Welcome to LKTV, an extended family of podcast episode from Linoleum Knife.

My name is Dave White.

I'm Alonzo Duraldi.

This is usually a Patreon exclusive show, but when we get to talk somebody cool, we want to share it with the world.

We just had an episode with Michael Cyril Creighton from Only Murders in the Building. And today, we're thrilled to have with us, director of a very Jonas Christmas, an Academy Award winner, an old friend of the podcast. Jessica, you, welcome to the program. Thank you. It's so fun being with you guys. It's been too long. We were just saying, we went to a baby shower for you,

and that kid's like out of college by now, right? Yes. Yeah, she's married. Well, there you go.

Well, listen, you directed Disney Plus's A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, which has gotten raves across the board.

It is the movie everybody's talking about this holiday season.

So, congrats on that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

How, if at all, steeped in Jonas I,na, were you before you got into this?

You know, I really wasn't so much.

I had worked with Pryanka Chopra on Citadel, and

she had invited me to a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. So I had seen the guys and, you know, just

knew what their energy was on stage. And, you know, they just seemed like a great family. And so when this

came up, I thought, God, this would be super fun. But, but yeah, it was a bit of a whirlwind jumping,

jumping on. Because as you know, with the Christmas movie, you can't move Christmas. So the

schedule is the schedule. Yeah, you're, you're shooting on a lot of locations, obviously,

and taking advantage of the, you know, the holiday decor, which is a great tradition to movie

making. But was that tricky to do with like, you know, three teen idols, you know, to be on

streets and on train stations and not have to deal with like shrieking fans?

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