You're going to be here. Hello everyone and welcome to the Tobolowski files a series of stories about life

love and the entertainment industry as told by actor Stephen Tobolowski. My

name is David Chen I'm the host of the slash filmcast the official

podcast of slash film.com and joining me today he is the man who played

Norbert Barrington in the 2002 film The Country Bears, Stephen Toulaski.

Stephen, how are you doing today, sir?

I was plumbing the depths of my memory for Norbert.

I knew I had played in Norbert, but it was like Country Bears.

Yeah, Walla Fur.

That was an enormously fun movie.

I have to say for people who aren't actors that there seems to be a ratio that exists.

The more fun you have on the set,

usually the less successful movie

will be at the box office.

Because let me tell you, we had a blast doing country bears.

Oh Lord all night.

Are you implying that country bears was not a massive box office success?

It was and and and there's a reason for that.

I don't know if people realize this at home, but there is a kind of sumo,

Greco-Roman wrestling that occurs as to which weekend you get far in advance of

when you release your movie. So if you want to have a summer movie, those spots are taken

months in advance and people wrestle for which week they want and of and

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