NOLA Film Scene with Tj & Plaideau
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NOLA Film Scene with Tj & Plaideau
Tj and Plaideau: Film Projects and Crossover Events
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The duo announces an exciting crossover with "Anecdotes from Bob Krieger," featuring fellow creatives Michelle Bousquet and Dave Burdick. This special collaboration will unfold across two episodes—first on Bob's podcast, then with the tables turned as TJ and Plaideau interview Bob on a special Thursday release of NOLA Film Scene.
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Welcome to NOLA. Film Scene with TJ.
Speaker 2:Plato.
Speaker 1:I'm TJ and, as always, I'm Plato. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages and everyone in between, how you, doing NOLA Film Scene is live on the air and we're coming to you with some announcements. We have a really cool thing happening this week and some cool projects we've done in our daily lives to share with you. And you know we like talking, and that's it. Goodbye, good night folks. Thank you.
Speaker 2:And good night.
Speaker 1:Well, what we have going on this week. We've crossed over with another podcast and it's anecdotes from Bob Krieger, and we'll be sharing the links all on our social media. You can find them on YouTube under LA film school, although there might be a couple of people with that name, so it's. I had trouble searching, I had to go to straight to links and he wanted to interview us and our friends. Michelle bouquet, if I pronounce that right, and Dave Burdick Burdick, thank you, getting lost in those last names, and your TJ, sebastian, had to spread it out fair.
Speaker 1:Today, yeah, yeah, so on Thursday, that's when he drops his podcast and we drop ours on Wednesday. So part one of this crossover Thursday on his and you'll see all five of us talking. It's a YouTube video, you'll love it. But for part two, we're moving our usual Wednesday drop to Thursday and we're going to turn the tables on him and interview him alone. Going to turn the tables on him and interview him alone, but it was a lot of fun. He asked us to talk about our 48 experience from the 48 international or the 48 kickoff that we did party at the end of the universe where TJ danced. I did dance.
Speaker 2:Probably never see it again, folks, but actually I danced in another project just a week later.
Speaker 1:What so I danced.
Speaker 2:That's right. So I mean, I think Fiona would be proud of me that I danced, because you know we talked about that inhibition when we interviewed her. Right, she, you know she was a professional dancer and I'm sure that's a weird thing to hear somebody say that they're not comfortable with it. But yeah, I got to dance in two projects congratulations.
Speaker 1:I'm proud of you and I don't think there's anything weird about that at all. I have two left feet, if I'm lucky. You know what I mean. Yeah, to say I'm a spaz on the dance floor is a lot.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I guess, if you can't be good, be a spaz right.
Speaker 1:Yep, we had this scene. It got cut. It was a movie, Come on, come on, and that was Joaquin Phoenix and it's all in black and white and this was like a dream sequence that they actually cut. They had one in the beginning, one at the end, and then it's a white room, floor to ceiling.
Speaker 1:So, coming from outside, you had to wash your shoes and then put those booties on them and then walk in and take those booties off to go onto the set and so picture like a line like getting on at an airport, like getting on an airplane and the camera's on a dolly and what they're going to do is pass by you standing. And then they come back and they had two or three cameras so they would catch angles that they didn't have to move the camera and they said first, pass, stand there. When we come back, then start dancing. I'm not a real big dancer, but it's supposed to be hit your slow and let it grow to the. You know it'll get weirder as they keep going back and forth. The first time it was kind of like all right, I got my hand up and then I just pretended I had a glass in my hand and was drunk dancing. One guy two feet away from me went from zero to 60 in two seconds.
Speaker 2:He went how'd that go?
Speaker 1:I'm not saying that's why that sequence got cut, but that's another thing I've done.
Speaker 2:I've never seen like oh but that's probably why it got cut I don't know they ended up.
Speaker 1:they ended up not using it. Uh either one Cause, I guess, cause the rest of it was so grounded, and that was during the we filmed right before the pandemic. So then get it. It even into the editing booths. Still had to deal with the quarantine, you know. So I think it was. I can't say it was a rush to get it out, but it was. It seemed like it was a struggle because it took a long time, but it was fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, did everything that you did in that film get cut, or just that one scene? That's all I had was that one scene.
Speaker 1:And it wasn't bad. The director was really cool. My brain wants to say Mike Nichols, and that's not right because that's a totally different director. But you can look up, come on. Come on, see which director. We were talking about my Memory before. I don't want to hear it, tj.
Speaker 1:I didn't know I was going to talk about this, but there's a thing called extras holding and you might have heard us talk about that before. It's just a room where the extras sit, actors have their thing, the crew's doing their stuff. There's on set and a lot of directors. You don't exist to them, sometimes barely on set. As an extra, as a background. You barely exist to them. Not, this guy Came in because we had been waiting there all day, shook hands I don't know if he took pictures with people, but it was real gracious, real warm guy. And then when we finished we're walking out, he and the crew clapped for us, so he made sure we were appreciated in that class.
Speaker 1:That's all I can say, is class, yeah, yeah, that's cool. So what have you been up to lately, sir?
Speaker 2:cool. So what have you been up to lately, sir? You know it's actually been a pretty busy couple of months with film projects. Fortunately I did a drama through the church. I helped the director, the youth director put on the Easter drama and I had a monologue. I played the demon-possessed man. Now that's, you know, I'm sure it's probably hard to picture me as a Typecasting, I understand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a desolate, you know, homeless guy anyway, homeless guy anyway, and just a few other small film projects. We did the kickoff 48 with michelle. I did a project with armando leduc film project. He's got going on and I found out that I won an award, so thank you Bravo bravo yeah thank you.
Speaker 2:There's that. It was for Mr Headcase, which was my first ever lead role, and I won. It was for the Georgia Shorts, southern Shorts Awards and the award was an award of merit for acting. Several people from that project won awards the director, the producers, other cast members nine awards. It looks like that film won Sweet so and it's good I've seen it, thank you. I believe you as a crazy homeless person that.
Speaker 2:That was an eye-opening experience for me on set. I learned a ton being on set with that project. Everybody was really welcoming and there was varying degrees of experience between people on that set. A lot of them had a good bit of experience, so there was a lot, a lot to glean from that. So I'm I'm really excited about that. It was really kind of a cool thing for me.
Speaker 1:I can't wait for that to just go public. I think you're going through the festivals with that too, or they are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's. There's another festival. It got accepted into another one. I don't remember off the top of my head what it is, but yeah, I think pretty soon it'll be able to be viewed publicly yeah, I think, other than getting the job.
Speaker 1:I guess it classifies under waiting. Waiting is the hardest part of this business for us.
Speaker 2:Hurry up and wait right. Wait to post pictures, wait to talk about it, wait to yeah, Rush there to get to the set.
Speaker 1:Go wait, but I've got. We talked about it before. Indigo the Last Days was a movie I did and that's on Amazon Prime, that's huge.
Speaker 2:That's huge. Thank you, justin. Hear me with last name, kamush, and.
Speaker 1:Kayla Walker. Sorry, that's huge. Yeah, thank you, Justin, Hear me. We'll ask Camush and Kayla Walker. Sorry, Moochie, if I pronounced that wrong. Forget my old brain. We're so sorry, Wheel of Heaven where I played Death has a distributor.
Speaker 2:Ah, congratulations.
Speaker 1:Thank you. But the director said we got a distributor, but with indie films it could take six to nine months to come out and it's like we filmed ours in like 2021. Like my scenes in October, November, it's like yeah. And then Death Trip, the one where I played like six different parts and you know it was my first speaking line. Yeah, almost finished with post-production, but because it's no budget and it's not going to like a house, to a production house, it's whenever the people are off from their real jobs of you know, working in the film industry, to edit the sound.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's like a black hole, as the closer you get to the event horizon, time just stretches out. So it's, it's a lot Impunity. We went to a second festival. That's one where I so, it's, it's a lot Impunity. We went to a second festival. That's one where I played a stepdad. Yeah, and uh, I love that little film. It's a short film, it's a student film. I got to play a stepdad and I won't say whether he's good, evil or indifferent, but anytime you step into a family yeah, step into a family you're going to have to deal with it. You'll have to deal with the angst of the teenager. So there's going to be friction and I'll leave it at that. But I can say it this way the audience sometimes gassed at what I said.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I definitely saw a different side of you and it was really cool to see you use your range for that project. I think people are used to seeing you play the the jovial funny guy and to see I I don't think it's a secret that it's not a comedy movie, right? Yeah, so to see a different side of you was really something.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to quote you to you. You said I gave you chills and we won't go into the why, but it a project. But we sat down with Tony.
Speaker 2:Gibson. We had some technical difficulties. We actually had it planned for a live stream with him, but when we planned that it was right after some pretty heavy thunderstorms around here. I had some equipment in my home that was damaged and they were working on the internet in the area and I just I didn't have a good stable connection for a little while there in my home. That was damaged and they were working on the internet in the area and I just I didn't have a good stable connection for a little while there. So there were, there were some issues. We tried two different times and we just could not make it happen. Things finally calmed down and I went and sat down in person with Tony and we talked and covered things. Sat down in person with Tony and we talked and covered things. So he's got a film that he's going to be producing called Immortal Invitations and out of that film script he developed with another writer a book. So he turned the screenplay into a book.
Speaker 2:Usually, the other way around and that book is out, so it's available on Amazon, uh, Barnes and Noble and a few other areas. We'll have it linked in his podcast episode and we're planning to release that next week. So if you haven't gotten it yet, go out and check out his book immortal inv and look for the episode with him next week. He talks about the book and what inspired it and, of course, how he got into the film industry to begin with.
Speaker 1:So be on the lookout for that. That's Anec anecdotes this Thursday.
Speaker 2:Yep With Bob.
Speaker 1:Kreeger and we'll direct you to it if you can't find it. And then that's part one. Part two, our podcast NOLA Film Scene, which you already know since you're watching this. Well, we talked to Bob Kreeger and then the following week, on Wednesday, back to the normal drop Tony Gibson.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, so yeah, we normally really release our episodes on Wednesdays, but to stay in sync with Bob, as part two to his episode, we're pushing it a day. So we're going to release this live stream tomorrow in our normal slot as a teaser for Thursday, and Thursday part two of Bob's podcast will come out and then next week we'll be back. Be back to our regular schedule. Easy for you to say that was, that was a mouthful.
Speaker 1:It happens, it happens. Good talking to you folks. We'll see you on the boards. See y' all next time.
