Good Morning Hank, it’s Tuesday,
Today’s video comes to you in two parts, Part 1 a major casting announcement
So back in march the Hollywood Reporter announced that Isabella Merced would play
Aza in the movie adaptation of the movie adaptation of my
book Turtles all the Way Down, and then shortly after that deadline
Deadline Hollywoood broke the news that Felix Mallard
and Cree would also be in the movie, but somehow none of these
major publications saw fit to announce the most important news of all
which is that I have also been cast in the Turtles All the Way Down Movie.
Now Hank, long time nerdfighters will know
that I have never managed to actually score a cameo
in any of the movie adaptations of my books, and not for lack of trying,
like I was supposed to be in The Fault in our Stars movie.
I had two lines and everything,
but my acting was so distractingly bad that they had to cut the scene out of the movie.
But that was eight years ago Hank, and since then,
I have been practicing working to get to a place where I can say words in a normal-ish manner,
while also looking into a camera lens, but also being filmed and not
looking into a camera lens, nope no upspeak just straight.
And also being filmed while not looking into a camera lense.
That got weird at the end, but also while being filmed and
not looking into a camera lens. That was an angry version.
Just say it normal, but also while being filmed and not looking–
but also while being filmed and not looking in–but also–
This is going to go great. Will I get cut?
In the movie, probably, but that’s ok. I mean the work that actual actors do,
just amazes me, like to cite one example.
Isabella so completely inhabits the mind and body of Aza that sometimes when we are filming
difficult scenes, I want to intervene.
Like I know it’s acting, there are cameras and mics and lights everywhere,
but she makes it feel so real that all that stuff disappears,
which is something no one will say about my performance
in Turtles All the way Down.
Oh but there is one great thing about it. So there’s this document called the call-sheet,
which says which actor working each day and when they need to be picked up and stuff
and the star of the movie is the first person
on the call sheet, and then the person
who has the second most screen time is number two on the call sheet and so on.
Anyway my first day on the set the second assistant director,
Tracy, came up to me and said it’s really nice to meet you 19
because I’m the nineteenth name on the call sheet.
And now I have a nickname. The hair and makeup crew even
got me a necklace that has the number 19 on it.
I’ve always wanted a good nickname, one that is simultaneously loving and humbling.
I mean the thing about your regular name,
is that it’s picked when anybody knows anything about you including yourself.
Whereas a nickname is generally bestowed when people do know something about you.
Like, that you’re the nineteenth most important person on this cast.
Last thing about the movie, I’ll be doing more question-Tuesday videos
with the cast and also with the directors so leave some questions in the comments below.
Part two- Crash Course, so Hank it truly boggles my mind to consider
how many people have used Complexly’s channel Crash Course to help them learn.
Like these days, when I’m running an errand and someone recognizes me,
ninety-nine percent of the time it’s as the Crash Course Guy
and I have to say, the Crash Course Guy is my favorite nickname
even more than nineteen because I am really proud of the people
who make Crash Course and what they’ve accomplished together.
Like in 2021 alone, they helped 10’s of millions
of people learn about everything from Organic Chemistry to Black American History,
to Infectious Disease, which incidentally were three of the series launched last year
thanks in part to funding form the Crash Course Coin.
The 2022 edition is available now and only for the next two weeks.
The idea is that people can
sponsor two-thousand learners with the hundred-dollar coin,
or ten-thousand learners with the $500 coin,
and you get this beautifully struck coin,
which features illustrations inspired by the cave paintings from Lascaux.
Cave paintings that remind us
that people have been sharing information and learning from each other for a long time.
The link to get yours is crashcoursecoin.com Now, we know the vast majority of people
can’t afford to support Crash Course at this level
and that’s ok! The whole idea of Crash Course is that it is free
for everyone forever but if you can afford to
it is a beautiful coin and it will also help
Crash Course fulfill its mission of lowering barriers to education.
Hank, I’ll see you on Friday.