For Your Consideration Page #3

- Thank you. Thank you.

- You're the boss. You're the boss.

- Whole way.

- That's all there is.

- There you go. Look at that. Lovely.

- I love this.

I love it because I look and I go,

"Hey, it's a room."

It's a sports stadium, is what it is now.

You're so European.

There's something about you

that's just foreign.

Have you ever been to--?

You travel a lot or...?

No, I've-- I haven't been

out of the United States, actually.

Who is your--?

Who is your acting coach again?

- Leonid Kazovskich.

- Oh, she's good.

- She's amazing.

- He, it's a he.

Wasn't she the one that made her students

have nervous breakdowns?

- He, and yeah.

- Oh, it was a he.

It wasn't really necessarily

a nervous breakdown...

...it was more of, you know,

he would just break you down.

- You know, get rid of everything.

- Well, they're--

- That's not the thing out here, is it?

- It's a breath of fresh air out here.

- It's really not.

- At least that's intense and real.

I mean, out here it's like

magazine people.

Here it's all soda pop and blue jeans.

Excuse me, guys. Fifteen minutes,

we'll be ready for you on set.

Could you instead of

referring to me as "guys"...

...could you refer to me by

my character name, Mary Pat?

- Sure.

- Great.

- Sure.

- That's great.

- I apologize.

- No, no. Apology accepted.

It helps me. I appreciate it.

Move that up about another 5 feet.

Yeah, straight on up. That's good.

- How's it going, mate?

- Good.

Excuse me. Sorry.

- So much food and nothing to eat.

- Yeah. Absolutely.

What waste.

Ever notice, like, a kind of

a weird smell around here?

It's like-- It's just in this area.

It's kind of a...

I don't know. Maybe it's me.

Well, my father would say,

"A fox smells his own hole first."

Simon...

...I need to ask you a question,

but I don't want the answer.

I'll ask it anyway,

but stop me if you can, all right?

Stop me. Stop me.

How does the film look?

No. Stop me again. How do I look?

- You didn't stop me.

- No. I can stop you now.

- You look absolutely amazing.

- Okay, good.

I'm sorry I asked.

I didn't mean to bother you.

- No, please.

- No, I mean...

That's enough. I don't need any--

That's good. I'm glad to hear it.

- Oh, you know what?

- So it's good?

I forgot to mention. My girlfriend

was on the Internet last weekend...

...and she was checking out

her specialty sites.

Anyway, she got bored with that

and ended up...

...on one of the movie gossip things,

you know.

Filmtattle.com

or one of those celluloid...

- Do you ever go on those?

- I wouldn't know.

Well, anyway,

the long and the short of it is...

...some bloke got on the set...

...and he reckons there could be an

Academy Award nomination in the offing.

And more specifically,

he said that he thought...

...your performance

was likely to get recognized.

You know, come the announcements.

Anyway, thought I'd just share that,

for whatever it's worth.

See you out there.

All right, everybody, back to work.

- Whitney Taylor Brown.

- Yes.

That's a lot of names.

So you're a producer.

A woman producer.

What does a producer do?

Well, as my assistant, Lincoln,

can tell you...

...there's a lot of telephone calls

and, you know...

...lots of getting out the wallet and paying

for sometimes ridiculous things like--

Like snacks.

Let's go back

to the beginning of your career.

You are-- Your family is

in the diaper business?

Yes. Brown Diaper Service.

And what exactly did they do

with the diapers?

Well, they picked up the diapers

in big trucks...

...and then we washed them...

...and then gave them back

to the people.

That's neat. Thank you so much.

- We're done? We're done.

- Yeah, we're done.

All of it's done.

Don't you wanna know more about me?

Yeah, but we-- I don't--

We don't have time right now, so...

Thank you, though,

for talking to us and...

I don't want anyone to know

what I look like from the back...

...so I don't want anyone to film my exit.

Okay, it's off. It's not even on.

All right.

First of all, it's been so creative for us.

Every aspect of the movie,

I think, is represented.

I hope you like it as much

as we liked doing it.

The first, of course,

is a sort of Norman Rockwell.

It's America. It's the family eating.

You have the title in the Hebraic letters.

All right, well, my first instinct says

it reminds me of my family.

- Which we--

- And I hate my family.

And I think a lot of people

might feel that way.

I think that's such a fascinating take

on what we've done...

...because we've gotten away

from the family...

...and we make it this.

Man, that one is scary.

You got disembodied heads.

You know what I like?

I like when it's misleading in a good way.

This looks like a horror film.

It's horrifying, but like,

it's horrifying like a horror movie.

Someone's killed their children

and made them into cookies...

...and I wanna go see that.

Oh, okay. This was also trying to be...

...a kind of family kind of presentation,

kind of a comedy thing, but--

What's creepy about this one is how

y'all made it where they eyes follow you.

That's scary.

Everywhere you go, they follow you.

You actually do want that in a poster...

...because when you set the posters

in the theater...

...as people walk by, you want that,

you actually do want that.

I'm really glad that you picked that up.

That's what we're trying to do

with both the visual...

...and maybe even something

with the eyes.

And, of course, this is just a gay romp.

- It's a party. It's fun.

- You also see the wistfulness here.

What's good about this is it's real.

It's very real.

I've been to a party before...

...where people's heads

were actually on the balloons.

I wanna go to this party.

This is a party I would go to...

- Okay, great.

- ...because it's got balloons with colors.

This is so stupid and I'm sorry

to bother you, but I just wondered...

There's something on the Internet.

Somebody had been on the set,

here, at Home for Purim...

...and brought up the idea

of there being...

...a possibility of a nomination

for an Oscar.

It's nothing, no big--

It's a big deal. Who cares?

I mean, it's no big deal.

It's nothing. Forget it.

- Forget I said it.

- Okay.

- I just thought, because...

- All right.

...if you Googled Simon Whitset,

apparently, you could--

Okay, this is a rumor that's out there

on the Internet and you think it's nothing.

Tell you what. I'm gonna look into it.

This could be very interesting indeed.

Okay, quick question. The Internet.

That's the one with e-mail, right?

- Yes.

- Got it. I'm on it.

- Why, did I get--? I had some salad.

- You're good.

Philip. Lane, Lane,

Philip, Philip, Philip.

- Hi.

- Hello.

- Tell me. Purim. Writers.

- Purim.

- You're writers.

- Yes.

Home for Purim.

This is probably the most personal play

that we've written.

There are elements of my family life.

Purim is strictly your territory.

I didn't know what it was.

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