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Friends, we're back with our favorite Austin Nichols talking about his wonderful movie The Long Shot.

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Austin, I'm really curious. And you know, you talked about this a little bit, but you've spent so long on set.

You know, it's decades of work, training, and doing all sorts of crazy shit as an actor.

But this is the first feature that you've directed.

Obviously, you know, you've directed on television before.

But I'm curious the difference, because I know the chasm between directing an episode

of TV and directing a whole feature is a wide one.

So on the other side of it, when you reflect, what's something you thought you knew

about directing films that either turned out to be completely wrong or something that surprised

you?

That's a great question.

I was led to believe that, you know, making TV and film was really different.

And when you're boots on the ground on the day shooting, it doesn't feel that different

to me.

No.

There might be, if you're making a feature film that's a drama that's, you know, really heavy or really big subject matter, there's probably, it's probably going to be slower.

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