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26:06Oh, my God. Wow. Yeah. So Bob was just this kind of incredible man who just loved being the facilitator. You know, he just loved putting people together. and that was kind of... A nice early advocate and you stayed with him for a while? Yes. And then what was the project that gave you the kind of momentum that would push you into sort of like, well, I need not pursue other things. I think this might work out for at least a few years. Mystic Pizza. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mystic Pizza. Did you get nominated for that? Or no? No. Oh, okay. Way to go, Sean. Nice. You know, is there... I did get nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Mystic Pizza.

26:57That's what you're thinking of, Sean. That's what he was thinking of. And I lost to Jodie Foster for Five Corners. All right. Julia, was there... Again, I say this a lot, but at risk of embarrassing you, was there sort of Mystic Pizza, you know, Crime Story, then Mystic Pizza and everything, Was there a kind of a life before Pretty Woman and life after Pretty Woman? Is that fair to say? It must have changed your life in a lot of ways. Well, you know, I kind of, it was a joke to start with, but it's actually completely true when people say, oh, you know, when Pretty Woman came out, did it just completely change your life?

27:37And I said, well, I was out of town when it came out, which is the joke. but I was on location shooting Sleeping with the Enemy. One of my faves. Tiny little town, thank you. And it wasn't playing at the Sticky Shoe Theater where I was. And I remember one of the crew guys was reading USA Today, and he goes, hey, hey, your movie's in the paper. And it just kind of said, like, you know, box office. There was, like, a little square, and it said Pretty Woman, and it said what the box office was, number meant nothing to me. I was like, hey, great. I mean, I didn't know if it was a great number, if it was a good number, if it was like, and yeah, so in a way, the momentum of that moment passed me by a little bit.

28:31So I think I was probably spared. Well, you were also in work mode and that helps as a distraction to that kind of stuff, right? Do you long for those days of sort of the naivete and sort of just like, well, just kind of just doing the work and having fun and playing make-believe and not being aware of sort of the machinations of this interesting business? Or do you like how complicated this business is? Is it complicated? Well, in certain areas, in the areas that are completely unpredictable and without any sort of meritocracy, I guess. I just feel like there's so much more choice than we allow ourselves to believe.

29:21Like I can choose to get super caught up in some of the things that really we have no control over. I have long given up reading anything. Yeah. and and I don't know I don't know you still just love doing it for what you're doing right it's so fun I love it so much it's such a goofy little job and I have a Google news alert on you just don't worry so I'm reading all your stuff and you're fine I'm listening and I'm reading so when Steel so you were filming Sleeping with the Enemy before Steel Magnolias no Steel Magnolias was first so I filmed Steel Magnolias I filmed Mystic Pizza and then I don't you have my IMDB help?

30:12then I did Mystic Pizza then I did Steel Magnolias then I did Pretty Woman then I did Flatliners then I did Sleeping with the Enemy you know the thing in Steel Magnolias Scotty's diabetic and when you had that scene Scotty had a scene like that in real life and I had, I'd only watched Steel Magnolias like for the first time like seven, eight years ago. Crazy. No. Thanks for the support. She was seven years ago. Oh my God. I've seen Stephen with the Enemy like 17 times. But I have, I've seen it a billion times. But no, but that scene was so real. So Scotty's flatlining, go ahead. That scene was so real when you had the diabetic thing and when he was, when we first started dating, we've been together almost 20 years and he would be, would do.

31:03Let's go on to the next question. Good Lord. I feel like you're circling the airport. You're about to take the landing gear down. Can I tell you, because you said, has anything crazy ever happened during a play? But during screening of Steel Magnolias, there were a lot of reports of people having sort of like physical responses, reactions, to, yeah. To that. People who are predisposed to these outbursts. It was wild. I'm going to tell you a true story. Truer than Sean and Scotty. I guess flatlining, watching Steelman. I don't know what happened. He almost died. He was going into that shaking.

31:51Here we come. The landing gear is down. It's fine. It was amazing. An amazing performance and how true to life Thank you, Sean. Thank you. I'm with you. Someone just told me that there's, I think, a smoothie place or something on Fire Island, and they have a smoothie called Drink Your Juice, Shelby. Ah, yeah, very good. I'm going to say, I'm going to say, Will, any Fire Island smoothie jokes? I do.

32:19Hey, Jason. I just like to tee them up, you know? I'm going to say December 1991. Thank you, Mary Lou. I'm in Stowe. Mary Lou Henner, I'm with you. I was skiing, skiing with my dad and my brother. Oh, I went to Stove, Vermont. And I saw you having breakfast in this little breakfast place. I just remembered that. I haven't thought about this in years. And you were with a bunch of people and you were having breakfast. And yeah. What did I eat? Not for nothing. Wow. And mine was bad? Yeah. Mine was short. Great stories. Mine was short. That's true. Yeah, and I was only there one time. Stove, Vermont.

32:57The one time you were in Stove, Vermont. There you go. Can we talk about, I think, I mean, your career is just incredible and enormous and something we can spend. And Aaron Bragovic. To the extent you're comfortable, I think one of the greatest things in your life is your marriage. It's been like forever and that's not common. And this guy is like a great guy, incredibly talented. I really dork out over cinematographers. can you, would you, are you comfortable talking about is there a key, is there a secret I mean this is like a great story and how you met Danny Motor everybody Danny Motor well first let me just say this is that he I mean I really like your podcast he loves this podcast and I was trying to be on it without telling him so that he would just like be tuning in and all of a sudden there's this old lady's voice, but it didn't.

34:02That's nice. He saw my agenda book and he was like, smartless. Well, we're fans of this. I love that. I remember seeing you at a charity event and you were with Danny and you just looked at him and you go, and you looked at me and you go, isn't he the best? I just love him. And it was so sweet. I just thought that was the sweetest. So cute, Julia. What's the secret, darling? I know, I'm getting all sweaty. You know, it's really... You seem like your buddies. Yeah? Well, he's my best friend. Yeah, there you go. And, but also the only person I want to make out with. So I think it's that combination of things is...

34:41Amen. Yeah. But you know what? Here's the thing, because you just don't know. And you never want to give all the credit away to one person and say, I owe it all to this one person. But honestly... This is the section about Kevin Huvane? Here we go. I wanted to talk about Danny. For Tracy, he's an agent. He's a big agent in Hollywood. But 25 years later, I mean, I just think, gosh, my life could have gone off the rails a hundred different ways in the last 25 years were it not for finding my person. I don't know how, I don't know what small nation of people I saved in a former life. I feel the same way, yeah.

35:24Did you guys work on a project together? Is that how you met? Yes. We met on a movie called The Mexican. Oh, yeah. Good looking movie. Mr. Pitt. Yeah. And he was on that movie and I, they had been shooting for about three weeks and he, God, what was he? He was the focus puller on that movie? Yeah. and he and Brad were always next to each other and always talking. Right. Brad Pitt from the sister. So I come in and I'm like the new one and I'm like, you know, they're talking about, I don't know, a new record that's come out or something. I'm like, oh, I love that. Trying to jump in there. I love that band.

36:16Oh, yeah. I kind of start humming it and be like, Music. Yeah. and they're just like so locked into each other I was just looking for a way into the conversation and not realizing that one day this man that I was just trying to have a conversation with would be my husband and then you finally had a conversation we had a conversation and he has not gotten me to shut up in 25 years I love that the fact that you're able to schedule and work out all these kind of, you go away, he goes away, let's meet up every couple of weeks. It's got to be just so difficult. I know, high-class problems, listen. I apologize.

36:58These are high-class problems, but you want to know something? We have in all these years, and we have three awesome kids, and only one time in our lives, and the kids were probably, they were all under five for sure, and now they're all in college. But there was one time when I was doing Eat, Pray, Love and Danny was shooting a movie in Detroit. And we were apart. So you were in India, right? For seven weeks. Oh, wow. That's long. And I mean, I was lucky because I at least had the kids with me. But he, and there was just no way, even one time I did have three days off in a row and I thought, oh great, we can, you know.

37:50And even if I went as the crow flies from New Delhi to Detroit, we could have hugged and I'd have to turn around. Like it was so, it was seven weeks. And when he finished and he came and joined us and we were just like, wow, that will never work. All right, you said the kids are in college now. Now, how recent have you become an empty nester? It's been two and a half weeks. Oh, my God. Wow. Okay, so I just sent my first one away, but it was just down the street to USC, so I'm happy about that. But I'm not anticipating doing well when the 13-year-old goes away in five years and being empty, empty.

38:34How are you doing? Yes, but you and your wife are crazy about each other, so it's all going to be okay. I think it's when the kids leave and you turn around and you're like, what are you still doing? here yeah that's when you run into troubles you were supposed to go too yeah yeah like i love that you revealed just in that you know you're the first cover star of the brand new 72 magazine which is really cool and you and you revealed a george clooney interviewed you and you revealed your dream seven person dinner guest list which i love and the first person you named was danny which was great oh that's good and um and jesus and virginia wolf and joni mitchell it It was a great list.

39:13I loved it. Yeah. I mean, it's so funny because whenever someone asks you a question like that and you have to, you know, rapid fire answer and you feel like, and then afterwards you go like, oh, that'd be a good dinner party. And then, of course, for the rest of the day, it's like, oh, but what? Oh, it should have been this person. And what about that person? Yeah, yeah. But I think I did. I think, I mean, wouldn't it be Jesus coming to dinner? Right? What would I ask him? What would I ask him today? versus like last year or something. George would be a good guest at that, right? George Clooney.

39:48Yeah, a guy can talk. Very good storyteller. Great storyteller. Yeah, he told us that classic about crapping in the cat box. Oh my, it's one of the greatest stories of all time. Yeah, and I hadn't heard it until he came out of the pocket. It was great. But even better than hearing George tell it is Richard telling it because Richard's voice is so... Oh, Katie. Yeah. He's great. I love that guy. And we will be right back.

40:21And now back to the show. Wait, so I read that you saved a seven-page love letter from Danny to someday show your kids. And have you showed your kids? That's the first letter he ever wrote me. I have all the letters. And in fact, someone gave us a great present many years ago. These two beautiful sort of ceramic earthen pots. And the lid on one pot inside is painted, love letters to Julia from Danny, and the other one is to Danny from Julia. And so there's all these like, we're just shoving stuff in there for years. There's just no telling what's at the bottom of these jars. Right. But yeah, we're big on paper in our house.

41:12And our kids are now too. So it's nice to, like I opened a book the other day and there was a post-it from my oldest son in the handwriting of maybe like a seven-year-old, which is not too dissimilar from his handwriting now, but I could see the time. And it just said, Mom, I'm so, so, so, so, so, so sorry. Uh-oh. What did I do? And I thought, oh, I wish I had written on the other side of the post-it what the grievance was. Other than your wedding day and the birth of your gorgeous children, if you could pick one year to relive, what would it be? Because it was so great. Because it was so great?

41:59Yeah. I love that. Somebody just asked me that the other day. Oh, yeah. Sean's coming with a classic. A whole year. A whole year or a day. Or is there one day? Don't back off. Don't back off, Sean. No, mine was any year in college. I just loved my college life. I loved it. I'd love to see that. I was a crazy person. It was great. You know, I don't know. I'm just thinking any year that I could go back and spend before my father passed away. He passed away when I was young. And so I feel like even though I don't kind of say, oh, this was a great year and I want to relive that year, just to have any year with the knowledge that this is special because it's not going to last.

42:46Was he the one that was running the theater school? Was it your dad and your mom together? It was my dad and my mom together, but I think my dad was the captain. Was he alive long enough to start to experience some of your momentum? him? No, I was a child. Very child. He would have loved it. Did that, I mean, that's just a dumb question, but like, what did you, how did you word it? Did that affect my life? How is this holding you back? How is this holding you back now? No, because my dad, I mean, I guess I haven't thought about it either. My dad left. My dad left when I was like five or six. He did?

43:25How? He just literally walked out the door. He did? With the keys or? Yeah, but I think something. Surely he came back. You guys are cruel. Was there a vehicle involved? We got to have one of those things like Stern with the little sound things, just the screeching tires. Anytime his parents, oh, you're right. We do. We need Fred here to do that. No, but there was something like the fact, I think growing up. Abandonment can be funny. Yeah. It has to be. If you didn't laugh, you'd cry. I think that that's the kind of, you know. Yeah. I mean, my mom had Alzheimer's too, which is once I cried. So she doesn't remember him leaving.

44:06Oh my God. You guys. That's the good news. I cannot play like this. We find the good in everything, Julia. You have to. This is how we love each other. And also, but if I didn't make jokes or laugh about them, I cried for three years straight about my mom having Alzheimer's. She's passed away since then, but I cried and cried and cried and tried to take care of her and every one of our family members try to care and then after a while you're just you have to have some levity so anyway one time I was she was at this this memory care place and there was a band there was a live band and I was sitting with Scotty and his mom and we what a gig yeah and we're one of the top bands like some people who won't remember you

44:56they're like should we play some of the old hits doesn't matter they don't know it's new to them everything's new to them you can play a Beatles song and just say we just wrote this that's what I'm saying

45:10that's what I'm saying that's why you have to make light of it because otherwise you'll die crying okay so anyway there's a band I call this one satisfaction I just wrote it in the car on the way here so we're sitting there and I'm sitting there with Scotty and Scotty's mom. And all of a sudden, Scotty's mom, who's one of the sweetest people in the world, she gets up and starts dancing. She says to my mom, Mary, she's like, Mary, come on and dance. And she's like, yeah. And she's like, she's going to get up and dance. She grabbed me and she goes, Sean, come on, let's dance. I go, Mom, I don't want to dance.

45:42There's all these people watching in this room and there's a dance floor. And I'm like, no, Mom, I don't want to watch. She goes, come on, let's dance. I go, no, Mom, I don't want to. And she goes, don't be such a pussy.

45:54and I was like what? she would have never said that did you die laughing though? oh my god I laughed so hard did you dance with her? no I was too embarrassed Sean I know I wish I could now blah blah blah so anyway no she was sweet though but anyway you and Tracy must have laughed at that one oh god so my whole family we obviously loved her so much but anyway so this is a good one I wrote down because somebody asked me this the other day. If you had to marry, this is for everybody. Julia, if you had to marry a woman, guys, if you had to marry a guy, me, if I had to marry a woman, who would it be?

46:30Mine would be Carrie or Raina or Allie or Jen or Amanda. I would marry Jason's wife, Amanda. If you had to marry a girl. That's a lot of people and I didn't even like make the top 10. Hang on, I'm not done. Julia. Okay. Okay, there you go. I would marry either Francis McDormand or Cate Blanchett or Emma Thompson. Nice. Wow. Those are good answers. Those are pretty good. There's more, but I'm limiting myself to three. Yeah. Guys? You had to marry a guy. I would marry one of these two guys because of the formula you were talking about before, which is you got to marry a friend if you want it to last.

47:15That's right. I've always thought. And so far, I'm right. because I do really like that Amanda. I'd marry, same thing, I'd marry one of these two guys because they're guys that I love and that I like. And Jason, we'd be able to share golf clubs. Yeah. Because we'd have, like, I tried his wedge the other day. He's great. And also Jason, he does, I'd love to marry a known bottom. You don't want to have to do any fighting. Right. No negotiating. Right. And no, truly, truly, I would be one of these two guys. I love these guys so much. I love you guys too. I want to hear about your new thingy, Julia.

47:51So I just watched it last night. I couldn't wait to talk about it. Oh, you did? They're locked. They're locked, Sean. So watch the notes. I loved it so much. Wait, what is it? After the Hunt. It's called After the Hunt. I just watched it last night. What an awesome, dark, complicated character you're playing. As always, I believed every moment, every word coming out of your mouth. Yeah, you never suck. And it was crafted in such a way that reminded me of, and now After the Hunt will be on that list, Doubt, what's the other one? Like Conclave, After the Hunt. Like they're all kind of brilliantly made, brilliantly performed.

48:34Your performance was incredible. And the end, I was like, because the whole time I'm like, what's going on? What is happening? And then the reveal was so cool. I mean, crazy, but cool. Yeah. Anyway, thanks for coming. Love to hear your question. Julia, you must be proud of it. It sounds like a pretty high-level adult fair. What drew you to the material? Luca Guadagnino, who is just... He did Call Me By Your Name. I mean, tons of great movies. He is so wonderful as a person and so innovative and the most curious person I've ever met. He's so curious about people and why we do the things we do and why we don't do things and just every detail of everything.

49:24There's nothing that you're seeing that hasn't been specifically chosen in this shade of color and this statue and this painting being slightly askew or whatever. I mean, it's just really, it's so... It's a really cool moment too when you guys, you and, forgive me, Aya, right? IO. IO debris. So sorry. So when you and IO are, it's kind of towards the end and you have this incredible scene outside of this building and it starts as like regular over the shoulder and then it just cuts to you guys looking right into the camera. I love that. It was so effective as you're finishing this argument, just right into the camera, cutting back and forth directly.

50:06It was really cool. Oh, I can't wait. By the way, six minutes standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival. Yeah? Yeah. Wow. Really amazing. People tried to sit down. I was like, oh, no. No, no sitting. Don't be rude. I just loved it. Yeah. Oh, I'm glad. Thank you. I'm glad you got to see it. Oh, Luca just texted me. How crazy. Wow. Crazy. Wow. Tell him he's doing well. He must have felt us talking about him. Is it nice to launch a film at a festival like that as opposed to just sort of a standard kind of release where it just kind of comes out? I've never really had an experience like this before, so it's nice to do new things, you know, especially this.

50:51What do you mean? What do you mean you haven't had an experience? Well, I mean, I've never been to the Venice Film Festival, for one thing. And, I mean, I guess George and I went to Cannes a few years ago, but that was the first time I'd ever been to Cannes. Yeah. Oh, wow. because on television, they all look so terrifying. Like, why would you want to put yourself there? Yeah, I agree. So if people say, oh, do you want to go to Cannes? No, thank you. Off-season. Yeah, it just looks so terrifying. People screaming and... But what about all the glam and festivities of it all? Is that appealing just in the slightest, playing dress up and all that stuff?

51:35Once you say yes, like once you commit to it, then you have to have a sporting event mentality about it. You have to, you're going to have a great time. Danny had on a tuxedo. I was just, it was great. That part was great. One final question before we let you go, because we've taken up way too much of your time. What is the coolest or weirdest or amazing piece of memorabilia from any film? Have you kept anything that you love? That's a good question. That is a good question. Because there are so many iconic films. Not contaminated soil from Erin Brockovich, surely. But no, water samples, no. But I haven't done anything cool like a...

52:20Or a costume or like a shirt or anything. I have a lot of costumes. I have a lot of costumes. Yeah. and somewhere I actually think I have some wedding dresses from Runaway Bride. Oh, wow. Yeah. Do you have a place to keep them? I mean, like a separate from your house? It's probably dangerously just in the garage in New Mexico, and maybe there's just generations of mice that have made homes. They're trying it on. They're each trying it on. In these boxes. Yeah. Yeah, but not really more like I have a beautiful drawing that Meryl Streep did for me of my character that she gave me as a rap gift from August Osage County.

53:13Oh, I love that movie. That movie's so good. Some things like that. I love that. What a cast. George produced that movie. Yeah, Eat a Fish, Bitch. George Clooney produced that movie. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's great. Yeah, it's very good. Okay, so it's called After the Hunt. It premieres, wait, select theaters October 10th and wider October 17th. It's so good. I mean, I just loved it. I loved it so much. Thank you. Julia, you're the greatest. Yeah, no kidding. You guys are so fun. I honestly, this is just zipped by and I... It was quick, right? I just want a chance to do it again and be quick and witty and more...

53:51You were sublime. Come on. I'm more one of the dudes. No, no, no, you are. You are. You are amazing. Come back anytime you want. Can we just talk about the microphone that Will Arnett has in his apartment? Yeah, that's pretty sweet. What is up with that? It's nice. It's janky right now. I'm in a makeshift situation because I just moved in here yesterday. Yo, let's get the whisper booth all set up, huh, Willie? I know, I know, I know. It's not great. The internet's not great. I got the windows open because the AC's broken. I got a guy here. You got a real vital VO career you need to manage. Don't we get to see?

54:25Oh, those chairs are nice. Yeah. Do we get to see your guest star? Yeah. Where's your babe? Let's pull your babe in real quick. She just went out. She just went out. Oh, sure. She just went out. Just left. I think it's all fake. I think what you guys, yeah, it's a fake media story. No, we're thrilled for you. Yeah, we are thrilled. Julia, you're incredible. Thank you for saying yes to this. Talk about a thrill. Come back any time you want, Mrs. Oh, thanks. Thank you. Say hi to Danny. It goes without saying, I've been such a fan of yours for so long. Likewise. You're so great at what you do. Yes.

55:03Thank you. More pleased. Truly. Thank you. And can I just say, and sorry to leave you out, Sean, because I am your guest and I appreciate you so much. That's okay, likewise. But Arrested Development, Danny and I ate that show up like ice cream. and I'm happy to report that our youngest son, who's 18, just started college. Episode one pilot, who just started all over again, me and him together. We are loving it. Wait, can you invite me over? Because I haven't seen them since then and I want to watch them all again and my kids won't watch anything I do. Come over. Please. We'll go back to the pilot.

55:41We will back this right up. Jason and I haven't watched. We used to watch when it first came on the air. I'd go over Sundays. we'd watch football together and we'd watch the episodes as it aired. We were like, wow, this is so crazy. Yeah, and then we'd wake up in the morning and we'd call in for the overnights. Yeah, for all the ratings. It is so... How much is going on all the time is... It's extraordinary. Well, you know Mitch Hurwitz, Julia. I know you know Mitch a little bit. Yeah, he's so funny. And I just spoke to you for the first time in a few months two days ago out of the blue. How's he doing?

56:12He's doing okay, yeah. You know, he's the funniest guy. immediately you start texting with him and he's the funniest person of all time. Yeah. Agreed. I mean, that show really is one in a million. Sean's going to catch it one of these days. We're going to get you some tapes, Sean. We're going to make him watch it clock record style. Yeah.

56:32Well, thank you, Julia, for being with us today. Enjoy the rest of your day and good luck with the film. Thanks. After the Hunt. Can't wait. Coming in October. After the Hunt. October 10th. October 10th. Wide, October 17th. My birthday, October 28th. Oh, great. That's Franny's birthday, my eldest. October. It's the big month now. It's three days after my son Archie and Wendell Clark's birthday. Okay, it doesn't matter. It's like three and a half months and a couple weeks after. Anyway, so... I love you to pieces. Thank you for being here, honey. Lots of love, you guys. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye.

57:14Wow, Sean. Isn't she great? I love... By the way, for so long, she's been on my list. I'm sure she's on all our lists. Tip top. Yeah, of every list. I know. Name the list, she's at the top of the list. Iconic. I was looking at her list of credits, and you're just like, bang, bang, bang, bang. One big movie after another. It's just... Has even taken pauses. She's elected to take pauses, and the industry just keeps her place in line. and she comes back in and she's just bang another incredible director she works with. Yeah. You know? It's an incredible career. Yeah, and that movie's really good.

57:51Yeah? I can't wait to see that movie. It's not in the English countryside chasing foxes on horses, right? No, this is not. None of that's happening, no. It's not about a salon after the hunt where we're sitting in the drawing room talking about the hunt. Wonderful shot back there, James. What a hunt we had. Oh, that's tricky little fox.

58:17Tricky little fox. Yeah, what else can you say? I was going to ask her about being called America's sweetheart because she's been called that for her whole life and what that means. She hates that anymore. It's true. There's nobody that doesn't love her. Right, but it's also like you can hate it, but it is something maybe you could look back on when you're lying on the bed taking your last 25 breaths and going like, that was pretty cool that I held that title. You know? Yeah. I mean, for so long. She's awesome. And there's other friends of ours that has that title as well. There are those that share it, for sure.

58:54I share it. Well, hang on. So many people. I don't know. Who's thinking of a bi? I don't know. You're Googling something. Let's see what you found. I just loved her story about that she kept the dresses from runaway. Bye!

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