July 22, 2024
Healing Through Laughter: A Chat with David Arquette
The incredibly talented David Arquette joins the positive vibes of KJ TODAY! In this episode, we had a fascinating conversation about his new movie "The Good Half" and delved into some deep and meaningful topics. Here are three key takeaways from our...
The incredibly talented David Arquette joins the positive vibes of KJ TODAY! In this episode, we had a fascinating conversation about his new movie "The Good Half" and delved into some deep and meaningful topics.
Here are three key takeaways from our conversation:
Balancing Humor and Seriousness: David shared insights into his role as the comedic relief in "The Good Half," a film that tackles difficult topics like death and planning funerals. We discussed the importance of finding humor in challenging situations and how it can help us navigate through tough times.
Coping with Loss: Both David and I opened up about our experiences with losing loved ones and how it has shaped our perspectives on life. We explored the healing power of gratitude and cherishing the memories of those we have lost, finding solace in the moments we shared with them.
Reflection and Gratitude: David emphasized the importance of looking back on our past experiences with gratitude. From his time on iconic shows like "Buffy" to his friendships with fellow actors, he highlighted the value of appreciating the journey and the people who have touched our lives along the way. I highly recommend tuning in to this episode to hear more about David's insights and the heartfelt discussions we had.
And don't forget to catch "The Good Half" in theaters 7/23 and 7/25 for a truly moving and thought-provoking experience. Let's support this film and keep the conversation going!
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Hello again, Art. Oh, I do not hear you.
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Let's see. It doesn't show that you have
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any audio coming through on your end. And
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I'm not sure why. Double check my settings.
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Yes, OK.
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KJ, here's David. Are you with me, Art? It's
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David. Yeah, I'm here.
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Oh, well, hey, David. How you doing? I'm
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good.
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How are you, KJ?
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I'm good. Oh, my gosh. I mean, are you kidding?
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I get to start my morning off talking with
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you, Mr. David Arquette. Life is good. Have
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you had enough coffee? Are you ready for
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my energy?
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I have and I'm ready.
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All right. So we are talking with David Arquette
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and the movie that we're here to talk about.
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I am just so intrigued with this for so many
01:45.648 --> 01:48.509
reasons. It is called The Good Half. And
01:48.569 --> 01:52.111
what a cast. You, David, Nick Jonas, Brittany
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Snow, Matt Walsh, Elizabeth Shue. I mean,
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it just goes on and on. Alexandra Shipp.
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Can you talk, first off, what it was like
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to be able to kind of, it sounds like you're
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a bit of the comedic relief here in this
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movie that is kind of surrounded by some
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more difficult topics like death and planning
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funerals.
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Yeah, it is. It is. I am. I'm sort of the
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cringe-worthy comedic, I'm the stepfather
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named Rick. And Nick Jonas' character, Wren,
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comes back to Cleveland, his hometown, and
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unfortunately he has to bury his mother and
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his sisters, played by Brittany Snow. But
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I don't really, as their stepfather, I don't
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really take their feelings into consideration
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too much when planning it. So it leads to
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some uncomfortable moments. And yeah, Rick
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was a funny character to play because he's
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like this narcissistic character. So I'd
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have all these moments where we'd ad lib
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something and I, in my head, would think,
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oh, that's funny. But I would think, oh,
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my character wouldn't think that's funny.
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He'd be annoyed by it. So I'd have these
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reactions that weren't my natural instinct.
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I mean, was it difficult for you there in
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Hollywood to find inspiration playing a narcissist?
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No, absolutely not. I was always fascinated
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by narcissism. And you have to have a certain
03:30.731 --> 03:32.852
amount of it just to be an actor. I mean,
03:33.492 --> 03:35.553
in general, just to have the confidence to
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stand up in front of camera or in front of
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an audience and sort of own the performance.
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So you have to balance it. But in Hollywood,
03:45.057 --> 03:46.978
there tends to be a ton of them. And some
03:47.018 --> 03:49.479
of them don't understand the balance element
03:49.659 --> 03:53.505
of it. So I was obsessed so much that I once
03:53.625 --> 03:56.046
mentioned to a therapist, I was like, I'm
03:56.086 --> 03:59.967
really interested in narcissism and narcissist.
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Do you have any narcissistic clients? And
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he said, no. Do you want to know why? I said,
04:06.849 --> 04:11.111
why? And he said, they don't need me. That
04:11.131 --> 04:13.492
really told me everything I needed to know
04:13.572 --> 04:14.572
about narcissism.
04:17.876 --> 04:22.340
So in dealing with family dynamics, I've
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been doing this a long time. And a lot of
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my followers were with me, actually, when
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my parents were passing away. And I made
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a lot of jokes on the air about the process
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you go through in planning a funeral I think
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if you're not laughing about it, I don't
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know how you get through it. Did you find
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when you were creating this film that there
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was, I mean, there has to be a balance of
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like, this is serious, we're dealing with
04:53.341 --> 04:56.102
death, but also sometimes this is just utterly
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ridiculous and you had to kind of portray
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a little bit of both, right?
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Absolutely. I lost both my parents too and
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that whole process is just so heart-wrenching,
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but there is a lot of Humor in it. I mean
05:10.504 --> 05:13.366
even the awkwardness of someone saying are
05:13.386 --> 05:15.467
you doing when it's like the worst day of
05:15.527 --> 05:18.189
your life? I mean those moments happen all
05:18.229 --> 05:22.252
the time and it also triggers like the extremes
05:22.332 --> 05:24.193
and everyone's personality if someone's a
05:24.233 --> 05:26.795
controller Then they want to just control
05:26.875 --> 05:29.397
everything. It's the most uncontrollable
05:29.477 --> 05:32.639
situation ever so it peaks everyone's sort
05:32.699 --> 05:35.408
of trigger points and And you kind of have
05:35.428 --> 05:37.569
to find these ways of laughing at it. But
05:37.629 --> 05:40.530
the director, Robert Schwartzman, has a really
05:40.610 --> 05:43.452
wonderful way of balancing it. It was written
05:43.512 --> 05:47.054
by a guy named Ben who took from his own
05:47.134 --> 05:50.335
personal experience of losing his mother
05:50.396 --> 05:53.097
and sort of noted down all of these moments
05:53.177 --> 05:55.138
and having to deal with his stepfather and
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all this stuff. So I think it was really
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cathartic for him to sort of experience that
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and write it down and have this film made.
06:03.265 --> 06:05.586
and sort of go through that process.
06:06.906 --> 06:09.147
We are talking with David Arquette. The film
06:09.367 --> 06:12.687
is The Good Half, and we're doing this as
06:12.968 --> 06:16.769
a Fathom event. So we've got tomorrow and
06:16.789 --> 06:18.849
then the 25th. And I did look at, we're here
06:18.889 --> 06:21.250
in Indianapolis. There are like four or five
06:21.290 --> 06:24.431
theaters that this opportunity to see the
06:24.451 --> 06:27.133
good half. And then also there's a Q&A with
06:27.473 --> 06:30.716
Nick Jonas and some of the other cast and
06:30.796 --> 06:33.237
crew. So I wanna make sure that we are getting
06:33.277 --> 06:35.099
those tickets if you wanna come see the movie.
06:35.139 --> 06:37.100
And then I would imagine, David, are we gonna
06:37.120 --> 06:39.362
get a digital release on this as well?
06:41.763 --> 06:44.305
Yeah, I'm sure they'll have a digital release.
06:44.926 --> 06:47.047
But hopefully if enough people go out, it
06:47.067 --> 06:49.248
could stay in theaters longer. So really
06:49.288 --> 06:51.609
kind of the film you want to see with a big
06:51.649 --> 06:53.890
group because there is like laughing and
06:53.910 --> 06:56.011
there's emotional moments and it really,
06:56.532 --> 06:58.352
I don't know, hopefully could be healing
06:58.413 --> 07:01.154
in a way. I mean, I've found like in losing
07:01.214 --> 07:04.375
people and the director does a really wonderful
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job of like flashing back on some really
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beautiful memories. And it is really about,
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I don't know, the most healing aspect to
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it that I found was when you can reach a
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point of gratitude of having these people
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in your life to start with, even though it
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may have been a short time. I mean, that
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really has brought me the most healing and
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remembering their memories and keeping those
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memories alive. And then for me, in losing
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my parents, to continue to live my life so
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that they'd be proud.
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Yeah. Yeah, I think, you know, and there
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are moments, I think, for everyone where
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you're like, man, I wish I could call my
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dad. I wish I could call my mom and tell
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them that. But you live it as if you could,
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right?
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Totally. But I had this one experience when
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I was my second child, my son was born. I
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was looking at him and I was thinking, oh,
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I wish my mom and dad got to meet him. And
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I had this overwhelming feeling that they
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were right with me at that moment. They were
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watching him as well.
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Absolutely. I know that feeling, too. David,
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this has been such a wonderful conversation.
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I'm so excited that we could talk about the
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good half and know that you've got a lot
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of fans out there. And people wanted me to
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talk with you about about Buffy, because
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I actually have a cat named Buffy that's
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sitting in the room watching, watching me
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talk with you. You've had an incredible career.
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Do you look back on some of those things
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you've done, Buffy and Scream, and kind of
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take it all in and be in awe of yourself
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and the things that you have done?
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I'm not sure I'm in awe of that, but I also
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have a cow named Buffy. And from Buffy specifically,
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I met so many of my wonderful friends You
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know, Paul Rubens, Luke Perry, I just loved
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him. He helped me, you know, put in a good
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word for me to get that role. But, you know,
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getting to know Paul Rubens was just such
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an, and we just lost him recently a year
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ago. So it was just a real gift for me just
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in my life. So that's what I usually do is
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just lean back on gratitude again.
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I love it. Thank you so much, David. We'll
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let you go today. And again, the good half,
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go see it either tomorrow or Thursday so
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that we can keep it running in theaters.
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Cause it sounds like a movie that we all
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could really use right now. David, have a
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great day.
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Thank you, you too.
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Hello again, Art. Oh, I do not hear you.
00:22.950 --> 00:26.150
Let's see. It doesn't show that you have
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any audio coming through on your end. And
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I'm not sure why. Double check my settings.
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Yes, OK.
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KJ, here's David. Are you with me, Art? It's
01:10.698 --> 01:11.618
David. Yeah, I'm here.
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Oh, well, hey, David. How you doing? I'm
01:17.200 --> 01:17.600
good.
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How are you, KJ?
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I'm good. Oh, my gosh. I mean, are you kidding?
01:22.421 --> 01:24.362
I get to start my morning off talking with
01:24.442 --> 01:28.683
you, Mr. David Arquette. Life is good. Have
01:28.703 --> 01:30.524
you had enough coffee? Are you ready for
01:30.564 --> 01:31.164
my energy?
01:31.184 --> 01:34.785
I have and I'm ready.
01:35.643 --> 01:39.265
All right. So we are talking with David Arquette
01:39.605 --> 01:41.706
and the movie that we're here to talk about.
01:41.726 --> 01:45.588
I am just so intrigued with this for so many
01:45.648 --> 01:48.509
reasons. It is called The Good Half. And
01:48.569 --> 01:52.111
what a cast. You, David, Nick Jonas, Brittany
01:52.151 --> 01:55.733
Snow, Matt Walsh, Elizabeth Shue. I mean,
01:55.793 --> 01:58.054
it just goes on and on. Alexandra Shipp.
01:58.794 --> 02:02.316
Can you talk, first off, what it was like
02:02.376 --> 02:05.358
to be able to kind of, it sounds like you're
02:05.378 --> 02:09.040
a bit of the comedic relief here in this
02:09.140 --> 02:12.162
movie that is kind of surrounded by some
02:13.403 --> 02:17.706
more difficult topics like death and planning
02:17.746 --> 02:18.146
funerals.
02:20.648 --> 02:24.390
Yeah, it is. It is. I am. I'm sort of the
02:24.490 --> 02:28.473
cringe-worthy comedic, I'm the stepfather
02:28.493 --> 02:31.342
named Rick. And Nick Jonas' character, Wren,
02:31.422 --> 02:34.684
comes back to Cleveland, his hometown, and
02:34.744 --> 02:37.146
unfortunately he has to bury his mother and
02:38.547 --> 02:41.109
his sisters, played by Brittany Snow. But
02:41.149 --> 02:43.511
I don't really, as their stepfather, I don't
02:43.531 --> 02:46.053
really take their feelings into consideration
02:46.113 --> 02:49.456
too much when planning it. So it leads to
02:49.877 --> 02:53.639
some uncomfortable moments. And yeah, Rick
02:53.659 --> 02:55.400
was a funny character to play because he's
02:55.420 --> 02:57.821
like this narcissistic character. So I'd
02:57.841 --> 02:59.962
have all these moments where we'd ad lib
03:00.022 --> 03:02.483
something and I, in my head, would think,
03:02.743 --> 03:04.704
oh, that's funny. But I would think, oh,
03:04.744 --> 03:06.385
my character wouldn't think that's funny.
03:06.445 --> 03:09.726
He'd be annoyed by it. So I'd have these
03:09.786 --> 03:13.128
reactions that weren't my natural instinct.
03:15.209 --> 03:17.350
I mean, was it difficult for you there in
03:17.390 --> 03:20.531
Hollywood to find inspiration playing a narcissist?
03:23.708 --> 03:27.470
No, absolutely not. I was always fascinated
03:27.550 --> 03:30.691
by narcissism. And you have to have a certain
03:30.731 --> 03:32.852
amount of it just to be an actor. I mean,
03:33.492 --> 03:35.553
in general, just to have the confidence to
03:35.593 --> 03:38.234
stand up in front of camera or in front of
03:38.294 --> 03:41.135
an audience and sort of own the performance.
03:41.756 --> 03:45.017
So you have to balance it. But in Hollywood,
03:45.057 --> 03:46.978
there tends to be a ton of them. And some
03:47.018 --> 03:49.479
of them don't understand the balance element
03:49.659 --> 03:53.505
of it. So I was obsessed so much that I once
03:53.625 --> 03:56.046
mentioned to a therapist, I was like, I'm
03:56.086 --> 03:59.967
really interested in narcissism and narcissist.
04:00.967 --> 04:03.708
Do you have any narcissistic clients? And
04:03.748 --> 04:06.809
he said, no. Do you want to know why? I said,
04:06.849 --> 04:11.111
why? And he said, they don't need me. That
04:11.131 --> 04:13.492
really told me everything I needed to know
04:13.572 --> 04:14.572
about narcissism.
04:17.876 --> 04:22.340
So in dealing with family dynamics, I've
04:22.360 --> 04:24.041
been doing this a long time. And a lot of
04:24.081 --> 04:26.904
my followers were with me, actually, when
04:27.565 --> 04:31.669
my parents were passing away. And I made
04:31.729 --> 04:36.674
a lot of jokes on the air about the process
04:36.694 --> 04:39.736
you go through in planning a funeral I think
04:39.796 --> 04:41.897
if you're not laughing about it, I don't
04:41.917 --> 04:45.979
know how you get through it. Did you find
04:46.119 --> 04:49.180
when you were creating this film that there
04:49.220 --> 04:51.501
was, I mean, there has to be a balance of
04:51.561 --> 04:53.321
like, this is serious, we're dealing with
04:53.341 --> 04:56.102
death, but also sometimes this is just utterly
04:56.202 --> 04:58.383
ridiculous and you had to kind of portray
04:58.423 --> 04:59.724
a little bit of both, right?
04:59.744 --> 05:04.425
Absolutely. I lost both my parents too and
05:04.465 --> 05:07.607
that whole process is just so heart-wrenching,
05:07.667 --> 05:10.364
but there is a lot of Humor in it. I mean
05:10.504 --> 05:13.366
even the awkwardness of someone saying are
05:13.386 --> 05:15.467
you doing when it's like the worst day of
05:15.527 --> 05:18.189
your life? I mean those moments happen all
05:18.229 --> 05:22.252
the time and it also triggers like the extremes
05:22.332 --> 05:24.193
and everyone's personality if someone's a
05:24.233 --> 05:26.795
controller Then they want to just control
05:26.875 --> 05:29.397
everything. It's the most uncontrollable
05:29.477 --> 05:32.639
situation ever so it peaks everyone's sort
05:32.699 --> 05:35.408
of trigger points and And you kind of have
05:35.428 --> 05:37.569
to find these ways of laughing at it. But
05:37.629 --> 05:40.530
the director, Robert Schwartzman, has a really
05:40.610 --> 05:43.452
wonderful way of balancing it. It was written
05:43.512 --> 05:47.054
by a guy named Ben who took from his own
05:47.134 --> 05:50.335
personal experience of losing his mother
05:50.396 --> 05:53.097
and sort of noted down all of these moments
05:53.177 --> 05:55.138
and having to deal with his stepfather and
05:55.178 --> 05:57.539
all this stuff. So I think it was really
05:57.619 --> 06:00.061
cathartic for him to sort of experience that
06:00.121 --> 06:02.502
and write it down and have this film made.
06:03.265 --> 06:05.586
and sort of go through that process.
06:06.906 --> 06:09.147
We are talking with David Arquette. The film
06:09.367 --> 06:12.687
is The Good Half, and we're doing this as
06:12.968 --> 06:16.769
a Fathom event. So we've got tomorrow and
06:16.789 --> 06:18.849
then the 25th. And I did look at, we're here
06:18.889 --> 06:21.250
in Indianapolis. There are like four or five
06:21.290 --> 06:24.431
theaters that this opportunity to see the
06:24.451 --> 06:27.133
good half. And then also there's a Q&A with
06:27.473 --> 06:30.716
Nick Jonas and some of the other cast and
06:30.796 --> 06:33.237
crew. So I wanna make sure that we are getting
06:33.277 --> 06:35.099
those tickets if you wanna come see the movie.
06:35.139 --> 06:37.100
And then I would imagine, David, are we gonna
06:37.120 --> 06:39.362
get a digital release on this as well?
06:41.763 --> 06:44.305
Yeah, I'm sure they'll have a digital release.
06:44.926 --> 06:47.047
But hopefully if enough people go out, it
06:47.067 --> 06:49.248
could stay in theaters longer. So really
06:49.288 --> 06:51.609
kind of the film you want to see with a big
06:51.649 --> 06:53.890
group because there is like laughing and
06:53.910 --> 06:56.011
there's emotional moments and it really,
06:56.532 --> 06:58.352
I don't know, hopefully could be healing
06:58.413 --> 07:01.154
in a way. I mean, I've found like in losing
07:01.214 --> 07:04.375
people and the director does a really wonderful
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job of like flashing back on some really
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beautiful memories. And it is really about,
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I don't know, the most healing aspect to
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it that I found was when you can reach a
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point of gratitude of having these people
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in your life to start with, even though it
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may have been a short time. I mean, that
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really has brought me the most healing and
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remembering their memories and keeping those
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memories alive. And then for me, in losing
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my parents, to continue to live my life so
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that they'd be proud.
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Yeah. Yeah, I think, you know, and there
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are moments, I think, for everyone where
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you're like, man, I wish I could call my
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dad. I wish I could call my mom and tell
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them that. But you live it as if you could,
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right?
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Totally. But I had this one experience when
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I was my second child, my son was born. I
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was looking at him and I was thinking, oh,
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I wish my mom and dad got to meet him. And
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I had this overwhelming feeling that they
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were right with me at that moment. They were
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watching him as well.
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Absolutely. I know that feeling, too. David,
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this has been such a wonderful conversation.
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I'm so excited that we could talk about the
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good half and know that you've got a lot
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of fans out there. And people wanted me to
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talk with you about about Buffy, because
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I actually have a cat named Buffy that's
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sitting in the room watching, watching me
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talk with you. You've had an incredible career.
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Do you look back on some of those things
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you've done, Buffy and Scream, and kind of
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take it all in and be in awe of yourself
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and the things that you have done?
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I'm not sure I'm in awe of that, but I also
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have a cow named Buffy. And from Buffy specifically,
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I met so many of my wonderful friends You
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know, Paul Rubens, Luke Perry, I just loved
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him. He helped me, you know, put in a good
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word for me to get that role. But, you know,
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getting to know Paul Rubens was just such
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an, and we just lost him recently a year
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ago. So it was just a real gift for me just
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in my life. So that's what I usually do is
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just lean back on gratitude again.
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I love it. Thank you so much, David. We'll
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let you go today. And again, the good half,
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go see it either tomorrow or Thursday so
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that we can keep it running in theaters.
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Cause it sounds like a movie that we all
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could really use right now. David, have a
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great day.
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Thank you, you too.
