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People forget that Fight Club, it was a total financial bomb. I mean, >> [laughter]
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>> I think that movie cost 60 or 70 million bucks to make and I I don't even know if
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it got to 40 million at the US box office. They made a very strange decision to premiere that movie at the
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Venice Film Festival, which didn't feel like a good fit and it got booed. >> Booed?
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>> Yeah, it got booed. And at the hotel beforehand, Brad had said to me, "How do
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you think this is going to go?" And I said, "I don't think this is going to go well at all." And he said, "Me neither.
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Let's get stoned." We kind of stood in the back of this hotel and I'm like a lightweight and
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Brad's at the time >> Pro. >> Like [laughter] But I remember sitting in the back and
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watching the movie and they booed at the end and people left in the middle of it.
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And And at the end of it, Brad turned to me in the dark, kind of tearful, and he
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said, "I think that's the best movie I'm ever going to be in. It's almost better
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>> that because, you know, it turns into a cult, it turns into an important thing
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that hits people. And if it's still being talked about to this day, >> It was a very nervy but very cool
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feeling.