Hey, this is the moment, a bright compliment.

Thanks for listening.

I'm thrilled.

My guest today is Gillian Jacobs, an incredibly accomplished actor and a director and a really

good writer too, having read essays that you've written and someone who was a crucial,

a key part of one of the longest and most challenging nights of shooting I ever had in

my life.

Gillian, thanks for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

You took me right back.

Well, I want to say it was so meaningful to me and Dave, you hadn't yet, community hadn't

been on yet, but you had done the Chuck Palinock movie and came into audition for a part that

went another way.

And I remember, though, Dave and I were both like, that woman was so good and she would

be so great.

And like we asked you to do this small part and we were so thrilled when you came to do

it, which required you to insult Michael Douglas, basically.

And I've always wanted, like, why did you decide what made you do it was the idea that you

knew you'd play scene with Michael Douglas?

I loved the script.

I thought it was such a great script.

And then obviously, yes, Michael Douglas, but I mean, you had such a stacked cast in

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