season so we have an all new thanksgiving themed sketch and on the street comedy segment plus paul short will review the new film a loving onscreen at the garden theater but this month's show is especially exciting because we're going to give you a personal introduction some of our partner organizations he campus you'll hear from the leaders of kennedy princeton princeton film productions and other filmmakers in the area and get to screen some of their content alongside prince in tonight's original work from this month but first we're so excited to introduce our guest on tonight's episode he's a film and theater actor were kind of a new a new crop that came in and so it was really fascinates me as were the ensemble as these new people specifically in our capacity that you know when we come in it's it we shake it up a little bit in terms of what's what was beginning to feel like the norm you know the relationships between gardner and prisoner and you know when we came in is a lot of us you know play former vets that come in and use our authority willingly and  you know without a lot of oversight so it was a really really fascinating series to be part of that season and the love that that season got right because i think it was doubly one of more dangerous of the of the four seasons we've done there's a lot more danger i think there's a message in the season specifically that jenji cohen who created the show really drove home in terms of what we as a society are kind of seeing in our system with you know black lives matter movement privatizing prisons things of that nature so it was really really fascinating experience and your acting hasn't just been limited joined to the new black you're currently acting in a short play right  now called lucas and molly yeah i was that experience then for you so far it's been awesome yeah lucy molly is a play that was written by a guy named greg de paul who writes with my he writes different plays and we've published different ways for him for my company been an awesome awesome experience nina mehta plays my my wife molly it's a very dark very dark comedy and it's just been a really cool i mean theater is just a totally different ballgame r and just an opportunity to get out there and put yourself on a stage and you know what you you mention the collective so that's something that you started and it's going it's currently it's that you say little bit about what the collective is and your work so far i know that you have other things planned with it as well the collective is a group of artists that we came together back in two thousand seven to create this this home for artists with our main mission providing theater and art is accessible as breathing is kind of one of our ten lines you know we really believe that it's something to be taken in without fear of you know cost or anything of that nature you know we want people to see what we do whether or not you can afford to come see it or not and we do that through different systems we you know we have a donation program called an empty seats campaign we give away half the seats everything we do and it allows anybody at any time to come see would rather have a full house and less you know not worry about the financial rather than have wanted to see the house that we do that and i did that talent incredible group of actors i mean it was i've done a lot of shows in movies and that to those are two days we worked on that and i couldn't stop pinching myself right you know and it's funny because i  single as as as every person came on that's we had like oh wow this isn't a this but then absolutely incredible yeah i want to come back something that we actually talked about before we started filming this and that was your recent  activism and i don't relive asians as about what you i don't know what what is important to you and what is important to society i was wondering if you wanted to talk a little bit about that in terms of you know the current political climate yeah you know i'm glad i'm glad chatted a little bit about that because it's something that's very new for me and you know it was it's always been something i love to do is act you know i always want to be a performer whether it's singing acting dancing any of that stuff i just love doing it and  you know for the last ten to fifteen years in what we've been able to do you know you have a focus and it's to you know i want to work on my career and i want to work on this company and just put out good work and then you know what we've seen the last two years i think is really kind of awakened a lot of people to something new which is specifically for me understanding what art is in terms of what it's what its place in society is for and you know i've always known and heard you know it's there to stir up it's there it's there for a reason it's there to get people to think and and  but more so now and i never thought before you know our place in the world in terms of mirroring what's happening in your world because if you're truthful in that moment and again i'm on all sides of it you know it's amazing what people take away from it when they see themselves in a mirror and so the idea of using the the opportunity as actors to tell stories that challenge the status quo do you know and it's been you know there was a quote i just saw recently and i can't think of it right now but it's it's senator around you  know we're supposed to make you uncomfortable if it makes you uncomfortable doing the right thing it's supposed to make you uncomfortable you know you're not supposed to be comfortable in that situation and you know just the whole thing that happened with hamilton you know was a fascinating example of that you know what it is and there's been a big debate about whether it's the right venue or not and i and for me it's absolutely the right thing that is the venue to take those opportunities because again our job is to mirror what's happening in our world you know if we're doing our job and we're staying true to our job and to our who we are and in those circumstances you know it's virtually impossible to to not see something  know that maybe you didn't think about before you know it's very hard to do introspective you know work so when you when you take a step back and you see it you know it really kind of does put things in active that's really incredible that's really what i'm very admirable about you that you're doing work like that well and again i think it was interesting you know until this happened you know and i'm not trying to make it a huge deal you know elections happen in again it's our job just to speak what's happening you know speak to what's happening and so we did it and i'm very proud of how we've all come together you know to present this work just to let people know that there's a voice out there who you know that are fighting for what they believe in never remember election i was born the g o p candidate on drop best thing about trump ahmad so you ultimately it's the unified vision on which unfortunately doesn't come outs all the way common some scenarios but the ideal of putting americans first foot in the america but the country's best interests so that all the people of this country can see a better brighter future i'm a facet of trump that i don't like as much is unfortunately does have the will say that there are a lot of trouble supporters on this campus not necessarily a watts i would say that there are probably more supporters than are willing to speak out people say this campus is very open and accepting and i have to completely agree with that of course you get a few books from time to time but really this is a great opportunity but even i do have the debate watch parties that might go on with the button there maybe even a hack that usually gets people will start out but it's a fantastic opportunity because you can agree with a smile and hey everyone it's retail for instance tonight it's thanksgiving time which means people all across the country will be spending a lot of time with family this month we went out on the street to hear a little more about people's crazy and unique family one thanksgiving when my grandfather saw alive he was remarried and they were with her family because she was a divorcee and was just that we didn't get along terribly well with her and we discussed how much it would be to hire someone to take care of the situation during thanksgiving dinner so there was quite a few years ago one thanksgiving when i was really little we went to my aunt's horse ranch and i was like really tiny so  interesting earlier on we used to have this tradition where the first person to pull sleep at thanksgiving dinner they would get cooked to take the wine bottle put them on the stove get them to burn a little bit in their whole face would get caught then they were n to sit down with the president of p s p eric ace who just came out with an incredible new film the observer effect now eric i hear that this film has a lot of interesting things that it has time travel if it presented a way of challenges i want to tell us a little bit about your f budapest and we really wanted to take advantage of the resources that exist at the university all the passionate people around us and to just give momentum to filmmaking and that's love and i'm sure that being a student at prince university and trying to make a film was very challenging but i hear that there were also some challenges with the cast and crew and filming constraints especially one involving a cast member who wasn't prepared for a particular scene right so a lot of the film was filmed in these really short bursts of time to try and be efficient about it but that meant we didn't have a whole lot of time for rehearsal so there was one scene in particular that involved jared our who plays the lead character biking furiously down this narrow path campus and we got the lighting was perfect we were all set up and ready to go the cameras down low ready for the shot and we didn't take and it turns out that jared never learned how to ride a bike so you can imagine how that went first to right off the bat so we did about twenty takes and sure enough by the end of  right back at christmas night but after that exactly do you do around here we put probabilities to the test right you mother and i waited as long as we could to tell you about this because you were too young and you wouldn't understand but when a man and woman really love each other they get married and then they have to spend everyth each other the interesting relatives that a picture reset this year you guys won't be at the kids table anymore so it's time to put down your crayons and prepare yourself for the truth because the adult table is no joke we're going to war we are sweetheart mother now those people are just people like you and i just because they look different doesn't mean anything like apples and oranges right look different but they're both fruit than what a grandma and grandpa call them those people well but a grandpa was born in a different time and he may mock me because your mother makes more money than i do but i want you to know that in this stage there is absolutely nothing wrong with that how now where does our fifty usually end up on thanksgiving night oh that's exactly and this year you guys are old enough to be part of the plan we need to safely corral interested in the bathroom after four drinks before interests i don't know i never met the guy the one i imagine in my head though plays the electric guitar and has green day lyrics tattooed on his arm never going to get a boyfriend never now max the boyfriend is from argentina so we should probably keep him away that's all there is to loving a love story with the division can its lovers already understood and prepackage before the film begins video that love is the only thing that matters yet there is more to loving them that the film chronicles the events surrounding the landmark nine hundred sixty seven loving versus the state of virginia case in the supreme court deemed laws against interracial marriage were unconstitutional you're allowed to follow the lovings richard in military or trade by had your chin and root nega and their growing family as they struggle to find happiness amidst racial legal turmoil that pretty much overwhelms their life the most interesting theme that emerges in the film is not just the love that's part of the main narrative but the resistance the symbolism and the tension between those narratives the reason the symbolism is a sort of dramas avoid as their primary conceit turning historical figure venner set of those things are just a symbol of some ideology there was a locked into to allow the mummies to be turned to some larger than life force of marriage equality what matters most is their love a smash hit in indy circuit midnight special and take shelter all spectacular good things and bad things from the nichols cabin lurk and loving the good appears in his visual presentations of scenes of conflict is a particularly good eye for that motif of the house built the house building and the fabulous scene when the magazine photographer comes to the loving home to see what their day to day life is like that's in a particular subverts the sensationalism glorification of biopic filmmaking now the biggest baddest lie and the occasional quality and pacing that occur specially near the middle as well as the casting so the supporting roles which i'm going to continue to talk about now michael shannon also a great actor is one of the muses of mr nichols and why not he's the man except he's a pain in the neck like a man of steel when he was in his neck but if we're talking for character that great magazine scene feels kind of out of place i thought that it was more the slip chad in but again it doesn't really work out the calf or something so big name just under the surface some other supporting actors are also somewhat distracting nick kroll is a good choice for the lawyer bernard cohen but a strange thing comedienne in such a dramatic role especially not in the role of explicit comic relief such as louie c k in america also he's ok even if he can't pull of convincingly martin so this is also strangely cast because every really takes on becomes overdone it over the top he threatened to put the sheriff character into caricature territory which were a bit off for the film so the lead performances  refreshing the restrained the opposite of circus these really are the sort of performances that i think will win oscars but one of them probably be nominated depending on what happens in the coming months but they are steady strong willed nuanced performances that do their best to overcome any loving overall is an excellent film a lot to say about history made in the every day and the way that african american women are treated and then today treated in society then and today loving is certainly worth your time it's sweet but not saccharin a thorough meditation of the untested tensional lawlessness applause i'm sure the person garden theater have a great day everyone thank you so much for watching this season two episode two of princeton tonight it's been a real pleasure having you guys take a look at the show now on a different note i realize it is a month after election day and election day had a member it was a difficult moment for many americans and for many people across the world as we grapple and come to terms with a lot of changing factors in our lives and and a lot of changing realities now i am an idealistic nineteen year old and so those of you maybe thirty years older than me maybe wondering well what does this kid have to say but i i think that being a college student puts us in  while puts me in a unique position to say well we really have an opportunity here we have an opportunity to really get involved on a civic level and really change that the situation that our country is in and and the situation of  millions of those around us so for those of you wondering well how do i get involved you know is there any hope and i say yes of course there is get involved with your representatives you know join a movement advocate on behalf of people that you care and the people you are if you love engage in productive conversations with people who have different opinions than than than than ones that you hold because only through that dialogue through that and gauge went through that activism can we really come together and i'm in our communities make our communities better places make our country a better place and ultimately as corny and cliche as it sounds really change the world for the better now thank you so much for watching this month's episode of princeton tonight i'm marcella