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00:00Jennifer I don't embarrass you, but there's already Oscar buzz for this movie. Oh, you know that the internet and many of us at Variety
00:05Are still horrified you were not nominated for Hustlers
00:09What would it mean to get that kind of recognition for this film?
00:12I don't even want to begin the conversation. I just I'm so like I said them
00:20being able to do the film is
00:23So great, of course
00:24I would love it to get the recognition that I believe that it deserves because I think Bill wrote a
00:30Script that for the first time in my life. I sat there and I was in bed
00:34I remember reading it and I was I started saying it out loud, you know
00:39I was saying the lines and saying hey, it was in the room. Listen to this
00:44Oh my god, and laughing and crying and going. Oh my god
00:49This is what I've been waiting for my whole life my whole life
00:53This is all I've ever wanted to do I got into movies because of
00:57West Side Story and wanting to sing and dance and act. That's what I did. I
01:02Sing musical theater, but that was what I thought I would always be doing. I thought I was gonna do Broadway
01:07I didn't even think I was you know, I wanted to do movies, but I didn't think about making records
01:13That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to do musicals
01:15I love musicals and my kids love musicals and because my mother did and and it is just a you know
01:23It was a dream fulfilled and having done the movie and having
01:28Been so blessed to have someone as talented as Bill
01:33Want me to do that to me. That was like wow. Okay, well, you know, I'm gonna
01:42To make this the best I just might not let anybody down