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Actor Patricia Clarkson. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Awesome stuff everybody. Hour number three of The Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Lots going on in this town of Los Angeles.
Sports wise, we started the show talking about the Lakers getting eliminated in five. We also just had a great chat with Alex Smith in hour number two. I just had a very nice chat in our green room with the actress Patricia Clarkson whose new film Lily will be available exclusively in theaters next week on May the 9th. We've got a great fun celebrity true or false set up for her about The Untouchables, Good Night and Good Luck. Oh, so many other great movies that she's been in.
Green Mile, Jumanji, which was, as you remember, a great Craig Kilbourne catchphrase on SportsCenter back in the day. Chris Ballard was on in hour number one and joining us here is one of our favorites. And by the way, that was the Royal Wee as well I was using because I just love this guy. And I'm not just saying that because he's appearing on the screen. He's the General Manager of your Los Angeles Rams, Les Snead. How are you Les? Good to see you.
Who's those? How are you? I'm good Rich. How's it going?
I'm doing fine. Are you in your office? Is that where you are? Is that where you are? I have Artis Twyman's office.
This is Artis Twyman's office. Oh, you're crashing his spot, huh? Okay.
You know what? His Zoom seems to be more consistent than mine. What's going on?
Or sometimes I, you know, you make an appointment in my Zoom and it's crashing and I'm probably less technical than some, so. Okay. This is a good safe space to do these types of events. All right. Let's just jump right into it to start, Les. I don't know what you're doing with your picks anymore.
One minute you're effing them, the next one you're collecting them. And this time around you didn't take a first rounder because you took one in next year's draft. I mean, walk me through that decision. End of the first round, Falcons ring you up and you got 10 minutes to figure this thing out, Les.
You know, each of those scenarios are case by case. In this particular draft though, based on probably whether we were a little more specific in terms of probably positions we were looking for, players we were looking for, even our needs. We did feel like there was a possibility, good probability that we might trade back at 26 based on the way the draft may go.
That did come to fruition. What we probably weren't planning for was we felt like, okay, there was a chance we're going to move back, collect some more picks in this year's draft with teams. But when Atlanta came calling for a future one, we felt like it was better for us at this particular moment to delay the gratification. You know, we somewhat passed the marshmallow test and take a pick in the next year's draft and still trade back. So again, everybody's going to be sitting here starting to think that you've already identified somebody in next year's draft that you want to save your powder for.
Is that a fair assumption, Les? On speculation for the next 364, 63, 62 days. If I knew who was coming out in the draft, that would help.
That's always based on all that's going on in college football, probably a little tougher to predict who might or might not come back or who may stay for next year based on the NIL and those players being able to get paid. So that's still to be determined. Well, what's the number of days, Chris?
You've already figured that out? Next year's first round is April 23rd in Pittsburgh, so we're at 358 days. There you go.
358 days, Les. So you could keep track of the number of days that we're going to keep talking about it in the media. You know what I mean? Just giving you that information. I understand. It's good content, right? Hopefully it's interesting.
Thank you very much. You understand I am a content searcher. But in all honesty, Les, I mean, so many Rams fans are white knuckling the quarterback situation, seemingly like on an annual basis. And this might be something that you have in your back pocket in case it's another white knuckler next year. I mean, what can you tell us on that front about Stafford? I think it's it's been clear.
Matthews, obviously, in the back nine of his career, how many years he goes. We hope it's more more than let's call it more than less. But we've all talked about it. So we know that his air is coming to an end. But I would say this priority number one is making the most of the Matthew Stafford error.
Why wouldn't you? That's what that's why you want a quarterback of his caliber, right? You want to make the most of that error, whatever that may be. But we're also well aware that there is a future without Matthew and how we navigate that when, you know, is to be determined case by case. But we're well, we're aware of both scenarios.
So the math going on simultaneously. Right. So the Matthew now arrow, does that lead to Terence Ferguson in the second round for you? Definitely that that it didn't.
The answer would be yes. We definitely felt like. And then I think Terrence will also, you know, let's call it. There's a good possibility that he's the heir apparent to Tyler Higby whenever Tyler's career is over.
So there's an element of now. And then there's also an element of future with Terrence as well. And then the running back room, you added you added a kid from your alma mater, Jarquez Hunter.
How do you see the running back? And he doesn't play basketball. Isn't that, you know, just about that. I mean, we're a basketball school now. I'm aware of that. I noticed that for sure. And I think we did beat Michigan. Yeah, I know you did. You did beat Michigan.
Can confirm less. You also drafted a Chris Paul. So maybe you got basketball in the brain, but that's for for another day. What do you what do you see in this kid, Hunter, and what you know, being an Auburn fan? He was just as from a fan's perspective, you know, from the time he got there to now, he's just been a fun player to watch in terms of just how he runs his running style.
He's one of those guys that ignites, ignites a crowd, ignites an audience. The way he breaks tackles, he runs, he runs with joy. And then if he does break those tackles, he has the ability to, you know, to hit a double triple, take it, take it the distance.
So we did want to we do think the way this NFL season's going, the the amount of wear and tear that goes into playing running back, that having a committee and a committee with different skill sets only only helps us continue being able to run the football like we want to run it. Yeah, I mean, he's he's fourth on the all time Auburn rushing list behind guys named Bo Jackson, Cadillac Williams and James Brooks. I've heard of them, you know, so that's that's a great list.
Yeah, man. I like that James Brooks pops pops in there. That's that's a that's a classic. That is a free Bo Jackson. But is it and that's pretty less need, correct?
It's very pretty less. I was I was probably in middle school or maybe even elementary school. James Brooks just want to make sure, you know, you you are younger than you look. So let's just put it this way. In all seriousness, you watch the Michigan-Ohio State tape, I imagine, for your second and fourth round picks as well. Josiah Stewart and Ty Hamilton to add to your defense.
What do you see in these kids, Les? Well, the neat thing on Josiah is very similar to some of the players we have on our defensive line now, if not all of them, is he started he started in the group of five and decided to take a chance on upgrading per se and going to the power four. And when we've seen those players make that step up, take, you know, get to the next level, the video game where the competition is a little stiffer and still be able to produce like you did at the at the lesser or lower level. That's always fun to see because that's what it takes to have success in the NFL. No matter where you went to school and college, whether it's Ohio State, Michigan, somewhere like when you do come to the NFL, it's you're definitely you're definitely if you're playing the old school Frogger game on Atari.
Guess what? When you come to the NFL, the cars are just moving faster. So to get across that highway with that joystick, it just it's it's a different game. So it's neat to always see those players take that step. Big Ty Hamilton may be one of the lesser sexy players that Ohio State's had over these last few years. But he's always been a consistent, stable foundation right there in the middle of the defense.
And that and that always transitions to the NFL. I got to be honest with you, Les, if somebody had told me, you know, over under unless need making a Frogger reference in the interview, ought to take in the under. Were you a Frogger guy? I would have taken the honor to were you the Frogger? I would I could have walked down to knowing that I was coming to do this interview. Yes, sir.
I would have bet the under two and. Were you afraid of control of the whole situation? Were you a Frogger guy last? Were you really? I was, you know, a Frogger that you know that I was a Frogger. Maybe more of a pitfall guy. Is that what it's called?
Yes. Well, that was pitfall. I remember that. That was that was the game in the jungle, right?
Pitfall game in the jungle. Yeah, man. OK, I see you. Any time you know, in those days, I'm sure I'm sure that's how these new video games are to the higher you get in the next level of the video game, the faster, the faster it goes.
Oh, my gosh. Let's need the GM of the Los Angeles Rams here on the Rich Eisen Show. The general sense, Les, and I will ask you as the general manager, is, you know, some teams are on the rise and some teams are trying to get back.
And then some teams are right there. There's a general sense that you're right there, Les. Do you feel that way, that you're right there? You've won a championship before with Stafford. You've added Davante Adams.
I understand Cooper Cupp is a guy that was part of the DNA and he's no longer there. But do you feel that you're right there, Les? Are you right there? Here's what I think. Here's where I think we are. The people on this roster, right? We all have the efficacy, right?
Whether you're a part of that Super Bowl team, whether you've won a game in the playoffs or not, whether you've won a division and gotten there. A lot of our players on this roster have accomplished all of those right things. So there's a belief that we can do that. What we all know is when when two thousand twenty four season ended, ball rolls all the way back down to the bottom of the hill and you got to push that boulder all the way back up step by step by step. We're just now in phase one. That's where we're at. But yes, this team does have the efficacy.
It knows and it believes that it can have success. The key now is doing all the steps and all the things between now and then to, let's call it, reestablish the chemistry, because this is a new team and 2025 is a new season. Yeah, I mean, the twenty twenty four season ended in the Philadelphia Snow with you coming the closest to beating the eventual Super Bowl champs. I mean, you had them right then and there.
And obviously the ball didn't bounce your way. But you were right there in a way that no other teams were. And, you know, you as a GM can only do what you can do and then hand it off to McVeigh. And that's why I'm wondering, do you think you've handed off a team to McVeigh that's right there, Les?
I think it's I think it's all of us, whether it's hanging at all for all of us, just working together to to engineer the the the most competent collective we can. And so, you know, that's how that's the interesting thing. We were talking to a basketball coach who stopped through here yesterday who was recruiting John Shire.
So he was at Duke, but we were talking about his law. Basically, the NFL playoffs, very similar to the NCAA tournament, right? You're one and done and and and no, hey, the ball can bounce a lot of different ways. You can get close, you can get blown out.
But whatever the case may be, when that game's over for that season, if you're on the short end of the stick in terms of points accumulated for that game, that ball rolls all the way back down to the bottom. So we were close. Doesn't mean we'll be close next year.
I always say this. When you start a new season, even though we got to just call it 13 yards away from and I say this, we could have scored. We were 13 yards away from maybe taking the lead with an extra point. We would have still had to kick off and keep them from maybe kicking a field goal or a walk off winner. Point being is, no matter that ended, it doesn't mean that, oh, we'll just walk in and end up 13 yards away from beating the Eagles next year, you know, in the divisional round. And all we got to do is complete the pass and we win.
So there's a lot of steps between let's call it now and getting to the tournament, as we say. Few minutes left with Les Snead, the GM of the Los Angeles Rams here on the Rich Eisen Show. The best idea I've heard on how to fix whatever is going on with these wild, nasty, awful prank calls during the draft, Les, came from somebody in your household. Les, I don't know if you've seen this. I know you're not on Twitter, but I know you know the individual who has tweeted this out. Kara Henderson Snead, that FaceTime draft calls is the solve for the prank crisis. We all win. What do you think?
Rich, you'll appreciate this. I know she mentioned that. She said it.
I didn't. This is the first time that I've discovered that she actually tweeted that out. But when she did say that, you know what? I said, you know what? That's a brilliant idea. Take take.
I would even say this. We engineer policy for prank calls that those are fewer and fall between and definitely don't need to happen on that day. But it was also a really neat idea on, wow, why haven't we been FaceTiming? And I'm sure there might be teams who do that. But it does seem like a cool thing that, right, the draftee could see the general manager, their next head coach, right? If you're the Chiefs and all of a sudden there's Big Red on the FaceTime.
Number one, you know that's not a prank. Big Red's Big Red. You just can't act like Big Red. But then it's also cool to see Big, because you've been watching him all these years win a lot of Super Bowls. So that's a cool moment. Great idea by Kara. But actually, even Artist is glad she tweeted that. There's some times, Rich, where she kind of threads the needle on whether Artist is going to text her and say, I'm not sure I would have tweeted that. Yeah, yeah.
Makes sense. And I imagine with you having John Shire there yesterday, did Kara, was it Take Kara to Work Day yesterday? Did she show up?
You know, unfortunately, I say that either unfortunately or fortunately, she was flying. She was going with a friend to Europe. So she was not able to connect with John. But for everyone who's trying to figure out the John Shire-Kara connect, Kara's a Duke alum. Obviously John's a Duke basketball coach. So we've gotten to know John over these last few years. And he was out recruiting, trying to, let's call it, engineer the next version of the Duke Blue Devils. Because it's interesting, that's a whole different world there, right, where they have some of the best young players on the planet.
And they come in for basically, I call it a summer semester, a fall semester, probably half of a spring semester. And then they're going to the NBA and you've got to start over again. Well, as you know, Les, I've known Kara for over 20 years, having met her at ESPN. And her only drawback is she's a Dookie. But that's coming from me. That's literally the only flaw I think your wife has, Les, being a Michigan guy. You know, from a Michigan man, I can understand that. You understand the spite. You get it.
I understand the spite. Before I let you go, I need a confirmation of this story. Because, you know, our crack staff makes sure that every interview that we conduct, and the entire show has production value, Les. We saw this photograph on our Getty image account with the caption, Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead, there's a photograph of what looks like a championship ring in the foreground and you in the background. Les Snead recalls a story about the time the team shared a Seattle hotel with a furry convention. Is this accurate? Was this actually what was happening in this photograph? And did that actually happen, Les? I can say this.
I'm not sure what I'm talking about in that photograph, but I do know this. Not only have we shared a hotel in Seattle with a furry convention, I think we've done it now twice. I think it's been twice. I might be wrong, but I can't say anything. Wait a minute. You're in Seattle and this is the scene? With the Rams in town?
Really? Let me tell you this, too. You think about a football, it's September. You get to December football and you really need a lift. And just think, you've been traveling to the same hotel. There's some doldrums going on.
Then you show up in the lobby there, and all of a sudden, you know what? We've got a second wind to finish this thing out. I mean, these are actually human beings that showed up and dressed like that. And I can say this.
If you talk about people who are passionate, they're passionate. That's a costume party. That's not just, hey, I had to go to this costume party and get something out of the closet. That's well thought out. Well-intended intentionality. I've heard of teams trying to get the road team off their game by pulling a fire alarm at four in the morning in the hotel.
This is next level. Because if it's twice now, the Seattle Seahawks are doing this to you, Les. I've got to be honest with you. Straight up. That was back in the Pete Carroll era. This seems like something Pete might do. Gamesmanship. There's always some gray area in the game theory. Oh my gosh.
Some of the best coaches always, let's call it, take the gray and make the gray an edge. You're taking notes, I am sure. Les, thanks for the time, brother. Great to see you. We'll chat again soon. Thanks again. And the under on the furry convention being brought up?
I would have bet the under on that as well. You never know when you come on here on this program. All right. Good to see you. Say bonjour to Cara when you speak to her. Will do. See y'all.
Let's meet everybody, the GM of the Los Angeles Rams. Confirming. No, it's the furry's house. Yeah, there. Yeah. Hey, all right.
Whatever you're into. I love it. Cara's a work shopper. Oh yeah.
Okay. She doesn't just throw ideas out. She workshopped it on Les.
And Les had no idea she tweeted it out. Yeah, I saw that weight done. I was like, oh, this is perfect. It's a great idea.
Yeah, great idea. Although I got to say, him saying, if it's Big Red on the other end of the line, you know that's Andy Reid, unless it's Eric Stonestreet in disguise. And you can't tell the difference. Randy Reid and Andy Reid, you cannot tell the difference. Or that one dude who shows up. Yeah, but that guy's not going to be part of a... No, but he does look exactly like Andy Reid. Nor would Eric Stonestreet. Eric Stonestreet's too good of a guy.
Can't confirm. All right, let's take a break. Patricia Clarkson is here. Her new film, Lily. She is outstanding in it. That's in theaters starting next week.
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Good to see you. We're about to we're about to talk about civics and movies. Sexy, sexy, sexy civics. It is the sexiest civics discussion of all time, which makes this the sexiest civics clip of all time.
Here is a Lilly again available exclusively in theaters. You were talking to a guy who's appeared on this program before Thomas Sadoski. Check it out. Oh, spoiler alert. She went through with it. Obama signed it into law.
Yes. Great, great moment in American history. What a what a what a story. You you you must have had this place in front of you. And what do you think when you had this place in front? It was I was oddly I was in London shooting and I got this offer. I got a call, Patty, from my agent. You've been offered to play Lilly Ledbetter.
And my heart leapt. I'm the baby of five girls. I was in a family of five daughters raised by a powerhouse of a mother, beautiful father. So you can imagine how important Lilly Ledbetter is. We're all working women, all my sisters. They're remarkable people.
You can imagine how what how how high up on the scale Lilly Ledbetter is. And so when I was offered the part, I just I couldn't contain myself. I stepped out on my little London balcony and wanted to scream and shout.
And I called the first call I made was to my mother and she started crying. No kidding. Yeah.
And she said, oh, Patty, you're going to make a movie finally that everybody can see. What does that mean now? I've played some rather racy characters. You know, I keep my clothes on. And, you know, I play look, I did sharp objects. I played a woman who poisoned her children. You know, I was finally playing, you know, a true American hero. I was playing a woman that is a great American.
And that's the beauty of this story. Lilly is all of us. She's everyone from the north to the south, east to the west, whether you're black or white or brown or gay or straight. She's out. She's all of us.
Injustice is injustice. And she fought it for a decade. And she was on the ropes, rope-a-dope. She was fighting like hell to not give up. She lost.
She suffered a lot of defeat. You'll see in the film. And that's what's so surprising that people see this movie. It's almost like being at a like a, you know, wrestling mat. People are screaming and shouting in the middle of my film and so excited when she gets these victories.
And they're few and far between. Well, I mean, you've been in a, of your vast filmography, you have been in a movie before where we know the result. We know the ending. Miracle.
Right. And where I'm on the edge of my seat, kind of, spoiler alert, what happens at the very end. We know what happens at the very end here as well. But, you know, her journey on demanding that there is some way, shape or form to level the playing field for somebody who is being discriminated by a paycheck.
To make sure that all of the past paychecks that have been racking up the indignities of discrimination can actually be put in someone's pocket. That, that, you know, you're watching this entire thing play out. You know what's going to happen, but you're on the edge of your seat, which is what makes a good movie. I don't think anyone knew the rather tortured journey she had to take and the defeats she suffered and got back up. But she also had a remarkable husband, Charles, played by the great John Benjamin Hickey, who was the wind beneath her wings. And, you know, often these people who rise, it's sometimes the person behind the scenes. And he really was so supportive for her to keep fighting because, can you imagine, she was giving up, she was working these brutal shifts at this factory, giving up valuable time with her family, working overnight shifts and being paid 40% less for years and years and years. And a very good citizen dropped a note in her locker and boom, she was off to the races. Well, I'm glad you were able to share the moment that you knew you were getting the gig with your mom.
Lily Ledbetter passed away last year. Were you able to use her as a resource during the filming or before? Well, I'll tell you, I work in an interesting way. Because I had her so high on a pedestal, I had to, you can't play someone from on high. You have to, I'm going to get a little actory here. You go for it, Patricia Clarkson, you go for it.
But I'm not annoying, I do it on my own. And so I had to put her feet on the ground and I said, Lily, you know, I'm going to get to know, I'm going to meet you after. I'm going to meet you. She got excited, she said, oh, well, we'll get together after you finish shooting. And then we had this big premiere at the Hamptons Film Festival and she was supposed to come and we were going to meet. And she got quite sick and she passed. But she knew the film, she had seen the film, she loved the film.
Oh, that's great. She was very complimentary to me. And she knew the film brought the house down in the Hamptons, our first big public screening. And it brought the house down. And she died knowing that. So I'm thankful for that.
And it's in theaters next week, May 9th, Lily, available exclusively and obviously based on a true story starring Patricia Clarkson. In terms of somebody from, I guess, the Gulf South that is going against all odds, you grew up a Saints fan? Is that a way to set this up? I love the Saints. Yes, I don't watch all sports. Because you're from New Orleans, right? I'm born and raised in New Orleans.
My whole family lives there. My mother ran the city. My mother was president of the city council. It helped rebuild the city after Katrina with the great mayor, Mitch Landrieu. So she must have been there the night that everything reopened, right?
When the Superdome reopened. She was there, she never left the city. Even during Katrina, my mother never left with the police chief.
My mother, why do you think Lily, my mother, they're both these remarkable human beings that rule the world and change the world. So then your whole family must be Saints fans? My whole family still lives there. I have a niece who lives in New York, I have another niece and one sister that lives in Kansas.
But many, many, many, much of my family still resides there and they go to every single Saints game. Did you used to have an accent or something? I do sort of if we if we had bourbon together. Because I was telling you beforehand, I'm from Staten Island, like bourbon doesn't bring it out of me. Cutting me off in traffic brings the New York accent off. Yeah, no, but you know, New Orleans and New York are kind of, you know, kissing cousins. They're they're sister cities.
And so I but I am I live in New York now, but I am a real New Orleanian. My heart and soul is there and I love, you know, Drew Brees. God, who didn't love Drew Brees? Oh, my God, he's such an amazing man. He was such an ambassador for our city.
Right. Really helped save the city. Sean Payton, the Saints really delivered. Yeah, I mean, and again, that moment when the Superdome reopened, that's still memorialized by a statue outside of the stadium of Steve Gleason, who who is beautiful, beautiful, who blocked the punt and now obviously represents so much else in the fight against ALS. It's just, you know, and we were just there for the for the Super Bowl. The city was awesome. And the city was we had just had a horrific, you know, moment to this incident on Bourbon Street.
And yet, you know, the city pulled it together and had one of the amazing it's an amazing city. You know, you want to you want to eat there. You want to drink there. You want to have fun there.
It's a beautiful city. Well, let's let's stroll down another lane here, some memory lane. No, it's time for Celebrity True or False with you, Patricia Clarkson. It's fine. You don't want to talk Miracle? Can I tell you something that you might not know about Miracle?
Please do. So on the night of the premiere of Miracle in 2004. We gathered a huge auditorium.
It was packed to the rafters. Celebrities, we were debuting the film, Kurt Russell, all the players in the show. Herb Brooks had died many months before.
Not many, not that many, maybe five, six. Patty Brooks was there in my play. And the movie plays and everyone's going crazy and a curtain drops. It still brings tears to my eyes. And when, after the movie ended, the curtain dropped.
And suddenly the curtain rose again. And every single player on the team was standing there. The past players, the real ones were on the stage in their jackets, in their medals. No way.
I didn't know that. Jim Craig, Eruzione, all of them. All of them in their jackets, in their medals, standing there in a tribute to Herb Brooks.
Everybody, my brother-in-law was a hockey fanatic, played for Providence College. You know, Billy Crystal behind me, everybody sobbing, sobbing. It was one of the most beautiful moments I've ever witnessed at a premiere, a movie premiere. But it was so powerful and beautiful. And again, that movie, like I mentioned before, we know how it's going to turn out.
But I'm still on the edge of my seat. And my wife and I show it to our kids who weren't alive then, just to let them understand. And the thing that they really couldn't compute is that it wasn't shown live to the United States of America. No, it wasn't. It was tape delayed and shown later. And I'm like, well, we had to turn off the radio or television to make sure that we didn't know the result when we watched it.
And obviously what it meant at the time. It's a beautiful movie, Patricia. But this moment, if you weren't there and a lot of people didn't know this tribute and they were all and they still looked amazing.
They were beautiful, these men now quite much, much older. Sure. You know, it was it was a remarkable moment.
I love it. All right, here we go. Celebrity True or False with Patricia Clarkson hit it. Celebrity true or false.
You can't handle the truth. All right. True or false. Patricia Clarkson, you were classmates at Yale Drama School with John Turturro, Chris Knoth, Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett.
True. Did you were you there for their courtship the last two? No, they got together later, Courtney Vance and Angie. Yes, they got together later.
They weren't together at Yale. OK, were you all in a production together? Well, they were we were all in different years. I was a little younger than John Turturro and Angie. Yeah, I'm a little older than Courtney B. Vance.
But not much. No, we were all and we were the three, you know, you know, first year, second year, third year. So we and I was second year when that was all happened. OK, so you've known them for quite some time. I've known them quite some time. Have you worked with any of them since then?
No, not really. Well, I did some crazy stuff with them. On stage?
On stage with Courtney B. Vance. We need to finish that sentence. Yes.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm but I they're fabulous people. Fabulous. OK, next up, true or false. You were told to wear no makeup and a peasant dress for your Untouchables audition with Kevin Costner to look less glamorous. Yes. Why?
Well, Lin Stallmaster, the great Lin Stallmaster. I went in first with him and he said, I think Brian would like you. But, you know, I'm southern. I had, you know, my hair and lipstick and, you know. To Palma, you're referring to the director. And I went in looking hot and and and he said, no, come back. I want you to meet to Palma. And but look, you know, don't wear any makeup and wear like a dress that ties in there, you know, like a poofy dress, like a little house in the prairie dress. And I came back and Brian, there was a reader there, but Brian read with me and he right then and there, he said, I like you.
He said, you look all sweet, but your voice isn't OK. So you know, you got the juxtaposition. And then the next thing I knew, I flew to Chicago to meet Kevin.
And that's how I got the Chicago way. Yeah. You got a good Sean Connery story. Oh, Sean Connery. Well, I mean, he just he was so beautiful. And so and at the premiere, he was he made my mother's life because he came up to my mother. He was flirting with my mother at the premiere.
And my mother still dines out on that. OK, he was. Yes. Yes. Yes. OK. Yeah. I mean, this is many, many years ago.
Yeah. Well, this is James Bond is going up as well as just one of the all time greats. Next up, true or false, each morning on the set of Good Night and Good Luck, director George Clooney, who I believe just got a Tony nomination for playing Edward R. Murrow on Broadway now. He would give the actors a newspaper from 1953 and then simulate an actual newsroom where you, the cast members, have to pitch ideas.
Is that true? Yes, we did. He was very authentic. And, you know, George is a remarkable man in that he's a true egalitarian.
He he sees everyone across the board on an incredibly equal plane. And it was a beautiful set. It was a very improvisational set. It was a very we were all one, everybody, everybody, whether you were on the cast or the crew, we all came together. And he was he loved having a kind of he did that more with some of the guys in the cast, like Robert Downey is on the screen with you right here. But he but the spirit that was so alive on that set every single day, we all came to work every single day. And it was one of the most beautiful experiences I've ever had as an actor on that set with with with George, because it all starts at the top. It all starts at the top. To recreate the scene.
Just to recreate. But it was just a wonderful set. Have you been able to see it on Broadway yet?
No, I will go. My wife and I saw it two weeks ago. It's amazing. It's amazing, isn't it? It really is.
It's quite visually striking and moving. He's well deserved what he got. Two more for you. Patricia Clarkson, celebrity, true or false?
True or false? You're petrified while filming the elevator shootout in the Deadpool and we're comforted by Clint Eastwood. Oh, my God. This is the final Dirty Harry movie.
I cannot believe you're bringing me back to that moment. So this is true then? Trauma. Is there bourbon here? No, no, no. Exactly.
They did not warn us. So first of all, you know, here I am shooting with Clint Eastwood. In a Dirty Harry movie? In a Dirty Harry movie.
You know, I'm 27 or 28. You know, he's cast me off tape. But so I got to know him. You know, Clint was lovely to me.
Just absolutely lovely. But still, this was a brutal scene. And the the fake bullets that were coming at that elevator were I kept thinking I am going to die. I thought they would pierce because it's a phony elevator. It's not a real one.
And it's been built. And I'm not a scaredy cat. You know, I was raised by, you know, five girls. You're from New Orleans.
I'm from New Orleans. Come on. You know, I shout, throw me something, mister, and I'll fight anybody for a doubloon. But I just couldn't believe the barrage of bullets and the sound and the volume and the how much. I just kept thinking. So Clint kind of got on top of me because he knew I was petrified. It was kind of nice. So you went from petrified to say shoot.
It's kind of like this is kind of nice. Shooting and shot. I had no idea. OK. That's what we call a back story.
All right. Last one for you, Patricia Clarkson. True or false?
You and friends with benefits. You saw Justin Timberlake in the buff while shooting. Oh, whoa. Your current look means this is true.
Is this true? Yes, I had the privilege. Well, it just was a circumstance. And and yes, I OK. He's a lovely man. Yes.
From the neck up also. I mean, he is I mean, look, he's just brilliant. I mean, he's a brilliant man. He's a brilliant musician.
I mean, I really admire him tremendously. But yes, I have I have seen a lot of him. You have indeed. So you can confirm this actually happened. Oh, I did. All right. Listen, hey, you're a professional and these things happen. You know, the perks.
They exist. Before I let you go, do you have a good just to take a stab here? You got a good Robin Williams story from Jumanji. Or you really didn't really remember. I played him as his mother of the kid. And I was I played him when he was I played his mother when he was five. So I didn't really get to know him, but I knew everybody who was working on the movie at the time just was in love with him. You know, really? He everybody was in love with him. Yeah, I just took a stab. I just said, no, because I wish I had I wish I had known him.
You know, he was a genius. And obviously, when somebody's in the same cast as somebody assuming that there has been some sort of yes, but you shoot in a certain day and somebody's not there or whatever. I get it.
So Lily is available exclusively in theaters next week on May 9th. Everybody check it out. It's been a pleasure. Come on back whenever you whenever you're around. You made so many people in my life so much happier that I'm on your show.
Is that right? Should we give any specific shout outs? Any by name or just the whole family? All my nephews that play hockey. Oh, yeah. OK, hockey for sure.
Or go Saints, you know. Yeah. G.A.U.X., obviously. Yes. Thanks for coming here. Thank you so much. Patricia Clarkson here on The Rich Eisen Show. Rich Ackerman with the sports update.
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Where I see it on TV, I just have to drop the remote no matter where I am in the film. Do you have a Sean Connery story you can share? I remember one time, you know, I was with Sean.
I was in Chicago. And as I was kind of talking to him, this girl was really trying to get my attention. She was cute. And I did not want to rush over there because Sean told me a story one time of a girl sitting next to him. They kept tapping him, tapping him, and he knew she was there. He knew he was going to get to her, but he kept up his conversation, kept it up, finally tapping. Finally, when this dumb conversation was over and he really wanted to see what the bird was all about, he looked over there and her cigarette was just now hanging out of her mouth. She was trying to give him what he thought was a note and it was a lighter, and so she looked pretty pathetic.
So I had that story on my mind when I was with him and some girl was trying to get my attention, like looking over, looking over, and finally I'm kind of done with him and I think, well, I'll stroll over and see what she really wants. So I did. I walked and she was behind the ribbon and I got really close to her and I said, yeah, and she goes, could you get me Sean's autograph? And I went like, I felt like I had a cigarette hanging on my mouth like this.
I said, yeah, of course I could do that. The biggest start. The biggest start. Yeah, and the real deal and, you know, really honest. I mean, he was upset on Untouchables. He was upset because he thought somebody had treated him wrong in production.
It was going to cost him money and money was important to him, how it worked and that kind of thing. And he was really, he was really angry. He was in the bar and he called me over and he goes, Mr. Nash. He called me Ness.
Off camera? Mr. Nash. And I go, yeah. And I go, what?
He goes, he's going to sit down here with me. And I sat down and he had this piece of paper, like a yellow pad, just like what you have. And he said, do you remember this? Do you remember that?
And it was like stuff that was right and stuff that was wrong. And I said, I remember that. I remember that. And yeah, I remember that. And he goes, God, thank you. And he went and tore this guy's head off. He just needed to be sure. He needed to be sure that he wasn't going to be wrong.
All facts confirmed by Kevin Costner. Yeah, he didn't want to, he didn't want to kind of, you know, but boy then, you know, then it was lit. Then it was on. Look out. That's all on our YouTube channel.
YouTube.com slash Rich Eyes and Show. One of the many appearances Kevin Costner has been kind enough to give us here on the program, which is great. So that was fun right there. Oh yeah.
That was fun. You know. What?
Oven. Oh good. That was, it was great.
Down the road, not so great. No. No.
No, no, no, no. They're having, they just finished their post. Man, they didn't, they didn't waste any time.
They put the coach and the GM out there the next day. Yeah, when you, when it's bad news, you want to get it over with quick. I guess the only thing not to their benefit, it's not Friday at five o'clock. Right. Well that's old. That's an old way of looking at things. You know, it could be any time today.
That's right Mike. You're on your phone a little bit less over the weekend. Are you? I think so.
Nah, I mean, yeah. Are you trying to tap out of your family obligations? Screen time? Am I trying to?
Screen time's low on the weekends. I'm having fun everybody. Just having some fun with my friend over there. Hyundai. Hyundai everybody. Hyundai top safety awards for the Hyundai over 130 IIHS top safety awards since 2006 because Hyundai is always working to ensure the road doesn't get you. That's why their awards include top safety pick and top safety pick plus awards to Hyundai vehicles from 06 to 25.
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You leave a guy a break. I forgot he said he had a meeting this weekend. My name is O'Shea Jackson Jr. I have meetings. I'm a big important Hollywood star. I have lunch with my people. I'm sitting at the Rich Asenshow desk furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for the industry. Grainger has the right product for you.
Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. Oh, I charge everything to my agents. Look at me. I'm O'Shea. J.J. Reddick just met with the media.
Actually, that's not true. Rob Palenka just met with the media and before that J.J. Reddick did. So J.J. Reddick said, what did he say? He said that Dave McMenamin saying that without naming names, the roster must quote unquote get in championship shape during the off season.
What does that mean? The roster must. At least he didn't say his newly acquired. I'm J.J. Reddick.
Who can I be talking about? I mean. At least he didn't talk about, you know, is, is, is Lucas's new nickname Roster? Right. Got it. Got it.
It rhymes with Schmooka Honkick. Man, I just saw in the middle of the, during the commercial break that people are going to start talking about Lucas's career pre-fat and being fat. And it's just not right.
I got to say. But literally is what's being, this is, and I'm wondering how he will take these types of comments because he's already, that already made him bristle at the trade. Everyone's saying the reason why the Mavs weren't going to sign him in the Supermax and send him to Los Angeles is because he did not take his, his conditioning properly. And then, and, and, and the famous footage of Michael Finley, former player, now front office executive taking the beer out of his hand before he could drink it after celebrating a Western conference championship is, is the video we keep seeing. You look at some of his highlights from his rookie, second year, he is throwing down dunks, fast breaks, getting above the rim.
You don't see that game from him anymore. How's he going to take it? How's he going to take it? That's the question.
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