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You guys, I am so excited, I watched your movie last night.
How did you approach your performances?
Because it's this beautiful film about life and death
and love, and all the big heavy beautiful themes
that we're so lucky enough to experience
for as long as we get to experience.
But it is not heavy and dark.
How did you approach that?
There's such a beauty and a delight throughout the film.
- I think we, so as our kind of bible
we had this incredible book, Michael Aussiello's memoir.
- Yeah.
- And that was such a guide for us.
And the book is shot through with so much humor as well.
- [Drew] Yes.
- Which they were really this like playful.
- [Jim] Yes.
- They had a dynamic between them
that was very unique to them.
- [Drew] Which is so true to life.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Everybody paints these pictures like it's the Last Supper,
you know, it's, oh who wants to watch that for two hours?
Not me.
No, thank you.
I wanna see life and love and joy and the biggest.
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It's so immaculate.
I can't wait to talk about it.
But first I was talking with Gail King in the news,
and I'm always nudging her about dating.
And I'm like, if we're out at an event the men there
are not gonna ask you out in person.
They're all waiting to leave the event to go home
and get rejected or accepted on some app.
- Is that true?
- I believe that.
I haven't been asked out in person in years.
- I, my husband and I got together before,
I mean there were some apps and there were some websites,
but we talk about it all the time,
that I feel, I feel very grateful that they weren't
as prevalent before we met.
Because I'm like you, I don't know what I would be doing.
I don't.
- It's hard to navigate love in the modern world.
So you met your husband.
Will you tell me about how you met and your first date.
- I will, yes.
We had, his boss, where he was working,
was close friends with an actress
who I went to grad school with.
And they were like, "Oh, I know somebody."
"Oh, I know somebody."
- [Drew] Really?
- Yeah, which may have just been some sort of
gay generalization actually.
Like, I know a gay guy, I know a gay guy.
I don't know.
But boy, it worked.
They set us up on a blind date, and they went with us.
We met at a pool hall, I'm not sure.
- Do you shoot pool?
- I'm not good at it,
but I do enjoy hitting the ball.
I, but then we went to a karaoke bar,
and the first song he sang, with all of us there,
was Cher's "I Finally Found Someone."
- Oh my gosh.
- [Jim] Yeah.
That was it, that was the first date.
- And Ben, is it true that like, if you karaoke,
you go to an Alanis Morissette, set list?
- I do, yes.
And I have no shame about that.
It was the first ever record I owned,
and I would anything on that, on "Jagged Little Pill,"
but "Ironic" would probably be my first, my first choice.
- Well, what, like for you, you're single, right?
- Uh huh.
- Okay. Me too.
Like what is a red flag to you?
- Red flag.
I think my thing is that I get,
I think like everything's a red flag,
so I'll be like, oh my God.
Is that a red flag?
- Like, examples?
- Like it can be, it can be.
Okay, so red flag I have experienced
is someone ordering insistently ordering my food for me
at a restaurant, being like, "You're eating this."
I did carry on dating him.
So it wasn't-
- That is the reddest flag of all,
but you were like, "Ah, let's do it again."
(audience laughing)
I was like, "Ooh, is this sexy?"
It was, it was a little, it was a controlling.
- Yeah.
(Drew laughing)
Okay. Jim, is it true that you took meteorology,
- [Jim] Yes.
- in college?
- Yes. I had a weather fascination when I was young.
We lived on the Gulf Coast and we would get hurricanes,
and I found them, we went through Hurricane Alicia in 1983
was the one that really, I was like,
it was a big event, and I found it fascinating.
And so I thought maybe I'm interested in weather.
Apparently I'm not.
That is the only class I've ever failed,
and I've come to realize, I was like,
"Oh, I just liked the drama."
The way that they named them,
as if it's some sort of Disney creature, Ursula out there,
and she's gonna come ashore and whatever.
- Always named after the women as well.
- Not anymore.
- No there are male hurricanes.
- [Ben] 'Cause that was sound like drag queens.
- Well, Alicia, yeah.
Raging ashore, yes.
- Okay, we have to run to a quick commercial.
I wanna come right back and talk about
my favorite new movie.
Your movie is so beautiful.
It is so powerful, and it is masterclass
in how to tell a story.
And I do think that it is very telling
for who we should pick as partners in life.
It's called "Spoiler Alert."
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