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Today on Happy, sad, confused, Adrian Brody takes on Stephen King with Chapel 8

and Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy on their pandemic dramedy together.

Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrow. It's welcome to another edition of Happy, sad, confused, yet another two-fer for you guys today.

Three-fer? They're three guests, but two interviews, two conversations. A little bit later on in the show, the wonderful, the charming, James McAvoy, Sharon Horgan.

They have collaborated on a new film that really is an exceptional piece of work considering all the bizarre conditions this was made.

And this is a film that was written and directed and shot during the year that was, and it is indeed about a couple dealing with being together during the pandemic.

It is a funny film, a heartfelt film, a dramatic film, and it features two fantastic performances by Sharon and James.

Sharon, who I have not really spent any time with over the years, but have always been a big fan of her work.

She is an exceptional actor as well as a writer and creator. And James, well if you know my work, you probably know James has done a lot of stuff with me over the years.

We've done some crazy sketches that he thinks back too fondly in our conversation. I'm happy to say.

And he's been on the podcast. He's done a ton of things. So it was great to catch up with James for a smaller conversation about their new film together.

That's later on in the podcast. But first up, really excited about this one. This was such a great conversation. Oh my god, I'd loved talking to Adrian Brody.

Adrian Brody, you know him. You love him. The youngest best actor award winner at the Oscars ever for the pianist, but he's done so many films, a wide array of work, whether you know him from his Wes Anderson work, whether you know him from King Kong or Splice.

I don't know. He's done every genre of film. He is now starring in a in a great new series on epics called Chapel 8.

It is based on a short story by the great Stephen King, a bit of gothic horror inspired by Poe, real juicy 1850s dramatic horror.

And that's exceptionally well done. It is on epics. It's a 10-part series with Adrian at the center of it all. But this conversation with him, it was just great.

I hadn't talked to him in a number of years. Back in the day, I thought I was talking to Adrian Brody all the time, whether it was films like Predators or Splice, etc.

But it had been a minute since I caught up with him, and I just found to be a really thoughtful, smart, and just like I had great things to say, great reflections on a really interesting career.

If you don't know, here's some backstory, because we do get into it in the conversation. Yes, he won the best actor award for the pianist. He was probably 28 or 29 when he won that award.

But prior to that, most kind of infamously, Adrian Brody was the star of Terence Malik's The Thin Red Wine, which was a very big deal at the time.

Thin Red Wine was Terence Malik's first film in nearly 20 years, and this was going to be the film that made Adrian Brody a star.

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