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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear

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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. Always
enjoy talking to actor and director and writer

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and producer Tim Blake Nelson. You've
known him from movies like Lincoln Holes,

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Minority Report, Oh Brother, Where
Art Thou? The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,

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and my favorite Old Henry. He
really does a great job of molding

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into his characters to where you scarcely
realize it's him. His son, Henry

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Nelson, is a director and musician
in his own right, and he's wrote

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and directed his first film that Tim
Blake Nelson plays in. It's called A

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Sleep in My Palm. They both
join us now Tulse's own Nelson's good to

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have you along. It's absolute pleasure
to be hearing and I love being here

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by with Henry by my side.
Well, Henry, let's start with you

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and the inspiration for this story.
It's an unusual look at culture in America

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these days. Yeah, I suppose
it is. Yeah, I you know,

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I went to school. I went
to school in Ohio at a liberal

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arts college, you know, very
similar to what's depicted in the movie.

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I think a lot of that sort
of stemmed from there, and Tim,

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you have to mold into a character
that is very flawed but still has parental

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instincts. Yeah, I it's a
character Henry wrote. And I it was

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amazing watching Henry develop this character,
which I, as far as I'm concerned,

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he did over four years going to
college at Oberlin because the movie or

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the story really explores the dynamics between
that often wealthy, privileshed kids at a

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liberal arts college and the people who
live in the town that where that college

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is, and the disparities wealth disparity, social disparities between counties and college students.

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And I watched Henry experience that as
a student at this elite liberal arts

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college, looking around and being sensitive
to the world he saw on the town

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around him. And in his after
his fourth year he did five years at

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Oberlin because he had two degrees there. He came up with this script which

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was this beautiful reflection on that dichotomy. And I got to play one of

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the lead characters. Tim Blake Nelson
is with us. You know him from

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a brother ware aunt. Now the
Ballad of Buster Scruggs Old Henry, his

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son, Henry Nelson is the writer
of the film Asleep in My Palm,

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which is out now everywhere you get
movies, and Henry, I'm so glad

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that your dad didn't say, yeah, they get ready for this script.

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We went and lived on the street
for ten days. So where did you

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come up with the flawed character of
the father in a Sleep in My Palm?

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He seems to be suffering from some
PTSD. Uh. Yeah, I

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think it's PTSDSD. But I also
think that I also think that the character

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had a lot of skepticism and paranoia, probably before being in Desert Storm,

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you know. I think that I
think that he was always a relatively cynical,

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lonely guy who didn't really know his
place, and like and and and

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sort of like, like a lot
of other folks, found himself in the

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military for a lack of other options, And I think there it only really

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I think his experiences there really only
exaggerated those aspects of him. And as

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far as the direct inspiration, you
know, I think that Tom in a

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weird way. A lot of a
lot of folks always ask if Tom is

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based on Dad and dad parenting in
any way, and it's really not.

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It's it's it's mostly based off of
some of my own darker thoughts and some

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of my own questions about the world. I think one of the really interesting

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lines wrote in this movie is that
the father character, my character, goes

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into the military because he feels like
he'll find more truths about who and what

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man is in that arena than in
society at large. She actually articulates that

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point, and I found that a
really provocative conceit. Tim Blake, Tim

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Blake Nelson, along with Henry Nelson. The film is Asleep in My Palm.

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It's out now and has got the
attention of a lot of the film

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festivals. Also, who's garnered some
of the attention as your co star,

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Tim Blake Nelson, Chloe Kerwin.
She's a newcomer, but she really I

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think she just made her mark in
this film. Yeah, I think,

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Chloe. I really hope Henry and
I both hope that this will be an

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extraordinary introduction to folks of this oneonderful, wonderful talent. And yeah, you're

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right. It's her first movie and
she's really extraordinary and we loved working with

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her. Tim Blake Nelson, his
son, Henry Nelson. The film is

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Asleep in My Palm I thank you
for bringing it to us and good to

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hear it from one of Tulsa's own
doings so well, Tim Blake Nelson.

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Yes, and go see that the
theater. The movie will be at Circle

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Cinema and Tulsa I believe on March
eight. Got it on the calendar,

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and thank you for joining us.
Guys. Thank you of course, thanks

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