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Okay, this is Episode 407,
"Something Stupid".
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Alison Tatlock wrote this one,
Deborah Chow directed it,
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and I'm Peter Gould,
the co-creator and executive producer.
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Hi, it's Bob Odenkirk.
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Melissa Bernstein, producer.
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And Alison Tatlock, writer.
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So, who had the brilliant idea
to do this split screen?
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'Cause I... when I read it in the script,
I was like...
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"This is so genius.
Someone must've thought of it."
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- It's just...
- I blame Peter.
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Has anyone ever thought of this
before in the history of film?
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A split screen that sometimes becomes one
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and really juxtaposes life like this?
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- It's really brilliant.
- Wow.
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Peter, this is your notion?
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Look, I...
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It's... The writers' room
is a wonderful place,
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and what goes on there, who knows?
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It was somebody's idea,
and I think it was all together.
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Writing, you know...
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That was Steve Sawhill, our lead man,
just saying, on the left side.
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It's an interesting thing
because Deborah, of course,
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really masterminded this.
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Deborah... But it's also...
it was written, like you said, Bob,
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it's written in the script,
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and most of these images
are at least written in the script
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but, of course, the execution, you know,
that's another thing altogether.
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The scariest thing for me,
trying to articulate it,
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were the moments when we crossed the line.
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- Right.
- So, the moment that's coming up,
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we'll see in a minute,
with the wine bottle, for instance.
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I remember standing up in the room
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and almost acting it out and trying to...
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here we go... trying to act out
the fact that there was a line,
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that my hand was going to cross the line,
that the bottle was going to cross...
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So, I was you, Bob,
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and then trying to articulate that
so that it was clear...
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- To who? The director?
- to everybody else.
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To the director
and to all of our entire amazing crew...
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- Mm-hmm.
- and the camera folks especially.
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Yeah, I...
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As soon as I read it, I was like,
"Yes, of course, that's genius."
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Like, you know, I feel like it's so easy
and fundamental to understand that.
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That's why it's like,
"Didn't someone do this once?"
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- I mean, no one ever thought of this?
- They must have.
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It's brilliant. It's brilliant.
It's a brilliant way to pass time,
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to show these people drifting apart
but also still staying together.
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I was impressed, Bob,
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by how many times you guys
had to brush your teeth.
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I have to say,
I actually was a little worried about
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the gums of the actors,
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just having to brush teeth
over and over and over again.
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- We had a medic on set.
- Okay, good.
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Just... At the ready for bloody gums.
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- Fake brushing my teeth.
- Okay.
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It's Deborah...
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We have to give all kudos to Deborah,
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who, unfortunately,
wanted to be here and couldn't be,
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because this was
her first episode for us and...
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she said something very interesting
that I heard.
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She said she basically tackled this
as if it was two episodes.
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This teaser
was a whole episode's worth of prep
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and then there was
the rest of the episode.
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And... really...
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She really did a wonderful job.
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There were people who I respect
who read this
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and said, "This could be our Waterloo."
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I really had a... I had a second thought
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because it's... it's so many pieces
on a... on a television schedule.
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But it's just beautifully pulled off.
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Vince himself read it and was like,
"Thank God I'm not directing that."
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That's right.
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And it's so sad at the end.
People are very moved by that last moment.
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There's that little machine
that you put your legs in
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and it's supposed to readjust your back.
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Yeah, we'll have to find out
when he gets that thing.
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I wanna try that.
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There's a whole episode on that, right?
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- That's right. That's how we roll.
- Yeah.
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- Siopy. Trina.
- Siopy.
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Trina is the name
of the real estate company,
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is named after our prop...
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Genius woman who's been with us
since Breaking Bad.
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- So true. She is.
- And just the greatest.
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And she's also a stunt woman too.
She's done stunts for us as well.
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Yeah. Yeah, she's an actress.
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Because this was shot as a oner,
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Bob had to do the whole thing
over and over and over.
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- Well, this was very challenging.
- Quite a feat.
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- This was very challenging.
- Why?
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On top of...
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Well, on top of that montage
that you just saw, then you got this.
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I mean, this is brutal.
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Because timing it out is so hard,
and the camera didn't fit through the...
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This little cutaway was not part of it.
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But they had to put a cutaway in
because it was...
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Getting the camera through these doorways,
this is just a regular place,
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there's nothing special about it,
and you got a camera and rig around it,
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and moving around was just too hard.
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It always became herky-jerky
and very hard to handle.
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So, that cutaway saved us.
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And how about... You were doing
this direct-to-camera thing, right?
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Which is not part of our style
on the show.
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Yes.
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Well, this is tricky stuff.
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Risky, but hopefully,
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people find it engaging
and, what... and the story is told.
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get one of those snazzy Keurigs,
put that in there.
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Stick a few potted plants around
and make the place nice.
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What do you think?
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It was an interesting scene to cut
because there were so many great takes.
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- Oh, good.
- And because we had to use...
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You know, we had to use
those two big chunks.
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It was like, "Ah, which one,
which one is the one?"
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And so, we had to experiment quite a bit.
I'm real happy with the way it came out.
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Of course, you two guys have chemistry.
You and Lavell have great chemistry.
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I love him. He's so funny.
He's just great. He's a great actor.
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- He is.
- He did his great scene,
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- I think it's in this episode.
- It is.
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- Yeah.
- Oh, my God.
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I mean, he's a stand-up,
and if you never watched him do stand-up,
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go on YouTube
and watch some Lavell Crawford.
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And... he does a great job acting.
Look here, here we've got him.
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Here's the man from Breaking Bad now.
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Really shut down, tapping, tapping away.
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He's so rageful. This... This...
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The way Mark plays this guy.
He's... He's so angry. He's just...
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It's like, it looks like he could
light a fire with his eyes.
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Yeah.
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And Poorna came in, who plays the doctor,
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speaking fluently
in both English and Spanish,
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which I was very impressed by.
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She is terrific. She has...
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She just has... You just respect her.
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You just look at her and you respect her,
she has just a lot of... gravitas.
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I really believe her as a... as a doctor.
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And LeighAnn Gould was a good sport here
who's playing the nurse.
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Not putting, uh...
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Just... Just being what she is.
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Yeah.
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And Poorna's character is unknowingly
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in between these underworld forces,
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who are at odds in such an intense way.
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That's true.
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It's interesting how much is going on
with Mark Margolis when he's not...
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- He doesn't speak.
- No.
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He's done speaking on this show
and yet, behind the eyes,
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there's so much story being told here.
You know?
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It's a tour de force.
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And we get the backstory
on his communication tool with his finger.
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Oh, yeah, I love that so much.
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These are my favourite scenes
in this whole season, Peter. You know...
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- Really?
- Oh, yeah.
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The scenes where Jimmy and Kim are...
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just hanging out
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and, like, in between stuff
and, like, trying to...
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I don't know, just trying to... you just...
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It's kind of like they're not scenes
that move the plot forward,
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although everything moves the plot forward
a little bit, really.
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But they're just like
a couple hanging out.
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I fucking love it.
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And I think that it's one of the things
that you can get
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when the actors genuinely like each other
and know each other.
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Like, it's easy to get an argument
or even a love scene
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out of two actors
who have no relationship,
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because there's such strong emotions
carrying you through.
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But that... that casual stuff
that has a little, you know,
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affection running through it,
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which I think we have a number of scenes
in this season like that,
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I think you can only really show
that quality if you have,
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you know, a genuine relationship,
which we do.
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I love it too,
and in the original break of this episode
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when we were working on the story,
we only had the one scene in the car.
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And then later we added the bookend
of the other scene
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as you guys leave the party,
and it was kind of the perfect solution.
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Oh, good.
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And now he's measuring as though
there's any way that shitty office...
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If it was only two steps shorter,
he could sell her on that shithole.
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You know?
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It's not that much bigger, actually.
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I love that can-do spirit, though.
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But it's just a joke to think
that he could compete with this.
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He can't compete with this world.
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- Yeah.
- And, you know...
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But there you see
that Kim's more motivated by people
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than by the fact
that she's got that framed.
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And a carefully selected typo.
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- Mm-hmm.
- That's right. That's right.
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I love what you say about Jimmy and Kim,
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'cause there's a real relationship
between these two and they are...
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Even if there's not
a life-and-death moment going on,
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they're fascinating to watch.
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And that's one of the things
I'm proudest of
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is that we have a show where there's,
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you know, there's all kinds of mayhem
going on.
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But in some ways,
the thing that you feel the most
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is what's going on between these two
and kind of rooting for them,
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but also,
I'm a little bit worried for them too.
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Of course, you should be.
It's not going to work out.
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Look at Dennis Boutsikaris
fucking kicking ass.
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Oh, yeah.
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Getting pushed around by this guy here
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in front of his employees,
his high-end employees.
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And Esodie Geiger
and Suzanne Savoy are back.
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We had them in Kim's initial interview
at Schweikart and Cokely.
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How do you guys keep
these people together? How do you keep...
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I mean, Dennis lives in New York
and he shoots another show in Vancouver
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and just, you know,
getting these actors out
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to be a part of the show is so wonderful,
to keep this world alive.
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Bialy Thomas and Kiira Arai
do such a great job
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- of keeping those relationships alive...
- Uh-huh.
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and hopefully, we make it a place
people want to come back to.
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And that's to you, Bob, and Rhea,
and, you know, the actors,
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that you guys on your off days
are having these rehearsals
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with the people
who are just coming on for the day.
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- Right.
- And I think the actors find this to be
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a really, you know,
unique experience because of that.
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Well, it's a great group
of amazing people who come in,
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very oftentimes,
for one day from a long way away.
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But we do try to make it a fun experience.
We know our way around Albuquerque now.
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Take everybody up to Tent Rocks.
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If you're going into Albuquerque,
Santa Fe area, you got to hike Tent Rocks.
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Please bring water.
Please bring water and maybe a PowerBar,
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'cause it's actually harder than it looks,
but it's not that hard.
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But it's harder than it looks.
And it's just really cool.
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We do all kinds of stuff together.
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Go out to eat and hang out together
and rehearse, as you say, which we do.
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I've had a couple of actors tell me
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that they feel more welcomed
on this show than any other.
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I don't understand sets
where they don't do that.
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But I've been on them.
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Sets where you show up
and no one even says hi to you.
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It's like, "What?"
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There's a new face there. Just say hi.
It costs you nothing.
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Hey, um...
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Uh, how...
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Did you shorten this, you guys,
in editing?
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- We did. We did. This...
- Yeah.
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You know, it's interesting,
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there was a little bit more
at the end especially.
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- But Dennis' face...
- Yeah.
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- I think you did a great job. Yeah.
- What you and Dennis did
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- kind of told the whole story...
- Yeah.
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and so, we ended up omitting
a bunch of dialogue at the end, actually.
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- Yeah.
- And this tells the rest of it.
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And Rhea too. Rhea's expression
through that entire sequence
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that we were just watching,
I... I'm so impressed by.
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Just the nuance of everything passing
over her face as the thing escalates.
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Yeah, we have the advantage
of having watched these scenes,
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- some of them dozens and dozens of times.
- Yes.
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And so, you get to look and there's...
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Everybody is there
and everybody's feeling it
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and it's... it's really nice.
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I love that you shortened that.
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This is incredible.
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This is incredible,
this set-up, this scenario.
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The challenge here
was convincing Peter's daughter
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that this was the right song.
She was in post for a little while.
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She came in and she's like...
She looked confused.
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But to me,
there was just a rightness to it.
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And this was another one
that was shortened.
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There was some dialogue here
between Mike and Werner,
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where Mike actually gave him those...
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- The marzipan.
- those treats, the marzipan.
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And which is actually
a deleted scene available to you,
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the purchaser of this digital...
this digital set.
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Do you know how much marzipan
I ate because of that?
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- Really?
- Lucky.
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So much.
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Is it good? What is it?
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I mean, it's pure sugar.
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- It's almond paste.
- It's almond paste, yeah.
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Mmm.
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It is a German delicacy.
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You know, I think...
I think guys would go crazy...
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doing this job
as you show them going crazy.
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They do... They would not survive it
without a problem.
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You know, as this season shows they do.
But anyway...
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Deborah was so excited
to be in the laundry
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because, of course,
she was a huge Breaking Bad fan,
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and she pulled me aside at one point
and was like,
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"Oh, my God, can you believe this?
We're here."
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Yeah, it's amazing, right?
This... This world.
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It's pretty cool to see how that world,
that thing got built.
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And it would be a brutal job, right?
Just...
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Absolutely.
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- So hard.
- I love this.
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Judy Rhee.
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Judy Rhee, our production designer,
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and the whole construction team,
everybody did just...
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Because this is actually...
now we're on stage for this shot.
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We built
this little transitional piece here,
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which is... which is on stage.
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So, when you go through the curtains...
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we're using that as a transition
and it works really nicely.
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And this scene, actually,
we did something else.
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We shot this scene
with anamorphic lenses...
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just because we kept on talking about
2001: A Space Odyssey,
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and Marshall said,
"What does that mean to you?"
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And we sort of broke it down
and thought maybe it's the flares.
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And so, just this... this one entrance
scene we shot using anamorphic lenses
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which yield
those really interesting flares.
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It is like an otherworldly feeling,
which seems right.
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Oh.
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What is this scene? I can't remember.
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This is Gus making the paila marina
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which he makes in Breaking Bad
for Jesse and for Walt. Yeah.
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This is also the same location
we had for Gus's house...
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And who's this... The doctor, yeah.
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on Breaking Bad.
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And Paula Dal Santo,
who's our art director,
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told me she used to babysit in this house.
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Yeah, she was having
an out-of-body experience a little bit.
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I love it.
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How great is this guy, Giancarlo?
And for people who don't know, he had a...
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he had a skiing accident during our season
and I won't go into detail, but he...
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He really shattered his foot,
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and made it hard to finish the season
and made it very hard for him.
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His life got really hard. But he did it.
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This was, I think, among the last scenes
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- that he shot before the accident.
- Before the accident.
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Okay, and it laid him up
for a couple of weeks.
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- For eight, nine and ten.
- But as you'll see, he got back
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and finished with some assistance,
various kinds of assistance.
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There's a lot of creativity.
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A lot of creativity went into finishing...
327
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- That's true.
- the character of Gus in this season,
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because Giancarlo
was dealing with a lot of pain.
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So, we talked a lot here about
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what needed to be seen
on the screen that they're watching
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in order to convey enough information
that Gus, who's brilliant,
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would be able to perceive
what was going on.
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A simple little thing...
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- but he knows this guy pretty well.
- Yep. Exactly.
335
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And I agree with Gus on this, by the way.
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I feel like the intention is clear.
I mean...
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It's so twisted, though, that...
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Well, it's...
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that Gus is... He can see
that he's just aware enough
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that he's going to bring paralysis
to his forward momentum
341
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and his healing,
and keep him in this prison.
342
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- Yeah.
- I mean, it's horrible.
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Horrifying.
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Gus is the worst guy ever.
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- So really... Yeah.
- He wants to torture this old man.
346
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This is evil.
347
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On the other hand,
the old man is the worst guy ever.
348
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- Yeah, there you go.
- So, two worst...
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They're in competition.
350
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Jack Handey wrote a funny sketch at SNL.
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I think it was called
"Zombies Versus the Bees."
352
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And it was like killer bees
and zombies in a small town
353
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and the police are like,
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"Let them fight each other.
Just leave them alone."
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I think that's the next AMC show.
356
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And that's what we got here.
These two guys are like,
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"All right, I don't know.
I'm not on either side.
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Let them tear each other apart."
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Although I guess...
I guess Salamanca's not coming after Gus,
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not yet.
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- But he'll get him in the end.
- He'll get him in the end.
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- Giancarlo just holds the screen.
- He does.
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Everything he does is so precise.
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It's really...
it's just beautiful to watch.
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Ah! That's great. He's so good.
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Giancarlo Esposito is so good.
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This was the last scene
that we shot in this episode.
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It was late at night.
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Building this set was astounding.
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This is a set.
It's not a hole in the ground.
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This is a fake hole in the ground
with super high walls that look like dirt
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and a fake ceiling that looks like
poured concrete from underneath.
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I mean, it's insane, the amount of effort
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and how well done it is
and how long it took.
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It took a long time.
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But, um, I love...
I've got to say, I love that...
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the show, you know,
a show like Breaking Bad,
378
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which has the... has the superlab in it
and you go like,
379
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"Wait a second, wait a second.
How did you fucking build that? Come on."
380
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- It's kind of cool.
- And you're saying,
381
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"It was really hard. It was really hard.
It cost a lot of money.
382
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And then shit went wrong."
383
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Yeah, and with Gus,
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you don't know how many bodies
are buried in the cement.
385
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It's... laid in there.
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And these guys have had enough
of even doing this job.
387
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It occurs to me watching this now
that in this episode,
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we have these two parallel
male friendships, like,
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unlikely male friendships
that have evolved.
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We have Jimmy and Huell
and then we also have Mike and Werner.
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The sort of camaraderie.
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I'm so glad Jimmy and Huell
turn out better than Mike and Werner.
393
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So, Alison,
did you have to write this in German?
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I did. Well, I wrote it in English
395
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and luckily, for me,
someone translated it in German.
396
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But yes, we wrote
all of the additional dialog
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and then it was translated
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and then some of our guys
were more fluent in German
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than others of our guys,
400
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so there was some on-set coaching
and everybody did a great job.
401
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I wrote a comedy sketch in fake German...
402
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- Nice.
- on SNL.
403
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It's called Die Squaren Öst Berliner.
404
00:23:12,476 --> 00:23:13,852
We should watch that in the room.
405
00:23:13,935 --> 00:23:18,023
Billy Joel is the musical guest
or the host on SNL.
406
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And it really played great.
407
00:23:19,649 --> 00:23:23,111
It was
the East Berlin Hollywood Squares...
408
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- That's...
- and we were vacating...
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People are running across the...
410
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You know, like the Wall had just come down
that week or two weeks before.
411
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- That's awesome.
- Anyway, go look it up on YouTube.
412
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- It's funny.
- We will.
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And it's all pidgin German that we wrote
414
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without anyone helping us
or making it okay.
415
00:23:44,549 --> 00:23:46,760
And we just see Jimmy
pulling a few hairs from his head.
416
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- Yeah.
- I think you did a good job here
417
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with this little mistake that happens...
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with this cop, you know.
419
00:23:59,940 --> 00:24:02,901
- In what... In what sense?
- Well, just everything about it.
420
00:24:02,984 --> 00:24:07,030
Like, look, you hit a guy with sandwiches,
just, like, the fact that...
421
00:24:10,158 --> 00:24:15,163
Just the way in which Huell comes on him
and it does look like they're arguing
422
00:24:15,247 --> 00:24:18,542
and hitting a guy with sandwiches
isn't the worst thing in the world,
423
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but it'll get his attention,
you know what I mean?
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Which is kind of a good thing to do
if people are just tussling
425
00:24:23,964 --> 00:24:26,550
and, like, going,
"Wake up, stop. What are you doing?"
426
00:24:26,633 --> 00:24:29,386
And then this cop
is really vindictive, right? I mean...
427
00:24:30,262 --> 00:24:32,472
I got to say, Jimmy's got a point.
428
00:24:32,556 --> 00:24:34,808
I... I wish I could go back
429
00:24:35,475 --> 00:24:38,395
and make a longer argument
to Kim later in this thing.
430
00:24:39,521 --> 00:24:42,107
'Cause she's like, "You're
going to ruin this policeman's life."
431
00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:44,609
He's ruining Huell's life.
432
00:24:44,693 --> 00:24:46,820
- That's true.
- This guy's a fucking asshole.
433
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He's not a cop who's doing a decent job.
434
00:24:49,739 --> 00:24:52,117
He's a dick, and he's a cop,
435
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:57,330
and he's causing more trouble
than is remotely necessary.
436
00:24:57,414 --> 00:24:59,624
And you don't think
Jimmy's kind of amping things up
437
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on his own a little bit here?
438
00:25:03,420 --> 00:25:06,214
Oh... He's hot. The heat's getting to him.
439
00:25:06,631 --> 00:25:08,133
And it was literally so hot this day.
440
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You sit in a van all day.
441
00:25:09,593 --> 00:25:10,677
- Yeah.
- Oh, by the way,
442
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this is the day where people
crawled out of the sewer behind us.
443
00:25:13,471 --> 00:25:14,639
- Yes.
- That is correct.
444
00:25:15,265 --> 00:25:17,309
- Wait, what?
- Yes. Behind...
445
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- People were...
- This is really well-played, you guys.
446
00:25:21,021 --> 00:25:24,399
So, all he sees is an argument
and he sees some physicalisation,
447
00:25:24,482 --> 00:25:26,693
and he whacks him with sandwiches,
which isn't going to get you...
448
00:25:27,319 --> 00:25:28,570
"Uh-oh, he's a cop."
449
00:25:29,029 --> 00:25:30,113
And then this.
450
00:25:30,197 --> 00:25:31,615
Colby French was so good.
451
00:25:33,825 --> 00:25:34,701
I like that you...
452
00:25:35,493 --> 00:25:39,164
In this, you offer this moment up
right here, which is...
453
00:25:39,956 --> 00:25:41,833
So, he's in the car. He probably should...
454
00:25:41,917 --> 00:25:44,044
He thinks he's going to be arrested now.
455
00:25:44,127 --> 00:25:46,338
And then these two guys
finish their argument.
456
00:25:48,882 --> 00:25:52,552
Jimmy makes some good arguments.
He's not in pain. He's fine.
457
00:25:53,386 --> 00:25:54,888
Look, Colby looks a little sunburned.
458
00:25:56,181 --> 00:25:57,390
It was so hot.
459
00:25:58,308 --> 00:25:59,809
It's an unfortunate turn of events
460
00:25:59,893 --> 00:26:02,979
that he had picked him up
for the pickpocketing before.
461
00:26:03,063 --> 00:26:04,356
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
462
00:26:04,439 --> 00:26:05,440
Priors.
463
00:26:06,191 --> 00:26:07,150
- It's...
- It is a prior.
464
00:26:07,817 --> 00:26:10,153
It's an interesting thing
about the way we shot this season
465
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was we started...
466
00:26:11,488 --> 00:26:14,532
It was, like, in January
and it was freezing cold.
467
00:26:14,616 --> 00:26:17,786
And by the time we got to this episode,
it was pretty damn hot.
468
00:26:17,869 --> 00:26:19,454
It was like a desert sandstorm for me.
469
00:26:19,537 --> 00:26:20,455
Yeah. Yeah.
470
00:26:20,538 --> 00:26:22,165
I'd never been to Albuquerque before.
471
00:26:22,249 --> 00:26:25,377
I was like, "Is this what
a desert sandstorm is like?"
472
00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:27,796
And wasn't Peter Diseth
in that building back there?
473
00:26:27,879 --> 00:26:32,008
Yes, that's what we've heard,
that Peter Diseth, who plays ADA Oakley,
474
00:26:32,092 --> 00:26:34,719
was helping a friend move
from that building
475
00:26:34,803 --> 00:26:36,304
while you were shooting this scene.
476
00:26:36,388 --> 00:26:37,430
- Yeah.
- So, there you go.
477
00:26:37,514 --> 00:26:38,473
- Really?
- Yeah.
478
00:26:41,434 --> 00:26:43,979
Yeah, more Peter Diseth too.
479
00:26:44,062 --> 00:26:46,648
Yeah, that guy is great. Really great.
480
00:26:46,731 --> 00:26:47,774
- Aww.
- Mmm.
481
00:26:47,857 --> 00:26:50,485
He's in a lot of trouble.
He knows he's in a lot of trouble.
482
00:26:50,568 --> 00:26:51,444
He is.
483
00:26:52,112 --> 00:26:53,488
And this would just be hell.
484
00:26:53,571 --> 00:26:55,740
Can you imagine all these guys
in one place like that
485
00:26:55,824 --> 00:26:56,950
with the fucking lights,
486
00:26:57,033 --> 00:26:59,494
- those bright white lights?
- Yeah. No sunlight.
487
00:26:59,577 --> 00:27:00,537
Oh, you just...
488
00:27:01,162 --> 00:27:03,373
You... It would be horrible.
489
00:27:03,456 --> 00:27:05,458
It would be fine for a few months.
490
00:27:05,542 --> 00:27:07,127
- But this went way over.
- Oh, Peter, months?
491
00:27:07,210 --> 00:27:08,336
Peter, no window.
492
00:27:08,420 --> 00:27:09,587
I think seven days...
493
00:27:09,671 --> 00:27:11,548
- Think of us in the writers' room.
- Seven days.
494
00:27:11,631 --> 00:27:12,882
No windows.
495
00:27:14,551 --> 00:27:15,927
We can only go out at night.
496
00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:18,513
It's like we're being in a...
497
00:27:18,596 --> 00:27:20,015
It was like Vince in Breaking Bad.
498
00:27:20,098 --> 00:27:21,683
Remember, his office had no windows?
499
00:27:21,766 --> 00:27:23,268
- That's right.
- See, here's what I would've done
500
00:27:23,351 --> 00:27:24,561
if I was designing it.
501
00:27:24,644 --> 00:27:27,564
I would've made different kinds
of lighting...
502
00:27:27,647 --> 00:27:29,024
- Mm-hmm.
- in different parts of the room.
503
00:27:29,107 --> 00:27:30,859
- Smart.
- So, that you can walk into a...
504
00:27:32,319 --> 00:27:33,611
You know, because that really would...
505
00:27:33,695 --> 00:27:35,530
That's really what gets on your nerves,
is that.
506
00:27:35,613 --> 00:27:37,282
- That fluorescent kind of...
- Yeah. Yeah.
507
00:27:37,365 --> 00:27:39,117
- unrelenting light?
- Yeah. Yeah.
508
00:27:39,534 --> 00:27:41,494
It was expensive too.
509
00:27:41,953 --> 00:27:46,249
You know, I'll tell you, if I ever end up
working and sleeping in a warehouse
510
00:27:46,333 --> 00:27:47,751
- for six or eight months...
- Yeah.
511
00:27:47,834 --> 00:27:49,419
I hope, Bob, I hope you design it.
512
00:27:49,502 --> 00:27:52,714
Yeah. I would actually do everything
that you did here,
513
00:27:53,465 --> 00:27:55,133
but, for instance, around the TV,
514
00:27:55,216 --> 00:27:58,678
there would be better, quieter,
darker lighting
515
00:27:58,762 --> 00:28:00,597
and it would be sequestered a bit
516
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,725
so that you really have some privacy
in these different areas.
517
00:28:03,808 --> 00:28:06,686
And maybe those special lights
that when you have seasonal disorder
518
00:28:06,770 --> 00:28:08,897
- that give you a feeling of sunlight.
- Oh, yeah.
519
00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:11,441
- Vitamin D lights. Yeah. For sure.
- That's what these guys needed.
520
00:28:11,983 --> 00:28:12,901
Oh, for sure.
521
00:28:14,694 --> 00:28:18,365
And also, I would not build
a meth lab under...
522
00:28:18,448 --> 00:28:19,824
I wouldn't just build one at all.
523
00:28:19,908 --> 00:28:21,368
You're so conservative.
524
00:28:21,451 --> 00:28:23,286
Yeah, I know. I'm not a risk-taker.
525
00:28:23,370 --> 00:28:24,788
- Yeah.
- Go big or go home.
526
00:28:24,871 --> 00:28:25,705
Yeah.
527
00:28:25,789 --> 00:28:27,916
So, Werner Ziegler, we love this actor.
528
00:28:27,999 --> 00:28:29,918
- Oh, God.
- Oh, this guy's great.
529
00:28:30,001 --> 00:28:33,046
Rainer is... he's wonderful.
Rainer is just...
530
00:28:33,129 --> 00:28:34,422
- Rainer Bock.
- Yes.
531
00:28:34,506 --> 00:28:36,674
And such a great connection
between these two guys,
532
00:28:36,758 --> 00:28:38,009
which I'm sure
you've talked about already.
533
00:28:38,093 --> 00:28:42,222
Yeah, Rainer Bock
is a great, great German actor.
534
00:28:42,305 --> 00:28:45,225
He does a lot of stuff in Germany,
works a lot, all the time.
535
00:28:46,351 --> 00:28:48,019
He's in a movie called White Ribbon,
536
00:28:48,103 --> 00:28:49,354
which is really worth your time.
537
00:28:49,437 --> 00:28:51,481
- Oh, yeah.
- Nominated for an Oscar.
538
00:28:51,564 --> 00:28:52,440
That's right.
539
00:28:52,524 --> 00:28:53,483
We were pretty excited,
540
00:28:53,566 --> 00:28:56,152
you guys talk about this
in the previous episode,
541
00:28:56,236 --> 00:28:59,239
that when we realised we could have houses
within the warehouse.
542
00:28:59,322 --> 00:29:00,323
That's true. That's true.
543
00:29:00,407 --> 00:29:03,451
That was a big moment, Peter.
I have to say you were on your feet.
544
00:29:03,535 --> 00:29:05,078
Because we were so excited.
545
00:29:06,371 --> 00:29:08,706
Yeah, I get all...
I get all amped up about this stuff.
546
00:29:08,790 --> 00:29:09,707
I get it.
547
00:29:11,042 --> 00:29:12,877
It's a great thing, great idea.
548
00:29:15,588 --> 00:29:18,633
Yeah, I mean, it's one
of the things that's... that's...
549
00:29:19,592 --> 00:29:23,096
It's sometimes inevitable with the show,
but also frustrating is
550
00:29:23,596 --> 00:29:26,474
that you want all these characters
to interact,
551
00:29:26,558 --> 00:29:28,059
but there's no way to get...
552
00:29:28,143 --> 00:29:30,770
no way to get
Werner interacting with Jimmy...
553
00:29:30,854 --> 00:29:31,688
- Right.
- you know?
554
00:29:31,771 --> 00:29:33,648
But you'd love to have a scene
between the two of them.
555
00:29:33,731 --> 00:29:36,067
- Yeah.
- So, you know, it's just...
556
00:29:36,693 --> 00:29:39,863
Sometimes... Sometimes you have
to just let the story be the boss.
557
00:29:40,405 --> 00:29:42,365
Maybe we'll just have a big party...
558
00:29:42,449 --> 00:29:44,033
- That's it.
- and everybody can come together.
559
00:29:44,117 --> 00:29:45,326
- That's it.
- Have a drink.
560
00:29:45,410 --> 00:29:46,619
- A karaoke party.
- Yeah.
561
00:29:46,703 --> 00:29:48,246
- That sounds like a good idea.
- Okay, good.
562
00:29:48,329 --> 00:29:49,789
You have done a wonderful job, Michael.
563
00:29:49,873 --> 00:29:52,083
You brought everything we could ask for.
564
00:29:53,877 --> 00:29:55,170
Are they drinking real beer?
565
00:29:55,670 --> 00:29:56,754
- I hope so.
- Definitely.
566
00:29:56,838 --> 00:29:58,590
- You got to go method with the drinking.
- Yeah.
567
00:29:58,673 --> 00:29:59,924
Wait, really? No.
568
00:30:00,008 --> 00:30:01,509
- Isn't that what you do?
- No.
569
00:30:01,593 --> 00:30:02,552
Can't do that.
570
00:30:02,635 --> 00:30:04,387
- No, what are they drinking?
- You can't do it.
571
00:30:04,471 --> 00:30:05,346
Actually, we had to work on that.
572
00:30:05,430 --> 00:30:06,347
Apple cider. Martinelli's?
573
00:30:06,431 --> 00:30:07,390
Yeah, we...
574
00:30:07,807 --> 00:30:11,728
Special effects was helping at one point,
and props, like,
575
00:30:11,811 --> 00:30:16,191
because there were taps involved.
But I think it's apple juice.
576
00:30:17,817 --> 00:30:18,818
Apple juice?
577
00:30:19,694 --> 00:30:20,778
There you go.
578
00:30:20,862 --> 00:30:23,406
We had a little bit of carbonation
in there at one point.
579
00:30:23,490 --> 00:30:26,826
So, there was some non-alcoholic beer
in one iteration.
580
00:30:27,243 --> 00:30:28,328
That might be this too.
581
00:30:28,411 --> 00:30:32,332
Rainer said that, in Germany,
"R & R" would be considered rock and roll.
582
00:30:32,415 --> 00:30:38,671
This is a really interesting scene
that he's great in, great.
583
00:30:40,173 --> 00:30:43,176
And the thing is, you guys,
we were going to try to shoot...
584
00:30:43,259 --> 00:30:44,719
We were trying to shoot this outside,
585
00:30:44,802 --> 00:30:46,179
- you know about that, right?
- That's right.
586
00:30:46,262 --> 00:30:49,724
And then there was lightning.
We got the first take done outside,
587
00:30:50,141 --> 00:30:52,685
but you know what,
it didn't work outside at all.
588
00:30:53,102 --> 00:30:55,021
It had no energy in it.
589
00:30:55,813 --> 00:30:57,565
And you stick them in this hallway...
590
00:31:01,653 --> 00:31:03,947
Really a fun thing to do,
that kind of take.
591
00:31:05,907 --> 00:31:08,493
But you stick them in this hallway
where they're really kind of...
592
00:31:10,078 --> 00:31:13,122
just in a corner, you know,
and it gets intimate.
593
00:31:13,706 --> 00:31:16,000
And they can really hear each other...
594
00:31:16,918 --> 00:31:20,129
You know, when you're outside,
you just have a different voice
595
00:31:21,172 --> 00:31:22,549
and this is really, like, close.
596
00:31:22,632 --> 00:31:25,009
- Yeah, the confinement helped.
- Yeah, yeah, it really helped.
597
00:31:25,093 --> 00:31:27,011
It's something to think about
when you think about...
598
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,848
It was interesting.
Thank God there was lightning, right?
599
00:31:30,932 --> 00:31:32,767
I know, it's funny.
We were so disappointed.
600
00:31:32,850 --> 00:31:34,644
I promise you,
it wouldn't have been half the scene.
601
00:31:34,727 --> 00:31:39,941
I agree. This episode's pretty,
you know, interiors.
602
00:31:40,024 --> 00:31:42,986
So, we were excited
to have a scene outside
603
00:31:43,069 --> 00:31:44,654
and disappointed to have to move it in.
604
00:31:44,737 --> 00:31:47,407
But for performance
and for the emotion of it,
605
00:31:47,490 --> 00:31:49,284
it was beneficial, for sure.
606
00:31:49,367 --> 00:31:51,744
It just, it worked great. I have no...
607
00:31:52,245 --> 00:31:56,082
You know, sometimes... sometimes
the rain gods are working for you
608
00:31:56,165 --> 00:31:57,417
instead of against you.
609
00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:00,962
But it's an interesting thing you say,
Bob, is that they're, you know...
610
00:32:02,130 --> 00:32:04,090
- About the interior versus exterior.
- Yeah.
611
00:32:04,173 --> 00:32:05,425
We love this framing.
612
00:32:05,508 --> 00:32:06,426
- Well, yeah.
- Right?
613
00:32:06,509 --> 00:32:09,512
- Yeah.
- Beautiful framing. And...
614
00:32:09,596 --> 00:32:11,306
- And then the cut.
- Yeah.
615
00:32:12,181 --> 00:32:13,224
Magic man.
616
00:32:15,602 --> 00:32:17,145
Great unscripted match cut.
617
00:32:17,228 --> 00:32:19,897
Bob and Deborah
I give credit for this, that match.
618
00:32:19,981 --> 00:32:20,857
It was so great.
619
00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:23,026
And he has no idea what he's going to do.
620
00:32:23,109 --> 00:32:24,402
No, I don't think so.
621
00:32:24,485 --> 00:32:26,446
- "I'm a magic man."
- He talks big.
622
00:32:27,655 --> 00:32:29,198
I just love him for it, though.
623
00:32:29,824 --> 00:32:31,492
Oh, yeah, you got to be on his side.
624
00:32:33,453 --> 00:32:35,580
So, here he is, making his plea. Come on.
625
00:32:36,748 --> 00:32:40,335
There's so much that Kim
has to catch up on in this scene,
626
00:32:40,418 --> 00:32:43,671
like, that's been going on with Jimmy
that she isn't aware of.
627
00:32:44,631 --> 00:32:45,465
Yeah.
628
00:32:45,923 --> 00:32:48,009
They haven't been communicating, so...
629
00:32:49,302 --> 00:32:52,889
I did a little recon
and the arresting officer, he has a DUI,
630
00:32:52,972 --> 00:32:55,683
you know, eight years ago,
and he's been put on desk duty twice.
631
00:32:55,767 --> 00:32:56,934
I know he has anger issues...
632
00:32:57,018 --> 00:33:00,229
Just, he's got such a wall of words
633
00:33:01,522 --> 00:33:03,191
and she's following him.
634
00:33:03,650 --> 00:33:05,526
Now, what's wrong with this plan?
635
00:33:05,610 --> 00:33:08,863
Easy to make him smell, like,
you just spill some booze on him
636
00:33:08,946 --> 00:33:11,157
- right before he goes out.
- Right. Right. Right.
637
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,076
The plan itself is pretty good.
638
00:33:13,534 --> 00:33:15,453
Then you piss him off,
which is easy to do.
639
00:33:15,536 --> 00:33:17,580
This guy's got a short fuse, right?
640
00:33:17,664 --> 00:33:19,374
- Yeah, you're liking that plan.
- Mm-hmm.
641
00:33:20,333 --> 00:33:22,460
- Her reaction here is amazing.
- I think it's an all-right plan.
642
00:33:23,127 --> 00:33:25,088
She doesn't seem to like it. I don't know.
643
00:33:25,171 --> 00:33:26,756
- I don't know why.
- Why doesn't she like this plan?
644
00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:28,257
I don't know why. Look at her.
645
00:33:28,341 --> 00:33:30,843
- She really takes her time.
- It's not challenging enough.
646
00:33:30,927 --> 00:33:32,095
- Too easy.
- That's it.
647
00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:34,847
- Yeah, too easy.
- Not enough bus rides involved.
648
00:33:34,931 --> 00:33:36,265
Well, she's thinking about it.
649
00:33:36,891 --> 00:33:41,688
This I love.
I love how you guys take your time,
650
00:33:42,188 --> 00:33:43,564
just take that little moment...
651
00:33:44,565 --> 00:33:46,734
and it's... it's wonderful.
652
00:33:48,152 --> 00:33:50,071
This penal code thing I was worried about
653
00:33:50,154 --> 00:33:53,032
and I actually called
a lawyer friend of mine from the hotel
654
00:33:53,116 --> 00:33:55,576
to make sure
that the language was correct.
655
00:33:56,828 --> 00:33:58,246
Great.
656
00:33:58,329 --> 00:33:59,997
- Seems like you nailed it.
- I think so.
657
00:34:00,081 --> 00:34:01,457
I'm not tearing down a cop.
658
00:34:02,667 --> 00:34:05,002
That's okay. You tell me.
659
00:34:05,628 --> 00:34:07,088
I will look into this.
660
00:34:07,755 --> 00:34:10,425
Not making any promises,
but if it is as bad as you say...
661
00:34:10,508 --> 00:34:12,927
Boy, look at all the bank branches
she's opened.
662
00:34:14,262 --> 00:34:15,179
Maybe.
663
00:34:19,559 --> 00:34:21,394
And Jimmy's successfully delegated.
664
00:34:21,978 --> 00:34:23,479
You know, it...
665
00:34:25,940 --> 00:34:28,484
This is the stuff that I just, I really...
666
00:34:30,987 --> 00:34:35,908
I really feel
when there's a gap between these two
667
00:34:35,992 --> 00:34:37,785
and when they're not connecting.
668
00:34:37,869 --> 00:34:41,247
Yeah, it's pretty great
because he is happy.
669
00:34:41,330 --> 00:34:43,666
She is agreeing to help, and yet...
670
00:34:45,585 --> 00:34:47,837
there's this, like, pause...
671
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,005
You know, this...
672
00:34:49,088 --> 00:34:52,049
Yeah, there's still tension there
and a distance.
673
00:34:52,133 --> 00:34:53,217
They're on the outs.
674
00:34:54,093 --> 00:34:55,344
Is that what it is?
675
00:34:55,428 --> 00:34:59,265
I mean, every relationship
has good and bad times, you know.
676
00:34:59,348 --> 00:35:00,516
That is so true.
677
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:01,642
She's back.
678
00:35:01,726 --> 00:35:03,811
It doesn't mean it's got to be over.
679
00:35:04,353 --> 00:35:06,814
- And here's...
- Here's Julie Pearl, who we love.
680
00:35:07,523 --> 00:35:12,945
Julie Pearl who was last seen...
last seen season two, I believe.
681
00:35:14,322 --> 00:35:15,198
And...
682
00:35:15,281 --> 00:35:16,491
- Yes.
- ADA Ericsen.
683
00:35:16,574 --> 00:35:18,159
We went back and watched that great scene.
684
00:35:18,242 --> 00:35:21,454
- That's right.
- And felt excited about her as an actor.
685
00:35:21,537 --> 00:35:24,707
And this is a oner,
which is really nice. It's a nice...
686
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,169
The whole...
That whole little scene all in one shot,
687
00:35:28,252 --> 00:35:31,506
which really is clever
and feels really good.
688
00:35:31,589 --> 00:35:34,759
Pickpocket with a rap sheet
attacks a cop in broad daylight?
689
00:35:34,842 --> 00:35:39,514
What I love about this scene
is that Julie is a worthy opponent to Kim.
690
00:35:39,597 --> 00:35:41,140
- Mm-hmm.
- We've seen Kim...
691
00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:46,187
and Rhea roll over
all these other characters.
692
00:35:46,270 --> 00:35:49,148
And this is...
this is not going to be so easy.
693
00:35:49,232 --> 00:35:52,109
And also,
I think Jimmy said in the last scene,
694
00:35:52,193 --> 00:35:54,445
it's not fair what they're doing to Huell.
695
00:35:54,529 --> 00:35:57,532
And I buy Kim's argument.
I buy Jimmy's argument too.
696
00:35:57,615 --> 00:35:59,158
- Yeah.
- This is not fair.
697
00:35:59,242 --> 00:36:01,994
- Yeah.
- But, you know, he's in the system,
698
00:36:02,078 --> 00:36:04,580
and they're going to have to do
something big to change things.
699
00:36:04,664 --> 00:36:05,873
I'm sorry. I don't buy it.
700
00:36:05,957 --> 00:36:11,462
And here she gets this cut on her...
701
00:36:13,089 --> 00:36:13,965
- on Jimmy...
- Yeah.
702
00:36:14,048 --> 00:36:17,468
and, like, seeing him through her eyes.
703
00:36:17,552 --> 00:36:18,386
Mm-hmm.
704
00:36:18,469 --> 00:36:21,556
Like, that's...
And to not react in the moment,
705
00:36:21,639 --> 00:36:24,642
like, that's such an interesting moment
in the scene.
706
00:36:24,725 --> 00:36:29,105
And because Ericsen is formidable
and she is somebody that Kim respects,
707
00:36:29,730 --> 00:36:31,148
it hurts to hear that.
708
00:36:33,484 --> 00:36:34,819
She's got all her research.
709
00:36:34,902 --> 00:36:36,362
- Yeah, she's ready.
- Yeah.
710
00:36:36,445 --> 00:36:39,282
This is so well-written,
by the way, Alison.
711
00:36:39,365 --> 00:36:43,703
I haven't said enough on this.
Alison just...
712
00:36:43,786 --> 00:36:47,582
This was Alison's first script
for the show.
713
00:36:47,665 --> 00:36:49,709
- It's scary.
- Far from her first script,
714
00:36:49,792 --> 00:36:52,879
'cause she is... she is an excellent writer
715
00:36:52,962 --> 00:36:56,966
who we were very lucky
to get to work with us.
716
00:36:57,049 --> 00:37:00,511
And, um, this is also
Deborah Chow's first episode.
717
00:37:01,220 --> 00:37:04,640
And the two of them
really knocked it out of the park.
718
00:37:05,224 --> 00:37:06,225
Excellent team.
719
00:37:06,309 --> 00:37:08,728
I was lucky to work with Deborah.
It was really cool.
720
00:37:11,564 --> 00:37:14,150
We looked at each other on day one
and said, "Okay."
721
00:37:14,233 --> 00:37:16,235
who peddles drop phones to criminals.
722
00:37:17,945 --> 00:37:19,405
- Yeah. Uh-oh.
- Uh-oh.
723
00:37:20,197 --> 00:37:22,909
- You called Jimmy a scumbag.
- Yeah.
724
00:37:23,534 --> 00:37:25,453
- You're fucked.
- Yeah, I think...
725
00:37:25,536 --> 00:37:26,996
- Yeah, exactly.
- I think you're right.
726
00:37:27,079 --> 00:37:28,205
Yeah, don't say that. You're right.
727
00:37:28,289 --> 00:37:29,123
Yeah.
728
00:37:29,624 --> 00:37:30,958
My man.
729
00:37:31,042 --> 00:37:32,209
She'll turn that around.
730
00:37:33,336 --> 00:37:35,129
- Now she's got a personal vendetta.
- You said the wrong thing.
731
00:37:35,212 --> 00:37:36,631
- Personal vendetta.
- Mm-hmm.
732
00:37:36,714 --> 00:37:37,632
Love that cut.
733
00:37:38,090 --> 00:37:39,759
We talked a lot
about how it's like family.
734
00:37:39,842 --> 00:37:43,721
Like, you can feel those feelings,
but someone else says it out loud, no way.
735
00:37:43,804 --> 00:37:47,683
It makes it worse if you suspect
it might be true from some angle.
736
00:37:47,767 --> 00:37:48,935
Mm-hmm.
737
00:37:50,770 --> 00:37:52,188
But...
738
00:37:52,647 --> 00:37:53,898
The ponytail's mad.
739
00:37:53,981 --> 00:37:55,274
The ponytail... That's true.
740
00:37:55,733 --> 00:37:56,984
That's a weird jacket.
741
00:37:58,653 --> 00:38:00,488
Little more stylish than I...
742
00:38:01,572 --> 00:38:03,866
Isn't that a Bob jacket
more than it is a...
743
00:38:03,950 --> 00:38:07,244
I think that this was...
I believe this was an addition on the day.
744
00:38:07,328 --> 00:38:08,371
There was a...
745
00:38:08,454 --> 00:38:09,705
Sorry, it's not the worst thing ever.
746
00:38:09,789 --> 00:38:11,999
This was the very first scene
that we shot of this episode.
747
00:38:12,083 --> 00:38:12,959
- It's all right.
- Yeah.
748
00:38:13,042 --> 00:38:14,168
I think it works fine.
749
00:38:14,251 --> 00:38:15,086
All right.
750
00:38:15,169 --> 00:38:18,756
He's in a different frame of mind.
That's what it kind of tells me.
751
00:38:19,465 --> 00:38:21,008
he's gonna have to do some time.
752
00:38:22,927 --> 00:38:24,387
Well, thanks for trying.
753
00:38:24,470 --> 00:38:27,139
I mean, he knows
Huell's not going to do any time.
754
00:38:27,598 --> 00:38:29,892
- Yeah, yeah.
- Huell just doesn't care about
755
00:38:30,726 --> 00:38:36,524
running away that much. It's just a...
It's a totally legit choice.
756
00:38:36,607 --> 00:38:38,526
- Mm-hmm.
- And he knows he'll just make it easily.
757
00:38:38,609 --> 00:38:41,487
He knows Huell will just go,
"Forget it. Nope, I'm running."
758
00:38:42,029 --> 00:38:43,280
You're gonna tell him to stay put?
759
00:38:43,364 --> 00:38:44,615
Yeah, sure.
760
00:38:45,950 --> 00:38:47,868
- No. I'm not believing that.
- Sure.
761
00:38:48,911 --> 00:38:50,329
Jimmy, come on, what does that mean?
762
00:38:51,414 --> 00:38:52,331
Don't worry.
763
00:38:53,165 --> 00:38:54,000
"Don't worry."
764
00:38:54,083 --> 00:38:55,209
And then I get to floor it.
765
00:38:55,292 --> 00:38:56,877
Yeah, baby!
766
00:38:57,712 --> 00:38:59,255
Always flooring it.
767
00:38:59,338 --> 00:39:02,216
You're good at that.
Bob, you are an exceptional driver.
768
00:39:02,299 --> 00:39:03,592
- Yes.
- And you know who else is?
769
00:39:03,676 --> 00:39:04,677
Rhea Seehorn.
770
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,304
- 'Cause she whipped this U-ey.
- You guys.
771
00:39:08,889 --> 00:39:10,057
Made me a little nervous.
772
00:39:10,141 --> 00:39:12,268
A lot of precision driving on this show.
Surprising.
773
00:39:12,351 --> 00:39:17,064
This is a hell of a plan
she's concocting in her head. It's nuts!
774
00:39:18,607 --> 00:39:19,900
I don't know. It's...
775
00:39:20,985 --> 00:39:24,864
I think it's pretty good.
It's a lot. It's a lot.
776
00:39:24,947 --> 00:39:30,161
So, let's see, the first thought is,
"What if we conjured up people?"
777
00:39:31,746 --> 00:39:33,581
What if we drew attention to this case?
778
00:39:33,664 --> 00:39:38,377
Yeah, what if we build Huell up
instead of cutting the cop down?
779
00:39:38,461 --> 00:39:40,463
Right. That's a... That's a good...
780
00:39:40,546 --> 00:39:43,132
Jimmy wants to go low,
she decides to go high.
781
00:39:43,215 --> 00:39:44,341
- Right.
- I thought it was...
782
00:39:44,425 --> 00:39:46,802
Oh, they have stationery there.
Do I need stationery?
783
00:39:46,886 --> 00:39:48,596
- Just like, "I like stationery."
- "Oh, craft."
784
00:39:48,679 --> 00:39:50,056
I love... This is, you know,
785
00:39:50,139 --> 00:39:52,850
every writer, you know,
loves stationery, loves pens.
786
00:39:53,350 --> 00:39:55,227
This was an excuse for us
to get a lot of pens and paper.
787
00:39:55,311 --> 00:39:57,480
It's like all the stuff
we'd want to have in the writers' room.
788
00:39:57,563 --> 00:39:59,648
- Even crayons.
- We love crayons.
789
00:40:01,442 --> 00:40:03,319
People express themselves
in different ways.
790
00:40:03,402 --> 00:40:04,945
- So true.
- Oh, yeah.
791
00:40:06,072 --> 00:40:08,407
And this is a cue from Dave.
792
00:40:09,950 --> 00:40:11,035
It's a tricky one.
793
00:40:12,828 --> 00:40:15,372
That's true, yeah.
It's always these little...
794
00:40:16,248 --> 00:40:20,711
The cue, how much is it there to tell you
and it's always his question,
795
00:40:20,795 --> 00:40:23,464
"What is she thinking.
What are we supposed to get from this?"
796
00:40:23,881 --> 00:40:24,757
Listen...
797
00:40:25,341 --> 00:40:26,342
I have a better way.
798
00:40:27,009 --> 00:40:28,260
Awesome.
799
00:40:28,344 --> 00:40:29,428
That's a cliff-hanger.
800
00:40:29,512 --> 00:40:32,681
It's a... What do we call it?
The "Office Supplies" cliff-hanger.
801
00:40:32,765 --> 00:40:35,184
- That's right.
- The classic.
802
00:40:36,102 --> 00:40:37,520
Game of Thrones did that.
803
00:40:39,188 --> 00:40:41,023
I think Staples is trying to get in on it.
804
00:40:41,941 --> 00:40:42,817
If only.
805
00:40:43,275 --> 00:40:45,027
Well done, Alison.
806
00:40:45,111 --> 00:40:46,987
- And to you.
- Really great.
807
00:40:48,614 --> 00:40:49,490
I like it.
808
00:40:49,573 --> 00:40:51,617
A lot of fun stuff happening in there.
809
00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,995
Well, especially that teaser
is one for the books, I think.
810
00:40:55,496 --> 00:40:56,872
- That's...
- Yeah, the teaser got a lot of...
811
00:40:56,956 --> 00:40:58,582
- Oh, yeah.
- Got a lot of love.
812
00:40:58,666 --> 00:40:59,500
Yeah.
813
00:40:59,583 --> 00:41:00,501
It's great. That's why.
814
00:41:00,918 --> 00:41:01,919
Thanks, everybody.