Welcome to Critical Darling's, a conversation about the award season conversation.

One contender at a time.

Please welcome to this stage, your hostsard lawson and alison wilmore well thank you

marie for that lovely introduction um hello alison and i also want to thank uh producer ben

thank you for being here uh our. Uh, are very special guest.

Papa of the podcast, Griffin Newman.

Yes. Of the blank check podcast. Um, I'm wearing some, I'd like to thank my reps and God. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. In that order. Yeah. Um, as always. Um, I'm wearing sunglasses right now. because I have... Well, I want to do a hangover check

because we were all four of us

at the New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner last night, which can be a boozy affair if you want it to be. No pressure. There was an official afterparty this year at the town nightclub, which was sort of surreal. So how are we all doing? Obviously, I have my son-lis-on, so you know how I'm doing.

Yeah.

I'm doing better than I would have thought.

I feel like I was pretty restrained.

I did not indulge in too many of the themed cocktails that we always have.

Yeah.

If I had legs, I would kick you zoo.

Yes.

A few small beers, which I think was just Modello.

This is the problem. I ordered the few small beers, which did turn out to just be three Madello served to me at once. So they're the little ones. But it still adds up to more than like a regular beer. Yeah, and also it gets you in a different headspace to be served three drinks simultaneously and know like this is my future. I have this ahead of me. It's a beer flight. It's a beer flight. It was a beer flight of a very similar flavor. I'm in that tricky zone where the question isn't how hung over am I. It is, am I still drunk? I don't know if the system even reset when I slept. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't a lot of sleep. No.

So the party's still going strong. Oh, good. I'm glad to hear it. Ben, it was your first time. What did you think? Yeah, it was fun. Yeah, we had quite a table, you and I. Yeah, we were very close to the stage. We were like up to the noses, basically. Yeah. We were very close to Ethan Hawk walking into the fountain by accident.

Yes.

Which was her one.

You almost got splashed.

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