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well going to larry king our special guest is lake bell actor director and writer you know her from how to make it a number of the children's hospital wet hot american summer and it's complicated leg stars in the home again opposite reese witherspoon that's simply it was september a shot caller in select theaters now and she wrote directed and stars in i do until i don't without a helms mary steenburgen amber heard and paul riser that's in select theaters september first of the night you not busy. so what comes first are you a writer director actor what. i will say i am a mom for correct which is a think i know is like the right answer but it i do mean it i think before i had kids i would be like i'm all work all the time you know but now my biggest

challenge is managing being not just a mom but like oh good one like a pretty good if you just said one profession what would it be. i feel like i have the privilege to do all of them so i'm going to say all of you like them all equally yes i think because you can tell the stories sort of multi didn't multi dimensional fashion that is what makes it really sexy and really fulfilling to do for take direction will i do ideal and in order to learn i think how to give direction while you have to know how to also ingest tell me about i do until i don't know what it's about marriage right it's about marriage it's great topic. it yeah i it's a topic that i needed to investigate because initially when i started writing the movie i came out from a pretty jaded and cynical point of view. you know there's

a myriad of divorces in my my life and certainly early on i was part of a divorce my parents and so when i was growing up i was thinking. i feel like there's a problem with the system here potentially it's just archaic at this point the concept is do we split after seven years she was that well it's all in the movie actually follows three different couples all the different times in their relationship and different types of relationships and it's all through the lens of the sort of pretentious documentarian who sort of descends her sort of big world politics and concepts onto a small town and she is trying to prove her ceaseless that marriage should be a seven year contract with an option to renew seven year itch yeah. you directed yourself i did the second. yeah i i i do enjoy doing that and it's hard because you know i think some people get squeamish seeing their their

performances but i just never had that thing i did another movie called in a world that was the first time i had directed myself and it was like groove you think you know a version of that and it was it was i wasn't sure if it would work that i could direct myself but in the end i was just kind of like you just remain objective it's a clip from i do to i don't you know when i had an approach to participate in this sort of on guard documentary study on marriage does anybody want to refill we have yes it's this award winning british filmmaker who's holding the piece and i just couldn't turn down the opportunity to support her to stick vision over doing that to you know i don't think it's probably a different thing because i don't know what you guys are talking right when i heard about this yeah yeah i met a lady she came by the workshop and she begged us to do would have to have our own religion. what was going to happen on him. no. it was getting you know you kidding

it is hard and heavy and. he was ready to protect yes yes well right when did she know when when did this come about oh i am her why did she go i think i deserve to know whatever i'm on guard sex games you sign does not want this on a card i mean but i can actually i can totally see where you would think that's what's mean and you know what's great is that we're all going to do it and we're talking about sex no no i'm talking about sex you're the only one who brought sex into it it's not like that. it's funny because of all rise in the news and mary steenburgen the cast is is also i feel really lucky. it's interesting this clip it's sort of it's when. alice who my character she sort of apologetic in the space she takes up in the world she's sort of repressed and her very sexual and open sister fanny is quite free and this is the first time that she sort of had

something she gets to be a part of this documentary enough not a lot of really cool things come to vero beach that she's very excited about it and then she finds out that are her sisters in fact doing it too and there's a lot of jealousy between so your first film called in a world yes a the terrific movie critic of the new york times called it's more generous than all together winning debut feature with the perfect blend of diffidence goofiness and charm without much that thrilled you that good that that was framed that was that was a framer that i have i have to say i was i was definitely. pretty flattered by the head why did you set this movie in vero beach my vero beach is i have a thing with florida i love it and when i was about twelve my mom moved to florida with my stepfather and he wanted to open up. a wine company there and he had had this memory. of it being really dear to him because vero beach was

really big in its heyday was or that it was for the dodgers great for the dodgers spring training fifty's and sixty's and so i guess i just have this affection for of the beach and it is the hub of some really interesting cultural events so for instance there's a windsor. polo club there where prince charles frequents he you know there's so you got prince charles a guy like darryl strawberry occasionally back in the day and you get interested in the white school yeah there's just it's very tiny but it's of note chris who then wrote and directed we will writer who then i did or we would direct to the would i i was an actress who was a closet writer who aspired to be a director so then we all mixed it all up ocean first film breakers and actors i don't know which one is a break i feel like i've been a slow steady of like keep in steps taken steps up to figure when we noticed she

was the most street movie it's complicated i feel like what happens in vegas was the first like big movie that i did which was a camera and isn't. rob corder e and that was like you know the first time i had been on a really big movie set and i'd done little indies and i'd done t.v. do you regard reviews of you do work didn't do for me than acting and i try i try incredibly hard to not look up because they don't think. i only look at them if they're good about that because i think there was a path to darkness four years ago you said i don't find it hard to make a film because i am a woman i think if you have a movie to make make it if you happen to have a vagina that's ok she'll make about you care or you should that you say it better than. i like. while some of the john it's ok

let's talk about. but why do women give this is such a small percentage of effect we have a quote. women made up of seven percent of all directors of the top two hundred fifty films that's a two percent decline from twenty fifteen according to san diego state center for the study of women in television i think i think that there will always be. a discrepancy mainly because if we just think about just a pool of directors and half of them are women and then half of those female directors are moms those directors those female directors that are also moms will not be able to make be as prolific and make as many movies in the year so already it's just in its inherent to i think being that's what i find most difficult to kind of understand logical yeah i know like

a blockbuster that might take two years to make i just think honestly what needs to change is the i think the kind of. how it's couched in society globally great like to be a mom it just means you just have to have childcare and the appropriate functioning system on set like why can't they just be a part of the set you know or because when i think about making my next picture i am i'm not going to not make that movie because i now have a three month old and a two and a half year old i want them to see me continue to attack my dreams and i need to be happy in order for the whole home to be happy in the same way that my husband has to do the same would you like to do a mammoth movie i might next picture is a much much bigger movie but it's not a studio picture that's like a well financially independent exactly but i would very much like to do you know if it desires of the caribbean yeah. i mean this is

a pitch because i mean what's one of the would be you know as soon as i know people with autism people between you and me i feel like we don't think judd katzenberg her and. brit i'm so glad that that is done we have to ask should she have jewish food jewish ok so only the good half jews. which said their own father father that's way yeah i've never like i can say like him but like i don't really know what it means you know did you react harshly to charlottesville of course half of course i feel like i right now i'm having. with a lot of the country and the planet i'm having a lot of anxiety and there is tension in the air and honestly i feel a little bit nervous i feel like there's very little that i can do but then i am reassured that the only thing i can do is put a kind spirit out there and in the art that i make so i do until they don't has

inherently and so did so did you. the world has an inherently kind spirit even at its comedy and its message is it is hopeful and sweet at the end sure i do until i don't has kind of like you're thinking oh maybe it's going to be a little cynical but it's actually ultimately and this is not even a small spoiler but i want people to know that the experience of it and what i want to put out in the universe in a small fashion is is respect to. a partner and their pro-marriage i am prime pro-marriage i'm pro commitment a pro relationship that everybody it deserves a chance but using your nervous you have to be a little nervous in the era of trumping when someone of course i think show never know what's going to happen next p.p.

exactly i think it's the unpredictability and. you know even just as a mom you know it's like all i do every day is trying to make my children feel at ease with as much predictability as possible right and so for me as a citizen i do feel. and worry. mainly because i think there are so many people disgruntled at the same time that cannot be a good thing you know boy or girl yet the girls older yet she is she said always name is ozzy as good as good. as good luck ozzie nelson yeah like ozzy. so. i'm like i don't want to i'm like i was like oh i don't want to give him any comparisons my name is ozzy and my mother's name is lake and my sister's and his sister's name is nova so nova yeah so we got that nova like to name the locks i know with scotia coming up lake on merrill research on on mineral

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would later. she's got a lot of things going for the shot callers in select theaters home again opposite reese witherspoon september eighth and her own film i do until i don't see the first you'll see lake bell everywhere it is for you directed by nancy meyers and it's complicated meryl streep alec baldwin what makes nancy so good nancy. i love nancy meyers and she's definitely somebody that i who has influenced me i think to seeing her command. the epic set that she sort of inspires and invigorates like i think her power is very very cool and she knows exactly there's a tone that's very specific that she had here is to get into effect you're directing. i think truthfully the way i learned to direct is being on a myriad of sets and taking from all of the tuckers i've ever worked with and i collect. little things and that's how i learned always like to play

and then tie goodness to meryl streep oh my gosh yet nancy has put me into situations where i've played this sort of like a high status yeah exactly i played a bit really in nancy's daughter the director yeah and again right yeah but nancy was one who called me and said howley and i want you to come and do this and i'll be good she's great yeah i mean i've i've never seen a more tremendous relationship between mother and daughter in a creative fashion because that can be hard that can be you know i was allowed to work with meryl well as you said i had to be. very high status with meryl and nancy actually had to pull me off the set and be like lake you need to get it together because you're way too starstruck right now and what about reese. but wait let me answer about meryl because i just want to say that she working with her was

obviously a dream come true and she could not have been more humble harry s. as an actress but also moving in amazing and yeah i'll never forget it and reese. reese you know i'm friendly with reese and i feel like she is sort of the most deeply professional. sharp artist. she's just so damn good at her job you know which is a just like a racehorse you know. so i i was lucky to work with her as well you've had quite a career indeed just burgeoning we're going to play a little game of if you only knew ok you don't have to answer them all right who was your childhood celebrity crush axl rose. s. a secret talent. used to be a champion at limbo a club med really you could go on to get like. a persian you trade places with for a day. you me now this is kind of fun and i want to be i want to be full jewish i

want to be able deal and i want to or suspenders. braces also you have been world and every time i was with or listen i got to buy some after the shelf and guilty pleasure croissants but in multiples multiples like i can't like the guilty part would probably be like for crossroads people i fidget a lot less time you were starstruck. when i first walked in here but now i'm doing ok thank you best compliment you ever got. probably i would i was about to say i think you just read it out early her from any other job you ever had when i was a promotional model at a tech convention wearing silver. like robot outfits showing people where the toilets were so over the robot outfits showing people how it was during college is going to favor advice or christiane's

a vice it could be a vice to our let's go past something you wish you had better at patience strangest fan encounter on line no i can't think of you know i'm like the luxury you can't live without i have to have a myriad of very high quality. pillows like tiny pillars tiny pillow like small i mean thrown on the bed yet you know they're like the smaller ones that you use and then you can kind of put them over your head or you can put them under and that it's your arrest them here i like a lot of pillows and i'm just like big fluffy pillows i like the smaller ones i'm just more these is my bridal yeah like down the something along believed to be true but realize worsens. well someone always told me when i first moved to l.a. that you take fountain you know that was like to be that's what's the big thing yeah like take fountain. from can get off the very top and. told me something people don't know about you. i'm a car afficionado i like cars

a lot of favorite. beginning maybe but i like a duck tomato as well won't get you into cars my dad is in race car driving and he has a collector and they're going there racetrack he did he own two to race tracks virginia international raceway not anymore but and new jersey motorsport park and so i always grew up being very good listening to those engineers we had this all the time this is a character and i do until i don't who is heavily tattooed but is afraid of motorcycles read. that's all it is. a husband is heavily tattooed my husband is tattooed from here to the toes you found out attractive. you know you never know who you're going to end up with and yeah i thought i was pretty sexy or does he do yes he's a tattoo artist and a fine artist so he he. you know it's he's the most gentlemanly man

i've ever met in my life so it's funny it's he is very unexpected you sort of see him and maybe be a little nervous. but he is just he's he's from the south he's a gentleman how did you come up with the idea to have a tattoo guy who's afraid more to say well you know obviously my husband did inspire a little bit of that said he's not he raises them but. but that would have been too on the nose. that said. i thought it would be fun to have someone a little unexpected because i think that people do profile that if you have a slew of tattoos that you have to be some sort of like media has we on this h.b.o. show how to make it in america. they would often invite authentic new york characters to be on the show we're going to listen they were actors or not and my character gets a tattoo at one point in one episode and they were like let's get this really cool

tattoo artist scott campbell like i'll sound like a good idea i don't know anything about to lose. so i met him in the makeup trailer the morning he was shooting and i was like. us your husband why he did this i mean yeah i mean we got we have gotten into it and incidentally i think. i think he has an amazing story his own stories incredible but he left home at like fifteen his mother passed away and you know when she passed away who she was kind of his super hero and. he always loved to draw he was just a real. talented he's like if i could just do that for the rest of my life i'd be happy and so he found a way to do that and and yeah so he he he is that i'd say i'm a little biased but i would say he's the best in the world i don't even think that's both liberal social media questions jay fuller twenty three twenty six is there any any any hope that how to make it in america will make that claim but i am

not the creator of that show so i do not have any power about that but you have a hope but i do also hope that we do a something just to kind of give people some closure because we didn't get to do that judge natalie wants to know what attracted you to no escape through it owen wilson and pierce brosnan i would say because it's so entirely different than anything i've ever done because it was why old lee action packed thriller in thailand was shot and i thought well the whole point of doing this incredible job is to travel and try new experiences so that's what it was pierce brosnan's a great guy i became dear friends of them in a very good actor very good actor solid strong handsome man you know what makes you cry the most on what hard american summer. on what americans i'm or it is just hard not to laugh because every single person involved is like

a. torrent of force does steamrolling comedian so. it's very very difficult but i think the hardest time to not crack up was doing the me and ken marino and david wain were doing like a sexual interaction of some sort but all wearing reason let's say there's and. you get it. and but we're all wearing masks of each other. and. really funny and i was pregnant so we know people don't know that that's behind us in stock but i didn't get pregnant from tell me about shot call and i should tell you you're opposite mccoll costa won't go yes he was just because you know you're. lucky great. first of all i'm the only lead in this movie because it is just a lot of testosterone but it's

a prison drama again not a comedy oh here he gets sent to prison he gets sent to prison carter yeah he gets under president is like any normal guy not a criminal a white supremacist out of purely survival because within the prison system i guess they're who do play but his life. i don't play like a prison guards and you know i'd lay his wife is like you know and other stuff too i mean obviously that's very sick but you know i'm i'm his it's very good you should say you have quite a life because you get to do the three things you love was the thing most you're a mother. but you get to write it to act good to direct and always want to do them all of them right yeah and i think it's nice to i mean not in a row i think what i like about making movies is that the way that it's built the path of it offers you many different flavors so well writing is sort of

lonely and quiet and and personal you know and therapeutic you know and then as you start to produce the project and direct you know there are you know casting you start to build a team and you assemble your comrades assemble it gets bigger and bigger and then you know that you know then you're wearing sneakers because you've got to run around to get a fanny pack at things do you know it's exciting and then you know it just keeps going it keeps changing so great who. great meeting thanks thank you thank you for having me on the thank god guess leg well i do until i don't is in theaters september first home again is in theaters september eighth and shot paul is out now and he will fight. for. it or what. will sell me on twitter king's things and i'll see you next on.

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