Brian Koppelman: evaluation

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…Thank you. He does the work. You do, dude. You do the work. You do the reading. You do the homework. You do the reading. You do the research. You're prepared. You're ready to talk about all of it. You're somebody who comes to set having mastered the scene, and is then willing to play. There were all these things that we needed Travis to be because we also needed Travis to be somebody who you believed could enlist all these people in his world-changing vision, and we needed an actor who would try to protect himself at every turn. An actor who wouldn't be worried about doing things that were unsavory or wrong, morally questionable. An actor who would be willing to look somebody in the eye and yell at them because they weren't super pumped. It's not easy to find that combination of things in an actor so it was a very short list for us. This happened throughout this whole project. It is rare, as rare as in Silicon Valley to get exactly the investors you want as your angels on your series A. Joe knows because he was part of the conversation. Joe’s our first choice, Kyle Chandler was our first choice, and Uma Thurman. Kerry Bishé’s the only person who gave her all of Austin. We just got our first choices throughout this whole thing, and partially because once Joe was on, it made other actors want to be a part of that, because this is a really important story to tell about America at this time. I'll ask this in reverse chronological order, but I'll ask you both the same question. Joe, what was it about this project that made you say yes? Why was your agent right in telling you, I think you're really going to like this?…

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