Shadowing Practice: 【Podcast】EP116｜竟然有她們拿不到的角色?! 這件事情讓梅莉史翠普壓力超大！- 梅莉史翠普&安海瑟薇 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I love your shoes.
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Thank you.
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It's so surreal with you guys sitting right in front of me.
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Welcome back to Pick It For Shows Podcast and welcome back to another episode.
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I cannot explain how excited right now because it feels totally surreal that these two are sitting right in front of me.
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Let's welcome Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep.
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At the beginning of the movie, Andy was fired.
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So I'm wondering, have you ever lost a job opportunity in real life, Anne?
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What was it like and how did you handle that?
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Oh, yes.
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I have lost a job that I really kind of wanted.
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And I thought, oh, I'd be really good in this.
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And it was to Jessica Lange.
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Jessica Lange, she was going to do the Patti, oh you know, the singer, oh god I've lost my brain.
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Patsy Cline?
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Patsy Cline.
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And Carol Rice, a friend of mine, was directing it.
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He directed the French Tenants Woman and he gave her that role.
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We were friends and I said okay,
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fine, but give me your house in London to live in while you go to America and make that.
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I was making out of Africa out of London so he gave me his house.
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So I got a house out of it.
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I lost a job.
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Right, and how about Anne?
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I have yet to be fired.
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Wow.
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It hasn't happened yet at least at least as far as I know.
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No wait I take it back.
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No I was fired.
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I was 100% fired.
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I just blocked it out.
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No, it was awful because it was a part that I loved
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and I was attached to it for three years and I developed the part for three years.
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And then I found out he was, and I called the director because I thought we got a green light and I'm like, so when should a, it was like a specialty skill and I was like, when should I start rehearsals?
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And he was very quiet.
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And then I found out he was meeting other actresses.
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And I just said, I'm so sorry.
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What happened?
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And then what I heard back was that he never actually saw me in the part.
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And I was like, well, maybe you could have mentioned it once in the last three years when we were talking about it.
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Oh, wait, I've been fired lots of times.
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Now think of it.
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Turn that one around.
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We've all been there.
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Yeah, so I remember there was a scene in the movie where Andy was sitting in the car with Miranda and Nigel.
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And she had this phase like right this is what it's like working with you
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So I wonder have you ever been stuck working with someone who's a pain and how did you handle that situation?
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Not well Yes, but this was back in me we're all so young,
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but I was working back in the 80s and and I was working with someone I won't...
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Well, I better not even tell that story now that I've identified what...
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what decade it was.
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But I had a problem.
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It resolved itself.
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I'm gonna pump you for details later.
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This is so intriguing.
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Why can't we do it after the camera's off?
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We're in a unique position because we don't have to work with people for 20 years at a time.
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That's true.
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The longest a job is ever going to be is a few months.
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And so I usually just kind of talk about the weather and kind of suck it up.
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If somebody's really egregiously behaved, if they're being unprofessional, if they're late, if they're rude to the crew,
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I'll find a way to pull them aside and kind of have a nice chat about it.
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But usually other people resolve it for you.
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The director, the producer, they see what's going on, they go, oh man, this I got to deal with.
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Well, one time I asked them, because I was like, I think it's going to be a little bit of an issue, maybe.
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And they came back to me and said, we actually think that you would be the most effective communicator.
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Oh, sure. So we did.
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So yeah, so you just, you know, there's no need to make things unpleasant, more unpleasant than they are.
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Right.
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Yeah, but usually if I can ride it out, I'll probably err on that side.
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Mmm, and I really like this scene where Miranda was on the red carpet with Nigel discussing a PR crisis.
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So things are kind of going down, but she still has to maintain that bright smile on her face.
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What's the situation that stuck with you where maybe you're really stressed out, but you still have to handle it with a smile?
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Oh, press tours.
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When you jet lagged and you can't remember your own name, never mind a singer from the 70s.
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I think that stress is so interesting.
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I think because I started acting when I was very young, there were a lot of things that felt very overwhelming
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and I didn't necessarily either have the skills to deal with it or that I wasn't developmentally ready to deal with it.
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So I think that I actually had a stress reaction at things for a long time.
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And it was one of the things that I love about aging is because you realize, oh, I can make a different choice.
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I can leave that tendency behind.
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I don't have to carry that habit with me.
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So I actually try not to smile through my stress.
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I try to just acknowledge it and let it go.
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Because I guarantee someone else out there is having a worse day than me.
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And so if I can just feel a little sympathy for them, I probably will feel a lot better about play usually pretty glorious position.
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Right, right.
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So last question, was it easier to film the sequel compared to the first one
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or there are any aspects that felt more challenging?
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Both.
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It was easier to shoot it and there were aspects that were more challenging.
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Certainly it was harder for me to wear stilettos for 16 hours a day than it was 20 years ago.
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But in terms of fitting in with this group we all know each other,
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love each other and it was just such a gift to be able to have a, first of all, to get a good script ever,
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but to get to come back together after so much time, it was really lovely.
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And that's something rare.
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Yeah.
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How about Hannah?
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Oh yeah, I mean I think it's, you know, I keep feeling like we got the band back together
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And so there are certain moments sometimes when you're working with people you maybe don't know very well, you think, oh gosh, did I make the right call?
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Am I on the right team?
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And this one, if any of those feelings popped up, I'm like, yeah, you guys make awesome music together.
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So just go out there and jam and have fun.
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Yeah, right.
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So thank you so much for your time.
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Thank you.
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I really enjoyed it.
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Thank you for your interesting questions.
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Thank you.
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