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I told you about, abilityE.com. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen him perform. He’s a rocker. He’s had a band. He’s just a great singer. The way he performs, it’s incredible. He’s an interesting guy.
Cooper: But we don’t know, she might be six playing five, you know?
Farrelly: I’ve not seen him, I’d seen him in smaller roles, but to see him in the leading of a movie will open doors for him because he’s really good in it. I always knew he was OK, because I’d seen him in things, but now I know he’s on another level. He really does a lot with a little. I’m talking about his acting style.
Cooper: I’m kidding with you!
Cooper: I get it, yeah.
Farrelly: I’m dead serious. She’s supposed to be four in the movie, and I was like, “How old is she, nine?” They said, “She turned five the week we were opening.” I was like, “Oh, my God!”
Farrelly: It’s a very smart way of acting. I’m so impressed by it.
Cooper: That’s great! I’ve seen pictures of her because of that article we did. But that was in 2019 when it was filmed?
Cooper: He’ll be happy to hear you say that.
Farrelly: I’m not sure.
Cooper: She’s probably in her twenties now? (laughs)
Farrelly: I really enjoyed the movie. But more than that, no matter what happens in a movie, if people can find him and say, “Oh, yeah, that guy’s spectacular,”– It’s hard to see somebody when you have a minute here and there, but when you see somebody in a 90-minute movie, whatever it is, and you see how he holds it, he carries that movie, along with John, by the way. John was spectacular, too. But Tobias was—he had a lot going on in there.
Farrelly: (laughs) Yeah, she’s getting out of college. I told you, it’s hard to get movies made.
Cooper: I don’t know if you saw the article we did with John, that starts off with him being a person who’s a scuba diver, an instructor, it goes down this whole of things that he is, a pilot, he’s has all these things that he does that the general public would not expect a dual amputee to have.
Farrelly: The Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. The three of them, David, Jerry, and Jim.
Farrelly: How did he become an amputee?
Cooper: I’m talking to Abrahams. He’s on the phone. I said, “Where are you?” He said LA. He asked me where I was and I said, “I’m in Orange County, so what time is it there?” And he stopped and said, “Oh, man, you got me! I love to be gotten!” (laughs)
Cooper: He was doing something, I think it was maybe painting on a water tower and somehow something was electrical and both hands got caught in the accident. But he’s also a talented guy.
Farrelly: (laughs)
Farrelly: Oh, yeah. He’s great in it. He plays a grouchy, grumpy neighbor, and they had taken a road trip togeth- er with this little girl. There’s a five-year-old actress in it who’s as good as any actress I’ve seen, young actor, kid actor, I’ve seen since the little girl in “The Florida Project.” That little girl was superstar. I have not seen somebody as good as her since, until this movie. And this little girl kills. It’s fantastic. It makes the movie because we have three really good actors in there, and if one of them was weak, it wouldn’t be that good. But it is good, it particularly helps that the five-year-old knows what she’s doing. That’s very rare.
Farrelly: I’m actually in Portugal.
Cooper: (laughs)
Farrelly: It is going on 1 a.m. here right now.
But that also says a lot to the director. The director is Alex Yellen. He just directed her perfectly. She didn’t have a bad moment. That’s hard to do with a five-year- old.
Farrelly: I’m on the 101 right now into LA from Ojai. I’m going by Del Norte Boulevard.
Farrelly: No, I actually do know.
Cooper: (laughs) Exactly! I was going to make a joke that I did with I think it was Jim Abrahams. Who’s the guy who did “Airplane”?
Cooper: I almost did that with you, but I've done that joke before.
Cooper: (laughs) Once I was visiting in NJ driving in one of the worst storms I’ve ever experienced, and the windshield wipers are going at the highest speed, it’s pouring down and I can barely see where I’m going on the road, get a phone call, take the call, and it’s a friend of mine from CA saying, “Hey, I’m going surfing, you want to go?” I’m like, “I can’t right now.” With cell phones, you have no idea where people are.
Cooper: I’ve got the tracking system on you. What is it
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