David Cross

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Actor and comedian David Cross is our guest! While you may know him best for his stand-up comedy and roles on shows like Arrested Development and Mr. Show, David joins Jesse to talk about his newest endeavor - a dramatic role in the new film The Dark Divide. He talks about the mental and physical challenges of playing that role, growing up in Georgia, and his enduring relationship with Mr. Show co-creator, Bob Odenkirk. Plus, why he'd describe his new movie, The Dark Divide, as an "underpants heavy" film.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.6	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Ford.
0:22.9	The odds are that you, a Bullseye listener, no David Cross.
0:26.4	Alongside Bob Odin Kirk, he created and starred in the brilliant and influential sketch series
0:31.0	Mr. Show on HBO.
0:32.0	He's a long time standup comic and of course there's a rest of development.
0:37.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the theater.
0:41.5	I am Dr. Tobias Funkay and I will be your new director.
0:49.3	So there's that David Cross, the funny guy.
0:52.4	But more recently David has started branching out.
0:57.1	He's starring in this new movie called The Dark Divide.
1:00.6	In it he plays a fictionalized version of Robert Pyle, a real life science writer and expert
1:06.0	in moths and butterflies.
1:08.6	In the film, Robert is at a crossroads in his life.
1:12.0	He's just lost his wife to a long battle with cancer.
1:15.3	He's rudderless, he doesn't really know what to do with himself.
1:18.4	And he finds out that before she passed, his wife applied for
1:22.4	a grant for him.
1:24.2	He finds this out when he gets the grant approval letter and apparently the plan is for him
1:30.6	to pack his car with butterfly catching stuff, get together some hiking gear and head to
1:36.4	a giant forest in Washington state.
1:39.7	There Pyle embarks on a six week long trek through the woods, ostensibly to find and research
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