Under the Influence (with Jo Piazza) - Bridget Jones, Real Lady Necks, and the Golden Age of Rom-Coms (with Erin Carlson)

00:00:00.640 I don't think I can be your friend, Isabella said.

00:00:04.060 Rebecca's stomach flipped.

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00:00:22.720 I have a confession to make.

00:00:25.700 I have watched the new Bridget Jones movie three times.

00:00:30.000 alone. Once with a glass of wine, once with no wine whatsoever, and once at three in the morning

00:00:39.020 when I couldn't sleep. And I've got to say, within the first 10 minutes, each time, I find myself

00:00:46.740 both bawling and snort laughing out loud. Now, I have always loved Bridget. I still quote Bridget

00:00:56.080 with my best girlfriends on a very regular basis. I'd probably say tits pervert at least once a 0.99

00:01:03.900 week. And I think that this new movie is just completely perfect. And maybe I'm just in need 0.99

00:01:10.960 of a good rom-com, a soft place to land in our messy, messy times. But I also truly think that

00:01:19.040 there is something about Bridget, our messy, hilarious, and deeply relatable friend. Because

00:01:26.640 yes, at this point, it's been 25 years together, okay, since I first read the book. And we are

00:01:34.160 friends. I don't care if that is creepy and parasocial. We're friends. We are.

00:01:41.560 I love rom-coms. And maybe the reason that this one hit is also because I just want more of them

00:01:48.060 in my life? I do. I do. I love a movie as opposed to a series, and I'm recording this right after

00:01:56.520 White Lotus ended, because I gotta tell ya, I invested time in that White Lotus. Watching a

00:02:03.720 TV show at Sunday night at 9 o'clock is not nothing for me. I am a sleepy person who likes

00:02:09.280 to be in bed reading by 9pm. And the finale was a big disappointment. It was. I like a movie where

00:02:17.040 I can get in and out and be very emotionally satisfied in two hours. So today's episode is

00:02:23.840 a love letter to the romantic comedy. The movies that taught us to feel big feelings and believe

00:02:29.560 in good kisses and root for a happy ending even when the odds are stacked against us.

00:02:36.020 And I'm very excited to bring in someone who knows way more about romantic comedies than anyone else

00:02:41.740 on this planet? Author, journalist, and rom-com scholar Erin Carlson. Erin wrote I'll Have What

00:02:49.480 She's Having, how Nora Ephron's three iconic films saved the romantic comedy, which might be one of

00:02:55.400 my favorite subtitles of all time. And quite frankly, she's the queen of rom-coms. She knows

00:03:01.660 everything about everything. We're going to dive deep into the new Bridget, the state of the romantic

00:03:05.880 Comedy Today, and why so many of us are craving joy, big love, and real women, real freaking

00:03:14.860 women on our TV screens right now.

00:03:24.520 Erin Carlson, queen of rom-coms, the world's leading expert on rom-coms, to be honest.

00:03:31.880 I'm so lucky to call you a friend, and a friend for so long, so long at this point.

00:03:35.880 And I got to tell you, I loved the new Bridget Jones movie so much. It hit me right in my soul. And it took me a while to watch it because life is so busy. And then I watched it alone the other night after everyone was in bed. And I was just, I was crying. I was snort laughing. I was doing all of the things. Why do you think this movie had such an impact on me?

00:04:00.680 um first of all i watched it alone as well i think that like this is a movie that if you're

00:04:07.960 a woman of a certain age in your 40s and you grew up with bridget you sort of have to like watch it

00:04:13.040 and savor it alone while your kids are sleeping bridget jones i feel we grew up with her we grew

00:04:19.400 up with her like she's like our friends she's our friend she feels like my friend and i'm not a

00:04:24.620 person who thinks that celebrities are my friends and neither are you because we lived in the new

00:04:29.980 york media world we know too much we know too much but bridget jones the character feels like a

00:04:36.520 friend she feels like someone i think about on a very regular basis and i just think they hit this

00:04:42.020 movie out of the park it was funny it was bittersweet and you know there we know we know

00:04:50.260 that the early bridgetts are are very 90s problematic when it comes to body issues and 1.00

00:04:55.340 things like that she's so she's so thin when she is describing herself as fat in bridget jones one

00:05:01.620 i really appreciated renee zelliger looked like a 50 something woman in this she did she did i think 1.00

00:05:10.840 she looked she looked good well-preserved 50 something woman but like we we saw shots of her

00:05:18.100 neck that look like my neck okay i've never seen the neck i've never seen nicole kidman's neck look 1.00

00:05:23.760 like a real woman's neck nicole kidman would never like her neck is botoxed like yeah no no 1.00

00:05:30.040 i mean if it went if it got to that i think that nicole kidman would have a neck double right 1.00

00:05:37.240 like fantasy too i feel bad about my neck she was always covering her neck 0.95

00:05:44.460 i get it and i because i only my neck only recently started going and it's it's a dead

00:05:52.360 giveaway for 44 like i can get the botox i can put all the lotions and the makeup on but like

00:05:57.720 there's nothing to do about this neck and when i saw bridget's neck i took a bunch of screenshots

00:06:01.740 of it so i'm like geez she's got real lady neck and i just appreciated it so much it's kind of

00:06:06.940 little turkey leg going on little turkey little turkey i appreciated that i was like i gotta

00:06:13.520 cream my neck but i also feel seen right now i mean i loved how they treated um mark darcy's

00:06:20.500 death yes spoiler alert I think well we know he's dead Mark Darcy is dead in this and but like

00:06:26.820 seeing Bridget as a widow and then also as a mom of two young kids right yeah yeah and her life is

00:06:36.000 chaos it's like a happy chaos but it's a happy chaos right and I think I really I loved I loved

00:06:43.600 seeing a happy chaos a happy chaos and I love that like she runs into the bathroom and she's like I

00:06:49.640 I just want my kids to leave me alone.

00:06:51.860 And we have those moments, like parenting children is like highs and lows.

00:06:57.280 You love your children.

00:06:58.400 You love being around them.

00:06:59.760 But you also want to escape them.

00:07:02.120 Yes.

00:07:02.480 You want to escape them all the time.

00:07:04.020 And then I want to be with them constantly.

00:07:05.920 It doesn't make any sense.

00:07:08.100 Right.

00:07:08.740 But I feel like this was a real depiction of motherhood in a city, too.

00:07:13.860 And also grief.

00:07:15.340 Because and just like that, you know, when Mr. Big like falls off the peloton, has a heart attack.

00:07:21.000 No, no, no.

00:07:21.600 We never hear about it again.

00:07:23.460 We never heard about it again.

00:07:25.040 And she just forgets him.

00:07:25.780 And she just cries in the shower and he's gone.

00:07:29.460 And he's gone.

00:07:30.400 But Colin Firth, you see her certain things remind her of him.

00:07:35.840 Like the white Powell, like, you know, outside their townhouse, like is a reminder of him for some reason.

00:07:43.800 or a song or i thought they did a nice job of exploring grief in a natural way and not in like

00:07:51.900 a fake carrie bradshaw way although we love that we love carrie bradshaw but also love carrie

00:07:57.520 bradshaw but that this hit differently and what i'm what i'm so curious about is was i just hungry

00:08:04.900 for a rom-com because i hadn't had one in a while and we came of age in you know peak rom-com i

00:08:11.880 think is that you were you were a rom-com historian so I feel like I grew up with rom-coms

00:08:17.440 and I love them and I'm finally at a point where I might be able to start watching them with my kids

00:08:22.380 which I'm real psyched about but it it feels like there's been a fallow period can you walk me

00:08:27.220 through this yeah well okay so I feel like rom-coms had their heyday in the 1990s and the 2000s and

00:08:36.880 And then, like, I feel like they got a little formulaic.

00:08:40.620 You had those Katherine Heigl movies come out.

00:08:43.520 Yeah, I didn't love those.

00:08:45.240 Oh, because you just felt like they were, you saw the wheels turning.

00:08:49.240 You knew how they would end.

00:08:50.780 There was no chemistry between Katherine Heigl and her male co-stars.

00:08:54.680 It was like we felt like we got lucky with Tom and Meg, but also McConaughey and Kate Hudson.

00:09:01.420 You know, and then it just kind of like we got tired of them.

00:09:04.620 and um i feel like stuff got ironic it got dark we were watching mad men um you know white lotus

00:09:13.980 whatever but i feel like there's been um a resurgence in romance not even films or series

00:09:23.000 but also in the world books yeah yeah i think we want a soft place to land i really do like i think

00:09:31.200 that that is really because and i want movies these days too because i i don't have much time

00:09:39.260 for tv right now we're watching white lotus which i can handle because it's one episode a week right

00:09:46.180 but i also if i'm gonna watch something i want to get in and out i don't really want to be on the

00:09:51.360 hook for something like i want to be satisfied in two hours and i think maybe that was part of

00:09:56.620 Bridget Jones journey too because I cried I laughed I felt very satisfied at the end of it 0.82

00:10:01.560 there was sexy sex in it yeah really but really enjoyable normal human sex which Bridget always has 0.80

00:10:07.440 yes because we like you know we see her you know trying to wax in the first one and then wear the 0.97

00:10:13.520 grandma panties and all of it feels very normal person yeah and yeah I think maybe the Bridget

00:10:20.820 jones was just so satisfying because it delivered in about in under two hours yeah and that's what

00:10:27.280 i want you know i want something i want that hit of the feel good um the relatability and the female 0.98

00:10:34.360 wish fulfillments um yes because bridget like she's always got like you know some hot you know

00:10:43.640 Whether it's the hot, you know, schoolteacher in Man with the Boy or the rockster played by Leo Woodall, who's 20.

00:10:52.800 There's always some questions.

00:10:54.300 I love Leo Woodall.

00:10:55.140 I am such a Leo Woodall stan.

00:10:57.660 I really am.

00:10:59.460 And Leo Woodall. 0.79

00:11:01.340 And I'm also a Nicholas, and I'm going to massacre his name, Galitzin.

00:11:06.500 How do I say it? 1.00

00:11:07.660 I think that's correct.

00:11:09.300 Galitzin.

00:11:10.020 Galitzin?

00:11:10.580 Right.

00:11:10.780 it's it's a hard there's just too many consonants in there it's just hard to say

00:11:14.680 but he was great in um in uh the idea of you which is another age gap movie and that's been a trend

00:11:24.360 too um in the past year we've seen stars like renee zellweger and hathaway and nicole kidman

00:11:31.160 of the perfect i don't i don't talk baby baby i i can't the baby girl okay i just can't i yeah

00:11:37.680 Glynis and I, for some reason, we could be here talking about anything, anything else.

00:11:43.420 And then we're like, remember how much you hate Baby Girl?

00:11:45.920 And we're just like, I hate it so much.

00:11:47.800 Oh, my God. 1.00

00:11:48.740 Such a dumb movie. 1.00

00:11:49.980 It's not a necessary movie. 1.00

00:11:52.360 But she did another one.

00:11:53.560 She did another age gap movie with Zac Efron called A Family Affair. 0.99

00:11:57.220 Shut up. 0.99

00:11:57.900 Really? 1.00

00:11:58.300 Yes.

00:11:58.920 It didn't get enough attention. 1.00

00:12:01.120 This Baby Girl, of course, got attention because it's a creepy, erotic thriller. 0.94

00:12:05.800 You've got the milk.

00:12:07.020 It's weird.

00:12:07.680 but this I love me I love me some Zac Efron yes um he's so funny in this and he plays like um

00:12:16.560 like a action movie star and she plays like this um the mom of his assistant and she plays like

00:12:23.760 this Joan Didion style essayist and it's ridiculous and it's just oh yes and they have a romance and

00:12:31.240 it's not creepy it's actually well done have to be creepy that's like that's one of the many many

00:12:36.900 things that i don't like about baby girl it's not creepy um yeah i loved the idea of you but i also

00:12:43.720 loved nicholas whatever his last name is in red white and royal blue yeah that was the movie that

00:12:49.620 got me out of my rom-com slump that like really back it really i mean it was just so touching it

00:12:55.780 was so sweet i loved it i loved everything about it i liked um like the like the gay romance aspect

00:13:05.540 um and how it just um it wasn't tortured you know it was just like it's just like an everyday

00:13:12.680 gay romance but also starring like the son of the king right he was like a son of the

00:13:19.240 it's a prince it's a prince and then the the son of the president yeah yeah i i felt like that was

00:13:26.900 um a real it was really funny it was really funny i mean i but that's the thing like i

00:13:32.740 i want high like i want hilarity i do yeah and then i want i want i want sweetness i just i just

00:13:42.640 yeah yeah do yeah the soft place to land the soft place to land that is what we what you need right

00:13:49.280 now right and those um i feel like the genre really kind of took off during the pandemic

00:13:54.280 like with books like so the emily henry books emily henry blew up over the pandemic

00:14:00.220 And then you saw, like, bookstores devoted to romance open up in New York and L.A.

00:14:08.080 What's opening in Philly?

00:14:10.060 The Ripped Bodice?

00:14:12.140 No. 0.94

00:14:13.440 It's a couple Philly girls are opening one here, which is so fun.

00:14:19.320 I've got a secret.

00:14:20.960 I like to say the secrets on the podcast because then my agents will, like, get wind of it or my editor.

00:14:27.300 And they're like, really, Piazza?

00:14:28.620 Really?

00:14:29.620 So I want to try my hand at writing a romance.

00:14:32.960 You should.

00:14:33.940 I want to try it.

00:14:35.160 Maybe I'll be terrible at it.

00:14:36.400 But I didn't know if I could write a thriller.

00:14:38.160 And I just wrote, you know, a historical fiction.

00:14:40.840 And then I wrote a thriller.

00:14:41.860 So maybe I could do romance.

00:14:43.260 You could.

00:14:44.540 You could.

00:14:46.040 I feel like the best romances are written by women who have really lived.

00:14:51.540 And I'm not saying we're, like, old or middle-aged.

00:14:56.060 Middle-aged.

00:14:56.960 I think it's okay. 0.99

00:14:57.660 It's okay to see. 0.99

00:14:58.380 I want to take back middle-aged. 0.52

00:15:01.060 Thank you.

00:15:01.800 I'm trying.

00:15:02.320 I'm not saying old anymore.

00:15:04.360 But I, I, we're, I'm 44.

00:15:09.780 88 is probably the end zone.

00:15:12.500 Me too.

00:15:13.260 Right?

00:15:14.220 And I want to read, well, I want to read more romances starring women our age in their 40s.

00:15:22.780 Because I feel like I'm picking up these romances and a lot of them, they're all 30 years old.

00:15:28.380 and i just i feel like i can't relate anymore so i'm looking for more good romances with women in

00:15:38.520 their 40s and even 50s so if any of your listeners can give me any recommendations you know great

00:15:45.640 yes yes let's let's have let's have them come in i've been banding about this idea for a while

00:15:50.580 that i want to do a story about a widow um because i don't think i can write divorce well 0.86

00:15:58.380 because i have a happy marriage right so yeah i mean i have to kill him off if i was gonna you

00:16:02.700 know think about what what would i want with my next um relationship if my sweet sweet husband

00:16:08.160 were sadly dead uh but a widow of a famous chef who has all of these cookbooks and in the flashbacks

00:16:15.820 we see the evolution of their relationship grow through all of the meals that he's cooked for her

00:16:21.620 and she chooses to start cooking all of these meals on her subsequent dates when she finally

00:16:25.580 starts dating after he passes away oh my god I have like I'm crying already I think it could be

00:16:33.600 very Nora Ephron because we could put recipes in it oh that's perfect wait I'm um I'm I have chills

00:16:40.800 right now i know i love it i love it i'm i'm already casting this film in my head totally

00:16:47.040 totally wait who would you cast in it oh gosh um hold on let's take let's take a quick break

00:16:53.020 tell me when we come back tell me when we come back okay okay

00:16:55.780 i didn't like what you said odin pauses about the future this is the love story of real hinge

00:17:07.740 couple, Odin and Edward. Written and read by me, Curtis Garner. Listen to the free audiobook now.

00:17:20.280 All right, we're back. Who could we cast? Who would you cast?

00:17:25.380 I was actually thinking Jennifer Garner because I thought of this years ago

00:17:29.160 when Jennifer Garner was in the running to play Charlotte Walsh. But then my producer was like,

00:17:36.380 i heard jen wants to do rom-coms and i'm like she should do this this would be so good uh and now

00:17:41.440 now it's bubbling in my head as a possible next project but i mean i i i don't know i mean it is

00:17:48.880 interesting that the women that i loved for so long in rom-coms are now in their 50s 60s

00:17:55.920 and 70s right i re-watched heartburn recently which is not a happy movie not a rom-com

00:18:02.180 i like um i did not love that movie really oh see i like i like heartburn i do like heartburn

00:18:09.660 people do um and people like that book too um but i i like my favorite nora would be julie and julia

00:18:19.560 because that is really such a love letter to nick collegi her third and best husband

00:18:24.400 and it's a love letter to a happy marriage which a lot of people wouldn't expect but you know

00:18:32.820 if you like learn more about Nora you'll begin to see this isn't just about you know Julia Child

00:18:40.640 it's about Nora and Nick so that's good and Heartburn is iconic but I felt like it was miscast

00:18:48.360 in a way oh fair fair but you're never gonna say no to Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson playing you

00:18:53.560 never i know that's like the thing and carl was very happy about this i'll bet he was and then

00:18:59.560 carl carl happy about nothing else about the book or the movie but he was like all right if it if

00:19:06.000 jackal nicholson is gonna play me then that is like definitely a step up from dustin hoffman oh

00:19:12.660 so absolutely fine fine absolutely but you know i if they remake heartburn i have had this like

00:19:20.160 thoughts do you remember what's her name why am i forgetting her name she directed book smart 0.78

00:19:25.680 she's a messy white woman she was married yeah yes yes right olivia she was married to jason

00:19:32.440 sudeikis oh yeah she's totally i would i would like to see jason sudeikis in more romantic comedies 0.57

00:19:37.460 i am secretly in love with him kind of i don't even know if it's secret for me okay

00:19:43.140 I just love me some Sudeikis.

00:19:47.020 I love the whole cast of Ted Lasso.

00:19:49.180 Okay.

00:19:49.720 I'm obsessed with them.

00:19:51.420 But Olivia.

00:19:53.840 Olivia.

00:19:54.760 Olivia Wilde.

00:19:55.900 Olivia Wilde.

00:19:56.900 I always thought, like, because she, when they broke up, she posted on her Instagram stories, like, Nora's recipe for vinaigrette from Heartburn.

00:20:07.600 Yes. 1.00

00:20:08.480 And I was like, this messy white woman should remake Heartburn. 1.00

00:20:12.980 Yeah, she should. 1.00

00:20:14.040 Yeah, she should.

00:20:14.400 And that would be interesting.

00:20:16.260 She should direct that, I think.

00:20:17.960 That should be her next project.

00:20:19.900 And meanwhile, Sudeikis should do your romantic comedy with Jennifer Garner.

00:20:25.520 She should definitely do that with Jennifer Garner.

00:20:26.920 I think that they would be really, really great together. 0.63

00:20:30.540 Right. And Jennifer Garner, I mean, I feel like she's critically underused.

00:20:34.280 She was in like that Laura Dave thriller, the last thing you told me.

00:20:37.840 Yeah, which was fine.

00:20:39.500 But I don't think it was her.

00:20:41.360 I don't think she I don't think she like really shined shown shown in that.

00:20:47.040 I never knew if it was shined or shown.

00:20:48.980 So sometimes I say both and I don't know.

00:20:51.040 I guess. 0.91

00:20:51.440 But she is she has that thing that she everyone likes her. 1.00

00:20:57.340 Men want to date her. 1.00

00:20:58.680 Women want to be her friend. 0.98

00:21:00.420 She has this natural likability. 0.98

00:21:02.600 And I don't understand why she just doesn't do.

00:21:07.280 But maybe Ben Affleck, maybe he ruined love for her.

00:21:09.980 maybe Ben Affleck well yeah I mean which is why I kind of think it would be great for her to become

00:21:15.540 the queen of midlife rom-coms because Reese Witherspoon is still doing them I'm just I'm

00:21:22.560 kind of sick of Reese Witherspoon being in in rom-coms I will say Sweet Home Alabama one of

00:21:28.300 my top faves one of my top faves yeah yeah right up there with my best with my best friend's wedding

00:21:34.260 are they are they doing a sequel to my best friend's wedding well they shouldn't that movie

00:21:40.900 should be left alone it should be left Sally like nobody should touch my best friend's wedding

00:21:46.720 no they should not no they should not because it's a perfect movie it is a perfect film it's

00:21:51.880 the anti-rom-com but like at the end and this is kind of like what made it so groundbreaking at

00:21:57.900 the time and what makes it timely now is that it was really a love story at the end between her and

00:22:03.180 her gay bestie yes exactly and now you hear like gen z saying we want more friendship comedies

00:22:11.540 yeah yeah totally maybe they could make that um and like my friend josh duboff wrote a book um

00:22:22.820 that just came out called early 30s which is about um like a gay guy and his best girlfriend

00:22:28.520 I feel like that's, you know, that could be those platonic, platonic rom-coms.

00:22:37.100 Platonic rom-coms.

00:22:37.980 Trending in the future.

00:22:40.100 Totally.

00:22:40.680 But people still want the romance.

00:22:43.000 I think they still want the romance, the rom.

00:22:45.780 You were telling me when we were emailing back and forth about this, because when I was just, you know, completely cavelling over Bridget, you were the first person I wanted to talk to about this.

00:22:56.340 because well oh I want to back up for a second Bridget I think that America made a massive

00:23:02.340 mistake in not releasing that in movie theaters I don't understand what's happening at Universal

00:23:09.200 Pictures because I should be in charge yeah you should I should be a studio head I'm like Seth

00:23:15.340 Rogan in the studio recommend yeah yeah I'll probably be equally frazzled but I'll be making

00:23:21.160 good decisions and one of those would be to release bridget jones 4 into theaters in the u.s

00:23:28.740 instead of hitting theaters they released it on peacock which was so weird i mean peacock is the

00:23:36.480 one streamer i didn't have obviously i got it so i could watch bridget but i wasn't happy about it

00:23:43.820 i was annoyed about it and i also feel like it just kind of disappeared because it was on peacock

00:23:50.160 because people aren't on Peacock so they're not logging on they're not reminded about it and

00:23:54.820 because there's so much content we're not reminded about things on a regular basis so most people I

00:23:59.420 know haven't seen it yeah because it's on Peacock which is like in the Siberia of streamers and it

00:24:08.280 were if it had like a regular theatrical release I guarantee you women would show up it would be

00:24:14.980 like women going to see the sex in the city movie they would have shown up in droves yes which they

00:24:21.920 did which they did in the uk where it did really well and it's made like i'm looking at a number

00:24:27.280 here 130 million worldwide no small potatoes no small potatoes it is again like underscoring that

00:24:36.680 women you know are criminally overlooked in terms totally yeah because they're releasing all of the

00:24:43.940 Marvel movies into the theaters and I would have I would have then watched it again and again on 1.00

00:24:48.280 Peacock I would have I still would have gotten Peacock if that is where it lived afterwards

00:24:52.180 but at least give it a little life in the theater so we can see more of the advertisements and so 0.94

00:24:57.800 we had a chance so we could have a chance to have a girls night out or something because my 0.83

00:25:01.960 girlfriends and I kept trying to get our shit together to watch it on the couch or like my

00:25:06.320 one girlfriend Jackie and I thought about watching it over zoom together and we couldn't do it but 0.96

00:25:10.480 If there was a destination, I'll bet you we would have gotten that did.

00:25:14.680 Yeah.

00:25:15.320 Because then you can go get a margarita beforehand.

00:25:18.040 A spicy margarita.

00:25:19.360 You can bring some wine into the theater, whatever. 1.00

00:25:24.220 I want Emily Blunt in my cooking movie.

00:25:30.140 Although it would be creepy because Stanley Tucci would actually be really sexy as the dead chef, but he's her brother-in-law.

00:25:37.000 I mean, that's a layer of interest.

00:25:41.020 That's good for the promotional aspect.

00:25:43.160 It's kind of great for the promotional aspect.

00:25:44.660 People would talk about it.

00:25:45.860 Or maybe he's just one of the dates and it doesn't work out.

00:25:49.340 Like he's just one of the dates she goes on afterwards, but that could be really funny.

00:25:52.500 That would be so funny.

00:25:53.700 And his wife, I feel like they would love that.

00:25:55.960 I think they would love that, yeah.

00:25:57.060 I mean, his wife is a lit agent.

00:25:58.220 Like, I think they'd think that way.

00:25:59.020 And he makes her a Negroni and she's like, I hate Negronis.

00:26:02.020 Right.

00:26:02.740 Yes.

00:26:03.220 Oh, my God.

00:26:03.980 They have to be in this movie now.

00:26:05.500 This movie has to.

00:26:06.520 I have to write the book.

00:26:07.100 All right.

00:26:07.260 I'll write the book.

00:26:08.600 it has to let me finish the lost masterpiece right um what is the title do you have a title

00:26:14.460 no but now that i've put it out there in the universe to you the queen of rom-coms i will

00:26:19.260 come up with it but you noodle on it you noodle yes chef yes oh my god yes chef could you have

00:26:26.300 jeremy allen white from the bear yeah i mean that's the thing like for the because she's gonna

00:26:31.680 to get through her grief she's going i think that maybe she was like his editor of his cookbook too

00:26:36.980 so like it was like a real thing for them um and he had you know they courted by him cooking her

00:26:42.740 all these meals and now she's going to cook them on these dates as a way to get over her grief to

00:26:46.540 like you know purge this from her life and we have the chance for so many good like people to come in

00:26:53.540 and be the dates i love it jeremy ellen white is not funny though he's nf not funny f yeah he's yeah

00:27:01.820 so he's out but he could be the not funny but he could be the not funny date exactly

00:27:06.300 yeah exactly um like i think like maybe she could show up and like stanley tucci is like

00:27:12.100 making her a negroni in the nude and he's like what why is this weird subscribed subscribed oh

00:27:18.060 my god it's now this is all that i want to write okay i'm manifesting this um yes i'm writing

00:27:24.940 myself a post-it right now so that when i tell my editor what i want to write next it's yes chef

00:27:30.120 yes chef yes um and this will have a theatrical release yeah it will it will be released on

00:27:38.220 valentine's day 20 27 it has to be 27 yeah we're we're we're full up until 27 it will have a

00:27:46.840 it will premiere first and at um maybe that's maybe toronto oh toronto is a good one yeah

00:27:54.680 maybe toronto i'm putting this on the wall i'm putting this on the wall right now is she

00:27:59.000 opening you know so chic so chic commercial yet um commercial yet yet touch of prestige

00:28:06.280 yeah i mean it's very commercial but also a touch of prestige okay yeah exactly you can yes this is

00:28:13.120 going to happen this is going to happen because we're putting it out into the universe i believe

00:28:16.640 this i completely believe this they love it um and like i feel like the last rom-com i saw in the

00:28:23.580 theater was a year ago um what did you see anyone but you which anyone but you and that stars glenn

00:28:32.420 powell and sydney sweeney did you see that right right no i have not seen that but i'm supposed to

00:28:39.260 right because that is how everyone got so into glenn powell it's really um that's how i i he's

00:28:46.480 was your glenn pal that was my awakening okay where um because it was like it was like three

00:28:53.740 weeks it was like um like my daughter had been out of school for three weeks it was like christmas

00:28:59.640 break um her first day back at school i was like i just need to be alone in the theater

00:29:05.200 and i went to go see anyone but you it was like a monday in the middle of the day

00:29:11.520 whatever freelance life and yeah but i love being alone in theater i was thinking about this the

00:29:16.360 other day like I almost want to start putting this on my calendar of like going to the theater alone

00:29:22.760 once a week to see like a two o'clock or an 11 o'clock movie but I think Glynis does this a lot

00:29:29.760 and I could do this I can absolutely do this you're inspiring me I'm going to do this next

00:29:34.300 week before spring break because spring break is going to be an overload of children yeah and I'm

00:29:38.220 going to schedule movie time for myself no Nick just me just me it's nice in a theater I know it's

00:29:43.160 nice yeah and it's like it feels like a spa day or something so there's some movie out now about

00:29:50.960 naomi watts and a great dane it's called the friend okay that looked cute bill murray's in

00:29:58.240 it and i i don't know anything about it okay it looked it looked vaguely adorable so i was like

00:30:04.400 okay why not i would go see that um yeah see something vaguely adorable vaguely adorable

00:30:10.560 don't go and see like the brutalist in the middle no no you're gonna regret that i want joy is what

00:30:19.220 i want yeah okay so anyone but you anyone but you and glenn powell really funny it's it's really

00:30:26.220 raunchy but it's really sweet and um he like um they play enemies like they hook up early on in

00:30:37.360 the movie and then they have a misunderstanding and um then they reunite again like a mutual

00:30:45.660 friend's wedding and it's sparks start to fly again um and sort of hopefully remembering the

00:30:53.380 plot uh it's been a year but i just remember laughing my ass off that's like it reminded me

00:31:00.860 a little of there's something about mary oh which i haven't watched in a long time with like the

00:31:06.500 kate hudson mcconaughey um like how to lose a guy in 10 days you know like chemistry so chemistry

00:31:16.280 was fantastic by the way and how to lose a guy in 10 days i reference it a lot because i actually

00:31:22.740 reference it in everyone is lying to you because it feels like it's one of those movies that is

00:31:26.620 always on the television if you turn on tv it's like always on tbs or something it is we don't

00:31:32.560 have normal TV. But when I'm in a hotel room, I'm like, oh, yeah, look, how does a guy in 10 days

00:31:37.780 is on? It's always I know I whenever I see it, I think of Nora Epron's producer, Linda Obst.

00:31:45.300 She died last year. R.I.P. She was amazing. And one of those like crazy broads, you know,

00:31:53.600 producers like old school producers, old school producers and all that. But she had produced 0.99

00:32:00.780 those kate hudson matthew mcconaughey movies so every time i see and it's it literally is on in

00:32:06.040 every hotel room at any given moment i think of linda and um not to go on a tangent about linda

00:32:12.800 no i want to hear all about linda yeah she's she hated um the katherine heigl rom-coms i hate them

00:32:21.420 too i like i hate every i hate every single katherine heigl rom-com that exists okay

00:32:27.000 from the ugly truth to that one with seth rogan um oh seth rogan or the other guy no it was him 0.97

00:32:34.980 i hate that movie it's called um knocked up knocked up i hate i hate everything about that 0.75

00:32:39.700 movie i hate that movie yeah but seth rogan and i felt like he got all the jokes and she 0.75

00:32:45.640 was like shrill well speaking speaking of speaking of seth rogan i love the tv show platonic

00:32:53.500 which is a friend calm never seen it people told me to like oh you'd like it oh you'd like it it's

00:33:00.200 rose byrne who i love oh rose byrne could also be in my movie yes and bobby canna valley could

00:33:06.360 play her husband right i know he's got i always had a little crush on him same same i love him

00:33:13.040 now platonic is awesome because it is she is a former lawyer who quit working to raise her kids

00:33:18.220 and he is just kind of like fun guy who owns a brewery and they stopped they were best friends

00:33:24.640 in college stopped being friends because she hated his fiance and now he's getting divorced

00:33:29.400 and they they like are both at you know crossroads in their careers and they just hang out like

00:33:35.500 during the day while her kids are in school and like sometimes they get drunk and sometimes they

00:33:40.000 do ridiculous things and like steal his lizard back from his life and it's just really sweet

00:33:47.020 and there's no romance and there's no romance there's nothing romantic about them i mean it's

00:33:52.420 very similar to like one of my best guy friend from college there's no romance it is just like

00:33:58.680 pure friend joy i love i feel like i love that because you don't see any platonic male female

00:34:05.660 no you do not enough and i feel like those are like you know i find myself um like i pick up

00:34:15.420 and drop off yeah really connecting with the dads totally because they're really funny yeah um

00:34:22.300 and like one of the dads loves movies too and he barbie'd and oppenheimer'd on the same day

00:34:28.680 oh wow okay yeah i find myself becoming friends with these dads too as well as the moms

00:34:34.740 yeah and i was like i had no interest in these dads no and i was like i'm not interested in like

00:34:39.660 But sometimes during mom's night outs, I wish the dads could come.

00:34:47.060 Right.

00:34:47.380 The moms, the conversation drifts to like schedules and I'm like, yeah, it'd be fun to bring the dads to the ride.

00:34:55.800 Yeah. 1.00

00:34:56.780 Little mixed gender company. 1.00

00:34:58.940 I have to see that. 1.00

00:35:01.360 You'd like it.

00:35:01.920 You'd really like it.

00:35:02.540 You should you should start it.

00:35:03.840 All right.

00:35:03.960 Let's take one more quick break.

00:35:04.860 And when we get back, I want to talk about this new J-Lo rom-com.

00:35:09.660 saying how you feel out loud is terrifying but that's what hinge's new free audiobook

00:35:18.400 no ordinary love is all about it's a collection of real love stories about five couples that met

00:35:26.440 on hinge the stories are written and read by temby dinton hurst nicola dinan curtis garner

00:35:31.940 raven smith and rufy thorpe i hunter harris wrote and read the forward the audiobook's out now give

00:35:39.180 it a listen okay we are back there's a new j-lo rom-com in the works i don't always love j-lo

00:35:52.140 in a rom-com how do you feel about her okay i i like her as a i like her as a human being

00:36:00.200 a human being as a human and an artist and i just don't think she always nails rom-com 0.88

00:36:06.780 yeah she's um she puts a lot of shit in her like in her personal life and she puts herself 0.98

00:36:15.340 out there in a way that sometimes seems unsolicited like do we really need this um 0.99

00:36:21.580 like um you know um like whatever documentary with her and ben affleck no we didn't need that

00:36:29.580 i didn't need that i'm curious but i also don't want to know too much but despite the fact that

00:36:36.000 a lot of people don't like her is really popular as a romantic comedy heroine especially on Netflix 0.64

00:36:43.900 oh wow so it's weird that she's got all this hate coming at her from the internet but she's a huge 1.00

00:36:51.560 star um she is gorgeous um she's a really underrated physical comedian um she has a softness 1.00

00:37:02.160 to her she at the same time i don't know how relatable she is oh no that's i mean that's the 0.99

00:37:08.920 other thing maybe that is it maybe that is my my issue with her in rom-coms because i find her

00:37:14.080 completely unrelatable oh yeah she's um i hope this doesn't sound too like anti-feminine you

00:37:22.020 know perfect looking um she totally so many of them are perfect looking too it's just i think 0.95

00:37:30.400 Maybe it's just because she's such a goat, too.

00:37:32.820 Like, the greatest of all time at so many things, right? 1.00

00:37:35.260 That you're just like, oh, fuck. 0.99

00:37:36.920 Like, all right. 1.00

00:37:37.860 Right.

00:37:38.520 Like, I loved her in Hustlers.

00:37:40.300 It's like that.

00:37:40.920 I liked her in Hustlers. 1.00

00:37:42.080 The stripper drama. 0.91

00:37:42.780 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1.00

00:37:43.440 It's just a great role for her. 1.00

00:37:44.840 That's a good role.

00:37:45.780 But, like, I find, I have, and I like, I like her thrillers.

00:37:49.100 But I have a harder time with her in the rom-coms.

00:37:51.180 And maybe it's because I just don't find her relatable.

00:37:53.620 Yeah, I feel like when she's, like, she's good at comedy.

00:37:58.260 but i just don't buy that somebody like her i i don't buy somebody like her doing pratfalls

00:38:05.020 no or having literally any problems whatsoever that's the thing right her i think i feel like

00:38:10.920 her big problem is that she's a love bomber and falls in love too quickly and um she really

00:38:19.040 believes in love she loves that she can sell she can sell that we believe her falling in love

00:38:26.080 because she does it all the time yeah yeah so i feel like that aspect of her and is authentic

00:38:33.520 but she just announced um a new netflix rom-com called office romance love it already love it

00:38:41.040 and brett goldstein from ted lasso i love brett goldstein so much okay i just i mean i loved him

00:38:50.200 on ted lasso but you know we saw him do stand-up oh really oh yeah in philly and i mean it

00:38:56.020 just it took my love to a whole new level because he is so fucking funny um that like and he is also

00:39:03.560 he was also one of the you know creators and writers of Ted Lasso and worked on Shrinking

00:39:09.580 which is another show that I really like yeah yeah which I find very heartwarming and lovely

00:39:14.540 uh and I just think yeah he I I'll watch him do anything and he's funny is he funny stand-up

00:39:21.000 Oh, my God. This stand up. We were just like belly laughing in a way that we had. It was the first stand up show we must have seen like since COVID and since having the third baby. And we just we nearly peed our pants. OK. It was it was so good.

00:39:37.180 OK. I have to go see him do stand up. You do. And you do. Absolutely. Yeah. And I'm not a stand up person. Like I don't usually go to stand up shows, although when I do, I really appreciate it. I'm happy that I went. I just feel like I'm not like looking up stand up shows all the time and stuff. No, no, no.

00:39:50.920 It was it was really legit.

00:39:53.340 Yeah.

00:39:53.780 OK.

00:39:54.200 He can do if they ever remade When Harry Met Sally, he could play Harry.

00:39:58.560 I know.

00:39:59.020 I don't want them to do that ever.

00:40:00.560 They should never, ever do that.

00:40:03.120 I don't want them ever to do that.

00:40:04.980 No.

00:40:05.120 I mean, I know we're reboot happy.

00:40:07.780 I know.

00:40:08.680 I know.

00:40:09.740 So I have a question for you.

00:40:12.000 Yeah.

00:40:12.180 So speaking of comedians and like comedy rom-coms needing to be actually funny because so many

00:40:18.800 are not.

00:40:19.940 So many are not.

00:40:20.500 That's my gripe where I feel depressed.

00:40:22.840 I'm like, why am I depressed after I've seen this? 0.78

00:40:25.220 At least with Bridget Jones 4, it's so fucking funny. 0.91

00:40:28.560 But it's so fucking funny. 0.96

00:40:30.160 I mean, I just, I, but I did cry. 0.93

00:40:32.240 Like, I was only two minutes in and I was bawling when she goes to the dinner party, right?

00:40:39.020 But I also was just laughing my ass off because they really delivered on the friend group, too.

00:40:46.960 Yes.

00:40:47.220 From everyone from Daniel to Shazer and to her producer, who was in the third one with Patrick Dempsey, which I didn't think I liked that much.

00:40:57.740 But then I watched it on the plane to Amsterdam recently, and I actually really enjoyed it.

00:41:01.760 I don't like that Patrick Dempsey was in that movie.

00:41:05.760 No, I don't think anyone liked that Patrick Dempsey was in that movie.

00:41:08.380 I just don't get it.

00:41:09.860 I don't get the McDreamy thing.

00:41:11.940 Yeah.

00:41:12.280 I need to accept the casting.

00:41:14.700 You have to accept it and move on.

00:41:16.080 I mean, it was in the middle of the night flying over the Atlantic.

00:41:18.780 But like, I really just remember being like, oh, I hated this.

00:41:22.000 And I watched it.

00:41:22.500 I was like, no, it's Bridget.

00:41:23.420 It was it was it was good Bridget.

00:41:25.980 Yeah.

00:41:26.980 I actually I really enjoyed Hugh Grant in the new Bridget.

00:41:30.660 I love their friendship.

00:41:33.880 I love their friendship so much.

00:41:35.740 Their friendship, their friendship just brought me so much joy.

00:41:38.400 And I love what was that drink that he made the kids?

00:41:41.440 He like he taught the kids how to make a drink.

00:41:43.420 Oh, the dirty.

00:41:44.280 How to make it.

00:41:44.900 Yeah. 1.00

00:41:45.080 what was it the dirty bitch oh there's a dirty patch a dirty bitch yeah yeah like just like 1.00

00:41:51.320 every everything about everything about it was so good um and he also looks his age to be honest 1.00

00:41:57.520 yeah so does Colin Firth oh my gosh a lot can happen in 20 years 20 years they look their age

00:42:07.100 um I love that Hugh Grant um he's still Daniel Cleaver he's got that edge and that kind of

00:42:14.220 hidden sweetness because i feel like he always that character and bridget connected oh yeah even

00:42:20.200 though he was a total cad he traded on her and he was this terrible person they connected i feel like

00:42:28.560 because um she is authentically herself no matter what and he is too so they they connect on that

00:42:39.680 level yeah yeah no matter how different they are i mean it's my favorite i think it's my favorite

00:42:46.180 love triangle of all time oh my gosh i remember when i was in college um did you ever have like

00:42:52.500 i can't remember if it was like vhs or i think it was dvd i have a copy of bridget i was cleaning

00:42:59.780 out the closet my old closet at my mom's house and i have a copy of bridget on vhs that we took

00:43:05.920 out of campus video on Penn's campus RIT it's not there anymore but we never returned it okay

00:43:10.880 and never returned never returned that video um and it still says campus video and I was just so

00:43:15.540 sad that I no longer have like a tv vcr to pop that baby in um I feel like you should um frame

00:43:21.860 that somehow or put it behind glass like this is a relic glass this is a relic of nostalgia

00:43:27.980 that reminds us of simpler times before social media and like oh my god i could make art with

00:43:36.380 this also i found my um madonna like a virgin single which that's a i should put that behind

00:43:43.980 glass you should you should like yes save all you know save all of your relics yeah because

00:43:49.920 your kids can have them later on i know i know but yeah that is such a relic um and it was a

00:43:55.780 different era like you mentioned um her preoccupation with her weight oh my god which was so 1.00

00:44:02.000 like it was it's so tone deaf now it was just ridiculous that she would even think she was fat 0.96

00:44:08.780 but at the time like i'm trying like but that's what i felt like that's yes every we all everyone

00:44:19.280 like everyone felt every woman felt bad about themselves at the time you know we all feel bad

00:44:26.280 about ourselves but this was like that the britney spears era where um if you went to

00:44:32.520 college in say 2000 in the early 2000s um you were expect and i went to a big 10 college

00:44:39.840 i went to school oh right yeah everyone was tan everyone had fake blonde hair um everyone had

00:44:47.920 vocal fry um if you wanted to meet a guy bar like you had to project um you had to be demure but you

00:44:55.480 also had to be confident but you couldn't be too confident and um you had to be sexy but you

00:45:01.400 couldn't be too sexy and you you couldn't have a personality because it was all you're an accessory

00:45:07.080 to the guy so bridget jones i feel like she was so refreshing at that time because i had never seen

00:45:15.420 anybody on screen for years that even resembled a normal woman like what we were what we felt

00:45:23.800 about ourselves what were we going what we were going through at the time um well just like how

00:45:30.740 like the thing is like she's so much fun like she's so much fun and she she loves so many parts

00:45:36.380 of her life and she feels like she's failing in so many parts of her life like i i thought i was

00:45:40.800 bridget jones i gotta say like for a while i thought i was carrie bradshaw when i mean and

00:45:45.600 we all did we all thought we were parents right yeah but bridget bridget's the one that just took

00:45:51.620 my soul okay i will she will have me forever forever forever forever and i still like i still 0.99

00:46:00.460 say certain words you know i still quote with fuck with i say fuck with constantly um my best 1.00

00:46:07.200 friend jackie and i say tits pervert all the time tits pervert tits pervert no wait that you have a 1.00

00:46:14.260 good british accent oh i don't know i only have a good bridget bridget accent i could only do 1.00

00:46:18.460 things from bridget rusty rusty lord archer oh my funny story about renee zellweger is that when

00:46:28.420 they were casting that movie which was based on a helen fielding on a helen fielding yeah which i

00:46:34.120 love the book too i loved the book yes you know the book is so good but um english people were

00:46:41.760 really upset because they had the stable of talent i'm thinking like helen helena bottom

00:46:46.720 carter oh yeah emma thompson people who could do that role and do it really well but you know

00:46:53.400 renee came in and i think they needed an american to pull the american audiences in

00:46:59.900 or she had just been in jerry mcguire another great one and re-watched that recently really

00:47:06.480 great another great one but renee surprised everyone because her accent was so good and

00:47:12.880 hugh grant like she stayed in you know she kept that accent going while filming the movie

00:47:18.640 the first one and hugh grant had never heard her speak in her like texas accent until like

00:47:25.220 basically after the film wrapped and he was very confused so she went full-on like daniel day lewis

00:47:31.620 for that role she got an oscar nomination for playing bridget jones wait i didn't know that

00:47:37.540 yes i forgot about that your mal i forgot about that until i wikipedia'd it recently wow i was

00:47:44.420 like dude was i i don't think i was watching the oscars in the early 2000s i was watching the oscars

00:47:51.320 I was at a keg party.

00:47:52.620 I was at Cam's. 0.98

00:47:55.300 But yes, she was nominated for an Oscar for playing that role.

00:48:00.320 And we need more like. 0.86

00:48:02.480 Rom-com Oscar nominations.

00:48:04.340 We do.

00:48:05.600 Oh, not.

00:48:07.140 Hidden, like Silver Linings Playbook was a rom-com.

00:48:10.360 Totally.

00:48:10.760 But that was hidden in a drama.

00:48:12.680 Hidden in, yeah, exactly.

00:48:14.020 Exactly.

00:48:14.800 And focused so much on the men.

00:48:17.140 Mm-hmm.

00:48:18.040 That's the thing.

00:48:19.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:48:19.440 Now, I thought her British accent was spot on.

00:48:20.960 i think about it all the time and i think about i'm gonna watch it again actually with my

00:48:24.940 girlfriend we're gonna have a whole thing to watch it together i loved it that much it's now

00:48:28.580 in the canon of favorite romantic comedies which is what i'm gonna bring us to as we close out this

00:48:33.680 episode give me your top three oh oh my gosh um okay um well that's that's easy well this is very

00:48:43.140 basic though like my top three of course would be like would harry met sally sleepless in seattle

00:48:47.940 and you've got mail but that's just the nor you could you could just say the norah cannon i'm

00:48:54.840 gonna say the norah cannon is number one that's fair number two i'm gonna say what oh okay so

00:49:03.060 uh long shot with charlie sarin and seth rogan oh i didn't like that movie oh really i don't like

00:49:10.540 that movie at all no oh yeah i mean i love disagreeing with people about rom-coms yeah

00:49:15.860 Yeah. And you want to know why? Because it felt like two different movies. It felt like the first half was written by someone else and the second half was written by another person. And I later found out that it was. It was, right?

00:49:29.840 It was written by Liz Hanna and then some other guy.

00:49:32.520 And then some other guy came in. Yeah. And I felt that so hard. Yeah.

00:49:37.620 And I think I was also in the show that Welsh likes to win publicity, but I love the two of them. So I don't know why I did not enjoy that movie.

00:49:44.660 fair enough fair enough um i i love that seth rogan was playing a new kind of rom-com hero

00:49:50.820 he was supporting the woman but i want more of that seth rogan um so that would be my number

00:49:57.780 two but i see your point i do it's uneven but i respect you i respect this choice for you yeah

00:50:03.440 number three oh this is really hard um what is for some reason this is coming into my head right now

00:50:11.760 coming to america uh with eddie murphy that is a dark horse that he taps dark first deep cut

00:50:21.080 coming out of left field but it is a rom-com right and i've um been thinking about it a lot

00:50:27.320 lately um it came out in the 1980s it is funny as hell it's so funny he plays an african prince

00:50:35.860 that comes to Queens

00:50:37.080 looking for a real woman 1.00

00:50:39.200 and she's like 1.00

00:50:41.260 It's also so politically incorrect and perfect in every 80s movie

00:50:43.660 Right. I know. I don't think it would

00:50:45.580 play, it wouldn't play

00:50:47.480 today, but Eddie Murphy is

00:50:49.660 a comic genius.

00:50:51.120 He can do a rom.

00:50:52.860 I'm thinking right now about

00:50:55.060 rom-coms that are actually 0.95

00:50:57.540 really fucking funny 0.67

00:50:59.020 and that came 0.92

00:51:01.000 that just came to mind, but there are so

00:51:03.520 many and they change

00:51:04.740 like you know my list will probably change after a season well it changes because I mean you know

00:51:10.900 I'm constantly reminded of things I will say I'm gonna go with Bridget for my top the whole Bridget

00:51:16.160 okay oh for my top they get this top and then my best friend's wedding despite my ire for Julia

00:51:22.820 Roberts um and then it's tough I love a sweet home Alabama despite the dumpsy of it all I

00:51:31.720 really like and this is coming out left field palm springs i love palm springs so funny it's

00:51:39.760 so funny and also like underrated it's so funny it's so underrated and andy it's like a time loop

00:51:47.060 i mean right it's so weird it's such a weird time comedy i am obsessed with chris uh kristin

00:51:53.700 miladi who was the mom in how i met your mother the ultimate mom and how i met your mother i want

00:51:58.900 her to play sarah in the sicilian inheritance adaptation perfect she's perfect like she's just

00:52:05.240 perfect yeah and andy sandberg andy sandberg is also a romantic comedy king who i'd like to see 0.99

00:52:10.720 more of he's so and dick in a dick in a box dick in a box dick in a box friends i mean i'm gonna 0.99

00:52:19.100 see that andy sandberg but christian miliana oh she would be great for your um yes chef okay oh 1.00

00:52:26.000 Oh, she'd also be good in Yes Chefs.

00:52:27.040 And also Sicilian.

00:52:27.540 Yeah, yeah.

00:52:28.140 So this could be the start of your collaboration, your creative collaboration with her?

00:52:32.400 Oh, she's so good.

00:52:33.340 She's really good.

00:52:34.060 She's so good.

00:52:34.560 Yeah, yeah.

00:52:35.140 So those, I think, I wanted to throw in one that, you know, we don't normally see.

00:52:41.080 But there are so many other good ones.

00:52:43.100 I recently rewatched Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Banks' one.

00:52:50.900 Definitely, maybe.

00:52:51.900 Definitely, maybe.

00:52:52.800 I watched that on the plane.

00:52:53.660 I re-watch a lot of rom-coms on planes because, again, they're a soft place to land.

00:52:57.860 I love Ryan Reynolds.

00:53:01.560 I know he's getting a lot of likes.

00:53:04.840 He's in this marriage, you know, that's in the tabloids.

00:53:08.420 I'm so over that.

00:53:09.200 I'm so over that situation.

00:53:10.480 I am so over that.

00:53:12.920 But I would, you know, I think he's an underrated rom-com guy.

00:53:19.140 Oh, he's great.

00:53:20.020 Oh, him and Sandra Bullock.

00:53:21.080 the one with him the proposal i love the proposal okay and age age gappy right um yeah they're both

00:53:30.140 perfect in that movie it's like you know that's another one that wouldn't play well because of

00:53:35.140 the like blurred boss yeah but it's but you know why doesn't matter it's funny it was of its time

00:53:42.520 but we can still enjoy it and for what it is but they're great and they have a lot of chemistry

00:53:49.100 and um another rec a tv rec um nobody wants this with adam brody oh yeah yeah i loved nobody wants

00:53:58.200 this i'll watch adam brody and kristin bell do anything yeah i have the chemistry but they're

00:54:04.440 really good friends in real life and he's married to blair waldor and she's married to the dax

00:54:10.660 shepherd but they are really good at like forcing chemistry and they do it by just like staring at

00:54:17.500 each other for a long time and it just builds that emotion works but chemistry people think

00:54:23.700 that you have to do an audition or a table read and like no be like going on and add a real date

00:54:29.700 and have that organic chemistry no you just have to be a good actor because tom hanks and meg ryan

00:54:35.340 were so perfect for each other but they had no no sexual chemistry in real life and yeah and

00:54:43.840 they are different people in real life yeah but they sort of like um they're so great on screen

00:54:49.380 they yeah because they they're not afraid to play those roles and really go for it

00:54:54.640 and we need people we need um men especially to man and um do more rom-coms do more yeah there's

00:55:06.620 nothing more enduring than you know the rom-com oh something something something's got to give

00:55:12.740 yeah yeah something's got to get i gotta throw that in there i feel like i want to switch my

00:55:19.740 rankings now um because i was trying to keep throwing them out just keep throwing them out

00:55:24.480 i i i i've been like i was trying to put in some unexpected ones but i thought with number one

00:55:31.920 north afron trilogy um number two bridget and number three i'm still thinking coming to america

00:55:41.500 great love that yeah love that the classics only the classics but um the classics here but we're

00:55:47.420 psyched we're psyched i think that we're about to enter a golden age of rom-coms i hope so and

00:55:52.820 this is um just another thing too rom-coms tend to do very well during times of conservative

00:56:00.060 of back location you know and uncertainty so when harry met sally started that whole golden age in

00:56:06.980 1989 and that was at like the end of the reagan era and oh um it's interesting in these uncertain

00:56:15.760 times people want comfort and maybe they want a little bit of tradition but the best romantic

00:56:22.380 comedies push things forward and you saw when harry met sally had had an easy um kind of um

00:56:29.880 equality of the sexes um yes and so they're the best slapping you over the head with it

00:56:36.240 like i think it's just you know it just like eases it in which i think is the best way to

00:56:40.880 change culture right and that is all we have for today i have another confession i did once write

00:56:48.020 a rom-com it's called love rehab it was my first ever novel and it is not the best thing i've ever

00:56:55.640 written, but also not the worst. And I reread it recently. And it's so Bridget Jonesy, to be

00:57:01.780 honest. It definitely is not PC and does not hold up these days. But yeah, maybe I do. I am going to

00:57:09.480 take a stab at another rom-com. I think Yes Chef is going to freaking kill it. I do. I do. But 0.94

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