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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Patrick Wilson Only Read 2 Pages of His Jay Kelly Script · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, The Conjurings.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Wilson is a successful star in his own right,
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  Speaker 2: but when an actor gets a chance to do a
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  Speaker 2: movie alongside George Clooney and Adam Sander, like Jay Kelly
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  Speaker 2: that movie, you'd assume he'd pour over every word of
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  Speaker 2: the script.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Instead, Patrick only read two pages. But he does
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  Speaker 3: have a good excuse.
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  Speaker 2: The director told him to Noah Bumback, who also wrote it,
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  Speaker 2: came to a conclusion with Patrick that his character and
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  Speaker 2: Jay Kelly are on such different journeys that it made
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  Speaker 2: sense Patrick shouldn't know the parts of Jay's story that
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  Speaker 2: didn't really involve it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he tells Collider it was actually super free
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  Speaker 3: just to focus on your stuff. Those two pages, it's
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  Speaker 3: all he knew.
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  Speaker 2: But it was so well written. Patrick knew just from
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  Speaker 2: that tiny, bite sized sample it was a great script
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  Speaker 2: and was going to be a very special movie. I
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  Speaker 2: did see it. I wanted to like, hold it for
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  Speaker 2: the holidays and wait for it, but I thought this
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  Speaker 2: second it came out, I did like it. Jake kell
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  Speaker 2: I'd actually watch it again.
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  Speaker 1: Jay Kelly is on Netflix that's Direct from Hollywood,