The Alex Russell Interview with Throwing Fits

Throwing Fits

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Our interview with Alex Russell is certified fresh. Alex—our old pal whose new movie Lurker is out now—flew in from LA to hit the stu and talk where he subtly displays his Emmy and Golden Globe, movie anachronisms, hypothetical outfits he should’ve worn on TF, torturing yourself as stunt journalism from back in our Complex days, tapping in with the MCU to support the homies, boundaries are good for first time indie filmmakers, crying to music is easier than crying to movies, the absolute charmed time he and the cast had on set, watching Entourage to prepare you for Sundance, music journalism is actually the impossible dream, critics seeing themselves in your movie is good for business, the cinematic aspirations of all TV writers LA’s clout chasing economy, competition with his peers, the niche IP he wants to work with, casting and riffing with his boy Zack Fox, Letterboxd culture might be good, stop eating full ass meals at the movies, his go-to theater snack order, what actors he’d like to work with next, red carpet fits, watching Game of Thrones for the first time, The Bear vs. Beef vs. Dave’s writer’s rooms, peeping his bosses’ dick pics, the Wasian Mount Rushmore, and much more on Alex Russell's interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	Our guest this week is certified fresh and a certified lurker. He just made his feature-length directorial debut with a flick that asks, what if Tom Ripley wanted a followback? And head's critics raving, it's a fucking vibe, bro. As chat around the film heats up, our old palace, stepping off the red carpet and breaking out the writers' rooms of both the bear and beef to record a throwing fit's zuvie. We've known this guy since we're all in the digital content trenches.
0:22.3	So this convo is a long time coming as we talk real life twisted cloud chasers, getting
0:27.1	initiated into the Hollywood Illuminati and the best movie theater snacks.
0:30.8	Writer and director of Lerker in theaters now.
0:33.9	Alex, how are you?
0:35.4	I'm doing great.
0:36.2	Thank you for having me.
0:37.1	What's up, buddy? Congrats on Alex, how are you? I'm doing great. Thank you for having me. What's up, buddy?
0:38.9	Congrats on the Emmy.
0:41.0	Where is it?
0:43.1	It's in a, it's next to the TV console in like a sort of an under, under corner area where it's not totally on display, but you would see it.
0:55.3	It sounds very impispicuous.
0:57.3	Well, it's, it's kind of like you will see it.
1:00.6	But then you will also know that I wasn't trying to show you it.
1:04.8	It's just an Emmy.
1:05.6	But I did want.
1:07.0	Yeah.
1:07.6	And it's next to the globe and all that other stuff.
1:10.7	You got a golden globe too. So you're almost egot status. You're on your way. No, the G is a Grammy, bro. Grammy. Oh. How do you not have a Grammy? They give them shits out to everybody. Well, yeah, I mean. You don't have a Grammy for setting Taylor Swift to the car chasing and forksks. They don't give that out for that. For curating the vibe. But musical supervision. You could get one for like a music video. You know, that would be. And you've done music videos. Yeah, they should give me a Grammy for Zach's being kicked in video. Yeah, honestly, you're not wrong.
1:45.1	The only retroactive Grammy.
1:46.7	That was a miscarriage of justice to fact that you actually don't have one.
1:49.2	You have tougher Tony or Grammy or Oscar?
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