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Is That Something You Might Be Interested In

THE ART OF THE PITCH

Is That Something You Might Be Interested In

Doug Ellin

Tv & Film

4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Doug talks about a new project, his use of AI, and LICE updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You could make this picture for nothing.

0:05.0

Win an Oscar and gross $100 million.

0:09.0

Is that something you might be interested in?

0:12.0

All right, welcome to is that something you might be interested in?

0:15.0

If we're going to try to do this three days a week, which is already not as easy as it would seem,

0:21.9

even though there's not a lot going on in Action Park Media, but apparently Zulai, whose Connolly's

0:28.0

better half, apparently she's got 17 hours of podcasts a week that she's doing with, what is this

0:34.3

Got Milk? What is this one? Her company is called Modern Muse for all the

0:39.3

Latinos out there. All right. So anyway, check that out. But we're going to try to do this

0:46.8

more. We're going to try to change the title again. You see, it's a podcast. You can do whatever

0:50.3

you want. But today, like Stephen Colbert, I got bumped by Scotty.

0:54.2

I got bumped like a dog, like an animal, but there's bigger things going on in the

0:58.0

Action Park Media universe.

0:59.3

They have screened lice for a select inside crew, including Scotty.

1:05.6

And people apparently not only loved it, but this is Scotty, this is what I'm told.

1:10.4

Let me back up for a half a second. Yesterday was a stressful day. As you may remember, if you listened last week, I have a role in this in this movie. It may just be the B side of a phone call, but that's a big break for me to get on an offer only, no audition and this and that. But at the same time, I'm well aware that they might just cut me because I've cut my own children out of scenes if it doesn't work. And I believe you do the best for the

1:31.5

movie. There is no personal friendships or this and that. But anyway, Connolly, like, text me,

1:35.9

need to talk. Now, anytime I've said that, that's like, you know, if you watch inside the

1:41.1

NFL, that's when you know the guy's getting cut. When they're like, come to the locker, they're like, need talk, like, go see coach. So I'm like waiting for kind of at the same time, Jeremy Alter, producer of Lice, producer of Ramble on, text me, your performance was great. Now, listen, I'm being slightly funny, obviously, like my performance isn't going to change the movie or not change the movie. that being said i'd like to be in it be i'd like nobody to kind of notice it and go what

2:06.3

was that weird voice on the phone i would just not like that to happen and allegedly that

2:11.1

did not happen according to collie nobody even knew it was me um but still i had this stressful

2:16.2

time and i text connolly i'll call you in two minutes. And he says, can't talk right now. I need to talk. I text him right back. I'll call you right now. And then he says he can't talk. So now I'm like, they're just fucking with me. This is like how you make someone feel really stupid about their, you know, I put a lot of effort into this role. I slept on it. I thought about what I could do with. It's, it's the, I won't tell anything about the movie because I'd be fucking killed by this little leprechaun. But I put everything I could into thinking about what a cop might sound like on the phone. I watched 400 movies with, or scenes with cops in him. Lots of Brian Dennyi, who's just a master, as I said last week. But anyway, I did it. And then I finally got on the phone with Connolly. And what does he bring up? Not even the role. He doesn't even want to talk about it. Like it's such an afterthought to him, my performance. It's so nothing. He wants to talk about Ramble on again. And just like I say this, every time I think

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