“Forgotten Island” Star Dave Franco

Actually, Nevermind Author Taylor Tomlinson
Air Date: Thursday, September 24^th

Photo Credit: The Drew Barrymore Show/Ash Bean

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VIDEOS:

Dave Franco on His Wife Alison Brie Finding “A Dinosaur” on Their Back Patio and Reuniting it with It’s Owner

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Dave: So I was out of town and my wife was in our living room just sitting on the couch. She looks out the window and she's like, ‘What is that?’ And so she gets up to investigate and she reaches out to me and she's like, ‘OK, we have a dinosaur on our back patio.’ And so she doesn't know what to do, so at first she decides, I guess I should feed it and so she tried to give it some lettuce. There's our cats a little perturbed by it all and so basically she eventually realized she's like, ‘I bet this is someone's pet’ and so like on this kind of neighborhood forum she posted the picture of this little dino and someone said that's my bearded dragon and so she reunited it with its owner and she found out that it had left its owner two months ago and it traveled like a mile and a half.  It was on this odyssey and so she got to reunite it and she found out that it was its name was Little Boy. How cute.

Drew: That's such a happy story.

 

Dave Channels Ace Ventura While Discussing His New Film “Forgotten Island"

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Drew: This is my bird. This bird actually had an injured wing and so I was like ‘Oh it’ll be perfect to bring here because she won’t fly away.’ I learned in the dressing room her wing has healed so she might take off but this is Melody.

Dave: Is she kinda just going to my little finger.

Drew: Yeah you just go right there.

Dave: Look at this. I’m Ace Ventura all of the sudden.

Drew: It’s so funny when I knew you were coming on and we saw your film ‘Forgotten Island’ it’s so beautiful. By the way I’m seeing commercials left right and center with all the reviews and I’ve been reading about it because I like to do my homework and people are really effusive about their love of this film.

Dave: It’s the first big budget studio film that focuses on Filipino culture and so that alone is monumental. And then on top of that it just turned out so good and this movie, it’s laugh out loud funny, it’s nostalgic…I remember seeing the movie for the first time and this was me at DreamWorks in this giant theater by myself and I’m sitting there and I cried like eight times.

 

Drew & Dave on Working In Video Stores When They Were Younger

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Dave: How old were you when you were working at a video store?

Drew: I was 12.

Dave: You were 12. OK, so many questions, but first off, I know you had already been obviously in a bunch of stuff, a bunch of movies, and then you decided, OK, I'm gonna work at a video store.

Drew: Well, I wasn't getting any jobs, so I thought this is gonna be a great gig for me because I love movies so much. And I know so much about them and all I do is study them, so if there was ever a job made for me.

Dave: It's the best. But like were people coming in and being like, ‘Hey.’

Drew: Yeah.

Dave: And how did that normally go?

Drew: I would say it was always very swift. It was the recognition and then right back to business. They had movies to rent. And so the novelty, I will say, did not drag on. It was like, ‘Aren't you? Oh, interesting. OK, so I'm looking for this movie.’

Dave: But wait, you were 12 years old.

Drew: Yeah, like how did I get a job at 12 years old? I don't know because my daughter, for the first time worked in a retail store this summer, and she's 14 and she did 7 weeks, 9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. 4 days a week. How amazing is that?

 

Dave on His Sunday Movies in Bed Tradition with Wife Alison 

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Drew: Is it true that you will, you have a commitment to do Sundays in bed?

Dave: Yes, yes, well, because we have to spend so much time apart due to work…we're very lucky. We really, when we are in town at the same time, we really do put Sundays aside just to like have, be able to like be there with each other and just like have a nice day.

Drew: I heard it's like movies in bed and like Grubhub, Postmates, Uber Eats.

Dave: We really try not to leave bed. And this is like, you know, these days it's, we try to do donuts on Sunday. We're like, let's treat ourselves. Let's have something to look forward to at the end of the week. So we got donuts in bed and we're pounding like 4 movies and it's the greatest day and we just got our cats piled on us like what's not to love.

 

Dave on Writing Nightly Love Notes to Wife Alison 

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Drew: Can I ask where the tradition of love letters started, because a piece of paper is so romantic.

Dave: I know.

Drew: Where did that start for you guys?

Dave: Well, I don't wanna burst your bubble at all. It's, there are love letters. It's less handwritten. They're sometimes handwritten, but what I think you're referring to is basically from the beginning of our relationship, which was nearly 15 years ago now, every single night that we're apart, which is pretty often because of work, before going to bed, we essentially write a love letter to each other and it could be something that day that reminded you of some memory from the past, it could be that you came across an old photo and it brought up some nice thoughts, it could be anything, but what it does is like, so I'm in New York right now, she's in LA, so I go to bed first. I'll send her my love letter so she gets that before she goes to bed and then I'll wake up in New York and I start my day with her love letter and it's just a really nice way to start and end the day and it's and like I think like psychologically what it does is no matter how tired you are at the end of the day, it forces you to sit down and really think about the other person and like just like find new ways to say I love you and like you're really just like putting out good energy and it's part of the reason we've been able to last this long.

 

Drew & Taylor on Deciding To Have Children & Taylor on the Story Behind Her Book Cover 

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Taylor: You always wanted kids, right? Or were you kind of back and forth on the fence?

Drew: I did not. I was so not wanting to repeat anything from my own childhood, not my mom's behavior, not my own, not our relationship, it was so crazy town and so I think I was really nervous and then eventually my clock started ticking and I was sitting in this film set in Alaska in night shoots and I was in my early 30s and something literally said to me like, it's time for your next adventure. But then when I was starting to have kids, I thought, how do I avoid my own past with my mother or my experiences then it's one thing to say you don't want to have the same blueprint, but then how do you do it? And can you actually break out of that blueprint if it's all you know? And this leads me to your book where you openly and candidly talk about what is it about the power of the mother relationship that does have an effect on what we think our own present and future should function like?

Taylor: Absolutely, yeah, I mean, my mom passed when I was 8 and my siblings were younger than that, and it's so funny when I started writing the book, the book was always gonna be personal essays about everything I've changed my mind about, and when I started writing the book, I thought, ‘OK, what does anyone reading this book need to know about me first to understand who I am.’ And I made a list of subjects and I realized pretty quickly like oh they're gonna need to know that my mom passed when I was young because that is sort of what started changing my mind about everything else, that's what started changing my mind about my religious beliefs and marriage and kids and all these different subjects, so I had to start from there, and my relationship with her and my memories of her sort of bookend the book and there's also sort of we have like a whole box of her journals she kept journals her whole life and we have excerpts sprinkled throughout that are sort of applicable to times in my life that I was changing my mind and thinking about how she felt about things and the cover of the book is actually we did a whole photo shoot recreating this photo of my mom that I love so much of her sitting in an airport and the photo, we had an amazing photographer who did a whole photo shoot, but the photo that we ended up going with on the front is a Polaroid my sibling took at that photo shoot so it's really really cool and special.

 

Taylor on Going Back & Forth on Her Decision to Have Kids & the Window Changing for Women

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Taylor: I mean, it's so tough when your parent dies really young. You have this irrational fear that you're also going to die at that age, and so I've had a lot of fear around having kids anytime before I turn 34, and I've sort of gotten to a better place with that. I'm 32 now, so we'll see how I feel in a couple of years, but I go back and forth, and I'm sure it's hormones also fluctuating, like sometimes you see a baby in a stroller and you're like, ‘If I don't have one immediately, I'm going to explode’ and that's been sort of where I'm at recently, so something's shifting in there, and you have to start thinking, if you've sort of put it on the back burner for years and gone, I don't, I don't need to make a decision about that yet, then you do hit that age that you had in your head or you didn't even know maybe was the ticking clock age for you. You go, oh my gosh, I need to figure out how I feel about this immediately, and I don't know, putting that pressure on myself has never really worked though.

Drew: Well, because that's the biology of it, we know there is a window, but there's time and women are having kids later and later and it's, I think the window is longer than we were told when we were younger. I do think more women are having kids in their late 30s, even early 40s, not to say I know anything about what I'm talking about.

Taylor: Have you seen Anne Hathaway?

Drew: That's kind of what I'm talking about. She's amazing and she's ageless and timeless and so there are women out there giving us hope that again we can have a little more ease in our choices and a little more breathing room in our ticking clock.