writer director lake bell i was an actress who was a closet writer who aspired to be a director so then we all mixed it all up four years ago you said i don't find it hard to make a film because i am a woman if you happen to have a vagina that's ok. you said that you say it better than. 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 put one plus one have to eat food ok so i mean that has to be jewish up with which side of the road for the father that's way yeah i've never like i can say like lion but like i don't really know what it means you know they're all next on larry king. who are 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 shop caller in select theaters now and she wrote directed and stars in i do until i don't do that helms very steam burgeon amber heard in paul riser that's in select theaters september first of the night you're 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 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. recession 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 in multi dimensional fashion that is what makes it really sexy and really fulfilling their forte directional i do i do and in order to learn i think how to give direction while you have to know how to also in jest tell me about i do until i don't know what it's about it's about marriage topic. 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. 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 at 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 thesis that marriage should be a seven year contract with an option to renew seven year itch yeah. you do it to do so 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 mice. and it was like that 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 know when i have been approached 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 about i haven't heard about this yet yeah i have to later she came by the workshop and she begged us to do would because of our own religious you know what was going to happen on here. you know it was getting you know you kidding it is hard and heavy and purdah and he was ready to protect yes yes well. when did she know when when did this come

about no no i haven't heard why did she go i think i deserve to know whatever guard of sex games you sign does not want that's not something on a card i mean but i can actually i can totally see where you think that's what's made 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 for me these are all riser newsted mary steenburgen the cast is is awesome i feel really lucky that. 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 and she's very excited about it and then she finds out that are her sisters in fact doing it to. and there's

a lot of jealousy between your first film called in a world yes a the terrific movie critic of the new york times called its more generous and altogether winning debut feature with the person 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 flat or why did you said this movie in which my vera beaches 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 there then it was for the dodgers great for the dodgers spring training in 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 late school yeah there's just it's very tiny but it's of note chris who then wrote and directed writer who then i did or we would direct to the. 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 study 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 is. cameron is in africa. rob corder

e and that was like you know the first time i had been on a really big movie set and i done little indies and i'd done t.v. do you regard reviews of you do or didn't do for me than acting 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 a bet that you care or you said that you say it better than. i like. while some of the john it's ok let's talk about. why do women get 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 yet but there is a 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 right like to be a mom it just means you just have to have child care and the appropriate functioning system on set like why can't that 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 my 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.

for it. i'm so glad that that is done we have to ask you i have jewish i am full jewish ok so only the good half jewish on what side. which side of the world father father that's way yeah i've never like i can say like 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 know world has an inherently kind spirit

even if it's 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 they're pro-marriage i am prime pro-marriage i'm pro commitment and pro relationship that everybody it deserves a chance but usually you're nervous you have to be a little nervous in the trump thing when someone of course i think show never know what's going up and next exactly i think 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 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 a boy and a girl yet the girls are 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 like me and my sisters and his sister's name is no nova yeah so we got that nova like to name the locks i know with scotia coming up later. on on meryl. and her guilty pleasures more with the multi-talented leg fell to the gets.

rejected tonight. not. by the. look you go after the corporations but just more your life prompted older people to turn. her back it's not for me it's like medicine it's like a cancer from all the stress that the news puts you under redacted tonight is a show where you can go to cry from laughing about the stuff that's going on in the world as opposed to just regular crying we're going to find out what the corporate mainstream media is not telling you about how we're going to filter it through some satirical comedic lenses to make it more digestible that's what we do every week

hard hitting radical comedy news like redacted tonight is where it's at. there's a real irony going. on there is always. because it always. seems you know a little more wholesale surveillance you feel you have already and while those who tend to saw this in the past and. as you use the social you know i mean i don't know if dormitory is gone are the real. god would like. 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 look for she will see like belle everywhere. you were directed by nancy meyers and it's

complicated meryl streep alec baldwin what makes dance she's so good nancy. i love nancy meyers and she's definitely somebody that i who has influenced me. i think just 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 the tone that's very specific that she had here is to disinfect your director. i think truthfully the way i learned to direct is being on a myriad of sets and taking from all of the cutters i've ever worked with and i collect. little things like that and that's how i learned what was 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 my status yeah exactly i play

a bitch really in nancy's daughter the director yeah. yeah but nancy was one who called me and said howley and i want you to come and do this it's not only 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 was 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 is they 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 are it just who was your childhood celebrity crush axl rose as a secret talent. used to be a champion at limbo a club that really you could go on to get like if persian you trade places with for a day. you me now this is kind of fun and i want to be you want to be full jewish i want to be able do you and i want to or suspenders. braces. that have been world and every time i was with or listen i got to buy some after the shelf guilty

pleasure croissants but in multiples multiples like i can't like the guilty part would probably be like for croissants people i fidget a lot less time you are star struck. 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 where the child was during college. favor advice or croissants advice he could be of ice to our let's go past something you wish you were better at patience strangers fan encounter i don't have one i can't think of that 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 pillows tiny pillow like small i mean from 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 now it's to arrest them here i like a lot of pillows and if you 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 worsen. well someone always told me when i first moved to l.a. that you take fountain you know that was like the that's what's the big thing yeah like take fountain turns out found can get off the very top of. 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 get in their racetrack he did he own to two racetracks virginia international raceway not anymore but and new jersey motorsport park and so i always grew up being very grew up listening to those engines we had as all of this as a character and i do until i don't who is heavily tattooed but is afraid of motorcycles . that's all it is. a husband is a really to my husband is tattooed from here to the toes you from out attractive. you know you never know who you're going to end up with and yes i was pretty sexy or does he do 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 is

a gentleman how do you come up with the idea to have a tattooed guy who's afraid of more to say well you know obviously my husband did inspire a little bit of that said he's not he races 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 me you have we on an 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 got a list of 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 the team 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 all in wilson and his brother 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 here's rosie's a great guy i became dear friends with them and a very good actor very good actor solid strong handsome man no what makes you cry the most on what hard american summer. on what have americans aamer 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 the scenes stuff but i didn't get pregnant from somebody bloodshot call and i should tell you you're opposite mccoll costa womble yes he was just who i am because you know you're. lucky great. man 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 only he gets sent to prison he gets into a prison car 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 you play with his life. i don't like a prison guards only play is wife is. you know and other stuff too i mean obviously that's very often 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 the thing 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 we're 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 it 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 they could. great eating makes thank you thank you for having me here on the thank our guests like no i do until i don't get is in theaters september first home again is in theaters september eighth and sharp fall is out now and they will fight on the label of dog so more of the you know for a film called beverly boulevard meets fear will be cool to i don't know what to tell them what you thought was so i mean i'm totally against things that i'll see you next on.

the bachelor sudden passing i've only just learned you were a south and taken your last turn. your act caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest piece things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. i do

not know if the russians stick caught into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know rock obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing. revelations provided by edwards he denied the n.s.a. was carrying out the balance of the u.s. . the hyperventilating. has once again proved to be an echo for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable.

to children whose parents had taken them to iraq after joining islamic state and finally arrived back home to russia. the u.s. senate voted overwhelmingly against an amendment which could have ended the wars in iraq and afghanistan and. european commission president claims that the e.u. has too many presidents adding only one quote captain should be at the helm of the block. and the road to rock a new r t documentary tells the stories of those fighting to drive the state from one of its last syrian strong. my colleague kevin owen will.