84: Jim Cummings (Actor / Director): If You Don't Make Jokes Throughout Your Movie, Your Audiences Will
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews actor / director Jim Cummings
On this episode Jim and Jeremy talk Halloween Kills, David Gordon Green, moving away from New Orleans for school, Louisiana Film Directors, the movies that were an early influence, depravity, thoughts on screenwriting, his first time acting and the Thunder Road short, his first time directing and graduating with the Daniels, Jim goes through his history making shorts, turning a short into a feature, grieving the death of a loved one, his friendship with Nicolas Cave, working with Robert Forster in The Wolf of Snow Hollow, his relationship with comedy horror, comic relief, The Beta Test, and so more!!
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| 1:01.0 | First ever |
| 1:03.0 | The First Ever Puntges Welcome to the first ever podcast. |
| 1:19.0 | I am your host, Jeremy Bollm. |
| 1:21.6 | If this is your first time here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds |
| 1:26.2 | about the first experiences and |
| 1:28.0 | their art form that led them to where they are today. This is episode 84, and I am so excited |
| 1:35.9 | to announce that my guest is Jim Cummings. I am a huge Jim Cummings fan. He's an actor, |
| 1:43.1 | he's a director, he's a director. He's a writer. |
| 1:44.5 | He's a producer. He really shows that if you put in enough work, you can make your own stuff on your own terms. And it's really, really inspiring. He's made a few movies, and they're all incredible. The first one people got to really know was a movie called Thunder Road. Then he did a |
| 2:01.3 | movie called The Wolf of Snow Hollow, which is a great comedy horror film. That was my |
| 2:05.6 | introduction to him. And he has a newest movie, which came out last year, called The Beta Test, |
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