Serious People

You haven't gone yet, right? What's your name?

-Benji. Yeah. -Benji?

All right, let's go.

Hi, my name is Benjamin Cornejo.

I'm here to audition for the role of Pasqual.

Hi, I'm Jay Garcia,

and I'm auditioning for the role of Pasqual.

-Pasqual. -Pasqual.

-Pasqual. -Pasqual.

- What's your name, bro? -Oh, my name?

What's going on, y'all? My name is Gio.

-Wala Prince. -I'm Eddie.

Hello, my name's Ernesto Garcia.

What do you know about music videos?

I mean...

That they're fun, they got crazy shit happening.

I don't know.

What's your favorite video?

Anything with Drake.

- Oh, you like Drake? -Yeah, he's hot.

Okay.

Bro, what do you think it takes to be a good director?

You have to be kind to your crew,

your set. You have to be really...

The blueprint, you know, the plan.

You gotta know what you're doing.

Creativity at the table and being...

Allowing things happen.

My girlfriend almost dumped me for dancing...

Push people around.

Being able to experience life...

The setting, the lighting, the characters.

And, uh, you know, I've been in a couple porn sets, too.

Just, I didn't want to throw it out there,

but I did a little background stuff on that, too, you know?

All right, so, Miguel, what do you think it takes

to become a great director?

Hey, bro, I just gotta become you.

Your daughter is gonna outlive you.

Everything goes well, and it's a good life.

You're gonna live to be...

Well, if you use me as a measuring scale,

you're gonna live to be at least 75.

Those are a lot of moments to make memories.

You know, the more robust

and successful you are in your career,

the more it's gonna benefit your family.

So you have to keep your eye on the ball on that.

You just can't let it consume

and take you away from the obligations

and the importance of your family.

Oh, have I thrashed too hard at James Blake?

Is she alive?

You gotta find her.

I think I got something.

Kinda feels like a hard thing.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

She's alive.

What is this? What the fuck is happening?

Huh?

Oh, sorry.

- Are you here? - Yeah, sorry.

Are you here or somewhere else?

I don't know.

I'm just dealing with this treatment shit right now.

Sorry, babe.

Mom loves Pa.

When do you think you're going

to clean out your office so we can start,

like, moving the nursery?

Um, I don't know.

- What do you mean? - Soon, soon.

We should make a plan

because I feel like all our, all this stuff is, like,

piling up and there's nowhere to put it.

No, I know.

And then it's like we're living in, like,

cluster fest.

It's, like, it's, like, interrupting my chi.

Well, I'll start, I'll start today.

-I'll start this weekend. -Today?

I'll start, I'll do a little bit today.

Okay.

Who are you texting?

I'm just doing, I'm sorry.

I wish I was your phone

so you could touch me all day.

[Christine screeches playfully]

Jeez.

Got my little bull head.

I think we should try to clear everything out

before they install the wallpaper on Saturday.

Yeah, I know. I know.

So, this is a lot of stuff.

This is my life, you know?

This is my whole life right here.

Why don't you divide it into groups?

I'm moving my life away. That's what I'm doing right now.

Maybe it's easier to divide it into groups of,

like, things you want to keep, maybes, and then for sure, yeah.

Okay, boxes, keep. Okay?

-Boxes, keep. -I think the boxes are trash.

Absolutely, boxes are being kept.

-Okay? -The boxes are trash.

I can put my tax documents in there. Okay?

I can get you a proper folder to put into a drawer

for your tax documents, not in a Nike shoebox.

That's literally trash.

It's not trash to me.

You touch your stuff and I'll touch mine.

All right, well, I mean... Okay. That's fair.

I mean, these guys can go right here.

Are you sure?

Aren't those, like, handy for hiking?

-When are we gonna hike? -No, I mean...

We got a couple years before we go hiking.

Well, if we don't need a hike, then we should get rid

of all this camping stuff.

Unless we move into nature...

Yeah.

And we go on daily hikes

with our daughter to the waterfall.

-Yeah. Well... -Then you'll need these.

I don't know about that idea.

-What do you mean? - I want to be...

You know, I want our kid to be cultured,

you know? I want to be...

You can have culture in nature.

Well, maybe, like,

the most extreme version is, like, Idlewild.

But then, like, what about, like, Altadena?

Yeah, but what about my office?

-What's for? -What about your office?

I'm gonna, like, live in a big mountain and I have to go...

commute every day and...

Well, I mean, get a new office.

Or just work from home.

Yeah, but what about my partner? Like...

We're developing this movie, you know?

Like, it's gonna be hard.

I feel like, it's like, okay, I like that.

The idea is cool, right, like, in theory,

but, like, it's not realistic to me, you know?

I don't think...

I don't think I can do that, you know?

-Okay. -You want this?

No, but don't you use it?

Isn't it something you take to your office?

No.

That's not bad. This isn't bad.

This stuff feels good.

-Yeah, it's like-- -This stuff feels good to me.

It's postable. I think it's postable.

-I think it's postable. -Yeah, I think that's right.

-I think we have... -You have to post it.

Yeah, I think we gotta put... We gotta put credits at the end.

Now that we know how this works, right?

-Yeah. Right. Yeah, it's true. -Right?

The whole point of this thing.

That's true. It's true. It's true.

-It's for the cause. -We gotta post the book.

We gotta put credits or something here, or a title.

Yeah.

Because otherwise, this just feels fucking strange.

-You know what I mean? -Yeah.

Oh, fuck.

And that's a cut.

Okay, moving on.

Let's look at this one.

Oat milk. That's what I need.

-Woke milk. -That stuff is great.

Yeah, dude. It's fire.

It's good for you, too.

-It's, uh, Raul. Yeah? -What's that?

-Raul? -No, no, no.

-Pasqual, actually. -Oh.

No, no, no. Raul's my partner.

-He's over there. -Oh, okay. Sick.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we look similar. It's okay.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

-What's up? -What's up? What's up?

-Did you check the email? -What email?

The Drake email.

You guys are always on your phones,

but you guys don't check your emails, bro.

What's up, man?

Drake video. Looks like it's gonna happen.

What we doing, bro?

-Drake? Drake? -Drake.

-What we gonna do? -OVO Drake?

Yes, Drake, bro.

When do they need the treatment?

They need it probably in, like, two weeks.

Okay. What's the budget?

Budget? God's plan, bro.

-Yeah, all right. -Open checkbook.

No, probably, probably, like, a mil, something like that.

Well, when they trying to shoot it, bro?

-February. -February? Fuck, man.