4.2 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2018
⏱️ 95 minutes
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In honor of Fathers’ Day, Leonard and Jessie invited another father-daughter duo: seven-time Oscar winner Rick Baker, master of makeup whose credits range from The Exorcist and Star Wars to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and his daughter Veronica, who grew up in a kind of wonderland and is now pursuing her own creative ideas at D.C. Rick’s stories of getting started and finding the right mentors are inspiring and fun to hear…along with Veronica’s memories of growing up Baker (especially on Halloween).
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0:00.0 | Now Entering Nerdist.com. |
0:04.8 | Hi, everybody. I'm Leonardist.m. |
0:16.7 | And I'm Jesse Malton. |
0:17.8 | And you were listening to Malton on movies, and we have not one, but two guests today. |
0:21.8 | And there's a reason. |
0:22.9 | Why don't you tell us? |
0:23.7 | Well, this is our Father's Day episode, which means that we needed a father, but also a daughter. |
0:31.7 | I'm going to read something quickly. |
0:34.1 | 29 years ago today, my life changed for the better when my wife, Sylvia, gave birth to this beautiful little girl, my daughter, Veronica. |
0:41.3 | She taught me the meaning of joy. We were filming Gremlins 2 at Warner Brothers, the scene where Zach has Gizmo in the red toolbox in the men's room, when I got the call that my wife was in labor. |
0:50.3 | Before I knew it, I was a dad and so madly in love with this little girl. |
0:54.8 | Weeks later, we were filming the scene with Gizmo becoming Rambo, where the camera pans over to show the time on a desk clock. |
1:00.9 | I asked Joe Dante if I could put this exact framed photo on the desk next to the clock. |
1:05.9 | He indulged me. So next time you watch Gremlins to look for Veronica's film debut. |
1:10.5 | Happy birthday, Veronica. |
1:11.5 | Thanks for being in my life. |
1:13.3 | So well written. |
1:14.5 | I know. |
1:15.5 | I'm impressed. |
1:16.7 | So we have not one but two bakers with us, a Rick Baker and a Veronica Baker. |
1:23.9 | That's me. |
1:25.4 | And my dad gets all excited telling the story of how we met. |
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