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Actor Phil Seymour Hoffman's work with a dream list of director, Sydney Lamett,

Mike Nichols twice, Paul Thomas Anderson, three times, the Cohn Brothers, Anthony Mangela.

He's now turned to directing himself for the adaptation of the play, Jocko's Boating.

Phil first of all welcome, thanks for coming back.

Thank you for having me.

And if you can tell the audience a little bit what the film is about because you're an adaptation of the play you started.

Yeah.

It's about two couples.

There's a married couple, Clyde and Lucy,

played by Daphne Ruben Vega and John Ortiz.

They each work with somebody and there are separate jobs.

Lucy with Connie and Clyde with Jack.

And they set these two people up on a date

at their apartment. And they do hit it off. The date goes badly, you know, the dinner goes badly,

but there's something, there is something that happens there. But we begin to see why this couple is setting these two people up, that it's

less innocent and less altruistic, I think, than we would imagine at first. Even though they're

both very giving amazing people, I think they're both in a lot of pain from their relationship,

and they really are making Jack and Connie their project in a way.

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