Bitter Homes and Gardens: Larry Clarke and Fielding Edlow on Staying Afloat, Staying in Love, and Staying Insured in Hollywood
The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum
4.7 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's so frustrating for me is that once you achieve any kind of level of success, |
| 0:08.0 | that I felt like I had achieved, that something would get easier. |
| 0:14.0 | I think in the old days, someone would discover you in a New York play as an actor, |
| 0:20.0 | and they would bring you to Hollywood, or they'd go, |
| 0:22.0 | you have talent, and then you can kind of like bump along and have this amazing career. |
| 0:26.4 | I don't think it happens anymore. |
| 0:28.3 | And if it happens, it's sparing. |
| 0:30.5 | Because each project seems to be like you have to start over from, you have to start over. |
| 0:35.8 | A lot of people pivot at my age into teaching full-time |
| 0:39.8 | or I don't know, continue to write in direct. And I am doing that to some extent, but it's |
| 0:48.0 | extremely, I find it very frustrating and because I need to still make money. Like you can pivot as much as you want, |
| 0:57.2 | but your pivot has to be involved with making some cash. And I'm trying to make my health insurance |
| 1:03.2 | through my- But you always, like we always do, like just the last- |
| 1:07.5 | I always do. At the last second, I kind of get, they get the health insurance. |
| 1:12.1 | We got it. |
| 1:12.9 | We're tier one. |
| 1:13.6 | We're tier one. |
| 1:14.5 | You can get your like perimenopausal medicine. |
| 1:17.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.3 | So now we can pay a lot for our quarterly minimums, you know. |
| 1:22.8 | Like I can even pay more money for that. |
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