Nov. 1, 2024

Catnip The Movie: A Discussion with the Cast and Crew!

Catnip The Movie: A Discussion with the Cast and Crew!
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Season 5 A Film By...

Jeff and David welcome director Nyle Cavazos Garcia, co-producer David Thomas Newman, and famed actresses Tiffany Helm and Brooke Bundy of the upcoming Christmas horror creature feature Catnip! Join us for a behind-the-scenes conversation with this incredible cast and crew about creating a soon-to-be classic about killer cats!

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Hello everyone, and welcome to this Evening's special episode. I'm

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Jeff Johnson, I'm David Burns, and you are listening to

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a Film by podcast.

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Tonight. We are going to be talking about a film

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by Nile Cavatos Garcia, his upcoming Christmas horror creature feature

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cat Nip. He's here with us tonight along with cast

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members Tiffany Helm and Brooke Bundy, as well as co

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producer David Thomas Newman. Cat Nippers. Welcome to the show.

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Thank you, nice to be here. Thank you for having us.

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Thank you.

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This is absolute pleasure to have you guys here. We're

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gonna be talking about this extraordinary film and the Kickstarter

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campaign which is live right now at catnipmoviecampaign dot com

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so you can learn how to contribute to this film

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and get some very cool rewards possibly.

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Yes, catnipmovie campaign dot com. Let's keep saying it.

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Yes, we will keep repeating that throughout the podcast.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's talk about the origin of Catnip the movie.

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It's based on a true story. No, it's not. It's

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not based on a true story. It's it's my my

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homage movies I grew up watching. I grew up in

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the eighties and miss those kinds of movies in the

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horror genre. I want to create something along the lines

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of a Gremlins or an Arachnophobia or Critters, something that's

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scary and funny and fun and original. We're using live

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animal actors instead of CGI, We're using practical special effects

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instead of CGI. You know, we're gonna try to put

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the artistry back into it and load it with a

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lot of scary cats and cool death scenes.

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Now you you kind of mentioned, you know, ninety A

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four's Grimlins when it comes to CATNP, Like, how did

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you conceive this specific idea?

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I just don't understand why there hasn't already been one.

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It seems like one of those movies that should already exist,

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you know what I mean. There isn't a definitive killer

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cat movie at all. There are like cool cat movies,

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but there isn't one where cats are the bad guys.

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Cats are the are the creatures that people are trying

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to fight against or survive the night against. So I thought,

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why not. I've always wanted to make a movie like this,

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you know, something like a Kujo or a Jaws or something,

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you know, just where people are against something that's like

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a force of nature, and nobody would ever think cats No,

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cats are actually like, yeah, I've seen so many scenes

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in horror movies where you hear a noise and you

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turn around because you think there's a monster there, and

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a cat jumps out and you're like, oh, it's just

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a cat, And I'm like, what if the cat were

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the monster? You know what I mean? What if that's

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the worst thing that you can see?

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That's a valid point.

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Yeah, it's never happened before, so it's like you have

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your guard down already, you know what I mean. So

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it's just you don't see it coming, which makes it

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more terrifying when it's right in your face. So I

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just I'm I'm super excited to be able to like

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make this happen because I feel like it's something that

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I wanted to see in my whole life.

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Well, I can tell you've already hooked me, you know,

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just talking about I love movies like Gremlins, where you

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know it takes place in like a town or a building,

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and you've got a group of characters, you know, So

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you've already hooked me on that. I can't I can't

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wait myself me too.

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Yeah, it's nice to hear.

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Yeah, absolutely so, I mean you kind of a little bit.

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But looking at your body of work, it's safe to

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assume you have a deep admiration for the horror genre.

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Do you prefer the.

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Creature features as opposed to slashers or the haunting of

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possession films of late.

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I like all of it, okay, everything all. Literally watched

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every horror movie I could get my hands on as

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a kid. It was like my deep dark secret. I

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would just sneak away and watch. Actually I did it.

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I didn't have to sneak away. I was by myself

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a lot. It was the eighties. Kids just kind of

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brought themselves up. Your parents are working or they were

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not there. And I had I had a TV, I

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had well, I had, I had a VCR. So I

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would rent a horror movie every day. But it's not

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I was eight years old, so I wasn't really renting

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these movies. They were given to me. I had this

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relationship with a video store manager. On my way home,

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I would walk to school, ride my bike or walk

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to school, and then on the way back, I would

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stop in this video store and the girl who ran

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it I think she was probably like seventy in her eighteen,

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but she seemed like a lady because I was only eight.

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I would just hang out in there, you know. I

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would like arrange the shelves and I would flip through,

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like their old posters and stuff and take some you know,

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both posters home of whatever I could get my hands on.

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And I think she just she liked me, or she

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felt like I needed something I don't know, so she

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would pay me with with one movie the a day,

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and I would always pick horror because I wasn't allowed

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to watch those, so I would start at well, after

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I alphabetized the section, I would start at A and

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then work my way through until I got to the

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last movie, and then I would go back to the

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beginning again. Every day for three years, I watched a

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horror movie after school.

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Now you have just created an interesting concept for like

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an anthology series where it's every week it's a new episode.

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This kid takes a VHS tape and puts it in

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and then where we just jump right into that movie.

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I look at it.

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Let's look at that.

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Yeah, I love it it is.

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I like it.

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Run with it, Nile, run with it.

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I might he recorded, right.

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Yes, yes, I know a little boy.

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Who do we got? My son is an actor. His

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name is Atticus. Okay, he's nine. He would play a

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really good little boy. You know, a little version of

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me is a little version of me?

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Yeah?

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Perfect, I'll run by him if he says you should.

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All I asked is I can be like in the

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video storage in the background. That's all I ask.

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Episode year old lady.

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Yeah, okay, we'll run with that.

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I'll go with glorified extra.

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That's all right, David, you're involved with several upcoming productions.

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Uh what is it that drew you to Catnap?

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Oh my gosh. It would definitely be the idea of

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something that now mentions a rachnophobia. That was one of

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my kind of that and Poulter guyst and Jaws were

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like the first horror movies I had seen, And so

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when I looked through the pitch deck, I understood the concept.

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And then at the very bottom it showed grimlins and iraqnophobia,

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and I was like, that's it. Send me the script,

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let me read it. See what you know. Can you

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make it a horror that's funny or make it a

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horror comedy? That has Slasher in it, like, what you

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what's what are you gonna do? What's your take? Let

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me see?

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Uh?

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And then then I read the script it was game over.

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That's all.

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Well, let's talk about let's talk about this killer cast

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that's been assembled. Beginning with Tiffany and Brooke. YouTube ladies

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have come against some of horror genres heavyweights in films

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like Friday the Thirteenth, A New Beginning and nightmaent elm

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Street Parts three four? Are you too anticipating a ferocious

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face off with these this film's antagonists?

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I don't.

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I don't know.

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I hadn't thought about it, I hadn't gone that far

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with it. I don't know. And I don't want to

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reveal anything about my character or what goes on with her,

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but I love her name is Alice, and she's wonderful,

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and it's Christmas Eve, and she's with her hubby who

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she loves dearly, and a little little tipsy, which seems

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to be her all the time. You know, it's her

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general state of life. And they're enjoying a film festival

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of Christmas classics and then butt im bum. So that's

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that's as much as I'm gonna say, but it's it's

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just I don't know if I even answered your question,

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but I'm really looking forward to it.

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There is there's something I want to interject in there

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that I don't think anyone's realized. The Christmas movie or

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movies that Burt and Alice are watching cat Nip are

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gonna be movies that we make and put on scenes

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from movies that we're going to put together. So they're

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watching it looks like, you know, a Miracle on thirty

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fourth Street or A Wonderful Life or something, but it's

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actually scenes that we've produced as like, you know, our

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version of those classic Christmas movies. So that'll be a

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little easter egg. We're gonna cast some well, I'm trying

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to cast some regulars people I've worked with in the

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past into those. Those scenes.

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Gonna be black and white. Yeah, oh that's with stopping music.

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I think the sound will be down low enough so

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you won't really hear, like, but we're gonna film the

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whole scene. I'm gonna recreate like a department store setting

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with the Santa and a little kid and and yeah,

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it's gonna be fun. We're doing that on the side

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of catnip. I don't know we've ever talked about that,

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but that's gonna be super super cool Christmas movies to

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be to put into our Christmas movie.

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Actors do stuff like that, so awesome job on that.

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I cannot wait. Those little touches sometimes are the best

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when directors just do that in the background, and you know,

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great job for considering going that.

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Can I do a cameo?

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Nile?

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Exactly?

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Hitchcocks, Yeah, we gotta, we gotta have you do a cameo.

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I've put myself in all of my movies so far.

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I don't know where yet in this one. I was

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gonna try to try to get rob Our producer to

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play Sanna in the Christmas mind man, he has kids

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too that he's putting his movies before. Maybe his kids

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will make an appearance. I'm sure that that both of

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my sons are gonna appear in the movie somewhere.

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Okay, that's nice.

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So I know, Brooke, you talked a little bit about

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your your character Alice. It's described as a woman married

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for forty years who doesn't hesitate to put her put

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her husband or others for that matter, in their place.

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You have a long history in film and television playing

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strong independent women, and I'm assuming this is gonna be

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the same case with Alice, right, yeah.

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I think that the thing is about Alice and all

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the characters. So I was thinking about it the other day.

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We did a podcast and it sort of came up,

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is that all the characters in the film are so likable.

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You know, sometimes you'll see a movie and you just

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can't stand one of the characters and they get their

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comeuppins or they don't, they continue being villains or whatever.

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But this is just you just really and they're all different.

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You know. Sometimes also when it's written by one person,

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there's repetition in terms of the characterization. But these are

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all very very different characters and again, really likable characters.

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The writer right now, Yeah.

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Thank you, I'll I'll let the writer know that you like, well,

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all the characters are. Was it that movie Identity where

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they are all inside one person's mind that was That's

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that's not the case here.

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Okay, Brook, are you excited to be working together in

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a project with Tiffany? This feels like something the horror

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community has been anticipating for a very long time.

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Well, they made maybe anticipate it was never even on

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my bucket list. It seemed to be so far out there. Yeah,

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I mean the fact that she's going to be staying

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with me for a week, which is already you know,

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like you know, running around trying to get things together

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and you know, getting my house to you know together,

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but just you know, thinking about the logistics getting to

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and fro the location. But I'm just I'm just really

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really excited to see her, to be with her, and

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to watch her in action as she does what she's doing,

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pulling double duty.

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Now, Tiffany, you you understand, like you know, Brook's house,

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Brooks rules. If she sends you to your room, you're

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going to have to go.

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I don't know what she's thinking about a week. I

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plan on being in LA for a month.

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The truth of no, no, yeah, there we go.

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I'm sorry you did say a month.

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It was a surprise, broke Yeah.

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Good, good, good good. But yes, a month for sure.

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Okay, as long as we know it's a month, Tiffany.

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Yet, now now we have to shoot if you're already

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planning the trip.

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A whole month, and we'll we'll talk about that later.

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I was actually going to talk to you about that,

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but I can.

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We can do that on a phone call.

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Yeah, you guys did.

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Didn't realize this was like a surprise production meeting that David,

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We're on the clock, guys.

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Uh.

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Tiffany, You've played several memorable characters that are on the

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wrong side of the law, but in Catnip, you are

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the law. Can you tell us a little bit about

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the character Officer Garcia.

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Uh, just trying to do her job, like it's it's

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you know, it's it's late, it's it's Christmas Eve. I

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think that I want to go home and be with

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my family and the insane like killer cats are like, yeah,

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I just need to do my job. Is really it?

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You know, it's it's I don't know that she's appreciating

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the the change in the I don't know, day to

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day duties because she's not like not like the detectives

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who are out there first, you know, like out facing

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the cats and you know, so I gotta and the

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detectives always look down on the on the cops that

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are like at desks and stuff like that. So that's

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kind of a thing. Yeah, snobby detectives. So that that's

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really it.

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I just want to do my job now.

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Speaking of doing your job, you're working behind the camera

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as well as an associate producer on this.

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Is that correct?

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I am, that's this is my first time doing it. Yeah, congratulations,

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thank you.

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Yeah, it's it's interesting.

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It's definitely it's out of my comfort zone and some

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aspects of it, but totally. I mean, the thing is,

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I am so passionate about the project. So for whatever

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I lack and experience in producing, I make up for

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just in how excited I am about it. I mean,

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this is really this project. The way that it came about,

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I really wanted to get involved with an indie production

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from like the ground up, and I had been reading

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some scripts and you know, I'm like supporting some indie

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filmmakers with their projects, and I just wasn't. I mean,

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it's like I was kind of ready to just go, Okay, well,

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let's like we probably won't get involved with a great project,

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but like let's just go for it. Like who cares.

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I just want to I want to be part of

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a grassroots indie filmmaking. So when this came along, I

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was just like I was like, it was it seemed

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too good to be true because the script is so good,

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so I was like, yeah, I've been all in from

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day one. You know. Nile was kind of like, did

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you want more?

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I'm like yeah yeah.

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And he's like, okay, did you want some more of that?

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And I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So.

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Here I am. And I'm just like holy smokes, Like

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I mean, they thankfully we have a really good, diverse

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production team. Like if it was just me, I don't

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know what I do. But yeah, it's it's good.

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It's good. Sometimes being pushed out of your comfort zone,

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you know, it really brings out something and you really

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didn't expect sometimes, you know, so good job for you

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taking that step and wanted to do something a little

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bit different than you're used to.

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Yeah, and it's it's you know. And and the timing

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is perfect because our youngest who just went off to college,

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first year film student, so we're empty nest and I'm like, okay,

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so this has been great. I just can like delve

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into it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I'm such a huge fan of the independent film market.

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So another reason why I'm glad we're doing this for

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you guys, because you know, so much passion is put

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into these films that a lot of people do not

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realize out there. You know, you have those big Hollywood

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productions that you know, you get millions and millions of dollars,

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but I'm telling you a lot of stuff gets lost

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in those and you have independent film market. It does

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not get lost because you have so many people with

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that drive, that love, that passion that they put more

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into it. Now you know what I'm talking about, because

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you're the writer, you're the director, so you know I

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love that, And that's why I love the independent film market.

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I've been working in independent film since I was seventeen.

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When I got my first job, I was still in

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high school and I was a production assistant in Boise, Idaho.

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I was working on a on a commercial and we

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shot in Houston, Idaho, which is the little town they

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filmed Super two in.

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Awesome, and it was like.

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The biggest thing I'd ever seen because there was a

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crane and a dolly and I'd never seen that before.

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And I'm like, oh my gosh, a real production. But

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I love and I forget. It's so much work, you know,

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you you almost forget to have fun. Yeah, you know,

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we get stressed out. David and I and Rob and

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our production team have been you know, we have the

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campaign going. David was location scouting and pedro yesterday. He

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went all the way to Riverside, calif Actually San Parandino, California.

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Is that where it was and Barandino two hours away

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from La to go film the cats being trained and

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some makeup tests on our main villain, cat one eyed Willie.

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The character's name is Cyclops with the one eyed Willie.

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So yeah, we like and we were doing this on

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our free time right now. You know, we're we're right

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in the middle of pre production, but we don't start

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working on the movie until well, probably at the end

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of the year. Right now, we're doing all the you know,

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the necessary stuff on our on our free time and weekends. Yeah,

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you know, you're gonna have fun. But I think that's

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what makes it so great is that everybody really cares

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about it.

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Yep.

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You know, it's you want to pull your hair out sometimes,

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but you know, we're making a movie exactly like incredible.

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We're actually making a movie about killer cats on Christmas

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Eve and that is like the best thing in the world.

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Yeah, it is. It's exciting times for sure, you know,

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wearing all those different hats that you guys have to

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wear because you have to wright because you're on such

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a small budget, if no budge at all, you have

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to do those kind of things, so a lot more

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gets poured into it. A lot of people do not realize,

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except for those who love this stuff.

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We're going to take a quick break and when we return,

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we'll have more with the cast and crew of cat

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Nip the Movie.

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So now on, David, can we talk about the cast

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members that will join these two talented actresses that you

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can mention anyway? I know some stuff hasn't you know,

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been tied down or anything like that, but I know

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you've already anounced some people, So can we talk about

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them a little bit?

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Yeah? We have. Let me see if I remember everybody.

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Jake Busey, Jeffrey Rand, Charlotte Kirk, Christian Callaway, Lorelei link

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Later aka Hero, Keith the Mura. We just cast the kids.

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There's a ten year old boy and a fifteen year

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old girl as the two of the main characters, and

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we have offers out to some pretty big names in

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the in the horror genre. That would be really exciting

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to have them join our cast. Awesome, but so far

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it's it's we've been very lucky because we're working, you know,

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we're we're trying to do a lot with with nothing,

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and we have a budget, but we have a very

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shoe string budget, and you normally don't get the kind

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of people, the kinds of amazing actors on a movie

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this small. But I think it's because people like the script,

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they love the idea. This is something very new, and

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the fact that we're doing it in a kind of

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an old fashioned way is it's exciting for people to

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kind of like I think a lot of people are

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on board because they want to just see it, like

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they want to see us pull it off or not.

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I don't know. I just want to be on the

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front lines watching this, either this amazing thing come together

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or this train wreck of like Cats Christmas and Murder

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and San Pedro, And we're going to film the whole

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thing in Pedro, which is also awesome. I've never been there,

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you know.

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Speaking of speaking of this cast, this film has some

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very intimidating, dangerous individuals. And I'm not talking about Jake Bucy.

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I'm referring to Cyclops, Wisdom and Fat Cat. So please

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tell us about this terrifying trio, Like where did you

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get where did you find these guys?

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But David was just there yesterday. David got to meet.

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On our streets of San Bernon Dido.

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Uh yeah, maybe you want to cave. I haven't even

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heard the whole story about what happened yesterday exclusive time.

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I wasn't able to be there. I live on the

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East coast.

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I don't know what what what updates I can. I

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can divulge about all of them, but everybody knows. We

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have Willie, who is, interestingly enough, the one of the

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first cats, if not the very first lead cat who

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was found in cast I have no I still haven't

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seen his audition tape. Somebody's gonna have to hand it over. Interestingly,

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he really has one I Willi has one eye, Cyclops

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has one eye. And Ryl and Eric, the SFX and

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Animal Training team, they were they told us they were

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super worried. There was there was just no way you're

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going to find a cat that has the temperament, the

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acting skills, you know, the ability to do some of

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the stunts with with one eye.

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Uh.

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And he was the first one, so that was probably

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a huge load off for them. And I think he's

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only been training for a pretty short amount of time,

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and he can do a lot of things. He can,

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he can jump, he can, he's about he's like right

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on the edge of sit commands. I think I don't

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quote anybody, me or Cheryl or anyone, but he might

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be able to bare teeth and maybe his we don't,

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we don't know, you know, that's all up to him.

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Kind of. All these cats are going to be huge divas.

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The cats, of course.

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Yeah, yeah, there's there's so many. There's so many cats.

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They were all of them were all different. If you

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know anything about animals, especially cats, they just all have

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their own personality. And then the cat who I met

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who I thought was gonna be the orange tabby playing

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the character fat Cat. His name was Pumpkin and he

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is apparently very grumpy, so he will not be playing

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fat cat. You were told, don't mess with this guy.

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He was an ankle biter. He didn't bite any of us,

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but he's not gonna be playing a fat cat. But yeah,

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they're all very receptive. They're all different in their own way.

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There's a few that are learning tricks or what do

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you call it behaviors. There's a special term that I

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should have used correctly. But I don't think it's tricks,

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so don't tell Cheryl I said that. But yeah, there's

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about fifteen plus will and then we're looking for a

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few more. So it's it's very it was very exciting

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to see y'all are gonna love the footage.

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Wow, that's amazing. Just to fill everybody and David went

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to the where the studio or warehouse where Fox FX

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Lab is located, facility, I guess, and we filmed a

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little like a like an expose or a little introduction

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of Willy. We're gonna cut a video together, like a

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low promotion of the character and the cat playing the character.

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So they got to interview Cheryl and Eric and meet

472
00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:38.359
all the cats and and they didn't make a full

473
00:25:38.359 --> 00:25:41.200
makeup test on Willie to turn him into Cyclops, which

474
00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:43.680
I'm super excited. I haven't seen the footage. I was

475
00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:46.480
not able. I was doing so much campaign stuff today.

476
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:48.599
I know that it's coming or it's in the drive.

477
00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:49.960
I'm gonna watch it tomorrow.

478
00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:51.839
I don't know who's seen it.

479
00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:54.599
I'm super excited to see this. I'm really excited to

480
00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:56.119
put it together and show you guys too. I'm gonna

481
00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:57.759
I'm gonna cut it over the next few days and

482
00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:00.720
hopefully we'll have it online soon. But I've heard nothing

483
00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:03.640
but great things from Cheryl. Cheryl's our animal trainer, and

484
00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:05.920
after she found Willie, she said that he's the most

485
00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:12.359
the most beautiful, friendly, that the best cat they've ever met.

486
00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:16.440
And I'm it's that makes it even better because the

487
00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:20.720
character is terrifying. In the script, he like, you don't

488
00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.640
mess with Cyclops, he will rip rip your face off.

489
00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:27.519
So that we found this is the oppotion of.

490
00:26:28.359 --> 00:26:31.279
I kind of think that that that's that's in line

491
00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:33.599
with a good horror film though, because it is some

492
00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:38.160
of the scariest horror characters are played by the sweetest people.

493
00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:38.680
You know.

494
00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:41.160
We've we've met a bunch of you know, a bunch

495
00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:43.720
of them, and it's always like you're you're the guy

496
00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:46.960
behind the mask, like you're just too kind.

497
00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:48.039
Like how's how's this possible?

498
00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:51.440
So definitely looking forward to seeing what, uh what Cyclops

499
00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:52.160
is going to bring us.

500
00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:54.799
In Well, I know once we start doing conventions. After

501
00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:57.279
we filmed the movie, Cheryl and Eric were already talking

502
00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:59.920
about taking When Eyed Really with them to Horror convention

503
00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.920
and allowed to. I don't know what the animal policy is,

504
00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:06.160
but he's an actor. He should be there.

505
00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:14.799
Yeah, we were outside smoking a cigarette, Nile.

506
00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:16.960
I gotta tell you. We were in scare David and

507
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:20.359
I were in Scarefest. We're at Scarefest weekend in Lexington.

508
00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:26.400
Two weeks ago. There was a boa constrictor at one

509
00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:30.000
of the booths that Dave I. I threw all kinds

510
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:31.400
of money on him. He would not go near it.

511
00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:33.799
Dave's a little bit like Indiana Jones. He doesn't want

512
00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:36.359
to get near snakes. But I don't do it for

513
00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:36.680
the show.

514
00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:37.400
Do it for the show.

515
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:39.799
He was like no, because he figured out where that

516
00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:40.160
booth was.

517
00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:41.759
I couldn't even get him on that side of the convention.

518
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:42.759
So not anymore.

519
00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:45.920
But yeah, if they're letting bull restricts in, I'm pretty

520
00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:47.839
sure they're gonna let They're gonna let the cats in.

521
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:52.200
They got vendors. I've seen vendors with animals at the shows,

522
00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:54.000
and people sometimes bring their animals.

523
00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:57.200
Yeah, it's remember that Wallaby was so cute.

524
00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:03.599
Hairless airless cat and the Calgary or corn and yeah.

525
00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:04.559
Good.

526
00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:08.279
So I told my bet that I was doing the

527
00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:10.920
movie and he said, oh, I said, I said, it's

528
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:15.200
a horror film comedy with killer cats. And he started

529
00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:20.599
laughing so hard, and I said, they're using real cats,

530
00:28:20.839 --> 00:28:22.839
they're training them, and then I thought he was god pet.

531
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:26.000
He said, training cats.

532
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:30.240
Yeah, yeah, we're training cats. We're doing like the one

533
00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.119
thing that you're not supposed to ever do. We're hurting cats.

534
00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:36.680
I can't imagine the what the entail is to do

535
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:39.039
that for because I'm a cat lover. I have a cat.

536
00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:42.200
I can't imagine trying to train him to do something

537
00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:45.920
like this. That's that's crazy talk. But I'm glad you're

538
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:47.799
doing it well.

539
00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:50.200
They trained big cats too, though, don't they. They have

540
00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:51.400
like tigers and stuff.

541
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:56.039
Yeah, yeah, they they've trained everything. Cheryl worked with I'm

542
00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:57.759
not sure the name of the company, but they were

543
00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:01.799
behind the Homeward Bound movies. She's been working with animals

544
00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:04.039
for for decades and she says she's trained everything from

545
00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:09.480
tigers to uh to raccoons. Cats. So she has a

546
00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:13.880
photo with a lion she trained for something.

547
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:21.519
She's probably trained a wallaby, probably probably trains the emotional

548
00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:24.039
support Boa constrictors you'll see at the fish.

549
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:27.759
That's okay, I'm gonna steer from that. I appreciate that.

550
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.400
So I gotta ask you, though, why did you choose

551
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:36.160
live animals over CGI. I am hoping I know the answer,

552
00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:37.000
but I'm just curious.

553
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:42.400
I I don't like c g I. It takes me

554
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:44.240
out of the movie every time I see it, even

555
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:46.599
when when it's good, I'm like, I know it's fake.

556
00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:48.200
So I don't I don't care about it as much.

557
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:52.640
And I want people to really connect to every part

558
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.920
of this movie. And when it's in front of when

559
00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:58.680
it's something that is it's right in front of you,

560
00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:03.720
you can you know. It's it's just more realistic, more realistic.

561
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.400
I mean, it's it's there, it's actors can react to it,

562
00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:12.720
you know, everything. All the effects should be tangible, you know,

563
00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:15.880
something that you can touch. I don't like the idea

564
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:17.880
of filming actors in front of a green screen and

565
00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:21.839
then just putting in what I want later. So we're

566
00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:24.759
doing everything but that, and we're doing we are doing

567
00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:26.720
some green screen stuff, but we're doing doing it the

568
00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:29.279
old fashioned way. We're going to be like layering in

569
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:36.720
footage that we shoot with the cats, so we're not

570
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:40.480
nothing will be computer generated. It will all be filmed assets.

571
00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:43.920
That's fantastic. So you're literally doing what they did back

572
00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:46.960
in the seventies and eighties on horror movies, going back

573
00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:50.160
to that old school style of filming. That's fantastic.

574
00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:50.440
Man.

575
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.039
You know, we have a lot of podcast episodes that

576
00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:56.240
we've talked about where practical effects are the way to go,

577
00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:59.559
and it's become a lost art. It really has. Everyone's like,

578
00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:01.400
all we can just that, we can just see ji

579
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:06.240
that no, go back to that tangible practical effects. That's

580
00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:08.720
what makes those movies so special, and I'm glad you're

581
00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:09.480
going that route.

582
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.279
I'm super excited to Uh that's my favorite part. That's

583
00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:16.839
the part I'm looking forward to the most. The cats

584
00:31:16.839 --> 00:31:19.319
in the effects. I mean, that's what our kickstarter is

585
00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:21.559
paid for. It's paying for those two things, the two

586
00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:23.359
things that the movie really needs. It's like, this's the

587
00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:25.079
heart of the film. I mean, the story is amazing,

588
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:27.440
and the characters are amazing, and we have an amazing cast,

589
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:30.240
and I'm really happy with everything that's coming together. I'm

590
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.000
even been excited to shoot it in San Pedro. It

591
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:34.960
was supposed to be set in New York and it's

592
00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:37.400
a long story on how it relocated. But I'm really

593
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.480
happy with the new settings. It's just so untapped as

594
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:43.960
well and creepy, and it's going to be awesome. But

595
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:46.640
my favorite, the thing I'm looking forward to the most,

596
00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:50.079
and my favorite part of filmmaking is all of the gory,

597
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:53.680
hands on stuff. That's why I love horror movies. That's

598
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:55.799
why I want to make them forever. I want to

599
00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:57.279
be able to go home at the end of the

600
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:00.480
day and my hands are blood red from from like

601
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.480
touching everything.

602
00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:06.279
Yeah. Absolutely, So, I know you said that Fox Effects

603
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.200
Lab is the one doing it. It's Eric Fox and

604
00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:12.240
Cheryl Holtzman. Is that correct, Yes, tell us a little

605
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:13.839
bit about them. I know they've been in the business

606
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:15.519
for a little while and they've done a lot of work.

607
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:17.640
So what can you tell us about him?

608
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:23.759
Ye, David Well, I met Eric when I was directing

609
00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:27.079
my last film, Last Ride. He he didn't work on it,

610
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:29.319
but he was doing the effects for another movie at

611
00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:32.519
the same time and I was getting I was renting

612
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:36.000
equipment from the same place where he was shooting. So

613
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:38.920
we were just like cross paths a lot, and at

614
00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:41.359
one point he like he was the one who was

615
00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:44.039
hand handing me the equipment. He's like the owner of

616
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:45.920
the place said, Eric is there shooting the movie. I'm

617
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:47.440
gonna give you his number. He's gonna give you the lights.

618
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:49.319
So then I went, I got the lights. I met

619
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:52.519
Eric and he was cool. I'd already hired a special

620
00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.240
effects artist for Last Ride, so I didn't really look

621
00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:57.319
at Eric's work until later, and then once I saw

622
00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.200
what he was doing, I wish that I had him

623
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:02.319
on my previous movie because he does everything that we

624
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:04.720
were just talking about. He's been doing practical special effects

625
00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:08.559
and puppets and animatronics his whole career. So once this

626
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:10.680
was like off the ground even a little bit, I

627
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:13.119
called him first and asked if he would do it,

628
00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:18.519
and his answer was, I love cats. We have like

629
00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:22.920
twenty cats horror movies, and cats are my entire life.

630
00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:26.680
This is like, you know, heaven. This is the project

631
00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:29.160
I was born to make, and I feel the same way.

632
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.079
So we connected right away on how we were going

633
00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:33.400
to do it. And a lot of the reasons that

634
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:36.240
we relocated the movie to California is because that's where

635
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:39.759
he's based, and flying twenty Cats in New York was

636
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:40.599
just not.

637
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.119
Going confers.

638
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:47.519
On a planet.

639
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:49.720
That's the next one.

640
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:55.839
I liked it. I like it. So all these cats

641
00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:57.640
are using our rescues correct.

642
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:04.240
Correct thinks think so it's and some of them were

643
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:09.960
directly rescued by Cheryl and Eric themselves. They found a

644
00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:19.639
few siblings who were unfortunately behind dumped behind a grocery

645
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:23.119
store out there at San Bernardino, and one of the

646
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:28.880
siblings didn't make it, so they rescued the remainder and

647
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:35.119
I met a few of those of them yesterday. Was

648
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:42.800
it yesterday? Oh, that was yesterday, But yeah, they I'm

649
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:47.800
pretty sure she's rescued almost all of them. I can't

650
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:50.639
remember if they all were, but yeah. And then she's

651
00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:55.760
literally actually taken some cats from off the streets and

652
00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:58.199
then we'll put them on the big screen. So it's

653
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:02.360
it's just to see, you know, you see their facility,

654
00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:07.559
and when you first walk in, you smell the special

655
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:09.719
effects and all the different chemicals and stuff. And then

656
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:13.400
you go to a separate winning and you start seeing,

657
00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:17.000
you know, do not enter cats in here. You know,

658
00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:19.519
there's lots of different rooms and you just kind of

659
00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.639
when you see the cats and just how chill they

660
00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:25.199
all are, and they're all literally laying on top of

661
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:29.599
each other. It's like this just massive cat sanctuary family.

662
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:33.079
Even Pumpkin, the grumpy guy, he still comes out and

663
00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:36.199
like hangs out with you, and they're all very curious.

664
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:40.000
They're all very receptive to you being there, which was

665
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:44.159
I thought was pretty eye opening. If you know, if

666
00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:47.559
you know cats and they don't know you, you know,

667
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:50.920
they kind of freak out. And my mom's cat has

668
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:53.159
seen me. I don't even know how many times I've

669
00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:56.039
been back to Texas twenty thirty times by now, and

670
00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.320
she still hangs out, goes in the other room, and

671
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.280
when we walk in and we're you know, introducing ourselves,

672
00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:06.519
they just came straight up to us. I knelt down

673
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:10.920
to pet Willie, who plays Cyclops, and I thought I

674
00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:14.039
was in goat yoga. One of the cats jumped up

675
00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:16.719
on my back and just started like put her face

676
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:19.559
right here and was like meowing at me. It was

677
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.039
just and they were like, all right, well, we know

678
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.760
who the stunt cat is gonna be. So there were

679
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:28.639
just so many things happening so so fluidly, and to

680
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:32.800
find out that a bunch of them literally were straight

681
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:37.320
up rescued right off the street was really really pretty heartwarm.

682
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:37.599
It was.

683
00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:38.119
It was cool.

684
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:41.400
Yeah, when I when I heard about that, that made

685
00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:45.159
me like this movie and you guys even more, And

686
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:47.119
that's been my big push to a lot of people

687
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:50.239
on Facebook. The fact that you guys rescued some cats

688
00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:53.320
to help out with this movie is just a great story.

689
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:55.559
You know, there's so many animals out there who need

690
00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:57.519
to go home, that are just struggling. You just said

691
00:36:57.519 --> 00:36:59.280
that one of them didn't make It just breaks your

692
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:01.079
heart when you hear that when cats are just or

693
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:04.119
any animal is abandoned, you know, and you know you've

694
00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:06.199
got some people who have a good heart and put

695
00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:08.079
them to work in Hollywood. That that's a great way,

696
00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:10.800
great story. So you know, the chemistry it sounds like

697
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:12.920
on this film and you guys and the animals, everything

698
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:15.280
seems to be working so well. And I'm excited for

699
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:17.400
that because it seems like everything is going in the

700
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:19.239
right direction for you all. That's fantastic.

701
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:23.519
Okay, I'm going to say something as a Buddhist, think

702
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:26.400
about the karma these cats have changed in their lives.

703
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:30.159
Think about the mission that they were on this trajectory

704
00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:34.360
course of getting hit, starving to death, being bitten by fleas,

705
00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:36.880
blah blah blah, all the horrible things that go on

706
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:40.920
eaten by coyotes. But now they're with their brothers and

707
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:44.239
sisters and the good big movie stars. I mean, that's

708
00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:45.239
that's saying a lot.

709
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.280
It is very cool changing.

710
00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:51.599
Yeah, it makes me wish I had like one hundreds

711
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:53.199
and thousands of dollars and I would just give it

712
00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:55.199
to you guys right now, here's your sixty six thousand,

713
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:57.320
six hundred and sixty six dollars, and here you go,

714
00:37:57.480 --> 00:37:59.760
just run with it. I wish I did, because that

715
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:01.559
makes me want to support this film, and I hope

716
00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:04.639
everyone who's listening just will support this film just because

717
00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:04.800
of that.

718
00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:08.960
Regardless of what happens on Kickstarter. We've already decided that

719
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:11.199
we're going to give five percent of all of our

720
00:38:11.239 --> 00:38:16.480
proceeds back to the animal shelters that these cats are. Yes,

721
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:19.679
absolutely support them. I think that these the cats that

722
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:23.480
are being rescued need to find homes. With Cheryl. I

723
00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:26.559
think she's taken a lot already. I think she would

724
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:27.800
take all the cats if she could.

725
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:31.199
But it would be nice if, you know, people would

726
00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:34.000
go out and adopt these these amazing, amazing cats.

727
00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:35.960
Absolutely, you never know. I may be one of the

728
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:37.960
ones adopted them. I've got one, but you know what,

729
00:38:38.199 --> 00:38:42.320
I may be one who knows. I understand there's one

730
00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:44.719
heroic character on four legs. What about Monster?

731
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:50.480
Oh? Monster, Yeah, the one dog. There's a dog character. Well.

732
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:54.320
The film is centered around a family that relocates to Pedro.

733
00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:57.119
The dad's going to become a superintendent of this rundown

734
00:38:57.119 --> 00:38:59.880
apartment building and he has a ten year old boy,

735
00:38:59.880 --> 00:39:04.119
and the boys got a dog, an English bulldog named Monster,

736
00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:10.960
who's afraid of cats, afraid of everything. And then Monster

737
00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:14.239
has to step up and you know, and and and

738
00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:18.760
fight for his family. It's a super cool underdog story,

739
00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:26.159
pun intended. And Monster is going to be the only

740
00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:28.840
animal actor that's gonna come with his own trainer. Cheryl's

741
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:33.320
not rescuing the dog. We're gonna cast the monster, and

742
00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:35.079
I think we're gonna start that process probably toward the

743
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:39.159
end of the year. It's less stunts than he's cowering

744
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:41.079
in the corner a lot of the movie until until,

745
00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:43.159
you know, without giving any away, toward towards the end,

746
00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:46.360
he starts to become, you know, a little more heroic. Nice,

747
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:49.199
but there's a there's a nice art. I think that's

748
00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:51.039
what I tried to do. Even with all of the

749
00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:53.119
animal characters. When I was writing the script, I tried

750
00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:57.039
to give each character an identity and some kind of

751
00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:01.440
an arc wisdom. One of the cats is a very

752
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:06.000
like docile, lovable house cat when we first meet her,

753
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:09.000
and then she turns and she becomes part of this

754
00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:13.199
like you know, army of cats, and she's struggling between

755
00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:17.639
doing the right thing and not so that that's gonna

756
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:20.039
be a cool character too. And then fat Cat that

757
00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:24.239
we've been talking about our garfield from hell Cat is

758
00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:28.840
a big, barmelad monster of a cat that's cyclops muscle,

759
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.880
and Fat Cat's there, and then you're you're a goner.

760
00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:39.639
That's awesome, absolutely is So with this film's story taking

761
00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:43.280
place at Christmas, well, are you planning like a to

762
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:45.400
do like a holiday release next year or can we

763
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:47.039
expect cat Nip to land on its feet.

764
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:47.679
A little bit earlier?

765
00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:51.920
We were thinking Christmas two thousand, well somewhere between Halloween

766
00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:53.199
and Christmas twenty twenty five.

767
00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:57.719
Perfect good deal. Well, you know, one of the main

768
00:40:57.719 --> 00:40:59.480
reasons we have you guys on here is because obviously

769
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:02.239
we want our listeners to help donate to this. So

770
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:06.360
let's talk about the Kickstarter campaign for Catnip. How do

771
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:08.000
our listeners get involved with this film?

772
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:15.199
Go to catnipmovie campaign dot com. We have awesome tear

773
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:19.519
perk packages on the site we've put together. David has

774
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:22.039
been responsible for most of that, putting together these amazing

775
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:25.599
packages so people can walk away with something really fun

776
00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:29.159
and unique and cool, you know, just like we want

777
00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:31.079
the movie to be fun, but we want the campaign

778
00:41:31.159 --> 00:41:34.480
to be fun too, David, you want to go over

779
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:37.360
some of the awesome stuff that's available on our Kickstarter.

780
00:41:38.039 --> 00:41:41.440
I kind of had this weird idea of what if.

781
00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:48.039
What if it's possible to find somebody who can blow

782
00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:54.440
plastic shapes into objects and then you can maybe throw

783
00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:58.440
some popcorn inside of them. So I was on this mission.

784
00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:00.280
I don't know what made me think of it. I

785
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:05.159
think Dune or like Deadpool, Wolverine, all those movie blockbusters

786
00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:07.599
that got their popcorn buckets, and I kind of remember

787
00:42:08.599 --> 00:42:12.000
being a kid and seeing you know, they didn't come

788
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:15.559
around back then, but just seeing the popcorn and everybody,

789
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:19.159
I'm not really a popcorn guy, everybody's just dousing it

790
00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:22.119
with the butter, and I thought, man, that would actually

791
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:25.320
be really cool if we could figure something out like that,

792
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:27.920
maybe just get you know, twenty of them or something

793
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:33.239
like that. And so I was on this long, month

794
00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:38.800
long mission to find a manufacturer and we did. So

795
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:45.000
we actually have official cat Nip popcorn buckets that.

796
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.320
My husband wants one of those after seeing Chase's videos

797
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:53.760
with Oh my god, those videos, this character he's created.

798
00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:56.800
But yeah, my husband's like, I want one of those.

799
00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:58.519
I'm like, I'll see what I can do.

800
00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:02.000
Jeff here is a big collector of these popcorn buckets.

801
00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:05.480
So Tiffany, Tiffty, your husband's not alone. And David, let

802
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:07.360
me be the first to thank you. I'm I'm looking

803
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:09.079
at the tears. And as soon as I saw the

804
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:11.519
popcorn bucket, I was like, well, I know which one

805
00:43:11.519 --> 00:43:14.119
I'm going after because I don't know what it is,

806
00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:17.639
but you know, like it seems like maybe a year ago,

807
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:20.800
maybe two years ago, you know, you know, to kind

808
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:22.920
of entice people to come back to that movie going

809
00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:26.440
experience we're doing. We're having some fun again, and these

810
00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:30.679
these like themed popcorn buckets start happening, and I, you know,

811
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:32.480
I can't remember what the first one I was, you

812
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:34.480
know that I got, but I was like, I'll buy it.

813
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:37.400
I'll spend the extra ten bucks. It's a collectible. It's fun.

814
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:39.599
And then the next movie came out, and then the

815
00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:42.679
next movie. I've got a cabinet full of these things now,

816
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:46.360
you know, including like the ghost Trap when Ghostbusters came out,

817
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:49.000
the Wolverine, Deadpool ones, like I'm running out of room

818
00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:51.480
for them. But it's one of those things like now

819
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.480
even when I'm at home and it's movie night, I

820
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:56.039
can't get a glass bowl. I got to have one

821
00:43:56.079 --> 00:43:58.440
of my collectible buckets, and I saw the Catnet bucket

822
00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:01.400
and I was like, this is brilliant, this is genius,

823
00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:03.320
and I'm getting my hands on one of these because

824
00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:06.239
I know they're going to go fast. So that's I know,

825
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:08.440
there's some really awesome stuff that you guys got in

826
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:12.639
these reward packages, but man, the cat Hit bucket definitely

827
00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:13.639
got my attention quick.

828
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:16.679
We we you know, we we were hoping that would

829
00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:21.239
be a cool idea to get people, yes potentially back

830
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:25.559
into the theater wherever we go, so that in the

831
00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:29.039
convenient part about living right here in sp San Pedro.

832
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:35.000
This is an official San Pedro hat. Yeah, everyone thinks

833
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:40.360
of San Francisco, but no, we're not giants fans. I'm

834
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:43.840
not even a fan, but I live. Uh. San Pedro

835
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:47.719
is where the port of Los Angeles is, so when

836
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:50.880
they arrive, they just come straight here and then we

837
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.880
we should be able to distribute them pretty easily. But

838
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:56.039
that was, you know, we we thought, what was a

839
00:44:56.079 --> 00:45:01.199
cool way to get all ages interested in some of

840
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:04.440
the things that we're doing. So we did a ticket

841
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:08.920
to the pre screening, not necessarily an official premiere, but

842
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:10.920
a pre screening where we kind of show it to

843
00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:15.079
somewhere here in Pedro so all the locals can come,

844
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:19.519
all the local businesses that are supporting us, the local businesses.

845
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:19.559
That were.

846
00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:25.639
Offering us their shoot locations at discounts because we're locals

847
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:28.480
and stuff. So you get you get a ticket to

848
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:32.159
come see that and to pick up your bucket. If

849
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:34.679
you get the VIP version, you're gonna get a bottle

850
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:37.599
of hot sauce from Black Cat Sauce Company, who is

851
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:42.159
a celebrity chef here in San Pedro. They've got the

852
00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:45.159
bottles of hot sauce all over town. At San Pedro Breuco.

853
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:48.760
It's sort of like an alehouse. So this local vibe

854
00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:52.800
of supporting local and supporting small business was just a

855
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:56.360
really cool way to pair that together. And now whenever

856
00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.159
you know, I'm not saying people recognize me or something,

857
00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:00.920
but when you show up, like aren't you the guy

858
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:03.639
that's like making that movie, I'm like, well, I'm one

859
00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:06.840
of the guys. Wait till everybody else shows up. But yeah,

860
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:12.000
we've got the script, blueprints of the animatronics and some

861
00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:14.000
of the designs that we have for the puppets that

862
00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:17.199
Eric is making FX Labs. And then you get your

863
00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:19.960
name in the credits, and you know, I'm telling that

864
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:22.199
to people and they're like, oh, okay, cool, cool, cool.

865
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:23.320
So how much is each.

866
00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:25.880
One of those? And I'm like, well, you.

867
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:26.000
Do you get?

868
00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:29.880
You get all of that for amazing price. And people

869
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:31.840
are like, wait a minute, that should be like way more.

870
00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:37.840
So maybe we'll have to increase the prices. But the

871
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:41.000
popcorn idea just it's spewed out. You know a bunch

872
00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:44.360
of other ideas. We got cat pinatas for a certain level,

873
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:47.960
and that was kind of an ode to one of

874
00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:52.639
our characters who might swing I don't want to give

875
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:55.519
anything away, might swing a bat or something, and something

876
00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:57.639
might happen to a cat. So we're like, wait, a minute.

877
00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:02.079
Pinatas could be like, you know, kind of kitchy, kind

878
00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:05.239
of tongue in cheek, kind of violent, but it's not real, guys. Okay,

879
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:09.519
it's a movie. It fits the mold, it fits the brand.

880
00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:12.880
And then there's just so so many other things. Miss

881
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:16.760
Copycat is a company that made a bunch of She

882
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:19.840
makes plush toys that the kind of the cat toys

883
00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.159
that you put the cat nip in and the cats

884
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:25.440
love them. There's like little plush bloody knives. She makes

885
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:30.159
like a razor blade. Obviously, if you're a horror fan

886
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:33.719
and you're a movie fan, you're definitely a physical media fan.

887
00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:35.800
Oh so we've got toy rays.

888
00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:38.280
Nile even came up with a cool idea to give

889
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:42.960
the director's cut at a lower tier as an MP four,

890
00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:45.360
so you know it's not your physical media, but you'll

891
00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:47.360
at least get the director's cut. Then there's the the

892
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.920
Blu Ray special editions. You'll get lost looking on our

893
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:56.119
Kickstarter no one has ever Sure might might be tooting

894
00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:58.559
my own horn a little bit here, but as a team,

895
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:02.039
what we come up with, it's just you've never seen

896
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:08.360
a campaign like this with the caliber and quantity. Rewards

897
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:12.159
and perks you can get at such low levels. It'll

898
00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:14.280
it'll change over time because we're gonna kind of, you know,

899
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:18.199
entice people to bring up the dollar amount. But there's

900
00:48:18.360 --> 00:48:22.880
just everything is just so creative, so fun, and there

901
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:26.199
are a lot of collectible items as well. There's a

902
00:48:26.239 --> 00:48:28.599
couple of things that I won't even announce. But the

903
00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:31.519
sweepstakes item is really cool. If you want to know

904
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:34.920
about that, ask Nile and see if you'll reveal that.

905
00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:39.920
I think we should keep that a secret, but you

906
00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:44.039
can follow Catnip on Facebook at Catnip the Movie and

907
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:48.199
we'll start talking about that soon. Yeah. That's gonna be

908
00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:51.199
a fun Yeah, that'll be a fun, fun thing. We're

909
00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:55.199
going to have I don't know a raffle situation for it.

910
00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:57.920
I think we're going to open it up. David and

911
00:48:57.920 --> 00:48:59.599
I are still hammering out, like all the details of

912
00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:02.159
how we want this thing to work. But for a week,

913
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:06.079
we're gonna whoever pledges during that week, well their name

914
00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:08.199
will be entered into a raffle to win this amazing

915
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:14.280
thing that we're gonna start advertising on Facebook. Yeah. I'm

916
00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:16.679
excited for it. It was so it was such a

917
00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:20.320
cool idea it was David's idea as well, that I

918
00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:22.800
bought the one thing for the raffle and then I

919
00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:29.039
bought another for myself. So I called him I got two,

920
00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:30.920
and he's like, we have two to raffle up. I'm like, no,

921
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:31.880
we have one raffle.

922
00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:36.719
My producer hat has like dollar bills going off in

923
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:39.360
my eyes like a bugs bunny, and he's like, no, no, no,

924
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:44.599
that's on my mantle. But it's an awesome.

925
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:48.119
Yeah, there's like what eleven levels right now. I think

926
00:49:48.159 --> 00:49:51.400
you can for different dollar amounts that you could donate for,

927
00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:54.039
but you know, anybody could donate any kind of amount

928
00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:56.679
of money looking at the website. So but yeah, there's

929
00:49:56.719 --> 00:49:59.800
a lot of really good stuff on there. You are me.

930
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:03.239
Even at the lower the ten dollars tier, there's there's

931
00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:04.880
plenty of fun stuff on that.

932
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:07.039
Scratching the surface here, I think is what you guys

933
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.480
have it called but on up.

934
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:12.239
Like I just blows my mind, like all the all

935
00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:13.840
the fun stuff you guys put together for this keck

936
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:15.840
starter because you don't typically see that. You know, a

937
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:18.039
lot of a lot of films will be like, ah,

938
00:50:18.119 --> 00:50:20.119
we'll say thank you or we'll do this, but you

939
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:24.320
guys are like, it's it's swaged central, you know, yeah,

940
00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:25.480
definitely not a situation.

941
00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:27.280
My favorite thing is on there talking about that, that

942
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:30.719
scratching the surface. I have a friend who's in a

943
00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:34.039
group called the Infamous String Dusters. They're a Grammy winning

944
00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:37.880
bluegrass band I went to high school with with. This

945
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:42.599
guy's name is Jeremy Garrett's. He's amazing. He did per

946
00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.639
fun a cover of The love Cats by The Cure

947
00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:50.360
on violin. He did like a real creepy instrumental version

948
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:52.760
of it, so we could use that in our promotional materials.

949
00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:55.000
Exactly what's that what we're hearing?

950
00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:58.119
Okay, Yeah, that's in all of our creepy yeah, except

951
00:50:58.119 --> 00:51:01.199
teaser trailers, and we're gonna I'm going to try to

952
00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:04.480
put it somewhere in the movie if we can get

953
00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:06.639
the rights to The Lovecats, but I don't know about that.

954
00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:10.039
But anyway, he recorded it and gave it to me

955
00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:12.039
to use, and I asked him, can we give that

956
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:15.599
away in our first tier on our Kickstarter and he's like, yeah,

957
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:18.119
that would be amazy. So it would be an original

958
00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:21.039
cover track of the love Cats by who you are,

959
00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:26.800
performed by this Grammy Award winning violinists and it's amazing.

960
00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:28.199
That's impressive.

961
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.599
We're gonna take one last break, but don't go away

962
00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:35.039
because when we return, I do believe Nile has a

963
00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:43.320
special offer for everyone donating to catnipmoviecampaign dot com.

964
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:45.519
So when does this campaign end?

965
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:48.039
November twenty second.

966
00:51:48.519 --> 00:51:51.280
Okay, so plenty of time, right, we got plenty of time.

967
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:55.039
We have twenty three days if I remember, all.

968
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:58.400
Right, listeners, you go to work, Go to work, listeners.

969
00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:01.159
Yeah, don't make us give us your money.

970
00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:02.119
Yeah?

971
00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:07.639
Oh that okay, Well I gotta tell you, like, like again,

972
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:10.000
what the what the rewards that you guys are offering.

973
00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:11.960
I doubt that we're going to need to be talking

974
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.920
to the listeners like come here. You know, they go

975
00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:17.559
to the they go to the site, they're going to

976
00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:18.440
see it for themselves.

977
00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:22.360
Well, make it even better. If you make a pledge

978
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:26.920
on our Kickstarter page and you mentioned dm us on

979
00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:30.800
our Facebook page that you did so and mentioned the

980
00:52:31.199 --> 00:52:35.800
name of this podcast a film buy, we will enter

981
00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:40.639
you into a drawing and at the end of the broadcast,

982
00:52:40.880 --> 00:52:43.639
we will pick one winner and we will upgrade your

983
00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:46.880
perk package to the next tier. If you want one

984
00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:50.039
hundred dollars package and we draw your name. Now you

985
00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:52.960
have the two hundred and fifty dollars package. Wow, so

986
00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:55.079
it doubles all your your all your perks.

987
00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:57.880
Listeners, you heard it here from the director.

988
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:04.360
Head over to catnipmovie campaign dot com. Make your pledge

989
00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:07.719
and then let these guys know on their Facebook page.

990
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:10.920
Hey, I'm Jeff Johnson.

991
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:12.480
Will don't use my name or use my name, because

992
00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:15.480
I'll take I'll take all this, but let them know

993
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:17.719
your name, let them know your pledge and uh and

994
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:19.199
get in and get in on this because this is

995
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:20.000
a fascinating thing.

996
00:53:20.039 --> 00:53:21.159
And again it is now.

997
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:24.360
So now someone go, like, if one of our listeners

998
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.199
does the two hundred fifty dollars pledge, they could get

999
00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:28.000
upgraded to the five.

1000
00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:29.920
Hundred Is that possible? Correct?

1001
00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:31.440
Yeah, fantastic.

1002
00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:35.599
And if you make a twenty five dollars pledge, there

1003
00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:38.760
we go. It will upgrade you to the top tier package,

1004
00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:41.480
which is our nine Lives package that includes a walk

1005
00:53:41.519 --> 00:53:47.159
on role in the movie. Ooh, actually it includes everything

1006
00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:49.880
that we're entering on on the Kickstarter page plus a

1007
00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:50.920
walk on roll in the movie.

1008
00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:51.960
All right, what can I sell?

1009
00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:52.639
What can I sell?

1010
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:54.000
Hey?

1011
00:53:54.039 --> 00:53:55.920
I was just gonna say, like, I got my Christmas.

1012
00:53:55.599 --> 00:53:58.079
Gift already ready, you know, if you're if.

1013
00:53:57.960 --> 00:53:58.920
You're taking orders.

1014
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:04.239
Niall. You know, given the myth that cats have nine lives,

1015
00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:07.840
have you even begun to consider further stories for Cyclops

1016
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:09.920
and his fellow fee lines, Yes.

1017
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:09.920
We have.

1018
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:13.400
We've been talking about that since we since we started

1019
00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:15.440
this one. We're like, what can we do for the sequel?

1020
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:20.519
I know that I've outlined a prequel idea that would

1021
00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:23.119
be the origin of Cyclops. I think it would just

1022
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:26.559
be called Cyclops, and then we have direct sequels to

1023
00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:29.360
this because it's open ended at the end, of course,

1024
00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:32.639
there's a cliffhanger ending for the possibility of a sequel. Yes,

1025
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:34.880
there will be a sequel if we can make the

1026
00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:36.960
movie and get it into theaters and it does even

1027
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:39.360
anything like one person says, I like the movie, and

1028
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:43.400
then we're making another one. So yeah, it would be

1029
00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:46.239
great to build a whole world around around these killer cats.

1030
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:50.239
I know, I know we can't give away these kinds

1031
00:54:50.239 --> 00:54:53.039
of spoilers, but if there's a possibility of a sequel,

1032
00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:57.280
Brooke Tiffany, I am I'm rooting for your characters.

1033
00:54:57.280 --> 00:54:58.960
I'm pulling for them. Already so that.

1034
00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:02.400
They survive, have this this night of terror for these cats.

1035
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:04.039
So we could we could, we can have you guys back,

1036
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:04.480
for sure.

1037
00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:09.360
Absolutely, something would be awful if I left my I

1038
00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:13.760
have a dog that has to go Ponty like now,

1039
00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:17.360
so so it would it be okay if I left

1040
00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:19.239
the zoom. Would that be a terrible thing to do.

1041
00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:21.840
Let's take care of that. Let's take care of the

1042
00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:22.719
animals for sure.

1043
00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:28.559
Thank you, thank you so much. This is fun.

1044
00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:30.199
It's been amazing.

1045
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:30.679
Thank you.

1046
00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:35.199
I love you, love you, we love you.

1047
00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:37.840
Bok okay.

1048
00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:42.599
I can actually speak to that like sequel thing and

1049
00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:47.000
whether our characters live or die, because it doesn't really

1050
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:49.920
matter because if there is a sequel to this, if

1051
00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:53.679
if Officer Garcia gets it in the first one, I

1052
00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:56.159
could come back as a producer again or something there

1053
00:55:56.199 --> 00:56:01.440
you go, or you know, help with with the cat

1054
00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:03.960
wrangling or something. I mean, I would I would be

1055
00:56:04.039 --> 00:56:06.079
totally involved in this again.

1056
00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:09.519
I come back as a cat.

1057
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:14.519
I hear there's a studio selling some cat costumes really cheap,

1058
00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:15.599
trying to make some.

1059
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:16.840
Of their money.

1060
00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:27.880
God, one thing, uh, David, you mentioned you're talking about uh,

1061
00:56:28.119 --> 00:56:29.800
you know, when we're talking about the popcorn buckets and

1062
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:33.800
you know all ages. It just dawns on me. It's

1063
00:56:33.800 --> 00:56:38.960
a Christmas movie. There's there's cats, you know, but it's

1064
00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:41.480
also a horror film and there's gonna be some murders.

1065
00:56:41.519 --> 00:56:43.800
So what kind of rating are you guys?

1066
00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:45.360
Are you guys looking at because I know the n

1067
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:48.039
pub A has has their say, but what do you

1068
00:56:48.920 --> 00:56:49.880
who is this movie for?

1069
00:56:50.039 --> 00:56:50.440
Basically?

1070
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:52.320
Is this is this an all ages movie like Grimlins

1071
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:55.400
and Acrophobia or is it are we going a little

1072
00:56:55.519 --> 00:56:56.840
little darker, a little more gory.

1073
00:56:57.280 --> 00:56:59.079
It's a little this movie is for dogs.

1074
00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:05.639
Okay, read between the lines, listeners.

1075
00:57:05.480 --> 00:57:06.559
A monster is.

1076
00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:10.760
Just gonna be claim to fame. Uh it'd be cool

1077
00:57:10.760 --> 00:57:13.039
if we could get it unrated like what Terrifier did

1078
00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:16.280
and just get oh gosh, whatever we want. But uh,

1079
00:57:16.360 --> 00:57:18.880
I think we're shooting for Ryekay.

1080
00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:23.239
Yeah, we're calling it Gremlins for grown ups. It'll be

1081
00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:26.840
a hard r rob Our producer has been. He's been

1082
00:57:26.920 --> 00:57:29.119
on me since the very beginning to have a PG.

1083
00:57:29.239 --> 00:57:36.039
Thirteen cut. Mm hmmm, I'm like, okay, we looked through

1084
00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:39.400
the script before we made a few adjustments. There was

1085
00:57:39.519 --> 00:57:42.119
like the F word in like fifty times. You know,

1086
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:46.440
there's like the gory is kills. Like if we cut

1087
00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:48.920
out all the fun stuff, this isn't gonna be Catnip anymore.

1088
00:57:48.920 --> 00:57:50.320
It's gonna be gremlins y.

1089
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:52.079
Yeah, you know what I mean.

1090
00:57:52.199 --> 00:57:53.960
We want we want, we.

1091
00:57:53.960 --> 00:57:56.480
Wanted to be bloody and gory. Yeah, you know, speaking

1092
00:57:56.519 --> 00:57:58.599
of of Gremlins, I just rewatched that with my sons.

1093
00:57:58.639 --> 00:57:59.760
I have a six year old and a nine year

1094
00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:04.679
old and I've put them through Gremlins, Critters, The Lost Boys,

1095
00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:11.519
eight Legged Freaks. We're gonna watch Ractophobia. Gremlins is a

1096
00:58:11.639 --> 00:58:12.440
scary movie.

1097
00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:13.599
It is.

1098
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:17.599
It's I forgot how I know. It's like with the

1099
00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:22.000
upbeat music and like the Spielberg kind of like the

1100
00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:25.079
the gloss Over it. It's it feels like a.

1101
00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:27.840
Family movie that thinks not I think should. I don't

1102
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:29.840
know how they got away with a PG or PG

1103
00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:32.280
thirteen or eighty or whatever they got. Every Christmas Gremlins

1104
00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:36.800
is on like every other channel. Ye watch, that's a

1105
00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:37.480
scary movie.

1106
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:40.400
I see it as a Christmas movie and I can't

1107
00:58:41.679 --> 00:58:41.960
with it.

1108
00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:47.719
Yeah, We're gonna have a have a nice little marathon Chris,

1109
00:58:48.360 --> 00:58:54.719
Catnip and and Gremlins Christmas classics, classics, they would now

1110
00:58:55.519 --> 00:58:56.239
can't wait to do that.

1111
00:58:56.719 --> 00:58:59.760
Uh but yeah, we we'd like to keep this as

1112
00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:03.840
as a hard r good if we could good, and

1113
00:59:03.880 --> 00:59:07.079
then international release there'll be like a water down version.

1114
00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:09.000
Yeah yeah, yeah, I.

1115
00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:11.239
Got to come over with that made for TV version.

1116
00:59:11.480 --> 00:59:13.039
You know that they can play on gable and then

1117
00:59:13.719 --> 00:59:15.199
give us the unrated for sure.

1118
00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:19.159
Well, on the Kickstarter, I'm offering the director's cut because

1119
00:59:19.159 --> 00:59:20.639
I know the first cut of this thing is going

1120
00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:26.599
to be NC seventeen, just based on on the Gore.

1121
00:59:26.679 --> 00:59:29.159
Eric Fox is like he's been every time I get

1122
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:31.119
him on the phone, he starts telling me his idea

1123
00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:33.920
for how he's going to do all this stuff.

1124
00:59:34.079 --> 00:59:34.280
Like the.

1125
00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:41.440
Gruesomeness of it is so amazing that he wants everything

1126
00:59:41.480 --> 00:59:43.000
on camera, which is the way I want it.

1127
00:59:43.320 --> 00:59:47.360
Yes, you know you mentioned Terrifier three, and the thing

1128
00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:51.119
is the audience wants this now, we want you know,

1129
00:59:51.239 --> 00:59:54.840
if that franchise has taught us anything, it's that people

1130
00:59:54.920 --> 00:59:57.559
want a return to the gore. You know, they want

1131
00:59:57.559 --> 01:00:00.239
to see the action. They don't want it implied. You know,

1132
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:02.119
we had that that phase and I think we're going

1133
01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:04.800
back to like the the the eighties, and the early

1134
01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:08.239
nineties where we're we're getting to see some pretty gory stuff,

1135
01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:10.599
some graphic stuff, but it's it's fun. It's just fun

1136
01:00:10.599 --> 01:00:13.800
to see what, you know, these these special effects people

1137
01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:14.559
can come up with.

1138
01:00:14.920 --> 01:00:20.639
You know, absolutely, it was insane seeing all the He

1139
01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:26.159
cast a cat head and a cat jaw like in

1140
01:00:26.199 --> 01:00:29.760
front of us, like that's how long it took. It

1141
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:31.519
was like, oh, okay, cool, you know, I'll go in

1142
01:00:31.559 --> 01:00:33.360
the other I'll go hang out with the cats, you know.

1143
01:00:33.480 --> 01:00:34.880
And then he was like, no, no, it's cool. And

1144
01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:37.760
then he was just like and pulls this like cat

1145
01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:40.440
head out. I forget what the material is called, but

1146
01:00:41.719 --> 01:00:45.079
it's kind of like if you imagine you remember Ghak

1147
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:47.559
when we were kids, that's sort of like in the

1148
01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:53.320
way it kind of you know, if you hardened ghak somehow,

1149
01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:56.199
and it's like this light, foamy, sort of rubbery material.

1150
01:00:56.599 --> 01:00:58.519
It was like, I mean, I don't know how many minutes,

1151
01:00:58.519 --> 01:01:01.039
maybe five, ten minutes or something, but it was it

1152
01:01:01.079 --> 01:01:06.320
was just bizarre. And seeing how now when seeing him

1153
01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:08.239
talk about it and kind of how giddy he gets,

1154
01:01:08.280 --> 01:01:10.639
I can understand what he probably He's like, oh, yeah,

1155
01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:13.079
well check this out. Well you're supposed to be doing

1156
01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:16.760
your interview right now, Like we'll get to the just

1157
01:01:16.840 --> 01:01:20.280
like this next thing match out for that beaver that

1158
01:01:20.360 --> 01:01:22.679
was an old spice beaver over there, and oh that

1159
01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:25.679
that male reproductive organ that was in Rob Zombies movie.

1160
01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:29.199
And he just like goes on and.

1161
01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:32.480
All of it, and it all looks insanely realistic, like

1162
01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:34.119
insanely realistic.

1163
01:01:34.679 --> 01:01:37.800
He definitely assured me that if we can't film with

1164
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.239
the cats in like some of the close ups, that

1165
01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:43.800
his puppet replicas are going to be so lifelike that

1166
01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:45.360
people won't be able to tell the difference.

1167
01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:46.880
Oh wow, that's impressed.

1168
01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:47.960
I'm so looking forward to this.

1169
01:01:48.239 --> 01:01:51.159
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Yeah, And it's always nice when you

1170
01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:53.719
get somebody who's that creative on your team and who

1171
01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:55.960
is that excited about it because you know you're gonna

1172
01:01:55.960 --> 01:01:56.400
get some goods.

1173
01:01:56.519 --> 01:01:59.800
Yeah, it's definitely a match made Eavin. This guy's gonna

1174
01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:02.559
I mean, we were, like I said, we relocated the

1175
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:04.880
whole movie so we can have Eric Fox do the

1176
01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:08.559
effects on this and Cheryl Tram the cats. It's gonna

1177
01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:09.079
be worth it.

1178
01:02:09.400 --> 01:02:10.719
Yeah, just's what it sounds like.

1179
01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:19.880
Listeners we've been talking with now covosos Tiffany Helm, Brooke Bundy,

1180
01:02:20.119 --> 01:02:24.000
and David Thomas Newman about their upcoming Christmas horror creature

1181
01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:27.599
feature Catnip. You can be a part of this when

1182
01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:32.079
you head to Catnipmovie campaign dot com. Guys, we cannot

1183
01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:34.480
thank you enough for this opportunity and we'd love to

1184
01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:37.239
have you back for more when we approach the film's release.

1185
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:39.880
Yeah, I'd love to come back. Yeah, it'll be fun.

1186
01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:41.559
Maybe we can some of the cats with.

1187
01:02:41.559 --> 01:02:43.239
Us, Yeah, that would be great.

1188
01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:43.559
Please.

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