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Hollywood Handbook

Joel Kim Booster, Our Moviemaking Friend

Hollywood Handbook

Headgum

Comedy

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Boys welcome back JOEL KIM BOOSTER to discuss other classic adaptations he can make for Hulu. Watch the video recording of this episode at Patreon.com/TheFlagrantOnes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's just funny. To me, it was just like actually hilarious. That they thought I was like

0:13.5

scared, I guess. It's so funny that they thought that you were actually scared.

0:20.1

When it's like, I actually just had something else I needed to do and that's why I was leaving.

0:26.2

I was getting like text. That's why I was leaving during I guess that I guess what they thought were

0:32.2

the scary parts of the movie. But like I had to have my phone on because it's not it's a week day.

0:41.2

Like I have a job, you know, I have a job like sorry that your work situation is such that you

0:48.1

can just like sit down for like I'm sorry. I'm sorry people depend on me. No, it's over two hours.

0:54.8

It was over two hours. But it's like, yeah. So I'm like, I get up, you know, and I have to answer

1:00.4

some texts and I come back and they go like, are you scared of the part where Elvis is like shaking

1:05.2

his hips? And I'm like, literally no, that's not scary to me at all. I am fine with that. Even though

1:14.8

of course they hold him. He would be arrested if he did it at the big show. But that's not I'm

1:21.0

not nervous about that. What I'm nervous about is letting down my co-workers, you know, and not

1:27.6

showing up and being a part of the solution for them. So that's, you know, I guess in a way I was

1:34.0

scared. But out of the movie or of any of the shake or the outfits get kind of crazy at one point.

1:40.6

And it's a complete like anti Elvis on your approach to your work and the people that depend on you.

1:46.5

Like a lot of people were working really hard on that show. And he decides to like go up there and

1:52.7

just like do his thing. He was explicitly told not to do other musicians are on stage. And this

1:58.3

is a big moment for them. Like they don't have this is I guess a note on the movie. They don't

2:03.7

interview like the keyboard. No, whatever. No, they don't interview anybody. No, they literally

2:09.7

don't interview a single other character in the movie. And so it's like, is there a bias here?

2:19.2

I think so. Joel, what do you think about this? Yeah, Joel, you weigh in because I know you know

2:25.2

about performing and all of it. Yeah, there's the thing that you have to understand about movie

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