Page 54 - Peter Farrelly Issue

William H. Macy and Peter Farrelly
like living up there in Ojai now?
Farrelly: I love it. I’ve always loved it. We’ve been there 17 years, I think. I love it on many levels. First of all, I love the great town. They have great schools. It’s a small town, only like 7,500 people. But it feels like a bigger town because of the Ojai Valley Inn and a few other nice motels and hotels. People come up on the weekend, so on the weekend you get a lot more people, and because of that, you have a bunch of good restau- rants and bars and bands, there’s a lot to do for a little town. It’s not missing anything.
Cooper: How old are your kids now? Farrelly: 22 and 24.
Cooper: Oh, wow! I saw the pictures that were in the first article with you and they were just small children.
Farrelly: Yeah, they’re grown up. Cooper: What are they doing now?
Farrelly: My daughter has been in little movies, she’s had small parts in movies, but she just had a big role in “Ricky Stanicky.”
Cooper: Oh, good!
Farrelly: Yeah, she knocked it out of the park.
Cooper: I love that!
Farrelly: She’s of course terrified about the nepo baby shit, but she’s talented. She’s great. She’s just naturally good at it, so what’s she going to do? She really does knock it out of the park. My son, who’s also acting a bit, he’s involved with a blockchain company that he and his buddies from Tulane started. They’re just banging their heads against the wall trying to start with this start- up. I’m impressed. When I was 24, I didn’t even know you could start a company. They’re working at it. So, he’s learning a lot, no matter what happens.
Cooper: Are they using the blockchain for anything beyond NFTs?
Farrelly: Yes. They’re developing it—the more I speak of it, the less you’re going to understand because I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Cooper: I get you.
Farrelly: It has something to do with mortgages. They’re trying to do it so it protects your mortgages bet- ter than—see?
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