Speaker 1: This is Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast
Speaker 1: More What You Hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.
Speaker 2: Coincidentally, over the weekend they were rerunning I think it
Speaker 2: was on HBO Leaving Las Vegas, one of her pinnacle films.
Speaker 2: But you also know Elizabeth Shoe from The Karate Kid
Speaker 2: Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, Back to the Future, and my
Speaker 2: favorite going all the way Back to Uh Call to Glory.
Speaker 2: She's in a new feature that is out and now
Speaker 2: called The Good Half. Did I did I impress you
Speaker 2: with my fandom?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You did. That was my first television show, my
Speaker 3: first part.
Speaker 2: My Yeah, well, I didn't know.
Speaker 3: If it was that that you actually watched it when
Speaker 3: it was out on the television set.
Speaker 2: I was the one Elizabeth it was. It was you know,
Speaker 2: at that time people were getting into that nostalgia back
Speaker 2: to the sixties kind of thing. Musically, everybody was listening
Speaker 2: to Ole's and and HARKing back to that Kennedy era.
Speaker 2: That the movie that the show dealt with.
Speaker 3: So so watch that. I love that show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, show, Well, I wondered if that was that was
Speaker 2: first of the Burger King commercial.
Speaker 3: Well, the Burger King commercials. But you know that, uh,
Speaker 3: that was my first actual part.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We're going to talk about your new feature and
Speaker 2: your new part here in just a minute, but I
Speaker 2: did want to say Leaving Las Vegas is one of
Speaker 2: my favorites of yours because just watching it back over
Speaker 2: this weekend, you did you did a good job showing
Speaker 2: the pain in your character's face as this person she
Speaker 2: cares about spirals into alcoholism.
Speaker 3: MM. Yeah, what a what a great opportunity that was.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just such an amazing part, and I
Speaker 3: feel so grateful that I got one. I feel like
Speaker 3: that was the the one, you know, the one that
Speaker 3: was just so challenging and also was received so well
Speaker 3: and was an amazing experience. It's very rare that it
Speaker 3: all comes together that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I also wonder did you deal with any
Speaker 2: alcoholism like that in your life to draw upon.
Speaker 3: No, definitely not. But you know, I have dealt with loss,
Speaker 3: so I feel like I kind of channelled what that's
Speaker 3: like to lose somebody, and sort of even though he
Speaker 3: was alive and in front of me, I was losing
Speaker 3: him slowly but surely, So that's I could understand what
Speaker 3: that was like, I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now you're in a new film called The Good Half.
Speaker 2: It's in theaters now, and you play I guess it's
Speaker 2: come full circle. You play a mom.
Speaker 3: I play a mom. Yeah, I play a mom who
Speaker 3: is no longer with us, who is who.
Speaker 4: Is deceased but is very much alive in flashbacks. It's
Speaker 4: really cool because the whole movie is about my death,
Speaker 4: but also obviously it's about how my really interesting family
Speaker 4: has to deal with my death and how they grieve
Speaker 4: and how they remember me. And so, yeah, egastistically or
Speaker 4: its fun to be the center of the movie.
Speaker 2: Well, and you got some great co stars with you.
Speaker 2: Nick Jonas, Britney Snow, David Arkat, Alexander ship Walls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, amazing. Yeah, there's just an extraordinary cast. I was
Speaker 3: just honored to be a part of it, and really
Speaker 3: like kind of a small part of it, to be honest,
Speaker 3: in terms of the amount of time I got to
Speaker 3: be on set working with them, So I really cherished
Speaker 3: all the scenes that I had. Nick Jonas is incredible
Speaker 3: in the movie, and Britney Snow is just heartbreaking, David
Speaker 3: Arquet's hilarious, and MAT's hilarious. It's really it's a very
Speaker 3: very special movie.
Speaker 2: Is it more comedy or is it more dramedy or
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: It's very emotional. But I also think I think it's
Speaker 3: very funny. I was surprised how much I laughed. I
Speaker 3: probably laughed more than I cried, to be honest. And
Speaker 3: I think that's what makes the movie special. You know,
Speaker 3: it's so real. All these people are running away from grief.
Speaker 3: You know, they're dealing with all the logistics of you know,
Speaker 3: the funeral home and the things they have to get accomplished,
Speaker 3: and they're all angry and resentful, and some are guilty,
Speaker 3: and you know, it just it's very just very raw
Speaker 3: and very very real.
Speaker 2: The good half is the film. It's in theaters now.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Shoe is with us. Elizabeth, you're touching on something
Speaker 2: because I had to deal with this recently. And yeah,
Speaker 2: that whole funeral home thing and dealing with all of
Speaker 2: the details. I mean, it's it really is staggering and
Speaker 2: overwhelming to any family.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and the logistics are almost like a place
Speaker 3: to hide, you know. I think that's what's so funny
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I love in the trailer of that last scene where
Speaker 3: they're they're looking for caskets, and that lady's inside of
Speaker 3: the casket, and the guys trying to sell it to
Speaker 3: are like, well, this is going to be your forever home.
Speaker 3: So it's so terrifying, it's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the good half. It's in theaters now. Elizabeth
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Shoe is with us. She stars as the mom,
Speaker 2: along with Nick Jonas and many other great stars too.
Speaker 2: Uh did you draw in any personal experience for your
Speaker 2: acting job here as a mother?
Speaker 3: Well, I am a mother, so that helps. I have
Speaker 3: three kids. It's probably the centerpiece of my life and
Speaker 3: the great joy of my life. So that part I
Speaker 3: really understood well. And yeah, of course I've gone through loss.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's anyone out there who hasn't, So
Speaker 3: I understood that side of it. But but my character
Speaker 3: is very she's very much alive, which I also really
Speaker 3: enjoyed playing. She's very immature, and I don't think she
Speaker 3: dealt with her impending death very well, and so that
Speaker 3: didn't allow her children to deal with it the way
Speaker 3: they could have. You know, she did. She was in denial.
Speaker 3: She didn't want to she didn't want to face what
Speaker 3: was going on. And I think that happens to a
Speaker 3: lot of families, and you can.
Speaker 2: See it in The Good Half in theaters now. Elizabeth
Speaker 2: Shoe is with us, also continuing to play on several
Speaker 2: on the Netflix Dramae on the Verge. We'll look forward
Speaker 2: to seeing you on that and many other projects to come.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. I hope you'll go see this movie.
Speaker 3: It's really really good.
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