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Hello, Blenders. It's Sean O'Connell, the managing editor at

1:08

CineBlend, and co-host of the Real Blend podcast. And

1:10

it is time for a brand new

1:13

Real Blend interview. This time, it's Peter

1:15

and Bobby Fairley, who are joining us

1:17

on behalf of their new film, Dear

1:19

Santa. If

1:22

you guys were paying attention to the channel, you will

1:24

know that earlier this week, we had Giovanni Rubisi, the

1:26

cinematographer, for Strange Darling on it. And at the end

1:28

of that one, I sort of teased that we had

1:31

this one coming up. I

1:33

really wish I got a chance to do this

1:35

one with the boys. So, Jake Hamilton and Kevin

1:37

McCarthy, the other co-host of the show, handle the

1:39

Fairley brothers. It's just, you guys know with our

1:41

timing, we're often juggling multiple

1:43

interviews and multiple opportunities. And

1:46

weirdly enough, the schedule has landed so

1:48

that the Giovanni Rubisi interview and

1:50

the Fairley brothers interview were at the exact same

1:52

time on the exact same day. So, thankfully, as

1:54

a team, we're able to sort of divide them

1:57

up, and some of us are able to

1:59

handle some. only

10:00

to have a better time. It's

10:02

more fun. We have good dinners

10:05

on the weekends. Hang

10:07

out with the crew, but you really don't need

10:09

us both. You need one of them. As

10:12

a quick follow-up, my brother

10:15

and I have never worked together. So I

10:17

don't know what I would learn about him

10:20

if we were in a working environment.

10:22

And that's an interesting thing to me.

10:24

So I'm wondering what you learn about

10:27

each other when you work together that

10:29

you don't, that

10:31

you didn't know. Well, first of all, let me say this. I

10:33

could never work with your brother. Me neither.

10:35

He's a... Ha ha ha ha ha

10:37

ha ha ha ha. So, hey, you

10:39

know. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha

10:42

ha. Ha ha ha ha. No, you, you

10:45

know, we grew up in the same, you know,

10:47

we had twin beds, same room. We're a year

10:49

and a half apart. We grew up, we always

10:51

hung out with the same friends. You know, we

10:53

didn't have two different groups of friends. It was

10:55

always like, so we weren't learning much about each

10:57

other on the set that we didn't already know,

11:00

I think. Because there's two of us like the

11:02

Coen brothers. I think it's easier to protect our

11:05

vision of how we do things. Because

11:07

there's a tendency for everything to get watered

11:09

down to make it a little bit more vanilla

11:11

and make it look like whatever was good last

11:14

year, you know? And we kind

11:16

of stick to our guns because there's two

11:18

of us. So we prop each other up.

11:20

So we've been able to have more of

11:22

a distinct voice. Like the

11:24

Zucker brothers and Jim Abrams and the Coen brothers

11:26

and, you know, the Wachowskis and the Hughes. You

11:28

can fight better because there's two of you. Because

11:31

if there's one, they beat you down and you're

11:33

like, ah, and then the other guy's like, don't

11:35

do this, you know? Right. But

11:38

yeah, so that helps a lot. That's

11:41

cool. You know, Kevin

11:44

and I talk a lot about

11:46

how we wish people

11:49

appreciated comedy more. Kevin often talks

11:51

and points to the bathroom

11:53

scene from Dumb and Dumber, but just this

11:55

idea of like, you know, there are so

11:57

many great moments in comedy that we wish

11:59

were. Not that it's about awards,

12:01

but that we wish were a part of

12:03

the awards conversation. And I'm sort of curious,

12:05

you know, I'm often told that comedy is

12:07

obviously harder than drama. What is a moment

12:10

in each of your filmographies, a great

12:12

comedic moment, that you wish

12:14

that people just appreciated

12:16

how difficult it was to pull off? Because

12:19

I think people think comedy is just a

12:21

fun, easy thing, and it's not. Like, it's

12:23

a great comedy, as you guys know, and

12:25

have crafted many times. It's not easy to

12:27

pull off. No, and I

12:29

will say this, like when I did

12:31

Green Book, at the end people were

12:34

like, wow, that must have been hard going into a

12:36

drama. It was the easiest movie I've ever done. And

12:39

I'm telling you, it really

12:41

was. First of all, the script was great.

12:43

Nick Vallelonga and Brian Curry and I wrote

12:45

it, but it was really solid. And we

12:47

had Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, who are two

12:49

of the greatest actors on the planet. We

12:51

did it in 32 days. It was like

12:53

nothing. It was a breeze. It

12:55

was painless. Comedy is way,

12:57

way harder, way harder. And if people

12:59

knew the degree of difficulty

13:02

of doing that Three Stooges movie,

13:04

which I love, because we had

13:06

to write brand new, we had

13:08

three characters that everybody knew, and

13:10

they had to be exactly like

13:12

those three characters. But we wrote

13:14

all new material, but it had

13:16

to feel like it was their

13:18

old material. And yet we're

13:21

trying to take it into a new

13:23

generation. My fear in that movie was

13:25

that two of the actors would be

13:27

amazing and one would be so-so. And

13:29

those three actors are so good in

13:31

that movie that,

13:34

you know, I

13:36

take such pride in that. The

13:39

way it was cast. I was one of

13:41

our biggest hits, but I totally agree with

13:43

you because the degree of difficulty was very

13:45

high. Yeah. Do you guys remember

13:47

that junket? That was one of the all-time great

13:49

where they did the junket in character. It

13:54

was incredible. I was on that floor

13:56

for the junket for that movie and I got a

13:58

tap on my back and someone's. holding

20:00

my mother like this. You know, what are

20:02

they doing? This is their movie. I remember

20:04

the guy, I wish I could remember his

20:06

name, but he was in the in the

20:09

post editing room putting in those sound effects

20:11

and he'd listen like, okay,

20:13

a little more at the beginning. Oh, that's quick. We

20:15

love that squeak. He

20:17

just, you know, it comes to life. Yeah. You do

20:20

have the sound effect, guys. This is the thing about

20:22

a movie. It's like we're not doing everything. We're

20:25

we got like DPs, directors of photography. You

20:28

got first ADs. He's got everything running the show.

20:31

But the sound guys are very important. And I

20:33

remember another thing in that movie, the snowball in

20:35

the head. Yes. With

20:37

the snowball. He had like 50 sound

20:39

effects that weren't funny. They were like, and

20:42

then he calls his. What do you think

20:44

of this one? And he put

20:46

like a wishing sound and then he had a

20:48

big hard hit. And we started

20:50

laughing our asses off. And he says, yeah, that's

20:52

that was that sound was the crack of the

20:55

bat. Babe Ruth. And he's like, oh, I want

20:57

to get to that one. Henry

20:59

Aaron's seven hundred and fifteenth Homer. That's the

21:01

sound. Wow. Well,

21:04

like, are there any other Easter eggs like

21:06

that with the sound effects like

21:08

in Dom and Dumber or even Dear Santa? We're like, like,

21:11

though I always look at the one where like

21:13

Jeff Daniels is outside of the bathroom and it

21:15

hits him. It was before he goes into the

21:17

actual bathroom. Like, what are

21:19

those sounds? Genus

21:22

song guys. Genius. Our

21:24

guys putting in what what Jeff had already given us. Yeah. He

21:27

did something like that. And then so we put

21:29

it in there, but it's a

21:31

combination of great acting and great sound. Jeff

21:33

doing what he's what he's got. Oh,

21:37

oh, oh, oh,

21:40

he gave us so much. By the way,

21:42

we have to talk about PJ Brown. Yeah,

21:44

that's what I'm saying. Like I messaged him

21:46

last night because we all follow each other

21:48

on Instagram in the middle of the movie.

21:50

I'm I'm messing with him and he I

21:52

think he responded back. I did it for

21:54

America. The best part is when he's when

21:56

he's walking and the farts are in sync

21:58

with them. You

34:01

better like him. You

34:03

better like him. And that's where it is.

34:06

You get away with murder if you like the guy.

34:08

It's a little bit of the Andy Griffith formula. Yeah.

34:11

The show we loved. We used to watch it every day

34:13

when we wrote it. You never knew if

34:15

they were going to do something just comedy or if it

34:17

was going to be something that was very serious. And

34:19

they balanced both so well that it

34:22

became our favorite show. Yeah, you always

34:24

felt something. And that kind of was

34:26

the God figure. And Barney

34:28

was the humor. And you always would

34:30

laugh. And you always felt something. And

34:34

that kind of that influenced us. That

34:36

show influenced us more than movies because we didn't see a lot of

34:38

movies growing up. Wow. That's

34:41

why the Satan character that Jack Black plays is

34:43

likable in the film in a fun way. You

34:46

know, yeah. From

34:48

over there you go. Anything along those lines.

34:50

We're just trying to tell an interesting funny

34:52

story. Yeah. Yeah. Anti-Seaten.

34:56

Me. Guys, thank you so much.

34:59

We appreciate your time. Thank you

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digging into some of the things that we bring up on the show

37:03

often, which is how comedy

37:06

gets overlooked in the awards categories. And

37:09

so, you know, now that I expect Dear

37:11

Santa to compete in the Oscars this year,

37:13

but in general, comedy, even when it's

37:15

done really well, horror, even when it's done

37:17

really well, tends to get kind

37:19

of ignored through the Oscar campaigns. So,

37:21

you know, I'm going to be really curious as we get into December and

37:25

something like Nosferatu starts to compete because

37:27

Eggers is obviously an Academy favorite and

37:30

tends to make really compelling films, and

37:32

he's taking on the Dracula mythology. So we'll have

37:35

some conversations about that as we get into

37:37

more shows in December. What

37:39

else can we look forward to in December? Well,

37:42

we can confirm that on

37:44

next week's show, we're going to have Jude Law

37:46

and Nicholas Holt as our guests paired for a

37:48

film they have coming out called The Order, which

37:50

is definitely worth your time. We'll probably

37:52

talk a little bit more about how Wicked is doing at

37:54

the box office and maybe even Gladiator too. The two of

37:57

them are contending. We also have

37:59

Moana too.