4.8 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Adam McKay (Death On The Lot) and Justin talk about his long career of making hit comedies Anchorman and Step Brothers, his knack for turning complicated historical incidents into enthralling (and often hilarious) films/podcasts, and how he decided to cast Christian Bale as Dick Cheney and Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush in “Vice.”
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0:13.5 | About ten years ago, there was a creative rush to do a Steve Jobs film. |
0:19.0 | There were a couple in development. There were several in development. There were so many that |
0:23.0 | Funny or Die decided they would beat everyone to it and do the first feature length Steve Jobs biopic. |
0:29.0 | They asked me to play Steve Jobs. I had done the Apple commercials for many years before. |
0:35.5 | I think they thought it would be that would be the funny tie-in. |
0:38.5 | But I took it very seriously, even though it was kind of a joke. The joke was that we may not be the best Steve Jobs movie, |
0:44.5 | but we're going to be the first. That's how they build the movie. The first Steve Jobs biopic. |
0:49.5 | But as an actor and somebody who has tremendous respect for Steve Jobs, he's one of the, I mean, he's changed the world. |
0:57.0 | I took it very seriously and we were only shooting we had like three days to shoot the entire movie. |
1:03.5 | So that was part of the joke was that the wigs weren't great and the history wasn't totally accurate. |
1:10.0 | But I tried to commit to him as best I could and do his service, you know, as best I could. |
1:16.5 | Did it end up being the first one that came out? It did. It was the first, it was. |
1:22.0 | And maybe not the worst as it turns out. Oh, maybe not. I haven't seen all of them. |
1:26.5 | But I wonder it was still despite the fact that it was kind of a joke movie. It was still a great honor. |
1:33.0 | Well, speaking of not the worst and great honors. Do you want to start the show? |
1:37.0 | I thought you were going to say you're great honors. Yeah, I don't think this shows the worst. |
1:42.0 | I said not the worst. It's a good energy to open the show with. We are not the worst setting the bar low. |
1:48.0 | Like we like to do unlike short. |
1:51.0 | Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream. |
1:58.0 | You're listening to life is short. I am your host Justin Lawn who hopefully you don't think is the worst. |
2:11.5 | And with me as always is my also hopefully you don't think the worst of brother, Christian. |
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