thirty seven years old at times in this film and so he is strange in the part of evan hansen. Who is supposed to be a sixteen year old boy..
The Big Picture
New film 'Dear Even Hansen' is a misfire on just about every level
"Let's talk about youth or at least an attempt at representing youth. I'm talking about the weekend's big release. Dear evan hansen which is in theaters on friday. Who where to begin. Amanda dear oven has what is. Dear of enhancing amanda. It is an adaptation of a tony winning musical which will come back to and it is about a young man named evan hansen. Who is having a very difficult time in high school going through some mental health issues some social anxiety issues and has been encouraged to write himself letters of you know like self belief and pas positive thinking one of these letters falls into the hands of another person and i just i'm gonna say because we need to talk about what this film okay. Another troubled student at the high school who then takes his own life and the parents of the second teen find the letter. That evan hansen has written to himself. They believe their son wrote this last letter to evan hansen before he killed himself and then assume that evan hansen. This tea and with no friends actually had a beautiful friendship with their now deceased child and the main character. Evan hansen goes along with it. And it's like yeah. He was my friend and invents a whole story and friendship and ultimately like a philosophy on how to live and connect with other people that becomes like essentially a hit. Ted talk on the internet and then he become something of a mental health advocate but really just sort of friendship at a community of care for other people a wellness figurehead popular on the internet. And and then things sort of unravel but for the most part no one is held responsible for any of the choices made in in the in the musical and the movie and then people sing songs about discovering themselves and it ends. That is the one part. I want to underline you. You just described the bones of the story very accurately and it's a musical. This story is a musical and so of course. The character is break into song as the story unfolds. I thought this was very troubling movie. A movie that really did not work for a variety of reasons. I think neither you. Nor i saw the show on broadway and so we don't really have a relationship to the show. It was a big hit and of course it. Was tony winning. But it is. Unnerving film is unnerving in a in a variety of
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"evan hansen" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"But then we are slogging. Accounted it through half an hour of dialogue before we get to our next song that is too long and it just feels stretched out. I don't get to use the word lugubrious much in casual conversation. But i'm gonna bust it out here. I know linda. I have a question for you. Though you saw this on broadway. So the trappings of this story if you look at it from a distance are the stuff of farce right mistaken identity people leap to conclusions. They spiral out of control. So in those opening moments of the musical where people laughing at a moment like when the mother of connor hans evan. Back the deer. Evan hansen note that she thinks was a suicide note was actually not where people laughing now. And here's the thing. I have spent a lot of time. Kind of interrogating my reaction to this show. Because i was really very very moved. By when i saw it on broadway specifically i was very very moved by the ben platt performance but as i mentioned a lot of people are like utterly repulsed by this story for reasons that i understand. I think the lie that he's telling opens up questions of consent about the relationship with the sister. There are a bunch of things that are really deeply troubling about it. And exactly what you're saying is what i ultimately concluded is that there is something that is fatal to this story to me. The strongest part of it is enormously bleak and sad right. It is to me a very very sad story of a kid who has his pain is so big that he cannot see anything else And yet the plot is this kind of three's company farce comedy. You know like all the shakespeare stuff where people mistake one person for another person. It's this kind of silliness. And so there's no way to get your arms around the fact that the text of the show is saying he doesn't really do this on purpose initially but that could never happen. So you can't like analyze it like a real person. I like these guys on the way they write. Some people do some people. Don't the fact that. I really liked the songs and the fact that i was so struck by that performance caused me to i think. Forgive a lot of plot stuff. That perhaps i should not have but in a live theater that performance which is so twitchy and physical is different than it is on film. It's i think more effective when you're in the room with it than it is on film. I think that what the story lacks is the willingness to get at the root of the nastiness of the story. I definitely felt very moved by. Just the weight of evans pain. But i also felt like because it wants you to empathize with him because he is the protagonist. It refuses to kind of look at the other side of what's happening in the story. It refuses to acknowledge the pain that he's causing other people and i think that that's where it falls down because you're left with a sense of disbelief that you were supposed to feel badly for a person who's essentially taking advantage of grieving families pain. It is mitigated somewhat by his own issues with anxiety and depression. It does not actually excuse his behavior. I mean lots of people deal with anxiety and depression and most of them do not do this. Throw the idea that we should excuse the simply because he had to deal with his own. Mental health issues feels unfinished mostly because they simply choose not to address it. I think that's beautifully said. I think you can recognize both. This is to me a very powerful performance of a kid who is dealing with these severe issues and yet these kinds of issues do not actually create this kind of situation. I mean i think that i would have enjoyed this more. Not if it was played broader per se but played faster and sharper. More black comedy. More like heather's where the joke is how it's a vicious satire of what happens when kids die and everybody pretends that they were great people who've even if they weren't but i think the fuel mixture here is off its ballot after ballot after. Bow that release screws with a pacing. And i look. I admire the impulse here. Which is to say. let's take this farcical thing and really played out. See how it would what emotional ramifications it would actually have. That is an interesting thought experiment. It would be great theater workshop but as a piece of entertainment. It's so deliberately so plotting -ly now we can talk about performances. I love songs. That i thought were great but i just think this needed to move faster and either be lot later on its feet or to go for the jugular light and sharp as opposed to what we get here. Which i think is pretty heavy and dull. I know. Kate has some thoughts about changes between the show and the film songs that were taken out songs that were added. And i have those two. And i'll tell you the first thing that occurs to me. Is that one of the places where i felt that. Ballad bala ballad feeling. Is this big song. That they've added for alana. The amanda stemberg character which does not exist in the original show. What if everybody is. They have that secret side and to know there somehow not alone. That's all she is a much more unpleasant character in the show at lie saw it illinois was an interesting character for me because i wasn't sure whether or not that character was originally block or if they had simply rick koster for amount with stemberg. I really liked the new song that be created for her because to me. It felt very personal and recognizable. Is this idea that for black women on for black girls that there is this obligation to always have it together in the stress about in the weight of that and how difficult it is to always be together. I felt like that song and the reprise later in the film gave us a good insight into what the stakes were for her personally and emotionally. Yeah i agree with that. I think that's a very fair point. And as you can imagine if she's drawn a little more cynically as i said in the stage show than that thing that she does at. The end looks very different now. Kate talk to me about songs. One of the things that i found frustrating with the movies that i felt that it took out most if not all of the songs that kind of center the perspective of the parents the one in particular that bothered me was the exclusion of the song. Good for you. In a wedge. Heidi heavens mom as well as lana jared essentially reproach evan for the way that he is taking advantage of connors memory and i felt that without that. The movie doesn't give us enough of a reason to recognize why. Evan is so cruel to his mother. And secondly what exactly it is that he thinks he's rebelling against right. I think that without that element of resentment and sadness that is left over from this big family thing that has happened to the two of them he just becomes a winding teenager doing a terrible thing. Yeah and it's interesting because you talked glen when you talked about the big opening number waving through a window. The funny thing is that's not the opening number in the show. That's not the opening number. The show opens with a song. In which evans mother and connor's mother are both singing about how hard they are trying to fix their issues with their kids and how lost. They both feel the way in which i kind of saw this story when i saw the show was the only thing. That really is permanent in evans life. That can help. Him is to connect with his mother. All of the other stuff is lying. All of the other stuff is fake but he can connect with his mother and so there's a symmetry to the song at the beginning and a song that his mother sings late in the show and without that song at the beginning. It's exactly what cates talking about you. Don't get the sense of how hard is mother's trying so you don't get that underlying feeling of like if only he would go and talk to his mom. I also got gotta say rachel bay. John's won a tony award. Just like ben. Platt did for this show on broadway and i wish that they had let her be in this film because as much as i enjoy. Julianne moore rachel. Being jones is an angrier version. Evans mother Kate you also brought a clip of That's all that i'm talking about. The mother sings at.
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"evan hansen" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"Snap or take notes with the spn. Five g connection and availability may vary check with carrier this stage musical. Dear evan debuted on broadway. Five years ago it won six. Tony awards including one for its star ben platt. It's now a movie flat who's now twenty-seven is back to play evan. A deeply troubled high school student who tangles himself in ally. The cast also includes caitlyn. Deavere julianne moore any atoms and endless stemberg. They're still singing. There's still dancing and they're still a lot of questions to struggle with this story. I'm glen well. And i'm linda holmes and today we're talking about deer. Evan hansen on pop culture. Happy hour from npr. Here with me. And glenn is writer. Kate young welcome back kate. Hi thanks for having me back so excited. It's always delightful to have you. So as we mentioned this was originally a musical. That won a bunch of tony awards. The book is by stephen levinson who wrote the screenplay here and the songs are by bench pasok and justin paul who also wrote the songs in la la land. The movie is directed by stephen schabowski. Who wrote the novel and then wrote and directed the film adaptation of another story about teenagers. The perks of being a wallflower. Ben platt plays evan. He's a kid with some combination of severe social anxiety. Severe depression maybe some other issues as well. He feels hugely alone. Julianne moore places mom. Who's trying to help him and has no idea how through a complicated and it must be said highly unlikely set of misunderstandings. The family of a fellow student named conor who died by suicide comes to believe that evan was their son's best friend which he wasn't evan. Let's this drag on. And on which turns out horribly for everyone. Amy adams and danny pino play the parents and caitlyn deavere plays connor sisters. Zoe who happens to be evans longtime crush. There's a whole story about social media and the way grief is publicly processed. That's where you meet. Amanda steinberg's character alana. Who wants to create a memorial for connor. Even though she didn't know him kate. I'm going to go to you first What is your relationship with this show. So i actually have never seen the stage musical. I think i initially started listening to the original broadway cast recording. After seeing ben plot into politician i had known the song obviously from having seen him and pitch perfect and the politician makes quite a meal of finding reasons for him to say for sure. And so knowing that i was like well moving it to do. It's the beginning of the pandemic. So i spent maybe like a good two months just listening to it on repeat them fairly familiar with the condors of the songs but this is the first time that i have been able to see any kind of visual approximation of the story. How to go it happened. I think for me personally. I am less aggressively against the film than most critics seemed to be. If only because i am deeply sentimental person. And i'm very attached to the songs but i also think that the criticisms that i had heard about the show when it was still on broadway on much more parent seeing them Visually just because not having quite a strong of a grasp on the story considering the musical is not sung through having those missing pieces filled in for me really odds a little bit of an element of menace that. I think the show's creators. maybe weren't intending. Yeah i agree. And i think i i want to mention there has been quite a bit of good writing about this show about the immorality of the lie that evan is telling and a lot of people who feel really strongly about that have done that. If you read some of the reviews you'll certainly find that position well represented and i wanna give an airing to that. Even if you like me are not quite as horrified by assam. Glenn how horrified or you will in my experience of this. Musical is watching. Ben platt performing waving through window at the two thousand. Seventeen tony awards on youtube conservatively. I'd say fifty or sixty times. I've seen it by now. Because it's my husband's in my experience of a friday night for staying in fall on a youtube tony awards rabbit hole and we're staying at every friday and saturday nights now so that's kind of what we're doing. It's a great performance that and platt performances newsflash hot take. He's got pipes but that performance is great as it was didn't do what a tony performance is supposed to do which is to sell you on the musical to get you into the cast album. I never followed up on it. And i couldn't figure out why except perhaps i managed to glean through context cues that this was going to be one super hyper mega bummer of musical which yup turns out. This is so hyper emotional in a way. That's very big and very weighty. They kind of felt kind of lead in in a way that has to do with pacing. We get this barn burner of an opening number waving through a window. That i thought was really well staged here and really placed us inside this kid's head and filled me with all kinds of dread about high school that i've never gotten over.
The Nerd Soup Podcast
"evan hansen" Discussed on The Nerd Soup Podcast
"Need them to acknowledge that people are singing and dancing but there were scenes in this movie where crucial elements of the story would happen through song and then they would not let us know if the characters knew they were saying i. It's like the characters weren't aware that they were in a music. Yeah that's that's that's what. I'm going to start doing this randomly singing. I am super depressed miserable. Sometimes we'll be reactions. Reaction sites are going to be legendary. Wants this movie. Hits the general public because it looks like they're all they feel like it's an awkward situation because he is singing even though what he's singing about is just awkward. You know but they're giving him these looks like. Why are you randomly singing at the dinner table or in the hallways at school. That's what a musical is the best musicals find a way to integrate that seamlessly for this movie. A lot of the queues were so abrupt and so jarring times that have kept taking me out of it. At first i knew it was a musical but like the second song threw me off like. Oh yeah it's musical fuck. I already forgot about opening musical number. Yeah yeah the first number like okay. This is a musical terrible opening number. A lot of them are just characters walking around and the camera following them as they sing. That's my whole thing with musicals. If you're going to make a musical needs to be flamboyant in needs to be off the walls and this wasn't that i think it ordered on like suspension of disbelief or i feel like it has to be fully suspension. Like you know it's like you need to. You need that like yes. Prince has to go home. And you can't be half-and-half right. They were half assing. It had maybe but you the full as a full everything my life. That's good to know it's definitely a movie. I'm excited to see how people just people reacted as to just see the war of words a spoiler takes on just like tweets and stuff. A lot of people will end up enjoying it. I think it might be. I don't think we'll get the same awards. Love as green book. But i think it will be similar discourse where people are like. It's the green book of the prussian movies. Musicals the green book of depression musical Because that was a movie that i think on film twitter. Most people didn't like green book but there was there were vocal supporters of that movie. And i think you'll see that as well with deer. Evan hansen.
The Nerd Soup Podcast
"evan hansen" Discussed on The Nerd Soup Podcast
"Hello everybody welcome back to another episode of nerd soup. This is below. Oliver joined today by aaron. The nurse who monkey. We're coming live from toronto at twelve. Twenty twenty one Little weird recording set that we have here on opposite ends of the room. and we're hopefully. Hopefully it works. Doing some test runs and I think we got a good go and good far from me and you should be able to my business when we record. It makes it more personal that way intimate sexual almost this feels like unnatural. Like it should be done. you know. Podcast shouldn't be recorded this way. Sometimes you gotta bend the rules and who working. Well we got so and by the way before we start toronto. I love the city. it's clean. it's nice. There's so many different things to do. Everyone is just beautiful women which is a bunch of good looking people. Make me self conscious. The strut around all day but well. We should have realized that. Drake justin bieber ryan reynolds right. No pants them for. Politician is not an hot. Yeah he's politician. I'll give him that. But yeah just beautiful city and i wish we spend more time but we're here for business business which is also pleasure because we retreat a two three movies on day. One of tiff The first movie we saw was driving my car by hamaguchi. We also saw a deer. Evan hansen which was directed by stephen chomsky and petite man directed by the french director who most recently directed portrait of a lady on fire which many people considered a masterpiece. But i would say was a good day. One started the day with a three hour dramatic epic a heavy movie. Definitely a movie that was it took an emotional toll on me. I don't know about you coming out of it. I just wanted to marinate for the rest of the day. And then i realized l. man. I got two more movies to watch. Yeah was watching guaranteed hanson and thinking about this movie. The routier haven't hand trying to piece together. Some of the themes and pieces of dialogue jenner. Remember if you having sex with someone or anything about somebody else. That's what it felt like. We were calling out driving my cars name. Well actually deer. Evan hansen on the and you just want to get into general on the first one during my movie i festival other and it's at the top right now. I think it was the best movie of the day. And it's gonna be hard to beat for best film of the festival. It was just like you said a very deep layered so many layers to this movie where i'm still thinking about all different connections in the narrative structure and everything. I was so carefully crafted won best screenplay con so that makes sense and i mean three hours like it definitely. It definitely feel the times. But i think at certain moments are just do dialogue able to create such atmosphere intention or just intrigue that keeps you go on throughout the film and court religious about two people trying to or refusing the confront their past or move on and kind of how they deal with that or how they don't deal with that and i think you dive into a lot of a lot of things that can resume of a lot of people there.
Trailer Junkies Podcast
"evan hansen" Discussed on Trailer Junkies Podcast
"And you really got to enjoy time with the character right. And then by the end by the end when it was an ensemble endgame and all that endgame and even into spiderman. We just watched far from home. You know When those kind of movies is that when they were in london Yeah room. Is london and venice right right. But you know that. Has that troop of like the backstory for the second henchman. I mean like it had that great that great story line where every every scientists that was either pushed aside by the avengers or made fun of by the avengers had a story to tell that was then their origin story for becoming a bad guy. You know yeah so so. That was a great trip to play into because they basically did the building and they built up and they let it you know expand into this and then they then they narrowed it down and they kept the core of the of the heroes. Now we're gonna start wide and we're going to start with this and to me it. The it is a bit of a turnoff to say. Have all these characters in here. I don't know if you remember. But i the why the couple of times that i tried. To watch game of thrones the first two episodes. They are so many characters at you. I'm just like oh it's brutal. It's brutal saying i can't i i'm out. I can't even get into this. You know now this has angelina jolie so long. I'm going to give it longer than the time to try out. And it has kid. Harrington from game of thrones so you get your game of thrones a little taste here. Today ago. they kit harrington in another john. Samba cast silicon valley. going on. and oh yeah who. who's that. Who's that camilla johnny now. Is he in silicon valley. Yeah i guess he was. Yeah i don't. I don't think of him as silicon valley though for some reason. I don't know i i guess yeah i mean to me. He's more of a comedian. Then camille non johnny okay camille nanjiani but yes. We have some silicon valley in there. We have some game of thrones in there. We have mrs smith. Mrs smith we have. Yeah there's a lotta people. I think what's going to happen though. Is there's so many characters like you said. What is their six to eight thousand characters somewhere around that realm. Yeah there's not that many actors actresses in hollywood and pretty soon everybody's going to have played a marvel character. Which one are you or or or multiple marvel characters right right. I think and said that there's somebody in here that gets to play. Played one of the green people and now she's in here is another character but it happens it happens. I mean Captain roger What's his name sorry. Rogers was steve rogers. The human torch before he was that before he was a human torch. Yeah and the original..
Trailer Junkies Podcast
"evan hansen" Discussed on Trailer Junkies Podcast
"Your family tradition last day of school. Go for ice cream. Yeah exactly we go for ice cream. Is i like it so we piled into the car getting ready to go for ice cream but you know it's kind of it felt special. It felt like more than just for ice cream so we went to the grove. Like we used to go to the grove all the time like we go to the grove have a meal and have a nice lunch or something and and we got to do that again. You know with eating with the mass off eating outside but very cool we're all fully vaccinated so it felt it felt right. Felt okay to do so. Are the kids to or no arteries halfway there and braces waiting to turn twelve. So gotcha okay. And he's eleven eleven. he'll turn twelve next month july july. Okay so we did that today and we are just tooling around the grove like old times and it felt you know. Normally packed normal. Ish felt normal ish. You know people wearing masks. Some people not wearing masks you know and you just kind of just you just kind of say you know. Bryce is still very. He's very attuned to the mask. Wearing and bits tim and he's like he's like off. Maybe their accident. We're not gonna judge anymore. We're just going to let it go and we have our masks if we want. If we feel like wearing masks and we'll just do whatever we want to do for ourselves. So that was that was really fun and enjoyable exciting and and i had a bottle of rosa with lunch today and it was a warm day. Just warm enough to be like a couple of glasses of rosa with lunch and walking around the grove in the midday heat. Not really. it's not hot but you know it felt warm enough man. It was like fifty two and windy here. Man we were like. I'm out in the yard like freezing But i felt the sun and the sun was nice but it was..
Trailer Junkies Podcast
"evan hansen" Discussed on Trailer Junkies Podcast
"Is there like speakeasy that were members of and they have like their whatever member thing. And there's there's not a lot of members that you know are in this like the tier that we have. There's only like thirty of us or something. You got this during covid right this time. You are supporting them. And yeah so. What they wound up doing was Pre kovic even during covid. It was a free for all. Just come drink expensive beer and you know we were this tourist place in southern california right and they got tired of being overrun by people. So what they did was rather than having like a hundred people. Back there alienating regulars what they said was no more with anybody coming there just willy nilly so they essentially three tiers. They have the ambiguous tier which is what we have the alderman tier which is the second tier and then those are both paid and then the third tiers like if you're on our email list you could say a code word and that'll get you in but there's a five dollar cover charge okay and so there's people like in la and stuff that might come up for the weekend but because they're on the list they pay a cover charge they come in. It works for them because they're one time of year right and you know they don't need to spend money three hundred bucks a year like we do but we go way more often So anyway they had their member appreciation so it was. It was two free beers. Free food like burgers and chips and zone outs and like all this stuff. And they had like beer pairing with it. Yeah okay and then everybody who came brought a beer or bought one when they got there like we did and then it was just share. Everybody would share beers and they had like the. I don't know the six sound snifters that you would share with right. Maybe eight ounce snifters whatever it was but the thing with that was okay so the beers that they were giving you. You could have anything you wanted on the menu but they had actual like food pairings. And if you didn't like those choices you could get whatever you wanted so we just want with the food pairings and they paired them quite well. the beer was amazing as it always is there and the shared beer. You would bring your beer in and would just went into a cooler and let me just say that. There was a ton of beer to be shared. The party was from five to eight. Wow we left about twelve thirty. Am no way so there was so much beer to be had. And we're just drink it and all this stuff and people like as the knights going on. It's like you drink your beer. People were rinsing you know and then you put like from a to a stout wrens..
Trailer Junkies Podcast
"evan hansen" Discussed on Trailer Junkies Podcast
"The opening zombie stuff is is really really. Well done the credit that the opening credit sequence is incredibly long and credibly some of the most boring thoughts in the world but he weren't watching for the phones. You're watching it for the slow mo zombie action in the background of these thoughts. It's amazing and just this and this lounge act kind of liberace liberace impersonator and elvis impersonator and just like naked zombie. Showgirls topless zombie showgirls. In where.
Brian Mudd
Kennedy Center cancels all performances through April 2021, Washington DC
"Center has canceled the season through April. The curtain will not be going up any time soon. In Washington, the Performing Arts center announcing All scheduled performances through April. 2021 at the earliest are now canceled due to the cove. It 19 crisis. They've been close the public since a pandemic first started in March. And the decision now has prompted the cancelation of Broadway musicals like Hamilton, the band's visit, and Dear Evan Hansen, the center says that the loss of these big ticket it shows has cost them as much as $80 million in revenue.
Entrepreneur on FIRE
Will the Coronavirus Create a Data Breach in Your Company? with Jodi Daniels
"Jody. What's up to fire nation and Shears at the interesting about yourself that most people don't know well how lo I am so delighted to be here with everyone and thank you for listening. So for the what I don't know I'm going to be. It'll be fun. So here we go. Does anybody have a map anybody? Maybe happen to know how to do this? I don't know if you can tell this is me. Pretending to know so little singing from my favorite Broadway show. Dear Evan. Hansen. Racing Beijing I will tell you this two, thousand, five, hundred, eighty, four episodes in. You're the first person to sing on the show I am just to the moon jody. Two different. So there. Is. Oil Is Enviro. Nation when we're talking about will this corona virus creates a data breach in your company and we've brought Jordan on the Mike. We've talked a lot about in the introduction, what we will be sharing throughout this episode. Bless just diving. There's a lot to get to a lot of really important stuff for you nation. So please take some notes. Notes, what are some clues jody to identify what a phishing email is? Yeah. There's there's a couple and you know just to make sure everyone knows what fishing is fishing and there's all kinds of other fancy words. It's now come to text messaging. It's like visiting and swishing and I don't know put a bunch of letters together and make it s shing. What happens is I'm impersonating it looks like I'm a real email, but in actuality I'm not I'm kind of spoofing another fancy word somebody else and. In the last couple months, it's been up three, hundred, fifty percent. It's a tremendous problem in. It's one of the easiest for a bad actor, a threat actor to try and take advantage of. So one of the very easiest places is to look at the the sender. It might say a name that you're familiar with, but you can look at the actual you are l. of or the email address of the sender in. You can tell like, CDC, Dot Gov Dot Org. There's no dot org at the end of DOT GOV or if it came from Amazon prime, it's not gonNA. Come from Amazon prime at comcast dot net. So you look at that particular one, and if the emails a little sketchy, you're not sure a highly advise you use the reading pain in most email providers to be able to look for some of these clues, some of the other ones. Ones are poor spelling or grammar. Most emails don't just say, dear, customer, they're gonNA say on. Dear, jody, they're going to personalize it. If you got just dear customer, there's probably a phishing email again, the U. R. L. and you can also look in the footer because they might change the logo. They might change the address. It doesn't look like the standard footer that you're used to getting. There might be attachment if you get attachments or links on these things, do not doubt open the email don't click the attachment. Don't click the link. That's how they get all the malware onto your computer, and the other big clue is going to be if there's an urgent need or threat like must act now open right away, call us within an hour something like that. Most. Places that are going to need urgent information are not going to do that. They're going to call you. They're going to other methods or they're going to say log into your account and they wouldn't even provide the appropriate link. They would just say go directly to our website and go do it. So those are going to be some of the really common places to be able to identify a phishing
Steve Cochran
MGM Sets ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Movie with ‘Hamilton’ Director Thomas Kail
"We do have some movie news don't worry we do have some movie news that's coming out this week in this weekend rather and one has to do with Elton John's movie rocket man this is the movie that that came out last year but Elton John is holding a watch party online today on Amazon prime the movie is showing on Amazon prime but you can watch it with Elton John with the Q. and a after the fact the yeah as one of the home video picks this weekend I'll tell you about some of the other home video pics in a couple of minutes but the other I guess you might say fairly big movie news is that there's going to be a new fiddler on the roof movie it was last made in nineteen sixty four it's the classic Broadway musical maybe one of the most classic Broadway musicals of all time that's been made and remade and television specials but now it's going to be made with the director of Hamilton the original director of Hamilton from Broadway Thomas kail they are going to put this together collaborating with Lin Manuel Miranda and the man who wrote the musical dear Evan Hansen he's going to write the screenplay for it so it's going to be adapted I guess it's going to be updated a little bit you know maybe they'll be a song and it if I were a quarantine man that could be different take on the whole thing
AP 24 Hour News
Ben Platt named Hasty Pudding's 2020 Man of the Year
"Award winning actor and musician Ben Platt is being honored by Harvard university's famed hasty pudding theatricals that that's twenty twenty man of the year Platt who's twenty six is the youngest recipient of the fifty four year history of the award he's the putting coproducer Natalie needles as he was chosen because of the incredible impact he's had on Broadway and in Hollywood at such a young age but want to Tony in twenty seventeen for dear Evan Hansen and the cast recording to come the Grammy for best musical theater album as well the daytime Emmy for his performance on the today show it's also known for his role as Benji Applebaum in the films pitch perfect and pitch perfect two is currently filming the second season of the Netflix series the
WBZ Midday News
Ben Platt named Hasty Pudding's 2020 Man of the Year
"The ward winning actor and musician Ben Platt was honored by the hasty pudding theatricals says it's twenty twenty man of the year yesterday plateau of dear Evan Hansen and pitch perfect at twenty six years old is the youngest recipient in the fifty four year history of the award former winners of man of the year include Tom Hanks Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford Elizabeth banks is hasty pudding twenty twenty woman of the year and was honored last
Popcorn with Peter Travers
Jeff Daniels ('To Kill a Mockingbird') on playing Atticus Finch
"Hi, everybody. I'm Peter Travers. And this is popcorn where we tell you. What is popping in the culture? And my guest today. Jeff Daniels who has multiple wards and the way I looked at it, he's too modest to say he's just been nominated for Tony Ward as best actor for tequila Mockingbird on Broadway, which is totally deserved. I don't even have to blow smoke with you. You know, I actually loved this, you know. Well, it's very nice. I think too. So are you just completely in Newark to all this now? It's you have your Emmys. You've been nominated for Tony before for God of carnage. Does it? What impact does getting nominated for an award have, you know, it's, it's? It is an honor to be nominated because I've been there when I wasn't and, and this was a big season for drama big season for drama Broadway, there, a lot of them and, you know, Mockingbird didn't get in as best new play did that make you stomp around for a couple of minutes when they will stop arounds big phrase. But, but it it goes to whatever the reasons are it goes to show that it's not automatic. You can't just go on, then I'll get nominated, and it's still you wake up in the morning. Bill ness. You wanna be invited to the big party, you know, and, and it is an honor to be there. And I, I noticed that when I was nominated for God carnage. I was probably the first big award. I'd ever been Emmys came later and all that. But I was in that room in Radio City Music hall, and I looked around at all the great work. That was all in one place. And these are just the people were nominated. There's other work that didn't get in that was, and you just feel I'm just glad to get it took it to the party. You really now anything after that, you know, would be great, but it really is to get in. Take something to well, and there's something about the Broadway the theater community, and I'm speaking to you as theater guy. Because back in Michigan. You have your own gross theater. You know this is something that matters to you. And you have even before we start talking about to kill a Mockingbird. You've signed on for one year doing this show. Nobody does anymore all stars. Don't know. Working after's, who need the job or in Evan Hansen, their second year and all of that. So it is, you know, it used to be what was done. Jason Robards Brian Dennehy comes to mind. Fonda Henry Fonda did mister Roberts for over a year looked at up league Cobb death of a salesman. Pretty sure over a year those guys were good. But that was kind of expected, you know that's what you did. And you and it's a big long commitment, but it's not that long when it's Atticus Finch, it's not that long when it's to kill a Mockingbird is not that long when you see what this play, and this production does to an audience night after night after night after night to get to be Atticus Finch, on Broadway six months, wouldn't have been enough so was happy to sign for your, and I'm interested to see what happens to the performance. Over the course of your I'm six months in now, and it's changed. It's deepened and it's gotten smarter and more, it's just gotten better. And so I'm interested to see where it is at the end when that happens when you have a director whose, they always use the phrase in the theater, okay after rehearsal. We've now frozen this show. This is now the way we do it, but can any actors really do that, because you are discovering something he's actor you can do it. You call it the mule on the trail performance going down the Grand Canyon. The mule didn't even have to look, you know, the meal just goes down. And then I do it this way. And then I get to here, and I do it that way. And you think about where you're going to eat throughout the whole show. I've seen that. I have ten that's the trap, you can get into that. You can literally your mind, just floats away and your thing and you go and stay here. Stay here stay here because, you know it so Bart. Shared the director Mockingbird. Basically, he's saying this is going to move around. I expect you to move it around expect you to explore a little bit here and there. You gotta you gotta have enough sense of story and experience to know when you're, I think Ellen all called stuffing the dog when you're just suddenly we've added four minutes to the show and it's probably you. You got it. You gotta is what you're doing. Is this thing you found in month two? And does it lead to something else? And now as a better place or do we need to go back here to where you gotta kinda gotta stay in the lane. But you get to move around and Bart has given us permission to do that. But I think this cast is really don't agree job of serving story. So they're in while it moves and changes a little bit. It always seems to be pointed in the direction of serving story, not some individual. Whereas my light kind of thing, not in this cast, but what I noticed when I was at this show was that there are people that I had seen at the theater before because of this property because of what Harper Lee wrote, there are suddenly because we read it in school, you know, but it wasn't work and there's just something about it. And watching, what Aaron Sorkin has done to take what Harper Lee did. And to update it without updating it. But just. Making something that's going on in this play speak to us. Now you had a lot of controversy with that in the beginning. You know there were people doing you can't around with the, the state, who was there say is the lawyer for the estate one person had some issues with an early draft. I think he ended up with twenty two drafts. By the end of it. So pretty good chance some of that stuff would have gone away anyway. But, but in whatever it, we got it settled and the risks for us. I thought once the lawsuit went went away was three adults playing the kids. Are we going to get away with that? Are we going to overcome Gregory Peck? And the last third third act of this thing, basically. Deviates is this is a play based on the book. And now we're gonna put out of his through something that the move in either the movie nor the book put him through in by putting him through that, that I think, is where Aaron was able to relate it to today. Is there goodness in people that we can rely on will the better angel in all of us? Rise to the top in twenty nineteen that isn't necessarily true. And I think you're on was forcing Atticus to face that, that sometimes you can't just wait for them to do the right thing. No, there's not much and Atticus does some things in this play that aren't very Gregory Peck. Yeah, there's flaws in him. But it makes it just so more mature engaging because I'm seeing somebody with human flaws doing this. Yeah. And, and to be more than fair to pack who only won an Oscar for it was a different time, early sixties. And it was from the point of view of a young scout nine years old. Whatever she is in the book looking up her great father. So he really kind of stayed up on a pedestal throughout the book and pretty much for the movie and we weren't we were a small town. Lawyer gets paid in vegetables and trying to raise two kids and he handles land dispute service agreements for closures inning. And right will, and then the judge comes over to his house in his life changes. That's how we approached it. But do you feel competitive in any of these awards with other actors that are nominated in your category? In other words, you and Bryan Cranston. Now just cold staring. Each other because everybody was nominated wants to win. Everybody wants to make the speed. Everybody wants to take on that toll because it's called it anyone who's ever stepped on stage. Once that it's there's, it's so special it, it's I've never been nominated for an Oscar, but I started in the feeder, high school and community college, and my purples theater companies twenty years old and off Broadway. And coming back to Broadway. Keep returning to it. And now forty two years later, you get to Atticus Finch you get to do the role of a lifetime on Broadway in the theater, that's a lot to be proud of. So this sit there with, with Brian and Patty and, and all the other guys. Adam driver all them. Yeah. The kid Jeremy pope. But you know, it's a great group and you're part of a lot of great work that competitive thing, nobody scores the most points. These things we're doing five different things really, really well, go back to the day that you decided you were going to be Atticus Finch on Broadway. Was there any terror about that ultimate decision that had nothing to do with you committing for year because it's one of the great roles it's a great character? And despite the fact that we see flaws in him, there's virtue in him to me, as watching actors all my life and reviewing them the hardest thing to plays virtue. There's, you know how do you play good and make good interesting? And you get and maybe Atika struggle to remain. Good to remain take the high road and there's a bit of a struggle. This is a helps that yeah, but that's his aim because while he sitting on that porch this world in the south in nineteen thirty four in Alabama KKK's there. He's not initially he's kind of letting it happen. He's not going. He's not out there trying to change it. He's not carrying plan. No, he's I thought that was really interesting. Certainly where he starts. He knows that if he takes this case to defend Tom Robinson. And he sits in front of a jury of white Christian farmers men. He knows what he's going, this is no longer just executing will or foreclose and, and he's avoided that just raised his kids. I'm just raising my kids without a wife. I'm raising my kids, and he knows that will change thing unpleasant, things will be sent to us, and it's going to go beyond that you're gonna have the KKK come up and visit you on your porch and go, what are you doing? And I did a lot of research to kind of understand that kind of just keep your head down and don't get involved and stay out of trouble as family and just raise your kids and don't get involved. There was a lynching last Tuesday night, we missed you there. We got another one Friday, common and Atticus has to either say, no, I'm not or tied up that evening. Bob can't make. And there's a lot of there are a lot of people, especially in today's America that are don't wanna look go wanna see don't want to. I. I don't wanna know about Russia. I don't wanna know any, we'll do errands kind of speak into that, that American that decent honest, hardworking American lose just doing this, and it's not enough to just look the other way not now wasn't for Atticus and it isn't for us. Now there's denial and there's a combination and enabling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why I think people sit there watching this like this, you know, this is somehow speaking to us right now involve you gonna get. Yeah. Yeah. What was what was your first encounter with this story? Did you read the book? I did you the first encounter really was? I probably had seen the movie as a kid. I don't remember we didn't read the book, we read, Lord of the flies and farewell to arms, which wasn't on the public school curriculum where I was at Aaron said, do you wanna play? Atticus finch. And I didn't blink. Absolutely. I think partly because the last five years ten years now. I've been taking chances are been. Challenging myself doing things that I wouldn't that other people think I can do, but I don't know how to do. So say yes.