I know that such an interesting character.
I think I'm going to start by asking you.
I know in the end it kind of
was seen as being as a very uncool trend,
but were you ever tempted to buy one at some point in the nineties?
you know, I my brother collected them a little bit.
I mean, he had probably about 20 Beanie Babies.
I'm not really sure, but I was too old for the actual craze.
And you know what I recognize in it though, and especially now that I have
kids, is just this There was a sense of belonging and a sense of community
that built up around the Beanie Babies, right in the same way that nowadays
it might be like my kids are obsessed with Air Jordans and.
Right.
And like, and with, you know, playing Nintendo,
I think it's like it's it's the same you know, there is
there are always been moms who feel like they want to give their kid
the thing that everybody has and every kid
wants to feel like they belong and they're cool and they have the thing.
And so Beanie Babies really came out of an emotional place.
You know, it came out of a sense of
of like belonging and community, which we all strive for.
It was like a tribal thing.
If you had it, you were somebody.
And if you didn't, you were nobody.
I love Robin.
She's such a badass because she's not someone
who accepts her,
her fate in life lying down.
I really. I think you bodied her perfectly.
And I.
I absolutely enjoyed that character.
I took with that character.
Yeah, I really loved that.
You got to see every step of her journey in the film.
I felt like, you know, a lot of films would end that.
At any point you could see the rise of her and ended there.
You could see the downfall ended there, you could see him, you know,
pulling the rug out from under her, and she could have gone off into the sunset.
And I just love that I was able to explore this,
you know, rags to riches story
for a woman who had a real fire inside of her
and this man who really tried to put it out because it threatened him
and she just wouldn't abide by his rules.
And I love that about her.
And I think I think that I relate to that in my own life.
And I found her very inspirational in that same way.
determinism. Semi comedic.
How was it working with Zach have embodying
that really grotesque character?
Did you
find it very difficult to sort of stay so serious in the roles of?
I felt he was perfectly cast, honestly, and I feel I always felt
the tone of the movie was kind of a tightrope walk.
But look, we're at the end of the day,
they created plush cats.
I mean, that's literally what, you know, they were.
He made children's toys into a billion multibillion dollar business.
Like, it's ridiculous on its face.
You know, there's something very wild about it.
Just, you know, nobody needs what they made.
It's pure like it's the love of it.
It's like selling people again, an emotional connection.
It's already like barely anything, you know?
It's not like a widget, it's not a car.
It's not a tool that we need to get through life.
It's not a a phone.
It doesn't connect us in any real way.
It's not like, you know, a telephone or I mean, it's truly ephemeral.
It's like a little piece of heaven that you're selling to people.
And so the idea of taking that really, really seriously, that was the tone.
And I love I loved that we all got on board.
Yeah.
And I really loved you in this and this role and every other role
that you've been in. So fantastic. Thank you so much.
Thank you.