4.2 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Director Miguel Arteta (Chuck and Buck, Cedar Rapids) and writer-actor Mike White (School of Rock, The Good Girl) are longtime friends and collaborators with many experiences to share—and a new film opening in theaters starring Salma Hayek, Beatriz at Dinner. Leonard and Jessie hear what they have to say about working with everyone from Jennifer Aniston to Martin Scorsese in this entertaining conversation.
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0:00.0 | Now Enteringnerdist.com. |
0:11.8 | Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin. |
0:13.2 | And I'm Jesse Maltin. |
0:14.3 | You're listening to Maltin on movies, and we have not one, but two guests today, two talented guests today. We have collaborators, |
0:23.6 | longtime friends and collaborators, Miguel Arteta. Hello. Director, primarily known as a director. |
0:29.3 | That's right. And Mike White, primarily known as many things as an actor that you will recognize, |
0:36.2 | if you don't already, |
0:40.4 | and this being an audio medium, that made no sense to say, |
0:45.4 | and as a writer and sometimes director and sometimes producer and sometimes creator. |
0:46.8 | And reality star. And sometimes reality star. |
0:48.2 | I was on The Amazing Race. |
0:49.6 | That's right. |
0:50.2 | That was an ambition of yours that you realized, yes? |
0:52.3 | I did. |
0:53.4 | Thank you. |
0:53.8 | And what was it like? |
0:55.8 | What was the Amazing race like? Yeah. Amazing. |
1:00.0 | Lived up to its title. |
1:01.2 | It did. It was the fun of us. What drove you to or inspired you to do that? |
1:07.0 | Well, actually it was the, you know, there were 10 years ago there was a writer's strike. |
1:11.0 | And so we weren't allowed to write. |
1:13.6 | So I was like, I should, I should, if you can't beat them, join them. |
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