This time it gets real. This time the seatbelt comes off. Howdy, I'm Jeff Goldsmith,

and this is the Q&A. My agenda is simple. Each week I plan to bring you in-depth insights

into the creative process of storytelling. And folks, yes, indeed, the seatbelts come off in

today's film, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, and I'm very pleased to have with us, the director,

Patrick Hughes. Now, you know, we did this as a virtual screening, which was really cool of

Lionsgate to allow us to do since the movie's not available digitally at the time we did it.

It was only in theaters, and it had done quite well in theaters. So Lionsgate was clearly in a good mood

with every reason to be because Patrick did a fantastic job directing this movie. And, you know,

if you're not on our list to receive invites, just go to backstory.net slash events. And you could

sign up to get invites to these free virtual screenings that we're doing

here and there. And we'd love to have you. So the folks got to see the movie and then they got

first crack at the Q&A and now it's available to the rest of the world. And you know, I got to say,

it was really great to have Patrick in the series. I was a fan of the first film, The Hitman's Bodyguard.

It was very funny.

And it's interesting now having done this Q&A to know that they had the patience to sit on

this film and to put it on the shelf for a year and really to wait until people were able to go

back out to movies again so that they could experience the, there's no other way to say it,

the communal joy of laughing together and having, you know, a fun action movie play out

on the big screen.

And I think it's fun to do these as virtual events as well, because we've built an online

community of film goers that really dig it, that are also podcast listeners.

So look, Patrick was very

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