Craig Mazin

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5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Craig Mazin: Old Fashioned (1 teaspoon sugar, 3 dashes bitters, 1 teaspoon water, 2 1/2 ounces bourbon, orange twist, Luxardo cherry optional) 2-time Emmy Award winner Craig Mazin discusses his new HBO show THE LAST OF US based in the very popular video game, The Sopranos and the Golden Age of TV, the brilliance of the 'Limited Series' format for scripted and unscripted content, the HBO limited series CHERNOBYL and the very fraught sliding scale of journalistic responsibility shown by the creators of documentaries and docu-dramas, and his crazy casting story with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:03.5	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind the scenes revelations.
0:24.7	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug brunt today we're talking with Craig Mazen Craig earned two Emmy awards in 2019 for his work
0:29.9	on the HBO limited series Chernobyl for which he was writer and creator he's also written
0:34.9	and or directed numerous films and TV shows, including the scary movie
0:38.4	franchise, The Hangover Parts 2 and 3.
0:41.3	He has some upcoming work on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and now the new HBO
0:45.6	series, The Last of Us, which premieres January 15 on HBO and HBO Max, and it's based
0:51.9	on the very popular video game also called The Last of Us.
0:55.4	Craig, you've got a lot going on. Welcome to the show.
0:58.2	My pleasure to be here. Yeah, I do sound busy when you say it that way.
1:03.6	Meanwhile, last night, I was just working on a puzzle. Not really, yeah, not working at all.
1:08.2	Well, you've got a lot of range. You can handle the busy times and the down times. Yeah. I love your cocktail choice for the show, the old-fashioned. And if anyone deserves to settle into an old-fashioned and relax a bit, it's you. So I'll get going on that. Thank you. Yeah, that's my go-to. It's my favorite. I don't know. Are you, do you drink old fashions? Is that, uh, ever in your? I was just going to mention my New Year's Eve cocktail number one was an old-fashioned. I'm usually more Manhattans and things like that. I've got the bitters going in here. There you go. So it's happened. I can see it happening. over the years I've come to feel that the key
1:27.5	the key to a great old fashioned is not necessarily the choice of whiskey because I like it with bourbon. I like it with rye. I like it with all different kinds of brands. It's the, it's the ice cube. And I can see you dumping lots of little bits of ice in there.
2:01.4	That's going into the shaker.
2:02.7	You're right.
2:03.2	We don't have.
2:04.0	So this is a failing of the Sirius XM kitchen.
2:06.4	I don't have like the oversized cube.
2:10.1	I know.
2:11.0	It's the oversized cube.
2:12.5	If you can,
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