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Ring right or in chief Sean Fennancy the one and only Paul Thomas Anderson here we go.

Here we go.

I heard the Paul Thomas Anderson first time ever on the podcast. I've been waiting forever.

And it was going to happen at some point Sean Fennancy here as well at a river of the ringer. Hello. He's way more excited than he seems. He's just a player.

I'm playing a real cool. He saw he saw fan of thread twice. He went to a screening two weeks ago and then I went on Monday and Sean was there again. You ran it back.

I did. Nobody seen this. You kind of hit it for a while right. Well, we just finished it to the right two weeks ago.

So it's been hidden until then. So when you say just finish it are you talking about just like the tail end of it or was there actually real things you were trying to fix.

No, the actual in terms of fixing anything we gave up on that like months ago because we needed to you need to make your decisions about what the film is going to be as you go into mixing it and as you cut the negative of the film.

So those kind of choices had been made in late August or at least September we kind of decided but the actual proper like just a drug of finishing it like mixing it and getting the film prints and doing the color timing and all that kind of stuff that's that's kind of occupied every space.

All the volume of our days but I would just like technically finishing the film until a couple days before we had our premiere which that run at the arrow and the first night was it a mad dash.

No, no, no, we knew we were going to make it and we scheduled it within an inch of its life. So every so we kind of knew like we'd be all right.

When did you reach a point where people just left you alone with these movies because I know boogie nights was you know obviously you're 27 at that point and they're they're meddling all the time but when when did the meddling stop.

After right after that.

Yeah, yeah.

That was a success and I went to work again with new line and Mike Deluca who was running the studio at the time.

And they and you know they were like you know just go ahead and do your work and and when they said that and when they when there was a sort of feeling that you weren't going to get messed with somehow the collaboration became even more more sweet.

Yeah, and you know and you then you then you start looking for people's opinion.

You do right by him. But you said exactly you almost you almost wish somebody had better more of Magnolia right you have like conflicted thoughts after well that was like exactly the first time that somebody says okay go ahead and do what you want and I think that there were two things at work there.

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