So you've known known Paul [Thomas Anderson] for a really long time,
but when yo've worked with of him on the music videos were there any conversations about one day
starting on these movies - were the foundation
sort of being laid for that to be a possibility of being offered you
this part, did that just come as a bit of a surprise?
I was shocked.
There was no.
There was no like no, even from when we met him.
I mean, I think me and my siblings always just hope that, like,
maybe one day, like he would be like, Hey, show up to set and like,
you could be an extra, and that was enough for us.
We were very excited about that,
especially just watching his films.
I mean, every film that Paul does, it just seems like the work environment
is just so fun.
I mean, even watching like Phantom Thread and seeing all the incredible costumes
in the sets and Daniel Day Lewis, I mean, it's just
it's in all the movies, even Boogie Nights, Inherent Vice, Punch-Drunk Love.
I mean, There will be blood.
All all of them are just seemed like such incredible sets to be on.
So I think we were just kind of hoping like maybe one day we'll just like walk,
walk across the frame just so we could be a part of the crew.
But no, nothing to this extent, and
I was just so honored that he 1) thought that I could do
it, thought of me for the role and one and then, you know, casted me.
It was it was all very shocking.
I mean, of course,
if Paul Thomas Anderson writes a part for you, you'd have to say yes.
But did you have any apprehensions?
I mean, this is quite
a must have been quite a daunting prospect
to some degree, because this is a kind of a major
as a first kind of big role, this is quite, yeah, quite a major one, I suppose.
Oh yeah, of course. Yeah, that was insane.
I mean, it's insane.
I had so many apprehensions.
I mean, I I it's such a, you know,
a big thing to take on because it's just again,
like talking about even just naming all of Paul's movies, just then.
I was like, Oh my god.
And then there's Licorice Pizza
You're like, Oh my God, these movies are so incredible.
And to be a part,
you know, just a movie and his legacy that, you know, is just such an honor.
And before we had even started, of course, I you know, you get those like
late night anxieties where I don't have anxiety,
I have anxiety all the time, but especially at night
when you're about to go to bed and you're like, And now the day is over
and you go to sleep and you close your eyes, and it's like
every anxiety that you've ever had in your whole life comes out.
But really, Paul believed in me from from the beginning,
which was shocking and also just great.
Paul's been a cheerleader of me and my sister.
He's been our cheerleader for since we've met him for me and my sisters.
And he just was my cheerleader from the beginning,
and having his support was how I felt like I could do it.
Well, yes,
Gary feels the way his kind of eyes light up that almost like naive, blissful
wonderment he feels falling in love for the first time made me feel so nostalgic.
I'm 33, so I'm at that stage now where those years
are starting to feel a bit behind me now.
I really feel like the first time
someone ever gets nostalgic for those times
and that adrenaline of kind of new feelings that would arise.
Of course,
I mean, I was talking about it today, like thinking about first loves is such a
is such a crazy feeling that you were ever that person that didn't have walls.
Like there was a time where you know you loved it and you had no walls up.
You had no prior experiences.
And there's that first time where you love someone
and they love you back, and it feels like it'll never end.
And then I mean, 90% of the time it does
end and it's the hardest heartbreak you'll ever have.
And it usually happens when you're so young
and you can't really like comprehend what's happening.
I mean, I think about my first love constantly, and it's and
and of course, I miss those I love, if I can.
I wish I could have another look because you'll never have another love like that.
And that's the thing that's so crazy about it is like, it really is this very
special time that, like you will never it will never be replicated.
But yeah, it's it's it's a crazy thing to think about.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, the 10% because I'm still with my wife. We've been together since we were 15.
I know crazy, actually.
Oh my god, that makes me want to cry!
Well, that's amazing.
I'm so jealous, mine left me in the dust after three months,
mine fully left me in the dust
fully and it took me years to get over.
A heartbreak makes great music, so it's true.
It is true.
Yeah. Well, thank you so much for your time.
I want to see the movie - you've probably heard this so many times, but it's so wonderful.
Oh, thank you.
Tell your wife, Hi, I love your... I love that.
I mean, it warms my heart in so many different ways.
Thank you.