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The Business

James Ponsoldt and Jason Segel on 'The End of the Tour'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jason Segel says he was terrified to take on the role of writer David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour, but director James Ponsoldt never doubted him. They tell us about their new film, which follows a journalist on the road with the famed author. 

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.

0:03.0

Every week, join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and Me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories, from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having.

0:13.7

You can find Left, Right, and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:18.1

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:24.9

I was terrified, which was really exciting to me. And to be honest, I hadn't been terrified

0:29.9

in a long time. And I think that that is something that I was really, really missing.

0:34.8

Jason Siegel is best known for comedies like The Muppets.

0:37.8

I Love You Man and How I Met Your Mother.

0:40.2

In the end of the tour, he takes a big leap, playing famed author David Foster Wallace.

0:45.6

Seagull tells us why he risked it, and director James Ponsult explains how he knew Seagull

0:50.4

would be up to the challenge.

0:52.1

But first on the news banter, crisis at relativity, and Adam Sandler can't save Sony from a bad summer.

0:58.2

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

1:05.6

I'm joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

1:09.2

Hello, Matt.

1:10.1

Hi there.

1:10.9

So, Matt, this week, finally, something that Hollywood has been expecting for really a long time,

1:17.1

relativity, and this is a company, an independent company, very hard to start an independent studio.

1:22.1

But Ryan Kavanaugh, quite the man about town, you know, known for living large, flying his helicopter

1:29.2

from Malibu to Beverly Hills, a couple of DUIs in his past that he managed to get to go away,

1:35.8

married to a ballerina and then unmarried and married to a model and hanging around with Leo DiCaprio.

1:42.0

So, you know, Bright Lights, Big City kind of guy,

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