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Hollywood Handbook

Zach Gilford, Our Close Friend

Hollywood Handbook

Headgum

Comedy

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Hollywood Handbook guys start off with some tips on how to pitch a movie in the segment "Pitch Perfectly", with topics like writing yourself into scripts and classic beach pranks. Then ZACH GILFORD from Friday Night Lights shows up to complain about how annoying film crews are, the dynamics of working with your wife, and the Popcorn Gallery is back again to ask more important questions about Taylor Swift and starving children.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So Martha, Clinton, and I are walking out of the movie's beast for holding hands, and all the camera guys are laughing.

0:13.0

Oh, are you guys like freaking doing it?

0:16.0

And I'm like, no, man.

0:18.0

Neither one of us wants to let go of the last bread stick.

0:21.0

Oh, the bread sticks there are.

0:23.0

Great online maze balls.

0:25.0

Unreal.

0:26.0

Hey, welcome to Hollywood Handbook.

0:28.0

What up, what up everybody?

0:30.0

What up, what up everybody?

0:31.0

What up, what up, what up?

0:32.0

We are sort of gentlemen about town in Hollywood, where the movie's industry is.

0:44.0

And something we like to do is to teach other people how to become famous in Hollywood.

0:49.0

And one of the biggest mistakes that people make when they're trying to be Hollywood guys is when they're pitching movies.

0:56.0

And when you have the opportunity to pitch a movie to a Hayes or a Sean or to a Spielberg or a Vince Vaughan or to an Owen Wilson or a Luke Wilson or an Andrew Wilson,

1:14.0

you don't want to squander that opportunity.

1:17.0

You want to make the most of it.

1:20.0

So we do a segment on the show that people love called pitch perfectly.

1:25.0

I can't tell you how many times early in my pitching career when I kind of just moved out here.

1:31.0

I don't think I'd even unpacked my clothes where I would pitch a movie.

1:37.0

And the guys would be like, great, let's do it, let's do the movie.

1:42.0

And I'd be driving home.

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