Writer and Director of “The Bride” Maggie Gyllenhaal

Delusions: Of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress Author Cazzie David

Air Date: Thursday, March 5^th 

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Drew’s News: Drew Shares How Her Marilyn Monroe Cover on George Magazine Came To Be

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Drew: I actually contributed to this book and is it true that your friend wrote this book?

Valerie: Yes, one of my friends, Liz McNeil, she wrote this and she, you were her very last interview before they went.

Drew: That's right, I was like I don't even know how I made the book because it was like go to press time and.

Valerie: She really thought your story was important, and it is. It's a great blurb.

Drew: I'm so excited she asked me to participate in it.

Ross: Well, and you talk about being on the cover of his magazine, George, and you were dressed as, look at you right there. I mean, what can you tell us about how this happened, and you, I, did you speak with him on the phone?

Drew: I did.  I'll never forget I was in my home, I was in bed… So I get on the phone and I'm like, hi. I mean, we were at the pinnacle of this couple being you know, I guess as big as Taylor and Travis.

Valerie: If there was a, if there was an online community, it would be smothered with them.

Drew: They, I don't know how they lived their life. Their existence was not peaceful.

It was a paparazzi every single second, everywhere that they went, they couldn't walk out their own door without it being a red carpet fashion runway and they were Camelot they were this sort of royal couple.

Valerie: and Marilyn Monroe to him.

Drew: That's where I didn't know where the personal aspect of this phone call would come in and he said you know, I wanna do something that's gonna be controversial because I'd like you to pose as Marilyn Monroe and of course I know the famous happy birthday Mr. President very well we all do and I said oh OK and I said, you know, I'd really love some direction from you on what the tone is. Are you trying to say this gets your seal of approval? Are you making fun of it? Are you just secretly slyly kind of acknowledging it in a very empowered way. How can I best represent this moment for you? He just said, I want it to be straightforward. I don't want it to be buffoony. I don't want it to be over congratulatory. I want it to be this sort of sensual, straightforward, confident moment. And then we went and did the shoot and I heard they were really happy with the pictures and that was great and then I saw the magazine and I was like, oh my god.

 

Maggie on Why She Made Her New Movie “The Bride” For Her Daughters 

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Drew: I became a mom too and you know you have two daughters.

Maggie: How old are yours?

Drew: 12 and 13.

Maggie: OK, I have 19 and almost 14.

Drew: Oh my gosh, OK, advice.

Maggie: Well, you know what? I'll tell you this. Here's a little piece of advice that can also segue to the movie. Like I made this movie because of my daughters. I made the first movie also because of my daughters, but this one is about the parts of all of us that will not get in the box that everyone tells us we're supposed to get into and my daughters like fundamentally will not get in their boxes and at first I thought, no, no, no guys get in the box it's just gonna be easier for you you're gonna have an easier time like I was wishing for them that they would fit more easily and then I was like, no, no, like I had a kind of an epiphany and the truth is like then I wrote this movie.

 

Behind the Scenes: Maggie on Filming "Donnie Darko” with Her Brother Jake Gyllenhaal & Husband Peter Sarsgaard

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Drew: ‘Donnie Darko’ what is like a fly on the wall moment, a memory for you of that film.

Maggie: You know Jake’s in this movie.

Drew: I know Jake and Peter your husband. It’s a family affair.

Maggie: I mean you know Jake and Peter.

Drew: Was this your first?

Maggie: One of my first I was a baby. I loved having my brother and my husband on that set. I felt I guess confident enough, old enough, free enough, I want all the love I want all the people who love me around.

 

Behind the Scenes: Maggie on Filming “The Dark Knight” with Heath Ledger 

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Drew: What was it like to make that film? That is such an epic….

Maggie: The thing about ‘The Dark Knight’ is it, it really, well, the, the scope was massive. The other thing I wanna say about that movie is like, it's hard to act well in a huge movie. Because so many other things are like, take precedent, VFX, tons of extras, I don't know, just the scope and Heath Ledger just took the space he needed. And was incredible in that movie. It really was, and everybody knew it. I remember, I remember Peter, my husband, and Michelle and Heath, and we both had babies who are about the same age, and Peter said, oh wow, the Joker, that's a big deal, taking that on, and he said, I have an idea.

Drew: I remember actually you're conjuring up a memory for me that I had sort of tucked into the banals of my mind, which was seeing Jake and Heath together and they had done ‘Brokeback’ and they were dear friends, and I saw them out, it was at the Spotted Pig in New York.

Maggie: Around the corner from our apartment.

Drew: And I remember hanging out with them and being so happy to be around them and seeing what a true friendship they have really had, but it wasn't the movie, like it was like, oh, there they are.

Maggie: You can't make a movie like Brokeback Mountain and not make a connection I don't think.

 

Cazzie David on Holding Hands with Drew 

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Cazzie: I'm a little offended you haven't held my hands yet because I see you, you hold everyone's hands. Like why haven't you held my hand? And everyone warned me like she might hold your hands, and I was like, OK, we'll see, and like she didn't.

Drew: I was trying to be respectful.

Cazzie: And are you doing this for the guests because they're nervous or for you?

Drew: It's how I am with my friends, like I nuzzle into the nook.

Cazzie: Don't let go.

Drew: When I'm with my friends. I'm on their lap in their arms, walking arm in arm with people.

Cazzie: I was gonna maybe just walk in and sit straight into your lap.

Drew: Just priming myself in case that ever happens.

Cazzie: Wait, I need both hands.

Drew: By the way, what would your dad think of me?

Cazzie: Well, it'd be similar to this except for there'd be no hand holding. But I really feel like I'm him in a woman's body, and imagine how bad that is, imagine for one second being Larry David in a girl's body. It just can't get worse.

Drew: I mean, I think your dad has tapped a nerve with all of us because he talks about like the awkwardness of life in a way that nobody else has.

Cazzie:….I feel like you wanna let go of my hands.

Drew: No, no, in fact, ready for this.

Cazzie: This is good this is good.

 

Cazzie on People Being Fascinated By Her & Growing Up With Her Dad Having a Famous Persona

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Drew: How does it make you feel that people have such a fascination with you? How does it feel that.

Cazzie: I don't think they do. Do you think that?

Drew: Have you looked at the internet lately? I mean, you really are someone who people are obsessed with and wanna talk about, how does that make you feel?

Cazzie:…If that were true I'd love that. Then I would love that, but I really, I mean.

I really only experience when it's, I mean my, my, the best thing that can happen to me is I don't humiliate myself. Like that's my baseline is like, did I humiliate myself? No, OK then it's fine.

Drew: Well that's like what your dad I think has helped make societally acceptable. He's made the world a better place through showing and demonstrating humiliating scenarios.

Cazzie: Well, he notoriously is actually just not I mean, I, when I was growing up, I was really like why everyone thought he was like he is on TV, you know, and I would get really upset about that, you know, and people think he's a mean guy, maybe.

Drew: So funny, I never took it that way.

Cazzie: When you're a kid and he's like yelling, like, no, that's not what he's like, like I kept trying to tell people that's not what he's like he's actually this really nice guy. And then I said to him like, why do you not want people to think you're this like nice gentle guy?

Drew: And what did he say?

Cazzie: He was like, cos it's not funny.

 

Cazzie on Turning 30 & the Pressures That Comes With It

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Drew: Do you care what people think about you? Are you able to separate?

Cazzie: Deeply, deeply care. And that was something I was told, you know, when you turn 30, you're not gonna care anymore. Everyone said that. It's not true. I thought like at the stroke, like the stroke of midnight, I would be a different person. And there I was like about to turn 30 at midnight and I was just like scrolling on Instagram and I was like, well, didn't happen.

Drew: Do you, in this decade, are you asking yourself big questions about what the rest of your life wants to look like?

Cazzie: I think it's more that it's a time where you have to make really big decisions.

Drew: Like the 30s is go time for girls.

Cazzie: And that's really scary. Yeah, there's a lot of hard choices you have to think about that men don't have to necessarily, but you're literally dealing with a biological pressure inside of yourself. Well, what's crazy is you might not know if you even wanna have a family, and so you're making these decisions for your future self, who's a woman you don't even know.

I don't know what she wants, you know, but you don't wanna like screw her over by making a non-choice on her behalf. But I don't know her. You know, like, I don't wanna make decisions for you. Like, what about me, the most important person in the world?

Drew: Oh, see, you're so ahead. The one thing I didn't know in my thirties was how to prioritize myself. I was absolutely all about everyone else and everything else.

Cazzie: But I do nothing for my future self. Like I won't even buy tampons for my future self because, because I don't wanna think about her, right, you know, it's coming, you'll deal with it like you can, you can get the tampons, you know, like I'm not gonna get tampons for you because she's actually going to and you know that I have enough going on. I don't need to prepare for you….no, when I have my period, I go from place to place stealing like one tampon from the bathroom. And that’s how I survive the tamp the, the period.

 

Cazzie on The Response To Her No Napping Take on Her Appearance on Subway Takes

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Drew: Is it true that you feel like I do, you hate napping?

Cazzie: So let me, let me explain something to you about this take is that I went on this show Subway Takes, right? And I was like I'm going to come up with a take that is an actual take but it's also not, you know, too controversial because I know people can be a little, they can get a little, I don't know, I can get under their skin a little bit. I also have to be careful about the privilege thing because any time I say something on the internet, people come for me and they're like, you're privileged, shut up, like even if it's about anything. So I thought of a take and it was that I hate napping. And I was like this is foolproof because you can't call me a privileged person for hating napping. You can call someone privileged for napping because they have the privilege to nap in the day. So I thought this was really a smart take, right? So I go on the show. I say I hate napping, you know, and I have never received more hate in my entire life. Not only that, but people actually commented, you're so privileged, you've never been tired enough to take a nap before. And that I was actually impressed by. I was like, good for you to figure that out, yeah.