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  • Josh Hartnett Breaks Down Virgin Suicides, Oppenheimer & Pearl Harbor | Scene Stealers

    Josh Hartnett breaks down his most iconic scenes from The Virgin Suicides, Oppenheimer, Pearl Harbor, and Basquiat, and previews his new Netflix series Below, streaming October 8.

    On this episode of Scene Stealers, host John Feitelberg sits down with Josh Hartnett to watch and break down the scenes that shaped his career. Josh talks about shooting Below on location in Newfoundland, how he stole a real person's walk for Trip Fontaine, what a Christopher Nolan set is actually like, his Pearl Harbor boot camp, and the time cops showed up with g**s drawn while he was making a short film at a Dairy Queen at 17.
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    TIMESTAMPS
    0:00 Cold Open
    0:28 Intro: Josh Hartnett on Scene Stealers
    0:48 Below on Netflix (October 8)
    1:34 Shooting Below on location in Newfoundland
    2:30 The Newfoundland accent
    4:04 Newfoundland culture and fishing villages
    4:22 Why they floated houses between islands
    5:19 The iPhone villain rule
    6:08 Come From Away, Gander, and Newfoundland hospitality
    10:04 Josh's Below wardrobe
    10:57 Scene 1: The Virgin Suicides
    11:53 How Josh stole a real guy's walk for Trip Fontaine
    14:17 Adapting books and why divisive movies matter
    15:18 Why a 40% movie beats a safe 80%
    16:29 Working with first-time directors and indie films
    17:46 Oh Lucy!, the movie more people should see
    19:00 "I was on hiatus from people's minds"
    19:59 Taking a year off to write a screenplay
    22:35 Scene 2: Oppenheimer
    23:31 Inside a Christopher Nolan set (no chairs, no phones)
    25:18 Emma Thompson hand-delivers the script on red paper
    25:54 Casey Affleck's Nolan call and the fear of overstepping
    27:15 Chasing roles and the Ashton Kutcher Pearl Harbor story
    28:08 Balancing fatherhood and acting
    28:48 Filming on location vs. staying in LA
    30:12 Scene 3: Pearl Harbor
    30:48 Shooting the Pearl Harbor attack and Sergeant Donnelly's boot camp
    32:45 Michael Bay's "360 shot" promise
    33:37 Ten films in four years and finding his path
    35:13 The Dairy Queen short film that ended with cops and guns drawn
    36:25 Scene 4: Basquiat
    37:03 How Basquiat inspired Josh to pursue the arts
    38:41 Josh's Julian Schnabel recommendations
    39:17 Wrap up
    Scene Stealers is where we watch our favorite scenes with our favorite actors, directors, and filmmakers.
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    #JoshHartnett #MoviePodcast #Netflix #SceneStealers #Oppenheimer #PearlHarbor #TheVirginSuicides #ActorInterview #ChristopherNolan #Actor #JohnFeitelberg

    43 min
  • Mark Duplass Breaks Down The League, Creep Tapes & His Most Iconic Scenes

    Mark Duplass joins Scene Stealers to break down his career : from shooting Creep on a $100 budget in a cabin outside LA to building the Creep Tapes on AMC+ and Shudder, working with a teenage director on Backrooms, and reflecting on 15+ years of doing things his own way. He discusses mental health, mentorship, and why the old rules of "breaking in" don't apply anymore + scene breakdowns from The League, Creep Tape, Safety Not Guaranteed, and Paddleton.

    Season 3 of Creep Tapes is out now on AMC+ and Shudder.
    00:00 – Cold open
    00:03 – Welcome + Creep Tapes Season 3
    01:09 – The origin of Creep: shooting on a $100 budget with Patrick
    02:38 – "It never has to see the light of day" : how Creep almost didn't exist
    03:50 – Selling Creep to Netflix and finding an audience slowly
    05:01 – Growing up in New Orleans and redefining what "success" looked like
    06:02 – Survivor's guilt and why he mentors young filmmakers
    07:28 – "I got my dream and I don't like it anymore"
    09:50 – Why he keeps bouncing between big paychecks and $100 shoots
    10:54 – Building an "oddball career" as actor/writer/director/producer
    11:45 – Mentoring Colin Trevorrow and getting Safety Not Guaranteed made
    13:24 – Working with Kane Parsons, the teenage director of Backrooms
    15:03 – His mentorship philosophy: belief over advice
    16:37 – Opening up about mental health on Instagram
    20:15 – The response from fans and why it mattered
    21:29 – The Russell Crowe "Beautiful Mind" analogy for mental health
    22:11 – Seeing Tori Amos and what healing looks like over time
    23:26 – Revisiting his SXSW "Cavalry" speech, 11 years later
    24:22 – Why the path is more complicated now but the tenets are the same
    25:28 – YouTube and Tubi as the new way to prove your show before streamers buy it
    26:51 – CREEP TAPES
    27:16 – Playing different characters every episode of Creep Tapes
    29:11 – Half-writer, half-actor: his unscripted performance style
    33:30 – "Balls equality" and nudity on his own terms
    36:01 – SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
    37:57 – Scene breakdown: Safety Not Guaranteed
    40:12 – Pulling favors to make a $750K movie look expensive
    41:15 – The scripts that never get made and why that's fine
    42:11 – What actually gets him up in the morning now
    43:10 – Sean Baker's Oscar run and stepping back from the chase
    44:06 – Producing Elliot Tuttle's $50K film Blue Film
    47:04 – THE LEAGUE
    48:43 – Remembering $8,000-an-episode beginnings
    50:20 – Why big "man-child" comedies stopped getting made
    51:41 – Where Tires fits into that conversation
    52:38 – Airport encounters and fans who want The League back
    53:28 – Learning how to be gracious with fans
    54:10 – Signing a six-year deal and deciding Season 7 was "mostly about the money"
    56:14 – Behind the scenes with NFL players on The League
    58:34 – PADDLETON
    59:47 – Paddleton and the breath-holding trick that fooled Ray Romano
    01:03:42 – Closing thoughts + where to watch Creep Tape Season 3
    #SceneStealers #MarkDuplass #CreepTapes #IndieFilm #IndieFilmmaking #Filmmaking #FilmTwitter #ActorInterview #TheLeague #Backrooms

    1 hr 5 min
  • Adria Arjona Breaks Down Onslaught, Hit Man & Andor | Scene Stealers

    Adria Arjona joins Scene Stealers with John Feitelberg to break down her most iconic movie scenes from ONSLAUGHT (in theaters now), HIT MAN, ANDOR, BLINK TWICE and SPLITSVILLE. Adria reveals the personal detail she pitched for her ONSLAUGHT character, goes deep on working with Tony Gilroy on ANDOR, talks filming SPLITSVILLE's real-blood fight scene with Dakota Johnson, and gets honest about why she can't stop spoiling secrets to the people closest to her.

    ONSLAUGHT is in theaters now!
    In this interview, Adria Arjona breaks down:
    - The self-stabbing tic she came up with for ONSLAUGHT
    - Making HIT MAN with Glen Powell and director Richard Linklater
    - Working with Tony Gilroy on Star Wars' ANDOR
    - Filming BLINK TWICE with Zoë Kravitz in Mérida, Mexico
    - The insane real-blood fight scene in SPLITSVILLE
    - Why A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE might be the best female performance ever
    - Male vs. female directors, and why she wants to cancel method acting
    00:00 – Intro
    00:03:02 – Reginald Bell Johnson steals ONSLAUGHT
    00:04:32 – "All I know is empathy"
    00:05:23 – The self-stabbing scene she pitched herself
    00:08:44 – HIT MAN
    00:10:08 – Why Madison falls for a killer
    00:11:19 – The Listerine strips
    00:12:55 – Glen Powell's 100 characters
    00:16:18 – ANDOR
    00:17:12 – Reading her first Star Wars script
    00:19:35 – Tony Gilroy picks up on the second ring
    00:23:33 – Adria spoiled the ending (to her dad, boyfriend, brother)
    00:25:32 – BLINK TWICE
    00:26:08 – Living on set in Mérida, Truman Show style
    00:27:37 – The Beyoncé needle drop story
    00:28:38 – Male vs. female directors
    00:29:51 – The actor she couldn't stand & "can we cancel method acting?"
    00:32:40 – Monarch
    00:34:55 – SPLITSVILLE
    00:38:11 – The real-blood fight scene
    00:39:46 – A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
    Scene Stealers is where actors, directors, and filmmakers sit down to watch and break down their most memorable on-screen scenes. Please subscribe!
    #SceneStealers #AdriaArjona #Actor #Onslaught #HitMan #Andor #BlinkTwice #Splitsville #MovieInterview

    44 min
  • Mark Wahlberg Spoils The Departed For Yahya Abdul-Mateen

    Mark Wahlberg & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II sit down to talk By Any Means... Mark as real-life mob hitman Greg Scarpa, Yahya as FBI agent Wayne Strider and then dig into scenes from their own careers. Mark tells the wild story of almost turning down The Departed (and hanging up on his own agent over it), plus the real reason for that shower cap in the film's final scene. Yahya discusses Wonder Man's cancellation right after his Emmy nomination, working with Sir Ben Kingsley, and looks back at The Get Down, his first-ever job, next to where he is now.

    Go see By Any Means, in theaters September 4th.
    Chapters:
    00:00 – Intro
    00:38 – By Any Means: building Wayne Strider & Greg Scarpa
    05:36 – Shooting the film's hardest scenes
    08:41 – THE DEPARTED
    08:55 – Wahlberg almost turned down the role (the Ari phone call)
    10:58 – The hair extensions / shower cap story
    13:31 – WONDER MAN
    13:49 – Yahya on the Season 2 cancellation
    15:58 – Working with Ben Kingsley
    20:02 – BOOGIE NIGHTS
    20:15 – Burt Reynolds' complicated relationship with the film
    24:43 – THE GET DOWN
    25:02 – Yahya on his first-ever job vs. now
    26:52 – Training & final thoughts
    #SceneStealers #MarkWahlberg #YahyaAbdulMateenII #ByAnyMeans #TheDeparted #BoogieNights #WonderMan

    29 min
  • Matt Johnson & Dominic Sessa Break Down TONY & Their Most Iconic Scenes

    Matt Johnson & Dominic Sessa Break Down TONY & Their Most Iconic Scenes

    The director and star of TONY sit down to talk building the film from Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, shooting on location in Provincetown, and the "layered heads" technique that makes every Matt Johnson movie feel so immersive. Plus, they break down scenes from BlackBerry and The Holdovers, and dig into the throughline of delusional ambition running through Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.
    TONY is out now in theaters, go see it.
    Chapters:
    0:00 – Cold Open
    0:29 – intro
    1:24 – Pulling scenes from Kitchen Confidential
    2:08 – Getting the real stories from Larry Luster
    2:54 – Best restaurant in Provincetown
    3:15 – Writing dialogue only after casting the actor
    3:38 – The line that defines the movie
    4:42 – Matt's "next to Dom's feet" directing style
    5:31 – Letting actors run long takes without cutting
    6:07 – Why Matt’s movies feel so immersive
    6:50 – The "layered heads" technique explained
    8:22 – Leo Woodall becoming a Boston guy
    9:05 – The punch scene with Antonio Banderas
    9:42 – Most P-Town thing that happened off-camera
    11:06 – The Yellow Deli
    12:04 – Learning the real New England seafood culture
    12:42 – Getting drunk, karaoke at the Colony Tap
    14:07 – BlackBerry scene: "Where the vampires hang out"
    16:23 – Casting Glenn Howerton and his ability to rage
    17:23 – Making 1975 Provincetown feel lived-in
    18:52 – The Nirvanna the Band The Show fireworks scene
    20:10 – The Holdovers
    20:56 – Alexander Payne's "90% of the role" theory
    22:33 – "I make movies with people I like"
    24:10 – The throughline of delusional ambition (BlackBerry, Nirvanna, TONY)
    25:32 – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
    26:23 – Matt hiding inside his own films / "The joke is on you"
    27:08 – Go see TONY in theaters
    #TONY #MattJohnson #DominicSessa #TheHoldovers #BlackBerry #NirvanaTheBand #AnthonyBourdain #KitchenConfidential #FilmInterview #MovieInterview #IndieFilm #ActorInterview

    28 min
  • Common on Silo & Turning Down Kanye's Tour to Pursue Acting

    John Feitelberg sits down with Common for an all-new episode of Scene Stealers to break down the scenes that defined his career.

    From his breakout role in Smokin' Aces to American Gangster, John Wick: Chapter 2, and Silo, Common reflects on the actors, directors, and moments that shaped him. He shares stories about learning from Denzel Washington, working alongside Keanu Reeves, and the decision to turn down a Kanye West tour to pursue acting.
    Common also discusses what drew him to Robert Simms in Silo, why he believes acting can heal people, his pursuit of an EGOT, and the films that continue to inspire him.
    Subscribe for more episodes of Scene Stealers.
    CHAPTERS
    00:00 - Intro
    00:18 - Welcome & Becoming Robert Simms in Silo
    01:28 - Why Common Chose to Play a Villain
    03:11 - Can Acting Heal People?
    06:16 - Lessons Learned From Playing Robert Simms
    08:23 - Bradley Cooper & Obama
    10:29 - Silo, Tim Robbins & Chasing an EGOT
    14:50 - JOHN WICK : CHAPTER 2
    15:00 - Behind the Scenes of John Wick: Chapter 2
    17:24 - Keanu Reeves' Incredible Work Ethic
    18:43 - AMERICAN GANGSTER
    19:12 - Learning From Denzel on American Gangster
    23:01 - SMOKIN' ACES
    23:28 - Landing His First Acting Role (Smokin' Aces)
    27:21 - Turning Down Kanye's Tour to Pursue Acting
    29:19 - Working With Charlie Day on Fool's Paradise
    31:44 - Why No Country for Old Men Is a Masterpiece
    33:55 - The Comic-Con Lorax Story & Final Thoughts
    #Common #Silo #JohnWick #AmericanGangster #KanyeWest #KeanuReeves #DenzelWashington #AppleTV #SceneStealers #Movies #Film #Acting

    36 min
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Negan, the Bat Scene & His Most Iconic Roles

    Jeffrey Dean Morgan : Negan breaks down the Walking Dead bat scene, 10 years of playing the character, and his roles in Watchmen and The Losers.

    On this episode of Scene Stealers, Jeffrey Dean Morgan sits down to relive his most iconic scenes starting with The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 and the evolving dynamic between Negan and Maggie. JDM breaks down the legendary "bat scene," including the secrecy around who Negan actually killed and the alternate endings shot to catch a leaker.
    The conversation also covers Jeffrey Dean Morgan's role as The Comedian in Zack Snyder's Watchmen, his time on The Losers alongside Idris Elba and Chris Evans, and the story behind how he ended up owning Samuel's Candy Shop in Rhinebeck, NY with Paul Rudd.
    SCENES :
    - The Losers
    - Watchmen
    - The Walking Dead
    The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 is streaming now on AMC and AMC+.
    Chapters:
    00:00 — Cold Open
    00:18 — Welcome Jeffrey Dean Morgan
    00:37 — Dead City Season 3: Negan & Maggie's Fallout
    02:17 — Becoming a Walking Dead Superfan
    03:05 — Getting Cast as Negan
    04:15 — This Season's Shift in Tone
    04:38 — Jenny's Death & Its Aftermath
    06:04 — Why He's Still Playing Negan After 10 Years
    06:28 — The Dead City Cast & Jimmy Simpson
    08:14 — The Samuel's Candy Shop Story
    09:06 — Buying a Cabin in the Hudson Valley
    11:02 — Meeting the Rudds & Buying the Store
    13:16 — THE LOSERS
    13:37 — Reuniting With Sylvain White
    21:34 — WATCHMEN
    21:56 — Watchmen & The Comedian
    22:20 — Doctor Manhattan & "The Big Blue Dick"
    23:53 — The Nine-Day Opening Fight Scene
    25:53 — His Dad on Set
    28:12 — THE WALKING DEAD
    29:31 — Negan's Introduction: The Bat Scene
    31:15 — The Secret Alternate Endings
    33:05 — Building the Lean & the Smile
    37:17 — Wrap
    #thewalkingdead #deadcity #jeffreydeanmorgan #negan

    38 min
  • Luke Wilson on Old School, Legally Blonde and Wes Anderson

    Luke Wilson breaks down his new Netflix golf comedy The Hawk, plus Bottle Rocket, Legally Blonde, Old School, and The Royal Tenenbaums.

    Luke Wilson joins Scene Stealers to talk about his new Netflix series The Hawk, co-starring Will Ferrell, Jimmy Tatro, Molly Shannon, and David Hornsby. Luke breaks down how he got the role, the rise of golf's popularity, why comedies used to have more room to breathe than they do today, and what it was like reuniting with Will Ferrell nearly two decades after Old School. He also looks back at Bottle Rocket and how it flopped at the box office, nearly ended his and Owen Wilson's acting careers, and later became a cult classic praised by Martin Scorsese + the story of how the Legally Blonde writers fought to cast him as Emmett Richmond, working with Gene Hackman on The Royal Tenenbaums, and reacting to Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood.
    Timestamps:
    0:00 – Introduction & The Hawk
    0:34 – Getting the call from Will Ferrell into LIV talk
    2:10 – There's no more good golf movies
    3:18 – Luke Wilson's swing
    5:24 – BOTTLE ROCKET
    7:14 – Scorsese on Bottle Rocket
    9:08 – Owen almost joined the Marines
    11:59 – THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS
    13:35 – Bjorn Borg & Richie Tenenbaum
    14:49 – Grandad roles
    15:12 – BB gun story
    16:37 – Gene Hackman
    21:59 – OLD SCHOOL
    22:22 – The greatness of Old School
    23:34 – Fight Club
    25:59 – Working with Will Ferrell on Old School
    29:08 – They don't make comedies like they used to
    31:19 – Mitch-a-Palooza & Snoop Dogg
    34:58 – LEGALLY BLONDE
    35:32 – Reese Witherspoon
    37:49 – Forgetting his character's name
    40:24 – Daniel Day-Lewis
    43:15 – Closing
    The Hawk is streaming now on Netflix.
    Subscribe to Scene Stealers for more actor interviews and iconic movie scene reactions.
    #LukeWilson #TheHawk #actorinterview #SceneStealers #OldSchool #LegallyBlonde #BottleRocket #TheRoyalTenenbaums #WillFerrell #WesAnderson
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    45 min
  • John Slattery on Mad Men, Spotlight, and Working with Philip Seymour Hoffman

    John Slattery joins Scene Stealers to break down the scenes that defined his career.

    He tells the story behind Spotlight's shocking priest-count scene (which was actually a reshoot added after the original script), recounts what it was like doing a two-hander with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War under director Mike Nichols, remembers Alec Baldwin refusing to break character during a chaotic 30 Rock cameo, and revisits Roger Sterling's iconic drinking monologue from Mad Men.
    Plus, John Slattery talks about his new comedy Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, co-starring Jon Hamm and Zoey Deutch, directed by David Wain.
    GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS, in theaters July 10th from Sony Pictures Classics.
    Timestamps:
    0:00 Intro and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
    2:29 - Spotlight
    7:43 - Charlie Wilson's War
    12:17 - 30 Rock with Alec Baldwin
    16:34 - Mad Men and Roger Sterling's drinking speech
    Subscribe to Scene Stealers for new episodes every week, where actors break down their most memorable scenes.
    #JohnSlattery #MadMen #Spotlight #SceneStealers #PhilipSeymourHoffman #30Rock #JonHamm #ZoeyDeutch #BarstoolSports
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    22 min
  • Samara Weaving on Ready or Not, Babylon & Hiding a Harry Potter Tattoo From Daniel Radcliffe

    Samara Weaving joins Scene Stealers to break down some of her most memorable performances: from Ready or Not to Babylon to Guns Akimbo to her new film Carolina Caroline. Carolina Caroline is in theaters now!

    Samara talks about how she mapped Grace's emotional arc in Ready or Not to make sure fear played differently in every scene. She reveals how the accent and wardrobe were the keys to unlocking her character in Carolina Caroline, and shares what it was like filming Babylon's massive desert sequence while suffering the worst migraine of her life, throwing up in an ambulance while Brad Pitt wandered around a thousand-person circus set. She also gets into why she memorized every single word of Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards script and how her drama coach Lee Colton Smith completely changed her approach to acting, and the reason she signed on to Guns Akimbo to hang out with Daniel Radcliffe, who she'd been hiding a Harry Potter tattoo from the entire shoot.
    SCENES :
    03:41 - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    07:45 - Guns Akimbo
    10:10 - Babylon
    16:30 - Ready or Not
    Catch more of Out of Order here: https://www.barstoolsports.com/bios/out-of-order
    #SamaraWeaving #ReadyOrNot #MovieInterview #HarryPotter #Babylon #SceneStealers

    25 min

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