Gina Gershon 💃💕

Life is Short with Justin Long

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Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Gina Gershon (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Showgirls) talks to Justin about sharing her music with Bob Dylan, the time she met her past life husband, and shares a tip for handling creepy men.

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0:00.0	A prime members, you can listen to Life is Short, add free on Amazon Music.
0:05.3	Download the app today.
0:07.0	A few years ago, Christian and I directed our first short.
0:15.9	It was a modernization of the Abraham and Isaac story from the Bible.
0:20.1	We reached out to a man whom we both admired the actor and playwright, Wallace Shawne.
0:26.6	So I emailed him and sent him the script and he wrote back the most thoughtful and lengthy
0:33.0	response saying, no.
0:35.3	It was such a beautiful rejection.
0:37.6	But basically the reason he said no is because he doesn't want to spend time doing things
0:44.2	anymore and he doesn't like building things and he values time so much and it was a very
0:48.0	life is short kind of response.
0:50.4	That's true.
0:51.4	But there was part of me that was like, if you just put the time into doing this one
0:54.8	scene.
0:55.8	That you're putting into writing this reject letter.
0:58.4	Yeah, it was so eloquent.
1:00.2	You might as well just do the scene.
1:02.8	I think it would have taken your honor to write the rejection and do the scene.
1:07.1	Yeah, it was all about how he wanted to use his time more wisely and he wanted to take
1:12.0	him an hour to write that.
1:13.3	No, you're not considering.
1:14.6	That's how bright he is.
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