Lights, Camera, Chaos – Barry Sonnenfeld’s Hollywood Tales

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Director Barry Sonnenfeld has a new book out called Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time, and it’s chock-full of amazing stories from his incredible Hollywood career! He shares a bunch including his early movie-making days as a cinematographer for the Coen Brothers first three movies including Raising Arizona, and working with director Rob Reiner on Misery, and the events on set that led to a rift in their relationship. He recounts his unlikely move to directing thanks to The Addams Family, how he almost persuaded Michael Jackson to do the music for The Addams Family Values, and how that led to Michael Jackson’s cameo in Men In Black II! Barry talks about Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Vincent D’Onofrio in the Men In Black trilogy, and explains why Get Shorty is his favorite movie he’s ever made despite the difficult relationship with Gene Hackman! Purchase Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/barry-sonnenfeld/best-possible-place-worst-possible-time/9780306832277/?lens=hachette-books STAY CONNECTED: TikTok: @ChrisJericho Instagram: @talkisjericho @chrisjerichofozzy Twitter: @TalkIsJericho @IAmJericho YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisJerichoFozzy Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Talk is Jericho,
0:03.0	Jericho, baby.
0:05.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:07.0	My heart.
0:08.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:10.0	Mama.
0:11.0	Talk is, All right, so here with the supremely punctual, very son and felt.
0:17.0	Very, very cool to have you.
0:21.0	And it's actually, I was just reading through best possible place, worst possible time is your new book and man it's it's a lot of fun from what I was able to check out. You've got so many great experiences and we'll get a chance to talk about some of them what made you decide write this book so I know you've written a book before but this one's a little bit different right the first book was much more of a memoir. It was mainly about my narcissistic parents.
0:45.0	It was called Barry Sunnfeld, Call Your Mother.
0:48.0	Based on a true story that my mother had me paged
0:50.4	at Madison Square Garden at 2.20 in the morning while Jimmy Hendricks was warming up during the first
0:56.2	Vietnam War concert over the PA system, Barry Sunnfeld, call your mother.
1:02.1	That's the title of that book.
1:05.0	This book is totally about my career.
1:07.6	As a producer, cinematographer, director on directing Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones on Men in Black 2.
1:24.2	I directed the first three men in Blacks.
1:26.4	It's 2.20 in the morning.
1:28.0	We're in LA.
1:29.3	Will's sitting next to me.
1:31.0	We've called for Tommy.
1:32.1	We're getting ready to do this shot, and for no apparent reason, I say to Tommy,
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