Hi, I'm Jenny Rattelet, producer of the treatment, and we've got a special bonus podcast for you today with actor Bruce Dern. He has a lot of stories to tell, and he gets to almost all of them in the following conversation with Elvis Mitchell after a screening of his latest film, Nebraska. He plays Woody Grant, an elderly father who takes a trip to Nebraska with his son, played by Will Forte, to claim a million-dollar prize from a male in sweepstakes.

The performance garnered him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

He talks about his beginnings at the actor's studio in New York, studying with Elia Kazan,

working with Alfred Hitchcock in the 60s, and his first Oscar nomination in 1979 for Hal Ashby's

coming home. He also talks about waiting 10 years for Alexander Payne to give him the role of a

lifetime and why he's not planning on slowing down anytime soon. This conversation was taped in

front of a live audience as part of the film independent at Lackma screening series.

Just a heads up, this conversation contains explicit language.

So, I was asking you backstage what Cannes was like, and you were telling me.

Well, of all the things that I'm kind of a, Iler and I've seen eruptions. But the most immediate

eruption I've ever seen in my life was for this movie at Cannes. And that's a big gym.

And there's about 2,000 people in there. And they laughed, they liked it.

But the immediately, they were on their feet right away.

They liked it.

And Alexander poked at me, and he says,

Bruce, the Frenches get it.

Imagine what could happen when we get back to Iowa.

So that was pretty wonderful.

I mean, it was very, very cool, and they applauded for a long time.

And we didn't know.

You know, I mean, 10 years ago, last month, I saw the script for the first time.

And it wasn't sent to me with an offer to do it or anything else.

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