Elizabeth Olsen talks LOVE & DEATH, WANDAVISION, advice for Marvel actors: Happy Sad Confused

do actors come to you when they're thinking about joining the MCU and saying like what am I getting myself into some do I've had some people peep out it what do you say what's the stock kind of like do you really want it to say [Laughter] leave some space for yourself no yeah just give them one that's what I say prepare your raise humans happy sad confused begins now [Music] addition of happy sad confused I'm Josh Horowitz thanks as always for watching or listening however you're consuming this my guest today she loves True Crime dark magic and cooking yes I do sure three for three yeah uh it's Lizzy I describe myself uh did I miss anything anything on the resume we should add um no that's not I was gonna say no it's gonna make a bad joke you would regret that we'd have to cut it yeah I'm like why let's not do it let's not go down that rabbit hole already um remember to like And subscribe so you don't miss this amazing conversation with returning Champion Elizabeth Olsen um it's been do you know how long it's been since the full-fledged podcast has been in your orbit you and I no no 2015 was our last like in-depth soul-searching conversationalism oh my gosh I listened back I have no idea what happened to me what you mean just just metaphorically or literally or I mean like I don't know what I don't even know what was happening in my life in 2015. let me tell you I will fill you in oh cool that's fine I listened back you were promoting something uh the last true life story you did which was Age of Ultron obviously yeah yeah yeah yeah of course you were also marveling at the fact it was uh you were in New York in my office at um anonymity like yeah no one recognized me recognizes me I'm in Central Park yeah that's funny has that changed yeah that's changed it changed real fast with long division what is it happened kind of overnight you felt It's relatively yeah I mean it wasn't overnight it definitely was a gradual thing the more I was in Marvel's stuff the longer I was in them and I think one division reached a different maybe not larger because I feel like the Marvel fans are pretty large but I think because I was more front and center or something uh where I'm usually part of an ensemble and so that that that that that shifted yes anonymity shifted I literally just ended a conversation right before talking to you where I was like I missed that yeah well of course of course do you find yourself are the conversations like to find people want to engage with you on not arguments maybe that's too strong a word but discussions about Wanda for instance they have takes no I think that it's more just uh P it's like I think it's there's this I remember being in the back of a New York taxi cab uh what's his name Sandy oh yeah um the film critic the Sandy Canyon yes and he was interviewing Michael Shannon and he asked him about like what the worst thing is that people say to him and it's um oh are you an actor are you that guy in that movie and I was like why is that such a big deal that because they like can't remember what you're in but I understand what he means it's kind of like oh wait am I supposed to now explain to you why you think you might know me right there's that that's awkward because then you're like oh yeah well you know I'm either like oh no we've never met before I say that a lot right um or if I'm grocery shopping and they ask or like if it comes up like are you so and so sometimes I just lie and uh other times you just smile and you just say oh thank you nice to meet you what's your name and then that's it I just I it's none of it's offensive none of it's bad it's just not you're not uh blending into crowds which is how I prefer to see the world right yeah and looking back so considering that conversation way back when do you feel like I don't know were you overly optimistic that things weren't going to change did you know things in your heart of hearts were going to change or did you feel like just the nature of the kind of projects you were going to gravitate towards outside of Marvel that yeah I mean I'm going to be able to just do my thing and it's going to be well I still think it's going to change back because I just think people's attention spans are so short yeah um and I just everyone's gonna forget that that I was in any of these things and in a couple years I'll be having or fight whenever how much time has it been it's been too long it's been nine years hopefully it'll be sooner than that but in like five years or two years I'll be like oh yeah nah no one cares at all anymore I'm blending into walls just the way I like it um so I I think it will revert back in some way because it just will so okay so before we get into Love and Death I do want to reminisce about another point which is um we've had some fun times shooting not only interviews over the years but sketches yeah one of them I don't know if we've ever had the debrief on this but um one was with Aubry yes it was Aubrey pause at one of my favorites yes I love mine too uh human being and sketches and it was for Ingrid Goes West another favorite one obsessed um and as you may or may not recall in that sketch there is a line where you are kind of the joke is you are ruining the end of Avengers and you say everybody dies [Laughter] I'll be The Infinity Gauntlet I don't think so whoa tell me you did not just ruin the ending of infinity War no because everyone dies Lizzy I thought everyone knew that now this was shot chronologically speaking a year before infinity war came out oh so you probably shot it uh yes I wrote that line for you you didn't seem to bat an eye I'm curious can you recall any hesitation like oh this is going to get me into deep [ __ ] I'm ruining the end of this movie essentially a year before it comes out no I think I I think I thought like oh people aren't gonna think this is the ending because I'm saying thank you this is gonna this is this is this is really like I don't know what's it called when you get them off your Trail right right um that's what I felt like I was I think that maybe that was the thought I had that might be giving myself too much credit if I thought about it at all which there's a potential I didn't it's really funny because yeah after it came out they die after it came out it starts to resurface in my social media feeds where people be like oh my God she ruined the movie we now realize she ruined the movie wow a year ago what it's Fascinating People talk about like I don't know when I when I people I mean other actors I've always made jokes about you know there's like Shield or Kevin feige will come out and get mad at you or you'll be reprimanded I have a feeling I've ruined multiple things many times and no one's ever talked to me about it so I think it's fine on the scale of the on the Ruffalo scale as we call it you're still fine yeah but I think Ruffalo does it as a bit yeah now it's a bit maybe I don't think it originally was a bit but now he's playing into it okay I mean he's a pretty clever funny guy so it might have always been a bit but I don't want to like take that away from him if you know if it was authentic uh let's talk about your amazing new limited series yeah it's fantastic uh you Jesse plemens who I absolutely adore Billy Rabe um Patrick fugit uh yeah Pat's so good amazing he's so good in this show so this is what should okay this is always a little bit what should folks know going in you think um I think don't don't Google Wikipedia the whole story well yeah don't do that don't do that but also like go in not thinking that you're about to watch like a true crime drama or something that's not really what we're doing it's not really our show's more of like a profile on um the mentality of people in this town um during this time and it's and the character I play is in a way uh Progressive because she really lives by what she projects into the world right or onto the world like she really is about externals as as we have become as a society where it's a lot of presentational um we we are able to control how we present ourselves to the world and that is an important factor in This Woman's life and this is Candy Candy Montgomery yes who um so this is the setting is the late 70s Texas thank you thank you it's on the max as they call it as the kids call it now um well I think um I I don't know when they're making that shift but on my on my it's called a television at home um it says HBO Max right so in order to get you signed on the HBO Max you didn't sign up for this Max craft no and no one's told me that we need to start talking about Max so I feel like it's HBO Max and until sometime in May right Marla yeah okay okay so I think we're still safe calling at HBO Max we got through that okay what were we saying okay so wait 70s Texas yeah and yes um what I think is interesting is yeah as you allude to she is someone that wants more she wants more out of life and doesn't necessarily have the tools or the right ideas of how to go about it yeah she has a very romanticized um vision of what that could be and one of in one of the romanticized Visions is a is a big old Affair romantic Affair um and so but that and that is something that she seeks out actively methodically very directly very indirectly which you gotta on you know you gotta respect that directness I certainly do I was gonna say did in your dating life did you have that kind of directness like I would like to date you now I think it would be amazing if we did that though and we were like and I want to stop right like I know we're trying to be kind to each other but instead of us like ignoring each other that's just the greatest passive aggressive quiet yeah the ghosting yes they say as the kids say as the kids say yeah um as Anna dharmus and Chris Evans say so we're promoting that too Apple TV I don't even know where you could see it but that's where I guess you can see it uh but I yeah so she she propositions Jesse plemen's character Alan Gore with an affair and it ends up being a very very uh different kind of affair than you could imagine it becomes more of a friendship which might actually be more dangerous than a physical Affair some may argue because there's a lot of intimacy that they're getting from each other that they don't get from their Partners in their lives um and that Affair then leads to a murderer dot dot dot so and this the look this is inspired by true events based on on and obviously but there's there's humor in this as well yeah you're also dealing with some with murder with some horrible situations yes we're trying to Embrace this these absurd circumstances and situations um that these interesting characters find themselves and with hopefully not completely letting people off the hook of the fact that there was actually a death that affected multiple families that are around today we mentioned the actors Friday Night Lights fan Jesse plemons I watched a couple episodes when I was in Texas just because I was curious where like baby plemens started uh yeah and I I felt like I had to really commit to a lot of hours if I were to it's a lot watch that's like an 80s commitment I know yeah so I just you know watched a couple and I was and it was also I just loved the way it was shot it just felt so of its time like this like handheld television yeah thing it I I totally got what they were what they were doing with it and it was it was fun to watch it now as opposed to when it was happening the the milia is really fascinating because like we get to see you in these contexts that I've never seen you in before uh volleyball I don't know if that's been a part of your life huge part of my life I was on a I was on a traveling team when I was younger yeah age 11 to 14. oh see this must have brought it all back yeah it was really fun to get to play volleyball so much fun were you very competitive as a as a kid I was very competitive yeah I was very very competitive I even had like a a private coach at one point um I was like you know it was a starting Varsity Setter when I was a freshman and we won League I don't even know what that means but we won the league we were in what's your outlet your your athletic Outlet now are you a pickleball player oh my god I've only done it twice what a fun game I'm really late to it I want to play oh it's worth it yeah it's a great time yeah started playing with my little sister and her boyfriend and it's so much fun uh really I highly recommend it not like it not like they need the endorsements but that was fun uh I I am I'm very how do I how do I let out my physical I mean I I work out a lot because I think it's fun uh that's a whole nother conversation that I can't get behind but okay yeah it's fun to work out just generally I think it's because I played Sports and dance my whole life and I think when I went to college and became an inanimate object I was like starting to go years yeah I started to get depressed my mom was like well Lizzy are you exercising and she was right I wasn't and it makes you feel good you know what those endorphins are real how close an impression is that to your mom her voice uh I think I I mean she's she's usually a higher pitch voice than that yeah she's a very very fun voicemail person like I love listening to her voicemails what are her typical hi lizard it's your mom like that's what she sounds like but I think higher wizard yeah that was that's and it's almost every every voicemail starts with hi lizard it's your mom did everybody call you lizard growing up or just Mom uh family and best friend yeah called me lizard and now Robbie sometimes calls me lizard my husband um yeah so when I was in Godzilla my birthday cake was a lizard perfect yep we were talking before we started um I now have uh by doing a research I know you are not necessarily the biggest fan of roller coasters thanks to the great Colbert interview you did um there is a sequence that yes jumped out of me like oh this is it's always a fun thing to talk about like how do you act while you're in that kind of circumstance I couldn't act while I was in that it was I was it was a survival it was only when we started going in reverse where you can it's a two minute video when we start going in reverse I start trying to protect like put candy back on and but I'm like talking manically to Jesse the entire time so it's not even usable because we're not we're filming a montage we're not supposed to be talking so okay I want to just dive in a little deeper did you do you fear death do you just fear not nausea is just as like a physical intellectual torture what is what is the problem so when I was younger I had a theory that my friends don't want to be on a roller coaster that I'm on because that's the moment there's gonna I had just this idea I don't like things that go fast okay I don't like this idea of I don't like adrenaline rushes okay um so I'm you know someone driving too fast in a car like I tell drivers um you know what you can slow down I don't I don't I don't like getting places quickly like we're good lateness is kind of my thing I rather live and be like die exactly and so I do have a fear of accidents I guess with fast things um I do know where that comes from but I will not be sharing that in a public form but it does come from something when I was a little girl that didn't happen to me but that happened to others and so it's just ingrained in me Safety First and I did I didn't find roller coasters to be safe so when I would go to um whatever they're called amusement parks with my friends I would always just wait in line and just like then walk on and walk off and like wave goodbye and then I would sometimes they'd be like oh you gotta go on this one you gotta go on this one I'll be like okay I am and then I would just walk on and walk off and be like Oh Lizzy like oh blizzard did it again and it just was something that I just I did not feel safe doing right and there's just a part of me that thinks it's the way I'm gonna die I don't know and so it was really embarrassing and it wasn't I sang before we started filming like I wasn't trying to um Play Into The Dramatics or the attention or whatever but like I just started burst I just started crying when before we had to shoot this stupid Montage like a few frames of the whole show and it was monstrous in my mind and it was really embarrassing uh and now it's funny at least it's a good talk to a story yeah uh which is all that matters which is all that matters it's always so annoying when they're like anything funny happen on set that you can show us any behind the scenes footage and now I have one like I usually gonna die and I've got tapes yeah enjoy world it's helpful um I assume a more enjoyable uh singing in a car are you somebody that enjoys singing love singing in a car what's your anything that's on the radio what's your go-to anything I don't even have to know the song I love singing in a car so much I love being on a freeway with the windows down like the amount I don't even have to be I can be in traffic there are so many times I'm in traffic dancing my ass off and I just wonder um if I'll ever see someone who I know and they'll be like did I just see you dance because I dance my ass off in my car while you're driving how do you dance while driving it's like all in your torso and you just I mean it was so fun to get to do those scenes with candy because like I I love my wheelhouse I love singing and dancing in the car is ABBA now more in the repertoire are you I I could not stop oh it did happen actually sorry I'm just trying to scare you one I one of the things that I the thing with candy that was so fun to play is that she has so much energy and so when it was like 3 45 in the morning and I'm driving to set and I would be tired I would play some Abba and just or even not just Abby I'd play like Sharon vonnet and or whatever I was just like playing songs that like got me going right and got me excited and I think it was I was probably listening to 17 or something like that or the one she has with Angel Olsen and uh driving to work on one of these like narrow dirt roads in the 45 minute or hour drive or something in with no traffic it was just we drove to the furthest places and uh got to set and our camera AC uh told our DP instead of telling me which she totally could have that she saw me dancing in the car to work that I was behind her and I was like jamming out and uh so he asked me if that was true and I was like oh my God every morning is that true especially playing candy I have to have good energy this is your entry point to Mamma Mia 3 the inevitable end of the trilogy yes yes I play Lily James's mother this time have you you've look I know you loved musical theater growing up I did I loved it so you haven't really gotten to embrace that side of yourself too much I mean you've sung in film before a little bit yes but badly well on purpose sure yeah but also is the best I could do but you'd probably I don't want to put words in your mouth want to sing well and to the utmost stability that's on the list still oh I don't take lessons but I've been thinking about it yeah yeah have you gone up for musicals no never really never except I mean not since high school that's kind of surprising um should I be surprised no I was told that I sang flat starting when I was 12 and that kind of that kind of hurt [Laughter] and when I went to a conservatory School in Russia we had to sing right and uh and that was there was like a big emotional block to get me to do that in front of people because of being 12. um but it was really freeing to be able to do that in a class honestly who do you think is a big bigger musical theater nut uh you or Chris Evans oh definitely not me definitely Chris Evans right yeah I I really just know like the classic movies and the ones I was in I don't really know anything about anything else have you sung with them have you had karaoke Have you done anything no okay are you karaoke er no me neither never done it not interested yeah I I don't I just in your box in your car you'll do it but not yeah no no it's not for anyone you know it's really for me I I I think I feel eyes on me enough I don't need to add I don't need to put myself in that position hey guys I am so excited to talk about our sponsor this week it's hellofresh you know hellofresh you get farm fresh pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep you can skip trips to the grocery store you can count on hellofresh to make home cooking easy affordable and yes actually fun that's why it's America's number one meal kit plus it's more than just those delicious dinners you can pick from over 40 weekly recipes and you can choose from over 100 items to round out that order snacks easy lunches desserts Pantry Necessities it all arrives together in one box on the delivery 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math math so and it's I know from our past conversations it still boggles you like how long this has run and just the different iterations right yes shocked I signed on for like a thing and a half I don't it was funny one of the things that again I listen to that early conversation we had promoting Age of Ultron you talked about being cast by Joss and him saying to you um just don't Google the character yes look at how you're going to be dressed because you're not going to ever be dressed like that and then I was and then I got to be and I wanted to be by then you would come around to like okay if we're doing it in this way this makes sense yeah and then I got to be in the tights and the leotard and it was one of my favorite costumes it really gave me so much joy and also seeing Paul and his little get up was so cute did one division lead to any actual sitcom offers no but I understand why people like filming sitcoms now because they're the most joyful things you can do because of you get kind of the theater buzz like the reaction the you get that but it's also you just you are a physical fool and you're trying to make each other laugh it's just really fun so it's like you're it's like the chat the the ham that you were as a child on stage for your parents or something in your backyard that it's like you get to be that person yes you get to embrace that person and with more bells and whistles and all that kind of fun stuff um any more thoughts speaking of that kind of environment of going back to theater more I know oh gosh I want to so badly it's been a while yeah it's been a really long time and the experience I had last time was not a good one and so I really need it for myself and doing one Division and doing Love and Death made me feel really good in my physical body as an actor and I just I feel like the best thing to do for that is theater um and I need it I'm literally I planned a vacation for myself at the end of this press run to just go see a lot of theater by myself I I've been on a run the last couple weeks in New York I've been seeing a lot it's so it's about nurturing and so yes I want that so much so um okay so we were talking Juan division you basically went from one division almost without arrest into Doctor Strange it was like I had two days to pack not like I had two days and traveled on the third so look one division experience amazing and then Doctor Strange like we know those films often are fluid and it seems like this one was a bit fluid like so fluid so was that a little bit of I don't know how did you manage it did it feel the way I managed it is I shot what they told me to to do and I did it and then I went off and filmed Love and Death while they yes without me and so then I like re did my I did my voice over work to make everything that I'd already done on camera makes sense that's how we did Doctor Strange [Laughter] cooking metaphors how much did what I saw Doctor Strange resemble the initial script you saw of Doctor Strange it resembled more than I thought it was going to okay yeah I mean there are definitely moments where I I there's a point in making the movie where I just stopped reading drafts and can you Jack just keep quickly understood with the information I need and you guys fill in the blanks that you need but I'll just keep my Lane uh am I good or evil today what do you do it was that one was a wild ride were you are you protective of that character because obviously you know she's the villain of that piece yeah I am I am protective of her and and in a way I'm trying to make sure that our fans don't uh have to watch the same thing multiple times like I try and keep it interesting for them and try and at least if something seems similar thematically at least try and like find a different angle into it or a different way to explore it so that it doesn't just become repetitive for them right yeah one more question about the specifics of that filming and I think you've alluded to this before but the sequence where you basically decimate all these alternate Earth characters you know like Patrick Stewart oh yes yes did you know who you were murdering it changed a lot yeah yeah and so when I was on that um lie detector test right for Vandy Fair John Krasinski I think it was the question right so um I didn't understand that the character he played in the movie was the smartest man on the earth or something right Richardson and they said is this the smartest man on earth and I just didn't understand why they would say that this is what they call plausible deniability this is good to know a little less yes and I was so I so I I wasn't even like I'm really good at like hiding a lie like I had no idea why they're asking me that question and I also didn't shoot with him but I knew he he was going to be in it right but he wasn't there when I was there yeah because I I did a the Daniel Craig of all people did the podcast a few months back yeah and I asked him about playing balder the brave which apparently was in the that's what I thought was going to happen yeah yeah where's Daniel Craig I signed up for Daniel I saw the art they made a costume they had a design fluid Marvel that's just the way they roll yeah that's okay what did he say he kind of just stared at me and said I don't know what you're talking about but okay okay well shoot I should have done that no I mean that's okay God I'm so bad it's like I'm like an open book it's horrible okay classic ruffle classical Lizzy um so they are shooting or maybe I've already wrapped I don't even know the Agatha show Catherine Han I'm not sure if they're finished yet did Aubry come to you like do actors come to you when they're thinking about joining the MCU and saying like what am I getting myself into some do um I've had I've had some people ask about it what do you say what's the stock kind of like do you really want it of course I do I say just give them one [Laughter] leave some space for yourself no yeah just give them one that's what I say yeah meaning like one project yeah yeah because it's a commitment yeah and I think uh that way that you have more control over um if you know if if you let's say you're like oh my God this was the most fun I've ever had and I love this character so much I want to do it again you now have more creative controls for the next one if it makes sense you know yes don't tell no don't tell gloozy that business Affairs at Marvel well like yeah I'm not asking you for info on this because this is just a rumor floating around right now but for instance speaking of the world's smartest man the rumors that Adam Driver is going to play that character I know which would be insane but why did John do it well John because different multiverses there you go okay there you go so anyone can still play it I understand now so whether that happens or not what I'm fascinated by is like from Adam driver's perspective who can work with anyone yeah and like is he gonna sign for nine movies Adam Driver like that seems one of the kids does he have yeah I think he has a couple okay that's all oh you just saying College the college tuition he's doing fine I'm sure I think he's okay okay so beyond Marvel because you've had a run and it sounds like it'll probably continue in some form I know you're not going to tell me anything but nor do I know anything I know genuinely um does is there a need like at this point in the career to like sign on to another ongoing thing gosh no no and if anything it's the opposite yeah it's like it's almost like the IC uh my past and I see a road over here and a road over here and I've been traveling down this road and now I'm trying to like make a left-hand turn a bit just kind of steer back steer back a little bit yeah um I mean looking back do you I feel like you've managed it pretty damn well and kind of I I think I've tried to find my grounding along the way but I do think that when I started having job opportunities where I it wasn't me just like auditioning for literally everything and anything so I also kind of enjoy doing that um I I didn't really understand how to say no to projects or how to decipher whether or not I should do something or not right or hold off for something else like I didn't really have a philosophy or a plan and I still don't really have a plan but I'm more of a philosophy I guess right and that's nice to know and that's nice to have and that's good information um when I look with that looking through projects with that kind of lens and knowledge now and less about career calculation but knowing the kind of story the kind of film the kind of filmmakers that will make you happy and engaged and inspired yes exactly right yeah it's not about I I probably the majority of the outcomes would be like how many people saw that movie but for me it would it it's um I I need to explore certain things for myself I think um and there's just I I really um I want to just get back to like filmmaker driven stuff it's so funny when people are like do you want to direct and all I could think about is there are so many better people out there who should be directing I don't think that's for that's what I should be focusing on not to mention that's like two or three years of your life it's like I'd rather at this point in my career like work with the best for like four different amazing directors yeah yeah and there are some filmmakers that I really right I have projects that hopefully end up coming together with because I think they're so talented they haven't had the opportunity to do narrative fiction or not I mean narrative features um and so there's there's that too and it's like these people I think are like amazing and they are about I want to be a part of that opportunity for them not like saying I'm the opportunity but say I want to be a part of I want to happen of getting to work with them while they get to have so much more well it's also striking to see sort of like where your career coincided with the evolution of how movies and TV are made oh it's been so bizarre because when we started talking and when you you know we're the Sundance Queens Services did not exist but like yeah exactly and and those movies um they don't exist or they exist but they're few and far between now the ones you were making or their streamers yeah they become they've become something you stream not really see in a theater um I mean theaters have CL I mean theaters have closed I mean it's really sad uh I do think that because of all that though I have to hope that because pendulums always have to switch back that we are getting back to that I also think that um it's it's harder to make a movie for like a middle budget and it's actually a little bit easier to figure it out for something smaller right and I do think there's going to be some really creative and there has been some really creative filmmaking like Sanctuary I [ __ ] honest it's more good quality yeah I don't know I don't know if he built this set found this set or just like I don't know if it was a location or if it was the whole thing was a stage but it's like a did you see it I haven't seen it it's it's contained and I am like I just think it's contained and it's beautiful and I'm assuming he like elevated the budget Beyond with just being um visually very creative and so I'm really inspired when I see things like that and so I hope it just kind of swings back in that way happy set confused is all about picking the brains of the best and brightest in the world about their respective crafts and that's why master class is such a fantastic fit for happy sad confused masterclass is something I know from experience is a fantastic resource over 180 classes at your disposal from a range of world-class instructors I know from experience I have learned how to train my dog from the great Brandon McMillan I have learned acting tips from Samuel L Jackson that have informed the conducting of 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sure I didn't even like going to tape at like my agent's office or something and now that I have to do it you have to do it you're like what are you talking about yeah so that was a painful experience and then the director was also like no I'm serious I didn't want to hire you so there is so there is that but that was my last audition how did that work out well I just didn't get it it's okay I didn't get it that's fine the movie did very well okay did I see it no what did I love the script yes can you clear up that speaking audition thing because again yeah another topic we talked about way back when was Star Wars you were a Star Wars fan growing up oh yeah and I don't really know what's going on right now with Star Wars but I still love fortnite I barely do it's hard yeah but um but back in the day you were saying how you'd seen sides of actors that had been like friends that had auditioned and then there was like a report over the years that you had to pass on auditioning for Force awakens because of Age of Ultron I never had an audition for that okay that wasn't even in The Ether or not timing wise not the right thing fun rumor good rumor right I bet the internet's filled with them so for the reasons we just discussed so that's probably that would be a vaccine kind of question right like the love of Star Wars versus signing on for something that can take up your life for another decade yeah I don't know if I would do that right now right uh yeah it's like even like an ongoing television series that that to me sounds like a hard thing to say yes to even though I wish Love and Death had a second season because I just had so much fun playing this part which is you know weird but true do you have a morning period after a a project wraps like what's your like kind of go back to reality um process when we wrapped I think we went straight into press for Doctor Strange uh uh yeah I ha I mean I think it creeps up on me I don't know how to like move on uh it creeps up on me later that and it was funny it was when we were in South by Southwest for the premiere for the like for screening or something whatever you would call it um of of Love and Death David E Kelly after afterwards we were having this like little dinner thing I was calling it a dinner thing because we were standing not sitting so it's like a dinner thing outside and we were standing around and he asked me um if I missed candy and he was like trying he was like kind of cheeky when he asked me that and he knew what I was gonna I mean I deeply missed playing this part and there's a big part of me that wishes it was a um fictional show because I would love it is actually a character I'd love to return to I noticed something that slipped by Me was you you had a book out last year you had a children's book yes which as I understand it was one of the goals is about um helping kids deal with anxiety yes it's giving them the uh the emotional language tools um for young young ages has anxiety been something that you dealt with growing up that you still gonna wrestle with when I was a kid it just all of a sudden hit me when I was 21 or 22 I just started having panic attacks and so I didn't I never had anxiety I never had panic attacks and nor did I know a word for it right so I instead you know got a CAT scan and got my blood work done and got my heart looked at and it was just after a specific like moment like you had no lately it just happened one dinner I just like literally just came over me and then it just didn't stop happening and so I saw an internist and uh and it just ended up like the internist came in was like I think you're just having a case of good old-fashioned panic attacks and he was like this really old man you know it was like what are you talking about panic attacks I don't have that like I don't have anxiety I don't I didn't have those kinds of things uh as a kid uh it just all of a sudden hit me one day it was very weird and uh and I feel like I do have I learned a lot of tools on how to deal with it without medication although I think medication is a very helpful tool I didn't I didn't want I didn't want to be on medication because I was scared of medication it's the cascading problem so maybe anxiety I have anxiety about medication foreign customers I don't like going fast I'm gonna die so maybe I did have a lot of anxiety as a child and I just didn't know right buried not so deep um should I be worried that there's I think this is like the first time we've chatted where there's nothing on the upcoming resume nothing on the upcoming resume I am so unemployed good for you okay I don't really want to be it's just that everything fell apart I'm at the world or a career at the seams oh well no there's like one thing I was supposed to do and it didn't work out because actor availability and then there's another thing that was supposed to go through and then the dates didn't work and then financing and it's just a wild world with the strikes about to happen so it's just an odd time I think for our industry to to make things happen right now fair enough we can take a breather you can expand the cooking repertoire you're still learning a lot this time off it's it's constructive time yeah yeah okay let's do um let's wrap with the happy second fused profoundly random questionnaire okay some random questions for you dogs or cats Lizzy dogs that's correct yeah um what's the wallpaper on your phone it's um a close-up shot of a black silk fabric maybe you should consider the medication it's like a really pretty like you know silk like hits light and it's like the pretty fabric so it just looks like a pretty it's not just black you know it's like textured black fabric yeah it's soothing uh would you rather have dinner with Vin Diesel or Daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Day it's the last actor you were mistaken for uh my myself I I don't remember I don't think I've been mistaken for many other people besides um are you an Olsen twin or girl or sister or something oh no people say are you an Olsen's sister and I say am I a twin and and then I say no I'm not a kid you're engaging you're making this a dialogue sorry sorry short answers no I meant with the person yeah when they say are you an Olsen's sister it becomes like I don't know is this a trick question are you asking me do you know do you have an idea of what our first names are like I'm not sure what's what we're trying to talk about here but yeah no I I think that's it really if you were to host a podcast what would the topic be have you considered it all right um I would like to this was something I came up with while we were filming Love and Death and it was like 2 A.M and we were filming on the back porch and I started um assuming there's like a really loud party happening in a house next door just not even a party it was like five very drunk people outside being very loud and our location our locations department is very good at making sure these people are comfortable when we're shooting for them to be quiet and they didn't want to do that and so I started guessing the type of drinks that they were having um based on their personalities and I really thought that could be a fun entry point to discussions is making assumptions about people which is you know something we should definitely do and and ascribing a sort of uh wine or cocktail or drink to them and then that could maybe open up a conversation where you actually have like winemakers come in and talk about stuff green light and so I just started so I started talking about everyone's what if everyone were a drink what they would be that night oh okay well let's just open this up until briefly okay so what what is your alcoholic uh what's your adult beverage of choice what defines you it depends really yeah yeah it really depends sometimes it could just be some wine but I'm very picky about my wine okay um and then if I'm feeling fun and I have to be careful because you don't want to be too much fun because then you stop being fun I like vodka martinis okay and I like um Mezcal sours yeah with egg white I I made a horrible decision about a decade ago of having a shot of Mezcal which should not be ever done anytime anyone has ever given me a shot since College I sip it you're immature this is the right color I've never understood I just thirst there's tradition I just learned recently about icing I don't know I'm an old man I don't know ices oh yeah yeah it's when you find one and apparently apparently when you find one you're supposed to get on your knee and chug it no and they're like it's about a thing for 10 years and I was like wait first off didn't know they're like have you never watched television it's all over commercials never seen a commercial where something this happens to someone and also who who said like and why would I have to and someone tried to ice me and they're like you have to drink it now and I was like in what world would I have to do anything I have free will I'm a grown woman so you don't know about this either no but I'm 75 years old [Laughter] uh in the spirit of happy sad confused what actor makes you happy okay oh okay oh gosh she just iced she's just uh an actor that makes me happy oh gosh they pop up on screen this is I mean for a trace I'm gonna scream I'm like oh I gotta watch this Diane Keaton yeah she came up recently someone else actually said that yeah yeah she makes me happy even when she cried she makes me laugh uh movie that makes you sad [Music] that's a movie that makes me sad uh The Way We Were every time yeah I like I really lose it every time in that movie uh and finally a food that makes you confused innards generally innards of anything like the intestinal tract the uh yeah yeah I think that's a weird Choice yeah and apparently it's a delicate right well but that is confusing to me yeah because I don't want to know what's going on inside the people intestines and nor do I want to eat it the people's intestines well that's that's a really confusing cannibalism very confusing according to listen but I mean but like really yeah like a I mean what animals intestines is it is it a cow probably I would think yeah I don't want to know about it no yeah anyways uh congratulations on the new limited series it's it's not a Max on the HBO Max everybody check it out Love and Death it's fantastic work from the great Lucy Olsen and it's a um yeah too insane to be believed story that is actually true um and yeah don't read it at all don't yeah [ __ ] about it just watch it you gave him the tease right we gave him enough yes all right we're gonna go hit him amusement park and have some innards right now yeah that's awful combination good to see you good to see you too thank you for having me after all these years oh finally cool we did it wow I can't believe we did this in 2015. isn't that crazy that's very crazy life has changed and so ends another edition of happy sad confused remember to review write and subscribe to the show on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts I'm a big podcast person I'm Daisy Ridley and I definitely wasn't pressured to do this by Josh laughs [Music] foreign

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Length: 49min 56sec (2996 seconds)

Published: Thu May 25 2023