PREVIEW | The Naomi Fry Interview with Throwing Fits

0:00What a flick. Thank you for sticking around guys and know me. Thank you for joining us. Oh my God, of course. I always love talking to the boys inside woman they call her. Yes, that is what they call me often. First question, softball. What's the most you've ever stolen? Oh my God, you know, I was thinking about this when they were asking the guy if, you know, he was like, I got a nickel from my grandma. And I was thinking about that. And I think, you know, I really don't think I've stolen anything. I think I stole maybe when I was five, I think there were these like really cute pom-poms that like my nephew had. And like they were on a little hat. Okay. He was younger.

1:00He was like a baby. So I stole from a baby. You took candy from a baby? Yeah, I took, I took pom-poms from a baby. I was, I was actually the thought went through my mind as I was because I immediately felt guilty. That's what I tend to do when I, I'm like, oh, I, I must be a thief and I don't even remember. You are. What, what, what do you do with these pom-poms? What, what, what was it about the pom-poms? What, what do you do with them? Oh, like, like, like, hit them full of shame and guilt. Did you get caught? No. You didn't turn yourself in? I, no. So I think this is the first time I've ever, I've ever, what's the statute of limitations on stealing pom-poms from your baby nephew? It was five years ago. Um, yeah, I don't know. What about you ever stolen company time at the New Yorker? Ooh. What, like, so what would that consist of? What? In your definition. Scrolling, talking around. Yeah, that's for sure. All the time. I mean, I'm, I mean, I'm a writer. You do it right now. I'm, I'm doing it right now. I'm a writer. Of course, like half the, half the time is like stealing time that you supposed to actually work.

2:01That's your creative process. It's a bit of my creative process. Yeah. It's fucking around. It's gonna hold up in court. Um, but you can try. I can, yeah, I can try. I can try. Is this your first time seeing Inside With It? Yeah, it is. Yeah, I, it's a very fun movie. Like, it's a romp. Yeah. I, I wasn't a, like, I wasn't sure what the tone would be. Okay. You did it was a heist. Right. Yeah. So serious. It will I mean, obviously like this is a kind of funny movie that has like a Holocaust backstriended hilarious Yeah. Slaps go. A lot of giggles for, yeah, haste with the Holocaust be Plus or Essence chlor always puts sausage and seats though. Absolutely. So, so Spically in general, like are you a fan? Would you say eight? Yeah, I'm a fan. I mean, I think we, we talked about this a bit off my clarity and, um, I was a big a big spiky fan, but I think like probably a lot of people like the first like 15 years

3:02of his career or something. You're a fan of the early stuff. I'm a bit of yeah, I'm a fan of the early stuff and I think I'm trying to, I mean, of course over the years like more recently I have watched, he makes a lot of movies. He's made a lot of movies. And I've watched a few of them, but the first you know like whatever five, six are like the canon for me as they probably are for for many. And I also live one block away from do the right thing. Okay. The classic. Yeah. How does it stack up to those like the first, you know, 15 years? It's it's different. It's just like a different. He's kind of like a different. I mean, there are, it's funny. There's the thing we're like, then sell. He does that thing where like people look like they're like gliding. The double dolly shot. Is that what it's called? Like a slightly signature nerd. Yeah. So I was like, oh yeah, there, there that is. Right, right, right. But I mean, the tonally, yeah, of course, like it, it, it, it is, he is kind of like about

4:04laughs and he didn't write this movie. More serious stuff. Yeah, but it was, I mean, this is, this is kind of like, I don't know, not a procedural, but it's a genre. A genre, it's a genre film, which is, is quite different obviously than, than the earlier stuff, I think. But it surprised you to know that this is his most successful movie at the box office ever. Yeah, still to this day. Yeah, it would. In fact, really? I don't make them like this anymore. There's like four Academy Award nominated actors too, which like doesn't hurt, you know? Yeah, that's interesting. I really like that. I mean, there's also a lot of like small roles, you know, there's like, I don't know, like PJ Randsell and like, RIP recently died. And you know, there's like a lot of like, Morris, there's a lot of like, kind of like small character roles. That's like a Spike Lee is in that kind of trends or, you know, is like a through line from the first 15 years, all the way up to now, you have kind of these little characters

5:04that I don't know, steal the scene, have a, you know, important little clips. I like when he used to like be in his own movies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe he was in a painter suit, you never know. Yeah, it's true. Right, because you couldn't tell them apart. He couldn't, he couldn't write himself in this. They had masks on who could tell who they were. Was that when you're watching this? Are you like, oh, that's interesting. Like this could actually work. It was, it was quite, yeah, it was, it was a clever gambit. I mean, there were some things that obviously were like a little bit. Yeah. I'm going to suspend disbelief. Yeah, let's suspend disbelief and several points. Like what? Yeah, I thought it all worked. This would all work. It's a perfect crime. There were just like a few things that were just too, you know, there's just like these characters, like the, like the Jody Foster character. It's just like the character that are like so all-knowing and nothing ever goes wrong for, you know, it's like white women. Yeah. Yes, white women, much like myself. She's like really bad at her job though in this movie.

6:05Like she's supposed to be like the ultimate fixer and she gets absolutely nothing done. Well, white women. I guess so. I mean, yeah, she, it's true. You know what, you're right. But it's like, I guess her like, it's, it's, it's kind of like a genre character. Like her complete self assurance and, and kind of like, you pay me. I do this, you know, just like, yeah. What's your favorite Spike Lee movie? Spike Lee Joins. No, I really still love, I mean, you know, it's one of those things where I watched those movies when I was so young. And I guess I, I don't know how, how much I, I rewatched most of them probably over the years, but I remember really loving, well, obviously I love Do the Right Thing. I love Jungle Fever. I remember being very affected by that when I saw it as a, as a young girl. Oh, yeah. Or just like it was, it like, you know, Samuel L. Jackson and that movie is like amazing.

7:09Like, you know, Aussie Davis. And it's just, yeah, it's, it's a great movie. Yeah, pretty much the entire run into like girl six. That's what you tapped it forgotten, the oft forgotten girl six starring Naomi Campbell. Oh, among, I mean, in a small, once again, a small character role, but what's yours?